European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page30 the stars and stripes saturday septembers 1995 win cinches play off spot for indians by the associated press Cleveland the Cleveland indians symbols of baseball futility for four decades clinched at least a tie for the Al Central title thursday night beating the Seattle mariners 4-1. The indians need one More win or one More Kansa City loss Toi guarantee their first title since 1954. They have clinched a wild card berth ensuring their first postseason appearance since they were swept by the new York giants in the 1954 world series. Their 85wins Are their most in any season since 1968, when they won 86. -.-,.  Nagy 13-5 won his third straight Start and Carlos Baerga homered for the Indi ans winners of 11 straight Home games and 13 of their last 15  Bosio 9-8 was the loser. Seattle dropped six games behind California in theal West and one game behind Kansas City in the wild card race. The mariners and royals were to meet in Athree game series beginning Friday night in Seattle. In thursday s Only other Al game 1 rangers 2, White sox 0 Arlington Texas Roger Pavlik threw a three hitter for his first career shutout As Texas Ranger halted Chicago s eight game winning Streak. Texas ended a four game losing Streak and moved two games behind Idle Kansas City in the Al wild card race. I Pavlik turned in one of his strongest performances Matching the Low hit game of his career. It was the 27 year old right hander s first Complete game of the sea son and fourth of his career. Pavlik 8-9 lost three of his previous four decisions but he was in command against a hot hitting White so lineup. Chicago was batting .342 with a .558 slugging percentage during the eight game Streak its longest since 1991. Pavlik struck out five and walked four in out dueling Wilson Alvarez 7-8who s 0-7 on the Road this season. Rangers Catcher Ivan Rodriguez said the key to Pav Lik s night was throwing strikes Early in the count. He got ahead and his split Finger pitch was very Good tonight Rodriguez said if he gets ahead in the count he s one of the toughest pitchers in the  s not easy to throw a three hit shutout in the major leagues a. " Angels distributing donor cards Anaheim Calif. In an Effort to Honor Mickey Mantle s final wishes the California Angels will pro Mote Organ donor awareness by making donor cards available to fans at each Home game for the remainder of the regular season. The Angels announced thursday that with the Hel of volunteers from the Southern California coalition donation donor cards will be. Made available throughout each game at Gate 2 of Anaheim stadium. The Angels have 13 Home games left. Cal Ripken or. Waves to the crowd thursday in Baltimore during a Parade saluting his consecutive games played record. Thousands fake a Day off to Honor Man Baltimore a Cal Ripken earned Iron Man status for showing up to work at the Ballpark every Day for More than 13 years. So to celebrate tens of thousands of Baltim oreans took Long lunch Breaks or skipped work altogether thursday to see the Cal Ripken Day Parade through downtown Baltic Nore. I was trying to keep myself from coming Down but i could t help myself said Keith Fisher of Millersville a mass transit administration employee who took Atwo hour lunch break to see the Parade thursday the hubbub is Worth  fifteen hours after the Oriole shortstop played a re Cord 2,131st consecutive game he stood atop a float that carried him through downtown Baltimore and tothe inner Harbor. V fans thronged the sidewalks leaned but windows and climbed on rooftops to catch a glimpse of the Iron Man. -. We love you Cal congratulations Call fans shouted snapping photographs and tossing confetti As he passed. I arid thanks Ripken said As heaved and smiled. Forty minutes North of Baltimore thousands of peo ple turned out in Ripken s Hometown of Aberdeen for a Parade honouring their favorite son. Ripken s parents were there but their son could t make  had to go Back to work. The orioles flew to Cleveland on thursday night " 37rtrte Rev Donald Robert chaplain at the St. Paul s school for boys in Lutherville watched the Baltimore Parade instead of giving communion at St. Paul s Church on Charles Street As scheduled at 12 15 . As you can Tell no one is there he said. God will forgive them and me too i  Baltimore schoolchildren officially were not  class to attend the Parade. Cal s lesson is stick ,1" said Nat Harrington a Baltimore school spokesman. Still Dawn Croft of Laurel left work and brought her. Son 8-year-old Zach to the Parade. Cal would have a pulled Rachel out of school for Lou Gehrig she said two bodyguards flanked Ripken. His children 5 year old Rachel Rand. 2-year-old Ryan sat with their Mother Kelly in front. Braves split after 4-Rnonth wait by the associated press _ Miami Pat Rapp pitched 61a no hit innings and Gary Sheffield and Jeff Conine hits Home runs to Lead the Flor Ida marlins to a 5-1 win Over the Atlanta braves on thursday night and Salvage a split of a shortened doubleheader. Fred Mcgriff broke up Rapp s no hit Ter in the seventh with a towering Home run to Center Field his 24th. In the opener the braves took 21 min utes to beat the marlins 6-3 in a comple National league Tion of a suspended game delayed Over four months. Rapp 10-7 allowed one run on four hits with five strikeouts and two walks to win his fifth straight completion. Steve Avery 6-12who gave up six hits and struck out seven in seven innings lost his third straight. Brad Woodall 1-0who is now a triple a Richmond earned his first major league Victory in the first game. In thursday s Only other no game cardinals 5, padres 2 St. Louis Ray Lankford drove in four runs with a double triple and Sacri fice Fly and Allen Watson pitched six shutout innings As St. Louis snapped a five game losing Streak. Lankford who matched a career High for Bis in a game also stretched a hit Ting Streak to nine games. Minor league playoff game outdraw twins Minneapolis Mike Veeck s St. Paul saints went head to head with the Minnesota twins and won. So Why was Veeck so disappointed thursday the saints Drew 4,637 fans to their Northern league playoff opener wednesday night just hours after a pal try crowd of 2,742 watched the twins beat Detroit. While the twins had about 50,000 empty seats Veeck was unhappy that he had about 1,700, a rarity at Midway stadium. But Veeck the son of former Chi Cago White sox owner Bill Veeck was bothered More by what the twins Atten dance said about the state of baseball. I m sad about it he said. Was with the 76 and 79 White sox so i know what the twins Are going through and it in t helping my attendance at  Candel stick renamed san Francisco a candlestick Park Home of base Ball s giants and football s 49ers, was officially renamed 3com Pardon thursday. 3com corp., a Santa Clara Dat networking company will pay the City .$500,000 for the rights to the name through the end of 1995. The City s recreation and Parks com Mission approved the change. The company is also paying an undisclosed amount to the Sanfrancisco 49ers for promotional considerations. 3com wants to extend the de although 2000 for a total of $4 million but that will have to go before the san Francisco Board of supervisors