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.42 THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, JULY 19, 1993 The Olympics First move: Call up Flaherty He replaces Melvin and helps the cause; are Sox pursuing Roberts? ByNickCafardo GLOBE STAFF II MB!" i.i I if Sydney gets high marks It's favored to host Games in 2000 Between now and the interleague trading deadline (July 31), the Red Sox' roster is likely to be revised. Changes began to settle in yesterday when catcher John Flaherty started after getting the call-up from Pawtucket. Backup catcher Bob Melvin's right knee is still sore and YDNEY SUDDENLY HAS BECOME THE FAVORITE to host the 2000 Summer Games, now that the International Olympic Committee's inquiry commission has released its I evaluation of the six bidders. The Australian city reaped the highest technical marks, particularly for its focus on the ath GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JONATHAN WIGGS Billy Hatcher hit Seattle pitching for two singles and three RBIs. ing his scouts and close friends in baseball about Roberts' character and his ability to play center.

Flaherty said he heard the news about his recall about the fourth inning of Saturday night's Pawtucket game. "I wasn't supposed to play last night which gave me a hint, but then our other catcher Jeff Martin got hurt and I had to play. Around the fourth inning, I was on third base and Buddy Bailey, the manager came up to me and told me I was going up. I'm excited," said Flaherty. "Everyone's goal is to make it back here.

I just hope to play well when I get the chance." Gorman also said Tim Naehring is about "four to five days" from returning to Boston. Naehring played shortstop three straight games and handled 22 chances flawlessly for Pawtucket Dopson injures hand Dr. Arthur Pappas said the heel of John Dopson's right hand was swollen, but no X-rays were taken. Dopson injured the hand fielding Vizquel's grounder in the first. "He couldn't grip the ball," said Pappas.

"We'll have to watch it closely." The Red Sox have offered Trot Nixon, their top draft pick, $750,000, about $250,000 less than what Nixon wants. The Sox still feel confident they'll bridge the gap and sign Nixon before Aug. 7 when he begins football practice at North Carolina State Scott Bankhead has allowed home runs in each of his last three appearances, but his inactivity has likely added to his rustiness. Bankhead surrendered a homer to Dave Valle in the seventh, but hadn't appeared in a game for 10 days Joe Hesketh had his best outing of the season, five scoreless innings in relief of Dopson, dropping his ERA from 6.53 to 5.80. "I've just had to stay ready for whatever role I've been given," said Hesketh.

"It's been hard staying sharp, but I felt this was a good sign for me today. It was a good feeling just to keep the team in the game." RED SOX 7, MARINERS 6 I St 88 SO 1 1 2 1 he was put on the 15-day disabled list. Flaherty was hitting .248 at Pawtucket with a high efficiency rate of throwing out potential base-stealers (52 percent). He was thrown right into the fire yesterday and proved to be unfazed against lefthander Randy Johnson. He doubled in the third and scored Boston's first run.

He also figured in Boston's eighth-inning rally, reaching safely on Omar VizqueFs error and eventually "scoring the winning run. He was in the lineup because backup Tony Pena continued to struggle (woeful Looking to upgrade themselves, Red Sox scouting director Wayne Britton met with Cincinnati general manager Jim Bowden yesterday in Cincinnati. The Reds are trying to move outfielder Bip Roberts to the Red Sox for a package that would include Jose Melendez and Jeff McNeely. The Sox are reluctant to part with McNeely because they would have to re-sign Roberts, who is a free agent after this season, to a longterm contract Roberts, 30, is just coming off the disabled list and earns $3.9 million. But just a week ago, Red Sox president John Harrington told the Globe that he would not reject a deal for a big-money player if he could fit into the chemistry of the team.

Gorman said yesterday that no deal was close, but it is known he is doing a lot of reasearch on Roberts, ask .289 .278 .311 .290 .261 .272 .244 .235 .256 .268 .366 .278 .317 .308 .212 .248 .270 .263 .280 .246 .333 SUTTU Vizquel ss Magadan 3b-lb Griffey cf Buhner rf T. Martinez lb Blowers ph-3b Sasser ph Newfleld If O'Brien dh Valle Litton 2b ToUla BOSTON Fletcnei 2b Hatcher cf Greenwell dh Rivera pr-dh Dawson rt Zupcic If Quintana lb Cooper 3b Valentin ss Flaherty Total! .040 000 200 1 Seattle ..001 000 33 7 8 1 BOSTON E-Vizauel 2 (6). Cooper (16). LOB Seattle 8, Boston 8. 2B-Litton (6), Dawson (12), Flaherty (1).

H8-T. Martinez (14) off Dopson, Valle (8) off Bank-head, SB-Hatcher (9). CS-Rivera (2). S-Valle, Fletcher. OHW-Newfield, Valle.

OP-Boston Z. IP ER BB SO NP ERA 6 4 2 2 3 8 97 3.29 16 3 .86 2 2 2 1 0 9 2.80 V3 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 20 2.53 Seattle Johnson Ayrault Nelson Charlton (L 1-3) BOSTON Dopson Hesketh Bankhead ER BB SO 4 3 2 0 1 1 21 4 46 63 5.80 0 0 12 letes and the environment. The Sydney organizers aren't popping open any champagne bottles yet, though. "We do not have it in the bag," says New South Wales state minister Bruce Baird. "The numbers are tight." According to British bookmakers, Sydney is now a 4-9 favorite, followed by surprising Manchester, England (5-2), Beijing (4-1), Berlin (14-1), Istanbul (50-1) and Brasilia (100-1), whose bid is so weak that the IOC has asked the city to withdraw.

Nothing matters until September, though, when the 90 IOC members vote by secret ballot in Monte Carlo. Early favorites have a habit of vaporizing. Nobody thought that Lillehammer would get the 1992 Winter Games, and Salt Lake City not eventual winner Nagano got the highest technical rating for the 1998 Games. Headache for Atlanta By barring Libyan athletes from entering the country for the World University Games, the State Department caused a headache for the Atlanta Olympic Organizers. If the US government also keeps the Libyans from attending the 1996 Summer Games, other Arab countries may boycott out of sympathy.

The Clinton administration also didn't do any favors for Salt Lake City, which is the heavy favorite to host the 2002 Winter Games. If the organizers can't guarantee that athletes from all countries will be allowed to compete, the IOC probably will award the Games elsewhere The Buffalo organizers have found out what their Sheffield predecessors learned last time the World University Games may create joy and harmony among student-athletes, but they're a box-office bust Only 210,000 paying customers attended the first seven days of the Games, which ended yesterday, and 70,000 of them came for opening ceremonies. Despite the track and field finals and team medal events later in the week, the organizers weren't expected to come close to the $6 million they'd planned on getting from ticket sales. A festive Festival More than 125 Olympians including gold medalists Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Gail Devers and Mike Stulce and silver medalist Shannon Miller will be competing at the US Olympic Festival, which opens Friday in San Antonio. While many sports bodies are sending their up-and-coming athletes, some like diving, weightlifting, archery, fencing, judo, shooting and weightlifting will bring the varsity.

As usual, most of the top runners are competing in Europe, the best rowers are training for next month's world championships and the top swimmers will be at next week's nationals, which will decide the team for the biennial Pan Pacific meet The IOC's latest attempt to head off athlete lawsuits, a binding Supreme Council of International Sport Arbitration, won't work in America not if athletes are required to waive their right to go to court. "I don't think any athlete in the United States is going to sign this," US Olympic Committee president LeRoy Walker says. The idea of binding arbitration, of course, is aimed at Americans like Butch Reynolds, who won a $27 million award from a US judge against the international track federation, but has yet to collect. More glory days The traditional "16 Days of Glory" at the Olympics could be increased to 17 at Atlanta if the organizers have their way. An extra night of prime-time TV programming could add an extra $25 million to 5 4 2 2 2 2 0 24 4.58 1 0 0 0 0 7 5.29 Fossas 0 Ryan (W 3-0) lVa 0 0 0 2 29 2 73 0 0 0 0 0 5 2.38 Hams (S 4) 1 Dooson Ditched to 4 batters in 2d, Fossas pitched to 1 batter in 7th, Johnson pitched to 1 batter in 7th.

Nelson pitched to 1 batter in 8th. Inherited runners-scored-Ayrault 1-1, Nelson 1-0, Charlton 1-1, Hesketh 2-2, Fossas 3-1. Ryan 3-0. HBP-by Johnson (Greenwell), by Ryan (Litton). Umpires-Home, Hickox; First, Merrill; Second, Hirsch-beck; Third, Welke.

"IE? i HOW THE RUNS SCORED SECOND INNING MARINERS Buhner walked. T. Martinez homered (14) to right. Newfield reached on third baseman Cooper's error. O'Brien walked.

Hesketh relieved Dopson. Valle sacrificed, pitcher to first. Litton doubled to center, scoring Newfield and O'Brien. Vizquel popped to shortstop. Magadan flied to left.

FOUR RUNS, TWO HITS, ONE ERROR. ONE LEFT. THIRD INNING RED SOX Flaherty doubled to left-center. Fletcher grounded to shortstop, Flaherty taking third. Hatcher grounded to shortstop, scoring Flaherty.

Rivera singled to center. Dawson fouled to catcher. ONE RUN, TWO HITS, ONE LEFT. SEVENTH INNING MARINERS Bankhead relieved Hesketh. Valle homered (8) to left.

Litton singled to left. Vizquel popped to second. Magadan flied to center. Griffey and Buhner walked. Fossas relieved Bankhead.

Blowers batted for T. Martinez and singled to shortstop, scoring Litton. Ryan relieved Fossas. Newfield lined to right. TWO RUNS, THREE HITS, THREE LEFT.

RED SOX Valentin walked. Ayrault relieved Johnson. Flaherty popped to shortstop. Fletcher lined to third. Hatcher singled to left, sending Valentin to second.

Rivera walked. Dawson doubled to left, scoring Valentin, Hatcher and Rivera. Nelson relieved Ayrault. Zupcic struck out. THREE RUNS, TWO HITS, ONE LEFT.

EIGHTH INNING RED SOX Quintana singled to right-center. Charlton relieved Nelson. Cooper walked. Valentin fouled to catcher. Flaherty reached on shortstop Vizquel's throwing error, loading the bases.

Fletcher grounded to second, scoring Quintana and sending Cooper to third, Flaherty to second. Hatcher singled to center, scoring Cooper and Flaherty. Hatcher stole second. Rivera struck out. THREE RUNS, TWO HITS, ONE ERROR, ONE LEFT.

GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JONATHAN WIGGS Scott Fletcher (5) and John Valentin congratulate each other for the team's late rally past Seattle. Hatcher and Sox stage a rally I i 1 1 A the US rights fees, which Atlanta is hoping will go for a record $500 million when the bids are opened this summer Seems that figure skater Katarina Witt's harmless speech at the opening of the new Olympic museum in Lausanne ruffled some feathers back in Germany. All Witt said was: "Today, we can be honest enough to admit that the Olympic Games have often been misused for political ends, starting in 1936 right up to the boycott and counter-boycott of the 1980s." Berlin, of course, hosted the 1936 Games, which Adolf Hitler used as a showcase for his RED SOX Continued from Page 37 "I've got to say I can't think of a win that was any more dramatic and that we wanted more than this one," said Hobson. "My guys battled back like I've never seen a team battle be-" fore. After what happened with Mike C-we wanted it" Roger Clemens, who joined his 'mates in the dugout and also had words for Johnson, said: "It was two different games.

We stole the second tZ game. It has to be one of the biggest 'games here all year." Hatcher, who had struck out It against Johnson with runners at sec-J'Jond and third in the fifth and -watched a liner by Greg Litton sail over his head in the second account ing for two runs, said as much as the Red Sox wanted it, they were unable to do a thing against Johnson. "It seemed like Randy was just in complete control of the game," said Hatcher. "After he hit Mike, sure we wanted to get him, but he wouldn't allow it." What paved the way for the comeback was Johnson tiring. Seattle manager Lou Piniella was forced to make a pitching change in the seventh and the bullpen isn't Seattle's strength.

Seattle had scored twice in the top half to go ahead, 6-1, but with Bob Ayrault in to pitch, Boston quickly got back in it. John Valentin walked, Hatcher singled and Luis KATARINA WITT The truth hurts BATTING Rivera (replacing Greenwell as DH) walked. Andre Dawson laced a three-run double into the left-field corner, making it 6-4. "I was looking for something on the inner half," said Dawson, who said he stiffened between the sixth and seventh innings and had to go into the locker room to lift weights to loosen up. "I was actually sitting on a breaking ball but I was able to get my hands through the zone.

I just wanted to do something to keep the inning going." The Boston roll continued into the eighth. With Gene Nelson pitching, Carlos Quintana singled. Piniella then turned to ace reliever Charlton, just back from a four-game suspension. Charlton got two quick strikes on Scott Cooper, then walked him. After Valentin fouled out, catcher John Flaherty, just up from Pawtucket hit a grounder to short.

Omar Vizquel made a nice play in the hole, but his throw drew first baseman Dave Magadan off the bag and the Sox had them loaded again. Scott Fletcher grounded out to second, scoring Quintana and, with runners on second and third, Piniella opted to not walk Hatcher. "It was a case of Rivera coming up and he was swinging a good bat, too," said the Seattle manager. "And then I got Dawson after Rivera." So he took his gamble with Hatcher and lost It culminated a game of mistakes. Red Sox starter John Dopson was knocked from the game in the second inning thanks in part to four Seattle runs and in part to a barehanded stab he had made on Vizquel's grounder in the first His hand began to swell and Hobson made the move to Joe Hesketh.

Hesketh allowed Litton's double to center, two runs scoring, but from there was near flawless. "Hesketh did a great job keeping us in the game," said Hobson, whose 7-6 lead was protected by Greg Harris in the ninth. Harris was on to give some needed rest to closer Jeff Russell, who had thrown 28 pitches Saturday. I Ml f- 28 38HX ES8CS88 SO 1 3 2 1 0 .333 1OOO0O1 .83 309 49 98 43 .317 16 1 7 9 3 19 25 ..83 292 47 90 56 .310 21 1 13 10 4 2 44 68 ..78 286 41 88 50 .308 20 3 8 2 2 32 27 .88 300 37 84 36 .280 15 1 6 16 1 2 36 49 ..61 234 49 65 25 .278 14 3 4 9 10 3 25 17 .80 148 27 40 15 .270 14 1 1 1 5 1 16 28 ..42 102 9 27 13 .265 4 0 1 0 0 0 5 26 ..72 236 24 62 12 .263 3 0 1 3 1 0 25 36 ..69 262 21 65 41 .248 12 1 6 0 0 0 8 31 ..76 248 24 61 36 .246 16 1 5 9 1 2 23 45 ..65 189 23 42 17 .222 7 2 1 0 4 2 19 25 .43 99 8 21 4 .212 6 1 0 4 1 2 10 25 15 24 3 5 2 .208 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 ..57 101 10 21 13 .202 8 0 2 0 1 2 12 29 .70 189 15 32 6 .169 8 0 1 1 1 2 17 29 17 15 3 2 0 .000 1 00112 2 2 ...91 3037 393 806 369 .265 168 15 56 66 41 23 295 465 Flaherty Hatcher Vaughn Greenwell Cooper Fletcher Zupcic Melvin Quintana Dawson Valentin Cakteron Rivera Riles Pena Others Totals Pitching nurtcflups Tonight (7:35, NESN, WRKO 680): Scott Sanderson (7-9, 4.06) vs. Aaron Sele (2-0, 1.05).

Tomorrow (7:35, NESN, WRKO): Hilly Hathaway (1-1, 6.43) vs. Frank Viola (5-8, 3.66). Wednesday (1:05, NESN, WRKO): Chuck Finley (11-6, 2.79) vs. Roger Clemens (8-6, 3.52). Head to head Boston is 5-4 against the Angels this season, including a three-game sweep at Fenway Park April 30-May 2.

Miscellamr In three starts vs. Boston this season, Sanderson is 1-1 with a 3.60 ERA. In 20 innings, he has struck out 14 while walking two. However, Sanderson has lost his last seven decisions Finley is 1-1 with a 2.12 ERA against the Red Sox Left fielder Luis Polonia is hitting .343 against Boston, .254 vs. the rest of the American League Chad Curtis and Polonia lead the team in stolen bases with 37 and 27, respectively The Angels have a 16-26 road record, but are 27-23 against the AL East.

ANGELS AVERAGES BATTING I I 1 Correia 429 7 3 3 0 2 Easley 308 208 30 64 2 20 Curtis 287 317 58 91 4 32 Gruber 277 65 10 18 3 9 Lovullo 276 210 20 58 3 22 Salmon 275 306 54 84 19 60 Polonia 264 330 37 87 1 16 R. .258 194 20 50 1 18 DiSarcina 251 303 29 76 3 40 Myers 248 157 16 39 4 18 Snow 232 272 45 63 11 42 Davis .231 312 41 72 12 64 Javier 221 104 14 23 0 9 Orton 189 95 5 18 1 4 Tingley 182 44 4 8 0 4 Totals 257 2978 391 764 64 365 PITCHING W-L ERA Sv. Davis 0-0 0.00 0 2.0 0 R. Gonzales 0-0 0.00 0 10 0 Nelson 0-2 1.30 3 34.2 27 Frey 2-0 1.78 10 30.1 28 Langston 9-4 2.72 0 148.2 124 Finley 11-6 2.79 0 142.0 133 Butcher 1-0 3.38 1 13.1 9 Grahe 2-1 3.42 6 23.2 23 Sanderson 7-9 4.06 0 124.0 129 Linton 2-1 5.89 0 18.1 17 Patterson 0-1 6.00 0 33.0 37 Springer 1-4 6.11 0 45.2 55 Hathaway 1-1 6.43 0 21.0 25 Valera 3-6 6.62 4 53.0 77 Totals 44-46 4.13 24 804.2 821 PITCHING "master race" athletes. Says Witt: "I spoke about uncomfortable truths." What's the cleanest Olympic sport? A tie among badminton, luging and sailing, according to drug-test results from IOC laboratories worldwide.

No positives were recorded in any of the three sports last year. Some of the numbers raised eyebrows, though. Hard to believe that cyclists are cleaner than table tennis players. Maybe they're just shrewder. Back on track Looks like next year's Commonwealth Games in Vancouver are back on track after early problems.

Last year, with money short and construction lagging, word was that the Games might have to be switched to Adelaide, Australia. Now, Vancouver claims that preparations are on time and on budget US fencing could be due for its biggest Hollywood boost since "Zorro." "By The Sword," starring F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salieri in will be out this summer. Meanwhile, the green American squad didn't fare any better than expected at this month's world championships in Germany. Best effort was Ann Marsh's 25th in women's foil; no US male cracked the top 45.

Somerville's Jane Hall finished 83d in foil The rowers and paddlers have been foiled once again in their bid to be close to the center of things at the Olympics. Instead of being held in the Olympic Park at Stone Mountain, only 16 miles from downtown Atlanta, the rowing and canoekayak events probably will be held in Rockdale County, twice as far away. The reasons: Stone Mountain officials don't want permanent course facilities there and the lake would cost too much to dredge the ground beneath it is solid granite. Still, the new site would still be much closer to the city than it was in Barcelona, where the course was 70 miles away Two members of the women's quad that finished fifth in the Olympics Serena Eddy-Moulton and Michelle Knox-Zaloom will return for next month's world rowing championships in the Czech Republic. They'll be joined by Ruth Davidon and Monica TraneL Chip McKibben is the only Olympian returning in the men's boat, which includes Ed Bell, Brian Jamieson and Dighton's Jason Gailes Four former Olympians Dennis Hall, Shawn Sheldon, Andy Seras and Dan Henderson nu.de the US team for the Greco-Roman wrestling world championships at Stockholm in September.

Failing to qualify were Travis West and Buddy Lee, who both wrestled at Barcelona. ....4 ....9 ..47 ..27 .34 ..26 ..19 ..16 ..18 ..19 ..22 ..34 ..21 I 0 1 3 0 2 6 7 6 8 5 1 0 4 43 EDA 1.05 2.25 2.38 2.73 2.84 2.86 3.09 3.52 3.66 4.46 4.58 5.29 5.80 3.46 16 10 43 24 27 89 103 92 122 105 36 17 56 740 CC 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 6 Eft SO 3 12 25 4 5 14 17 33 57 9 13 26 10 6 34 28 19 48 42 27 57 43 34 104 47 43 59 51 37 70 19 16 25 10 8 17 29 25 30 310 278 566 2 3 1 0 8 15 9 7 11 6 3 3 68 Str. 0 0 4 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 Sele Melendez Harris Ryan Russell Quantrill Darwin Clemens Viola Dopson Bankhead Fossas Hesketh Totals 25 16 67Vi 29 31 88 122VS 110 115 103 37Vi 17 45 805 ..316 48 SOX RECORDS SOX VS. OPPONENTS 15 20 28 Away SOX OPT. Homers (H) 26 24 Homers (A) 30 44 Stolen bases ...41 45 Left on base 630 604 Errors 66 59 Double plays .81 103 Triple plays 0 0 Complete games 6 7 Day 20 12 Night 28 31 One-run games 14 15 Two-run games ..9 6 Extra Innings 4 1 Shutouts 8 6.