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0 lit I-- J--1z: 4: 1 4 4 11 Ni tv 7-A i 'A 4 4 ') OMPO1 Ii I Yanks' Reggie Jackson avoids an inside pitch Sunday News Services Larry Milbourne had scored twice and hit an RBI triple to and the New York victory over the Chicago Sunday up his fifth triumph defeats pitching a five-hitter walks and three 5-2 took the loss for singled with one out to three-run outburst He advanced on grounder and scored Jackson singled to with a triple down line scoring Jackson home when Dave Win-field's to a stop just inside line error gave New York third inning A single and a pair of walks with two outs before grounded to first Squires But Squires' Lamp who was cover-ring two runs scored single by Bill Almon in led to Chicago's lone moved to second on a LeFlore took third on grounder and sacrifice fly by Carlton controversy erupted close to hitting Fisk inning after a Lamp Dent in the Yankees apparent brushback managers off the warnings to both home plate umpire Sox 3 Cliff Johnson Mickey Jeff Newman belted Oakland snapped a 10- Park losing streak over Boston Steve McCatty allowed hits including a by Dwight Evans in salvage the finale of a on Boston starter for a 5-0 lead in the ii Associated Prill Indians 17Mariners 11 CLEVELAND Chris Bando drove in four runs including the go-ahead tally during Cleveland's 10-run eighth as the Indians defeated Seattle the Mariners' 10th straight defeat The Indians trailed 10-4 at one point before rallying for three runs in the seventh and 10 in the eighth to extend their winning streak to five games Consecutive pinch-doubles by Duane Kuiperand Pat Kelly sparked the winning rally in the eighth chasing reliever Dick DragO After Miguel Dilone singled in Kelly to make the score 11-9 Seattle Cleveland loaded the bases and Bo Diaz stroked a two-run pinch-single off loser Shane Rawley to tie the game 11-11 Royals Jays rained out TORONTO The game between Kansas City and Toronto was postponed due to rain Sunday The game will be replayed at the conclusion of the regular season only if it has a bearing on the divisional playoffs Reds 6 Mets 3 NEW YORK Consecutive sixth inning home runs by Dave Collins and Ken Griffey off reliever Dan Boita no helped Cincinnati down New York Collins' homer was a one-out shot off Boitano the third of four pitchers used by the Mets Grif fey who had grounded a run-scoring single in the second inning then crashed his home run to give the Reds a commanding 5-2 lead Mike La Coss relieved Paul Moskau in the fifth inning to earn the victory Moskau was making his first start this season after 19 relief appearances Giants 5 Pirates 0 SAN FRANCISCO Right-hander Tom Griffin scattered six hits and Jack Clark belted a pair of doubles as surging San Francisco downed Pittsburgh for a sweep of a four-game series The sweep was the first of the season for the Giants as the Pirates reeled to their seventh consecutive loss American With one out in the third Dwayne Murphy singled and Johnson followed with his homer Klutts led off the fourth with his second homer in three days Newman followed with his homer into the bleachers in dead center After Rickey Henderson tripled with two out in the same inning Bill Campbell replaced Tanana and was tagged for an RBI single by Murphy The Red Sox scored in the fifth after Dave Stapleton beat out a bunt and took second on a throwing error by With two out Jerry Remy walked and Evans followed with a homer Tigers 6 Twins 1 BLOOMINGTON Minn Jack Morris won his first game since June 10 and Kirk Gibson and Lou Whitaker both had three hits to power Detroit over Minnesota Morris gave up three hits as the Tigers snapped a four-game losing streak Twins pitcher Don Cooper was knocked out of the game in the fifth when Rick Peters lined a shot off his pitching forearm The Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the second when Gibson extended his hitting streak to nine games by ripping a triple and scoring on Lance Parrish's sacrifice fly The Twins tied the score in the third on Rob Wilfong's triple and Lenny Faedo's groundout Detroit took the lead for good in the fifth Rick Leach led off with a walk moved to third on Whitaker's single and scored on Alan Trammell's single The Tigers increased their lead to 4- 1 in the sixth on Whitaker's two-run single Singles by Gibson Parrish and Tom Brookens loaded the bases before Whitaker's hit Detroit picked two more runs in the ninth on a wild pitch by John Verhoeven scoring Whitaker and Ron Jackson's sacrifice fly Angels7 Orioles 1 BALTIMORE Home runs by Don Baylor Butch Hobson and Bert Cam I National Dawson The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for the Expos who had outscored opponents 344 in that span Cubs 2 Dodgers 1 LOS ANGELES Jody Davis singled three times and knocked in two runs to lead Chicago over Los Angeles and a split of their four-game series with the Dodgers Doug Bird and Dick Tidrow combined to scatter seven hits for the winners while Dave Goltz took the loss The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Bill Buckner walked and Leon Durham singled After Bobby Bonds hit into a double play Davis singled home Buckner In the sixth Durham doubled and Davis knocked him in with a single to left Bird lost his shutout when Ron Cey paneris accounted for six California runs as the Angels defeated Baltimore on a combined six-hitter by Steve Renko and Andy Hassler Baylor hit his 1 lth homer in the first following a walk and a hit batter Hobson's blast came after another walk in the second and finished Jim Palmer now 4-6 Baltimore reliever Tippy Martinez fanned nine in 523 innings but he walked four batters one intentionally to give the Angels another run in the fourth The final walk was to Dan Ford The solo homer by Campaneris in the sixth was California's fifth and last hit Renko with a 670 lifetime craned run avearge against Baltimore pitched hitless ball for four innings before being forced out with tightness in his right shoulder Renko was lifted after issuing his sixth walk to open the fifth and with a 1-0 count on Al Bumbry Hassler allowed a Baltimore run in the sixth on a single by Doug DeCinces and a double by Rick Dempsey First baseman Eddie Murray of the Orioles was struck in the left eye by a foul off his own bat in the sixth and had to leave the game X-rays were scheduled for Monday for first By 51H LAISE Star-Telegram Writer HOUSTON It wasn't quite the playoffs but almost The Houston Astros locker room was festive naturally music blaring and barbecue slopping everywhere The mood in the Philadelphia Phil-lies' locker room was Just as predictable Quiet The Astros had Just edged the Phil-lies 5-4 in 10 innings to sweep this four-game series Sunday night be fore 23685 Astrodome fans It was Houston's fifth victory in the last six games but more importantly pulled them into a four-way tie with Los Angeles San Francisco and Atlanta (12-8) for the NL West top spot It's still early yet obviously but manager Bill Virdon had this glazed look in his eyes Yes he said this winning wasstarting to feel familiar After pushing these Phil lies to the limit in last year's NL Championship Series Houston had slipped into a first half lethargy in 1981 Things were looking really bleak last weekend in Philadelphia when the Phi's took all four games A week later things are looking much different There's Houston back in the familiar saddle again while Philadelphia is sliding further and further behind the leaders in the NL East second half race It matters little whether they win or lose since they've alreay clinched the first half championship The game was decided in the Houston half of the 10th when Jose Cruz slashed a single just over the outstretched glove of Phillies shortstop Luis Aguayo to drive home Craig Reynolds with the winning run Reynolds had singled to get on was sacrificed to second by Denny Walling and then Cruz came through with the clutch hit Of the four-games in this series three of them were decided by one run much as last year's NL pennant playoffs between these same two teams Pete Rose who got on base five times Sunday but never scored had a glazed look in his eyes but for a different reason "Every time these two teams play I don't care if the score is 9-0 in the bottom of the ninth it's gonna be 9- 8 at the end Every time" he said It was Rose who had doubled home the tying run in the top of the ninth but who also had been thrown out at third trying to advance on Larry Bowa's sacrifice bunt Astros' re- liever Joe Sambito fielded the bunt neatly and nailed Rose That was the last time the Phillies would get anyone past first Houston wasted no time going ahead in the first inning when center fielder Tony Scott slammed Philly starter Nino Espinosa's first pitch in the right field stands The Phils came back when Dick Davis singled moved to second on a Nolan Ryan wild pitch and then took third when Manny Trillo bounced out Aguayo doubled down the left field line to score Davis and make it 1- Aguayo scored on Espinosa's single off shortstop Reynolds' glove Espinosa was thrown out trying to go to third on a Rose single Those weren't Espinosa's only problems of the night The Astros touched him for four runs and seven hits in just two innings of work In their half of the second Art Howe got on with his fourth consecutive hit of the series and scored easily when Alan Ashby laced a double over the head of Davis in right field Ashby however was thrown out trying Lyle on I Richard to join As tros HOUSTON Two Houston Astros with unique medial pasts will be re activated Sept 1 club general manager Al Rosen announced Sunday night JR Richard the firehalling right-bander who suffered a stroke July 30 IMO and first baseman Mike 'vie who has been suffering from mental exhaustion will join the team on the date major league baseball clubs are permitted to expand their rosters was originally placed on the disabled list May 13 Richard was officially placed on the disabled list April 1 this season but had not been on the Houston active roster since July 16 1980 Ivie was batting 255 but had appeared in just 14 games since the Astros traded for him on April 20 Richard pitched batting practice Saturday "We can only hope But few players have ever had his kind of problems so we don't really know what will hap' 'pen" Rosen said' to stretch it into a triple The Astros took the lead in the third Reynolds walked Walling singled and Cruz lined a shot past Rose to score Reynolds and give the Astros a 3-2 lead After Cesar Cedeno walked to reload the bases Mike Pro ly replaced Espinosa Howe greeted Pro ly with a sacrifice fly to make it 4-2 but after that the Phil lies' reliever mowed down the next 11 Astro batters Third baseman Mike Schmidt closed the gap in the eighth with his 22nd home run of the season into the left field upper deck Rose drove home leadoff hitter Lonnie Smith in the ninth to tie the game As the very least the four-game sweep evened things for the At the very most the weekend success will propel Houston into playoff form At first Virdon chose the modest path discussing the emotional sweep "That's our last chance this year unless we meet them in the playoffs" he said "But it sure does make you feel better" With five weeks remaining lirdon admittedly "still can't tell about this team "One thing's for sure We aren't wasting a lot of runs getting Just enough pitching We're making the most out of our opportunities These are the things that have been familiar the last two years" The other locker room was unfamiliar "Sure we're trying" Rose said "1 don't buy that playoff stuff Guys are throwing themselves in the dugout Don't you think we're A's recall hurler Beard BOSTON (API The Oakland A's recalled right-hander Dave Beard from their Triple-A Tacoma farm team of the Pacific Coast League in a move designed to help their bullpen To make room for Beard who had a 11-11 record with 11 saves at Tacoma the A's sent right-hander Dave Heaverlo to their Tacoma farm club undecided retirement i ros re ht '30 vie the are the the 16 had the Lice 'ers so sine to 'os a re iced th a fter wed nidt his the itter the ame trOS dest Dna' this the feel en't Just the hese iliar "I are I A's eard arm ina en tad a )ma a ibic Star-Telegr CHICAGO two singles an Graig Nettles I boost Rudy Ma Yankees to a 5-1 cago White Sox May chalked against eight de hitter with tu strikeouts Dennis Lamp Chicago Milbourne sir start New York in the first inn Oscar Gamble's when Reggie right Nettles follow the left-field li Nettles came 114 field's bunt rolll the third base I A Chicago er two runs in the by Nlilbourne loaded the base! -Dave Revering baseman Mike eluded first and tN A leadoff sin the sixth inning run Almon mr walk to Ron L( Lamar Johns( on a sac Fisk A minor ci when May cam in the fourth i pitch hit Bucky fourth The a brought both bench and dre -pitchers from Ken Kaiser A's 5 Red BOSTON Klutts and Je homers as Oal game Fenway with a victory Right-hander lowed only fol a three-run home helping the A's lour-game seri( Oakland jumi Frank Tanana first four innin Erro StatTelegr MONTREAL by second baser 'ter two outs ir lowed Eddie Mil the winning I Braves edged tt Sunday Miller opened off reliever Bill to second on a dell Washingt third base After Lee ind hit in an infielc bliss hit a grou and the infielc past first basen abling Miller to Gene Garber pitcher worked to gain the vict The Braves the top of the run-scoring sir pulled into a 4- the inning An with a walk an reliever Rick Warren Cron Milner IPS tingc 4 'in rel Continul Vuckovich aga Bell reached third and we Sundberg's lir glove They pt Billy Sample with runners Leon Roberts threat The Brewer liever Dave Sc in the fifth an In the fifth I off single wen groundout anc singled after tentionally in doubleplay 4 Milwaukee sixth on one-c Ganter and hits and Coop Bell singled 1 rrinth Pat Pu when Sundber manager Buck gers for the fir "After the up Ranger skip just didn't hit ti can you do?" 'ioasola Star-Telegram CHICAGO two singles and Graig Nettles boost Rudy May Yankees to a 5-1 White Sox May chalked against eight with two strikeouts Dennis Lamp Chicago Milbourne start New York's in the first inning Oscar Gamble's when Reggie right Nettles followed the left-field Nettles came bunt rolled the third base A Chicago two runs in the by Milbourne loaded the bases -Dave Revering baseman Mike eluded first and A leadoff the sixth inning run Almon walk to Ron Lamar Johnson's on a Fisk A minor when May came In the fourth pitch hit Bucky fourth The brought both bench and drew -pitchers from Ken Kaiser A's 5 Red 7 BOSTON Klutts and homers as game Fenway with a victory Right-hander only four three-run homer helping the A's lour-game series Oakland jumped Frank Tanana four innings Error StarTelegram MONTREAL by second baseman two outs in Eddie the winning Braves edged Sunday Miller opened off reliever Bill to second on a Washington third base After Lee hit in an infield hit a and the infielder's past first baseman Miller to Gene Garber pitcher worked to gain the victory The Braves the top of the run-scoring pulled into a 44 the inning with a walk and reliever Rick Warren Milner followed Fingers sparkles in Continued Vuckovich again Bell reached third and went Sundberg's line glove They silly Sample with runners Leon Roberts threat The Brewers Dave in the fifth and In the fifth single went groundout and singled after in doubleplay 4 Milwaukee sixth on Ganter and hits and Cooper's Bell singled ninth Pat when Sundberg manager Buck for the "After the up Ranger skipper just didn't hit can you do?" helps Braves shade Expos 5-4 1 I I led off the seventh with a triple and scored on DerrelThomas' infield out Tidrow took over in the eighth After Ken Landreaux reached on Pat Tabler's two-out error Dusty Baker got an infield single But Tidrow struck out Steve Garvey to end the threat Padres 9 Cardinal's 6 SAN DIEGO Juan Bonilla and Luis Salazar scored three runs each and Ruppert Jones had three hits as San Diego snapped a seven-game losing streak with a win over St Louis WithAhe Scored tied 6-6 in the seventh loser Mark Littell surrendered a leadoff single to Bonilla and was charged with a throwing error on Salazar's sacrifice bunt to put runners on first and third Jones greeted reliever Jim Kaat with an RBI-double Salazar scored on a wild pitch by Kaat and Jones scored on a single by Jose Moreno to give the Padres a 9-6 lead Padre reliever Gary Lucas pitched the final innings to get the News Services A throwing error Rodney Scott after the 12th inning allowed Miller to race home with run as the Atlanta the Montreal Expos 54 the 12th with a single Lee 2-3 He advanced sacrifice bunt by Claubell before stealing induced Jerry Royster to popup Chris Chambliss grounder to Scott's right throw bounced John Milner enabling score 3-3 the third Atlanta the final two innings had taken a 4-3 lead in ninth on Washington's single but the Expos tie in the bottom of Andre Dawson opened stole second against Camp One out later Cromartie walked and with a single to score relief from Page I in the fourth when on Howell's error at to second on Jim single off Howell's pulled a double steal as' was striking out but at second and third fanned to kill the clipped rookie reliever Schmidt for single runs sixth Paul Molitor hit a leadoff to second on Cooper's scored when Thomas Oglivie was walked intentionally hopes of setting up a wrapped it up in the one-out singles by Jimmy Molitor who had three double to left leading off the Ranger Putnam struck out but walked Milwaukee Rodgers waved in Fingers final two outs first inning" summed Don Zimmer "we the ball too good What HOUSTON Lyle the aging relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies said Sunday he still had not made up his mind about threats to retire "It's really just between (manager Dallas Green) and 1" Lyle said before Sunday's series finale between the Phillies and Houston Pressed further he said "I don't know whether 1 will retire or not" Lyle who pitched almost two seasons for the Texas Rangers (1979430) had said Saturday afternoon there was a chance he would be quitting as early as this week "The way it is now yeah I could quit tomorrow the next day or next week" he told a reporter His comment had stemmed from a poor performance Friday night Lyle surrendered a leadoff double to the Astros' Tony Scott in the 10th inning Scott was safe at third when the Phillies' Mike Schmidt bobbled a relay throw from the outfield Lyle was forced into intentionally walking the next two batters and one out later Craig Reynolds looped a single into left field to score Scott and beat the Phillies 3-2 itcheest e'et inhl nale her! the fter- ig as row His ance )le to was the iolds Ainge atop Jenkins hit parade hst MILWAUKEE Texas pitcher Fergie Because of Ainge and other factorsJen- charter flight which returned the club Jenkins made it clear Sunday that he has kins was still hot after his win over the home from Milwaukee Sunday night He not forgotten Toronto third baseman Dan- Blue Jays last week which prompted his left the park with a friend instead of takny Ainge and is looking forward to seeing remark when a writer reminded him that ing the team bus and the flight departed him again when the Rangers and Blue Jays he'd won the game without him Most managers figure a open a three-game series Monday night at "Whoopie" Jenkins said "Anybody can 75 percent success ratio on stolen bases is Arlington Stadium beat Toronto" about right but the Rangers have been Jenkins who beat the Blues Jays 6-1 in It's expected that the Blue Jays didn't successful only 56 percent (34 of 61) of the Toronto in his last start six days ago be- particularly appreciate the remark time this season That's partially because came angry with Ainge after the Toronto "That's okay" Jenkins said "I'm gonna of Manager Don Zimmer's tendency to rookie found humor in the fact that pitch- be up for 'em tomorrow (Monday) night" hit-and-run frequently and partially be er Dave Stieb had hit Texas' Mario Mendo- Ironically because of a rainout Sunday cause Bump Wills considered to be the za and Buddy Bell 111 Toronto it will be Jenkins-Stieb re- club's best base stealer has stolen only 10 Jenkins had to be persuaded not to re- match Monday night bases in 17 tries Mickey Rivers is 7-for-10 This is the second time in two years that but amazingly the best performance betaliate when Ainge led off the bottom of Jenkins has become angry with a Blue Jay longs to Pat Putnam at 4-f or-4 Ranger the seventh inning He settled for striking rookie Last season Toronto second base- catcher Jim Sundberg extended his hit-him out man Damaso Garcia hit a home run off the ting streak to 12 games with a single in the "He (Ainge) came up to Stieb after he'd Ranger veteran and laughed about it The fourth inning Sunday Other pitching almost hit Buddy in the head with this big next time Jenkins pitched against the Blue matchups with Toronto: Tuesday Texas' smile like he thought it was a joke" Jen- Jays he hit Garcia with a pitch after miss- Danny Darwin (8-61 vs Jim Clancy (3-7) kins said Sunday "I'm not gonna bury him ing twice and Wednesday the Rargers' Rick but he may have to go play basketball He'll "My control was off that day" Jenkins Honeycutt (8-3) vs Luis Leal (4-9) The know I'm out there it wpuldn't have taken me three" Detroit Tigers follow the Blue Jays into "Throwing tight is part of the game" Arlington Stadium for a four-game series Jenkins added "but not hitting someone RANGER NOTES Jenkins (5-8) starting Thursday Tuesday is Back To and then laughing about it Maybe it was who lives near Blenheim Ontario Canada School Night and Saturday will be T-Shirt best wake them up that day But it's and has always said if he wasn't pitching Night Shortstop Mario Mendoza a matter of respect I can't win without for Texas he'd like to pitch for Toronto or needs only eight more RBIs to match his those nine guys I play with They hit for Detroit has cut that list to Just the Motor career high of 29 accomplished for Seattle me run for me and play defense for me City "Canada's a nice place to live" Jen- in 1979 when he played in 148 games lie's I've got to protect them I know what my ins said "but not so nice to travel got 21 in 73 games this season JIM Job is" in" Ranger Dli Al Oliver missed the REEVES Lyle 37 is 6-3 this season with a 470 ERA He has only been afforded the chance of having a save once and has none in 31 appearances This from a Cy Young award winner (1977) who holds major league records for career and games-pitched by a relief pitcher His career number of saves ranks second only to Rollie Fingers of Milwaukee Lyle had talked to Green Saturday between double-header games Then he had volunteered to retire before September 1 (final date to pick up a player eligible for playoffs) Green calmed down Lyle LAISE.