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C-2 Biade-Citizen Friday, June 1, 1990 1 r'- Daniels homers in 104h to top Reds Slumping Giants fall to Astros, 5-3 The Associated Press Kal Daniels homered to lead off the bottom of the 10th inning Thursday night, giving Los Angeles a 2-1 victory over the Reds and ending the Dodgers three-game losing streak. Daniels, who was traded from the Reds to the Dodgers last season, hit his ninth home run of the season on a 1-1 pitch from reliever Norm DAVEY JOHNSON Would listen to the Yankees Charlton (3-1L The victory kept the Dodgers in a virtual second-place tie with San Diego in the National League West, eight games behind the first-place Reds. The setback was the first for the Reds Nasty Boys" bullpen crew of Randy Myers, Rob Dibble and Charlton. They are a combined 7-1. It was only the Reds' sixth loss in 23 road games.

The victory went to Don Aase (2-1), who allowed one hit in two innings in relief of Mike Morgan. Morgan allowed six singles in eight innings. Reds starter Jack Armstrong failed in his attempt to become the majors' first nine-game winner. He left after 8 1-3 innings with the score tied 1-1 after giving up five hits. Armstrong lowered his major league-leading ERA to 155, Astros 5, Giants 3 Bill Doran Is second RBI single snapped a 2 2 tie and Craig Biggio added a two-run single in a four-run sixth inning that carried the Astros to victory.

It was the fifth straight home loss for the Giants, who are 6-16 at stopped Kansas City's five-game stole a base. hit run-scoring doubles and the Candlestick Park, worst home winning streak and lengthened Welch gave up Bo Jackson's first Minnesota Twins finished their best record in the majors. their lead to three games over inside-the-park home run. Dennis May ever with a victory over the Chicago and 12 over Kansas City in Eckersley got four outs for his 15th White Sox. As 6, Royals 4 the American League West save in 15 chances.

The Twins stopped Chicagos Bob Welch (7-2) went into the Mark McGwire doubled, singled five-game winning streak. Minneso- sixth with a three-hit shutout, but and drove in four runs. Rickey Hen- Twins 3, White Sox 2 ta won for the seventh time in eight needed relief help as the A's derson homered, had three hits and Kirby Puckett and Gary Gaetti games and wound up 21-7 in May. Gibson back with Dodgers LOS ANGELES Outfielder Kirk Gibson has returned to Los Angeles and will continue his rehabilitation program at Dodger Stadium. Kirk made a great deal of progress dunng his rehab period at Albuquerque and we feel that he is very close to being activated, Dodgers executive vice president Fred Claire said.

"We win continue to evaluate his progress on a daily basis' Gibson, who began a rehabilrta-tion assignment at Albuquerque on May 24. hit .429 with one home run, four RSI and a stolen base in five games for the Pacific Coast League team. Gibson, who is recovenng from surgery performed last Aug. 29 to repair a tom left hamstring, made three stats center field and two as a designated hirer for Albuquerque SAN FRANCISCO Gants out-fetoer Kevin Bass, who unoe-went affrcscopc surgery on his left knee VNednescay. is expected to miss th-ee months as mjjnes continue to p'ague the de'endmg National League champons CINCINNATI The Rees activated mfieleer Mariano Duncan, who had been on the sab'ed list since May 14 with an abdominal muscle strain his nght side Duncan is hitting .352, with four home runs and 15 RBI 26 games CLEVELAND Indians pitcher Kevin Wickander is expected to miss up to two months because of a broken elbow sustained when he fell at Anaheim Stadium, the Cleveland Indians said Thursday BEAUFORT.

SC. A teen-ager who died being hit tn the chest by a baseball apparently was distracted by inf, eld play and wasn't paying attention to the batter. Bruce Edgerley, 16. collapsed Wednesday when he was hit in the chest by a hne dnve dunng practice Emergency medical wo'ke's amrved on the scene within two minutes and attempted to revive him. but failed.

ANAHEIM Fallout from the Dave Winfield trade to California continued wch an Angel announcement the team has lodged formal comp. a nts against Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The Yankees sent Winfield to the Anges cm May 11 for pitcher Mike Witt, bJt the outfiefoer rejected the oeal at first. NEW YORK If George Steinbrenner wants to talk, Davey Johnson is willing to iisten. The last-place Yankees have test five straight games, and three or foe's nuns in a game seems like an ofiensve explosion.

Although Stembrenner hasn't maoe any threats about firing manager Bucky Dent he may have second thoughts now that one of the wm-nmoest managers in baseball history ts free to negobate The Wets owe Johnson nea-iy Si million through 1991. BASKETBALL CHICAGO An in-house confidential memo from an Iowa assistant coach discussed exposing the University of Illinois program to the NCAA for alleged recruitment violations. In a memo written last spnng, Bruce Pearl included a strategy for blowing the whistle on Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reported But a ura-ve'sity official sad neither Peal nor Iowa acted on the plan. NEW ORLEANS Denny Alexander was relieved of his duties as athletic director and men's basketball coach at Xavier Urwe-sity TRACK FIELD DURHAM, C. Gee Johnson, of Anzona State improved her lead to a commanding 272 points after six evens of the heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

INDIANAPOLIS The Athletics Congress announced a three-month suspension of Joseph Taiwo, a two-time Otympc triple jumpier from Nigeria. and confirmed an eaiier suspension of 400-meter runner Antonio McKay has been overturned on appeal. HOUSTON Charlie Thomas, Texas track coach for the past 32 years, is calling it quite FOOTBALL AUSTIN, Texas Former University of Texas linebacker June James had a blood-alcohol level almost twice the legal limit when he was kilted May 8 an auto accident near Baton Rouge. La. PINE BLUFF.

Ahc The Unrver-sty of Arkansas at Pme Bluff has been asked to explain 76 allegations lodged against the school's program by college coaches NEW ORLEANS Nine-year veteran quanefoack Dave Wilson signed a one-year contract with the Sains. Padres the bases with no outs. But Gwynn fiied to shallow left Joe Carter struck out and Benito Santiago fiied to right to end the threat Pagliarulo began the seventh with a walk. Phil Stephenson advanced Pagliarulo to third with a single to left then Stephenson took second when left fielder Lonnie Smith muffed the balL Pagliarulo suffered a slight pull of his left hamstring sliding into third, causing Shawn Abner to come on to pinch run as a precautionary measure. Templeton followed with a sacrifice fly to right scoring Abner.

Then it was up to Lynn, who broke the heart of Atlanta pitcher Pete Smith (4-4) with a liner off the right-field wall for a long single to score Stephenson. It wasn't a bad pitch, Smith said. It was a fastball. I tried to go away from him and it stayed over the plate. He didn't miss it" Thats for sure.

As a pinch-hitter, you just look for the first available pitch to hit," Lynn said. You don't guess: you look for a strike. I was just attacking. In retrospect, the verbal attack by Pagliarulo and pitching attack by Harris may be the best things that have happened to the Padres in a long time. runner on second and one out If you accept your role mentally and know its right for you and the ballclub, you shouldn't have any problems." the 38-year old Lynn said.

I think this is essentially a role for an older guy. Younger guys all want to be out there because they think they're better than everybody. An older guy sees it as his role and accepts it If you don't you'll be looking for another job. At the season's outset Lynn's job was to platoon in left field. But with the emergence of Pagliarulo at third base and Bip Roberts in left Lynn has been relegated to pinch-hitting duties.

I talked with him at the beginning of the season and told him his role could be almost anything. manager Jack McKeon said. I told him he could be a platoon player or pinch-hitter. It all depended on what some other guys did. I told him Wednesday that since things are working out the situation would probably stay this way.

Lynn's hit made a winner of Dennis Rasmussen (5-2), who became the team's second five-game winner. Rasmussen allowed one run on six hits through seven inning. In the sixth, it appeared the Padres would come back from a 1-0 deficit when they loaded From Page C-1 Harris pitched two perfect innings Thursday, whiffing four of six batters. He has now struck out seven of the last 11 batters he has faced, a success ratio he attributes largely to Sunday's fight Maybe that fight made me a little more aggressive," Harris said. Earlier, maybe 1 wasn't concentrating with as much intensity when I came in a game.

When you get in a situation like I was in, you start to see what the game's all about When you step on the field, people mean business. Maybe Fm saving to myself now. 'Lets get with it I'm sure there were times I stepped on the field and didn't mean business." Lynn has been the example extraordinare of getting down to business. He has reached base in each of his last three pinch-hitting efforts, all keys to big innings He began a six-run eighth Sunday in New York with a single and a four-run ninth Monday in Philadelphia with a walk. Then Thursday, he batted in a 1-1 tie with a Clark feels good after batting practice Padres announcar Jsrry Colaman.

on tha changad starting tkna of an upcoming Padres gams: ESPN rears is ugfr head again, president Bill White for intentionally hitting Cincinnati's Mariano Duncan with a pitch last year. When Rasmussen pitched for the Yankees several years ago, he received some advice from a team broadcaster. If you want to be successful up here, you have to pitch inside Rasmussen remembers the broadcaster telling him. Youre going to have to pitch inside and knock some of these guys off the plate." The broadcaster? Bill White. Rasmussen recalled both White's advice and White's fine when the Padres were in New York last year Rick Mahler hit Benito Santiago, and I threw inside the next inning and hit Duncan, Rasmussen said.

The umpires' report said I threw at him. The next time we were in New York, I called White and said: 'What's going on? You're the guy who told me I had to pitch inside. White told Rasmussen it was an automatic $200 fine for throwing at a batter no matter what some former Yankees broadcaster had advised. Manager Jack McKeon thinks his team may have been hurt by the shortened spring training this year. Teams only had three weeks of training instead of the normal six because of an owner-imposed lockout over concern of a possible players strike.

When we left spring training, I thought we'd be all right, McKeon said. Now when I look back, I dont think we had enough training. I don't think you can go for less than five weeks. The big thing is we didn't get enough game action for our pitchers. McKeon was suffering from the flu, but he stuck around for the game.

Pitching coach Pat Dobson never came to the stadium because he also had the flu. Rasmussen pitched a scoreless first inning Thursday for the eighth time in 10 starts this season. He allowed first-inning runs in 14 of his first 17 starts last year, but finished by giving up first-inning runs in just three of his last 16 starts. Santiago recorded his third pickoff of the season by nailing Jeff Treadway at first base in the third inning. It was Santiago's first pickoff since he nailed Rob Thompson of San Francisco at second base to end an 8-3 Padres win on April 13.

Bip Roberts extended his hitting streak to eight games with a single in the sixth. Mike Pagliarulo had seven-game hitting streak stopped. By Steve Dolan Staff Writer SAX DIEGO At 4:21 p.m. Thursday, in the anonymity of an empty Jack Murphy Stadium, Jack Clark stepped into the hatting cage. The Padres injured first base-man meekly grounded the first four pitches by coach Denny Sommers.

Then he hit numerous line drives. Clark hit just one home run during 10 minutes of batting practice. But that was insignificant What mattered was Clark had taken batting practice for the first time since he suffered a fractured left cheekbone last Friday at New York. I feel quite a bit better and improved." said Clark, who was accidentally hit with a ball last Friday while running in the outfield. Ive had a few setbacks here and there.

That hit in the face put me back three, four or five days." Clark hasnt played since he suffered an inflamed disc in his lower back May 5 at Chicago. That injury kept him from taking batting practice for 2 12 weeks. Then, last week's injury held him out of batting practice for another six days. According to Clark, there's still the element of uncertainty with both the back and cheekbone injuries. When you have restraints, you Griffin From Page C-1 off well (11-1) and kept it going" Gnffin is among those who have come back strong.

While maintaining a solid .327 average, he has muscled 21 homers and knocked in 75 runs while hitting in the No. 5 spot In his first two varsity seasons. Griffin had seven homers and 56 RBI. With a slender 6-1. 175) frame, Griffin said.

One look at me and you know fm not taking steroids." In fact, he says he lost 10 pounds. But getting a reason for Griffin's new-found power is as difficult for him to explain as it is for him to lay off a hanging curs e. I honestly dont even know." he raid. I've played a few years and have gotten to be a better player." Stanford assistant coach Tom Dutton said Griffin has combined dont know what to expect, he said. My goal is to be pain free.

171 probably have a little pain all year, especially with my back. Clark was elusive concerning when he might return. I'm right on schedule. he said. The injury to my cheek doesnt affect the timetable from my back injury.

I was hoping to come back during this home stand. A couple of things may have pushed that back. Greg Harris is expected to receive an automatic $200 fine for hitting Kevin Elster of the Mets with a pitch Sunday that precipitated a bench-clearing brawL Harris is believed to have hit Elster intentionally because Elster had swung at a 3-and-0 pitch the night before when the Mets held a 9-0 lead. Elster is also expected to be fined $200 for charging the mound. The incident revived memories for Padres pitcher Dennis Rasmussen, who received an automatic $200 fine from National League an aggressive attitude with good bat speed to come up with his numbers this year.

He gets right up on the plate and dares you to throw on the inside part of that plate," Dutton said. Hes gets to the ball a little quicker, and he's been pulling the ball with consistency." Teammate Troy Paulsen said Griffin has always had tremendous batting practices and this year it has carried over to the games." While Gnffin agrees with those comments he said. Batting practice is so much easier. You know where the pitch is going to be and the thrower is just grooving it for you to tee off. In the games, you cant do that Guys are trying to get you out although there are pitches here and there you can take advantage of" Opposing pitchers took advantage of Griffins slump in West Regional I play as he went l-for-15 as the Cardinals beat San Diego State to earn to CWS bid.

He said the combination of his anticipation to get drafted and the emotions of the home crowd hurt his concentration. It was a big crowd, and we were playing at home, said Griffin, who hopes to get drafted in the first 10 rounds. It wasnt so much pressure as getting excited. But I think ell relax here and have some fun." For the Cardinal, fun means hitting and that means adding to school records in doubles (160), home runs (90) and total bases (L231X But the record Stanford wants to keep improving on most is victories. When we won the regional, we pitched and played defense real welL" Griffin said But we havent hit as well as were capable of I think if we play well, we can beat anybody." All-Stars Georgia Southern hopes to be spoiler again From Page C-1 blatt Stadium.

Also on the All-American first team is two-time selection Kirk Dressendorfer of Texas. The junior is one of only 12 players to earn a first-team spot more than one year since the magazine began its selections in 1981. Other pitchers on the first team are: Sean Rees of Arizona State, a Mission Bay High graduate, Stan Spencer of Stanford. Dan Smith of Creighton and Oscar Munoz of Miami Dan Wilson of Minnesota is the first-team catcher. Don Barbara of Long Beach State is at first Anthony Manahan of Arizona State at second, Greg D'Alexander of Arkansas at think "Dm Costo of Iowa rt short.

gia Southern (50-17) at 1:10 pm. today. Fourth-seeded Georgia (48-18) follows with its fourth meeting of the year against fifth-seeded Mississippi Stale (49-19) at 5:10 pm CDT. The lower bracket Saturday has No. 2 LSU (52-17) meeting The Citadel (45-12) at L10 pm, and No.

3 Oklahoma State (53-16) going against No. 6 Fullerton State (36-21) at 5:10 pm. The Citadel is the only school making its first appearance at the CWS in 1990. Chal Port, who has coached at the school 2b years, felt it necessary to note that the first military school ever to qualify for the national tournament was located in Charleston, S.C. We have 2.000 cadets and there's not one of them can hit a curveball very welL he joked.

I noticed tvat the coach of Stanford OMAHA. Neb. (AP) Georgia Southern coach Jack Stallings isn't going to be intimidated by his first-round foe at the College World Series today despite Stanford coach Mark Marquess' claim that tee top-seeded Cardinal team is his best even Mark Marquess is a good friend of mine and we're looking forward to playing him and his ball club. But that's not bragging or saying they don't have a good team, Stallings said Thursday. Stanford (56-10) set a school record for wins this season and already owns two NCAA Division I baseball championships in 1987 and 1988.

Marquess said this team is better than either of the previous champs. Stanford opens the tqvrnament against Geor tioned that their goal is to come to the World Series and they have that on their schedule. On our schedule every year we have a turn-in of equipment Weve delayed that Port said his club started the season a year ago with a hurricane named Hugo, which destroyed his baseball diamond and part of the schooL This season, the Bulldogs went unbeaten in their regional, beating a Hurricane top-seeded Miami at Coral Gables, Fla. I know, having been in seven regionals in Miami, including one in which The Citadel beat Clemson and took Miami to the final game, that anybody who beats Miami must have a talented and courageous club, so we're not going to tafa them lightly," said LSU coach Skip Bertman, a former Miami assistant.