European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 22, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33drabek, astros end mile High Jinx by the associated press two rain delays forget it. The mile High stadium Jinx Over. Doug Drabek is not the same Pitcher and the Houston astros Are not the same team As a year ago. Not by a Long stretch. The astros one of baseball a biggest disappointments last season won for the first time in eight games in Colorado monday night As Drabek notched his 10th win in the astros 5-4 Victory Over the Rockies. Jeff Bagwell and Scott Servais each hit two run homers As the astros became the last no team to win at mile High stadium. A it is a Houston manager Terry Collins asked when informed of his teams previous futility in Denver. A we d never won Here Well i Hope its not the  it wont be the Way the astros Are going. The win moved the astros within percentage Points of the no Central leading Cincinnati reds. A this Isnit last year anymore a Bagwell said. A this is a different team. You can see that just from our record. We re not playing the Colorado Rockies remembering we be lost  losing was something that Drabek Learned a lot about in 1993. The 1990 by Young award Winner struggled to a 918 record last season his first with the astros. Now 103, Drabek has become the Ace the astros had hoped for when they signed him As a free agent. Collins said Drabek was unaffected by the rain delays. A it might affect another Guy but not that Guy a Collins said. A the went right Back out there thinking about nothing but what he had to do. Thais Why he s had a Good  in the second inning Mike Simms hit a one out double off Greg Harris 3-7 and Servais followed with his sixth Homer. Craig Biggio led off the third with a walk and scored on Bagwell a 20th Homer equating his career High for a season set last year. John Huck pitched the ninth for his Lith save Drabek benefited from two double plays after the Rockies had gotten the Lead off Batter aboard in the fifth and seventh. He allowed four runs three earned and nine hits in Ivi innings. In other games monday braves 7, mets 3 at Atlanta David Justice hit a three run Homer and Kent Mercker pitched 7w solid innings. Justices Lith Homer erased a 2-0 mets Lead in the fourth inning. It followed consecutive singles by Ryan Klesko and Fred Mcgriff. Mercker 6-1who lifted his lifetime record against the mets to 4-0, gave up four hits and struck out nine before tiring in the eight. The braves Victory followed two weekend games in which they were outscored 28-4 by Cincinnati. Bobby Jones 7-6 allowed five runs and seven hits in five innings. Bobby Bonilla had two of new Yorkus five  8, cardinals 4 at St. Louis Larry Walker and Wil Cordero each had four hits and homered in a five run seventh inning As the expos rallied. A a Walker led off the seventh with his 10th Homer off Rob Murphy 2-3 to tie it 4-4. One out later Cordero hit his seventh Homer into the left Field scats. The expos who have hit 26 Home runs in june got 18 hits in ending a three game losing Streak. The cardinals have lost six in a Row Jeff Shaw 4-2 worked a scoreless sixth and Mel Rojas worked three innings for his Lith  3, padres 2 at san Diego Tim Wallachy a three run Homer with two outs in the eighth inning gave the dodgers their sixth straight win against the padres trailing 2-0, Brett Butler walked with one out in the eighth and one out later Mike Piazza walked wat Lach hit the first pitch from Joey Hamilton 3-2 Over the left Field Fence for his 17th Homer Kevin Gross 6-4 allowed two runs and eight hits in seven innings. Todd Worrell pitched the final two innings for his fourth save. Bip Roberts went 3-for-4 with an rib to extend his hitting Streak to 23 games the longest in the no this  postponed the Philadelphia at Pittsburgh game was rained out with the pirates leading 3-1 in the fifth inning and will be made up As part of a sept. 23 double Cauer. If the teams had completed the top of the fifth the game would have been official Ana the pirates would have won. Tigers or Streak halted in tribe s 10th straight win by the associated press the Cleveland indians moved out of their Park and managed to keep the Detroit tigers in theirs. The indians fresh off their 18th straight win at Jacobs Field beat Detroit 7-1 monday night and broke the tigers Streak of 25 games with a Home run. A i did no to know too much about their Home run Deal. I heard about it. But i did no to know How Many games or anything like that a winning Pitcher Charles Nagy said. The indians won their 10th in a Row Overall. The tigers meanwhile wound up tied with the 1941 new York Yankees for the longest Homer Streak in major league history. A we did no to beat the record a Lou Whitaker said. A but hey we joined some Good  Whitaker hit a Fly Ball More than 420 feet to the warning track in Center Field in the first inning and later lofted a foul Fly into the upper deck in right. Travis Fryman missed an opposite Field Homer to right when his drive was a few feet foul. Nagy 6-3 gave up one run and five hits in seven innings. In his previous two starts at Tiger stadium he was 0-2 with a 14.63 Era. A my memories of this place Haven to been too fond a he said. A a in be been knocked around pretty Good  Eddie Murray drove in four runs and Sandy Alomar homered As Cleveland extended its longest winning Streak since 1986. Mike Moore 7-6 was the loser. In other games monday red sox 4, Blue jays 1 Joe Hesketh pitched seven shutout innings and John Valentin homered As visiting Boston broke its 11-game losing skid its longest since 1932. Andre Dawson was hit by a pair of pitches from Todd Stottlemyre and got angry both times. He threw the Ball Back past Stottlemyre the first time then took a couple of Steps toward the Mound the next tune. Stottlemyre 5-4 was ejected and the benches emptied after the second incident. Stottlemyre threw a couple of water coolers onto the Field and Toronto manager Cito Gaston later was ejected. Hesketh 4-4 gave up three singles in his longest Start of the season. Tony Fos Sas got the last out for his first  5v Angels 0 Randy Johnson pitched his fourth shutout in six starts and Seattle won at California. Johnson 9-3 gave up three singles and struck out 11 in his seventh straight win. His 74th Victory for the mariners tied a team record set by Mark Langston. Johnson whose shutouts and six Complete games Lead the majors retired 20 of the first 22 batters. Jay Buhner homered off Joe Magrane 2-4and Keith Mitchell also connected for Seattle. Yankees 7, twins 5 Pinch hitter Daryl Boston connected on Rick Aguilera a first pitch for a three run Homer in the eighth inning lifting new York Over visiting Minnesota. Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield Hom ered in the sixth helping the twins take a 5-2 Lead. The Yankees scored twice in the seventh then took advantage of a mistake by second baseman Chuck Knoblauch in the eighth. Knoblauch made a late throw and failed to get a Force out and the prolonged inning gave Boston a Chance to Bat with two outs. Boston hitting for Mike Gall go hit his fourth Homer after Aguilera relieved Carl Willis 1-2. Bob Wickman 3-2 got the  12, White sox 6 Jose Canseco Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez homered As Texas romped in twins Dave Winfield scores As he tangles legs with yanks Mike Stanley in second inning. Chicago and stopped a six game losing Streak. Rodriguez hit a two run double during a seven run rally in the eighth inning. The rangers chased Jack Mcdowell and continued to score against Dane Johnson 1-1 and the rest of the White sox bullpen. Canseco hit his 20th Home run and Gonzalez slugged a three run shot in the ninth Frank Thomas hit his 25th Homer for Chicago. Rick Honeycutt 1-2 wound up with the  6, orioles 5 Greg Vaughn and Dave Nilsson hit two run homers in the first inning sending Milwaukee past Baltimore. Bill Wegman 5-0 won despite allowing four runs in 5 a innings. He was 4-14 during an injury interrupted 1993. Graeme Lloyd pitched two perfect innings for his third save. Vaughn who homered in his last two  in new York connected against Jamie Moyer 2-5. Harold Baines and Brady Anderson homered for the Host  tops Al balloting new York a Ken Griffey or. Of the Seattle mariners led All american leagues Vole Welters for the All Star game in mondays next to last count of fan ballots. Griffey the majors Leader w Ith 30 Home runs had 2,577,875 votes to 2,214,725 for Baltimore a Cal Ripken who leads ail Al shortstops. Trailing Griffey for the starting Outfield spots on july 12 at Pittsburgh were Joe Carter of Toronto and Kirby Puckett of Minnesota. The other leading infielders were Frank Thomas of Chicago at first base Roberto Alomar of Toronto at second and Wade Boggs of new York at third. Ivan Rodriguez of Texas led Al catchers