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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Monday July 17 1989 3B Boone Knows Every Foot In League 11- t7 fi: "'1: 814'''- 1 '''''t'-''''44 i 4 's t11- 4i q'oi" 2-'- (:: x-- 1 i v' i )- 2 I N' 444 It14 Itit -if 4- "i i A 1:: '') it I From Associated Press Restarts Kansas City's Bob Boone who has caught more major-league games than any other catcher says "I know every player in (the American) league by where he stands in the batter's box "After that batter walks in and sets his feet I know who he is I can't always tell you what he's thinking but I can tell if he's changed his thinking just by how he moves his feet Notebook "I can't CIain how I know it I just know it His feet are here All of a sudden he moves and I know this guy's looking for a breaking ball" Swain's Clutch Hitt Gives Rangers Wiril: 1 "We're playing pretty good but we've got to build our lead in the Hvizda said "Youl never know what can happen es1 pecially with Belcher hurt We can't coast at all we have to take what they'll give us" I Asheville (13-14) scored an un-1 earned run in the third inning to take a 1-0 lead Catcher John MasH sarelli walked went to third on a passed ball and scored on another: passed ball -1 Gastonia tied the contest in the: sixth when Cris Colon doubled to the wall in left center and Cronk singled him home It was the first time in four: games that a Rangers' game lasted under three hours "This one was short ugly and we Won" said Gastonia manir' ager Orlando Gomez Gastonia hosts Asheville tonight at 7 before traveling to Asheville for two games ASHEVILLE GASTONIA ab IN abrhbi Foliar rt 4 0 0 0 Frye 2b 4 0 0 0 3110 Ahnermesiey citt It 44 1000! Cedeno as 4 0 0 0 McCoy dh 3 1 0 0 Fera 12 2 2 nanclezdh 4 A 13 tainof Gnk ib 3 0 1 '1 22 3 0 2 1 Campos 2b 3 0 1 0 drawn 4 0 14' Lamphere pt 0 0 0 0 Eklund 11 2 0 00 DeLosSantos 3b 3 0 1 0 McCutchen rt 2 0 '0 71 Charno ph 1 0 0 0 Hernandez as 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 Totals 31 1 4 0 Totals 2 I 2 Rose Lawyers File Today Associated Press Close Encounter Mel Hall (right) of the New York Yankees turns to Kansas City's Bo Jackson and pretends to kiss Jackson before the Yankees' 10-1 victory Sunday in New York Jackson refused to play telling Hall to go away By JOHN GLENNON Stiff Writer GASTONIA Somehow some way the Gastonia Rangers are gonna get you With their best player sidelined for the rest of the season with a broken collarbone replacement Thayer Swain came through with his second straight game-winning RBI for a 2-1 South Atlantic League baseball victory over the Asheville Tourists Swain who was hit by a pitch to drive in the winning run Saturday night took a less painful route to the limelight Sunday He slapped an RBI single to left in the eighth inning scoring Trey McCoy The victory was the Rangers' third straight and 13th in their last 14 games Gastonia (20-7) began the day with a four-game lead in the the Northern Division of the Class A league Asheville is 13-14 "I'm playing every day and I'm swinging the bat real well You can't ask for much more" said Swain who has taken the place of Kevin Belcher in center field Belcher who was batting around 300 when he was injured Friday was leading the team with 14 home runs and was second in RBI and steals McCoy earned a one-out walk off Rick Dunnum (3-4) in the eighth He moved to second on a walk to Doug Cronk and sprinted home on Swain's single Heading to the top of the ninth the Rangers turned to closer Jim Hvizda Hvizda 6-1 with a 101 ERA picked up his league-leading 22nd save The game ended when Rodriguez gunned down Asheville's Larry Lamphere the league's leading base-stealer as he tried to go from first to second By JOHN GLENNON Stilt Writer GASTONIA Somehow some way the Gastonia Rangers are gonna get you With their best player sidelined for the rest of the season with a broken collarbone replacement Thayer Swain came through with his second straight game-winning RBI for a 2-1 South Atlantic League baseball victory over the Asheville Tourists Swain who was hit by a pitch to drive in the winning run Saturday Dight took a less painful route to the limelight Sunday He slapped In RBI single to left in the eighth timing scoring Trey McCoy The victory was the Rangers' third straight and 13th in their last 14 games Gastonia (20-7) began the day with a four-game lead in the the Northern Division of the A league Asheville is 13-14 "I'm playing every day and I'm winging the bat real well You ask for much more" said Swain who has taken the place of Kevin Belcher in center field Belcher who was batting around 300 when he was injured Friday was leading the team with 14 lome runs and was second in RBI Hid steals McCoy earned a one-out walk 1ff Rick Dunnum (1-4) in the A decision on whether to move Pete Rose's lawsuit to federal court or return it to state court in Cincinnati could come this afternoon The federal judge hearing the case has given Rose's attorneys until noon to file their final brief on why Rose's request to bar baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti from holding a hearing on gambling allegations against him should be returned to state court Attempted Murder Charge I be the designated hitter tonight against Milwaukee in Kansas City Texas manager Bobby Valentine was ejected for the 18th time as a manager Saturday The previous 17 were by 17 different umpires Tim McClelland became the first to run Valentine twice Los Angeles recalled Ramon Martinez on Sunday from Class AAA Albuquerque and asked waivers to release reliever Ricky Horton Horton would not accept a demotion to Class AAA Albuquerque At their current pace the Texas Rangers' third fourth and fifth hitters would combine for 326 RBIs this year Rafael Palmeiro currently has 48 and would finish with 88 Ruben Sierra has a league-leading 65 and would finish with 120 and Julio Franco has 64 and would finish with 118 001 000 000 001 01x-2 Asheville Gastonia has four hits in his last 36 at-bats Kansas City's Pat Tab ler is one for seven with the bases loaded this season after going 37 for 64 previously with the bases loaded The Mets' Howard Johnson who homered and doubled Sunday has 16 extra-base hits among his last 21 hits Last season the Athletics had 86 homers at the All-Star break and Jose Canseco had 24 of them This season they had 62 without Canseco a difference of 24 Montreal shortstop Spike Owen severely sprained an ankle Sunday sliding in a game against Cincinnati and was placed on the I5-day disabled list Seattle's Darnell Coles has a hit in 12 of 16 games (21 for 58) with three homers and 14 RBIs California's Lance Parrish has a hit in seven of nine games (13 for 27) with four homers and seven RBIs Minnesota's Jeff Reardon has blown eight of 23 save opportunities including four of his last six He got his 250th career save Saturday Baltimore's Randy Milligan has drawn 23 walks in his last 19 games averaging a walk every 467 plate appearances Cronk Colon 2 Gastonia 1 Asheville 7 Gastonia 7 Swain Colon Eklund Fuller klasseraill IP RERBBSO Patrick Lennon of Whiteville the Seattle Manners' first choice in the 1986 draft was suspended Sunday from the Class AA Williamsport (Pa) Bills after he was charged with attempted murder officials said Lennon 21 was being held at the Lycoming County Prison on Sunday in lieu of $45000 bail He was arrested early Saturday shortly after he is alleged to have fired a shot at Robert Victor Strickland in a parking lot police said They were arguing over a third man's attempt to pick up Strickland's female cousin police said 3 2 Asheville Hartgraves 7 4 1 1 Dunnum 1 1 1 1 Gastonia McCray 6 2 1 0 Brovm W3-1 2 2 0 0 Hvizcia S22 1 0 0 0 McCray Rodriquez Massereill Campos by Hvizda Att-873 3 :6 0 Bits And Pieces 0 tr HBP0: Around The Majors ATTENTION GOLFERS Toronto's Duane Ward had not allowed a homer in 82 innings or 76 appearances before giving up a grand slam to Oakland's Terry Steinbach on Sunday Boston's Kevin Romine has a hit in 11 of 12 games (19 for 46) Pittsburgh's Bobby Bonilla Kansas City's Bo Jackson hasn't played since the All-Star Game because of a strained thigh that he reaggravated He might play or Edited by Glenn Rollins Stanley's Formula Worth 1-0 Series Lead Charles Myers Gol Course "Flay Mecklenburg untys Newest Finest 9-1-lole off Course" Weekday -Zfor $15 (Reg 1 Weekday Ecirjr 1ird Special ---2 ibt12 (Reg 1 a )les) 's i Weeken 0l i a 5 cire 1 2 for $1 (Reg 1 i I -t' -'i 1 7-Day p0 t) illi'0 a a I 2 for 1 'klieg After 613m IP All Specials In de een Fees rower I I I ECial --Ifor $15 (Reg Special ---2 61112 (Reg civ 1 2 lb $13 (Reg 2 for I Reg I een Fees Be 121Mi I ve Si Cl il I 1430 MI tis In tle i een 4 I I 0 $21) 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Jody Baker's fly to right Post 266 increased its lead to 3-0 in the seventh inning After one out Benjie and Cogdill got back-to-back singles and Danny Thomas walked to load the bases Boston turned a squeeze bunt into the inning's second out with an assist from the mound But series is 7:45 tonight at East Gaston High's Choctaw Field Game 3 is 7:45 pm Tuesday in Cherryville Cherryville (18-10) is trying for its first Area IV title since it won back-to-back titles in 1981-82 Brown (3-3) yielded six hits struck out five and walked two in seven innings to get the win Rosenbaum yielded two hits struck out four and walked one in two innings to get his second save And they were supported by superb defense Catcher Jay Barkley gunned down two on attempted steals Third baseman Brent Grice and second baseman Tommy Cogdill combined to turn one double play and shortstop Kent Cloninger turned another by himself The effort overcame another strong pitching effort by Cherryville starter and loser Mark Boston (6-5) Boston yielded six hits By RICHARD WALKER Staff Writer CHERRYVILLE Pitching and defense It's been Stanley Post 266's staple in American Legion baseball all season The formula worked again Sunday night in the first game of its best-of-seven Area IV championship series against Cherryville Post 100 Stanley (15-13) got combined eight-hit pitching from Chad Brown and Geoff Rosenbaum and some sparkling fielding gems in a 5-2 win before a crowd of about 1000 at Cherryville Memorial Stadium "I thought we just got great pitching" said Stanley coach Darrell Van Dyke whose team is the two-time defending Area IV champion "And we made the plays when we needed to" Game 2 of the best-of-seven Contact Kavin 13f6NA Play Res 11Group League 1 1 ann 1 TimA I Contact Kavin Br' ple'll I 6 LI 13110 Group League I Play Res'' 9 It6-1692 iolt 11 '4191': 10 1 I Two throwing errors made both runs unearned Danny Thomas and Brown scored the runs Both had singled earlier in the inning Cherryville scored 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NAN 525-9996 470:7) PERFORMANCE r6ENER1frA SUPER LO Pa i 7 11il -4 1 41 7 rIIIIVL 4 '11Nlit ifr Zfeck ies 41E11 0 -1ke 1 10 4 i 4 10' t16t114 I 41 High svoy4 11 -IL itm 4 ti' Low ae "'t- tottnance i 4k 'IA 4 a A Per rtaSt '4Zir S' 44t107441111174 11( ft Sl 27'4101 al tit11polifix 7 4 Atp14 ksic dig id ko 1 'PTV ti7 ir slt '5'k' 414014 It I tii '14 4 00 el 14tts4N olr 4 wP 101 ltYallIVN tenr- says he will accept nothing less than a return to the Johnny Dawkins of old "If I can't be me" he said "I won't be playing" 7--1 OPEN MONFRI TU 7 SAT TH 6 A MN 8 ness in his big toe but has full use of his foot and is playing often "I'm getting better all the time" he said "I feel fortunate The way I look at it the Lord gave me something then He took it from me and now He's giving it back" Henry says Dawkins should be at full speed by the start of next season when the Spurs are expected to be one of the NBA's most improved teams because of the arrival of center David Robinson top draft pick Sean Elliott and recent trade acquisition Terry Cummings Dawkins who spoke at former teammate Tommy Amaker's summer camp in Durham on Tuesday and played in pickup games afterward said he is playing now at 85 proficiency He says his quickness and "stop-and-go moves" two of his primary weapons are still lacking But he sees improvement almost daily and Continued From Page 1B a step the foot does not respond" Perry said the peroneal nerve heals slowly about one millimeter per day Henry offered encouragement that a complete recovery was probable in a few months but Dawkins feared the worst "I didn't know if I would ever walk again using my left leg much less play basketball" he said "I had always felt so invincible like nine out of 10 athletes do I went from that to feeling very very vulnerable It was scary" Dawkins missed 50 of the Spurs' last 59 games including the last 19 He tried a comeback but was not ready He finished the ieason averaging 142 points in lust 32 games Extensive therapy and time save put Dawkins on the road to ecovery He still has some numb ALL SEASON PREMIUM RADIAL AMERIWAY XP HAL ALL SEASON HIGH PERFORMANCE RADIAL RATED XP 2000'" RI Li El OUR MIME SUMMER STOCK SUITS PORTCOATS FURTHER REDUCED rogoomagai FURTHER REDUCED SPECIAL GROUP 400 SUMER SUITS el" 1 vie Values that will amaze you! 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