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SPOKANE CHRONICLE, AUG. 24, 1990 Bonilla, Bonds are too much NATIONAL LEAGUE CHATTER BASEBALL Wilson uses speed to end Bosox hopes Associated Press At age 34, Mookie Wilson has lost none of his speed. Just ask the Boston Red Sox. Wilson's speed helped cause a two-base throwing error by pitcher Joe Hesketh in the bottom of the ninth and later enabled him to score the 1 1 I' c4 i 1 4 ff. ti 01 't 2 -4, 'r 1 i 1 I I A' ,..1" s' 1 ki: ir It' 4, i 4, i 4 Houston's Franklin Stubbs has five homers in his last 10 games.

Frank Viola (16-8) snapped a three-game losing streak Wednesday as New York beat San Diego 4-1 Entering the game, Viola had surrendered 16 runs in 16Y3 innings. John Franco of the Mets has 29 saves in 32 opportunities. 111 The Pittsburgh Pirates are 2- 44 when trailing after eight innings but 56-1 when leading after seven. 011 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHATTER the bases, then walked Van Slyke on four straight pitches to force in the go-ahead run. Layana got two quick strikes, then ran the count full before Bonilla hit a drive off the left-field stands for his 29th homer and the Pirates' fifth grand slam this season.

Piniella said he may go to a four-man rotation when starters Tom Browning and Danny Jackson are healthy again, to prevent rookie mistakes like Hammond's. "We've played this team five times in the last week and we haven't had a chance to get (Randy) Myers or (Rob) Dibble in a game yet," Piniella said. "Young pitchers can be inconsistent and this isn't the time for inconsistency. If you get behind in the count and lay the ball in there, this team's going to hit it. That's a good team we're playing." Dodgers 4, Mets 2: Eddie Murray's two-run homer in the fifth inning snapped a tie as Los Angeles beat visiting New York to move within 512 games of first-place Cincinnati in the NL West.

Astros 8, Braves 3: Glenn Wilson had four of visiting Houston's season-high 18 hits, scored three runs and drove in two, leading the Astros past Atlanta. Giants 6, Phi Hies 3: Ernest Riles tied a club record with his fourth pinch home run of the season and reliever Francisco Oliveras pitched three scoreless innings for his first NL victory as San Francisco beat visiting Philadelphia. Associated Press Barry Bonds says if pitchers don't pitch to Bobby Bonilla then "They're going to have to pitch to me." Some nights, they'd probably rather not pitch to either. Bonilla hit a grand slam to cap Pittsburgh's six-run fifth inning and Bonds added a two-run homer as the Pirates won their fifth straight over Cincinnati, beating the Reds 9-3 Thursday night in Pittsburgh in a battle of NL division leaders. Zane Smith (9-7) gave up two runs in 612 innings to win his third in a row since being traded to Pittsburgh on Aug 8.

The Pirates have won 10 of their last 12, including their first four-game sweep ever in Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium last weekend. Bonilla said anyone who expected the Pirates who haven't won a division title in 11 years to let New York walk away with the East Division title is in for a surprise. "They thought we'd get uptight. Hey, we're having fun," Bonilla said. "If you don't have fun now, you're going to start having ulcers and getting gray hairs.

It's not going to do you any good if you play uptight. We're having fun, playing relaxed and confident." Bonilla (29 homers, 89 RBIs) and Bonds (25 homers, 92 RBIs) have given the Pirates baseball's most powerful 1-2 combination east of Oakland. "He's the man who's going to carry us to the World Series," Bonds said 111 Boston's Mike Boddicker (12-8) won Wednesday for the first time since July 2, beating Baltimore. The biggest lead by a first-place team in the AL East this season was Boston's margin over Toronto at the end of June. The Seattle Mariners activated outfielder Jay Buhner from the disabled list and put him on the roster for their Kansas City game.

To make room for Buhner, shortstop Mike Brumley was designated for assignment. AP photo Cincinnati catcher Joe Oliver tags out Andy Van Slyke. I of Bonilla. "I've kind of stepped out of the limelight because it his (Bonds') year. He's having a monster year.

He's unreal," Bonilla said. The Reds and the NL West would agree. Don Slaught doubled, tripled and had an RBI as the Pirates improved to 44-20 against the West. Todd Benzinger gave the Reds a I0 lead in the second with his fifth homer. But rookie Chris Hammond (0- 2), losing to the Pirates for the second time in five days, didn't make it out of the fifth after allowing just one hit in the first four innings.

Slaught, hitting .181 since the All-Star break, doubled and scored on Jose Lind's single. Smith bunted the runner up and Manager Lou Piniella lifted Hammond after Gary Redus walked. Tim Layana walked Bell to load a fly ball in the lights in the third inning, giving Jody Reed a gift double. "It was a tough sky out there tonight," Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said in defense of Bell. "I heard Moo 1de telling Kenny Williams that there might be some problems picking up the ball." "We made some sloppy plays again," Gaston said.

"But the most important thing is we won." Toronto had taken a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single by Wilson and Fernandez's run-scoring double. Pat Borders started the seventh inning with an infield hit off Tom Bolton and went to second when shortstop Luis Rivera threw the ball away. long enough to know what they were thinking. So, instead of a stolen base, I end up on third." "It went off the end of Carlos Quintana's glove," Hesketh said. "I was just trying to keep Moo Ide After Tony Fernandez was walked intentionally, Jeff Gray relieved Hesketh.

Kelly Gruber broke his bat on a I-1 pitch and grounded weakly to third baseman Wade Boggs. But Wilson, running on contact, beat Boggs' throw to catcher Tony Pena for the winning run. "I couldn't believe Wilson beat that throw," Morgan said. "Boggs made a perfect throw right over him." Tom Henke (1-2) picked up his first win of the season, despite giving up a two-run game-tying homer to Mike Greenwell in the top of the eighth. Ellis Burks led off the eighth with a single off Dave Stith.

Henke relieved and Greenwell pounded his first pitch over the fence in right for his ninth home run of the season. The single by Burks was catchable. But left fielder George Bell got a bad jumb on the ball, letting it bounce a few feet in front of him. Bell also lost CONTINUED: FROM Cl winning run on an infield grounder Thursday night as the Toronto Blue Jays edged visiting Boston 4-3. The victory in the opener of a four-game series pulled the Blue Jays within one game of the Red Sox in the AL East race.

Wilson, the Blue Jays' hottest hitter, opened the ninth with his third hit, a looping single to right off Hesketh (0-1). Everyone in the SkyDome regular, season-record crowd of 49,918 knew Wilson would try to steal second. So did Hesketh and Boston manager Joe Morgan. "I would have been dissapointed if he didn't throw over," said Wilson, who is 15-for-31 during an eight-game hitting streak. Hesketh did throw over to first, but the throw went down the right-field line as Wilson raced to third.

think everybody knew I was going to Wilson said. "It might not have been on that pitch. But I've played against Joe Hesketh and (Boston manager) Joe Morgan Mariners the strike zone and walked, forcing home a run that cut Kansas City's lead to 2-1 and brought up Ken Griffey Jr. with the bases still loaded. Griffey grounded out to first.

There was more, for the masochistic: Seattle got runners to second and third with one out in the seventh but couldn't score. And the miserable trip continues: A swing that has seen Seattle lose 6- of-7, score just 17 runs and hit .186 as a team. Holman (11-10) gave up two more runs in the seventh, but pitched his third complete game of the season and allowed just six hits. "Our pitchers have been (making) winning efforts and not winning," Lefebvre said. "We're not hitting the ball.

I've got to show some confidence in these guys I can't be telling them to start squeezing home runs in the first inning. "But I'm concerned. Yeah, I'm concerned." Of the four hits Seattle did manage, two belonged to Alvin Davis, one to Edgar Martinez and none to Buhner, "You start squeezing in the fifth inning with nobody out, you're playing baseball so defensively you might never get another run," Lefebvre said. Vizquel lined out to second. Reynolds came to the plate in a 2- for-28 slump, but Lefebvre had him swing away.

"He's been a clutch hitter for us all year," Lefebvre said. Reynolds popped out. Briley then took four balls out of Brewers 8, Yankees 2: Dave Parker drove in four runs to back Jaime Navarro's first complete game of the season as visiting Milwaukee ended New York's six-game winning streak with a victory. White Sox 4, Angels 2: Rookie Alex Fernandez allowed seven hits in eight innings and Bobby Thigpen earned his major league-leading 42nd save as Chicago beat visiting California Angels. ftEMOMb CONTINUED: FROM Cl Indians needs to average 6,450 to break the record of 141,137, set last year by Eugene.

The Indians' four remaining home games, all against Yakima, are scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight, Saturday and next Friday and Saturday. Spokane has never led the league in attendance, but is first this year at 115,339, an average of 3,721. At the start of the night, Gainer and Mieske ranked 1-2 in league batting, 2-1 in RBIs and 1-4 in home runs. 10 I Ao IvklE IPAU register a run in the second inning and three more in the third.

Twitty's two-run double in the top of the third provided Bend with a short-lived 2-1 lead. Spokane needed just one hit to score three runs in the bottom of the third and take the lead Jot good. 1tg other blown double play. This time second baseman Bone II Chevalier couldn't find the handle after taking the throw at second. The Indians wrapped things up with two runs in the fifth, when Ordway tripled in a run and scored on McKoy's second RBI single of the game.

Bend center fielder Lee Sammons got a glove on Ordway's ball after a long run and dive in right-center, but could not hold on. Tony Mortensen (3-2) pitched five innings to earn the win, and Scott Fredrickson threw two innings of shutout relief for his sixth save. Catcher Jim West helped the Spokane cause by throwing out two of three would-be base stealers. Notes: The games drew 4,958, but rainouts Monday and Tuesday appear to have cost the Indians a shot at the league attendance record. Spokane The first four Indian batters reached base in the third.

Far low walked, Mieske singled and Gainer took a curve off the leg. That loaded the bases, and losing starter Todd Russell (0-4) then threw wide to home after fielding Jeff Ordway's one-hopper back to the mound. It looked like a sure double-play ball, and after Bill Ostermeyer's sacrifice fly produced his first RBI since Aug. one more run came in on an Labor Day 5-1( Fun Run 7 Sept. 3-9 a.m.

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