European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 c the stars and stripes Friday june 12, 1992 wednesday braves keep dodgers on skids 2-1 by the associated press los Angeles a Steve Avery allowed five hits Over eight innings and the Atlanta braves beat the los Angeles dodgers 2-1 wednesday their 10th Victory in 12 games and the dodgers sixth loss in their last nine. The braves went ahead for Good in the sixth when David Justice snapped a 1-1 tic with a sacrifice Fly that scored Otis Nixon. Avery 4-5 struck out six and walked three in raising his lifetime record against the dodgers to 61. Mike Stanton struck out Kal Daniels and Brett Butler with two runners on in the ninth and earned his fourth save. With the Victory the defending National league champions moved 3vi games behind no West leading Cincinnati which lost 6-2 to san Francisco. Leading off the sixth Nixon Drew the first walk allowed by loser Kevin Gross 3-6went to second on a Bloop single by Terry Pendleton took third on Ron Gantus grounder and scored on justices liner to deep right. The braves tied the game at 1-1 in the fourth when Justice singled with two outs and scored on a double by Sid Bream. In other games wednesday giants 6, reds 2 san Francisco a Bud Black pitched three hit Ball for eight plus innings and will Clark and Robby Thompson homered As san Francisco beat Cincinnati. Black 31 took a two hitter into the ninth but a single a walk and an error Cost him the shutout and brought on Jeff Brantley. Clark who entered the game with a .214 career average against Cincinnati starter Jose Rijo singled doubled and homered against the reds Ace then added a double against reliever Rob Dibble in the eighth. Padres 5, astros 1 san Diego a Fred Mcgriff homered for the second straight game and hit an rib double As san Diego completed a three game sweep by handing Houston its fifth straight loss. Craig let forts 7-4 allowed six hits in eight innings but failed for the second straight game to pitch his first career Complete game. The converted reliever also went eight innings Friday in a 3-2 loss to the Atlanta braves. Braves second baseman Jeff Blauser displays a Ball in Atlanta a 2-1 win wednesday Over the reeling dodgers expos 8, mets 2 Montreal a the mets made six errors to tie a club record and Montreal a Mark Gardner beat them for the first time in nine starts. Gardner 4-5 allowed two hits struck out four and walked three in five innings to raise his record against the mets to 1-4, Gardner bothered by a virus for the last month pitched no hit Ball until Vince Coleman lined a single to Center with two out in the fifth. The game marked the fourth time the mets have made six errors the last april 15, 1980, against the expos. But Only two Montreal runs both in the first inning off David Cone 5-4were unearned. The mets made 10 errors in losing two of three games in the series. Montreal s Tim Wallach went 3 for 5 with two Bis. New Yorkus Bobby Bonilla hit his eighth Homer. Pirates 2, Phillies 1,12 innings Philadelphia a Pittsburgh used two walks a single and an error on Philadelphia a Len Dykstra to score an unearned in the 12th inning. Barry Bonds walked against Barry Jones 4-3 Start the 12th and advanced on an infield out. G to Ary Bob Patterson 3-0 pitched two thirds of an inning. All of Patterson a victories Are Over the Phillies. Roger Mason relieved Patterson with nobody out in the 12th after John Kruk singled and retired the Side for his sixth save. Cubs 4, St. Louis 2 St. Louis a Chicago a Greg Maddux allowed three hits Sammy Sosa had two Home runs and slumping St. Louis played terrible defense. Maddux 6-6 held the cardinals witless through five innings before Ray Lankford doubled to right with one out in the sixth. Maddux had been 2-6 in his last nine starts. Cardinals starters have not won a game since May 30, St. Louis has lost 11 of its last 14 games. Sosa a first Home run in the second off Rookie Mark Clark 0-1gave the cubs a 1-0 Lead Carter Powers Blue jays sweep of Yankees by the associated press new York a Joe Carter homered tripled doubled and drove in four runs As the Toronto Blue jays completed an impressive three game sweep of the new York Yankees on wednesday. The Blue jays outscored new York 287 in the series and rapped 15 hits in the finale including two homers three triples and four doubles. Greg Myers hit a three run Homer during a six run second inning and Devon White got three hits drove in two runs and scored twice. Toronto has not lost a season series at Yankee stadium since 1984, going 33-16 in that Span. The Blue jays who dropped their first game of the season against the Yankees have beaten them six straight times. Scott Sanderson 4-4 entered the game leading the majors in most Home runs allowed and highest Era at Home among starting pitchers and both totals got worse. He allowed six runs on seven hits in 1-v5 innings and now has Given up 17 Home runs in 74 a innings and has a 6.89 Era at Home. In other games wednesday orioles 3, red sox 1 Baltimore Rick Sutcliffe allowed one run in seven innings and Mike Devreaux drove in two runs to Lead Al wednesday streaking Baltimore. Sutcliffe 9-4 allowed six hits in winning a fourth straight Start for the first time since 1989. His nine victories Are tied for the american league Lead. He lost his shutout in the seventh when Ellis Burks hit his team High sixth Homer. He has allowed Only one run in his last 15 innings. Storm Davis pitched the eighth and Gregg Olson got the final three outs for his 16th save. Baltimore has won four straight series a from Oakland California Toronto and Boston a and eight of 11 games. The red sox have dropped eight of their last 12. A indians 4, tigers 2 de troit a Glenallen Hills second Home run of the game and fourth in two Days led the indians. Hill and Brook Jacoby led off the 11th with successive homers off Mike Munoz 0-1. Sieve Oliu 1-3 got the win Lor Cleveland with 3-i innings of shutout relict. \ welding two hits. Royals 7, twins 6 Kansas City to  Mcrae had three hits and Dune m three rims Tor the royals ninth Vietor in their lust ii games. Mcrae has hit in 11 of his last 14 games and is batting .352 in the stretch. Kevin Appier who had won five of his last six decisions and went into the game with the second Best earned run average in the league at 2,14, had struck out seven in five innings. Then he was knocked out by Minnesota it was the shortest Outing of the year for Appier and the first time he had Given up More than three  5, mariners 3 Arlington Texas Juan Gonzalez homered for the fifth time in his last tour games and Dickie Thon added a two run Homer to key a five run third inning. It was the sixth Victory in seven tries this season for Texas Over Seattle. Jose Guzman 6-3 scattered six hits and walked one in seven innings in winning his fourth straight decision. Jeff Russell finished for his 16th Sav  sox 3, Angels 2, 12 innings Chicago a Shawn Abner uses loaded sacrifice Fly in the 12th inning suited George Bell on a close Piaf extending the Angels losing Streak to six games. It was the fourth straight win for the Hiie Sov t Ali torm. Has dropped i of its last 2d. Ians Poloma stole tour , thing a c Alifornia Eluh record. Quot a a Blyleven Angels Whitewash sox Chicago apr Bert Blyleven won his 281st game with help from two relievers and Lee Stevens hit a two run double thursday lifting the California Angels to a 4-0 Victory Over the Chicago White sox. The Victory was the Angels first in seven games while the loss ended the Chicago a winning Streak at  2-0 gave up four hits in six Manings before yielding to Scott Bailes ital thursday the seventh. The 41-year-old right hander struck out four to boost his career total to 3,647, third All time behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton. Bailes gave Way to Joe Grahe after just one third of an inning and Grahe struck out three Over the final 245 innings for his first major league save. White sox starter Alex Fernandez 37 gave up four runs on seven hits. He struck out five and walked three in going the distance Tor the third time in 12 starts