European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                P Friday june 5, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 25 fielder finds swing As tigers Roll Quot a. N Quot i. I Quot.  Oakland a Randy ready slides into Home plate but is tagged out by Boston Catcher John Flaherty on wednesday in Oakland. In those games. From wire reports Milwaukee a Cecil fielder was Given a Pep talk wednesday by Milwaukee Brewer manager Phil Garner and hitting coach Mike easier. Fielder thanked them by belting two two run homers and going 3 for 5 to Power the Detroit tigers to a 10-4 Victory that ended their losing skid at six games. A Phil just told me he Felt i was a Good hitter and i said a thank you a fielder said. A it was just another manager giving a visiting player a compliment. A a Mike and i were just talking. Just two old friends  Detroit starter Kevin Ritz earned his first Victory since sept. 5, 1989 a a Span of 30 appearances. The right hander 11 gave up three runs and eight hits in 5v3 innings. Mark Carreon had four hits for the tigers who halted Milwaukee a three game winning Streak. I the tigers banged Milwaukee starter Bill Wegman 5-5 for five runs in the first. Tony Phillips reached on an error by shortstop Scott Fletcher to open the inning and consecutive singles by Lou Whitaker Travis Fryman and fielder made it 2-0. Wegman walked Mickey Tettleton to Load the bases and after two were out Rob Deer Drew a walk to Force in the third run. Milt Cuyler capped the out i burst with a two run single. A fielder accounted for Detroit a next four runs. He belted his ninth Homer of the season off Wegman in the fourth for a 7-1 advantage then blasted no. 10, a a two run shot off Bruce Ruffin in the 1 sixth. In other games wednesday athletics 7, red sox 6 Oakland Calif. A Jose Canseco homered twice Mark Mcgwire added his major league leading 20th and Terry Steinbach broke a sixth inning tie with a two run single As Oakland swept Boston. Canseco hit a two run Homer in the first inning off John Dopson and added a Solo shot in the third his 12th this season. Mcgwire also homered in the third. Angels 4, orioles 3 Anaheim Calif. A Pinch hitter Lee Stevens first rib this season at Home a an infield grounder in the 10th inning a capped a comeback and gave run starved California the Victory. California loaded the bases in the 10th against Alan Mills 2-1 on two walks and an infield single by Pinch hitter Alvin Davis. Stevens who had gone 59 at bats at Anaheim stadium without an rib batted for Luis Sojo and hit a slow roller up the first base line. Jose Gonzalez beat the throw Home from charging first baseman David Segui to make a Winner of Scott Bailes 3-0. Indians 8, mariners 3 Cleveland a Sandy Alomar hit his first career grand slam to Cap a seven run fourth inning giving Cleveland its third straight Victory and seventh in its last eight games. Cleveland erupted for its biggest inning of the season with seven consecutive hits including Carlos Baergas Lead off Home run five singles and Alomary a bases loaded shot. Royals 3, White sox 1 Kansas City to. Brian Mcrae singled Home the go ahead run and struggling Mike Magnante pitched Kansas City Over slumping Chicago. Magnante 2-4 gave up five hits and one run in seven innings lowering his Era from 7.90 to 6.54. His Only other major league Victory also was Over the White sox on May 18. Chicago has won just once in its last nine games. Greg Hibbard who started 4-0, fell to 5-4. Twins 11, Blue jays 3 Minneapolis Kirby Puckett had his second grand slam in six Days and tied a career High with five Bis As Minnesota handed Toronto a Juan Guzman his first loss. Guzman 6-1 Hadnot lost since oct. 5, when the twins beat him 3-1. He a 16-2 since losing to Baltimore last june 15 and 16-4 in his career. Kevin Tapani 6-4who allowed three runs on 11 singles in 534 innings won his fifth straight game. His Era has increased from 4.89 to 5.12 in his last four starts but the twins have scored 40 runs rangers 4, Yankees 3,13 innings Arlington Texas a new Yorkus Shawn Hill Gas made an errant Pickoff throw after Jeff Huson put Texas in position to win through his own failure and the rangers beat the Yankees in 13 innings. Hill Gas 0-2 was attempting to pick Kinch runner John Cangelosi off third ase with none out but fired the Ball wide of third baseman Charlie Hayes. Cangelosi came Home with the run that ended a 4-hour, 31-minute game giving the rangers their 17th Victory in the last 19 games against the Yankees. Kevin Reimer opened the inning with a single. Huson was unsuccessful in trying to sacrifice before moving Cangelosi to third on a hit and run single. Hill Gas faked to third faked to first and then wheeled and double clutched before throwing the Ball away. Kenny Rogers 1-2 pitched 1 innings of perfect Relief. Al . Targets cup after win Over Portugal by Stan Miller the associated press Chicago with the . Cup �?T92 title in sight . National team coach Bora Milutinovic warned that the Lone remaining obstacle is a big one. A when you play against Italy you play against one of the Best in the world a Milutinovic said after his team Defeated Portugal 1-0 on wednesday night at Soldier Field. With that win and a 3-1 Victory Over Ireland on saturday the americans need Only a tie saturday in Chicago against Italy to Clinch the title. A tin very Happy we have the Chance to be champions a Milutinovic said. A we have four Points and if this were the world cup wed go on to the next round. Its very important to the players to realize they can win this kind of tournament. A if we play defensively against Italy As we did tonight we re dead. But it not who knows we need to believe in the team. We need to believe we can  they convinced a crowd of 10,402, Small enough to be disappointing if it weren to for the Aba finals starting across town at the same time. Roy Wegerle an English league Star making his second appearance for the United states National team scored the Only goal in the 35th minute. But there was plenty of excitement. Jorge Cadete who came on at halftime nearly pulled Portugal even four minutes into the second half. He broke free on the left Side of the penalty area and beat goalkeeper Tony Meola but his shot trickled wide of the left Post. Cadete got free repeatedly in the second half but had no other Good scoring chances. In the 58th minute w Eberle got a pass on the right Side of the penalty area from Hugo Perez and faked a shot getting Barros to dive. Wegerle made a return pass to Perez near the penalty spot but Perez hit the crossbar. The americans got a boost when Portugal a Peixe was ordered off in the 68th minute. He had already been cautioned for rough play and Drew a second yellow card and an ejection for a hard tackle in Midfield. Thomas Dooley had a it enl Chance in the 80th minute. He got a pass in the penalty area from lab Ramos who had combined with Janusz Michallik on a Good run Down the left flank. But Dooley a pass sailed just wide of the right Post. Barros made a Good save on Ramos in the 82nd minute punching away a drive from the right Side of the penalty area. The rebound came to Michallik but his header from 12 Yards was High. W Eberle who was third in the English league m scoring last season with 23 goals has a goal and an assist in just v/2 games for the americans. He came on in the second half of the game against Ireland and assisted on John Harkess goal just one Day after joining the team. Wegerle born in South Africa and German born defender Dooley both recently received their passports enabling them to play for the National team. The difference is noticeable. A a the arrival of the european based players has balanced the team Given it the maturity it was lacking a Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz said of the americans. The four team six game tournament is designed to give american fans a preview of world class soccer before the 1994 w orld cup. Ireland and Italy play today m l of Boro mass. After Italy and the United states play saturday the tournament ends sunday with Portugal meeting Ireland in Boxboro