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33 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursday, August 1, 198r C3 Indians ets Down Expos, 5-2, 4 Defeat For Three-Game Sweep Yankees 1 1 J. I I I 1 begged me to get in the lineup," Johnson said. Actually, Carter arrived at the ballpark at about 9:30 a.m. There was no pain in his right knee, which he injured July 13 in Houston in Lynch's last start. So Carter scribbled a note and left it on Johnson's desk.

It said, "I'd really love to play today, Skip. Please Love, The Kid." Carter said his decision was not influenced by the possibility of a strike, but rather the combination that his knee felt sound, that the Expos started a lefthander and that he has an off-day Thursday to rest. It helped his decision, too, that he wanted another shot at his former team. And what a shot it was. Carter took a mean swipe at an eye-level, full-count fastball from Dan Schatzeder (2-4) in the sixth inning, and the ball went over the left-field wall for his 13th home run of the season and a 4-1 lead.

It was his first run batted in and eighth hit in 32 at-bats against his former team. On April 9, Carter had begun the Mets' home season with a home run. Wednesday, he may have ended it similarly. "I'd hate to think it was the last home game," Carter said. "I still want to play, to stay a kid.

The home run was a great feeling, no question about that. I felt like I had just missed my first two times up." The Mets' optimism about their recent play contrasted with the pessimism about the strike. Their three-game sweep of the Expos enabled them to tie club records set last year for victories in July (21) and after 100 games (59). Darryl Strawberry drove in the first run with a second-inning single and advanced to second on the play. He then stole third and scored on a single by Ray Knight.

Wally Backman, in his first start against a lefthander since the demotion of Kelvin Chapman, drove in a fifth-inning run with a sharp double. Lynch survived long enough to earn his eighth victory against five losses before Roger McDowell worked the last four innings for his eighth save. By TOM VERDUCCI Newsday NEW YORK Ed Lynch said he felt strong Wednesday when he wanned up in the bullpen for his first start in 19 days, a hiatus caused by a stomach disorder. By the third inning, he was dizzy and taking gulps of air in his long respites between pitches. "In the fourth," Mets Manager Dave Johnson said, "he looked like he was dying." Then, after Johnson asked for one more inning from him, Lynch walked to the mound with a thought that had nothing to do with the condition of his stomach, unless one counted the hollow feeling that was there.

"When I went out in the fifth," Lynch said, "I thought, 'This could be my last inning of the It did cross my mind." Lynch and the Mets won their game against the Expos, 5-2, but it was a victory colored gray by more than the dark clouds and light showers at Shea Stadium. The gloomiest of forecasts had been delivered before the game by Donald Fehr, the acting director of the players union. Fehr told the Mets that the owners' latest proposal was unacceptable. The strike seemed more than just another day closer to the Tuesday deadline. "If it stays the way it is, there'll be a strike," said Keith Hernandez, the Mets' player representative.

In that perspective, the game loomed as the Mets' last home game of the season, the most cruel of Fan Appreciation Days. "Don't say that," Johnson said. "I don't even want to think about that." They may be fighting for a tainted pennant this weekend in Chicago, where they play four games against the Cubs. After 100 games, the Mets are two games behind the Cardinals, who lost, 5-2, to the Cubs on Wednesday, with perhaps fourtoplay. It may have been that urgency that prompted Gary Carter to request a spot in the lineup, though he normally would rest his injured right knee on an afternoon following a night game.

"He kind of Continued From Page CI ances. The Yankees did little against Waddell in the first three Innings, managing just one hit. But Willie Randolph drew a leadoff walk in the fourth and the Yankees made Waddell pay. With one out, Randolph stole his ninth base of the season (and the team's SOth in 41 games). That steal resulted in a run as Randolph scored easily on Dave Winf ield's single.

The Indians also were quiet in the first three innings. But once they were scored upon, they took little time in building the tying run. Julio Franco opened the bottom of the fourth with a double, his 10th hit in 30 at-bats against the Yankees this season. Two flyouts combined to get him to third, then home, with Andre Thornton picking up the sacrifice fly-in the sixth, little-used Mike Fischlin, a .205 hitter with just eight hits at the start of the game, laced a double off Guidry, only his second of the season. Brett Butler then reached base on his 13th bunt single of '85 and Franco topped a base hit to short, enabling Fischlin to score the go-ahead run just ahead of Bobby Meacham's throw.

The Yankees pulled to within a run in the seventh when Don Baylor led off with his 18th horner of the season, second in two, days and sixth this month. is 1 i sit .4 I. A uriife3TfesslnteTnational George Foster beats out a high throw to Montreal catcher Steve Nicosia to score the first run for the Mets in the second inning at Shea Stadium. Owners' Proposal urt, Baylor Says Yankees Notebook By CLAIRE SMITH Courant Staff Writer CLEVELAND The major league owners have finally put forth a contract proposal in what has to be considered the 11th hour before a threatened players strike. The reaction of the players was well reflected by union activist Don Baylor, who said the proposal hurt the chances of a settlement before the players' Tuesday strike deadline.

Baylor, the Yankees' player representative and a member of the Major League Players Association's executive board, predicted Tuesday night the players would reject the proposal immediately. On Wednesday, the association did just that as negotiations broke down. "The proposal was completely unacceptable," Baylor said of the owners' plan, which was unveiled Tuesday. Under the plan, the owners essentially rejected the players' demand for huge increases in pension funding based on a formula that takes one-third of the game's national TV revenue. the owners instead asked the players to tie cuts in the funding to expected large increases in annual salary.

"The players are going to subsidize that?" Baylor said. "That's never been done before. That's not going to go over with the association at all." The owners proposed that their annual contributions be raised from $15.5 million to $25 million. But, they said, any time the annual salaries increase more than $13 million a year, the players must kick back a million dollars for each million in salary increase over the proposed $13 million ceiling. Since the owners' own financial report recently predicted that annual salary growth would reach at least $34 million through 1988, management's contribution to the players' pensions would be cut by at least $21 million a year.

Subtract that amount from the new proposal and the owners' contribution could be reduced to $4 million $11.5 lion less than it is now. "There's going to have to be a lot more movement than that," Baylor said. "One-third it's not even close. And that's the first legitimate proposal we've gotten." New York started Wednesday's game looking for its third victory in four games at Municipal Stadium. On Tuesday, the Indians used a seventh-inning rally against Bob Shirley (3-3) and Dave Righetti to gain a 3-2, come-f rom-behind victory in the second game of a doubleheader.

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But that's exactly what the Red Sox did against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night The final score was 1-1 in a game called after seven innings because of rain. The game will count as far as individual records are concerned but will be replayed at 5 p.m. as part of a doubleheader. It was the first tie for the Red Sox in 3,868 games, dating back to June 8, 1961, when the Red Sox tied the California Angels, 4-4, in a game called after 11 innings because of rain. The White Sox didn't waste time, striking for a run almost immediately against Red Sox starter Bobby Ojeda.

Luis Salazar, the batting star of Tom Seaver's 299th career-pitching victory Tuesday night, was again the catalysts for the White Sox. He doubled into the left-field corner to start the game. The second hitter, Reid Nichols, didn't waste any time hurting the team that traded him to Chicago July 11 for pitcher Tim Lollar. Nichols singled to right to drive in Salazar with the game's first run. Nichols got into Tuesday's game, his first against his former club, as a pinch-runner and was throw out trying to steal.

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