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i f-i'TR wi" fii Wednesday. Aug. 23. 1978 Philadelphia Inquirer 5-C Christensom The chicken was IKS Per 3 c3' i'e Cnevratf Car or simnar You oay for gas Pates are and subiect 10 change without novce Car must oe returnee to renvng location Ve 'eature GM cars and offer Green Stamp Certificates on rentals an SOUS states We also IT1 have totv weeWa rates on an sze care. THE BIG GREEN TEAM AvaiiaSie at Williams' call on a close play at first involving San Diego's Dave Winfield with two out in the eighth.

The huge Padre clipped Christenson above the. knee with a chopper that caromed to Larry Bowa. Bowa made the play extremely close but Williams called Winfield safe. Phillie first fcaseman Richie Hebner vigorously debated the safe call and so did manager Danny Ozark. But the infield single left runners on first and second and when pinch hitter Don Reynolds singled in a run to make it 5-3, Ozark went to reliever Ron Reed.

"Bowa threw the guy out and everybody in the stands knows that," Christenson said. "If he calls him out, I'm still out there." "He's out of the G.D. inning with one call," Ozark said. "With the 'safe' call, now he's in trouble. But I was gonna bring in Reed regardless with good a chance of pitching a shutout as the opposing pitcher." L.C.

opened brilliantly last night, giving up only one hit and striking out four into the fourth, when San Diego scored twice on a pair of doubles. Except for a debatable call by first base umpire Billy Williams in the eighth, he would have gone the distance. Still, he wasn't happy with his performance. "I was too much around the plate tonight," he said. "They were hitting ropes all night.

I thought I had as good stuff as I've ever had in my life in the first inning, but after that I was around the plate too much." Christenson said that instead of throwing a given pitch on the inside corner he was getting it out over the plate. But, like all pitchers, he's a perfectionist. "It's tough to be satisfied unless you pitch a shutout," he said. He definitely was dissatisfied with By Don McKee Inquirtr SUfl Writer Larry Christenson has been through a mystifying season. When he's at peak form, which he has been frequently, the Phillies don't score runs behind him.

When he gets a few runs, he also surrenders some. It adds up to a 9-12 record after last Bight's 5-3 win over San Diego, on a night destined to be remembered for the showdown between Phillie Phanatic and The Chicken. "I think not getting runs makes you a better pitcher," Christenson said. "But lately I've been getting a few early runs and it seems like when I get two or three, I give up two or three. "This has been a funny season for me and everyone else.

I can't give you a reason. I don't like to complain about not getting runs because that happens to a lot of pitchers. I have as SHIP Gene Tenace up because Tenace had hit the ball pretty good off Larry." Reed got Tenace to foul out to Hebner on one pitch, and went on to save the win for Christenson, who's had his share of games he deserved to win but didn't. These things tend to even out. For the record, Christenson was not pleased with the antics of the San Diego Chicken, who is hilarious if you have a demented sense of humor, but is a Kentucky fried pain if you have to pitch.

"I didn't exactly enjoy it," Christenson said. "There was too much going on on the field. I didn't appreciate it. I'm warming up and he's 20 feet away from the plate. I can't help but see that agglomeration of color against a green backdrop.

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But I don't think I've struck out once since I've hit first. Now, I've probably jinxed myself. I know I'm going to strike out again, many times." And so the Phils had won a game that was not nearly as interesting as the mortal inter-mascot combat in the stands or as Tim McCarver's monologue in the post-game clubhouse. "Where are my teammates!" McCarver screamed in the clubhouse, which, as usual 10 minutes after a game, was devoid of athletes. "This place is keep waiting for the celebration to start.

Won't somebody say, 'Nice going everybody." If we clinch this thing, we're liable to pop open a case of Coke." He stuck his head into, the lounge, where most of his teammates were relaxing. "All right, let's go. You can come out now. They (the writers) are all gone." McCarver smiled. "Just kidding," he said.

PHILLIES, From 1-C off the left-center field fence by Greg Luzinski. San Diego charged back with two in the fourth. Then the game all but stood still until the Phils' half of the sixth, an inning full of fun and games. With one out, Maddox blooped a single to center and Bob Boone, executing the hit-and-run play perfectly, singled to right, moving Maddox to third. And in the dugout, down by the bat rack, inside Danny Ozark's head, the wheels were turning.

On the first pitch, Ozark put a suicide squeeze on. Sizemore fouled it off as Maddox raced home. A few pitches later, Ozark called for the squeeze once more. But Boone left first base too soon and Padre reliever Bob Shirley threw to first. As Boone got hung up between first and second, Maddox broke for the plate.

Second baseman Fernando Gonzalez saw that and fired home. Maddox, seeing he could not score, alertly returned to third while Boone waltzed unmolested to second. All that for a lousy stolen base. Sizemore finally swung at a ball and forced Maddox at the plate. Then Shirley committed what, in retrospect, would be the most serious error of the night.

He walked Christenson, an .089 hitter, to load the bases for Schmidt. Schmidt drove a ball over the head of Dave Winfield in center that hopped over the fence for a ground-rule double, giving the Phils a pad that would last the rest of the night. The double, his second of the night, left him 8-for-21 for his five-day stint as lead-off hitter, with seven RBIs. "I feel nice and relaxed," Schmidt said afterwards. "A few hits will relax anybody.

Making me the lead-off man was something to change the team's whole outlook and to help me. Obviously it's helped me. And we're 3-2 as a team with know the only time you really lead off is your first time up in a game. I'm going to get my share of men on base with Boone and Sizemore hitting. We have some pretty good hitting pitchers, and you get pinch-hitters, too.

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