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21 Aug. 23 Aug.lf Sames will still attract any base-all fan, language notwithstanding. "Baseball is baseball," he said. "Being a fan, I'll watch a jame, whether it's done in Englishj Russian, Chinese Channel 51's next Orioles game will be this Sunday afternoon, when they play the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Before each game, there is also a 30-minute pre-game show detailing the latest major-league news and analyzing that day's matchup.

"When I began at the station in February, we were already discussing the possibility of broadcasting major-league baseball games," said Giraldo, who is also Channel 51's sports anchorman on its nightly news. "I can't think of any other better service to provide to South Florida viewers, a majority of which loves baseball." football, especially not being at the actual site of the game," Giraldo said. "But all my life, one of my goals has been to broadcast baseball and with the station so committed to this idea, I've been able to fulfill it. "Obviously we can only go by what we see on the screen. We don't have the luxury of a scoreboard, in case we momentarily forget the count on a certain batter.

But we try to make the best of it and working with someone like Sarvelio certainly alleviates any potential problems. He's had a storied career in broadcasting. "In any profession, you want to Improve from your previous performance. I stayed up until 2 this morning watching a tape of the game noticing things we can improve on." Even with a Spanish broadcast, Giraldo feels the Channel 51 Giraldo hopes Sunday's broadcast helps the month-old station's identity in the South Florida TV market. In fact, Giraldo said last night that Channel 51 will air another eight Orioles games this summer and is negotiating with other major-league teams to increase its package.

"We were very happy with our first broadcast," Giraldo said. "And the responses we've heard today have all been positive. A lot of effort was made to get this selection of games. That's why we're so proud at what we've accomplished." Giraldo, who also does the Miami Dolphins Spanish broadcasts for WQBA-FM (Super Q), handles the play-by-play, while DelValle provides commentary. DelValle is also sports director for radio station WOCN(1450AM).

"This is very different from It's like borrowing a page from yesteryear, when baseball broadcast re-creations were in vogue. Scores of radio stations, unable to produce remote broadcasts, did the next best thing gathering the wire-service game data and then airing it from the studio. The setup was complete with fake crowd noises and an announcer adept at creating a scene out of ticker-tape information. Sunday afternoon, Spanish television station WSCV-Channel 51, inaugurated its major-league baseball coverage with the game between the Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers from Milwaukee's County Stadium. Since the game was picked up via the Orioles' television network and Chan- Channel 51's sports director, who along with Sarvelio DelValle narrated the game locally.

"This was the first time a major-league game was televised live by a Spanish station in the United States." nel 51 caters to a Spanish audience, the station translated the broadcast, using announcers from its own studios. "We made history with that broadcast," said Rene Giraldo, American League Hal McRae moves one step closer to his dream Box scores, 2B Auoclattd Priis MINNEAPOLIS After driving in five runs with a pair of home runs, Kansas City's Hal McRae moved one step closer to his dream playing in the major leagues with his son Brian, the Royals' first-round draft pick. "I'm looking forward to playing with him," said McRae, who hit a two-run home run in the first inning and a three-run home run in the seventh in the Royals' 12-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins last night. "If I continue to play well, I increase my chances." Manager Dick Howser doesn't think the burden lies on the older McRae. "It depends on how good his kid is, not how good Hal is," Howser said.

"Put the pressure on the 17-year-old, not the 39-year-old." The Royals also got home runs from Lonnie Smith, Jim Sundberg and Darryl Motley to tie the team record for most home runs in a game. Howser attributed the record partially to the Metrodome. Mark Gubicza (5-4) worked into the sixth inning and allowed five runs but earned his fourth consecutive victory with relief help from Joe Beckwith and Dan Quisenberry. Loser Pete Filson (3-5) lasted only two innings. McRae and Smith hit two-run home runs in the first to give the Royals a 4-0 lead.

Willie Wilson, who is 13-for-2l against the Twins this season, led off with a single and Smith, batting just .193, followed with his first American League home run. With two out, Frank White walked and McRae homered just inside the left-field foul pole. McRae added his second home run of the game and fourth of the season in the Royals' five-run seventh that broke the game open. Wills makes come commotion with his new motion SEATTLE Seattle's Frank Wills experimented with his pitching motion and got some pretty good results. "I was working on my mechanics." said the right-hander, who allowed four hits in seven innings as the Mariners defeated the Texas Rangers 2-0 last night for their fourth consecutive victory.

Pitching coach Phil Regan wanted Wills to keep his shoulders in while releasing his pitches and wanted a more fluid motion. "He's trying to get me to be more consistent around the plate. I've been putting too many men on base," said Wills (3-1), who has issued 19 walks in 27 innings. He struggled with the experiment in the first inning, allowing two hits and two walks but escaping through some faulty Texas baserun-ning. "I was determined to stay with said Wills.

"As the game went on, I started to get ahead of the hitters." Wills walked six and struck out four and Ed Nunez allowed one hit over the final two innings for his eighth save. In the Texas first, Oddibe McDowell was thrown out trying to steal third. Then with two out, Gary Ward singled, apparently scoring Wayne Tolleson. But Seattle catcher Bob Kearney went into the Rangers' dugout to record the final out of the innning by tagging Tolleson, who had missed home plate. Seattle scored in the bottom of the first when Phil Bradley hit his 1 1th home run of the season but his first since June 5.

They added a run in the sixth when Kearney doubled to drive in Dave Henderson Oil Can' Boyd proves to Sparky that he can pitch BOSTON Everybody in baseball knows it's an unwritten rule. You just can't walk people in little Fenway Park and win. But Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd of the Boston Red Sox is a man on a mission, doing things his way. Boyd, a 145-pounder with a buggy whip for a right arm, accomplished several goals last night in pitching the Red Sox to a 9-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers behind Jim Rice's three hits, including his 13th home run. Bombed 9-3 in Detroit last Wednesday and 1-5 lifetime against the 1984 world champions, Boyd figured he had to prove he deserves a Associated Hress Red Sox second baseman Marty Barrett gets the force out on Detroit baserunner Larry Herndon round-trip ticket to the All-Star Game July 16 in Minnesota.

And although he allowed only six hits, including Alan Trammell's two-out home run off the left-field foul pole in the ninth inning, Boyd got what he wanted, "the Big He surrendered eight walks, struck out only two and threw 148 pitches. However, he managed to improve his record to 9-5 while posting his 10th complete game, tops in the majors. "I think I showed the man I can pitch," Boyd said, noting that Detroit manager Sparky Anderson will pick the pitchers for the American League All-Stars. "They hit me around pretty bad over there last week and I've been thinking about how I'd pitch to them for four days. "I respect them.

Now I hope they respect me a little. I gave up a lot of walks, but it was because I didn't try to be too fine. I made some mistakes last week. You can't let those guys sit on one pitch. They couldn't sit on my screwball or fastball.

I had those guys going." Spillner offers welcomed relief for White Sox OAKLAND, Calif. Dan Spillner has become familiar with relief pitching over the years. But he never knew exactly how much relief his arm could offer. "I really didn't know how long I would be able to go," said Spillner, who relieved starter Britt Burns in the first inning and followed with 5i innings of scoreless relief as the Chicago White Sox snapped a four-game losing streak and broke a four-game Oakland A's winning streak with a 7-1 victory last night. "That's the most I've thrown in over two years," said Spillner (2-1).

"But now I know I can go five innings if I ever have to do it again, and maybe even more. Physically, my arm is geared for the bullpen." Burns left the game with two out in the first after complaining of a stiff neck. The White Sox ended their streak against the same pitcher who started it, Oakland rookie left-hander Tim Birtsas, who allowed only four hits in eight innings in a 12-1 A's victory last week in Chicago. But four walks and five hits, including Harold Baines" two-run home run, in 2 innings helped the White Sox jump to a 4-1 lead last night. Yankees had Willie Randolph in the right spot NEW YORK Willie Randolph, who has bounced around the New York Yankees' batting order this season, found himself in the right spot last night.

"He's a contact hitter That's the guy we want up there," manager Billy Martin said after Randolph singled through a drawn-in infield to cap a two-run eighth-inning rally that lifted the Yankees to a 5-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees, who had blown a 3-0 lead as Jim Dwyer smashed two home runs, trailed 4-3 when Dave Winfield led off the eighth by singling past the glove of Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken and took third when Ron Hassey doubled into the right-field corner. Don Aase relieved Dennis Martinez (5-5), who has never won in eight career starts against the Yankees, while Omar Moreno ran for Hassey. Don Baylor hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game and Moreno went to third after the catch, bringing up Randolph. National League Law of averages catches up with the Dodgers Steal this copier Only $395 Box score, 2B iM LOS ANGELES Joe Nlekro issued six walks, hit three batters Savin Bobby Castillo.

Dickie Thon's infield hit scored Phil Garner in the sixth. In the seventh, Bass singled with two out, Cruz followed with a single and Garner, who also had three hits, doubled to score Bass Pedro Guerrero homered in the ninth inning for the Dodgers, who had their four-game winning streak snapped It was his 17th of the season and 13th in the month of June. and threw Warehouse Sale Monday, Juns 24 thru "I had a good knuckleball, but I was just throwing it all over the place. I started to wonder, but I found myself, and even though they hit the ball hard, they hit it at people." According to Houston manager Bob Lillis, There were a couple of times he was one pitch away from coming out, but you can't pitch much better than he did from the fifth inning on. I his was like two different games in one." Glenn Davis hit a game-tying two-run home run in the fourth inning and Kevin Bass hit a tie-breaking three-run home run in the fifth to support Niekro (5-7), who recorded his 1 98th career victory.

The veteran right-handed knuckleballer allowed only two hits after the second inning. After the Astros scored an unearned run in the first inning, the Dodgers scored twice in their half of the inning with the help of a walk, two hit batsmen and a wild pitch. They made it 3-1 with a run in the second, an inning that included three walks, a wild pitch and a single. The Astros, who had dropped 10 of 12 meetings with the Dodgers this season, tied the score in the fourth when Jose Cruz, who had three of Houston's 15 hits, got an infield single and with two out Da-vis hit hi first home run of the season. In the Houston fifth.

Niekro singled with one out. After Bill Doran flied out. Enos Cabell doubled Niekro to third and Bass followed with his seventh home run, deep into the left-center-field seats. That made a loser of Los Angeles starter Jerry Reuss (5-6) Houston added a run in the sixth and another in the seventh off three wild pitches, but the law of averages finally worked in Houston's favor "I got out of some jams, and it was a good feeling," Niekro Friday. June 28 Huge Savings on all Used and Reconditioned Copiers Call Tom Gordon 55 said Niekro, who left the bases loaded in each of the first two innings and went on to pitch a five-hitter as the Astros ended a sev-en-game losing streak against Los Angeles and beat the Dodgers 8-4 last night saiin Florida THf DEPENDABLE DECISION ISmStST MIAMI FLORIDA 33171 Oeartons PMwto to St ann fan Mmm to tMfc INDIANS, from 1 CALL TOLL FREE 1800 41? GOPV BRAZIL EL SALVADOR METHERLANO ANTILLES GUYANA PERI) ECUADOR There's A New Racquet In Town! who was ejected in the ensuing argument for kicking the rosin bag off the pitcher mound That tie first time I've seen a call like that It doesn't make any sense But the call didn't haunt the Indians too (one.

Joe Carter led off the eighth inning against Jim Slaton (4-6) with his fifth home ran Slaton. who also was victimized Blylevea's shutout last week, had retired It of 21 batters before Carter's home ran "1 I I il I 1 first base When a fan touched the ball in the right-field corner, first-base umpire Tim Welke signaled for a ground-rule double, which would have prevented Ca-rew from scoring But third-base umpire Jim McKean allowed the run. agreeing with California manager Gene Mauch that Carew would have scored anyway "The guy's pitching a shutout and the umps just give them a run," said right fielder George Vukovtch, Ml The newest Olympic sport comet to Miami Beach i kssam vnmm MOTH? toto FN IM Off SJkjJHsjSjjjfjBjSjM irTttrtetrrs flat viut. THE CAPITAL BANK Open Table Tennis Championships June 1985 Miami Beech Convention Center Indianapolis fans reserve 8,500 baseball season tickets I I I I I I I I I I I I i franchise hoping to impress major league owners who will determine where to place a team if baseball hi expanded Fans and business ttM been asked to pay ISO per season ticket reservation The Arrows, wtoca atread have a television contract, will re CO-SPONSORED BY AVIS 4 C4fl AMD CASTER AtRLfMCS The Chinese are coming as are the Swedes. plus 20 other countries.

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