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I Fort Lauderdale News 0 Section Thursday, September 29, 1988 jr STEVE HUMMER Staff Columnist )9 LDF THE STREAK News wire services SAN DIEGO Orel Hershiser broke Don Drysdale's record of 58 consecutive scoreless innings, shutting out the San Diego Padres for 10 innings Wednesday night. Hershiser extended his streak to 59 Pitcher Team Year Inn. Orel Hershiser Dodger 1983 59 Don Drysdale Dodgers 1968 58 Walter Johnson Senators 1913 55 Bob Gibson Cardinals 1968 47 Carl Hubbell I Giants 1933 45 Many cons to the pros; baseball worth sacrifice GAME-BY-GAME Drysdale was among those on the mound to hug Hershiser. "It was the mental groove, more than the physical," Hershiser said. "I was out there pitching for wins in a pennant race, not a streak." Hershiser, 23-8 after getting a no-de-, cision, will start for the Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League playoffs against the New York Mets on Tuesday night.

"You get one and the next and then about the third one, you think about a streak," he said. "The odds were when I had four. Then after the last one, it's still 30-to-l. And then this one happened. I did not think about the streak until the seventh inning tonight." Hershiser struck out three and walked one in breaking the record.

On July 19, 1987, he pitched into the 11th inning against Houston in his longest career outing. Hershiser, like Drysdale, had his SEE HERSHISER 5C Red Sox lose third in a row. 4C groundout. Garry Templeton was intentionally walked and ran to second, but Hershiser retired pinch-hitter Keith Moreland on a fly ball for the record. With a crowd of 22,596 cheering for Hershiser, the Dodgers streamed from the dugout to congratulate their ace, who broke the mark set by Drysdale in 1968 with the Dodgers.

"I really and truly did not want to get the record," Hershiser said in a dugout interview with Drysdale, now a Dodgers' broadcaster. "Out of respect of the man next to me, I feel I should have stopped at two-thirds. I wanted to just put the ball down out of respect for the guy next to me and baseball records." "But the guys next to me in the dugout kind of convinced me to go for it," Hershiser said. Said Drysdale: "If I had known that I would have been down there kicking you by the seat of the pants." innings, but his Los Angeles Dodgers lost 2-1 in 16 innings on Mark Parent's two-run homer. Jesse Orosco relieved Hershiser to start the 11th.

Hershiser, trying for his sixth straight shutout, gave up just four hits and did not allow a runner past 4" IP ER BB SO Date Opp. EOUL, South Korea Jim Abbott was buried in an avalanche of joy, paying the price of becoming a championship game winning pitcher. "People were jumping on top of me. Aug. 30' Expos 9 6 2 2 2 9 Sept.

5 Braves 9 4 0 0 1 8 Sept. 10 Reds 9 7 0 0 3 8 Sept. 14 Braves 9 6 0 0 2 8 Sept. 19 Astros 9 4 0 0 0 5 Sept. 23 Giants 9 5 0 0 2 2 Sept.

30 Padres 10 1 4 0 0 1 1 3 Hershiser first base until the 10th. Marvell Wynne struck out to open the 10th but reached base on Hershiser's wild pitch. Benito Santiago sacrificed and Wynne took third on Randy Ready's Hershiser gave up his last run in fifth 2 good in 200 event Wins second gold with world record By SHARON ROBB Staff Writer SEOUL, South Korea The body in Seoul, Florence Griffith Joyner, broke a nine-year-old world record in the 200-meter dash this morning to win her second gold medal at the Olympic Track Stadium. The glamour girl of United States track broke the world record of 21.71 set by Marita Koch of East Germany in 1979 in the semifinal heat by running 21.56 and came back an hour later to SEOUL 1988 V' 1 1 i Nv h-y I tx Olympics They were crushing my wrist. My face was in the dirt.

It was great," he said. The swarm of jubilation would then take up three U.S. flags and escort them for a lap around the outfield. It would gather on a gold-medal platform, screaming in the presenter's ear as each had a token slipped over his head. It then would break up, scatter, but never entirely lose its form.

"We already were talking about seeing each other in spring training," said first baseman Tino Martinez, who won Tuesday's gold-medal baseball gap? gainst Japan with two home runs and four RBI. "We're going to get a yearly golf tournament together. We're all looking forward to being in the big leagues and getting together to talk about the tour." 'fThis has been one of the most uplifting feelings I've ever had," said Mike Fiore, the former University of Miami outfielder. is one of the biggest events in anyone's lif4," he said. In the fallout over the U.S.

basketball loss to the Sof iet Union, you will hear much more about allowing professionals to carry the flag. After all, hasn't tennis already put one sneakered foot in that door? i Time to send in the pros? America will sit on its barstool and grumble that if the rest of the world is going to send its most seasoned, well-trained and well-paid players to the Olympics; we should, too. It will sit there and produce names like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and say, "Wouldn't it be great to send those guys against the Soviets and teach them a lesson?" It wasn't for lack of talent that the U.S. gave up its 'place in basketball. The team might have been outcoached and outhustled, but it wasn't outmanned.

That doesn't matter now, not in the swell of sentiment sure to arise about introducing NBA players to the Olympics. That also would mean, of course, after 1992, when baseball is promoted from a demonstration to a full-medal sport, borrowing players from the minors. Perhaps even the majors. That would mean no outgoing college kids like Abbott and Martinez and Fiore. That would mean a more definite chance of victory.

And a more sophisticated joy. You gain certainty, and lose soul. Only three hours after the basketball loss stirred the argument of professionalizing, the baseball victory tried to quiet it. This gold medal wasn't even real. It had only a modest inscription giving place and time on one side; and an engraving of Hadori, the tiger mascot of these Games, on the other.

It was demonstration gold. Not that it mattered. 'It has been a long summer and a lot of hardships," Fiore said. "No doubt, this means a lot. It means we are the best, in quotes, 'amateur' team in the world." Along summer leads to gold If it is a Triple-A all-star team that comes to the Olympics, it is quickly assembled in the States and shipped directly to the site of the Games.

There, it conquers the world in a couple quick weeks and returns to Omaha. If it is a team like this one, though, it becomes a project of long and deep devotion. It spends a supimer together, playing 55 games around the world, traveling twice to Japan and once to Italy, where the bus rides were interminable and the days ended at 3 a.m. 'fThe hard work, the bus rides, the plane trips, the early wake-up calls; this makes it all worth it," said Martinez. It became a summer of growing up and growing together.

This was a great investment; and so, winning was a greater return. A time special and apart from anything else these players will ever do. "This was like a dividing line for these players," said Olympic and Stanford coach Mark Marquess. "It is like telling them, 'OK, now you can go on and do whatever you can as a I like that." "I'd hate to see it opened up to minor leaguers," he said. "We were young, but we played with a lot of enthusiasm.

That's what we were looking for. It may not be the ideal way of putting together a team, but it means a heck of a lot more to these guys before they go on to pro ball. could come in here and dominate the rest of the; world, if that's what you want. But, I like it this way. It helps out the competition in the world.

I'd hate for us to take the easy way out." I'll take my chances and take the win from the heart every time. INSIDE BET OF HIS LIFE A winning wager could change the career plans of Dania's Adrian Jones, a defensive back at Missouri. 3C. shave some more off her mark in the finals in 21.34. It was the greatest time improvement in a sprint race by a man or woman.

Griffith-Joyner broke first from the starting blocks, settled into the lead after the first 50 meters and increased it coming off the turn for the final straightaway. "The time was fantastic," Griffith-Joyner said. "I feel fine. I knew I would be faster than the semifinal because I ran harder." Grace Jackson of Jamaica won the silver medal in 21.72 and Heike Drechsler of East Germany was third in 21.95. U.S.

teammate Gwen Torrence was sixth in 22.17. SEE FLO-JO 7C HIGHLIGHTS "7 LONG JUMP: Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins gold. 200 METERS: Florence Griffith Joyner sets world record. 100 METERS: Ben Johnson ste-roid use called "excessive." BOXING: Kennedy McKinney, Mi-chael Carbajal, Ray Mercer advance to finals. TENNIS: Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini set up showdown for gold.

Complete coverage 6-10C. AP photo Jackie Joyner-Kersee takes a flying leap past the 21- tition Wednesday. That mark soon became a faded ioot mark during early rounds of long jump compe- memory as she jumped an Olympic-record 24-3't. li Mariner owner denies rumored Miami move Dolphins get Cribbs to pad running game By BOB HILL Staff Writer MIAMI The Dolphins added an old foe to their slumbering offense Wednesday by signing former Buffalo Bills Pro Bowl running back Joe Cribbs. Cribbs, cut by San Francisco and Indianapolis in the past five weeks, spent five seasons in Buffalo.

He was the AFC Rookie of the Year in 1980, was named to the Pro Bowl team in 1980, 1981 and 1983, and rushed for more than 1,000 yards three times with Buffalo and twice with the USFL's Birmingham Stallions, with whom he spent two seasons. An excellent pass receiver, Cribbs had 40 or more receptions in four seasons. Cribbs was a backup to Roger Craig the last two seasons with San Francisco, and was cut Aug. 23. He signed a week later with Indianapolis and played in one game before being cut Sept.

17. "I was always impressed with Joe as a complete back, a blocker, runner and pass receiver," coach Don Shula said. "We're bringing him in as insurance and trying to get him ready to go." Starting running back Troy Stradford has been hobbled by SEE AN OLD FOE12C By CRAIG BARNES and DAVID ALTANER Staff Writers Seattle owner George Argyros said Wednesday that the Mariners aren't for sale, but he admitted meeting with a member of a group interested in bringing baseball to Miami. "Miami's interest in baseball is well known," Argyros said in a statement. "We have heard these rumors before.

The origin of today's story seems to be a meeting I had scheduled with a representative of interests in Miami. The meeting was scheduled as a courtesy to another owner. That's all it was, a courtesy meeting. "The Seattle Mariners are not for sale. I am committed to making baseball work in Seattle.

Many people have worked hard to keep Major League Baseball in Seattle and to make it successful. I appreciate and support their efforts." A report Wednesday indicate'! thnt Abel Holtz, chairman of Capital Bank in Miami, had opened iiegotiations with Argyros to buy the Mariners and move them to Miami. Holtz was unavailable for comment. George Steinbrenner, owner of New York Yankees, is a member of baseball's Long Range Planning Committee and its Expansion and Franchise Committee. SEE MIAMI BASEbr.LL 4C American League National League Blue Jays 1 Red Sox 0 Phillies 9 Mets3 Indians 4 Tigers 2 Cardinals 2 Pirates 1 Orioles 2 Yankees 0 Cubs 3 Expos 1 White Sox 3 Rangers 2 Braves 4 Astros 3 Brewers 4 Angels 3 Giants 6 Reds 1 A's 5 Twins 2 Dodgers Padres Mariners Royals, ppd.

BASEBALL 4-5C File photo Can Joe Cribbs turn the corner? He says he's out to prove himself. sz' sr. fz.