European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 30 the stars and stripes sports tuesday june 14, 1994cone, Maddux notch 10th wins Royal Ace conquers rangers by the associated press David Cone has traded strikeouts for victories. Cone became the second 10-game win nor in the  sunday night allowing three hits Over 7% innings with Only three strikeouts As the visiting Kansas City royals beat the Texas rangers 7-2. The 31-year-old Cone is averaging 4.8 strikeouts per Start. In 1991 he averaged seven per Start in a 14-14 season for the new York mets. A a it a the toughest lesson to learn a said Cone who improved to 10-2. A you kind of fall in love with strikeouts when you get some. The important statistics Are pitch count and Waits. A the defense plays better when you throw strikes. They know in a going to throw a lot of first pitch strikes so the Guys arc on their toes and ready. Its a Nice feeling a Cone and Atlanta a Greg Maddux arc the Only 10-Gamc winners in the majors. Me walked Only two and both Ranger american league runs were unearned allowing Cone to lower his league leading Era to 2.41. Greg Gagne supplied the offence for Cone with an rib double in the third and a two run triple in the seventh. In other games sunday Blue jays 3, Yankees 1 Devon White hit a two run Homer in the eighth inning sunday sending Pat Hentgen and the Blue jays to their Victory Over the Yankees. In taking three of four games in the weekend series with new York the Blue jays moved to 5xa games behind the Al East leaders. In the eighth de Sprague singled and Pinch Hiuer Rob Butler sacrificed Pinch runner Domingo Codeno Over. One out later White hit a 2-1 pitch Over the Wall in  6, White sox 2 at Minneapolis Kirby Puckett had three hits and drove in three runs to take the major league rib Lead As Minnesota completed a four game sweep of the White sox. Puckett homered singled and doubled in his first three at bats to increase his rib total to 63, one More than Toronto a Joe Carter. T he twins who have won 17 of their file David Cone. Prefers wins Over strikeouts last 20 games at the metronome competed their first four game sweep at ome Over Chicago since 1969.indians 12, Brewers 6 at Milwaukee Albert Belles grand slam capped an eight run second inning outburst As Cleveland moved into a first place tie with the White sox in the Al Central. Dennis Martinez 4-4 won despite giving up six runs and eight hits in five innings. Eric plunk pitched four witless innings for his first save. Rene Gonzalez and Carlos Barga also homered for the  8, red sox 4 at Boston Ben Mcdonald overcame a two hour rain delay to win his ninth game As Baltimore completed a weekend sweep of the struggling red sox. Cal Rinkert Rafael Palmeiro and Leo Gomez homered for the orioles who have moved to one game behind the Yankees by winning six of  8, tigers 6 at Anaheim Calif Gary Disarcina and Spike Owen hit consecutive homers to snap a fifth inning tie As the Angels ended the tigers winning Streak at four. With the score tied 2-2, Chris Turner tripled to open the fifth off David Wells 1-4. Disarcina who had three Bis followed with his third Homer before Owen hit his second to make it 5-2.athletics 11, mariners 2 at Seattle Ruben Sierra went 4-for-5 with five Bis and Stan Javier hit a two run Homer for Oakland. Sierra had an rib single and a run scoring double before hitting his 15th Homer in the eighth inning. Brave Star s Era is Best in majors by the associated press while a lot people try to predict his future Greg Maddux thinks about the present pitch by pitch. Maddux became the first 10-Gamc Winner in the majors sunday leading the Atlanta braves Over the visiting Houston astros 3-1. Later sunday Kansas City a David Cone notched his 10th win As the royals beat the Texas rangers. Maddux 10-2 leads the major leagues with a 1.38 Era. At this rate he could become the first Pitcher to win three straight by Young awards. A a in la take any win i can get a he said a but if you Start thinking about 20 wins or pitching in the world series or the by Young award youth Stop pitching i can throw the pitches i make. Everything else is out of my  Maddux gave up 11 hits in his fourth Complete game. He helped himself by walking none and getting the astros to ground into three double plays. A a that a what a great about playing on National league astroturf you get a lot of double plays that  be double plays on grass a Maddux said. A when you re not pitching Well All you have to concentrate on is throwing strikes Oyer the plate and a lot of times Tseytl hit it right at somebody. That a what helped me  Fred Mcgriff went 4-for-4 for the braves. His double started a two run second inning and he hit an rib double in the ninth. In other sunday games Rockies 3, reds 2 Charlie Hayes homered doubled and scored the go ahead run in the ninth inning As Colorado won for the first time at riverfront stadium. The Rockies had been 0-10 in Cincinnati until Nelson Liriano singled in the ninth off Hector Carrasco 3-3 dodgers 2, cubs 1 Tom Candiotti pitched a five hitter and Mike Piazza hit a tie breaking single in the eighth inning that lifted los Angeles Over Chicago. The cubs have lost 11 of 12. They have dropped eight of nine at Wrigley Field. Candiotti 5-2 walked none and struck out seven in his fourth Complete game. Tim Wallach hit his 16th Homer for the to a Tiv a amps v. File Greg Maddux. 11 hits Only 1 run dodgers and Sammy Sosa hit his 15th for the  5, expos 4 Kevin Mcreynolds hit two Home runs and a triple and drove in four runs As new York beat visiting Montreal. Mcreynolds led off the eighth inning with a Home run breaking a tie at 4. He connected off Mel Rojas 2-2 for his fourth Homer of the season and the 12th two Homer game of his  5, giants 2 Andy Benes struck out 12 in eight innings and san Diego completed a three game sweep at san Francisco. Benes 4-9 leads the majors with 100 strikeouts. He walked none and gave up two runs and six hits. The padres won their first Road series of the season and completed their first sweep at candlestick Park since april 1990.pirates 5, marlins 1 Dave Clark went 4-for-4 and drove in four runs As Pittsburgh completed a four game sweep of Florida at three Rivers stadium. Clark hit a two run Homer and two doubles. The pirates have won five in a Row Phillies 7, cardinals 2 Danny Jackson got his eighth Victory of the season Jim Eisenreich went 3-for-4 and Host Philadelphia scored four Quick runs after St. Louis starter Bob Tewksbury was injured when a line drive hit him in the leg. Jackson 8-1 gave up eight hits struck out three and walked one in eight innings. His last loss was on May 18.big crowd welcomes sooner Home by Owen Canfield Norman okla. A the College world series champions returned Home sunday to a Eeron a Welcome one that caught University of Oklahoma officials and coach Larry codicil off guard. An overflow crowd of about 3,000 showed up at Dale Mitchell Park to Greet the team that beat Georgia tech 13-5 saturday to win the schools first baseball National championship since 1951. A a a e expected a group would come Down and meet the bus a or. Morns interim University president told the crowd using a Bull Horn because no microphone was set up on the Field. A a we re a Little uncoordinated Here but you created it. And we re delighted you re  the team was scheduled to arrive at the baseball Field at about 11 15 . Instead the Brief ceremony started shortly after noon. The delay lasted so Long even gov. David Walters wound up getting there Early. A what an exciting moment for the state of Oki Aho College baseball champions Era and the University of Oklahoma a said Walters who was in Omaha neb., on saturday to watch the title game. A and it was achieved with such Grace and  once the players arrived they lined up along the first base line to hear from Morris Walters and athletic director Donnie Duncan. The governor was met with scattered Boos As he took the Bull Horn to proclaim sunday a University of Oklahoma baseball Day in the state. Morris took Over As interim president last week and will serve until november when sen. David Boren lakes Over. Quot after one week in Litis Job 1 think it is one Heck of an accomplishment for my administration a he quipped. Duncan praised the Job done by Coe Heli who has taken the sooner to the College world series twice in his four years on the Job. He also thanked the crowd for showing up on a gorgeous sunday. A National championship will get sooner fans out any time wont it a he said. Cochell thanked his players and staff and seemed genuine when he said he was a completely blown out of the water by the Large turnout. I Don t think anybody anticipated this turnout a he said later As he accepted congratulations from fans. 1 be been a coach a Long time and this is probably As surprised As in be Ever  i Here has been speculation in recent Days that codicil will leave to take another Job perhaps at Arizona. State his Alma mater. Duncan said such conjecture is to be expected. He said he planned to talk with Cochell soon about the coach s plans and the future of the program a a we re National championship Caliper obviously and plan to stay that Way a Duncan said