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4C THE PALM BEACH POST THURSDAY, MAY 3 1 1 990 Major League Baseball Standings 7. List Streak 10 1 IB fx" If p--- If American League East Tun Won Lost Pet. GB Milwaukee 23 20 .535 Toronto 26 23 .531 Boston 23 22 .511 1 Cleveland 21 23 .477 2Vi Baltimore 21 26 .447 4 Detroit 20 29 .408 6 New York 17 27 .386 WEST Oakland 31 14 .689 Chicago 28 15 .651 2 Minnesota 27 19 .587 414 California 23 24 .489 9 Seattle 22 26 .458 101z Kansas City 20 25 .444 11 Texas 19 28 .404 13 National League East Team Won Lost Pet. GB Pittsburgh 29 17 .630 Philadelphia 24 20 .545 4 Montreal 25 21 .543 4 New York 20 23 .465 Th Chicago 21 26 .447 8V4 St. Louis 20 27 .426 WEST Cincinnati 30 11 .732 Los Angeles 24 23 .511 9 San Diego 23 22 .511 9 Houston 19 27 .413 1314 San Francisco 19 28 .404 14 Atlanta 17 26 .395 14 Results American League Oakland outfielder Felix Jose climbs the wall for a foul ball during Wednesday's 8-5 win over Toronto, but a fan interferes with the play.

Jose still made the fifth-inning catch. Robinson appealing 3-game suspension American League Athletics avoid sweep Quirk keys 8-5 win over Toronto The Associated Press OAKLAND, Jamie Quirk drove in two runs with a double and triple in only his second start of the season as the Oakland Athletics avoided a series sweep with an 8-5 victory over Toronto on Wednesday, ending the! Blue Jays' five-game winning streak. Quirk, who entered the game 1-for-10, snapped a 5-5 tie in the A's four-run, fifth inning with a run-scoring double. He gave Oakland a 1-0 lead with an RBI triple in the first. Willie Randolph gave the A's an 8-5 lead with a solo home run in the eighth inning.

It was his first home run for Oakland. The Blue Jays spent three days keeping Jose Canseco, Rickey Henderson and Mark McGwire in check in two straight victories over Oakland. They didn't figure Quirk would be the one to keep them from a sweep. "We held Canseco and McGwire down for three days; I have no comment on the other guys," Toronto's George Bell said. "You can't shut everybody down," said Toronto starter Willie Blair (0-1), who allowed six runs in 4 innings.

"I really didn't know anything about Quirk." "This guy's a quality major leaguer," Oakland manager Tony La Russa said. "If this was the last day of the season with the pennant at stake and he was ouf catcher, I'd have no problem putting him out there." Royals 4, Tigers 3 KANSAS CITY, Mo. Kansas City's bullpen held off Detroit after an injury to starter Storm Davis and the Royals turned four double plays to beat Detroit for their fifth straight victory. Kansas City defeated Detroit for the 10th consecutive time at Royals Stadium. Davis left with two outs in the fourth with a bruised knuckle after stopping Cecil Fielder's hard grounder.

Luis Aquino (1-0) pitched 2V3 scoreless innings and Steve Crawford worked two shutout innings. Jeff Montgomery pitched the ninth for his fourth save. Fielder doubled with one out and scored on Larry Sheets' two-out single and, after a wild pitch, Matt Nokes struck out to end the game. Dan Petry (4-2) lost for the first time in four road decisions and dropped to 5-12 lifetime against Kansas City. Twins 12, Orioles 3 MINNEAPOLIS Fred Manri-que and Brian Harper drove in three runs apiece and Gene Larkin kept his hot bat going with three hits and three runs scored as Minnesota beat Baltimore.

The Twins have won six of their last seven games and are 20-7 this month, their best May ever. This is only the seventh 20-victory month in club history; the last was a 21-10 showing in September 1970. Roy Smith (4-4) scattered 10 hits over 7 innings before being relieved by Tim Drummond. Smith has received terrific support his last two outings, beating Boston 16-0 last Friday before benefiting from Wednesday's 16-hit attack against four Baltimore pitchers. National League Pirates defeat Dodgers Bonds, Bream key S3 win The Associated Press PITTSBURGH Barry Bonds had a two-run home run and three RBI and Sid Bream was 3-for-4 with a solo home run as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 Wednesday for their fifth consecutive victory.

Walt Terrell (2-4) ended his three-game losing streak by allowing three runs and five hits over innings as the Pirates, who had 14 hits, swept the three-game series. Bill Landrum, the fourth Pittsburgh pitcher, worked the final inning for his seventh save, giving the Pirates their 13th victory in their last 15 home games. The Dodgers had won five in a row entering the series. Helped by two Los Angeles errors, Pittsburgh scored three runs in the first inning off Ramon Martinez (5-3). Wally Backman reached on second baseman Juan Samuel's seventh error and Andy Van Slyke was awarded first an out later on catcher's interference by Mike Scioscia.

Giants 4, Cubs 1 CHICAGO Rookie John Burkett pitched seven scoreless innings, and Matt Williams hit a two-run home run, leading San Francisco over Chicago. Burkett, who also drove in a run with his first major league hit, shut out the Cubs until Ryne Sandberg led off the eighth with a home run, his 10th. He gave up five hits and was taken out after eight innings for a pinch hitter. Burkett (4-1) was relieved by Steve Bedrosian, who earned his seventh save despite allowing a walk and a single in the ninth. Expos 9, Braves 6 ATLANTA Tim Wallach drove in four runs with a home run and two doubles as Montreal beat Atlanta for its third straight victory.

Wallach's 11th home run, in the fourth inning, left the Expos with a 3-1 deficit. But Montreal batted around in a five-run fifth to finish Tom Glavine (2-3) and win for the seventh time in 10 games. Atlanta lost for the fifth time in seven games. Padres 8, Phillies 3 PHILADELPHIA Bip Roberts, Tony Gwynn, Mike Pagliarulo and Joe Carter each drove in two runs as San Diego beat Philadelphia. The victory was San Diego's third in a row and fifth in six games.

Philadelphia, which has lost four straight, has not won since Friday, when it spent 24 hours in first place in the National League East. Astros 2, Cardinals 1 HOUSTON Glenn Wilson extended his hitting streak to six games with an eighth-inning single that scored Ken Caminiti as Houston beat St. Louis. The Astros won for the sixth time in nine games after ending a 2-14 skid and won their third consecutive series. The Cardinals, last in the National League East, lost for the fifth time in six games.

Wednesday Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Oakland 8, Toronto 5 Burns (1-0) Blair (0-1) Chicago 5, New York 2 Hibbard (4-3) Cary (2-1) Kansas City 4, Detroit 3 Aquino (1-0) Petry (4-2) Minnesota 12, Baltimore 3 Smith (4-4) Harnisch (5-2) Boston at Texas, late Milwaukee at Seattle, late Cleveland at California, late Tuesday Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Baltimore 5, Minnesota 1 Milacki (2-3) A. Anderson (2-6) Chicago 5, New York 4 Thigpen (2-2) J.D. Robinson (0-3) Boston 2, Texas 1 Clemens (8-2) Hough (5-3) Kansas City 5, Detroit 3 Farr (4-2) Henneman (1-4) California 2, Cleveland 1 McCaskill (3-2) Farrell (3-2) Toronto 2, Oakland 1 Wells (2-0) Stewart (8-2) Milwaukee 5, Seattle 3 Crim (2-1) Jackson (1-3) National League Wednesday Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher San Francisco 4, Chicago 1 Burkett (4-1) Boskie (1-2) Pittsburgh 5, Los Angeles 3 Terrell (2-4) Martinez (5-3) Montreal 9, Atlanta 6 Schmidt (1-0) Glavine (2-3) San Diego 8, Philadelphia 3 Benes (5-4) Ruffin (3-5) Houston 2, St. Louis 1 Agosto (4-1) Magrane (2-8) Only games scheduled Tuesday Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Cincinnati 2, New York 1 Browning (4-4) Ojeda (1-3) Pittsburgh 9, Los Angeles 5 Patterson (3-1) Valenzuela (4-4) San Francisco 6, Chicago 2 D. Robinson (1-0) Blankenship (0-1) St.

Louis 3, Houston 2 Tudor (5-2) Schatzeder (1-3) San Diego at rain Only games scheduled Schedule American League National League Wednesday Played at Seattle Won 1 3-7 Lost to Oakland 8-5 Lost 1 5-5 Lost to Texas 4-3 Lost 1 4-6 Played at California Lost 1 3-7 Lost to Minnesota 12-3 Lost 1 5-5 Lost to Kansas City 4-3 Lost 5 3-7 Lost to Chicago 5-2 Lost 5 3-7 Beat Toronto 8-5 Won1 7-3 Beat New York 5-2 Won 5 8-2 Beat Baltimore 12-3 Won1 7-3 Played Cleveland Won1 8-2 Played Milwaukee Lost 1 4-6 Beat Detroit 4-3 Won 5 7-3 Beat Boston 4-3 Won1 3-7 Last Streak 10 Wednesday Beat Los Angeles 5-3 Won 5 6-4 Lost to San Diego 8-3 Lost 4 5-5 Beat Atlanta 9-6 Won 3 7-3 Did not play Lost 2 4-6 Lost to San Francisco 4-1 Lost 2 3-7 Lost to Houston 2-1 Lost 1 3-7 Did not play Won 1 7-3 Lost to Pittsburgh 5-3 Lost 3 5-5 Beat Philadelphia 8-3 Won 2 6-4 Beat St. Louis 2-1 Won1 6-4 Beat Chicago 4-1 Won 2 4-6 Lost to Montreal 9-6 Lost 2 4-6 Atlanta at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. Houston at San Francisco, 10:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Los Angeles, 10:35 p.m. Only games scheduled New York at Philadelphia, 7:35 p.m.

Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7:35 p.m. Chicago at St. Louis, 8:35 p.m. Atlanta at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Los Angeles, 10:35 p.m.

Houston at San Francisco, 10:35 p.m. Winter Haven 8. Lakeland 3 Sarasota 7, Charlotte 6 Fort Lauderdale 5, Miami 1st game Fort Lauderdale 5. Miami 4, 2nd game Today's game St. Petersburg at West Palm Beach Dunedin at St.

Lucie Charlotte at Sarasota Lakeland at Baseball City Osceola at Winter Haven Fort Lauderdale at Miami Clearwater at Vero Beach Tuesday's rndti Clearwater 10, West Palm Beach 3, 1st West Palm Beach 3, Clearwater 2, 2nd St. Petersburg at St. Lucie, rain Lakeland 8, Baseball City 3 Charlotte 9. Miami 0 Fort Lauderdale 6, Sarasota 5(11 Inn.) Osceola 3. Winter Haven 2 (completion of susp.

game) Osceola 7, Winter Haven 6 Dunedin at Vero Beach, rain THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Johnson hungry to show baseball he's still a winner The Associated Press NEW YORK Will a new manager help the New York Mets? Probably not, says the old one, who plans to be somebody else's new manager pretty soon. "I'm a loser now," Davey Johnson said Wednesday; one day after he was fired by the Mets. "I've got a bad taste in my mouth. I want to get it out real quick. Thus, Johnson said he would take a new managing job as soon as possible, even though the Mets still owe him about $850,000 Johnson over the last contract.

IV2 years of his "Sure, I had a great record," Johnson said in a conference call from his home in Winter Park, Fla. "But like a batter, you're only remembered for your last at-bat. In my last at-bat, I'm 20-22." That was the Mets' record when Johnson was fired and replaced by third-base coach Buddy Harrelson, who lost his first game. Harrelson says he will invoke long-abused clubhouse and curfew rules in an effort to turn the club around. "If I believed that would have helped, I would have done it myself," Johnson said.

"They wanted me to be Knute Rockne. I'm not. That kind of stuff went out 20 years ago." Does Johnson think a new manager can turn the club around? "No, but I hope so for Buddy's sake because Buddy's a friend," Johnson said. "The team doesn't need a major trade. They're close to putting things together." Today Minnesota at Chicago, 8:05 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 8:35 p.m. Only games scheduled Friday Baltimore at New York, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Cleveland, 7:35 p.m. Milwaukee at Toronto, 7:35 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 8:05 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 8:35 p.m. California at Texas, 8:35 p.m. Detroit at Seattle, 10:35 p.m. Today's Pitchers American League Palm Beach Post Wire Services MINNEAPOLIS The American League Wednesday gave Baltimore Orioles manager Frank Robinson a three-game suspension for his heated argument with umpire Drew Coble Monday and his remarks to reporters afterward. Robinson said that he will appeal the suspension in a hearing with league President Bobby Brown today in New York at 4:30 p.m.

Notebook The suspension cannot be imposed until after the hearing. The Orioles begin a three-game series in New York Friday night. Robinson managed the club Wednesday night in Minnesota. Brown said that the suspension was for "physical contact with the umpires, use of abusive language, delay of the game and inappropriate post-game remarks to the press." Asked his reaction, Robinson said, "I am surprised, no doubt about it." He said that he was suspended once before as a manager for pushing umpire Jerry Neu-decker while managing San Francisco in 1975. "I want to have my say.

I want to see what everyone has to say. I'll save my comments for the league president," Robinson said. Asked if he regretted what happened, Robinson said: "No." Aguilera, Twins agree on $6 million contract MINNEAPOLIS Right-handed reliever Rick Aguilera has signed a three-year, $6 million contract extension that will make him the third highest-paid player with the Minnesota Twins next season. "It's a great feeling," Aguilera said. "I don't really know what to say.

I just want to put it behind me and not think about it. It hasn't really hit me yet. If anything, I think this is going to make me work harder." Only Kirby Puckett, who will make $2.7 million this year, and Kent Hrbek, who will earn $2.1 million, are above Aguilera in the team's salary rankings. Florida State League two innings losing the shutout in the ninth on a solo homer by Bobby Deloach for his fourth save. "Last year at this time I was working with 1- and 2-pound weights," said Pollack, who missed the entire season after having surgery in March.

"I could barely lift my arm. Mentally it was real tough. Tonight, I felt the best I've felt since the operation. This was my best outing all year." That's a significant evaluation given the kind of month Pollack had. In six games during May, the former Florida State pitcher was 2-0 with a 0.95 ERA.

In 37 innings, he allowed four earned runs on 27 hits, striking out 31 and walking 17. "I think I needed the first month to get back into things again," said Pollack, who allowed only one Cardinal baserunner to reach second. "A year is a long time to not pitch. I Away Probable 1990 Vt. Opp.

at Site Last 3 Outings Home Pitcher Una ERA IP ERA W-L IP ERA MBA MINN. GUTHRIE (L) 0-0 5.91 0-1 4 11.25 0-0 10ft 5.91 iFii W.SOX KUTZLER (R) 5tt-6Vi 2-0 6.04 1-0 14 5.79 11.57 OAK. WELCH (R) 6-2 1.86 1-0 11 0.77 2 0 21ft 2.91 iFii K.C. I GORDON (R) PICK 2-2 2.96 0-1 7 7.71 1-2 16Vi 4.96 12.67 National League HOU. I DESHACS (L) 1-12-2 3 36 1 -I 1-1 19 474 11.37 S.F.

GARRELTS (R) 5V4-6W 1- 5 6 89 1-1 15Vi 1.76 0-2 13 10.38 21.46 ATL SMITH (R) 4-3 4 30 0-1 12V4 4.38 2-1 20 675 1440 SD. RASMUSSEN (L) 67 4-2 3.75 1-1 12Vi 2.19 1-1 16ft 3.24 11.34 Off ARMSTRONG (R) IM iTT 3-0 23 1.17 783 LA. WETTELAND (R) PICK 0-2 8.16 0-1 11Vi 7.15 14.29 Pollack lifts Expos over St. Petersburg LEGEND: A 7-8 line next to one team in the pitching form means that team is the favorite (8) and the other team is the underdog (7). To read the line.

Insert a 5 before the 7 and after the 8. which would give you 5-7 and 8 5. On 5-7, you would have to wager $5 to win $7 on the underdog. On 8-5, you would wager $8 to win $5 on the favorite. On a game with an you would have to put up $5.50 to win $5.

All pitching data reflects the pitcher's past performance as a starter. 1989: Pitcher's overall record to date as a starter. Vs. Opp. at Site: Pitcher's past performance vs.

today's opponent at the site of today's game. Last 3 Outings: Reflects how pitcher is currently going. Details his performance over his last three starts. W-L: Won-lost record as a starter. IP: Innings pitched.

ERA: Earned run average. MBA: Men on base average average number of hits and walks per nine innings. Faulk also credited part of his success to a team-wide focus instilled during a meeting before Wednesday's game. "We talked about some of the things we hadn't been doing lately that we were doing earlier in the season," Faulk said. "It got us to focus more as a team and got our heads in the game.

We hadn't been playing well the last couple weeks. Tonight I think we played more together, more like a family than just a team." Dunedin 4, St. Lucie 1 PORT ST. LUCIE The Blue Jays (42-11) beat the Mets (30-24) at the St. Lucie County Sports Complex as the FSL's winningest club got 10 hits off three St.

Lucie pitchers. Rick Trlicek (2-2) got the win, allowing one run on four hits. He walked two and struck out four. Rich DePastino relieved Trlicek in the seventh, and Mike Timlin threw in the ninth to.earn his 14th save of the year. By JEFF MILLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH A year after barely being able to lift a 2-pound dumbbell, West Palm Beach's Chris Pollack took the weight of a baseball team on his once-bum right shoulder Wednesday.

Pollack, who last May was rehabilitating from rotator cuff surgery, carried the Expos for seven innings until his teammates' bats finally responded for a 5-1 Florida State League victory over St. Petersburg (24-28) in front of 442 fans at Municipal Stadium. The victory lifted West Palm Beach to 37-16, seven games ahead of second-place Vero Beach in the FSL's East Division. Using his fastball, Pollack (3-1) continually got ahead of the St. Petersburg hitters, forcing them to chase usually without success his curve.

He limited the Cardinals to three hits, while striking out nine and walking one in his seven innings, i John Wenrick pitched the final felt great the entire game tonight. I guess that means the arm is getting stronger." As Pollack was holding St. Petersburg scoreless, the Expos were having only slightly more success against Cardinals starter John Burgos (0-1). They managed a single run in the fifth when Jim Faulk doubled and scored on F.P. Santan-gelo's two-out single.

West Palm Beach added another run in the seventh off reliever Dave Richardson when Faulk, who finished with four of the Expos' 10 hits, singled and eventually scored on Rod Boddie's sacrifice fly. In the eighth, the Expos managed three runs. Joe Siddall's two-run single brought home Ken Lake and Faulk, who earlier had driven in Matt Stairs with a single. "I hit the ball hard twice and got a couple lucky breaks the other two times," Faulk said. "I had been lifting my head during my swing, and (manager) Felipe (Alou) told me to keep it down.

I think that's made a big difference for me the past couple weeks." FSL Standings EAST 37 30 30 29 13 IS 23 24 24 39 Pet. OB .698 .566 7 .556 Vh .547 8 .250 23V2 West Palm Beach Vero Beach St. Lucie Fort Lauderdale Miami CENTRAL Lakeland 31 22 Osceola 32 23 Baseball City 23 31 Winter Haven 9 46 WEST Dunedin 42 It Charlotte 36 18 St. Petersburg 24 28 Sarasota 21 33 Clearwater 18 37 Wednettfay't mutts West Palm Beach 5, St. Petersburg Dunedin 4, St.

Lucie I Vero Beach 3, Clearwater 2 Baseball City 8, Osceola 2 .585 .582 .426 .164 .792 8Vi 23 .667 6Vi .462 nvi .389 .327 25 I.