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THE NEWS VIRGINIAN Waynesboro Va Thursday September 4 1997 3 Expos and Marlins lead NL to 117 97 interleague edge By The Associated Press Gary Sheffield had the Baltimore Orioles looking for cover in the American League Carlos Perez and Mike Lansing had a pair of Boston Red Sox pitchers wondering how they could lose a one hitter The first year of regular season interleague play came to a close Wednesday night with the lorida Marlins and Montreal Expos finishing with 12 3 records against the AL Sheffield homered with one out in the ninth inning to give lorida a 7 6 victory over Baltimore while Perez threw a two hitter and Lansing homered for lone hit in a 1 0 decision over Boston With the Marlins and Expos leading the way National League teams finished interleague play 117 97 The NL took the final two stages 28 18 and 53 31 after dropping the first round 48 36 At Miami homer off Shawn Boskie (6 6) gave the Marlins their 22nd victory in their last at bat and secbnd in a row against the AL leading Orioles who lost their last five games against NL teams lorida has 39 comeback vic tories got to beat the best to say the Sheffield said place is all got my mind on Hopefully we can go into the playoffs as hot as we are now and take the whole The Orioles had a scare in the third inning when a section of the roof over their dugout col lapsed No players were hurt lot of crazy things have happened to cause said Orioles ironman Cal Ripken who was on the field when the roof collapsed would have been the Ripken hit a three run homer for Baltimore 8 7 against the NL Jay Powell (5 2) pitched a perfect ninth for lorida which has won six straight to move within 2 games of NL East leader Atlanta At Montreal Aaron Sele and Tom Gordon combined on a one hitter but could not overcome homer and masterful pitching baseball You make one mistake and it seems to come back and hurt Sele (12 12) said of third inning homer Perez (12 10) struck out eight and walked none allowing a second inning single to Wil Cordero and a fourth inning double to John Valentin In other games Wednesday it was Philadelphia 5 New York Yankees 4 Cleveland 7 Pittsburgh 3 San Diego 6 Seattle 5 Detroit 12 Atlanta 4 New York Mets 4 Toronto 2 Oakland 12 San rancisco 3 Texas 5 Los Angeles 2 Houston 4 Milwaukee 0 St Louis 4 Chicago White Sox 2 Chicago Cubs 10 Minnesota 6 and Cincinnati 6 Kansas City 3 Phillies 5 Yankees 4 At Philadelphia Mike Stanton forced home the winning run by walking Tony Barron on four pitches in the ninth inning as the Phillies beat A ft 4 AP PHOTO Philadelphia Phillies Mickey Morandinijeft breaks up a ninth inning double play for New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter Wednesday in Philadelphia New York Kevin Stocker homered and had three RBIs for the Phillies who swept the three game series and have won eight of 10 The Yankees 5 10 in interleague play have lost six of seven failing to take advantage of slump Indians 7 Pirates 3 At Pittsburgh Omar Vizquel and Matt Williams hit two run homers in a five run fourth to keep Orel Hershiser unbeaten since July 2 Hershiser (13 5) won his sixth decision in a row despite allowing eight hits in six plus innings He lost in his last 10 starts and is 4 0 in five outings since coming off the disabled list Aug 13 Padres 6 Mariners 5 At Seattle Mariners reliever Mike Timlin (4 4) forced home the go ahead run with an eighth inning walk to Quilvio Veras Seattle led 5 3 after five innings but blew a save for the 22nd time in 53 chances The Mariners also lost All Star shortstop Alex Rodriguez who left with a rib injury in the fifth: Tigers 12 Braves 4 At Atlanta Tony Clark homered and had five RBIs and Willie Blair (15 6) gave up three runs and eight hits in seven innings to become first 15 game winner since Bill Gullickson in 1991 Atlanta starter John Smoltz (13 11) was tagged for eight runs and 10 hits in 3 1 3 innings his shortest outing since St Louis chased him after three innings on Aug 19 1995 Mets 4 Blue Jays 2 At New York Paul sixth inning throwing error allowed the tying run to score and Rey Ordonez followed with winning hit as the Mets beat Toronto for their major league leading 41st comeback victory Toronto took a 2 1 lead in the sixth on Carlos 29th homer only to have Quantrill (6 6) throw it away Dave Mlicki (7 10) worked six innings for the victory and John ranco pitched the ninth for his 35th save Athletics 12 Giants 3 At Oakland Ben Grieve drove in five runs with a club record tying three doubles in his major league debut as the Athletics routed San rancisco Brent Mayne had a two run homer and four RBIs and Scott Spiezio added a three run triple to help the end a five game losing streak Rangers 5 Dodgers 2 At Arlington Tom Goodwin tripled to break an eighth inning tie as Texas sent Los Angeles to its third consecutive loss after taking over first place in the NL West by winning 10 of 11 Astros 4 Brewers 0 At Houston Ramon Garcia pitched a five hit ter for his first complete game as the Astros beat Milwaukee to end a six game losing streak Cardinals 4 White Sox 2 At St Louis Gary Gaetti hit a tie breaking homer in the sixth and Manny Aybar (1 4) pitched six innings for his first victory in the majors Dennis Eckersley pitched the ninth for his 33rd save Chicago starter Scott Eyre (2 3) took the loss Cubs 10 Twins 6 At Chicago Mark Grace had a two run homer and Ryne Sandberg and Dave Clark each had two RBIs to push the Cubs past Minnesota Jeremi Gonzalez (11 6) allowed two runs and five hits in five innings Twins starter rank Rodriguez (2 6) took the loss Reds 6 Royals 3 At Cincinnati Pokey Reese and Eddie Taubensee homered off Ricky Bones (3 5) as the Reds beat Kansas City Brett Tomko (10 5) struck out nine in 6 2 3 innings and Jeff Shaw pitched the ninth for his 30th save BLOCK LEARN TO MAKE TAXES PAY SEPT 26 Great Prizes! 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