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2 sun Ap. 53, 131 0-6' ther slugger ehind every great home run slugger is ano n.l. notes d.l. moorc been the effective pitching of Mike Krukow and Ken Kravec. The alphabet notwithstanding, this 1-2 combination has been registering lots of Ks in Cubs boxscores.

After two second-half starts apiece, their lines read: Krukow 14 innings, seven hits, two runs, 11 strikeouts. Kravec 12 innings, eight hits, three runs, 10 strikeouts. Kravec did it again Tuesday, beating the Padres by going seven innings and striking ou six. And Doug Bird won his first two starts since coming from the Yankees in the Rick Reuschel deal. Would you believe the fearsome Cubs' pitching staff? This tai that: According to Philadelphia sources, Steve Carlton's new contract calls for (100,000 up front, $600,000 for this season, $700,000 for each year from 1982 through 1984 and $3.5 million In performance bonuses.

The contract does not require him to talk to sports writers, however. Lee Mazxilli, the New York teen Idol turned outcast, returned to the lineup, got rid of his eyeglasses, and collected four hits in his first two games back. So much for optometry The Pirates continue to nosedive, and the reason is a shock for those accustomed to the Pittsburgh Lumber Co. attack. The problem is anemic hitting Speaking of the Bucs, Is there a better argument against lucrative multi-year contracts than Dave Parker, whose batting average has plummeted as his waistline has ballooned since signing up for a million bucks? Ron Cey, when he's hot, Is absolutely one of the most-feared streak hitters in the National League.

When he got five hits at Pittsburgh Wednesday, it was the third five-hit game of his career. One of the Penguin's most memorable streaks came In Cincinnati in 1976, when he bit nine consecutive rockets in a doubleheader, prompting Dodger manager Walter Alston to say, "It was nine of the hardest-hit balls I've seen consecutively from one man." If I were Davey Lopes, I'd want to get back into the Dodger lineup real soon. Steve Sax collected seven hits in back to-back games against the Pirates, plays a pretty tune In the field, and generally looks like he wouldn't mind being the Dodgers' second baseman for the next decade or so. Sluggers Quiz: Who has hit the most homers in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform? Sluggers Bonus Quiz: After Reggie Smith, which current Dodger has hit the most lifetime home runs? (Answers at end of this item) Add Sluggers: Reggie Smith is the second-best switch-hitting slugger of all time, but he's not about to become No. 1.

That distinction goes to Mickey Mantle with 536. Second Add Sluggers: Baseball's latest home run whiz kid, Atlanta's Bob Horner, is on the skids this year. In his Rookie of the Year season, Horner hit 23 homers in 323 at-bats, or one every 14 at-bats. In 1979, he hit 33 in 487 at-bats, or one every 15 trips. In 1980, he hit 35 in 463 at-bats, or one every 13 at-bats, a phenomenal average.

Through last week, however, Horner had just seven homers in 167 at-bats, or one every 24 at-bats. If Horner, still only 24 years old, is to challenge Aaron, as some think he might, he'll have to pick up the pace. Sluggers Answer The most productive Los Angeles Dodgers slugger is Ron Cey, with an even 200 homers (through Thursday). Next on the list is Steve Garvey with 192. Sluggers Bonus Answer: After Smith's 296 homers (149 with Boston, 50 with St.

Louis and 97 with the Dodgers), the No. 2 slugger on the Dodgers is Rick Monday, with 217 (62 with the Kansas City and Oakland A's, 106 with the Chicago Cubs and 49 with the Dodgers). The Boys: Along with the Mets, the most surprising second-half start goes to the Chicago Cubs (9-9 before last night's game), who are perilously and bewilderingly close to contending for a championship. The most startling aspect of the Cubbies' rise has Today's baseball chicken-or the-egg argument: Which came first, the great home-run slugger or the great slugger behind the slugger? In other words, was Babe Ruth solely responsible for his 60 homers in 1927? Or does the Sultan of Swat owe a Ruthian assist to Lou Gehrig, the man who batted behind Ruth in 1927 and compiled a .373 batting average, 47 homers and 175 runs-batted in? Was Hammerin' Henry Aaron solely responsible for his homer output or did he benefit greatly from having Eddie Matthews behind him? Was a big reason Roger Maris hit 61 homers in 1961 the fact that Mickey Mantle, who batted behind Maris, was having his best power season ever with 54 homers and 132 runs-batted in? The theory goes like this: If a slugger is the only real threat in the lineup, the pitcher will pitch around him. But if the next batter up is Lou Gehrig or Eddie Matthews or Mickey Mantle, what good does it do to walk or pitch around Ruth, Aaron or Maris? Perhaps you'll remember last year when Ron Cey was so angry at Tommy Lasorda for dropping him from fifth in the lineup (where he had been followed by Dusty Baker) to sixth (where he was followed by Steve Yeager and Bill Russell).

Cey figured pitchers wouldn't give him anything good to hit if he weren't "protected" by a power hitter behind him. You can go around and around on this one, but one subcsriber to the theory is Dave Kingman, the Mets' one-man wrecking crew. Kingman was on his way to a rather mediocre power season before the Mets got slugger Ellis Valentine from the Expos. Although Valentine is hitting around .200 for the Mets, Kingman thinks the potentially great outfielder is making a big contribution to the Mets' second-half success. Not only did Valentine drive in six runs with his first nine hits of the second season, Kingman went on a ferocious tear after Valentine was inserted into the cleanup spot.

In two dozen games before and after the strike, King Kong hit a dozen homers and knocked in 25 runs. In the first eight games of the second season (six of them Mets victories), Kingman batted .379 with four homers and nine RBI. "Having Valentine bat behind me makes all the difference," Kingman said after launching into orbit two baseballs delivered by his former Giants teammate John Montefusco. "It's an immense mental advantage for me having him behind me. I'm getting a lot more good pitches than I was before he got here.

It started just before the strike and it's continuing." Whether Kingman's latest successes are a result of Valentine's presence in the New York lineup is debatable. But what matters is Kingman thinks so, and that is a matter with which National League pitchers must concern themselves. Facing the likes of Kingman and Valentine back to back can be rather frightening. Speaking of home-run hitters, here's an update on baseball's Top Ten active sluggers (as of Wednesday): Willie Stargell 472, Carl Yastrzemski 423, Reggie Jackson 416, Johnny Bench 358, Tony Perez 353, Lee May 351, Bobby Bonds 327, Mike Schmidt 304, Reggie Smith 296, Dave Kingman 289. Angels' Baylor takes his turn at crying a.

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339 CKKS THUCKS VANS Liv" 1 When he was hitting about half his weight earlier this year, you didn't hear much from Don Baylor, the Angels' designated hitter. Now that he seems to be back in the groove at least he's brought his average up to a potent .218 (no snickering, please) Baylor is making those crybaby sounds we've come to know and love so well from ballplayers. It seems Baylor is tired of just batting DH and spending the rest of his time sitting on the bench. He says that if he continues to sit, then he would like to be traded at the end of the season. "It's nothing new, I think everyone knows about it," said Baylor, in Baltimore with the team.

"I haven't changed my mind. I have to make plans for the future. Sitting around DHing five to six years is not what I want to do." Baylor would rather be playing in the outfield, preferably in left. But with Brian Downing converted to that job parttime, and the trio of Bobby Clark, Juan Beniquez and Larry Harlow in reserve, Groove is looking at still another year as DH until his pact runs out after the '82 season. "Downing didn't want to be out there in the beginning and, in my opinion, it's affected his hitting ability," said Baylor, who added that he really hasn't brought up his wishes yet to manager Gene Mauch.

But if he doesn't get his way then Baylor said he's "not going to be preparing myself to be a player here (Angels) next year. I'll just work during the off-season and be in the best shape I can get in to play." Baylor, who is batting .353 in the Second Season, said the ideal thing would be for the Angels to give in, a scenario that doesn't appear likely. "I left my extension (offer) with them and they said it was too high. If they think it was too high then Gasoline was a buck then. It's $1.50 now.

Everything goes up. I wasn't Jays, you ask? Well, consider that as of Friday night, Toronto had the worst team batting average in the majors at .224. By comparison, the Flubbies of Chicago are only the 25th worse at .239 and that's with pitchers batting. Take Twins president Calvin Griffith has never been known to pull a punch and he most certainly didn't during a recent 12-2 blowout of his team by Detroit. After the Tigers' eight-run, first-inning explosion, an intrepid reporter contacted Griffith at home, where he was watching the carnage on TV.

"I don't know how I ever got such a collection of scabs," Griffith ranted. "I have never seen anything as bad as this. I was wondering how soon I can release some of 'em. If this was another business, you'd give 'em two weeks' notice and say 'I enjoyed your company but not your The American Way Word's out that Cleveland manager Dave Garcia is on shaky ground. His team is 9-11 and he's not exactly getting comforting feedback from team president Gabe Paul, who said of Garcia's status: "We are not displeased with the job Dave is doing but, still, something is wrong and it's his job to try and rectify it." Add Jim Fray's name to Garcia's on the list of managing doubtfuls for next year.

Critics have been unhappy with him since last year's World Series, where his strategy was loudly questioned. The Royals' disastrously slow start in the First Season just gave those calling for his ouster more ammunition and the team has been sluggish this second half. The crowning blow came in the All-Star Game, when Frey managed himself out of bitters and he had to bat pitcher Dave Stieb. Mauch had this to say about Seattle's Tom Paclorek, who went on a 17-for-38 spree at the Second Season's start: "If someone threw him a resin bag, he'd get a double." Mark FMrych, the Tigers' former resident space cadet, says he's not unhappy that his career is all but over. "I've got a lot of things other people don't have," he said.

"I've got some land, I've got some cows and pigs and I've got a new car. People don't really understand that I was never really into ball when I was a kid. I didn't read very well I repeated first and second grades. It was hard for me to read so I didn't read The Sporting News. I was more into the woods, building tree forts." trying to bold everybody up." Baylor's contract contains a no-trade clause but he said he'd waive it if the deal was with the right team.

"I don't care what team it is yeah, I do," said Baylor. "I want to go into an organization where I can play, but not to Minnesota or places like that." Before he signs with any new team, though, Baylor said the contract would have one stipulation written in. "They would have to play me X-amount of days." He hopes that's one demand he won't be forced to make. "I like being with the Angels," he said. "The fans have been on my side.

They've let me have it, but I let myself have it when I deserve it. I'd like to stay. I'm not trying to be disruptive to the team. We've had enough of that during the strike. "I just want to play in Anaheim." No Respect Yankees' reliever Ron Davis gets a lot of kidding over the fact that it's his job to come in and do the dirty work in the middle innings and then give way so flamethrowing Goose Goosage can work one or two innings to earn the save.

During the strike, Davis worked as a waiter in a New York restaurant. That caused teammate Rick Cerone to comment: "Sure, Ronnie waited on the tables and served the food but Goose picked up all the tips." Hitting the skids: Just how bad are the Blue WJ I ML! XtUrJ I a 4 I Yanks' Jackson breaks out of HR slump MAIHTtNAHCfc high RESERVE FREE CAPACITY II It BUY 3 SHOCKS THE 4TH IS FREE UJJXIJL1UO ll II Ml 95 $cn95 ich ju a fICH Trrrlfttlt "tec SM 4 FOR Glow Giouh 24. 24F It 22f, 71 A 72 Fil most iid sin cm Associated Press Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield, Bobby Murcer and Graig Nettles led a four-homer New York power show that carried the visiting Yankees to a 12-2 victory over DURABLE EASY -RIDE BETTER CONTROL 5 s32! (CC95 40 MORE WORKING E1CH G'oupi 27f ft 27 If it most luiuff cm IT')) OUR BEST it AREA THAN SAVE 25 OOOO 1 BATTERY 1 the Chicago White Sox Saturday night. Jackson's home run, his first since May 23, helped boost Tommy i pi roundup tt I fl Mi AM Ml 187" Red Sox 7, A's 6: Carney Lansford collected three hits and drove in four runs, including three with a seventh-inning homer, and Jim Rice hit a two-run homer, powering host Boston over Oakland. Carl Yastrzemski, who moved into third place on the all-time list ahead of Stan Musial by playing in his game, sparked the Red Sox's comeback after Oakland had pulled into a 3-2 lead in the fifth.

Yastrzemski led off the sixth with a triple and scored the tying run on Lansford's check-swing single to shallow center. Then, after Boston loaded the bases on a single by Jerry Remy and a pair of walks with one out in the seventh, Yastrzemski drove in the tiebreaker with a sacrifice fly. Royals 2, Blue Jays 0: Rookie left-hander Mike Jones and veteran reliever Dan Quisenberry combined on a seven-hit shutout and Hal McRae drove in the game's only runs with a double as Kansas City blanked host Toronto. Rangers 8, Brewers 5: Buddy Bell drove in three runs with two hits and Al Oliver added a two-run single to lead visiting Texas past Milwaukee. Twins 7, Tigers 1: Minnesota rookies Brad Havens, who picked up his first major-league victory, and Tim Laudner, who homered for the second game in a row, led the Twins over visiting Detroit.

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Raines not only scored the winning run in the seventh inning, but he also set a major league if UPLAND 463 1. Foothill Blvd swa-iaoo Tin HirnM Sunn lnl4 Ihn Mi an Wifninaol ft liatt CaMm Mil ThtM Sinn amlcti Inn Nam ti alu ci tulvm Unx is 699 West 5th Street at San Bernardino 888-0209 I earned a victory in his first major league start and Alan Ashby slugged his first home run of the year as host Houston took a 2-1 second-game victory over Philadelphia and swept a twi-night double-header. Kiko Garcia knocked in three runs with three hits to lead the Astros to victory in the first game. Mets 3, Reds 2: Rusty Staub singled home the game-winning run in the eighth and starter Mike Scott allowed only three hits and one run in seven innings as host New York defeated Cincinnati. Giants 8, Pirates 3: Three runs crossed the plate when Pittsburgh shortstop Tim Foli' misjudged Milt May's pop fly in the first inning and host San Francisco went on to hand the Pirates their sixth straight loss.

Cardinals 6-6, Padres 1-5: Visiting St. Louis scored five runs in the second inning with the aide of just one hit, George Hendrick's single, and went on to defeat San Diego in the second game for a sweep of a doubleheader. The Cardinals won the opener asHendrick and Ken Oberkfell each drove in a pair of runs and Lary Sorensen (6-5) got the victory with relief help from Bob Shirley. m0ADs uu to ri rja A II 11 II II (H tiff I II i 11 record for stolen bases by a rookie with his 57th and 58th thefts of the season. The old mark of 56 was set by Gene Richards of the San Diego Padres in 1977.

"I'm very proud of the record I've set," said Raines, who also collected two hits in Montreal's fifth consecutive victory. "I had hoped to play the entire season and beat Brock's record, but now I just want to play as hard as I can for the rest of the season." With the game tied 3-3 in the seventh Raines singled and stole his second base of the game. Raines took third on Rodney Scott's grounder and scored when Andre Dawson's grounder went through the legs of second baseman Glen Hubbard. Astros 1-2, Phillies 1-1: Right-hander Billy Smith SUN ADVERTISERS The Sun's Co-op Advertising Department can help you get more advertising without spending more money with the effective use of co-op. Ask your Account Executive about this service today, or call Nell Randolph, coop manager on 889- ii3 1 (1 13 STORE HOURS: Moo.

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