European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 32 the stars and stripes if. Maddux zaps cardinals for 16th Pic toy by the associated press the superlatives Fly about Greg Maddux unless Vou listen to the Atlanta braves right hander or his manager. ,. V the Man who has won the last three no by Young awards became the major leagues first 16-game win Ner tuesday night with his fourth consecutive com plete game Victory 1-0 Over the St. Louis cardinals. It was his second 1-0 win Over the cardinals in 17 Days and the seven hitter with no walks and eight strikeouts had St. Louis manager Mike Jorgensen gushing. The last time he one zipped us i thought about the Era of Bob Gibson Steve Carlton and Juan Mari Chal Jorgensen said. Dare i say he might be at the top of the list Don t ask Maddux who is 16-2 with a major league-best10 Complete games three shutouts and a 1.77 Era. I Don t want to get caught up in it he said. It can turning a heartbeat. When 1 catch myself , i get on something else. I m just very pleased with  understatement continued with braves mafia Erobb Aycox. There s no new adjectives for or. Maddux co said. He was real Good again not great real  Maddux needed Only 109 pitches 75 of which were strikes and 1 hour 57 minutes to dispatch the Cardi nals. He got All his run support in the second when Fred Mcgriff hit his 23rd Homer the Only mistake made by Tom Urbani. You feel Good with a 1-0 Lead and Maddux pitch ing Mcgriff said that s pretty Safe. I thought we d score a few More runs off Urbani. We had chances. Weddin t do the Job. Greg picked us up  Urbani 3-5 allowed five hits walked one and struck out three before leaving for a Pinch hitter in the seventh. My Only mistake was a hanging Slider to Mcgriff or Bani said before joining the Many who Praise Maddux. He s the master there s no mistake about  when he makes a mistake it s off the plate. I can throw two of three like that. He throws nine of .10." in other games tuesday astros 10, reds 1 the astros ended an 11-game losing Streak to the reds with a bang. " Derrick May followed a Bench Clearing Brawl with a grand slam in the seventh As Houston beat Cincinnati for the first time this season. A series of Bench Clearing incidents starting when reds reliever Xavier Hernandez threw inside to Bria Hunter in the sixth eventually led to the ejections of both managers four reds and two astros. The most serious confrontation came in the seventh when Hernandez hit Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell on the arms with consecutive pitches Clearing both thursday september 7,1995 Hamelin by the associated press Kansas City is hoping Bob Hamelin can recapture last year s Rookie of the year form for the royals stretch run. On tuesday night he did just  homered in the 10th inning As the royals stayed in front in the wild card race by beating Toronto 9-8. _ i feel a lot More comfortable at the plate this time around said Hamelin who spent two stints in the minors this season and was called up saturday from Omaha. This Home run had immediate Impact. It got the team a win and that s what i m paid to  while Kansas City stayed a half game ahead of Seattle in the wild card race the Blue jays winners of the last two world series were eliminated from the Al East race. We be had a lot of great times som Good bal clubs manager Cito Gaston said. These times Are not so great. But alot of people never get to experience what we be  Kansas City blew a 7-0 Lead and fell be Hind 8-7 when Joe Carter hit a three run Homer in the ninth. Wally Joyner tied the score in the Bot reds Ron Grant takes a swing at astros Catcher Pat Borders. The two players got into it at the plate before any pitches were thrown in the seventh inning and both were ejected by Home plate Umpire Harry Wendelstedt Center. Benches for a lengthy fight. Bagwell has just returned from a Long stint on the disabled list with a broken left hand after being hit by . May s fifth Homer gave Houston an 8-1 Lead. Doug Drabek 8-8 allowed three hits Over seven innings before being ejected for hitting Benito Santiago with , v dodgers 2, Phillies 1 Brett Butler walked with the bases loaded and two outs in the Bottom of the ninth As the dodgers extended their Lead Over Colorado in the no West to one game. Toby Borland 1,-1who had the bases loaded with no outs and got a Force at Home and a strikeout had an 0-2count on Butler. For the third time this season and second Start in a Row Hideo Nomo was derailed by a cracked Fingernail. He Al Lowed one Hurt and three hits Over five innings  Leav ing with the injury to his Middle right Finger. He struck out seven to boost his league leading total to 212. Eric Karros gave the dodgers a 1-0 Lead in the fourth with his 27th Homer. The Phillies tied it on an rib sin Ogleby Mickey Morandini in the fifth. -. _ .mets-4paciresp Jason Isringhausen allowed five hits Over eight innings and Jeff Kent and Damon Buford homered for the mets who have won four of six from the padres Over the last 13 Days. Isringhausen 5-2 had two strikeouts arid three walks and was backed by four double plays. John fran co got the last out with two on for his 21st save. Both homers came off Andy Ashby 9-9. Kent hit his 16th leading off the second then re aggravated his strained left Quad just a few Steps out of the Batter s Box and had to leave the game. Buford who also had a sacrifice Fly hit his second in the fifth.  9, expos 6 Barry Bonds and Matt Williams hit Back to Bac homers in the first arid Mark Carreyn sparked a three Ijiri rally in the sixth with a Homer trailing 6-5, the giants rallied off reliever Jose Del Eon 0-1who gave up Carreon s 13th Homer to Lead off the inning. Two relievers then allowed an rib groundnut by Kirt Manwaring and an rib single by Deion Sanders. Giants reliever Juan Bautista inherited a bases loaded situation and gave up a grand slam to David Segui. Bautista 3-8 pitched two More scoreless innings for the win. Rod Beck pitched the ninth for his 27thsave. Tom half with a Homer off Ken Robinson 1-1a shot measured at 430 feet the longest this season at Kauffman stadium. Gregg Olson 3-1 pitched a perfect 10th inning and Kansas City won for the ninth time in 11 games. In other games tuesday red sox 7, athletics 4 Jose Canseco s beat his old team wit three run Homer in the 14th inning that ran Boston s winning Streak to fou games. Canseco hit his 22nd Homer off Carlos Reyes 3-5 with two outs after Troy o Leary singled and to Vaughn walked. Rick Aguilera 3-2 pitched one inning for the win at Fenway Park. The red sox won for the 26th time i their last 32 games and increased their Al East Lead to 15 /2 games Over the Newyork Yankees who lost to Seattle. Tigers 6, twins 4 Detroit has its first two game winning Streak in More than a month. Rookie . Nitkowski 1-2 got his first Al Victory giving up five hits in five innings. He and Mike Christopher retired 19 of the game s final 21 batters at the metronome. Phil Nevin drove in two runs for the tigers who had t won two straight since beating Oakland on july 25 and 26. Oscar Muritz 1-1 had a 4-1 Lead in his second major league Start but could t hold it. " mariners 6, Yankees 5 Seattle blew most of a six run Lead but managed to hang on. The mariners led 6-0 before the Yan Kees began a comeback against starter Bob Wolcott 34. Jay Buhner s three run Homer highlighted a four run Seattle fifth inning at Yankee stadium Mike Stanley s sacrifice Fly Cut the Lead to 6-4 in the seventh. In the ninth the Yankees closed within a run on Don Mattingly s sixth Homer with one out but Norm Charlton the fifth Seattle Pitcher closed out the game for his sixth save. Yankees starter Mariano Rivera 5-3 lasted just 416 innings and gave up twosome runs Luis Sojo s fifth Ana Ken Griffey or s 11th. Indians brewers3 while Cal Ripken was tying Lou Gyring Eddie Murray was passing him. Murray had four hits and four Bisand moved past Gehrig into Lith place on the career total bases list. The indians first baseman had an rib double in the fourth to give him 5,061total bases one More than Gehrig. Dennis Martinez 10-4 scattered seven hits in seven innings arid won for the first time since july 21. Milwaukee lost for the eighth time in nine games falling 3vz games behind Kansas City in the wild card race. The visitors won for the 14th time in 18 games. White sox 2, rangers 1 _ Mike Lavalliere homered for the first time in More than a year a two out driven the Lith inning that extended Chi Cago s winning Streak to seven. It was Lavalliere s first Homer since aug. 7, 1994, at California and the 18th of his big league career. Matt Karchner 34 pitched two innings. It was the Host rangers Isth loss in 12 games dropping them under .500 for the first time since May 19