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Thursday, June 30, 1988 Press Sun-Bulletin 3C NATIONAL LEAGUE Yankees en omination Detroit Dodgers' Hershiser VVIIIO UUwl NEW YORK (AP) Claudell Washington drove in three runs with a single, double and triple last night as the New York Yankees beat Detroit, 7-3, for their first victory in six games against the Tigers this season. The Yankees stopped Detr6.t from its first three-game sweep in New York since April 10-12, 1966. The Tigers, who won twice in the series, had their lead in the American League East reduced to two games by second-place New York. The teams do not play again until Sept. 8.

Jack Clark hit his 15th home run and two singles as the Yankees had 12 hits and seven walks against four pitchers. Steve Shields (1-2) relieved starter Richard Dotson in the third and pitched 216 innings. Walt Terrell (3-5) took the loss. Washington opened the first by fouling a ball off his right foot and seemed in danger of leaving the game. But he got up and singled, starting a 3-for-5 night that left him hitting .415 in June.

Washington hit a two-run double with the bases loaded in the second and another run scored when left fielder Pat Sheridan misplayed the ball for an error. Don Mattingly followed with an RBI single. Clark homered in the third for a 5-3 Yankees lead and Mike Pagliarulo hit an RBI single in the fourth against Mike Trujillo. Washington tripled home a run in the fifth on a sinking line drive that center fielder Gary Pettis missed with a dive. Washington, trying to become the first Yankees player to hit for the cycle since Bobby Murcer in 1972, was called out on strikes in the seventh.

Chet Lemon had a run-scoring grounder in the Tigers' second. Tom Brookens led off the Detroit third with a double and Pettis hit a triple, making him 10-f or-22 lifetime against Dotson. Lou Whitaker's RBI single got the Tigers within 4-3 and Sheridan followed with a single that finished Dotson, who has allowed 20 earned runs in his last 17 innings. Shields took over and ended the threat with the bases loaded by getting Lemon to ground into his fifth double play this season. Former Oakland Athletics baseball star Gene Tenace was appointed to replace fired manager Wally Moon of the Prince William Yankees in the Class A Carolina League.

Tenace, 41, has been the minor league hitting instructor in the New York Yankees organization. Prince William in Woodbridge, is a Yankees' affiliate. Moon, 58, guided Prince William to a 31-38 record in the first half of the 1988 season. He is the first manager in the 10-year history of the local franchise to be fired in the middle of a season. He also is the second manager in the Yankees organization to be fired in the past week.

Last Thursday, New York fired Billy Martin for the fifth time in 13 seasons, replacing him with Lou Pinella. Tenace spent 15 years in the major league ranks, primarily with the Oakland Athletics and San Diego Padres. During his career, he played on four World Series championship teams. McReynolds powers Mets past Pirates in 1 1 league hit. After Barry Bonds bounced out, Jose Lind singled up the middle for two runs and Andy Van Slyke followed with his 12th homer of the season for a 5-4 lead.

The Mets went ahead, 6-5, in the sixth on sacrifice flies by Mackey Sasser and Wally Backman before the Pirates came back in their half of the inning. Mike LaValliere doubled to right against reliever Terry Leach and Belliard and Bonds walked to load the bases. Lind then singled up the middle for the first four-RBI game of his career. Bobby Bonilla hit his 17th homer hit in three innings, doubled down the right-field line with one out off Bob Kipper (1-2), the Pirates' sixth pitcher. McReynolds followed with a line single that left fielder John Cangelosi bobbled, allowing McDowell to score standing up.

The Pirates loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth, but McDowell got Rafael Belliard to ground out to end the inning. Pittsburgh had rallied from deficits of 4-1 and 6-5. Belliard singled with one out in the Pirates' fifth against starter David Cone, and pinch hitter Orestes Destrade singled for his first major of the season in the second. The Mets took a 2-1 lead in the third on Kevin Elster's sixth homer and second two-run shot in as many games. Elster tripled in the fourth for his third RBI of the game and the Mets made it 4-1 in the fifth when Len Dykstra doubled off starter Bob Walk, who had won three consecutive decisions, and scored on McReynolds' single.

The crowd of 41,217 boosted the total attendance for the series to 127,717, the most for a three-game series in the Pirates' history. The previous record was 126,264 against the Mets from Sept. 25-27, 1970. The Associated Press Orel Hershiser pitched a two-hitter for his fifth consecutive victory, outdueling Nolan Ryan yesterday as Los Angeles beat Houston, 2-0, at the Astrodome. The victory enabled the Dodgers to extend their National League West Division lead to 4Vz games over second-place Houston.

For Hershiser (12-3), it was the fifth two-hitter of his major league career. He-struck out six and walkedone. The Dodgers' first run came in the third inning when Ryan walked three, threw a wild pitch and hit Mike Marshall with the bases loaded, forcing in Steve Sax. The Dodgers added an insurance run in the eighth, when Kirk Gibson singled, stole second and scored on a single by Marshall. Ryan (5-6) lost his fourth consec-' titive decision despite striking out '10 batters for the 178th time in his career.

He leads the NL with 118 -strikeouts. Phillies 4, Cubs 2 Juan Samuel, pinch hitter Bobby and Von Hayes hit consecutive run-scoring singles in the sev- enth inning, giving Philadelphia the victory at Chicago and ending the Cubs' four-game winning streak. Cubs starter Calvin Schiraldi (4-' 6) was protecing a 2-0 lead, built on Andre Dawson's bases-loaded single the third inning, before the Phil-' lies rallied. Until the seventh, Schiraldi had matched his career high with 11 strikeouts and scattered five hits. In the seventh, Darren Daulton beat out a hit off Schiraldi's left ankle, Steve Jeltz singled and Mike Young, batting for Mike Maddux (2-0) walked, loading the bases.

Les Lancaster replaced Schiraldi and Samuel singled to left, driving in Daulton. Pat Perry relieved Lancaster, and Dernier was credited with a single 'when Dawson lost Dernier's ball in the sun in right field, permitting Jeltz to score the tying run. Hayes then singled to right, scoring Young with the go-ahead run. Expos 3, Cardinals 2 Otis Nixon tripled to lead off the 10th inning and Herm Winningham followed with a sacrifice fly as Mon- treal won at St. Louis.

Orel Hershiser Wins duel with Nolan Ryan The Cardinals have lost 14 out of 19 and have four-extra inning losses in their last six games. The Expos are 10-3 in extra-inning games. Jeff Parrett (7-2) pitched two hit-less innings for the Expos. Nixon opened the 10th against loser Todd Worrell (3-4) with a drive to right center and scored on Winningham's fly to left. Giants 7, Braves 2 Don Robinson, making his first start in almost three years, allowed two hits in six innings and Will Clark hit his league-leading 19th home run as San Francisco won at Atlanta.

The victory was the Giants' third in a row and sixth in seven games. Atlanta has dropped three in a row. Robinson (3-1) had made 31 relief appearances this year and had not started since Aug. 18, 1985. He walked one and struck out two.

Clark, who also leads the NL with 62 RBI, hit a solo shot in the fifth off Pete Smith (2-8) for a 2-0 lead. San Francisco added three runs in the seventh off reliever Jose Alvarez on a run-scoring double by Mike Aldrete and a two-run double by Kevin Mitchell to go ahead, 5-0. Padres 3, Reds 2 Roberto Alomar hit a tie-breaking two-run homer and Eric Show scattered five hits in 816 innings as San Diego won at Cincinnati. Alomar hit his sixth homer in the fifth inning off Tim Birtsas (0-1), who was making his first NL start. The home brun broke a 1-1 tie.

The Reds lost for the eighth time in 10 games to fall 1016 games behind first-place Los Angeles. Show (6-8) won for the first time against Cincinnati since Aug. 15, 1986, a span covering seven starts. Birtsas was moved into the rotation after 18 relief appearances when Ron Robinson went on the disabled list with a sore elbow. It was the first major league start for Birtsas since Oct.

5, 1985, when he pitched for Oakland. (ll ill it (r A i I illl PITTSBURGH (AP) Kevin Mc- Reynolds singled to drive in Roger McDowell with the go-ahead run in the 11th inning last night as the New York Mets rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-7. New York took two out of three games against Pittsburgh and increased its lead in the National League East to 516 games over the second-place Pirates. The Mets were within one strike of losing in the top of the ninth when Howard Johnson hit a 1-2 pitch off Jim Gott over the right-field wall for his 14th homer. McDowell (4-1), who allowed one Satisfaction for O-Yanks in victory ELMIRA Oneonta Yankees pitcher Kenny Greer received some personal satisfaction in defeating Elmira Pioneers, 7-1, in a New York-Penn League game at Dunn Field.

"It's really great to get the first pro win," Greer said. "It's extra special being I'm from the Boston area." Greer was a lOth-round selection of the New York Yankees this year and said he was disappointed Boston didn't show much interest in him. Elmira is Boston's farm team. "I was working ahead of the hitters all night," said Greer (1-0). "(Elmira) was helping me by swinging at first pitches." The O-Yanks took a 1-0 lead in the second on Bob Hunter's RBI single.

Oneonta added a run in the sixth when Bob Zeihen tripled and scored on an overthrow to third. Oneonta broke a game open in the eighth with three runs for a 5-0 lead. Pat Kelly led off with a bunt and Hunter followed with a drag bunt to put men on first and second. After John Dejardin's RBI single scored Kelly, Zeihen capped the inning with a two-run double. Hunter, who had four hits, tripled in the ninth to score Kelly and later scored on a groundout to end the O-Yanks' scoring.

"After a tough loss like (Tuesday), it's good to bounce back," said O-Yanks manager Gary Allenson, referring to Elmira's 7-6 victory at Damaschke Field. "It's good to stay on top, instead of falling into second place." The two teams return to Oneonta for a game at 7:15 tonight. rmr? Win free tickets to the AC Spark Plug 100, -Chuck Yeager Saturday, July 23, in Pocono, plus free "AGDelco Powers the Winners" caps. Weekly drawings begin June 24. So now's the time to stop in at any participating AC-Delco retailer and register to win.

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N.Y. A The Associated Press Roger Clemens struck out 10, ending a four-game losing streak at Fenway Park, and Ellis Burks hit a three-run homer last night as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians, 5-1. It was Boston's fifth consecutive victory. Clemens (11-5) allowed three hits in seven innings. He has struck out 10 or more eight times this season and 29 times in his career.

He raised his major league leading strikeout total to 163. After a 73-minute rain delay in the Boston seventh, Lee Smith relieved and allowed one hit in two innings for his 11th save. The Red Sox won for the ninth time in 11 games. Cleveland, which lost its fifth in a row, took the lead on Carmen Castillo's run-scoring single in the first. Marty Barrett, who had three singles, led off the second with a hit off Tom Candiotti (7-7), who has lost six of his last seven decisions.

Dwight Evans singled and Burks hit a 2-1 pitch high into the screen above the wall in left for his eighth homer. Barrett added an RBI single in the fourth and Rich Gedman an RBI double in the eighth. Boston's Mike Greenwell went 0-for-4, snapping his hitting streak at 19 games. Athletics 7, Brewers 2 Dave Henderson hit a three-run homer and Mike Gallego added a solo shot to back the six-hit pitching of Bob Welch as Oakland beat visit- ing Milwaukee. Welch (10-4)" walked one and struck out five for his second consecutive victory after going five starts in a row without a win.

Bill Wegman (6-6) was the loser. With one out in the seventh, Stan Javier singled and took second on a wild pitch. Jose Canseco was walked intentionally and Hender- "son connected one out later for his 10th homer, deep into the left-field stands. Royals 9, White Sox 8 Jamie Quirk, George Brett and Danny Tartabull hit fifth-inning homers as Kansas City took a nine- run lead and hung on to beat visiting Chicago. Chicago scored eight runs in the seventh inning led by Harold mm-m -3 mZ3 See one of the participating retailers below for ticket registration forms and rebate information.

Baines' double and homer and Greg Walker's two singles. Rookie Melido Perez, traded by Kansas City in the off-season for Royals' starter Floyd Bannister, fell to 6-5 and Bannister improved to 8-6. Steve Farr got the last three outs for his fifth save. Quirk and Tartabull hit solo homers in the fifth, Brett hit a two-run homer and another run scored on an error by Perez as the Royals went ahead, 5-0. Kansas City made it 9-0 in the sixth on Bill Buckner's two-run single and Frank White's two-run double.

Blue Jays 4, Orioles 2 Jimmy Key allowed four hits in 626 innings in his first start since April 14 and Toronto won at Baltimore. Key (3-1) struck out five and walked two in his first game since he had arthroscopic surgery on his left elbow May 4 to remove bone chips. He was taken off the disabled list earlier yesterday. Toronto broke a 1-1 seventh-inning tie with three runs, two unearned, off Dave Schmidt (3-3). Manny Lee and Tony Fernandez hit infield singles and Ranee Mulliniks gave the Blue Jays' the lead with a a hit-and-run single.

One out later, Kelly Gruber hit a high bouncer to second baseman Billy Ripken, whose throw could not be handled by first baseman Jim Traber, allowing Fernandez and Mulliniks to score. Cal Ripken fired as manager by the Orioles six games into this season, has resumed working for the club. Ripken Sr. spent a day earlier this month as an instructor at a mini-camp for the club's 1988 draft choices, The Evening Sun in Baltimore reported yesterday. "I guess you know I'm an Oriole," Ripken Sr.

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