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PAGE 38 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS MAY II4, V996 Tonight I BRAVES I 7:05, PRISM Tomorrow Monday Tuesday Wednesday BRAVES GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS 1:35, Ch, 17 7:35, PRISM 7:35, PRISM 1:05, SC If RL LTD. WnrSffl mm BRAVES 11, PHILLIES 0 Atlanta SO Avg. .258 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .268 .353 .125 .310 .406 .200 .296 .215 .000 .348 .000 .190 .176 AB 4 6 5 4 1 3 1 3 5 4 0 0 1 0 3 2 42 AB 2 1 4 4 3 1 4 4 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 5 SO Avg. Gnssom cf Lemke 2b Cp. Jones 3b McGriff lb 1 -Houston 1b Justice rf Walton If a-Dw.

Smith If J. Lopez Blauser ss Clontz Borbon d-Perez Wadep Smoltz b-Giovanola ss Totals Phillies Dykstra cf Amaro cf Morandini 2b Eisenreich If Zeile 3b K. Jordan 3b Santiago Munay rf Phillips 1b Stocker ss Freyp c-incaviglia Borland Mulholland Mk. Williams Benjamin ss Totals Atlanta 2b .200 i --i .231 .292 .260 .306 .219 .250 .128 0 .216 0 .211 0 0 .000 .077 1 .111 0 0 .417 9 31 022 520 000 11 18 0 000 000 000 0 4 0 Phillies Struck out for Walton 5th. wjv i I 1 c- i Popped out for Smoltz in 7th.

Grounded out for Frey in 7th. Grounded into double play for Borbon in 9th. 1 Ran for McGriff in 6th. LOB: Atlanta 9, Phillies 6. 2B: Justice (81, Lopez (51.

HR: Cp. Jones (5) off Mulholland. RBI: Gnssom 1141, Lemke (111. Cp. Jones 3 (24).

Walton (4), J. Lopez 2 (201. Blauser (61, Smoltz 2 (21. SF: Walton. GIDP: Blauser.

Perez. Runners teft in scoring position: Atlanta 4 (Lemke 2, McGnff. J. Lopezl; Phillies 1 (Incaviglial. Runners moved up: Lemke.

Cp. Jones, Dw. Smith. DP: Phillies 2 (Phillips, Stocker and Phillips). (K.

Jordan. Morandini and ER BB SO IP Atlanta 0 0 17 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Outfielder has quiet debut as Phillies flop by Ted Silary Daily News Sports Writer Glenn Murray struck the baseball with all his might and watched it soar upward. Five feet, 10 feet, darn close to 20. Hey, it was one of those kinds of nights at the finally unfrigid and rainy Veterans Stadium, the kind of night when members of the Phillies had to experience their thrills in any way possible. Before the Phillies and Terry Muifrolland were waxed by the Atlanta Braves, 11-0, Murray the new rightfielder promoted Thursday from Triple A Scranton Wilkes-Barre was saying he would probably faint if he could hit a home run against starter John Smoltz.

After all, Smoltz, then a rookie, was the first player Murray approached for an autograph way back in 1988, when his American Legion team traveled to Atlanta from Manning, S.C., to watch a weekend of baseball. "Yeah, he was nice to me," Mur-. ray said. "He was sitting in the bullpen during batting practice, looking like he was feeling kind of lonely. I reached down and he signd my hat for me.

"The next day, I got Dale Murphy's autograph and almost got arrested. I got all excited, jumped down into the tunnel where the players walk. He told them it was OK and signed for me." Against Smoltz, who allowed two hits and struck out seven in six innings while becoming the major league's first seven-game winner this season, Murray managed only his first strikeout and first popup. But in the seventh, against sidearmer Brad Clontz, Murray, 25, collected his first hit. A xinging home run, it wasn't.

In fact, it wasn't much of anything. With the count 1-1, Murray chopped the ball directly off the plate, producing a loud clomping noise. He was touching first base by the time the ball came down near shortstop Ed Giovanola. "When I saw it go up," Murray said, smiling, "I just put my head down and was hoping I was going to beat it out." When manager Jim Fregosi was asked what he'd seen out of Murray, who struck out to conclude the game and a l-for-4 debut, he said? dryly, "I saw he can hit a high chopper. "He's got to get his feet on the ground on this level," he continued.

"He's going against three tough pitchers this weekend Steve Avery and Greg Maddux remainl. I was O-for-10-or-ll when I first went to the big leagues with the Angels in 19611. Leon Wagner told me, 'Looks like you'll never drive a Cadillac. You'll al- ERA 2,28 3.24 0.00 0.00 553 7 16 3.65 7.20 NP 83 26 11 17 50 42 33 29 6 1 1 1 3 2 2 Smoltz (W) Clontz Borbon Wade Phillies Mulholland (L) Mk. Williams Frey 2 Borland Records: Smoltz, 7-1: Mulholland, 3-3.

YONG KIM DAILY NEWS Phillies rookie rightfielder Glenn Murray takes hack during his major league debut came renowned for hitting the ball out of sight or missing it. At Scranton, he earned a promotion mostly by cutting down on his strikeouts. "Lots of times," he said, "I was changing my stance during at-bats according to what the pitcher was doing. I had my hands in the same ways drive a Murray, who has family in Philadelphia and Delaware, acknowledged being jittery at the plate. "I was swinging at some pitches I normally don't swing at," he said.

"I'll come around, hopefully. Coming from down there, I have to make the adjustment to these guys now." Mulholland faced 4 batters in 4th. Inherited runners-scored: Mk. Williams 2-2. Umpires: Home, Davis; First, Rapuano; Second, Hohn; Third.

Tata. Time: 2:36. Attendance: 27,068 HOW THEY SCORED BRAVES SECOND (21: McGRIFF singled to left. JUSTICE doubled to center. McGriff to third.

WALTON hit sacrifice fly to ngntfielder Murray, McGnff scored. Justice to third. LOPEZ singled to right. Justice scored BLAUSER grounded into doubleplay. first baseman Phillips to shortstop Stocker to first baseman Phillips.

BRAVES THIRD (21: SMOLTZ struck out. GRIS-SOM grounded out to second baseman Morandini. LEMKE singled to right. JONES homered to center on 2-2 count, Lemke and Jones scored. McGRIFF filed out to leftfielder Eisenreich.

BRAVES FOURTH (5): JUSTICE singled to center. WALTON singled to right. Justice to second. LOPEZ doubled down the nghtfield line. Justice scored.

Walton to third. BLAUSER singled to left, Walton scored, Lopez to third. Williams relieved Mulholland. SMOLTZ singled to center, Lopez scored, Blauser to second. GRISSOM walked.

Blauser to third. Smoltz to second. LEMKE grounded out to pitcher Williams, Blauser scored. Smoltz to third. Gnssom to second.

JONES grounded out to shortstop Stocker. Smoltz scored, Grissom to third. McGRIFF grounded out to third baseman Zeile. jm BRAVES FIFTH (2): JUSTICE struck out. SMITH, batting for Walton, struck out.

LOPEZ singled to left center. BLAUSER singled to center, Lopez to second. SMOLTZ singled to right, Lopez scored, Blauser to second. GRISSOM singled to center, Blauser scored, Smoltz to third. LEMKE struck out.

place, but Pd go second base. But in a takeoff of Mulholland Falls, the Braves scalded base hits to all sectors of the ballpark, and beyond. Atlanta torched Mulholland, whose ERA soared from 4.12 to 5.53, for nine hits and eight runs in three-plus innings. All but one of the nine hits against him (the Braves finished with 18) earned "hard" or "ripped" designations on one man's score sheet. Chipper Jones smashed a two-run, third-inning homer to dead centerfield.

David Justice and Javy Lopez laced doubles in the second and fourth, respectively. The rest were resounding singles. When Jeff Blauser followed Lopez's double with an RBI single, lifting Atlanta's bulge to 6-0, Fregosi walked to the mound to remove Mulholland and summon righthander Mike Williams. Mulholland tried to leave immediately, but Fregosi reached out with his arm to stop him and directed him back to the mound to await Williams's arrival. "I was disgusted with myself," Mulholland said.

"I was fully prepared to walk off the mound and get. ready ior the next one." Assuming he can produce, Murray has a chance to become very popular here. He appears to have a terrific demeanor and he was greeted warmly in the clubhouse by many of his teammates, who apparently I was swinging at some pitches I normally don't swing at. I'll come around, hopefully. Phils' Glenn Murray in ana out or open or closed.

I knew what my strong stance was, but if I needed to make an adjustment, I'd do it in a heartbeat. "I'm more confident now, more aggressive. I used to take a lot of first RECORDS w-1 vs. East 5-5 vs. Central 8-10 vs.

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Hard to be in control then." Aside from Murray's first night in the bigs, there was little worth tracking from the Phillies' standpoint Philly had four hits against four pitchers, none for extra bases, and advanced, no one past took a liking to him in spring training. 'Oh, he's a great kid," Fregosi said. In. the first seven years of his pro career, divided between the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox organizations, Murray be.