European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 36 the stars and stripes sports sunday september 10, 1995 indians celebrate i 1st title since Murray leads clinching win by Chuck Melvin Cleveland a Champagne inthe Cleveland indians clubhouse. Imagine that. Forty one years after their last Ameri can league Pennant the Indian clinched the Al Central title Friday night with a 3-2 Victory Over the Balti More orioles. And while the Celebration that Fol Lowed would have seemed entirely out of place at old Cleve land stadium it Felt perfectly natural at Jacobs Field. Life is not Al ways like the mov but this has like the mov general Man is. Been ies Ager said Ping we John Hart bubbly drip from his Cap. Had a plan and it  Eddie Murray Murray had three hits and drove in two runs for the indians who closed their drive to the title with wins in four straight and 14 of their last 16 games. They be won 12 in a Row at Jacobs Field. The crowd of 41,656, the 40th straight Home sellout stood for the entire ninth inning As Jose Mesa notched his 40th save in 42 chances. Orel Hershiser 13-6 was the Winner allowing two runs Ana four hits in 6% innings. Afterwards indians players carried a Banner signifying their championship tothe bullpen in Center Field where it was hoisted to a pole above the scoreboard. Hopefully this is the first of four Par ties. Murray said. But this team loves to hit and loves to win so i like our chances. I just Hope everybody the fans realize what we have to do. It in t easy. I d really love to see us win this. This could top  r they clinched in their 123rd game the quickest in baseball history although that Mark certainly holds less significance in Light of the shortened season and the realignment into three divisions. They will be  participants for the first time since the 1954 indians were swept by the new York giants in the world series. The game was interrupted briefly in the Bottom of the first inning when Balti More s Cal Ripken took the Field for his2,132nd consecutive game two past Lou Gehrig s previous record. The crowd gave him a standing ovation then booed Good Nat redly when he caught Kenny Lof ton s Lea diff line drive. This was a great game with Good pitching on both sides Oriole manager Phil Regan said. I m proud of our team. This has been a Heck of a week and Cal and the Guys have handled it really Well. I want to congratulate Mike Indian manager Mike Hargrove whose Guys de serve it. They have played Well All year. I just wish it had t been at our  the indians scored All their runs in the third off Kevin Brown 7-9whose wild Ness Cost him. He hit Sandy Alomar who went to third on Lofton s single and scored on Omar Viz ups sacrifice Fly. Cleveland then loaded the bases on Carlos Baerga s single and a walk to Al Bert Belle and Murray followed with a two run single Baltimore scored a run on Bobby Bonilla s double play grounder in the fourth and Jeff Huson finished Hershiser with an rib double in the seventh it s really hard for me to believe this night Baerga said. We were so bad when i came Here and now every time we win is special i mean every game. I Hope we can go three More Steps. Dave Winfield right the Only Indian alive when the franchise last won a title lives it up with Alvaro Espinoza after Cleveland beat Baltimore Friday to Clinch Al Central. Angels no to clutch Victri by the associated press  t a More interesting race in the Al right now than the wild card Battle. Unless it s the Al s wild West. 1 _ the California Angels hoping to come out of a re cent tailspin that put some tension in the division Racq came up with a clutch 9-3 Victory Over the Minnesota twins on Friday night. 7 " it was Good to get Back Home and for everybody to have an off Day at Home and kind of get their feet on the ground Angel manager Marcel Lacheman said. They kicked a couple of. Balls and gave us a couple of chances and we took advantage of some  before Friday night the Angels had lost ll-of-12 games and lost a Good portion of their once formidable Lead. The Angels Victory kept them six games ahead of Seattle a 4-1 Winner Over Kansas City. The wild card race meanwhile maintained its torrid Pace. Kansas City 62-60 and Seattle 63-61 were tied for the Lead the new York Yankees 62-61 were a half game Back Texas 61-63 was two games Back and Milwaukee 60-63 2 /2 games. The Yankees took an 8-4 decision Over Boston the runaway Leader in the East with a 14 /2-game margin Over new York and Milwaukee walloped Texas 10-1. As for the other divisional race Cleveland clinched the Al Central with a 3-2 Victory Over Baltimore. Bos ton was still in command in the East with a 14 / game Lead Over new York. In other Al action it was Detroit 9, Texas 5 and Chicago 7, Oakland 3. Shortstop Pat Meares committed two errors on the same play with two outs in the sixth inning allowing Chili Davis to score the first of four unearned runs As the Angels beat the visiting twins. " Mark Langston 14-4 allowed three runs and four hits Over seven innings for the Victory striking out seven and walking one. The left hander snapped his first two Ganie losing Streak of the year despite allowing a season High three homers by Chuck Knoblauch Kirby Puckett and Scott.  " Jose Parra 1-3 was the loser. ". " we be got a. Lot of Young kids with a lot of Confidence but. Every now and then they walk around with their Heads Down said California s Tony Phillips,.whose first inning Homer sparked the Angels. " after getting our Butts kicked the Way we did you have a tendency to put your head Between your legs. But these kids have been playing hard every Day and that s what s going to turn it around nothing  mariners 4, royals 1 Randy Johnson allowed Only four hits in his first Start in 13 Days and Luis Sojo hit a two run Homer and drove in three runs. Johnson 14-2 missed his scheduled sept. 1 Start at Boston when he could t get his Arm Loose during warmups. On Friday he allowed Only four hits All sin Gles and one earned run in seven innings. Jason Jacome 4-3 allowed 10 hits and four earned runs in 6% innings. Yankees 8, red sox 4 Darryl Strawberry hit a three run Homer in the first and David Cone won for the sixth time in seven games since joining new York Cone 15-7who was obtained by the Yankees from Toronto on july 28, had a no hitter until Willie Mcgee singled to Center with two outs in the sixth. He allowed seven hits and four runs in 71/3 innings did not Issue a walk and struck out 10, giving him the 40th game of his career with 10 or More strikeouts. Steve Howe relieved Cone during Boston s four run eighth and finished up for his second save. Loser Tim Wakco Iclal 15-4 gave up five runs on Only two hits. Brewers 10, rangers 1  surhoff and Greg Vaughn homered arid Ricky Bones 9-10 limited the rangers to six hits in six innings. He struck out four and walked three in his first win since aug. 24. Angel Miranda and Ron right Novar combined for three innings of scoreless Relief to protect the Brewers second win in 11 games. Bobby Witt 2-2 took the loss As the rangers lost for the Loti time in 12 games. Blue jays 9, tigers 5 Rookie Jeff Ware allowed three hits Over 5 a innings and Joe Carter and Paul Molitor homered. Ware 1-1 gained his first major league win and Low ered his Era from 40.50 to 10.28. He gave up three runs struck out four and walked seven after lasting Only l /3 innings in his Only other major league Start on sept. 2 against Chicago. Felipe lira 9-10 gave up six runs on six hits Over four innings. White sox 7, athletics 3 Luis Andujar won in his major league debut and Lyle Mouton broke the game open with a three run double in the seventh. Andujar 1-0who had a 12-game winning Streak and threw a no hitter at class a Birmingham this season gave up two runs and two hits in five innings. Todd Van Poppel 3-6 was the loser