European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 25, 1993 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 Rookie aussie impressive in Yankee debut from wire report the aussie was As Good As the new York Yankees hoped and thought he could be. Mark Hutton broke in with a bang Fri Day night allowing just three singles in eight innings As the Yankees Defeated the visiting California Angels 5-2, and moved into a virtual three Way tie for first with Boston and Toronto. It was quite a debut for the 6-6,235-Pound, 23-year-old right hander. Still possessing the charming accent Ofa Young Man from Down under despite five Summers of playing baseball in the states Hutto admitted he was nervous at the Start. The Angels scored a run in the first in Ning without Benefit of a hit As Lead off Man Luis Polonia walked stole secondhand third and scored on a sacrifice Fly. I was definitely nervous said hut ton the first australian Pitcher to Start a major league game. I told myself get the outs and it will Settle that he did and there was some particularly tall pitching in the sixth inning. The Angels scored an unearned run that inning when Don Mattingly made one of his rare errors missing a Pickoff throw. A tie breaking run that made it 2 1 was Home and the Angels were left witha runner on third and Only one out. Hutton proceeded to strike out Cali fornia s nos. 2 and 3 hitters Chad Curtis and Damion acquitted himself Well in that difficult sixth Hutton was in need of some runs. Mike Stanley had provided one in the second with his 16th Homer. And the Yankees came up with three More in the sixth. A Bloop double by Mattingly moved Wade Boggs who had singled to third. Boggs scored the tying second run on Danny Tartabull s second out groundnut. After Lethander Mark Langston 9-5 intentionally walked Stanley Bernie Wil Liams and Paul o Neill came through with big run scoring singles. The rest was up to Hutton. At Leas until the ninth when Steve fair collected three Quick outs to pick up his 19th other games Friday rangers 6, Blue jays 5 Pinch hitter Ivan Rodriguez drove in the go ahead run with an infield single Cap Ping a three run seventh inning that boosted Texas Over Toronto at Arlington. Craig Lefferts 3-7the third Texas Pitcher gave up one hit in 2vi innings for the Victory. Tom Henke finished for his21st save fanning the Side in the ninth. Pat Hentgen 12-5 took the loss. Orioles 5, twins 1 Baltimore s Fernando Valenzuela 6-7 continued his torrid pitching with a six hit Victory at Minneapolis. He s 4-0 with an0.65 Era in 41% innings since june 30. Jack Voight led the orioles with two hits and two Bis. The orioles knocked out twins starter Eddie Guardado 1-4 with three straight hits to Start the sixth. Brewers 3, White sox 2 Greg Vaughn s two run Homer in the ninth inning lifted Milwaukee Over first place Chicago snapping the Brewers seven game losing Streak. Roberto Hernandez 1-4pitching in royals Jose Lind hurdles tigers Kirk Gibson in vain attempt to Complete double play. Relief of starter Scott Radinsky gave up the Home run to Vaughn. Jesse Orosco 1-2 pitched one plus innings for his first Victory. Doug Henry got the save. Indians 9, mariners 4 Carlos Baerga had four hits with two Bis and stole Home to Lead Cleveland past visiting Seattle. The indians scored eight runs off Randy Johnson 10-6 in the first two innings and ended Seattle three game winning Streak. Rookie Albie Lopez 2-0 limited the mariners to two runs and four hits in six innings. Seattle s Ken Griffey or. Hom ered for the fourth consecutive game. Royals 7, tigers 6 Wally Joyner hit two homers including grand slam and drove in six runs to lift vis iting Kansas City Over Detroit their 22ndcomeback win of the season. It was the fifth straight loss for the tigers who have dropped 22 of 29 games. Royals starter Hipolito Pichard 5-6 snapped a personal four game losing Streak. Bob Macdonald 3-3 lost in Relief of starter John Doherty. May get another baseball Chance Bymark Asketh Washington Post Minneapolis baseball s labor negotiations could produce another round or rounds of expansion perhaps giving Washington another Chance at Amajor league franchise. According to sources familiar with the situation the major league baseball players association Likely will seek a pledge by the owners to expand in the near future in Exchange for its approval of the owners pro posed expanded playoff format. Meanwhile Richard Ravitch the owners chief labor negotiator said Friday he is optimistic that he will have a proposal ready to be presented to the play ers Union shortly after a special meeting of the owners scheduled for aug. 11-13. Donald Fehr executive director of the players Union said Friday he could not comment directly on the play ers proposal for an additional four teams because he said it s not an Issue he has addressed with the players. But Fehr Long has been a vocal proponent of further sources said the Union would give its Okay to expanded playoffs if the owners agree to expand from 28to 32 teams in a reasonable amount of time per haps five currently has four divisions of seven teams apiece with the four division winners qualifying for the playoffs. Under terms of the owners new network Tele vision Deal with Abc and Abc the playoffs will be expanded to eight teams next season with a Best of five first round series including wild card entries to pre cede the Best of seven league championship series and Best of seven world series. The owners apparently would like to realign from four into six divisions with the three division Winner Sand one wild card team in each league making the playoff but that like into league play has Bee put off until at least 1995. With 32 teams the sources said baseball could have four eight team divisions with the division winners qualifying for the playoffs As Well As an undetermined number of runners up. Most baseball people according to the sources con Sider Washington Phoenix and Tampa St. Petersburg to be markets ready to support big league potential expansion contenders Likely would in clude Buffalo Sacramento Calif Orlando Fla Memphis Nashville and Charlotte . Washington has not had major league baseball since the senators moved to Texas after the 1971 season. Approximately 25 percent of the orioles attendance comes from the Washington area according to surveys taken by the orioles. Two years ago Washington lost out to South Florida Florida marlins and Denver Colorado Rockies when the National league expanded. According to Philadelphia Phillies president Bill Giles expansion has become a topic in conversations among owners. But other owners insist that it s not officially under consideration. Milwaukee Brewers president Bud Selig the chair Man of baseball s ruling executive Council said recently that there Are no expansion plans on the table right now. It s just too soon. Let s allow the new teams we have the National league s first year franchises the Florida marlins and Colorado Rockies to get their feet on the ground before we Start talking about Selig was not available to comment Friday. The own ers informal discussions apparently have entered Onan expansion to 30 teams allowing for six five team divisions not 32. Baseball also is under pressure to expand to avoid having its exemption from Federal antitrust Laws Possi Bly rescinded through congressional action. The Poten tial Downside for the owners is that while expansion fees provide a Short term economic boost the addition of teams Means that National to revenues will be divided into that Many More portions. Fehr was upset that the players input was not sought before the owners agreed to expanded playoffs which requires the Union s approval before the to arrangement. Fehr said Friday that the owners should be careful notto exclude the players from these significant changes in the he also expressed concern that even with the Basic agreement the labor contract Between the owners and the players set to expire dec. 31, he still has not received formal proposal from Ravitch. That proposal when it comes is almost certain to in clude increased Revenue sharing among the owners and a salary Cap for the players based on a percentage of baseball s revenues. Ravitch said by Telephone Friday that he believes he will have a proposal ready after next month s owners meeting in Wisconsin meaning that negotiations with the players could begin in Earnest i mid to late August. I be been working night and Day said Ravitch the president of the player relations committee. The process is moving As quickly As i can make it move. It immensely complicated with Many Complex Legal is sues. I m optimistic that out of next month s meeting will come an agreement among the owners and then we can make a
