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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 32 the stars and stripes monday August 2,1993like Home to braves by the associated press Houston a Atlanta a Greg. Maddux out pitched Darryl Kile extending his Mastery Over Houston As the braves continued their torrid Road trip with a 4-3 Victory saturday Over the astros. The braves have won eight of 10 games on the trip and 10 of 12 since Fred Mcgriff a no homered along with Ron Gant a joined them after a Trade from san Diego. Mcgriff who also doubled in a 2-for-4 performance is batting .422 19-for-45 with seven homers and 12 4pis As a Brave. Maddux 12-8 allowed eight hits in eight innings struck out four and walked one while raising his career record to 12-4 against Houston a which lost for the 18th time in its last 20 Astrodome meetings with Atlanta. Mike Stanton pitched the ninth for his 27th save allowing a two out Pinch hit Homer by Chris James. Kile 11-3 sustained his second straight defeat since the end of a nine game winning Streak. In saturdays other games giants 4, Rockies 3 Denver a Bill Swift helped his own cause with a two run double to Lead san Francisco to the Victory before the largest crowd for a night game in no history 72,208. The crowd eclipsed the Rockies own record of 71,784 set last saturday against St. Louis. Colorado a Dante Bichette broke a scoreless Duel Between Swift 15-5 and Kent Bottenfield 3-7 in the sixth inning with a one out Homer his 15th. Matt Williams led off the san Francisco seventh with his 24th Homer the first of six hits in the inning As the giants scored four times two on swifts liner Down the left Field line that rolled into the  10, pirates 2 Philadelphia a Pete Incaviglia hit two Home runs one a three run shot and Danny Jackson allowed nine hits in his second Complete game of the season. Jackson 981 struck out four and walked three. Randy Tomlin 3-8 allowed five runs four earned and eight nits in Only 3v6 innings. Lenny Dykstra of the Phillies had two doubles among three hits and scored one run increasing his major league leading total to 97.cardinals 4, mets 3 St. Louis a Bernard Gilkey drove in three runs with a Homer and two singles and Lee Smith earned his major league leading 36th save. The Start of the game was delayed 2 hours and 16 minutes by rain. Gilkey led off the first inning with his 10th Home run. Cubs Rick Wilkins loses his mask but gets dodgers Dave Hanson for his second straight cutout of the  league the second time this week  did that. The Home run snapped a Streak of 17 scoreless innings for met starter Eric Hillman 1-5. Rene Arocha 8-3 struck out five and allowed two runs on seven hits in seven plus  7, cubs 2,13 innings Chicago a Jose Offerman a sacrifice Fly drove in the decisive run and Rookie Raul Mondesir a first Majot eague Homer capped a five run 13th inning. Rookie Pedro Martinez 8-2 was perfect in Relief of his brother Ramon retiring All six batters  faced Over the final two innings. R los Angeles could have scored More than one run when it took the Lead against Chicago starter Mike Morgan in the second. But Henry Rodriguez and Dave Han sen were thrown out at Home plate on consecutive  6, padres 3 Cincinnati a Jose Rijo homered and scattered four hits Over eight innings to overcome another poor defensive game by Cincinnati which ended a three game losing Streak. The reds made two More errors a giving them six in two Days a to let in a pair of unearned runs. But Rijo 9-5 withstood it by  one earned  6, marlins 5 Montreal a Lou Frazier s Pinch hit single with two outs in the ninth inning scored Marquis Grissom with the winning run. John Wetteland 7-1 blew a save for starter Dennis Martinez for the fourth time this season when  allowed the tying run to score in the top of the ninth. Devers completes 3-for-3 sweep san Antonio a Gail Dev by Owen Canfield apers made it three cold medals in three tries in the . Olympic festival winning the 100-meter dash saturday night in 11.29 seconds. Devers Gold medallist in the 100 at the Barcelona olympics beat Crystal Braddock of Austin Texas who finished in 11.80. Devers had won her other festival Gold medals Friday setting a meet record in the 100 High hurdles and anchoring the 400 relay. Her time in the 100 was Well off the festival record of 10.79 set in 1983 by Evelyn Ashford. At the time Ashford a matk was a world record. Another former olympian Gre Foster pulled up late in the 110 Hig hurdles. The Victory went to Robert Reading of Buffalo n.y., in a time of 13.71. Foster said  did no to expect the gun to go off As quickly As  did. A i regained it top quickly instead of trying to let it happen a  said. The Gold medal in 3-meter Spring olympic festival Curtis won the floor exercise with a score of 9.150 and the vault with 9.40. His Silver came in the rings. Another double Gold medallist was Steve Mccain of Urcla who won on. The Pommel horse and High bar. All went to Mark Bradshaw of Columbus around Champion Richard Grace of the Ohio with 687.09, and . Bogart of University of Nebraska won a Gold Mesa ariz., won the Bronze with Snedal on the parallel bars and a Silver Board diving went to Mark Lenzi Winner of the same event in Barcelona. Lenzi of Ann Arbor mich., won with a score of 704.31, the Silver medal 656.19. The Gold medal in the women a platform went to Mary Ellen Clark of fort Lauderdale fla., who finished with Par on the Pommel horse. The menus water Polo Gold medal went to the West team which beat the North 7-5 behind the play of Rick Mcnair. Mcnair of Lafayette Calif. Ciara a . A. _ 9 re a a  Iii _ Champion easily Defeated Paige w Kittel of fort Worth Texas and ,71tr Quot Vici Armstrong of the Woodlands Texas. K ring or of a a a or if no a h.,Presho a t. T. A Huntington Beach Calif., and Norman Almodovar of puerto Rico powered the East team to a 13-15, 15-5, 15-10 15-5 Victory Over the North to win the Gold ,. A a. Medal. The women a Gold went to the in gymnastics Gregg Curtis of car South which beat the East 4-15 15 in Mel n.y., won two Gold medals and a 15-9,16-14. A a Silver in his final appearance before re the festival was to conclude its in tiring from the sport to join a circus. Day run sunday. Clark received four 10s on her second dive an inward 1 i somersault. She also received a 10 on her fourth dive a Forward i somersault with one twist. Is tie Rolls to 200 Victory a Cologne Germany up a two Days after his emotional Victory Over superstar Carl Lewis in Gateshead England British olympic Champion Linford Christie avoided a 100-meter clash with Andre Cason but was unstoppable Over 200 meters at sundays Isaaf a Welt Klasser grand prix. Christie stormed to Victory in 20.39 seconds but was almost dislodged by nigerian Kayode Olu Jeni who clocked 20.42 seconds. The 33-year-old left Cologne minutes after his race but not without watching the powerful american Cason win the 100-meter dash with a Strong finish in e la seconds ahead of compatriot John Drummond 10.13. Cason had Defeated Lewis at the american trials for the Stuttgart world championships and Christie opted to avoid Cason in Cologne. However it was rumoured sunday that Christie might take on Lewis again a and Cason a Over 100 meters wednesday in Zurich  
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