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Musburger adapts easily 2B Wimbledon roundup 3B World Cup soccer results 3B The Baseball Page 4B Great Falls Tribune Monday, July 2, 1990 a ports g) Cfaisox are hidess wonders Yankees' Hawkins no-hits Chicago, still loses was Bob Geren, who singled off third baseman Ventura's glove with one out in the sixth. Alvaro Es-pinosa followed with another single, but Roberto Kelly popped out and ax took a third strike. Hawkins retired the first 14 before Ron Karkovice walked with two outs in the fifth. Karkovice took second on a passed ball and Scott Fletcher walked. Sosa then flied deep to left, where Leyritz backed up against the wall to make the catch.

The last time the White Sox were no hit was April 7, 1984, when Detroit's Jack Morris beat them 4-0. In 1901, Earl Moore of Cleveland pitched a no-hitter against the White Sox but lost 4-2 in 10 innings. Hibbard went seven innings and gave up four hits. Barry Jones (10-1) pitched the eighth for the victory and Scott Radinsky finished. Hawkins' best previous performance was a one-hitter against Houston in 1988 while pitching for San Diego.

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IP ER BB SO New York Hawkins L.l-5 0 4 0 5 3 Chicaso Hibbard 7 4 0 0 0 4 Jones W.10-1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Radinsky 1 0 0 0 0 0 PB Geren. "I've never seen anything so strange in all my years," Yankees manager Stump Merrill said. "You're just not going to see a better pitching performance." The six no-hitters this year are the most in the majors in one season since 1969 and the second most ever in one season. There were seven no-hitters in 1917. With two outs and nobody on in the eighth, Sammy Sosa hit a hard one-hopper to third baseman Mike Blowers.

He backhanded the ball, but dropped it and his throw to first was too late to catch a sliding Sosa. The scoreboard flashed "Hit" before the official scorer ruled an error. "It was an error all the way," Blowers said. "At the time it seemed pretty harmless." It wasn't. Hawkins loaded the bases by walking Ozzie Guillen and Lance Johnson before the two outfield errors.

The inning ended on a popup to second baseman Steve Sax by Dan Pasqua. The last Yankee no-hitter was by Dave Righetti on July 4, 1983, against Boston. Hawkins' gem was the ninth regular-season no-hitter in Yankee history. Don Larsen threw a perfect in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. "Hawkins did a great job," said White Sox manager Jeff Torborg, who caught three no-hitters in the majors.

"I've never seen a losing no-hitter before." While Hawkins retired the first 14 White Sox batters, Chicago starter Greg Hibbard did even better, setting down the first 16 Yankees. The first Yankee to reach base ByJOEMOOSHIL AP Sports Writer CHICAGO Even a no-hitter couldn't produce a victory for the worst team in baseball. Andy Hawkins of the New York Yankees pitched the sixth no-hitter this season and the third in less than 48 hours on Sunday, but lost 4-0 to the Chicago White Sox on two outfield errors in the eighth inning. The only other pitcher to lose a complete-game, no-hitter was Houston's Ken Johnson, who was beaten 1-0 by Cincinnati in 1964. In 1967, Steve Barber and Stu Miller of Baltimore combined to no hit Detroit but lost 2-1.

"I'm stunned," Hawkins said. "When you pitch a no-hitter, you expect jubilation. You expect to walk off the field shaking hands with everybody, just like Stewart and Fernando." On Friday night, Dave Stewart of the Oakland Athletics and Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles -Dodgers pitched no-hitters. It was the first time in major league history that no-hitters were pitched in each league on the same day. Hawkins, who hasn't won since May 6 and nearly was released by the Yankees last month, joined Stewart and Valenzuela in the record book Sunday with an asterisk.

"It's a day of mixed emotions," Hawkins said. "I'm happy as can be on one side and I'm 1-5 on the other. I've pitched well in my last four starts and have nothing to show for it, but that will change sooner or later." With the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth, Robin Ventura hit a deep fly to left fielder Jim Leyritz, normally a third baseman. Leyritz was positioned to make the catch, but the ball glanced off his glove for a two-base error, allowing three runs to score. The next batter, Ivan Calderon, hit a fly to right that Jesse Barfield lost in the sun.

The ball bounced off his glove and Ventura scored to give the White Sox a 4-0 lead. Barfield and Leyritz said the sun and swirling winds made outfield play difficult. "It was brutal out there," Barfield said. "I knew I was in trouble when the ball was hit. I saw it going up and I tried to stay with it as long as I could.

I almost caught it. I did my best." "The ball was hit right at me and I made the wrong move," Leyritz said. "I tried to catch up to it and I did, but I couldn't hold it in my glove. You hate to lose a no-hitter. Andy came up to me later and told me not to worry about it.

Those things happen." Especially to the Yankees, who fell to 28-45, the worst record in baseball. They are in last place in the AL East, 15 games behind first-place Boston. ft' AP Photo New York Yankees' right-hander Andy Hawkins became the second major league pitcher in history to throw a complete-game no-hitter and lose Sunday when the Yanks lost to the Chicago White Sox 4-0 at Comiskey Park. 1 .7 Dodgers' Perez rewards manager Vavra's faith I i BSjubp i. v.

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ER BB SO Helena Miller Kellogg Souza 01 Great Falls Martinez Piotrowicz tits 1 2 4 0 0 2 1 2-3 2-3 a base-runner instead of continuing to run down a runner who was hung up between first and second. The the Brewers tied it in the eighth, with the aid of two Dodgers errors. "It's called winning ugly," Vavra said. Perez, who leads the Dodgers with a .412 batting average, said it didn't matter. "We do whatever it takes to win," he said.

"I was trying to put the ball in play," he said of the clutch eighth-inning hit. Martinez, the fastballing younger brother of Los Angeles Dodgers star Ramon, deserved better. He yielded five runs, four earned, while whiffing five. Martinez displayed a fastball clocked at between 88 and 90 mph and, except for the hanger that Carter crushed about 390 feet to left-center, wasn't hit hard at all. While Vavra was perplexed with the mental and physical mistakes of his club, he was happy with its clutch hitting.

Gary Ingram's two-out triple in the second scored a run, while Meyers twice delivered RBI hits with two out. The Dodgers had 17 hits in the game, including five for extra bases. "It was the story of the game," Vavra said. "Our putting the ball in play with two outs was it." See DODGERS, 2B By SCOTT MANSCH Tribune Sports Writer It was a tight game in the eighth inning and Junior Perez was "this close" to being pulled for a pinch-hitter. But Great Falls manager Joe Vavra decided to stick with Perez, and the hot-hitting catcher delivered a two-run double.

The hit capped a three-run rally that gave the Dodgers a 10-7 victory over the Helena Brewers Sunday afternoon before a sun-soaked crowd of 2,256 at Legion Park. "I was going to hit for the kid but I remembered he's from the Dominican Republic, and it's hotter than you-know-what down there," Vavra said. "So I figured he was used to this." a Perez drilled a bouncer down the left-field line, moments after Don Meyers' RBI single through the hole broke a 7-7 tie. The rally made a winner of Great Falls reliever Gordon Tipton (2-0), and increased the Dodgers' advantage to four games over the Brewers in the Pioneer League's Northern Division. Second-place Billings was 3'i games back prior to a game at Medicine Hat Sunday night.

The Dodgers are 10-2 this summer, but Vavra isn't all that happy. Indeed, Great Falls won Sunday despite three errors and numerous other plays that Vavra couldn't exactly call "heads-up." 1 2-3 Tioton 2-0 2,25 WP -MartheT- 4- las -f "Ws are great for the team," Vavra said. "When you get them there is a tendency to overlook all the mistakes. This club right now is making a lot of mistakes. We've got to work to improve upon that." Great Falls led 4-1 after three innings and 5-2 after four, but the Brewers scratched back against 18-year-old pitcher Pedro Martinez.

Brewers first baseman Tim Carter smashed a Martinez curveball for a solo homer in the sixth. Helena got two more runs in the seventh, the last scoring after Dodgers first baseman Meyers elected to throw home in a futile attempt to cut down 1 Tribune Photo by Thomas Bauer Helena's Mike Carter (left) slides in under the tag of Great Falls third baseman Burgess Watts (15) as Watts appeals to the umpire for help. Carter moved from first to third on an error. Great Falls won 10-7. Trevino thrilled by Senior Open win WAV1 0 Senior Open leaderboard 67-68-73-67-275 Lee Trevino, $90,000 71- 69-67-70-277 73-74-68-66-281 72- 67-73-69-281 75-65-68-73-281 71-67-75-69-282 68-73-72-69-282 75-68-67-73-283 75-69-67-72-283 Jack Nicklaus, $45,000 -Chi Chi Rodrigz, $20,881 Mike Mill, $20,881 Gary Player, $20,881 Harold Hennlng, $12,828 Charles Coody, $12,828 Miller Barber, $10,550 Don Bies, $10,550 again, his third shot was short of the green.

"If Jack had kept up (with the pace of play)," said Trevino, who finished about one-half hour in front of Nicklaus, "he wouldn't have to play in the rain." Nicklaus chipped to about four feet, then missed the par putt. It dropped him two strokes back with one hole to go and Trevino had his trophy. Nicklaus, like Trevino a rookie among the seniors, finished with a 2-under-par 70 and a 277 total. No one else was even close. Gary Player, who beat Nicklaus and Trevino for the PGA Senior title earlier this year, took himself out of it over the back nine, shot 73 and was tied at 281 with Mike Hill and Chi Chi Rodriguez.

"I just played awful," said Player, who started the final round a single stroke off the lead. "I have no excuse." Rodriguez closed with a 66. Hill rallied with a birdie-birdie finish after taking a triple-bogey on the 15th hole, where he played a wrong ball from the woods. He shot 69. South African Harold Henning and Charles Coody, each with 69's, were next at 282.

Jim Dent, in a three-way tie for second with Player and Trevino, simply could not keep pace. Playing with a finger badly injured in an accident Saturday, Dent shot 76 and finished far back at 284. By BOB GREEN AP Golf Writer PARAMUS, N.J. Lee Trevino called the shot that won him the 1 1 th U.S. Senior Open title.

"Jack has a habit of peeking on these, sometimes gets 'em right," Trevino said Sunday when Jack Nicklaus stood over a critical four-foot par putt on the 17th hole. Nicklaus, making a late run at Trevino, had to have the putt to keep alive his chances. But, as Trevino predicted, it went a little to the right, just enough to catch the lip of the cup and spin out. "Trophy," Trevino howled, grabbing his golf cap and pulling it down over his ears. "Gimme the trophy." It was his.

The bogey-6 dropped Nicklaus two shots back with one hole to go. Trevino, who beat Nicklaus to win the 1968 and 1971 U.S. Opens, claimed the over-50 Open title with a storm-interrupted closing round of 5-under-par 67 and a 275 total, 13 under par on the Ridgewood Country Club course. It was Trevino's sixth victory of the year and, with the $90,000 winner's check, pushed his senior-leading money total to $598,633. "I knew I had to shoot a low round to catch Jack," said Trevino, who started the final 18 holes one stroke back of his old rival.

"I didn't think 67 would be good enough." But it was. Nicklaus, winner of two of his three previous starts among the seniors, got away to a slow start, spotted Trevino two shots at the turn and couldn't catch up. He twice closed to within one stroke in the two-man battle over the back nine, but each time cost himself dearly with a bogey on the following hole. The one on the 17th with Trevino already in a television booth and tossing out some mild barbs was the killer. A 12-foot putt on the 16th gave Nicklaus his third birdie in four holes and fourth in six.

On the 17th, a par-5 that usually requires three shots to reach the green, Nicklaus played two long-iron shots into an excellent position short of the putting surface. But with rain starting to fall AP Phoio Jack Nicklaus (left) congratulates Lee Trevino after Trevino defeated him by two strokes to win the U.S. Senior Open..