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2g: COURIER-POST, Friday, March 4, 1994 Giles really wants Kruk to stay, but is he willing to pay price? i A K. 'f 4 4 4 4 ii V. A 1. er Jim Fregosi on Thursday after an intrasquad game between the Phillies major-leaguers and a group of minor-leaguers. Pitching for the minor leaguers, right-hander Mike Dunne worked two perfect innings and struck out three batters.

"I was impressed a little bit with Dunne," Fregosi said. i i 1 4. Schilling Vows silence on Williams "Continued from Page 1C "I really haven't accomplished a whole lot," Schilling said. "You have to do it for five or six years before you can consider yourself a really successful big-league pitcher. I have to do what guys like Greg Maddux and Dave Stewart 'have done.

I had a really disappointing middle of the season last year." During Schilling's disappoint-' ing middle of the season, he went 'winless for six straight starts. He lost, five of those starts and didn't it past the fifth inning in of them. I iSurprisingly, Schilling said that one-month stretch of failure ultimately led to his second-half A- S- H' 4 4 possible that Darren Daulton could be moved to first base in the future. On the other hand, Kruk has hit .305 during the last five seasons and he has been a member of the last three National League All-Star teams. He also is one of the most revered players in the Phillies' clubhouse.

"It's going to be a tough decision," Giles said. "Our payroll is going to increase by $5 million next season with Daulton and (Lenny) Dykstra. Combined, they're making $5 million this year and they'll make $10.5 million next year. I don't know what the labor issues are going to be and I don't know what we're going to make from television revenue. "But if Kruk's agent (Davis Burk) contacts us with something that makes sense, we might change our minds and try to get something done." Burk did not return phone calls Thursday.

Dunne impresses A pitcher from the past earned some praise from Phillies manag t' Finally The Phillies' major-leaguers won Thursday's intrasquad game 8-1 behind two hits and three runs scored from Tony Longmire. Ben Rivera pitched the first two innings for the Phillies, allowing one hit and an unearned run. Rivera struck out three. "I thought Rivera threw the ball real good," Fregosi said. Don Carman pitched two innings for the minor-leaguers and allowed one run on two hits and two walks.

Curt Schilling will start for the Phillies today when they open their exhibition season against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Jack Russell Stadium. Game time is 1:05. It will be broadcast on WOGL-1210 AM radio. By BOB BROOKOVER Courier-Post Staff CLEARWATER, Fla. -Phillies president Bill Giles says he loves John Kruk and wants him to play in Philadelphia as long as he is "physically" capable of playing.

Words, however, aren't enough to keep Kruk in a Phillies uniform. At some point, the Phillies are going to have to decide if they want to tie up Kruk to a long-term contract, and it doesn't appear that Giles is in a hurry to get Kruk to sign on any dotted lines. "We have to know what he has in mind," Giles said Thursday during the Phillies' final workout before the opening of their exhibition season today against the Pittsburgh Pirates. "I don't know what he'd want money-wise or year-wise. At the end of this year, we're going to have eight or nine free agents and we're not going to be able to afford all of them." Kruk doesn't want to wait until the end of the season to start negotiations on a new deal.

He said last week that he would like to get something done during spring training. If he can't, then he wants to wait until October. "The only way I'd do it during the season is if we were having a bad year," Kruk said. "But I don't see that happening." A decision on Kruk's future is going to be difficult for the Phillies. Kruk is 33 and will probably seek a three-year deal.

Just the fact that Giles used the phrase, "as long as he is physically capable" is an indication the Phillies aren't sure if Kruk can stay healthy enough to make it through three more seasons after this one. The Phillies also have a pair of young first basemen in Phil Geisler and Gene Schall who could advance to the big leagues in the near future, and it's By Avi Steinhardt, Courier-Post Laying it down: Curt Schilling practices bunting recently in Clearwater. He will start today's exhibition opener. Features Gentkmens Special Complimentary Manicure 9tM Haircut Style aa iasQiis Sanaa success and National League Championship Series MVP per- formance in two starts against the 'Atlanta Braves. i "I got caught up in a lot of external stuff," Schilling said.

I 'Ironically, Schilling said he becajne selfish, something that Williams, the relief pitcher who was'' exiled to Houston, accuses of being at every opportunity. in the season, I was so focused on what I was doing on Schilling said. "And Ithen I just started thinking about external stuff. I remember the it happened." 't' was an 11-7 Phillies victory love1 the Colorado Rockies in 'Veterans Stadium. Schilling earned the victory, but took no i satisfaction in it.

He had allowed and eight hits in five inhipgs and almost forgot that flip team had won the game. was missing the whole point that we won the game," Schilling Isaid. "I hadn't pitched well and that's what I was thinking about." i' 'Schilling rebounded from that performance and earned a complete-game victory against the New York Mets in his next start. He was 8-1 and thinking about his triumphant return to Balti- A new Air-ror: Jordan Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. Michael Jordan felt like a nervous rookie, and played like one.

Jordan went 0-for-3, barely missing an extra-base hit before striking out twice on off-speed pitches, and dropped a windblown fly ball that doomed his to a 12-7 defeat Thursday in an intrasquad game for the i e. more one of the teams that let him get away for the 1993 All-Star Game. And then he didn't win again for more than a month. Instead of earning a trip to the All-Star Game, there was speculation that he might be removed from the starting rotation. "I was upset that I pitched myself out of an All-Star spot," Schilling said.

"I was worrying about things I couldn't control. Finally, Darren (Daulton) and Krukky (John Kruk) pulled me aside and told me to get my act together. They said, 'We can accomplish something here and we need you to be a part of it' Schilling reached bottom in the final game of the first half of the season. After getting bombarded by the San Francisco Giants on a hot Sunday afternoon in Veterans Stadium, Schilling sat with reliever Larry Andersen 0-for-3, drops fly ball Chicago White Sox. "Some critics may see it as a setback, but I saw it as an opportunity to go out and see what a baseball game is like," Jordan said.

"It was my first game and I felt nervous and out of my element," he said. "Hopefully, I'll get another chance and be a little more comfortable." and had a long conversation. He showed up four days later in San Diego and boldly predicted he wouldn't lose another game the rest of the season. He didn't lose again until Sept. 26 and finished the second half with an 8-1 record and 3.43 ERA.

His record for the regular season was 16-7. In the postseason, Schilling was brilliant except for Game 1 of the World Series when he coughed up three leads and allowed seven runs in 6V3 innings. "I put myself at much at fault for losing that World Series as anybody," Schilling said. "We had three leads in that game and I gave them back three times. If we win that game and then win Game 2, we go back to Philadelphia with a 2-0 lead.

I thought about that quite a bit over the winter." But Schilling became a Philadelphia hero when the Phillies were facing elimination, he blanked the Blue Jays in Game 5. Two nights later, Williams gave up that infamous home run to Joe Carter and, shortly after that, the Phillies' family feud started. Schilling and Williams spent the off-season firing back and forth and exchanged a few more verbal blows at the start of spring training. But Schilling said that's over now, at least in his mind. The Phillies' staff ace will only answer questions about pitching.

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