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The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 25

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The fe Eagle Sports Scoreboard D2 Classified D3 Comics D7 Wednesday, August 15, 1990 Douma dominates as Mets win twice By Bill Everhart Berkshire Eagle StafT PITTSFIELD With ace southpaw Todd Douma finishing one game and starting the other, the Pittsfield Mets took two games from the Niagara Falls Rapids at Wahccnah Park last night. 7-2 in the completion of a game suspended by rain Monday and 5-0 in the regularly scheduled nightcap. Douma picked up in the sun yesterday where Peter Walker left off in the gloom Monday, striking out 10 batters and throwing five innings of hitless ball to complete the suspended game The Rapids got just one hit in the game, a fourth-inning double off Walker shortly before the rains came Monday. Pittsfield led 3-2 when the game was suspended. Douma had such an easy time of it he came back out to start last night's regularly scheduled game, but only lasted until the third inning when fellow southpaw Mike Thomas came in to put away the Rapids with another commanding performance.

"Wait until the Rapids see Douma out there again." chuckled Pittsfield manager Jim Es-chcn between games. A noisy crowd of 4,519 packed Wahconah Park last night. The Mets begin a seven-game road trip tonight with the first of two games in Utica. N.Y.-Penn League Pittsfield 7. Niagara Falls 2 Douma.

a slightly built southpaw out of Arizona State, has been an extremely effective pitcher in recent weeks, and he demonstrated why last night. Mixing a good fastball with devastating changeups and curveballs, Douma (44) was untouchable, striking out two batters in each of his five innings of work and allowing only one ball out of the infield. Originally set to start yesterday's regularly-scheduled game, he came out to start the fifth, fanned two batters on tough breaking balls, retired the third personally on a popup and was on his way to a domineering performance. Kevin Keon came in to pitch for the Rapids, a Detroit Tigers' farm team, in the last of the fifth, and wasn't as sharp as Douma. A walk to Jason King, a single by Jeremy Burnitz.

and a sacrifice fly to center by Tim McClinton made the score 4-2. McClinton went to third on a single by Nick Davis and scored on another sacrifice fly by Ed Perozo. The inning ended with center fielder Brian Saltzgaber robbing Alberto Castillo of a double with a leaping METS. continued on D8 Leslie Noyes Berkshire Eagle Staff throw is catcher Greg Radachowsky after a sacrifice fly by Ed Perozo. The Mets won last night's completion of Monday's game 7-2.

Pittsfield Met Jeromy Burnitz takes the low road, sliding in to score a run in the bottom of the fifth inning of the first game against the Niagara Falls Rapids. Waiting for the Pirates earn sweep, tighten NL East race Be Wt Ik 1h Hil 2-3 innings. Ramon Martinez (15-5) failed to hold leads of 2-0 and 5-4. Martinez, who had won six straight since July 5. was knocked out after 4 1-3 innings.

He gave up seven runs and five hits. Lenny Harris drove in four runs with a pair of two-run singles. His second chased Gooden and pulled Los Angeles to 9-7 and Eddie Murray's RBI groundout in the seventh brought the Dodgers within a run. Bob Ojeda pitched 2 1-3 innings and John Franco worked the ninth for his 26th save in 29 opportunities. Cubs 5, Astros 2 CHICAGO (AP) Greg Maddux won for the sixth time in seven starts and Ryne Sandberg drove in three runs, including a two-run career high in wins, set in 1988 when he went 15-7.

Drabek retired 11 consecutive hitters after Ernie Whitt's one-out single in the fourth until Smith's pinch-hit single in the eighth. He had allowed just nine hits and three earned runs in three starts until losing 6-2 to Montreal last Wednesday. Mets 9, Dodgers 8 NEW YORK (AP) Howard Johnson drove in four runs and had three hits as the New York Mets beat Los Angeles 9-8 in the first game of a doubleheader for their eighth consecutive victory over the Dodgers. Dwight Gooden (12-6) pitched ineffectively for his third straight start but increased his career record against the Dodgers to 12-1. Gooden, who has won nine of PITTSBURGH (AP) Jeff King homered and drove in four runs and Zane Smith won his Pittsburgh debut, leading the Pirates to a 6-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves and a doubleheader sweep yesterday.

Bobby Bonilla hit two-run homers in each game, giving him a career-high 25, and Doug Drabek won for the seventh time in eight decisions as the Pirates ended a five-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory in the opener. Smith (7-7), a former Brave acquired from Montreal for three prospects, went 7 1-3 innings and allowed four runs, three of them earned, and four hits in his first start since last Wednesday's trade. He struck out six and walked none as the Pirates held on to win after taking a 6-1 lead in the third. National League drive off the left-field foul pole off Steve Avery (2-7), who lost for the sixth time in his last seven decisions. The homer extended Bonilla's hitting streak to a career-high 13 games.

Avery then walked Barry Bonds and King hit his fifth homer of the season for a 4-0 Pirates' lead. King was 4-for-7 with five RBI in the doubleheader, giving him a .333 average in his last 16 starts. Smith, traded by Atlanta to Montreal in July 1989, was 0-1 with a 5.40 ERA in three previous starts against the Braves. In the opener, Drabek (15-5) threw a six-hitter and was two outs away from his second shutout in three starts when Dave Justice hit his 16th homer and homer, as the Chicago Cubs beat uuw, wv6v his last 10 decisions overall, gave nis lasi iu uecisiuns uvkmh. gave eighth in his last 35 at-bats eigntn in nis lasi ai-oais.

Gary Redus walked with two Gary uedus walked witn two outs in the first and Bonilla hit a The victory matched Drabek's up seven runs and eight hits in 5 the Houston Astros 5-2. Bell ties major league mark as Jays roll, 12-4 CHICAGO (AP) George Bell terson gave up the four runs in Brewers 7, Tigers b' Hprl a maior t'eue. record with American LeaPlie the fifth as well as Hill's grand DETROIT (API Garrv tied a major league record with American League DETROIT (AP) Garry Shef Howard Herman Berkshire Eagle Staff How sweet it is! Peter Baxter is a happy golfer after his par putt on the third playoff hole won him first prize in the $12,500 Northeast-New York PGA Stroke Play Championship. Baxter and Kevin Hughes tied at 143 yesterday after 36 holes. Story, Page D8.

slam. Twins 5, Indians 4 CLEVELAND (AP) Kent Hrbek homered and Kirby Puck-ett had three hits as the Minnesota Twins beat the Cleveland Indians 5-4. Mark Guthrie (4-5) got the victory, ending a personal three-game losing streak. He yielded three runs and seven hits in seven innings. Juan Berenguer went 1V3 innings and Rick Aguilera got the last two outs for his 25th save.

The Indians scored in the ninth on Berenguer's one-out walk to Brook Jacoby, Cory Snyder's double off Aguilera and Sandy Alomar's grounder. Bud Black (10-8) lost for the third time in four starts. field tied the game with a leadoff home run and Mike Felder hit a sacrifice fly later in the ninth inning as the Milwaukee Brewers overcame a five-run first-inning deficit and beat the Detroit Tigers 7-6. Sheffield, who was 3-for-4, hit his ninth home run off Jerry Don Gleaton (1-3), the fourth of six Detroit pitchers. Chuck Crim (34), the fourth Milwaukee pitcher, went 1 innings and Dan Plesac got the final out for his 17th save.

Neither starter was effective. Milwaukee's Mark Knudson (8-7) recorded only two outs while yielding six runs on three hits and three walks. Detroit's Jeff Robinson gave up three runs and six hits and two walks in 2 innings. three sacrifice flies and Glen-allen Hill hit a grand slam last night, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to a 12-4 rout of the fading Chicago White Sox. Kelly Gruber had three hits and drove in three runs as the Blue Jays made it two in a row over the White Sox, who have dropped three straight.

Bell became the eighth player to hit three sacrifice flies in a game and the fourth in the American League. The last to do it was Candy Maldonado with San Francisco in 1987. The last American Leaguer was Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees in 1986. Todd Stottlemyre (11-13) pitched seven scoreless innings. He gave up a double to Ivan Calderon in the first inning and did not allow another hit until Frank Thomas singled in the seventh.

Stott- lemyre, who has never pitched a shutout in the majors, went seven innings, walking three and striking out five. Hill's homer was his 12th and the second grand slam of his career. It came in the seventh inning and made it 12-0 after Gruber and Bell singled and Pat Borders walked. Hill also tripled in the second inning and scored on a sacrifice fly by Manny Lee. Bell's sacrifice flies came in the first, third and fifth innings.

The Blue Jays wrapped it up with four runs in the fifth on singles by Junior Felix and Tony Fernandez, a triple by Gruber, a sacrifice fly by Bell and Fred McGriff 27th homer. Loser Greg Hibbard (9-7) was shelled for five hits and four runs in three-plus innings. Adam Pe Lendl upset in straight sets at Volvo tourney NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) No. 1 seed Ivan Lendl, rusty from XenniS a post-Wimbledon layoff, was up- Yanks on the lookout for George's successor CLEVELAND (AP) While the New York Yankees partners scrambled to find a successor to George Steinbrenner, baseball said its only concern was that the Boss get lost by Monday.

Charlotte Witkind, one of the club's limited partners, said yesterday that Steinbrenner's 33-year-old son, Hank, may not want to succeed his father. The 18 partners are scheduled to meet today and are expected to vote for a new general partner. "I had a feeling he didn't want the job, from various things I heard, Witkind said. "But maybe he will change his mind. If he doesn't, that makes it more confusing." As Steinbrenner's lawyers continued to make accusations against Commissioner Fay Vincent and investigator John M.

Dowd, the FBI said it was investigating the relationship between its field office in Tampa. and Steinbrenner. Deputy Commissioner Steve Greenberg said baseball was trying to play down the attacks by Steinbrenner's lawyers and was concentrating on the transition. After the partnership votes on a new leader, he will have to be approved by three-fourths of the American League owners and a majority of the National League owners. Greenberg said he expected the process would take 30 days.

The new general partner needs 67 percent support. George Steinbrenner owns 55 percent of the stock and thus has the key say. "As I look at this thing, although George Steinbrenner is no longer going to be general partner, he still has the say-so," Witkind said. "He still has the biggest financial interest." Since reports began circulating that Hank Steinbrenner doesn't want the job, there has been speculation that Marvin Goldklang, a limited partner who also owns minor-league teams, might take over. Goldklang declined comment yesterday.

Witkind saw two scenarios for today's meeting: Hank Steinbrenner could accept the job or George Steinbrenner could come up with another acceptable nominee. Tf it looks to most of us that he the nominee is OK, the thing could be over in nothing flat," she said. set by unseeded Malivai Washington last night in the second round of the Volvo International tennis tournament. burg, a South African now living in California, beat Magnus Zeile of Sweden 6-4, 6-1. Becker wins at Indy INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Top-seeded Boris Becker relied on his trademark serve and solid groundstrokes to defeat Brian Garrow in the U.S.

Men's Hardcourt tennis championships yesterday. The West German, rated third in the world, needed just over an hour to subdue the three-time All America from UCLA 6-2, 64. Ninth-seeded Guy Forget of France was eliminated by Australia's Jason Stoltenberg 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Eleventh-seeded Carl-Uwe Steeb of West Germany lost to Australia's Broderick Dyke 6-7, 6-4, 6-0. Sweden's Peter Lundgren beat seventh-seeded Martin Jaite of Argentina 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in a second- TENNIS, continued on D2 round, is ranked 103rd in the world rankings.

Lendl is second behind Stefan Edberg, who took over the top spot last week, Lendl, a Greeenwich, resident, last played at Wimbledon, when he lost to Edberg in the semifinals. In a first-round match earlier yesterday, unseeded Jim Pugh, a top doubles player who has been struggling with a singles game, knocked off lOth-seeeded Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia 3-6, 64, 6-1. In other first-round action, 11th-seeded Wally Masur of Australia defeated Michiel Schapers of the Netherlands 1-6, 6-3, 64. Also yesterday, 12th-seeded Jim Grabb of Tucson, defeated Israel's Gilad Bloom 6-3, 7-5, and 16th-seeded Christo Van Rens- Washington, who left the University of Michigan last year to turn professional, took only 73 minutes to beat Lendl 6-2, 6-3. Washington, of Swartz Creek, had not previously beaten a player ranked in the top 25 of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour.

But Washington said he wasn't intimidated going against Lendl on center court before a crowd of 11,000. "You can't go out and say, 'I'm playing Ivan Lendl, winner of so many You've just got to say you're playing a guy on the other side of the net," he said. Washington, who lost his last three tournaments in the first AP Malivai Washington Upsets Ivan Lendl.

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