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Baseball 36 Wausau Daily Herald, Tuesday, June 12, 1990 on A White Sox gaining ground The Associated Press Carlton Fisk says the Chicago White Sox, who moved within two games of first-place Oakland in the Timbers edged by Expos Wausau Daily Herald ROCKFORD, 111. A two-run eighth inning boosted the Rock-ford Expos to a 4-3 Midwest American League West on Monday night, aren't such a shocking winner any longer. "You can only surprise people once," the 42-year-old Fisk said after the second-place White Sox beat the Seattle Mari League baseball victory over the Wausau Timbers Monday night at Marinelli Field. Trailing 3-2, the Expos' Carlton Fisk 'MUi; if ners, 3-1. "But we're still a pleasant surprise and I think everybody cheers for the underdog." stuff every time I go out there, at though I'm not crazy about The Royals were losing for the seventh consecutive time, and are 2-9 with two games remaining in a stretch of 13 exclusively against Oakland and California, considered before the season its top foes in the American League West race.

Bert Blyleven (6-3) pitched a complete game, allowing eight hits, striking out four and walking three. The victory was California's fifth in seven games. The Royals tied the game in the seventh when Frank White's sacrifice fly scored Willie Wilson, who had drawn the second walk off Blyleven and taken third on Mike Macfaif-lane's single. California broke through Tom Gordon's strikeout binge in the fourth tjo take a 2-1 lead on Dave Winfield's eighth homer and third in four games, following a one-out double by Chili Davis. Gordon had seven strikeouts in 3 1-3 innings, getting two in each of the first three innings.

I Back-to-back doubles in the second inning by Danny Tartabull and George Brett gave Kansas City a 1-0 lead. Brett's double was the 523rd of his career, tying him with Willie Mays for 20th place on the all-time list. Brett tried for No. 524 in the fourth and it cost the Royals a run. He was out trying to stretch a one-out single to right-center.

Gerald Perry then walked and Wilson followed with a single, but the threat ended there on Macfarlane's infield grounder. Indians 4, Red Sox 3 Tom Brookens lined a two-out single to score Jerry Browne from second base in the 12th inning, giving Cleveland a victory. American League Melido Perez pitched seven shutout innings, Fisk hit the 341st homer of his career and the White Sox cap i 2 cnp tured their fourth straight victory. The Mariners, who committed three errors and surrendered two unearned runs, dropped to Ills in the i. i 1 'Hi: i Mute Urace Tommv started the rally with a 1 walk against relief pitcher Shawn Heiden.

Scott Davison tied the game with a triple off the center-field fence. Cramer then lofted the game-winning sacrifice to deep left-center. Wausau had taken a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a leadoff triple by Aman Hicks and sacrifice fly by Brad Hildreth. The Timbers upped their lead to 2-0 in the top of the fifth when Jimmy Roso led off with a double and Matries Asencio added an RBI-single. Rockford pulled even against starter Tommy Taylor with a two-run fifth.

With two out, C.L. Smith singled and stole second base. Tyrone Woods followed with an RBI-double and Grace added an RBI-single. Wausau regained the lead in the sixth on an error, wild pitch by winner Joe Logan (7-2) and RBI-single to center by Mel Wearing. Taylor scattered five hits over seven innings, striking out two and walking two.

The two teams will hook up in a doubleheader in Rockford tonight before the Timbers return to Athletic Park Wednesday for a four-game homestand. Wausau will meet the Beloit Brewers Wednesday and Thursday in 7 p.m. games and the Burlington Braves in an 8 p.m. contest Friday and 7 p.m. game Saturday.

Friday will be Dairy Night with pre-game festivities getting Ivan Calderon behind his closed Mariners' manager Jim Lefebvre met office door for A photo Chicago White Sox in their 3-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners Monday night. Calderon left the field under his own power, however. Painful grab: Former Wausau Timber Ivan Calderon (right) clutches his shoulder in pain after making the game-ending catch for the Parrish's mind drifted off. It was an about 30 minutes after the game. "I'm going to sit down and talk to my coaches next," Lefebvre said when he finally emerged from his meeting with general manager Woody Woodward.

"We may juggle our lineup. We've got to start getting some production." Perez (64) improved his lifetime record to 4-0 against the Mariners, a team he beat 5-0 on a four-hitter in Chicago last Wednesday night. This time, he also allowed four hits. "I made a lot of good pitches against Seattle tonight," Perez said. "I use more of my fastballs now.

I believe I can throw my fastball and win right now." Ivan Calderon, Chicago's leftfield-er, made two outstanding defensive plays. He made a diving catch of Ken Griffey sinking line drive with Rudy Seanez, a 21-year-old rookje reliever, earned his first Major League triumph and Doug Jones got his 20th save. Browne began the 12th with ground single to center against Dennis Lamp (0-2) and took second on Mitch Webster's sacrifice. Chris James grounded out before Brookens, who entered the game in the 10th, lined a 1-2 pitch to left field. "I get the easy stuff," Jones said after he retired the Red Sox in order in the 12th as the fifth Cleveland pitcher.

"I think saves are overrated, especially on nights like this," he added. "Boy, that was a tough one to lose, to put it mildly," Boston manager Joe Morgan said after the Red Sox left 14 runners on base. "We had our chances. We had a couple of golden opportunities." odd time to be daydreaming, but Parrish was picturing his upcoming at-bat against Kansas City relief ace Mark Davis. "I pictured the ball coming in and putting a good swing on it," Parrish said.

"Amaz Taking a picture-perfect swing at a 1-1 fastball, Parrish lifted his 10th homer high over the center field fence to give California a win. Though Davis (1-3) is celebrated for a sharply breaking curve, Parrish resisted the temptation to commit to the pitch. "You can't look for his breaking ball," Parrish said. "You have to be geared up to hit the fastball, then try to adjust if he doesn't throw it." For obviously winning their guessing game, Davis saluted Parrish. "He had to hit that fastball over the deepest part of the park, and he did it," Davis said.

"I'd take that two runners aboard on walks with two out in the first inning. With runners on second and first with two out in the ninth, he made another diving catch of pinch-hitter Dave Cochrane's sinking liner to end the game. On both catches, he sprawled hard on the Kingdome's artificial turf. "Those two catches were the game," Lefebvre said. "That's four runs." Angels 3, Royals 2 While on deck in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie game, Lance under way at 7:30.

Complimentary tickets are available at George Brett Farm Credit, Cloverbelt Co-op and Rural Insurance. ing. It's the first time I pictured something that actually happened." Sleeping Giants awaken The Associated Press Don't count the San Francisco Giants out just yet. Only a week ago, the defending National League champs seemed destined for oblivion in the West. San Francisco won for the ninth time in 10 games Monday with an 8-3 victory over Atlanta to move within nine games of first-place Cincinnati.

Nine games may seem a lot, but it was only a little more than a week National League ago the Giants trailed the Reds by 14. The Giants have a team batting average of .333 (130-for-390) for the 10 games they've played in June, a month that began with the team 10 games under .500. "You can't ask more from the offense than that," said Brett Butler, who snapped a 3-3 game in the seventh with a run-scoring double. The Giants won three of four from the Braves, scoring 43 runs on 62 hits in the series, to move within two games of the .500 mark. "It's nice to be playing well going lis p'H )i I I A photo No two dozen: Philadelphia's Len Dykstra (left) flips his batting helmet to first-base coach John Vukovich after making the last out in the fifth inning of their game against Montreal Monday night.

Dykstra went hitless, ending his 23-game hitting streak. then hit an RBI-single in the nightcap as Montreal won for the 11th time in 16 games. Philadelphia has lost five in a row. Cubs 8, Mets 5 Ryne Sandberg had four hits, including a home run, and red-hot Learn How To Play The Wisconsin Lottery's New Instant Game DOUBLE MOO-LA. You May Win $2,000 Instantly Or A Chance To Be On The Money Game TV Show.

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"You can't ask for any more offense than that. We just seem to be on a roll." Scott Garrelts (3-6) allowed three runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings to Improve his lifetime record against the Braves to 10-4. Expos 5-3, Phillies 0-2 Lenny Dykstra, leading the Major Leagues in batting, went hitless in consecutive games for the first time this season and had his hitting streak stopped at 23. Dykstra went 0-for-3 with a walk against Kevin Gross in the first game and 0-for-5 in the second. His average dipped from .407 to .392, and he finished tied for the fourth-longest streak in modern Phillies' history.

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Rafael Ramirez singled to start the seventh inning off starter Mike Morgan (6-5), and after Rich Ged-man sacrificed Ramirez to second, Candaele homered. Pirates 8, Cardinals 7 Doug Drabek failed to protect a 6-0 lead, but Jeff King snapped an eighth-inning tie with a run-scoring single as Pittsburgh broke a three-game losing streak by beating St. Louis at Busch Stadium. Jose Lind doubled leading off the eighth against reliever Tom Nieden-fuer (0-1) and advanced on a ground-out before King drove him home with his third hit of the game to make it 14. Jay Bell followed with his second RBI-triple of the night as the Pirates sent St Louis to its fourth loss in five games.

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