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DETROIT FREE PRESSTUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1981 5D Tigers' top starter Morris on All-Star game timetable! No draft call yet for U-M slugger Paciorek By MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer University of Michigan outfielder Jim Paciorek was passed over in the first two rounds of the regular phase of baseball's free-agent amateur draft Monday. Paciorek, a junior outfielder whose .366 average helped Michigan to its second straight Big Ten title this year, could be chosen Tuesday or Wednesday, when the draft continues. "Yeah, I was surprised I wasn't drafted, but what can you do?" he said. "Nothing, I guess." Should he be taken Tuesday, Paciorek, who still has a year of eligibility left at U-M, said he was undecided if he would sign or return to Michigan next year. NO STATE players were drafted Tuesday, either in the first two rounds of the regular phase or three rounds of the secondary phase.

The regular phase is for players never drafted before or who were drafted more than 13 months ago but not signed, the secondary for players year. Then he goes out and pitches even better. You really look forward to playing when he's With his win over Minnesota last Friday, Morris moved to 8-3 and became the winningest pitcher in the league until Oakland's Mike Norris tied his total a day' later. He'll go for victory No. 9 against the Twins at: Bloomington Thursday, facing Royal Oak southpaw; Brad Havens again.

1 If he wins it, he'll be more than two weeks ahead of his 1980 pace, when he won for the ninth time on June! 27. 'Z Morris should have at least five more starts before, Frey makes his All-Star picks. If Morris stays hot, he just might become the Tigers' first starting pitcher in an! All-Star game since Mark Fidrych in 1976. TAGGING THE TIGERS Coach Gates Browni didn't make the trip here with the Tigers. The Gater stayed in Detroit to attend his daughter's high school graduation ceremonies The Tigers learned first-hand why the Rangers play; so many night games: It was 97 degrees when the team' arrived at Arlington Stadium.

Furthermore, half of the air conditioning units at the Tigers' hotel were out of: service because of an electrical problem Player rep Milt Wilcox said he believes the judge baseball's labor-management case has delayed his nil-; ing to give bargainers for both sides time to work out compromise without a court fight. But he added that the! players' association hasn't given him any reason Jo; suspect any compromise is near Former Tiger utility infielder Mark Wagner filled in recently at shortstop for the Rangers while Mario: Mendoza was nursing a sore ankle, and Wagner re-! sponded with a 7-for-17 showing in six games to raise; his average to .357 for 16 games this year The Rangers are supposed to have good team speed, but their base-stealing record this year (22 for 42 attempts) is about on a par with the Tigers' 20-for-38; mark nothing to be proud of. Mickey Rivers has five; thefts in seven tries, but Bump Wills is only 8 for 13 The Rangers smacked 100 doubles in their first 51 games (compared to the Tigers' 75 in 53 outings), and Ai; Oliver accounted for 18 of them, the top individual mark in the league Aurelio Lopez (2-1 will get his first starting assignment of the year Tuesday night and the second of his! tenure with the Tigers. By BRIAN BRAGG Free Press Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Tex. Jack Morris doesn't want to think about what he'll be doing July 14.

That's the day a squad of 30 select American Leaguers will be playing in major league baseball's annual All-Star game in Cleveland. Morris, who was 1 1-6 at the All-Star break last year, was disappointed that he wasn't among the eight pitchers named to the squad by Baltimore manager Earl Weaver. This year the big right-hander is the hottest starter in the American League with eight wins against three losses in 12 starts. He has won seven straight, and has six complete games in a row. But he's guarding against another letdown by not dwelling on his All-Star pros- p6CtS "I thought I should have made it last year," he said, "and I found out there are a lot of political affiliations involved.

This year I'm not even going to be concerned with it. If I'm on the squad, fine. If I'm not, I'll have a nice three-day vacation." Kansas City manager Jim Frey this year's AL All-Star pilot has almost a month to choose the pitchers for his team. If Morris stays near his present pace, he will be hard to overlook. MORRIS WAS 1-1 after his first three starts this year.

On April 24 he held the Chicago White Sox to two runs in nine innings, but lost in the 10th on a solo homer by Greg Luzinski. In his next start, on April 29, he dropped another 3-2 decision, that one to the New York Yankees. Both of those losses came during the Tigers' 10-game losing streak. Since then Morris has won every start. "I really think I've deserved those wins all except one because I've pitched well," he said recently.

"In that one game in Seattle (May 3) they bailed me out and I probably didn't deserve that one. But the others, yes. "I'm not even thinking about losing now On almost every pitch now, I have an idea of what I'm doing with it. And that's what a pitcher wants to do." In his string of wins, Morris has compiled an earned run average of 1.88 in 62 innings of work. He has walked 21 and struck out 34 while allowing 45 hits.

SAYS SHORTSTOP Alan Trammell: "We keep seeing Jack pitch and we say that's his best game of the drafted less than 13 months who have not signed. In the regular phase, the Tigers took a pair of high school players pitcher Ricky Barlow and outfielder Nelson Simmons. They also selected three pitchers in the draft's secondary phase. Barlow, the Tigers' first-round choice, is a 6-foot-1, 170-pound right-hander from Woodville High in Woodville, Jit WSt vO "e's 80t a consistently (lir, A good fastball and a good, quick AP Photo Jim Paciorek curve," said Hoot Evers, the Tigers' field directorplayer Jack Morris: "I thought I should have made (the All-Star team) last year, and I found out there are a lot of political affiliations involved." development. "He struck out 220 hitters in about 112 innings.

He had a 10-2 record I don't know how he lost. "It will take a couple of years to get him going, but he's got one of those good whip arms." Rangers batter Schatzeder, 8-1 mm 1 JSC FOX H0ME2eLlift C4cL Wer1 1 iliilltlll TIGERS, from Page 1D "Time after time in the middle of the lineup we're 0-f or-1 0, 0-f or-1 2, 0-f or-14." Monday night, the right-handed hitters in the four through six spots in the batting order were 0-f or-11 and hit into two double plays. The Tigers managed to sweep a three-game series from the punchless Minnesota Twins over the weekend despite recording only 17 hits. But the Rangers (.287 team batting average) are not a club to knuckle under to such a meek attack. Schatzeder's rocky ride began smoothly as he retired the first hitter he faced.

However, it took a double-play grounder by Jim Sundberg the eighth hitter to end the first inning. In between, there was disaster: Evers said he had his fingers crossed that the Tigers would be able to land Simmons, of Madison High in San Diego. "He's a switch-hitting outfielder with the arms of a blacksmith," Evers said. "He's got excellent power and an excellent swing Simmons is well developed for a high school kid. He has very few flaws at the plate.

He has lots of things to work with, not on. He doesn't have a lot of negatives. "We compare him quite a bit to Jim Rice. He's got a chance, if all things go right, to be a star." In the secondary phase, the Tigers drafted Randall O'Neal, 6-foot-2, 190-pounds, from the University of Florida, who previously had been drafted by Montreal, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Cincinnati; Ernest Moya of Hillsborough CC in Tampa, who had been drafted by Minnesota, and Tom Corcoran of Florida International, who was a selection of the Chicago Cubs. He is not related to Tim Corcoran, a Tiger farmhand now at Evansville.

SPECIAL PURCHAS CASH CARRY GOOD thru JUNE 30 AP Photo Tigers third baseman Tom Brookens takes a stab, but Bill Stein's first-inning single scoots past him Monday night, driving home the Rangers Al Oliver. mmlmm mmt mmammmlmgm mmmm imm wmmmmmmm 1 MICKEY RIVERS doubled (the first of his three hits); Al Oliver brought him home with a single, his fifth consecutive hit and 27th in his last 61 at-bats; Bell walked; Bill Stein smashed an RBI single past third baseman Tom Broo-kens. Stein stole second, and when catcher Lance Parrish threw in the dirt and into center field, Bell scored and Stein reached third. Leon Roberts grounded to Brookens, who threw wide of first base as Stein scored to make it 4-0. After a walk, Sundberg mercifully bounced into the DP.

In the second, Mario Mendoza and Bump Wills singled before Rivers doubled again, driving in the fifth run and driving Schatzeder THE SEATTLE MARINERS, who selected first overall in the draft because it had the worst record in baseball last year, took Mike Moore, a right-handed pitcher from Oral Roberts. Then, several hours later, they signed him to a one-year contract, assigning him to their AA minor league team in Lynn, Mass. Moore shook off signs from all the would-be agents who sought a financial piece of him and handled the negotiations for himself. "I felt I could come to terms on my own," he said. "I didn want to hassle it and miss part of the season." In three seasons with the Titans, the 21 -year-old power pitcher had a 28-11 record and a 2.64 ERA.

He completed 24 of 36 starts, pitched a total of 54 games CUSHION to the showers. Dave Tobik got out of the inning after Bell's sacrifice fly made it 6-0. The Rangers scored on Tobik in the fourth, breaking a string of six scoreless relief jobs by the right-hander. Stein picked up the second of his three RBIs with a sacrifice fly. George Cappuzzello was next, and the Texans nicked him for a run in the sixth which featured another boot by Brookens.

Dave Rozema finished the inning and the game and was the only Tiger pitcher unmarred. The loss was only the second for the Tigers in their last nine games, but it took them back down to two games over the .500 mark and left them still in sixth place in the AL East. ELT POLYGLASS WHITEWALLS I wmtmm i Windsor selections Ir7q jwH If tw G78-15 M7' HKST BKT Hoses Mystic (3d) Post Time 7:45 p.m. 1 -1. H78-15 $5r.

1 I I rTD 1M 14 440 I and struck out 229 batters in nearly 300 innings. Among the notable names selected in the regular phase was Dick Schofield, a shortstop from Springfield, 111., picked by the California Angels. His father, Ducky, an infielder, played 19 years in the majors, mostly with St. Louis. He retired in 1971 with a .227 lifetime batting average.

Texas selected right-handed pitcher Ronnie Darling from Yale. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound Darling pitched and lost the longest no-hitter in NCAA playoff history, a 12-inning, 1-0 defeat to St. John's in the Northeast Regional last month. A complete draft list of both the regular and secondary phases is on the Scoreboard page, 4D. Also contributing to this story was the Associated Press.

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