European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 7, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33 Power beats jays by the associated press. Nobody expected Brent Mayne to do what he Aid at Toronto thursday. The Kansas City backup Catcher hit his first career grand slam and first Home run of the season off Toronto Ace Juan Guzman erasing a 7-4 deficit and powering the royals to an 11-9 Victory Over the Blue jays. /. A a a a. A. A i get in the game so infrequently its just a matter of seeing the Ball and put american league Ting the Bat on the Ball a Mayne said. A it was a High fastball and i do not normally or try not to swing at that pitch i just happened to hit it out and it just happened to be a grand slam a a it was a great comeback a royals manager Hal Mcrae said. A we got Power from unfamiliar  trailing 5-0 after the first inning Greg Gagney a three run Home to left his second of the season got the royals Back in the game in the second. Gagne is 2-for-9 in his career against Guzman with a pair of Home runs. After the Blue jays increased their Lead to 7-3 in the second the royals scored five runs in the third for a Lead they did t relinquish. Felix Jose hit a bases loaded rib single leaving three men on base for Mayne with nobody out in the inning. Mayness drive Over the Wall in right Field chased Guzman 3-3who lasted Only two innings the shortest stint of his career. Guzman gave up eight runs on eight hits walking one and striking out one. A the did no to have a fastball so it was impossible for him to get out of jams a Blue jays manager Cito Gaston said. A the Hasni to been consistently throwing the Ball where he wants it All  royals starter Tom Gordon 2-1 fared slightly better giving up eight runs on seven hits Over 6% innings after recovering from his Early struggles. He struck out seven and walked three. Joe Carter hit his league leading 10th the Blue jays Devon White upends Greg Gagne of the royals to break up a double play in first inning at Toronto thursday. Home run a three run shot in the first and added a pair of sacrifice flies increasing his major league leading Bis total to 39. In the Only other game thursday angels4,a�?Ts3 at Anaheim calif., Jim Edmonds hit a two run single in the fourth As califor Nias beat Oakland and sent the athletics to their 15th loss in 16 games. Phil Leftwich 1-4 won his first game after four consecutive defeats. The right hander gave up Solo Home runs to Geron Imo Berroa and Rickey Henderson and an rib single to Ruben Sierra. Leftwich gave up three runs and seven hits in seven innings struck out four and walked one. Craig Lefferts finished with one hit Relief for his first Al save. The a a who lost their ninth straight Road game arc off to their worst Start since the club moved to Oakland in 1968. Edmonds who had not started since being hit in the neck by Yankees shortstop Mike Gall go a errant throw on april 26, struck out in his first two at bats. Then he lined a 1-1 pitch to right Center with the bases loaded scoring Jorge Fabregas and Harold Reynolds for a 4-0 Lead. Astros save face in 10th by the associated press the Houston astros  blame the Quot wild things for this one. Mitch Williams who has treated his new team to some late inning anxiety this season was wanning up in the bullpen thursday night when Cincinnati a Brian Dorsett hit a game tying grand slam in the Bottom of the ninth. However the astros were Able to rally for two runs in the 10th for a face saving 8-6 Victory Greg Swindell was pitching a six hitter and hold Irig a 6-2 Lead with two outs in the ninth but he then gave up singles to Roberto Kelly and Tony Fernan Houston manager Terry Collins went to his bullpen choosing Tom Edens the astros most effective reliever recently instead of Williams. Bad move. Edens walked Bret Boone and grooved a 2-0 fast Ball to Dorsett who homered Oft the facing of the third deck in left. A a ninth inning bases loaded Homer is a dream come True a Dorsett said. A it was a real thrill. It would be a lot sweeter if wed  Collins justified his selection of Edens by saying a Tom has pitched Well. He just fell behind and got a Ball up in the strike zone. If Tom gets ahead i think he can put him away with his breaking  fortunately for Edens the astros were Able to squeeze out a pair of runs with a modest but effective loth inning rally off Jeff Brantley 1-1. Williams 1-2 did make an appearance in the ninth getting the final out for the win. In other games thursday marlins 5, Phillies 0 at Miami Chris Hammond pitched a seven hitter and Jerry Browne tripled Home three runs in the first inning. National league Hammond 2-3 walked one and struck out five in pitching Hii first nine inning Complete game. Ham mond pitched a Complete game last sept. 14, a six inning rain shortened loss to Pittsburgh. Mariano Duncan had three hits for the Phillies who have lost six straight Road  8, cardinals 1 at St. Louis Bret Saberhagen pitched a five hit Ter and the new York mets continued a Long Ball barrage with three Home runs. The mets have hit 15 Home runs in their last six Ames and have 41 this season one behind league Reading Colorado. David Segui hit a two run Homer off Allen Watson 2-2kelly Stinnett hit the first of his career and Bobby Bonilla hit his fifth a and third in two games a for the mets. Saberhagen 4-1 struck out a season High seven and did no to walk a Batter in recording his second Complete game. Saberhagen who has 71 career Complete games won in St. Louis for the first time since the 1985 world series when he was 2-0 and was named the series map for Kansas  9, giants 6 at san Francisco Ramon Martinez 1-2 gave up seven hits in eight plus innings for his first Victory of the season and los Angeles Tiung on after taking an 8-1 Lead. Dave Martinez ended the game by striking out with the bases loaded in the ninth. / Mike Piazza hit a two run Homer and Eric Karros went 3 for 4 As the dodgers got 16 hits. Matt Williams hit his major league leading 13th Homer for the giants John Burkett 3-2 allowed six. Runs and eight hits in 416  bigger hit with fans on Road Hoover Ala. A the Michael Jordan show is doing quite Well on the Road. At Home it seems to have become old hat attendance at Birmingham Barons Home games at Hoover metropolitan stadium has topped 10,000 Only twice. The team played before season Low crowds of 3,624 monday and 2,859 tuesday. Although wednesdays crowd of 3,624 was More than double what the Barons Drew for their businessman a special the last two years it seems the Novelty of an Aba superstar in Long pants High socks and a Cap is wearing off. The crowd for Jordan a Home debut april 8 was 10,359, the seasons biggest crowd 11,482, showed up april 22. Quot. A. A. Barons president and general manager Bill Harde Kopf said he would expect Jordan to draw better on the Road. A when we go places like Greenville Nashville and Chattanooga people know Michael Jordan is Only going to be there for two or three Days a Hardekopf said. A but the people in Birmingham realize he a going to be Here for a while so there a not a tremendous push for  the Nashville sounds sold out both Home dates with the Barons drawing 16,842 for games april 23-24, said Delmar Smith in the ticket office. The Greenville braves whose stadium holds 7,027, had standing room Only crowds of around 8,000 for three games april 2527, said ticket clerk Jennifer Turner. Hardekopf said Birmingham a Home attendance for its first 12 Home dates is up from 45,457 last year to 72,721 this year. That a nearly a 40 percent increase. Jordan went 2 for 5 thursday with a double and an infield single in Birmingham a 3-2 Victory Over Huntsville. He is batting .259 22 for 85