European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 38 the stars and stripes sports saturday August 13,1994 Griffey s slam Johnson s 15 is highlight finale Ken Griffey a 40th Homer a grand slam Powers Seattle a Victory at Oakland. By the associated press it was baseball a last game for a while so the Seattle mariners showed off their Best. Ken Griffey  grand slam and Randy Johnson a 15 strikeouts on the eve of the Friday strike gave the mariners their sixth straight win 8-1 Over the athletics in Oakland on thursday night. A a it a a shame there a going to be a strike a Johnson said. A a we be pulled together As a team and no one has complained about the strike. Everybody a doing his Job. The Young pitchers Are pitching Well and the work stoppage is going to kill a lot of  some scattered Boos were heard when Johnson 13-6 fanned Ernie Young for the final out. Even though the Home team lost the crowd went wild when Griffey hit a High Fly Ball into the right Field seats to highlight a six run second inning. They cheered again when his leaping catch at the Wall robbed Stan Javier of extra bases. In other games Toronto beat new York 8-7 in 13 innings and Milwaukee beat Detroit 10-5. The Boston at Baltimore game was rained out. Griffey whose 40th Homer of the season highlighted a six run inning said afterwards he Wasny to ready to hang it up. A a it a just going to be weird not coming to the Ballpark a he said. A today was a Normal Day. Tomorrow will be  Johnson who grew up in nearby Walnut greek wanted to pitch Well in front of his family and in memory of his late father. A i still could feel my dads presence Here a he said. A it always meant that i have a better than average game  on this night he was Way above average allowing Only four hits. He finished with a major league High 204 strikeouts and a fan Hung is Over the second deck american league e railing each time Johnson recorded another strikeout. Seattle finished its Long Road show with a flourish going 11-9 since structural problems at the kingdom caused their lome games to be scrapped. The mariners moved within two games of first place Texas in the Al West. The athletics missed a Chance to pull even with the rangers instead falling one game behind the Al West leaders and 12 games under .500. Blue jays 8, Yankees 7,13 innings if this was their last game Toronto and new York made it last a Little longer at Yankee stadium. Joe Carter who ended last year with a world series winning Home run connected for his 27th in the 12th inning for the Bike jays. But the Yankees tied it in their half on a double play grounder by Paul of Neill. 3 de Sprague led off the Toronto 13th with a Home run and the Blue jays made the Lead stand up. Darren Hall 2-3 was the Winner. Joe Ausanio 2-1 gave up Spragues 11th Homer As the Al East leading Yankees lost for the fifth time in Sitf games. Brewers 10, tigers 5 no one wanted a rainout right before the walkout so Milwaukee and Detroit waited nearly three hours while rain delayed the Start at Tiger stadium. Once the game began Jody Reed singled on the first pitch. Both teams kept hitting throughout the afternoon with Reeds two run double highlighting a six run rally in the eighth inning. A crowd of 18,857 saw Tony Phillips Homer for the tigers and Troy of Leary connect for the Brewers. Cecil fielder drove in two runs giving him 14 Bis in , Phillies give fans a Little extra by the associated press while the mets and Phillies did their Best to delay the inevitable the san Diego padres struggled to get Home. After the first live no games were completed _ thursday new York and Philadelphia played 15 Rainy uneventful innings at veterans stadium before the Phillies pulled out a 2-1 win. Meanwhile in Houston the padres their bags packed and aboard a California bound air plane following an 8-6 afternoon win Over the astros sat helplessly on the Tarmac with a Flat tire. Not a bad analogy for the state of Maddux baseball on this 12th Day of August. With no talks planned or scheduled the extraordinary 1994 season came to an abrupt Stop with players packing up their belongings and tans seeking entertainment alternatives. Obviously the a a strike headlines obscured the games but there were some notable performances on what could have been the seasons final Day a Greg Maddux continued his Domina National league Tion of no hitters and Pursuit of an unprecedented third straight by Young award with a three hit shutout at Colorado. With the Rockies planned move to Coors Field next season it was possibly the final baseball game at mile High stadium. A Quot a a a a a a a Tony Gwynn trying to become base balls first .400 hitter since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941, went 3-for-5 in Houston to raise his average to .394. He needed a 6-for-6 performance to reach .400. Happy with my season a Gwynn said. A i Hope in a not done for the year. I Hope i get a Chance to add those six extra Points to my  a a. A a. /. A Ramon Martinez of los Angeles pitched a seven hit shutout in Cincinnati As the dodgers built a 3v2-game Lead Over san Francisco in the no West. The other scores on the last Day before the strike were los Angeles 2, Cincinnati 0 Atlanta 13, Colorado 0 Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 0 and St. Louis 8, Florida 6 in seven innings. Dodgers 2, reds 0 at Cincinnati Martinez 12-7 beat Cincinnati for the third time this season and Tim Wallach homered for the Dode ers. Martinez pitched a seven hitter for his third shutout and struck out seven As the dodgers won their fifth in six games. I. The reds lost for the fourth time in five games but clinched the no Central if a strike wipes out the rest of the season. Ace Jose Rijo 9-6 matched his no High with 12 strikeouts in eight  8, astros 6at Houston the astros playing their first game without Jeff Bagwell blew a Chance to move into first place in the no Central. The astros remained one half game behind Cincinnati. Bagwell leading the rna Joi with 116 Bis is out 3-5 weeks j and when he was hit by a pitch wednesday. Joty Hamilton 96 overcame two or pm pm amp shortstop Luis Lopez and Derek a of ii two a run Homer Greg Swindell 8-9 allowed five runs in 2v5  13, Rockies 0. At Denver Fred Mcgriff hit his 34th Homer and David Justice hit his 19th and ov1, no is As the braves pounded out 20 hits to Back Maddux. Maddux lowered his major league leading Era to 1.56 with his third shutout. A i love to see him pitch but not against us a jul slut Lor said. A the to see Mim pitch but not Colorado manager Don Bay less a treat to watch. I done to know if we had one Good swing against him All Day a not even on a foul  Lance Painter 4-6 allowed five runs in three innings. A pirates 4, expos 0 t at Pittsburgh the expos hardly looked like the team with the Best record in baseball going quietly into the strike by losing to Zane Smith. Smith 10-8 Hadnot won since july 6, Only to shut Down the division leading expos on five hits As the pirates beat Montreal for Only the second time in 10 games. Montreal had won six in a Row Overall and 20 of its last 22.cardinals 8, marlins 6,7 innings at Miami Tom Pagnozzi hit a Home run for the third consecutive game and three teammates also homered giving St. Louis a rain shortened Victory. When Ray Lankford and Bernard Gilkey also homered for the cardinals who Are averaging 6.5 runs per game in  z mets 1,15 innings at Philadelphia the last four innings were played in a steady Light rain. Only about 5,000 of the original 37,605 tans remained when Billy Hatcher scored the winning run on Ricky Jordan a single in the Bottom of the 15th