European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 22, 1993 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 Mcgriff Homer fires up braves i h by United press International Fred Mcgriff went directly from the fire Sale to the fire. In his first game with the Atlanta braves who Are seeking their third straight National league West championship Mcgriff had to wait More than two hours to get going while Crews in Fulton county stadium cleaned up the effects of a Blaze that erupted in the club level. Once the game got under Way Mcgriff showed at Lanta fans Why the braves pursued him clubbing a two run Homer that tied the game and helped carry Atlanta to an 8-5 Victory Over the St. Louis cardinals. The Victory kept Atlanta nine games behind front running san Francisco which trounced Montreal 8-3 in a Day game. Rheal Cormier s throwing error allowed David jus Tice to score and put the braves ahead for Good after they had trailed 5-0 in the Early going. Mcgriff grounded out in his first two at bats before hitting a Rene Arocha pitch Over the left Center Field Wall to Cap a five run sixth inning. The Home run Mcgriff s 19th Home run of the season tied the game 5-5. Mcgriff s Homer followed Jeff Blauser s three run shot. Mark Wohlers 4-0, allowed a hit in the eighth and got the win and Mike Stanton pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 26th save. Cormier allowed three unearned runs on five hits Over 2v6 innings to drop to 5-6. The braves took the Lead in the eighth. Justice led off with a single and reached second on an error. Terry Pendleton followed with a sacrifice. Cormier threw the Ball away and Justice scored. After a sacrifice and an intentional walk to Pinch hit Ter Francisco Cabrera Pendleton scored on Deion Sanders single and Cabrera scored when Sanders was caught in a rundown and reached second safely. National league the cardinals opened the scoring in the fourth when starter Tom Glavine s wild pitch allowed Bernard Gil key to score. Brian Jordan followed with an rib single and Tom Pagnozzi had a run scoring double to give  a 3-0 Lead. St. Louts extended its Lead to 5-0 in the fifth on Todd Zeile s rib single and a wild pitch by Steve Bedrosian allowed Gilkey to score. Mcgriff who was acquired from the san Diego padres on sunday was Given permission to attend to personal business in his. Hometown of Tampa fla., monday and joined the team tuesday. The 29-year-old Mcgriff played in his first game since july 11 due to a strained muscle in the right Side of his lower Back. Elsewhere tuesday night giants 8, expos 3 at san Francisco Darren Lewis drove in three runs and scored four times to Lead the giants. Lewis had three hits including a two run Homer to help the giants to their fifth win in six games. Will Clark added a Solo Homer for san Francisco. Dennis Martinez 10-7, took the loss. Montreal s. De Lino Deshields extended his hitting Streak to a team re Cord 20 games with an rib single. Rockies 6, marlins 3 at Miami Andres Galarraga hit the longest Homer in Joe Robbie stadium s Short history and Dante Bichette added a three run Homer to Power the Rockies. Galarraga connected off Chris Hammond in the fourth inning for a two run shot that travelled 455 feet. Bichette went 3 for 5 with a single double and three run Homer As the Rockies ended their losing Streak at five games and improved their record against their expansion counterparts to 7-4. Reds 8, Cuba 3 at Cincinnati Chris Sabo drove in three runs an Jack Daugherty went 3 for 3 with two rib As the reds ended the cubs winning Streak at five Tim Belcher 9 5, allowed seven hits Over 6v6 innings. Mike Morgan 7 10, was the loser. Pirates 2, astros 1 at Pittsburgh Randy Tomlin pitched a four hitter to spoil Doug Drabek s return to Pittsburgh. Tomlin 3-6, struck out three in route to his first Complete game of the season. He carried a shutout into the ninth inning before allowing Jeff Bagwell s 16th Homer of the sea son. Tomlin has won just twice at Home this season both against Houston. Drabek 7-11, who won 15 games for the pirates last season allowed five hits and two runs Over seven innings. Padres 4, mets 1 at san Diego Greg Harris pitched a four hitter and Jeff Gardner and Archi Cianfrocco hit Solo homers helping the padres snap the mets winning Streak at a season High three games. Harris 10-9, came within two outs of his first shutout in nearly two years but Howard Johnson homered in the top of the ninth. Harris pitched his fourth Complete game and won for the third time in his last four starts. Phillies 8, dodgers 2 at los Angeles Lenny Dykstra smashed a tie break ing Solo Home run in the seventh inning and had three hits and three rib to lift the Phillies to their third straight win. Dykstra stroked the 390-foot Homer off Ramon Martinez 8-5, to give the Phillies a 3-2 Lead in the seventh and added two More rib on a bases loaded single in the ninth. Fernandez avenges snub As White sox trip Blue jays by Robert j. Murphy up sports writer disappointed at being left off the All Star team by Toronto manager Cito Gas ton Alex Fernandez turned in a truly Midsummer classic performance tuesday night. The 23-year-old right hander pitched a four hitter and Frank Thomas drilled a two run sixth inning Home run to give the White sox a 2-1 Victory Over Gaston s Blue jays at Chicago. Fernandez helped Knock the Blue jays out of first place in the tightly packed Al East. Alex has pitched Well Al year said Thomas selected by Gaston As a Reserve in last tuesday s All Star game after being snubbed himself the past two sea sons. Last year he bounced around did t pitch Well at Fernandez times. This year he s had something to prove and has been pitching Well All year. I Don t know if it had anything to do with the All Star game. You know How that goes. Sometimes you just have to bite your Tongue and Alex is capable of doing anything. Tonight he showed everyone the Way he can  one night after the Blue jays collected a season High 21 hits in a 15-7 Romp Over Chicago Fernandez won his fifth straight Stan with his third Complete game of the season. He limited Toronto to a second inning Solo Home run by major league hitting Leader John Olerud. I was ahead a lot of Guys tonight Fernandez said. I was Able to throw ally pitches. Really my curve Ball was out standing my Slider was  american league he retired 10 straight batters after Olerud s Homer and allowed just three singles thereafter and no one past first base to run his record to 12-4. He struck out five and walked none while lowering his Era to 2.77. In his past 10 starts Fernandez has gone 7-1 with a 2.55 Era. He improved to 3-1 with a 1.72 Era against Toronto this season and denied his latest Gem had anything to do with being left off the All Star team. He has a Tough Job Fernandez said of Gaston. I was disappointed he knows i was disappointed Ana i d be dumb not to be disappointed. But he has to do his Job. I respect him and it had nothing to do with the ballgame  Chicago won for the sixth time in its last seven games while the Blue jays lost for the 13th time in their last 17 outings despite a six hit Complete game by Juan Guzman. Guzman 7-3, struck out six and walked three. The loss knocked the Blue jays Back into a tie for second place with new York in theal East a halt game behind Baltimore. The Al we smeading White sox remained two games ahead of second place Texas. After Tim Raines grounded out to open the sixth Joey Cora doubled when Center fielder Devon White failed to come up with a shoe string attempt on the Bloop hit. Thomas then lined the first pitch to him just Over the Wall in left for his 22nd Homer and a 2-1 Lead. I was just going to air it out that first pitch Thomas said. I was hoping fastball there and i got it. It was a Ball no one would have swung at. It was up and in but that time i just got a Little aggressive and i paid off for me. Fernandez retired the first four Toronto hitters on ground outs before Olerud lined an 0-1 pitch into the Blue jays bullpen in right for his career High 18th Homer. Ole Rud went 1 for 3, Only to lower his average a Point to .397. In other tuesday games. Mariners 9, Yankees 5 at new York Ken Griffey hit a two run single to ignite a six run seventh in Ning that help the mariners snap a four game losing Streak and a four game Yan Kees winning Streak. Griffey also hit an upper deck Solo Homer in the eighth and has 27 rib in his last 27 games. Mike Stanley hit his third grand slam of the season and his second in three Days for the Yankees. Red sox 2, Angels 1 at Boston Scott Cooper went 3 for 4 and scored the winning run on Scott Fletcher s fielder s Choice with one out in the ninth to give the red sox their fifth straight Victory. Fletcher also went 3 for 4for the red sox who have won 20 of their last 25 games. Twins 4, tigers 3 at Detroit Shane Mack hit a two run Homer to break an eighth inning tie and Jim Deshaies combined with two relievers on a four hitter to lift the twins. Indians 9, athletics 5 at Cleveland Carlos Baerga hit a grand slam and tied a career nigh with five rib to Power the indians to their fourth straight Triumph. Baerga went 3 for 4 for Cleveland which improved to 24-7 in Home night games. Rangers 5, Brewers 1 at Arlington Texas Kevin Brown pitched a five hitter and Juan Gonzalez nit a three run Homer to help the rang ers extend the Brewers losing Streak to six games. Brown 7-6, tied his career High with 10 strikeouts and walked none in pitching his major league leading eighth Complete game. Brave fans still got broadcasts Atlanta a although its Booth was Gutter by a fire at at Lanta Fulton county stadium the braves flagship radio stations were Able to broadcast the game. West am and Wypch pm patched into the audio portion of the telecast by webs to for the first hour of the game which was delayed two hours because of the fire. At 10 25 . The voice of Pete Van Wicken broke into the Simul cast with Welcome from the radio Side and he and Don Sutton took see Page 5 for Story on fire Over the radio broadcast from seats on the club level Halfway to first base. We had the Tbs feed in our Board at the studio already so once we got the Power All we had to do was just bring it right up said West executive produce Nancy Zintak. Tbs went on the air As scheduled at 7 35 . With skip Caray telling a National audience we have another night of something but we re not sure  that was terrifying Caray said about beating the smoke out of his broadcast area. The High Home plate camera position was affected the most by the fire and while it is a primary Cam Era Simon said there were enough cameras in other places to do the telecast. The main problem was finding a makeshift Booth for the announcers which turned out to be a table set up on the club level Between Home plate and first base