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The Des Moines Register Monday, May 23, 1994 3S 2 MAKE YOUR OWN Baseball CANOEING MEMORIES! Experience (Jnforgetable Family Fun in an Old Town Canoe from Boulevard Sports Louisville Breaks Tie in Eighih Key hits lacking in I-Gubs' 5-3 loss 'rVii'k I fa )' Ah- M. Extremely safe, will float even filled with water, even when punctured will not sink Terrific craftsmanship brUtilb ESQ The Classic 100 wonted wool Classic detailing i 1. fflaspor MENS Governor Square 2700 University By RANDY PETERSON KKiiiKTKK Staff Whitkk Turk Wendell gave up three home runs, but that's only part of the reason the Iowa Cubs lost again to Louisville Sunday afternoon. One would think 12 hits, including five for extra bases, could offset most any offensive attack by the foe. But they didn't.

The Iowa Cubs couldn't hit with runners in scoring position, and that was the main reason for the 6-3 loss in front of a Sec Taylor Stadium crowd of 7,345. The loss dropped Iowa's record to 17-24. It is the poorest start after 41 games since the 1989 team was 16-25. Ozzie Timmons had three doubles, Cris Colon homered and Wendell pitched well through five innings, "We got very little production out of our one-two guys," Iowa Manager Rick Patterson said of the combined l-for-10 by Rod Robertson and Todd Haney. "All year long we've been searching for someone to get on base, then when we do get on we run our-self right out of it." It happened in the scoreless third Inning when Robertson singled, went to second base on an infield ground-out by Haney then was out trying to steal third base.

Timmons followed with a double to the fence in center field that easily would have scored Robertson from second base. Did he have the green light to steal? "No, he did not," Patterson said, "That should not have happened." Timmons tied a franchise record held by several players with his three doubles. The last player to do it was last season by Tony Chance. Mike Carter doubled for the Cubs in the sixth inning. "The only problem with that was that all those doubles were with no one on base," Patterson said.

Timmons, who Is a triple-A rookie, normally hits sixth or seventh in the order, but was moved to third for the first time Sunday. "I had the same approach to hitting third as I did when I hit down in the order," Timmons said. "Moving up in the order to the third spot makes me think the manager has confidence in me." Patterson wanted Timmons to get acclimated to triple-A early in the season. That's why he was batting low in the order. "I don't know if we'll keep him third, but he did a good job today," Patterson said.

"I wanted to bring Ozzie along easy, this being his first year in triple-A. I wanted to protect him early in the season." Wendell started strong. At least he faked it well while retiring the first seven batters and not allowing a hit until Phil Stephenson's single in the fourth inning. "I did not feel strong to start the game," said Wendell, who has a 2-1 record. "I was fortunate to make it to the eighth inning with the stuff I had today." Three Wendell pitches resulted in four Louisville runs a two-run homer by Skeets Thomas in a three-run sixth inning, then consecutive home runs by Allen Battle and John Quiet, won't spook fish or wildlife fc Prices styles to tkJr.

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After 40 years, sprint-car rac ing finally gave Christy his due a victory at its most reputable venue. It like a guy maybe getting into indy cars; his goal is to win the Indy 500, said Christy, owner of Mar tin's car. "I think most of the guys goal here is just to win a feature at Knoxville. It just a prestige deal. The deal Saturday night was Christy's first Knoxville victory as a car owner and Martin's first as a driver.

To Christy, of Olathe, and Martin, of California, Knox ville is their Mecca. "I've seen race tracks all over the country, but this place and probably Eldora (Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio) are probably two of the most prestigious race tracks in the coun try," Christy said. "To win a feature at either one of these tracks, you've accomplished a whole bunch. Christy, who has owned cars driv en by Danny Smith and Peter Mur phy, also has worked for the World of Outlaws. He's seen them all, but he likes the one he has behind the wheel.

"Randy reminds me a lot of Steve Kinser," Christy said. "I've known Steve Kinser for a lot of years, and Randy reminds me a lot of Steve when Steve was back 10, 12 years ago, coming up real strong. He got the drive. He doesn't go to the race track to run second. He's just got the drive and the motivation to win.

He also has the moves. He slipped past Bruce Williams midway through the 16-lap feature by driv ing high in the second turn. Jeff Haines followed Martin by Williams. Two laps later, however, Martin had opened a large lead over Haines. The car really didn start work ing until probably eight or 10 laps into the race," Martin said.

"It just got feeling better and better. I knew as long as I kept the car straight and didn't make any mistakes, I thought I could reel him in. The victory doesn't necessarily en sure an encore by the partners. Money is tight, and Knoxville is a long way from home for a $600 winner check. "We don't know financially whether we can afford to or not, Christy said.

"The pay's a little short here, and for me it 4 hours to come up here; for Randy, it 5V4 hours. We can run two or three race tracks around there close and make the same money we make here, but I'll grant you, it's not the same thing winning a feature there as it is win ning one at Knoxville. The two compete on Friday nights at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, and have been known to bypass Knoxville on Saturdays for Capital Speedway in Holts bummit, Mo. Running for the Knoxville season title is something both men want to do, but don't know if they can." For one night, at least, 40 years of hard work was transformed into a lifetime of pride. Rock roll Dude For a mo ment, Danny Lasoski was dazed and confused.

For a moment only. Lasoski was struck in the visor by a large rock early in his heat race, then regained his bearings and won the race with a wild ride past two cars on the final turn. He didn't stop there. Lasoski, the two-time defending track champion, won the 46th feature race of his career with relative ease. The heat race was another story.

"I went to pass Skip Jackson on the outside, and he threw a rock, Lasoski said. "It knocked my screen back into my hands. It knocked me ding-y. All I could see was yellow spots. It hit me right there in the shield and knocked my head back.

It took me probably two or three laps just to get my senses back where I was at I was running all over the place until the last couple of laps. Those last laps were all he needed. As Bob Weuve and Skip Jackson dueled for the lead on the final lap, Lasoski sailed around the cushion through the third and fourth turns and beat both cars to the finish line. "All I could see was Bob Weuve trying to pinch Skip Jackson to the bottom," Lasoski said. "I said, That was really a dumb because it just left the top completely open.

BOO euve was trying to block Skip Jackson, but he didn't have any idea that I was there. Jaymie Moyle had the early lead in the feature race before a yellow flag on the fourth lap. On the restart, Lasoski almost drove through Moyle before taxing me ieaa with the same high move he used in the heat race. W. t.

Pet. G.B. ItdianapolisfReds) 28 16 .636 Nfw Orleans (Brewers) 25 19 .568 3 Umsville (Cardinals) 23 20 J535 44 Nishville (W Sox) 24 21 533 BuHalo (Pirates) 20 24 .455 8 Omaha (Royals) 18 23 .439 8 Iowa (Cubs) 17 24 415 9 OHa City (Rangers) 16 24 .400 10 SUNDAY'S GAMES Indanapolis 5. Omaha 2 lotusvitle 5. Iowa 3 NailmH 12.

Oklahoma City 4 New Orleans 2. BuHalo 1 TOM V'S GAMES 6 06 Indianapolis at Iowa (2) Louisville at Omaha New Orleans at Buffalo Ohlthoma City at Nashville VS. INDIANAPOLIS WHERE Sec Taylor Stadium. RECORD vt. INDIANAPOLIS (0-5).

RADIO KIOA-AM (940). PITCHING ROTATION Tdy.6:0S Indianapolis at Iowa Indianapolis at Iowa Pftcher M.Grott(L) K. Foster (R) undecided llsley (L) W-L 3-0 11 ERA 1 58 585 0-0 0 00 Tuesday, 7:15 Indianapolis at Iowa Pitcher R. Reed (R) L. Luebbers(R) W-L ERA 2-1 2 88 0-4 8 47 7:15 Indianapolis at Iowa Pitcher Kramer (R) L.

Dickson (R) W-L ERA 0-1 16 62 0-1 675 Mabry to start the eighth. In seven innings, Wendell allowed seven hits, five runs, struck out five and did not issue a walk. He has 24 strikeouts in his last 22 innings. "He looked to me like he had pretty good stuff," Louisville Manager Joe Pettini said. "But we swung at some balls that weren't even over the plate." But swinging at a pitch out of the strike zone is not bad all the time.

Just ask Battle, whose home run broke a 3-3 tie. "He threw me two sliders, then he threw a fastball down and in," Battle said. "I'm not sure it was a strike, but luckily I got my hands through, and luckily it went out." LOUISVILLE Battled 4 Mabryrf 4 Coolbaugh 3b 3 Stephenson lb 4 IOWA 2 1 Robertson rf 1 1 Haney 2b 1 0 Timmons If 1 1 Worthingtnlt 2 2 Franco lb 1 0 Colon3b 0 0 Shields ss 0 0 Carter 0 0 Coxc 0 0 Maksudtanc 0 0 Wendell 0 0 Veres Bullett ph Walker Thomas tf Dealt 2b Fanning 2b Cromer ss Ronan Knoxp Cimorelli Dixon 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 5 a TOIMS 312 Louisville. ..000 003 0209 Iowa 000 300 0003 Coolbaugh (11). Wendell (1).

Worthmgton (5). DP Louisville. LOB Louisville 4. Iowa 9 28 Coolbaugh (14). Carter (9).

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5 Knox. Louisville IP SO 2 0 3 SO 5 0 Knox Cimorelli W. 4-0 Dixon S. 6 Iowa Wendell L. 2-1 Veres 6i I'i IP 7 1 1 Walker 0 Wendell pitched to 2 batters in the 8th WP Knox.

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HOW THEY SCORED Iowa fourth Colon homered to center. Carter singled to center. Carter stole second Cox to first on fielding error by third baseman Coolbaugh. Carter scored. Cox to second on play at plate.

Wendell singled to left. Cox scored Iowa 3, Louisville 0. Louisville sixth Battle singled to first Battle stole second. Coolbaugh doubled to left. Battle to third.

Stephenson grounded out to first. Battle scored. Coolbaugh to third Thomas homered to right. Coolbaugh scored Iowa 3, Louisville 3. Louisville eighth Battle homered to left.

Mabry homered to right. Louisville 9, Iowa 3. in pain after delivering a pitch Friday. Tests Saturday disclosed a tear of the ulnar collateral ligament Surgery was recommended. "If there was any luck involved, it's that Armando has never been injured there before," Manager Don Baylor said.

"That should help." To replace him, the Rockies will purchase the contract of pitcher Kevin Ritz, who was 5-0 at Colorado Springs. Ritz is from Bloomfield. Ia. Phillies ailing It was a bad day in an already bad season on the irju-ry front for the Philadelphia Phillies. Third baseman Dave Hollins, one mm Kevin Foster Former ivfielder Foster learns to pitch in, and to pitch Kevin Foster thought Felipe Alou was kidding.

"He was my manager in 1990 and he called me into his office one day," recalled Foster. "He asked if I'd be interested in becoming a pitcher. He was seri ous. Foster was a little-used infield-er for West Palm Beach, the Ex pos' rookie team in the Gulf Coast League, with nothing to lose and everything to gain. "Anything to stay in the game, said Foster.

He made his major-league debut last season while pitching for Philadelphia, and starts for the Iowa Cubs in the first game of to night's doubleheader against Indianapolis. Foster's story begins long before he was dealt to the Cubs last month in a trade that sent Shawn Boskie, another infielder-turned-pitcher, to the Phillies. It starts two seasons after he was drafted, as a third baseman, by Montreal in June 1988. I was in a situation in the Montreal organization where I wasn't getting a lot of playing time," Foster said. "I was stuck and I wasn't getting to play much.

"Felipe Alou was the manager and he told me he thought I had a good future and the arm to be a pitcher. At first I thought he was just kidding. But reality was that I wasn playing. I pitched some in high school so I wasn't exactly going into it cold. So I made the switch.

He converted in the middle of the 1990 season. "I have no regrets," he said. "I'm having more fun now than I had when I was a hitter. I don't miss it at all. But at the beginning it was tough because I hadn been on the mound that much.

After a month or two it started to comeback." He eventually thanked Alou, now the Montreal manager. When I went up last year with the Phillies we were in Mon treal and (Alou) was the first one went up to and thanked him," Foster said. "I told him that without him I might not even be here. Maybe I'd be sitting at home doing something else." Randy Peterson Orestes Destrade of Florida charges St Louis pitcher Allen Watson, who is helped by catcher Terry McGriff, after Destrade was hit by a pitch Sunday. Four players were ejected after the ensuing brawl.

of two Phillies to start all 42 games this season, broke the bone below the index finger in his left hand in Sunday's 8-3 home victory over the New York Mets. Hollins' hand was placed in a cast where it will remain for the next four weeks. Starting pitcher Tommy Greene was in pain with a sore shoulder when he left the game in the sixth inning. Afterward, Greene said the shoulder was too sore to continue. Before the game, reliever Norm Charlton, signed as a free agent in the offseason, said his left (pitching) elbow has still not recovered from reconstructive surgery in August jf VmJk rvrm instant credit CTjrM Wrh AVAILABLE fi7 Four ejected after brawl Four -jlq players were ejected Sunday follow-jiij ing a second-inning brawl at Miami i i between Florida and St.

Louis. The Cardinals won the game, 10-9. j. After Jeff Conine hit Florida's third homer of the inning against Allen Watson, the St. Louis starting pitcher hit the next batter, Orestes Destrade, with a pitch.

I Destrade, who had a two-run dou- old ble in the first inning, charged the mound. Watson threw his glove at i Destrade's face, cutting the bridge of i air! his nose. Destrade punched Watson's r-'- face and the benches emptied. "You got a kid out of college trying 4 o. to play like he's in the big leagues," said of 1 he's a little wimpy xV.lr ge boy." Cardinals left fielder Bernard Gilkey and Marlins reliever Luis Aquino tangled, and Gilkey accidentally punched the back of umpire Charlie Relford's head.

Destrade, Aquino, Watson and Gilkey were ejected. St. Louis Man-; ager Joe Torre then played the game under protest Later, former Marlins reliever i Rich Rodriguez, who entered the i game after Watson was ejected, i threw his glove at a heckler behind the Cardinals dugout St. Louis players pointed at the heckler, the glove was thrown back i on the field and the fan was ushered out of the ballpark. "There must have been a full moon out" Gregg Jefferies of the Cardinals said.

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