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-THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PACE 18- MONDAY, APRIL IS, 198i Gooden fans 10, Carter homers las Mets top Reds N.L. Baseball a "PV 'A- a----. iX tTA- I AV 4 yS' x(Im x- i in 1 I UNITED PRESS tNTEBMTIONAL "2 Dwight Gooden pitched a (our hitter and struck out 10. outdueling former minor league teammate Jay Tibbs, and Gary Carter broke a scoreless tie with a sixth inning homer Sunday as the New York Mets won their fifth in a row. 40 over the visiting Cincinnati Reds.

The SO start ending their first I homestand of the season, is the best in Mets history, breaking the dub f- record 40 start of 1971 Gooden. who got no decision in an opening day start, limited Cincin-nati to four singles while walking two. 1 Tibbs (02) had given up just four hits until Carter hit a 32 pitch over the fence in the left field corner to lead off the sixth. Carter, who also it drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. now has three homers this season.

all game-winning solo shots. Mets' Dwight Gooden cranks another fastball toward the plate during Gooden fanned 10 Reds. ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 0 victory over Cincinnati Sunday. Ilagen parks Louisville Tribe bats silenced in 4-1 HOUSTON 5, PHILADELPHIA 3 Nolan Ryan pitched a six hitter and struck out nine to increase his all time major league stnkeout lead over losing pitcher Steve Carlton and Houston's Jerry Mumphrey scored the go-ahead run on the second of two wild pitches by Carlton in the fifth inning to give the Astros a 5 3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Ryan (20) finished the game with 3,887 strikeouts to increase his margin over Carlton, who struck out two for a 3.877 career total.

Carlton (01) lasted only five innings, giving up five runs on nine hits while walking five. CHICAGO 4. MONTREAL I Home runs by Jody Davis and Gary Matthews helped Rick Sutcliffe extend his regular season victory streak to 16 and sparked the Chica go Cubs to a 4 2 triumph over the visiting Montreal Expos. The start of the game was delayed for 57 minutes because of rain and then held up again for one hour and 21 minutes after the Montreal first Sutcliffe (20) this season and 16 1 last year, allowed only four hits, struck out seven and walked two in going the distance. His last regular season loss was June 29, 1984, against Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO 8, LOS ANGELES 4 Chris Brown greeted Los Angeles reliever Tom Nieden-fuer with a tiebreaking, two-run double that sparked a five-run sixth inning and carried the San Francisco Giants past the Los Angeles Dodgers 8 4. With the score tied 11. Jeff Leonard opened the San Francisco sixth with a line-drive single that struck starter Jerry Reuss in the right forearm and caromed into his jaw. Reuss continued but walked Bob Brenly and David Green to fill the bases. Niedenfuer replaced Reuss.

and Brown socked a double to the center field wall that scored Leonard and Brenly. Pinch-hitter Chili Davis followed with a two run single to center and Davis eventually scored on Dan Gladden's single to center. ST. LOUIS 10. PITTSBURGH 4 Joaquin Andujar pitched seven strong innings and contributed a two-run single and Jack Clark belt ed a three run homer to give the visiting St.

Louis Cardinals a 104 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Andujar. the only 20 game win-; ner in the National League last season, won his first decision of the year. He gave up one run on seven I hits and before leaving the game in the eighth inning after jamming his thumb while batting. Willie McGee helped get St.

is off to a quick start. In the first finning. Tommy Herr drew a leadoff "walk from Rick Rhoden (02) and came home when McGee drilled an opposite field triple off the wall in left center field. The fast McGee never stopped running on the play and scored as left fielder Doug Fro-' bel drew an error by hobbling the I ball. ATLANTA 3.

SAN DIEGO 1 Dale Murphy continued his long ball "hitting spree by ripping a two-run his fourth in four games. and Bruce Sutter pitched out of a ninth-inning jam to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 31 victory over the I' visiting San Diego Padres. Murphy's drive over the left-field Hence in the fourth inning off loser LaMarr Hoyt (0-1) followed a single by Brad Komminsk and sent the Braves to their fourth triumph in -five games. The home run lifted Murphy's RBI total to 10 to go along with a .500 batting average through five games. By MAX STULTZ STAR STAFF WRITER Louisville, Ky.

Louisville's Kevin Hagen. a three-time winner over Indianapolis last year, put his scalping tools to work again Sunday in the third game of the American Association season-opening series in Cardinal Stadium. Skillfully mixing a variety of sliders, changeups and fastballs, Hagen blanked the Indians for eight innings on two hits before they scored in the ninth against reliever Jim Koontz in a 41 Redbird victory before 13.712 fans. Opposed by Tribe nghty Tim Cates. who matched his foe's shut out twirling for six frames, Hagen finally earned the nod when Louisville broke up the twin whitewash performance with three in the seventh.

Hurling a four hitter of his own though battling control problems. Cates took the Tribe's first defeat after right fielder Casey Parsons drew a one-out walk and second baseman Bill Lyons yanked a single to left The Redbirds then solved relievers Jack O'Connor and Randy St. Claire for three straight one baggers that snapped Louisville's two game losing streak. Pinch-batter Jack Ayer's looping single to left off O'Connor sent Parsons home with the 10 run, the Louisville right fielder barely beating Mike Fuentes' strong throw to catcher Sal Butera. Tribe right fielder Paul Hertzler then cut down Lyons trying to score on catcher Randy Hunt's single to right with St.

Claire on the hill. The party ended one batter lat er. however, as shortstop Jose Oquendo drove a two-run single to center for a commanding 30 cush ion. Center-fielder Vince Coleman's flyout ended that inning. But the Birds jumped on St.

Claire again in the eighth, going up 4 0 when left-fielder Curt Ford tripled and came around on third sacker Tom Lawless' line single to left. Koontz. given the mop-up job by Manager Jim Frcgosi, allowed the lone Indianapolis run on twe hits and a walk during an inning that could have been better or much worse for him. A "break" of the game went each way first to the Tribe then Louisville. First baseman Andres Galarraga stirred faint hopes with a leadoff single and designated hitter Dave Hosteller walked after Fuentes fanned.

Third baseman Dave Hoeksema. appearing in his first game, then lofted a soft fly to Ford but the left fielder never saw the ball in an ominously darkening sky. The result was an easy canter home for Galarraga and with two runners still aboard, pinch-hitter Wally Johnson suddenly was the potential tying run. And the Gary native gave it his best shot, drilling a low liner to left, but this time Louisville reaped the harvest. Going to his knees.

Ford trapped the blazer hit directly at him and Mario Continued from Page 17 go the full distance in his 7 Eleven March 85C "I was using the same strategy as Mario, trying to make one stop," explained the two time world cham pion. "But Danny pressed me near the end and I had to turn up my boost and eventually stop again." Jim Crawford, fourth here in 1984. wound up there again Sunday in his first start in the Wysard Lola T900. Al Unser subbing for Rick Mears, brought the Pennzoil March 85C home in fifth position. Geoff Brabham, bothered by faulty shift linkage and brakes, settled for sixth in the Coors Light March 85C After running a strong second in the early going.

Jacques Villenueve tangled with the cement and lost two laps but came back strong to take seventh in the Canadian Tire March 85C. Tom Sneva plodded home eighth in the Skoal Bandit Eagle. Al Unser Jr. placed ninth after spinning out in the Domino's Pizza Lola T900 and Johnny Rutherford rounded out the top ten in the Vermont American March 85C. Bobby Rahal, who shared the front row with Andretti, was eliminated on the second lap when he stuck his Budweiser March 85C into the wall.

setback Hostctler. who had taken second on Hoeksema's gift hit, was in no-man's land. Ford's peg to Lawless easily forced Hosteller and the end came on pitch hitter George Bjorkman's strikeout. Cates was strongest in the middle innings, retiring nine consecutive batsmen in one stretch. "We lost to a good pitcher, one.

who always is tough on us." philosophized Manager Felipe Alou. "There will be some other days like this one." Then, shaking his head. Alou said. "That would have been some kind of inning (the ninth) if the ball Johnson hit had been just 2 feet to either side of Ford." Southpaw Mickey Mahler, on the Louisville staff last year, makes his Indianapolis debut in tonight's 7 o'clock series closer against BircT-lefty Tom Epple. The Indians then will head home to begin Bush Stadium play against Buffalo at 7:30 Tuesday night.

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