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THE HUSTON GLOBE MONDAY, JUNE 30. 1986 2tf Scoreboard 28 Sportsactive 34 i Don Baylor Oil Can Boyd 7 Joe Sambito 'When a pitcher's great, or very successful, he has a certain air about him You see a guy who knows exactly what he's doing. What he does is come in and make us awesome. We're h. ri gonna be awesome, 4 V-X man He's going 1 to come here and I show us how to VWV I Tiniirurti inir 3 Art i Mll I '1- 7 know he'll help that's especially true of the younger pitchers put in a position to get us over the hump, I know he'll do eaver iinauy.

changes ins A leader is lauded I Ct' 'M Wttvfc A. -v. tr--" JL A fr i -r -W- j-i By Larry Whiteside Globe Staff BALTIMORE Until early yesterday morning, Red Sox manager John McNamara wasn't positive he'd get Tom Seaver. But he had a uniform with Seaver's number on it saved since December. And yesterday McNamara got the man to fill the shirt, when, after nearly eight months of trying, the Red Sox completed a deal for the 41 -year-old righthander, who they think will make Boston his last stop before the Hall of Fame.

To get Tom Terrific, the Red Sox had to send outfielder Steve Lyons to the Chicago White Sox, but it was a price Boston was willing to pay, considering the alternative was to let Seaver go to the New York Yankees. Seaver (306-198, 2.84 lifetime) will make his Boston debut tomorrow night at Fenway Park against the Toronto Blue Jays. "We gave up a good young player and we're acquiring a professional," said McNamara, who managed Seaver with the Cincinnati Reds from 1979-82. "I've already talked to him three times, and Seaver's like a young kid. He's ecstatic.

"The big thing is that the Yankees didn't get Sometime Saturday night, Chicago broke off talks with the Yankees, who would not give up righthander Doug Drabek and a prospect. Bob Tewksbury or Dennis Rasmussen also would have been acceptable to Chicago. "What you're talking about," said one Yankee official, "is getting one guy for a half a season in exchange for a guy with a future. We couldn't do that." And the Red Sox were still offering Lyons, whom Ken Harrelson. Chicago's vice president of baseball operations, had wanted all along.

Rather then eat Seaver's huge contract and live with an unhappy superstar, Harrelson made the deal. Red Sox general manager Lou Gorman said things Just fell into place in the final hours. Chicago had been insisting that the Red Sox toss in a minor league pitching prospect thought to be Calvin Schiraldi and Boston refused. Finally, the chance to get an everyday player in Lyons was too good for Harrelson to pass up. By Kevin Paul Dupont Globe Staff BALTIMORE Before most of his friends ar-.

rived at the ballpark yesterday, Steve Lyons was packed and his itinerary was set. There was little time to chat. A 12:15 p.m. flight to Chicago would be taking off in 25 minutes, and, with his garment bag slung over his shoulder, the former Red Sox outfielder scurried out of the Memorial Stadium parking lot. Leaving had its rewards and regrets.

"I've got mixed feelings," said Lyons, the 26-year-old outfielder who only a few hours earlier learned he had been traded to the White Sox for Tom Seaver. "I feel I have the chance to play every day now, and that's what I've always wanted. "But no man in his right mind wants to leave a club that's 7Vi games in front, in first place at the end of June." Nonetheless, Lyons was gone, quickly, and in his wake was a clubhouse full of players focusing on the good things they are sure Tom Seaver will bring. Seaver. they said, will be the pitching staffs answer to Don Baylor, a silent leader who can only make them better with his expertise, manner and prepaid ticket to the Hall of Fame.

They hope what Baylor has added in dedication and overall comportment Seaver will now only amplify, especially for the pitchers. "What he does is come in and make us awesome," said Oil Can Boyd, one of the staffs younger pitchers who expects and will be expected to improve with Seaver in the rotation as a fifth starter. "We're gonna be awesome, man." REACTION. Page 31 AP photo TRADE. Page 30 The Red Sox feel terrific now that they've got Tom Seaver and the Yankees don't.

Orioles, 8-3 Sellers, Red Sox sweei awav By Larry Whiteside Globe Staff BALTIMORE Twelve games have passed, and now perhaps people will understand. These Red Sox don't care about the challenge of the Yankees and Orioles. "All they want to do is win. Twelve games ago, Boston ventured to New York with a 3'2-game lead amid suspicion that their best start in years was noth- Jng but an early mirage. Tell that to the Baltimore Orioles, who watched young Jeff Sellers help Boston complete a three-game sweep yesterday with an 8-3 victory before 43,708 at Memorial the club cuts a pitcher off its 24-man roster today.

In winning his first game of the season, Sellers (1-3) scattered nine hits and showed the poise under pressure that manager John McNamara cannot hide his enthusiasm over. Sellers became the first Sox pitcher to throw a complete game since June 18. And that Includes Roger Clemens and Oil Can Boyd. "Sellers Is solid," McNamara said. "He'll be around.

He pitched an outstanding game. He has a lot of poise and composure for a young pitcher. He went after people. He threw strikes and he was In command." was Boston's offensive attack against Mike Boddlcker, who nine days ago had gone the distance in a six-hit. 14-3 victory at Fenway.

Marty Barrett, Wade Boggs and Evans each had two of Boston's 11 hits (8 off Boddlcker in 7 Innings). A Barrett single and Boggs double led to two runs In the first. In the second, after a walk to Evans, Tony Armas celebrated his everyday status in center field (thanks to the trade) by hitting his third home run of the year, it was 4-0 and Boston never looked back. "I was relaxed," said Armas, who has been so since being inserted Into the lineup 13 games Tell it to Earl Weaver, who has perspective on such matters. He saw his team, which beat Boston two of three games In Fenway, fall into fourth place, 10 games behind.

"The only thing I can do is go home and Jump in the swimming pool and hope I don't come up," said the Baltimore manager. "I think I'll Just dive in and stay down." Even before the rest of the world had a chance to digest the meaning of an early-morning trade that brought Tom Seaver to Boston, the Red Sox won with yet another young righthander, who seems assured of staying when And the Red Sox are In command. In the dozen games against the Yankees and Orioles, they went 8-4, and they did it the hard way with two sweeps on the road. The second-place Yankees are eight games back, only a game and a half ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays, who come to Fenway Park tonight for four games. "It's been an outstanding series for us," said McNamara.

"We did what we had to do. We proved something to a few people. We had some key hits from Ed Romero and Dwight Evans. We hit very good pitching. To me, that's the name of the game." Just as impressive as Sellers ago.

"I didn't have any pressure. It could have been (Steve Lyons) or me. One of us two was going to be traded. It was him." The Red Sox are confident, but realize the whole is only as good as the sum of its parts. "If our pitching stays like this," said Bill Buckner.

"ain't nobody going to beat us. If It doesn't, then they have a chance." Evans expressed the same con-'. fldence, but stressed short-term goals. "It doesn't matter who or, where we play," said Evans. "We know we've got to win.

It's nice to RED SOX. Page 33 Inexcusable tragedies Yankees deal Griffey to Braves Page 30 Argentina on top of the World, 3-2 Tests show Rogers victim of cocaine Page 30 Lanier, Sampson favor drug tests Sports Log, Page 30 Smyers, Tinley win Medford Triathlon Sportsactive, Page 34 The fates have made their appearance. First, the death of Len Bias from a drug experience and now the Cleveland Browns' Don Rogers. Both young, healthy and superior athletes; both suddenly dead. Accidents and simple bad luck, we learned from ancient Greece and Shakespeare, are not true tragedies.

They are merely unfortunate. A true tragedy Is the dramatic representation of a sudden fall from the heights because of a voluntary decision that led to an action which was disastrously wrong. These seem to be real tragedies, it MADDEN, Page 35 13th World Cup, 3-2. before: 1 1 5,000 In Aztec Stadium. During the last 15 West Germany exploded with both its goals, tying the score briefly be-', fore the Argentine winner.

The; clincher came from forward Jorge I Burruchaga off a brilliant assist from Argentine captain Diego Maradona. Before the scoring frenzy, the i By Philip Bennett Globe Staff MEXICO CITY There were 16 minutes left In the game when a lone dove came flying low across the field, circled the players and landed near the Argentine goal. Moments later, It was followed by fire. In one of the most furious finishes ever In world championship soccer, Argentina yesterday scored In yie last six minutes to overcome! a dramatic challenge from West Germany and win the Sullivan victor at Meadowlands Barry Cadlgan, Page 33 This could well be a tragedy written by Sophocles or Shakespeare, this matter of sudden death from drugs, except that we are now being directed by a device used only by the most amateur of dramatists. There Is a term for It -deus ex machina a term that loosely translates as the gods dropping In from on high for a sudden and magical end to the connictj4'hat neither man, nor the playwright, has the imagination to settle.

MICHAEL MADDEN A drama Is playing out before our eyes, protagonists going at it to and fro, but all to no resolution. Except now the gods seem to be stepping In and making our holces for us because we have "jeen powerless trmake them Douglass bests Player in Seniors Page 36 viiuiii(iviiiiip gallic iwivvu as though it might become another WORLD CUP, Page 36.