European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 38 the stars and stripes sports tuesday september .5, i 995 surfaces after to botox by the associated press rather than beating other teams the California an gels Are beating up each other. The at West leading Angels lost their ninth in a Row sunday falling  to the Boston red sox then took out their anger in the clubhouse. Manager Marc Lacheman ejected during the loss at Fenway Park called a closed door meeting. After it ended Tony Phillips also ejected was involved in a heated discussion with third base coach Bobby Knoop. We Are just not being ourselves Angels outfielder Tim Salmon said. The frustrations of one player feeds on the  California which has not held a Lead in its last 70 innings lost for the 12th time in 13 games. The Angels whose division Lead is Down to 5/2 games Are mired in their worst skid since dropping 10 straight in july 1993. Lacheman declined to say what the Angels talked about after the game. But he admitted he made a mis take in the fourth inning when he got ejected by plate Umpire Larry Barnett during a trip to the Mound. That was a very poor decision on my part he said. To lose it like that is not what leadership is All about. I  to the California Angels organization and our fans. It won t happen  Phillips was tossed in the fifth after being called out on a pitch from Tim Wakefield 15-3wakefield Wonfor the first time in four starts. In other games sunday athletics 10, Yankees 9 Tony Fernandez became the first Yankees player to hit for the Cycle since Bobby Murcer in 1972, but Rickey Henderson s Home run in the 10th inning won it for visiting Oakland. J Fernandez completed the Cycle with a double in the ninth and scored a run that tied it . He is the Lotfi Yankees player to hit for the Cycle. The loss ended new York s five game winning Streak. Indians 9, tigers 8 _ Cleveland improved to 12-0 in extra innings this season coming Back after Detroit tied it in the ninth on Ron tin Gley s grand slam off Jose Mesa at Tiger stadium. Omar i Quai singled Home the go ahead with two Els Blue jays Paul Molitor takes a giant step to avoid a Pickoff As cd Fox first baseman Dave Martinez awaits throw. Outs in the 10th. The shortstop also started a game ending double play on Cecil fielder s grounder with runners on first and second. Albert Belle hit his major league leading 35th Homer for Cleveland and now has 101 Bis. Mariners 9, orioles 6 Seattle stood and cheered for Cal Ripken then beat the Baltimore orioles at Camden Yards. When the game became official after five innings the mariners climbed to the top step of the dugout and joined the sellout crowd of 46,269 in applauding rip Ken s 2,128th straight game. " Brewers 7, twins 6 Pinch hitter Matt Mieske hit Milwaukee a ninth grand slam of the season and the Brewers broke a six game losing Streak by winning at the metro Doc. The Brewers tied  record for slams in a sea son. .-.,   royals 8, rangers 5 Gary Gaetti s 400-feet drive to Center popped out of Otis Nixon s Glove and fell Over the Center Field Fence for a three run Homer in the eighth lifting Kansas City Over visiting Texas. The Victory was the ninth in 11 games for Kansas City including five of seven against the rangers and kept the royals percentage Points ahead in the Al wild card race. Gregg Olson 2-1kansas City s third Pitcher got the Victory after surviving a harrowing seventh inning _ White sox 6y Blue jays 5 at Chicago Robin Ventura and Lyle Mouton hit consecutive Home runs in the fourth to Lead the White sox to thai fifth straight win. Ventura also hit an rib single and Ozzie Guillen added his first Home run since june 23, 1994 As the White sox handed visiting Toronto its seventh Consec utile loss. " Rockies Road to West title aet Tinq smoother " " a. ". " a. By the associated press the Road has gotten a lot smoother Fot the Colorado Rockies. In Early August they slogged through a  Road swing and lost the no West Lead to the los Angeles dodgers. Now six games into an eight game trip they re  and Back on top of the division. When we be won this year its been the whole team doing the Job not. Just the Middle of the lineup col Orado j manager Don Baylor said. Sunday s Victory Girardi Over St. Louis was a Case in Point. It was Joe Girardi s two out single that boosted the Rockies to a , 11-inning win Over St. Louis. Of course the rally started with a Lead off single by one of Baylor s big guns Andres Galarraga. With runners and first and second Girardi lined a single to left off Jeff Parrett  to score Galarraga. I was telling myself while i was on the Bench that i had to be ready if i got a  hit said Girardi who entered the game As part of a double switch. ,. Darren Holmes  pitched a scoreless 10th for the Victory and Bruce Ruffin retired the cardinals in the Lith to earn his ninth save. In other games sunday dodgers 6, expos 3 r los Angeles kept Pace with Colorado As Eric Karros put the dodgers ahead with his 26th Home run and Ramon Martinez made it stand up. Martinez 14-7who gave up a Home run to Tony Tarasco to Start the game won his third straight decision retiring 13 of his last 14 batters at dodger stadium. Todd Worrell pitched the ninth for his 26th save. Karros hit a two run Homer for a  Lead against Jeff Fassero 13-11. Braves 2, cubs pressed into starting duty because Kent Mercker s Back was sore Rookie Jason Schmidt did his Job admirably. He pitched eight shutout innings in his first major league Start allowing six hits striking out seven and walking five before Mark Wohlers came on for his 21st save. Ryan Klesko hit his 17th Homer in the second inning and Chipper Jones sixth inning sacrifice Fly gave the Home team its other run. Pirates 7, reds 3 Pittsburgh finally found the formula for winning at riverfront stadium plenty of Good pitching Good hitting and Goodluck Paul Wagner 4-13 got his first career win Over Cincinnati and Orlando Merced hit a three run Homer to highlight another big inning and help the pirates save face against the no Central leaders. Pittsburgh sent up 10 batters in the fourth for five runs off Dave Burba 9-3who took his first loss for Cincinnati. Marlins 8, astros 7 put in a pressure packed and unfamiliar position Pitcher Craig Mcmurtry Sim ply did the expected. Forced to Bat when Houston ran out of hitters he struck out with the tying run on third base in the Lith inning and the astros lost to Florida. The  the Astrodome dropped the astros one Hail game behind los an Geles in the wild card  Veras tripled off Jim Dougherty  to Start the Florida Lith Chuck Carr singled and Jeff Conine hit an rib single. Mcmurtry relieved with the bases loaded and arc Colbrunn hit a sacrifice Fly. Phillies 3, padres 2a.bad stretch finally came to an end for Paul Quantrill who recorded his first win in More than a month. Quarrill 10-9 allowed two runs on nine hits in seven plus innings to pick up his first win since july 2o."quantrill, who struck out three and walked three had lost his last three decisions. Gregg Jefferies drove in two runs to help keep the Phillies in Contention for a wild card playoff spot. Jefferies had two hits a run scoring sacrifice Fly and two Bis for the visitors. He also scored the game winning run on a double play in the third inning. Mets11,giants6 new York kept coming Back against the giants finally hanging on to win and avoid their first series sweep by san Francisco since 1991 after rallying to tie three times the mets took the Lead for Good in the seventh when Ryan Thompson s grounder bounced past giants reliever Carlos Val Dez 0-1scoring Chris Jones who tripled and breaking a  tie at Candle stick Park. Deion Sanders led off the game with a Home run and Barry Bonds hit his 26th Homer in the Bottom of the fifth