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Santa Cruz Sentinel Thursday, Sept. 5, 1991 B-3 Fifty no Committee on statistical accuracy unanimously redefines rules i J- L.F JW 1 hitters 'Haddix may have pitched one of the great games in history, but it doesn't happen to be a no-hit Fay Vincent sacrifice and Joe Adcock's RBI double. "That makes sense," Haddix said of the decision. "When you think about it, that would be correct." However, Haddix still felt a little bit hurt. "It's disappointing to find out it's not a no-hitter, but it's still the record," he said.

"Most consecutive perfect innings, most consecutive batters retired." Commissioner Fay Vincent said the decision was clear. "Haddix may have pitched one of the great games in baseball history," he said, "but it just doesn't co 260 -41 st AVE -Suite I STANLEY W. DOWLING Bill LoveioySentinel file Bryan Harvey, has been the Angels' most reliable reliever. still going strong purged happen to be a no-hit Also wiped off the books were the shortened no-hitters. The last was a six-inning effort by Melido Perez of the Chicago White Sox against the New York Yankees on July 12, 1990.

Another having a no-hitter taken away was Bobo Newsom of the St. Louis Browns. Among the shortened no-hitters is the vase of Andy Hawkins. On July 1, 1990, he pitched a no-hitter for the Yankees at Chicago against the White Sox, but lost 4-0. Because he was on the visiting team, Hawkins never got to pitch the ninth inning.

"We felt the ninth inning was significant," Vincent said. "So many games lose no-hit status in the ninth inning." The committee also decided that Ernie Shore would not be credited with a perfect game for his performance on June 23, 1917, for the Boston Red Sox against Washington. After Ruth walked the first batter and was ejected. Shore got a double play and retired the remaining batters in order. It will now be counted as a combined no-hitter.

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In 57 appearances and 70 innings, he has an ERA of 1.54, best on the Angels. Eichhorn has inherited 50 baserunners and stranded 37. That's an awful lot of set-ups for Harvey, who saved his 35th game Tuesday night. "You can't evaluate it until the season's over," Eichhorn said. "Just as soon as you think you've got it figured out, somebody rakes you." Eichhorn had faced Jack Clark six times before Tuesday.

And Clark had raked him. But with two runners in scoring position and the Angels holding a 2-0 lead, Eichhorn said he hardly thought of the past. "Outside of the grand slam, the three-run homer and the double, I was concentrating on him pretty hard," Eichhorn said with a laugh. "He's owned me." 116 McPherson St. NESTSIDE BRAKE MUFFLER 425-0567 1 705 BRANCIFORTE APPLIANCE SERVICE CENTER 426-8299 TRUST 3921 SOQUEL FABIAN'S BODY SHOP 318-C RIVER ST.

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Indians 8, Twins 4 MINNEAPOLIS Albert Belle drove in a career-high five runs with a homer and double and Minnesota lost a game off their AL West lead by letting the majors' 919 OCEAN ST. The Associated Press NEW YORK Now that Jim Maloney has lost one of his three no-hitters, he has another idea for baseball. "Maybe they can take the loss away, too, and give me a win," he said. Maloney's was one of 50 no-hitters purged from baseball's record book Wednesday by the committee on statistical accuracy, leaving 225 no-hitters in major league history. The committee voted 8-0 to define a no-hitter as a game of nine innings or longer that ended with no hits.

The definition eliminated 38 shortened no-hitters and 12 games in which a pitcher threw nine no-hit innings, then gave up a hit in extra innings. On June 14, 1965, Maloney pitched 10 no-hit innings against the New York Mets. The Mets beat the Cincinnati Reds on Johnny Lewis' leadoff home run in the 11th. "When you get 10 innings of no-hit ball and get beat in the 11th, you don't know if you're going to get back there again," Maloney said. He did so only two months later, winning a 10-inning no-hitter against the Chicago Cubs on Chico Cardenas' home run off the left-field foul pole at Wrigley Field.

Maloney pitched a nine-inning no-hitter for the Reds against the Houston Astros in 1969. "All along, I've known I threw two legitimate no-hitters that I won," Maloney said. "It's a tough league." The definition of a no-hitter became an issue on July 26, when Mark Gardner pitched nine hitless innings for Montreal against Los Angeles but lost the no-hitter and the game in the 10th. That brought up a dispute on what exactly a no-hitter was. Harvey Haddix agreed with the decision, even though it means he didn't pitch a perfect game for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Milwaukee Braves on May 26, 1959.

Haddix pitched 12 no-hit innings and lost in the 13th on an error, a worst team, Cleveland, rally to win. Minnesota, which had a three-game winning streak snapped, still leads the division by eight games. White Sox 4, Royals 1 CHICAGO Alex Fernandez pitched two-hit ball for seven-plus innings and stopped his four-game losing streak, leading Chicago over Kansas City. Chicago won for just the seventh time in 24 games. Bo Jackson lined out as a pinch hitter, making him 0-for-8, all against Kansas City, since returning to the majors.

NFL notebook hour operation in Los Angeles. "Everything went well technically and it's just a matter of healing totally and him getting stronger," Shields said. Cunningham was injured Sunday when hit by linebacker Bryce Paup on the first play of the second quarter against the Green Bay Packers. He suffered a torn medial collateral ligament and posterior cruciate ligament. ATLANTA Atlanta Falcons quarterback Chris Miller has signed a two-year contract extension that makes him the highest-paid player in club history on a per-year average basis.

According to figures reported to the NFL Players Association, the contract will pay the five-year veteran an average of $1.55 million annually through the 1993 season. This makes him the 15th-highest-paid NFL quarterback. The figure, according to the NFLPA's most recent salary update documents, tops the $1.08 million average of Atlanta cornerback Deion Sanders. COMPLETE CLUTCH REPAIR 199 00 3SPD RWD starting at SAVE MORE DO IT YOURSELF FOR EXAMPLE: 1980-1985 HONDA CIVIC Pressure Plate 50.18 Clutch Disc 18.90 TO Bearing 16.00 85.08 FREE ESTIMATES FREE CLUTCH ADJUSTMENTS BUDGET CAR TRUCK PARTS, 901 PACIFIC (DOWNTOWN) OUR 42ND YEAR ANDY'S AUTO SUPPLY AAA 138 FERN ST Craig now Raiders' starting tailback 4" Mark Eichhorn, along with Eichhorn Los Angeles Daily News BOSTON The California Angels are in the season's sixth month and Mark Eichhorn of Watsonville is still here. The set-up man has been through the American League now three times.

And he is still here. A 30-year-old side-armer, Eichhorn did perhaps his best work of the year Tuesday night against the Boston Red Sox a good four months after he was supposed to be done. In relief of Mark Langston, Eichhorn escaped from a one-out, men-on-second-and-third jam. That meant getting Phil Plantier to ground out and Jack Clark to strike out. In the eighth, he got Wade Boggs, Jody Reed and Carlos Quintana without so much as a struggle.

Blue Jays The Associated Press TORONTO Joe Carter hit his 30th home run and Todd Stottle-myre allowed four hits in seven innings as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 Wednesday and took a three-game lead over idle Detroit in the AL East. Stottlemyre (13-6) struck out one and walked two as he won for the eighth time in 12 decisions. Duane Ward got six straight outs for his 18th save in 20 chances, completing Toronto's eighth victory in 11 games. Dodgers all alone at the top The Associated Press MONTREAL Atlanta lost for the fourth time in five games and dropped out of first place in the NL West as Marquis Grissom snapped a seventh-inning tie with a two-run single to lift Montreal over the Braves 8-4 on Wednesday. aaaHBa Los Angeles regained sole Ilatl0ri3l possession of I first with an 8-3 L6d victory over St.

Louis and lead the Braves by one game. The Expos, who had rallied with three runs in the sixth inning, scored twice in the bottom of the seventh after the Braves tied it in the top of the inning. Padres 5, Cubs 1 SAN DIEGO Darrin Jackson went 3-for-3 and scored twice and Dennis Rasmussen and Mike Maddux combined on a six-hitter as San Diego beat Chicago. Dodgers 8, Cardinals 3 LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, which had fallen two games behind Atlanta last week after leading the NL West for most of the season, regained sole possession by beating St. Louis.

Montana Continued from Page Bl In the meantime, Steve Young, the million-dollar understudy, continues in Montana's place. Whether Montana gets healthy on schedule or after Thanksgiving, Young is guaranteed his most extensive playing time since he signed with the 49ers in 1987. The 49ers won't know anything about Montana's elbow until he begins to throw again, which isn't scheduled for another 12 days. However, White declined to expand on his comments Wednesday. Instead, Julie Diatroptroff, White's executive assistant, directed "any updates on Joe Montana's condition through the 49ers' business office." She did say that' White has not treated Montana for his current ailment.

But she could not say whether White has reviewed Montana's test results, or that he had conferred with Dr. Jeffrey Saal, NORTH COUNTY RECOVERY TOWING 458-3138 MT. SHASTA GIANT FUJI CANNONDALE SUMMIT CRUISERS 10-SPEEDS MOUNTAIN BIKES DUTCHMAN BICYCLES For a guy who somewhere earned a tag as a once-around-the-league phenom, Eichhorn, along with closer Bryan Harvey, has been the club's most reliable reliever. "Scouts think that," Eichhorn said. "And they think their opinion is it.

But I'm still here." Because he throws sidearm, Eichhorn said, he is not supposed to last past nine batters or 13 teams. Eventually, because his fastball is slow and humpbacked, everyone catches up with it. Or so the theory goes. "It's because I throw side-arm," Eichhorn said, "and that's an excuse." Of course, he makes no excuses for his numbers, an assortment of successes that teammate and friend Scott Bailes called "obscene." His record is 2-2 find he has go three American League Red Sox 2, Angels 0 BOSTON Joe Hesketh shut out California for 5V3 innings, Jeff Reardon earned his team-record 34th save and Wade Boggs homered for Boston. Hesketh (10-3) is 8-3 since being converted from a reliever into a starter.

He gave up six hits and struck out six before California loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth on a two-out double by Heading down the stretch West Division 74 59 73 60 66 67 66 68 62 71 55 78 Pd. GB .556 1 .496 8 .493 8'2 .466 12 .414 19 Dodgers Braves Reds Padres Giants Astros Eddie Murray tied the score 3-3 with a pinch hit, three-run homer in the seventh inning, and Mike Sharperson's RBI single triggered a five-run eighth. Reds 5, Phillies 1 PHILADELPHIA Randy Myers pitched four-hit ball and struck out a career-high eight in eight innings to lead Cincinnati over Philadelphia. Myers (6-12), who was a reliever until this season, was making only his eighth career start. He was in trouble only once before Darren Daulton's home run in the eighth inning spoiled the shutout.

Astros 8, Mets 3 NEW YORK Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio homered as Houston beat New York despite two home runs by NL leader Howard Johnson. Jim Deshaies (5-12) allowed both of Johnson's homers, but was still able to improve his career record to 5-0 against the Mets in New York. who oversees the quarterback's treatment. As to White's sudden timidity, Policy said no one with day-to-day contact with the organization had asked White to keep quiet. He would not rule out that one of the other physicians involved Saal or Dillingham had.

This would not be the first time White has run afoul of the 49ers' sensitive front office. In 1986, White performed career-jeopardizing spinal operation on Montana. Within days of his miraculous return only eight weeks later, White told a Bay Area paper that Montana was risking paralysis and should never play again. Two Super Bowl championships and a passing title later, Montana is doing time at White's clinic again. And his grandstanding tongue apparently is causing the 49ers headaches once more.

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But it took an injury to get him there. Craig will start at tailback Sunday against the Denver Broncos in his second game as a Raider because Marcus Allen damaged the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the Raiders' season-opening 47-17 loss to the Houston Oilers. Allen was placed on the injured reserve list Wednesday, meaning he'll miss at least four games. His spot on the roster was taken by running back Doug Lloyd, who was on the Raiders' practice squad. Craig gained nine yards on three carries and caught a team-leading four passes for 32 yards against the Oilers.

PHILADELPHIA Randall Cunningham underwent major surgery on his left knee Wednesday and the surgeon said the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback should be ready by next year's training camp. Dr. Clarence Shields, who repaired Cunningham's other knee 10 years ago, performed the two- the time," Seifert said. "He has expressed to me that the quarterback under discussion hasn't seen the doctor under question. "It's been a tendon (tear) all along.

We're not hiding anything. He's telling me and the president and the vice president and the general manager the same thing." The fact that Montana submitted to another MRI test Wednesday should be regarded as nothing more than a continuing effort to "stay on top of his condition, Seifert said. Results of that test will not be made public for several days. "What I believe will be happening is in the next couple of days we will be having someone more (adept) at speaking about medical injuries than a football coach," Seifert said. In fact, in an extraordinary break with team policy, the 49ers have scheduled a press conference with Dillingham for Monday.

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