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0X0 Times-Advocate 7 -t Jeff Frank i Martinez has an answer for any hecklers V. ft V) Vs A -j'V -t i- By Chris De Luca Times Advocate Spofts SAN DIEGO By now. Car-melo Martinez should have gamed enough respect to avoid the bum treatment for at least one night. Nope. Not one pitch had been thrown Tuesday night when Martinez was already catching something in leftfield, and it wasnt flv balls "He (a fan) was veiling at me and said youre not even hitting your own weight," said Martinez, who was hitting .226 but weighs 220 When you hear things like that, you think, Come on.

God, let me do something to shut this guy up. Take this, pal: wo two-run homers, four RBI, three runs scored and a double for Martinez that helped the Padres to a 9-1 beating of the Philadelphia Phillies in front of 10.53,') at San Diego Stadium. You didnt hear him after the (second inning) double, Martinez said of the annoMtig fan After his home runs in the third and sixth innings. Martinez was the clear-cut favorite in the house, being greeted with standing ova turns in the late innings He should hav la-en ushered in to Tuesdays game with the stand ing cheers. In the fiv games fore Tuesilav.

Martinez hit 353 tor 17) with a home run and sen it RBI. nuludmg three straight ga me-w inners. With is two home runs Tues day, Martinez claimed a share u( the clubs home run lead at in Marvell Wynne also has 10 Both home run leaders are not regular starters So the question becomes, whv isnt Martinez starting every dav All year long, 1 have said that he should he in the lineup everv Please see Padres, page C5 I I jjrv yr irw AzJtzu Kennedy warming the Orioles bench By Tim Liotta The BALTIMOKK The 1987 All Star game was a long time ago for Terry Kennedy, who finds himself left on the end of the Baltimore Orioles bench Hindering his baseball future. Kennedy, the American League's starting catcher in last year's All-Star game, has started just 26 games for the Orioles since June 10. He is batting .211 with two home runs and 14 RBI and has thrown out 10 of 54 runners attempting to steal against him.

"I cant look down the road I cant look toward tomorrow," Kennedy said. Im not in the lineup." This is a catcher who has caught at least 141 games each of the past six seasons, Kennedy has played in 67 of Baltimore's 124 games this year. From 1981 to last season, Ken nedy caught more games than any Please see Kennedy, page C4 McKeons experiment a success The mad scientist is busily at work. Lets see. Well take a dash of Gold Glove and put it here in the middle.

Then well take a pinch of power and slide it to his right. Toss in a little uncontrolled aggression on the other side and I think weve got it. Voila. Meet the new Padres outfield. The solution seems so obvious, its amazing nobody came up with it before.

What does a team looking for more offense and power do when there arent enough spots on the field for the players who could help? Jack McKeon found the answer, and it may go down in history as one the Padres best moves since they dumped their mustard yellow uniforms. He took Tony Gwynn, the National Leagues Gold Glove rightfielder the last two seasons md moved him to center, opening rightfield for John Kruk, primarily leftfielder in recent weeks. Kruks move makes Carmelo Martinez the regular leftfielder. Suddenly, the Padres outfield packs some punch. This threesome may not make anybody forget the Yankees Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Co.

outfield of the early 1960s, but theyre much better than any of the other groups McKeon and Larry Bowa have pieced together since the trade of Kevin McReynolds. You dont believe it? Take a look 'at Tuesdays game in which the Padres new outfield combined for seven runs, six hits, six RBI and three homers, two of them by Martinez. Thats about a weeks worth of offense for this club. The move makes tremendous sense. The Padres have been crying for more offense for the last two years.

During that same time, Martinez, one of their biggest power threats, has been tied to the bench, a victim of the numbers game at first base and leftfield, his tw5 primary positions. Despite his part-time status, Martinez has still managed to hit 10-home runs, tying him for the team club lead, and knock in 46 rubs, just nine behind team leader Gwynn. i Thus the experiment. Why not? Marvell Wynne and Stan Jefferson are struggling offensively. Even though Wynne is tied with Martinez for the team lead in homers, hes not generally a big power threat.

It was never in the Padres plans to make him the regular center-fielder. But the continuing inability of Jefferson and others such as Shane Mack and Shawn Abner to take command in center left them with a gaping hole in their lineup. No more. When you think about it, Gwynn is the ideal prototype for a centerfielder. Hes a good fielder with good speed and a better-than-average arm.

Looking around the major leagues, one notices that Please see Frank, page C5 Babe Laufenberg is finally getting a chance as an NFL starter. Chargers got you, Babe Long-shot Laufenberg claims No. 1 QB position Cup contenders find new issues to contest lone said. "Im not disappointed at all in my play or my camp. 1 think I've had a good camp.

I think 1 made a lot of progress. I think Ive played well in a new system with new people." That Laufenberg, a perennial backup, was named to start defies the odds. Although the Chargers quarterback situation was unstable coining into training camp, with Malone coming off the worst season in his eight-year career at Pittsburgh, and Mark Vlasic still trying to learn the ropes in the NFL, Laufenberg was still a long shot to win the job. But Laufenberg, 29. quite simply went out and took the job from the three other candidates, including Steve Fuller who was released Tuesday.

In the teams three exhibition games, Laufenberg out placed Malone, his main competition for the job. We feel that Babe was a little bit further along in the system," said Saunders, and a little bit more consistent on a day-by-day basis throughout the en tire five-month period, basically since last April. Saunders indicated that the decision had to be made now in the best interest' of the team. We felt all along, if we could make the decision going into the last preseason game, Saunders said, and give that quarterback a minimum of a half of work, and maybe three quarters of work in that last Please see Chargers, page C2 By Kevin Scattareggia Times Advocate Sportswriter SAN DIEGO As improbable and unlikely as it seems, when the Chargers open the regular season in 10 days, they will take the field behind Brandon Hugh Laufenberg, better known as The Babe. Babe Laufenberg, with virtually no National Football League experience, who has been released seven times, was named the Chargers starting quarterback Tuesday, winning out over Mark Malone.

We have made the decision to start Babe Laufenberg this week, said Coach A1 Saunders, and he is the projected starter Sept. 4 (against the Los Angeles Raiders). Said Laufenberg: I feel good. Of course, by the same token I feel bad in a certain sense. Its been a while coming for me, obviously.

I felt like I played well. Its obviously nice for me. But I consider Mark a friend. Of course, it's tough on the other side Ive been on the other side. For Malone, the news was a disappointment.

After an eight-year career in Pittsburgh, where he grew disenchanted after becoming the target of the fans frustrations, Malone was looking forward to coming home (he was born and raised in El Cajon) and winning the starting job. To be honest with you. Im disappointed, Ma J- 4- Terry Kennedy Was All-Star in 1987 Kiw is will protest in court after the races, win or lose) Sine neither side could ago mu much of anything, the Deed Gilt that governs Americ a' (up r.n i provides lor a best-of three sene opening with a 30 mile triangle, followed by a 40-mile windward leeward course and another 30 mile triangle. Tuesday, the Americans said they wanted to hold all races on a 40-mile, eight -legged nurse mix like that used off Fremantle, Aus tralia. in the last Gup in 19i7 he Kiwis rejected the prjosal, saving that to agree to negotiate on anv thing could jeopardize their jm lion in court when they protest the catamaran.

The Americans claim that the Kiwis dont want the proposed eight legged course because that Please see Cup. page C4 in the lurch Jonathan Mitchell, a former Or ange Glen and Iaioimir thrower ho has since left sc htol for a a demic reasons, was 4 for-10 for 5 yards. At the time, Jeremy Israeli, who was handed the rein this fall, still at Granada Hill High S' hol I hadnt even thrown my first pas this fall when said the coaches told him that they wen-going to battle Jeremv and 1 for the starting job," said Daugherty '1 laughed it off. One minute 1 was the starter The next minute I wa a redshirt No one got a single pas in a game to prove themselves I didnt leave because I was beat out. 1 could have handled that Hec that hap pened my junior year at (MI when Brett Salisbury got the job, and I moved to tight end.

I left because Coat Sheppard lied to me. Heck, the Albuquerque Journal came out with a big storv on me the day before they made Jeremy the starter, and the next day I was a redshirt. Please see Duffy, page C3 By Enc Sharp PragM The most acrimonious Americas Cup in history continued to raise hackles Tuesday when the defender and challenger found new areas to fight over. Only two weeks before the series is to begin, the Americans want to change the racecourse, and the New Zealanders are demanding a piece of the television money or theyll bar ESPN cameras from their 130 foot boat. It took a court order to make the Americans accept the Kiwis' challenge in the hest-of-thre-e series that ill start off San Diego Sept.

7 (the Americans had planned an all comers event in 1991 and the same court recently rejected the Kiwis' demand that the Americ ans he held in contempt for fielding a 60-foot catamaran against New Zealands multihull (although the local player put the Lobos experience behind him by making a late challenge to be the starting quarterback at Pal-omar College, which opens the season Sept. 17. I gave New Mexico 1 10 percent, and New Mexico gave me nothing said Daugherty. In the press guide. Im the guy.

But in three days I get beat out? Come on. 1 think Coach Sheppard was looking for a reason to dump me from the first day of practice. He told me I was the starting quarterback after the spring game, and then in the fall after he moved me down he said no one wins a job in the spring Daugherty edged Ed Larson in the spring to become the first sophomore starter at New Mexico since 1976. Daugherty completed 12 of 19 passes for 201 yards, two touchdowns and one interception despite sitting out the fourth quarter in leading the Silver team past the Cherry 20-14 in the spring scrimmage. Larson was 7-for-17 for 126 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.

Another quarterback. Lobos leave By Terry Monahan Tmev Advoca'e Sczcrtjwfice ESCONDIDO He had never worked this hard in his life. Named the starting quarterback after spring practice at the University of New Mexico, Duffy Daugherty was determined to be fully prepared for the season opener. Sept. 3 at home against Fresno State.

He even skipped playing baseball for the Lobos last spring. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound sophomore spent all summer in Albuquerque to work out with the receivers in hopes of avoiding a repeat of last year's 0-11 record. So intent was his focus that the former Orange Glen High School standout lost 20 pounds. Everything was fine. That is, until fall practice opened.

After just four days of practice, his starting slot was handed over to an incoming freshman, and Head Coach Mike Sheppard asked Daugherty to redshirt this season. Daugherty said no thanks and left school. On Monday, he began trying to t- Duffy Daugherty is bidding for Palomars starting quarterback job after transferring from New Mexico..