Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 323, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 August 1985 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, Wednesday, August 28,1985

Cards extend lead over Mets with power

CINCINNATI (AP) Reliever Jeff Lahti thinks the St. Louis Cardinals’ diversity has been their saving grace. Outfielder Willie McGee points more to their consistency. Both were correct Tuesday night, as McGee’s two-run triple and Lahti’s relief pitching boosted the Cardinals to another season’s milestone. McGee tripled in a pair of runs to put the Cardinals ahead in the eighth, and Lahti shut the Cincinnati Reds out over the last two innings for a 6-4 victory. The come-from-behind victory gave the Cardinals seven in a row, their longest winning streak of the season, and moved them three games ahead of the secondplace New York Mets in the National League East. The Cardinals struck back after Cesar Cedeno’s pinch-hit, two-run single put the Reds ahead 4-3 in the seventh. Reliever

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Ted Power, 4-4, came on to give up a leadoff double Steve Braun, a bunt single to Vince Coleman and McGee’s go-ahead triple. It was the league-leading 16th triple for McGee, who also leads the league with a 361 average and is an example of the Cardinals’ offensive diversity. “There are so many ways we can beat a club,” Lahti said. "One day we hit home runs, the next day we steal them blind, the next day we base-hit them to death, the next day we hit balls in the gap, like Willie did tonight." The Cardinals have consistently held the lead late in games, but appeared ready to lose one Tuesday because of a late Reds’ rally off starter John Tudor. Tudor, who has won 14 of his last 15 decisions, failed to hold a 3-2 lead in the seventh, yielding to Bill Campbell, 4-3, after Cedeno’s goahead two-run single.

St. Louis took advantage of Power’s fourth shaky appearance in a row to improve to 62-2 in games they’ve led after six innings. Power has given up runs in his last four games. “I had a bad outing,” said Power, who failed to gain his 20th save. “But I’ve had confidence in my pitching all year long. There’s no reason I won’t or shouldn’t continue to pitch well.” Tito Landrum’s pinch-hit single off John Franco scored McGee for a 6-4 lead, and Lahti pitched out of a ninth-inning jam for his 16th save, tops on the Cardinals. “It’s my season to show I can pitch,” Lahti said. McGee now has 61 runs batted in, fourthbest on the club. “All my career. I’ve felt good hitting with runners in scoring position,” McGee said. "In the first half of last year, I sort of lost the knack for it. But I got it back, and I

This time John hurls shutout at Yanks

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feel I’m a pretty decent hitter with runners on base.” While the Cardinals won their seasonhigh seventh straight game, the Mets dropped their second straight to NL West leader Los Angeles, being shut out by Jerry Reuss until Darryl Strawberry homered with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 2-1 loss. Elsewhere in the NL it was San Francisco 6, Montreal 1; San Diego 4, Philadelphia 1; Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 6; and Houston 11, Chicago 4. Dodgers 2, Mets 1 Reuss, 12-8, was thankful for the quick feet of rookie shortstop Mariano Duncan, who went to the right side of second base to rob Keith Hernandez and snuff out a sixthinning threat by New York. “I’ve seen Duncan do a lot of things every day that I don’t believe,” Reuss said.

The Yankees dropped five games behind American League East-leading Toronto, which beat Minnesota 8-0. In other AL games, Milwaukee defeated Kansas City 8-5, Cleveland stopped Boston 6-2, Chicago beat Texas 7-4, Seattle downed Detroit 3-1 and California halted Baltimore 7-3. Blue Jays 8, Twins 0 Steve Davis, a Toronto rookie who had already won 20 games in the minors this season, pitched four innings of one-hit relief to win his first major-league decision. Davis, recalled from Class AAA Syracuse on Saturday, took over for starter Tom Filer, who left the game with a sore elbow after pitching a hitless first in-

Padres 4, Phillies 1 San Diego needed a victory to break a three-game losing streak, and left-hander Mark Thurmond was there to answer the call. He struck out a career-high eight batters in 7 2-3 innings. Thurmond, 6-7, gave up seven hits and walked just two. Graig Nettles had two doubles and drove in the winning run. Astros 11, Cubs 4 Houston’s Bill Doran may an underrated player, but not in the mind of Manager Bob Lillis. “There are a lot of good second basemen. But Billy has shown me that he’s the best,” Lillis said after Doran had three hits a single, double and triple and drove in a career-high five runs. Doran, who also scored the winning run, had two hits in the seventh inning when the Astros, trailing 4-3, scored eight times.

ning. Davis struck out three and walked none. Angels 7, Orioles 3 California rookie Jack Howell broke out of a l-for-21 slump by hitting two home runs, including a grand slam. The victory, coupled with Kansas City’s loss, gave the Angels a 2V 2 -game lead in the AL West. Baltimore’s Eddie Murray, who hit three homers and drove home nine runs against California on Monday night, went 2-for-3 with an RBI double. Brewers 8, Royals 5 Rookie Earnest Riles singled three times, raising his average to .304, and drove in two runs to lead Milwaukee over visiting Kansas City. The Brewers, who trailed 3-0 after the top of the first inning, scored twice in the bottom of the first and four times in the second. Mariners 3, Tigers 1 Matt Young pitched a five-hitter, his second straight strong outing for Seattle. Young, who broke a six-game losing streak by shutting out Baltimore in his last start, allowed just a fifth-inning homer to Chet Lemon. Young, 9-14, struck out six and did not walk a batter. White Sox 7, Rangers 4 Dave Wehrmeister, who pitched 10 years in the minors, pitched four hitless innings of relief for his first major-league save as Chicago beat Texas. Wehrmeister, 32, retired the first 11 batters he faced before issuing a walk. He then got the final out and a save in relief of Britt Burns, 14-8.

Sports scoreboard

Major League Baseball At A Glance By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L . Pet GB Toronto 79 47 627 New York 73 51 .589 5 Detroit 67 58 .536 11 4 Baltimore 65 58 .528 124 Boston 58 65 472 194 Milwaukee 57 66 463 204 Cleveland 45 80 360 334 West Division California 72 54 571 Kansas City 68 55 .553 24 Oakland 66 60 524 6 Chicago 61 62 496 94 Seattle 58 68 460 14 Minnesota 55 68 447 154 Texas 46 78 .371 25 Tuesday's Games Cleveland 6, Boston 2 Chicago 7, Texas 4 Toronto 8, Minnesota 0 Milwaukee 8, Cansas City 5 California 7, Baltimore 3 Seattle 3, Detroit 1 Oakland 3, New York 0 Wednesday’s Games Toronto (Stieb 12-9! at Minnesota (Smithson 12-11) Boston (Lollar 5-8) at Cleveland (Easterly 2-0), (n) Texas (Stewart 0-4) at Chicago (Nelson 7- (n) Kansas City (Gubicza 9-7) at Milwaukee (Vuckovich 6-9), (n) Only games scheduled Thursday’s Games Kansas City at Milwaukee Oakland at Detroit, (n) Boston at Cleveland, (n) Seattle at Baltimore, (n) California at New York, (n) Texas at Chicago, (n) Only games scheduled NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W . L Pet GB St. Louis 77 46 626 New York 75 50 .600 3 Montreal 69 57 .548 94 Chicago 61 62 .496 16 Philadelphia 58 66 .468 194 Pittsburgh 39 83 .320 37 4 West Division Los Angeles 74 49 .602 San Diego 68 58 .540 74 Cincinnati 64 59 .520 10 Houston 57 67 .460 174 Atlanta 52 71 .423 22 San Francisco 49 75 .395 254 Tuesday's Games San Francisco 6, Montreal 1 Los Angeles 2, New York 1 San Diego 4, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 6. Cincinnati 4 Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 6 Houston 11, Chicago 4 Wednesday's Games Chicago (Bailer 0-1) at Houston (Ryan 8Pittsburgh (Tunnel! 1-8) at Atlanta (McMurtry 0-3) St. Louis (Andujar 20-7) at Cincinnati (Soto 10-15), (n) Only games scheduled Thursday’s Games Atlanta at Chicago New York at San Francisco Montreal at San Diego Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, (n) Philadelphia at Los Angeles, (n) Only games scheduled TODAY’S MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING (300 at bats)—Boggs, Boston, 358; Brett, Kansas City, .356; RHenderson, New York, .337; Mattingly, New York, .332; Lacy, Baltimore, .313. RUNS—RHenderson, New York, 106; Ripken, Baltimore, 90; EMurray, Baltimore, 86; Whitaker, Detroit, 86; Winfield, New York, 85 RBl—Mattingly, New York, 104; EMurray, Baltimore, 103, Winfield, New York, 88; GBell, Toronto, 87; Ripken, Baltimore, 87 HlTS—Boggs, Boston, 175; Mattingly. New York, 165; Wilson, Kansas City, 153; PBradley, Seattle, 152; Brett, Kansas City, 149. DOUBLES—Mattingly, New York, 39; Buckner, Boston. 36; Boggs, Boston. 32; Cooper, Milwaukee, 32; Brett, Kansas City, 31 TRIPLES—WiIson, Kansas City, 19; Butler, Cleveland, 12; Puckett, Minnesota, 12; Barfield, Toronto, 8; Cooper, Milwaukee, 8; PBradley, Seattle, 8. HOME RUNS—Fisk, Chicago. 33; DaE-vans. Detroit, 29; GBell, Toronto, 27; Balboni,Kansas City, 26: GThomas, Seattle, 26; Kingman, Oakland, 26 STOLEN BASES—RHenderson, New York, 57; Wilson, Kansas City, 40; Pettis, California. 39; Butler, Cleveland, 35; Moseby, Toronto, 31. PITCHING (10 decisions)—Clibum, California. 8-2, 800. 1 80; Guidry, New York, 16-5, .762, 2.90; Saberhagen. Kansas City. 16-5, .762, 2 81; Birtsas. Oakland, 10-4, .714, 3.56; Leibrandt. Kansas City, 13-6. .684,2.79; Romanick, California, 13-6, 684, 3 79. STRIKEOUTS—BIyIeven, Minnesota, 160; Morris, Detroit, 152; FBannister, Chicago, 147; Bums, Chicago, 141; Witt, California, 141. SAVES—Quisenberry, Kansas City. 30; Hernandez, Detroit, 27; DMoore, California, 23; JHowell, Oakland. 23; Righetti, New York, 23. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING (300 at bats)—McGee, StLouis. .361; Herr, StLouis, .325; Guerrero, Los Angeles, .320; Raines. Montreal, .310; Gwynn, San Diego, .308 RUNS—Murphy, Atlanta, 97; Raines, Montreal. 92; Coleman StLouis, 89; McGee, StLouis, 87; Guerrero, Los Angeles, 86 RBl—Murphy, Atlanta, 91; Herr, StLouis, 87; Parker, Cincinnati, 86; JClark, StLouis, 84; GWilson, Philadelphia, 81. HITS—McGee, StLouis, 162; Gwynn, San Diego, 151; Herr, StLouis, 147; Raines, Montreal, 143; Parker, Cincinnati, 142. DOUBLES—Herr, StLouis, 31; Wallach, Montreal, 30; Parker, Cincinnati, 29; Hernandez, New York, 28; GWilson, Philadelphia, 27. TRIPLES—McGee, StLouis, 16; Samuel. Philadelphia. 11; Coleman,StLouis, 10; Raines, Montreal, 10; Gladden. San Francisco, 7. HOME RUNS—Murphy, Atlanta, 34; Guerrero, Los Angeles, 30; Parker, Cincinnati, 23; Schmidt, Philadelphia, 22; Homer, Atlanta, 21; JClark, StLouis. 21; Strawberry, New York, 21. STOLEN BASES—Coleman, StLouis, 87; Raines, Montreal, 50; Lopes,Chicago,43; McGee, StLouis, 42, Redus, Cincinnati, 41; Sandberg, Chicago, 41. PITCHING (10 decisions)—Franco, Cincinnati, 11-1, .917,1.60; Gooden, New York, 20-3, .870,1.78; Welch, Los Angeles, 9-2, .818,2.10; Hershiser, Los Angeles. 13-3, 813, 2.37; Burke, Montreal, 8-2, 800. 1.77: Hawkins San Diego, 16-4, 800, 3.02. STRIKEOUTS—Gooden, New York, 212; Ryan, Houston, 178; Soto, Cincinnati. 178; Valenzuela. Los Angeles, 171; Fernandez, New York, 139 SAVES—Reardon, Montreal, 32; LeS-mith, Chicago, 28; Gossage, San Diego, 21; Sutter, Atlanta. 20; DSmith. Houston, 19; Power, Cincinnati, 19 American Association At A Glance By The Associated Press EASTERN DIVISION W L Pet GB Louisville (Crds) 69 67 507 Nashville (Tigrs) 67 68 496 1 Buffalo (Chisx) 62 73 459 64 Indianapols (Exps) 61 74 452 74 WESTERN DIVISION Okla City (Rngrs) 77 59 .566 Denver (Rds) 74 62 544 3 Omaha (Royls) 71 65 522 6 lowa (Cbs) 61 74 452 154 Tuesday’s Games Denver 5. Oklahoma City 3 Omaha 4, lowa 2 Louisville 5. Nashville i Indianapolis 3, Buffalo 1. Ist game Indianapolis 3, Buffalo 0. 2nd game Wednesday's Games Oklahoma City at Denver Omaha at lowa Nashville at Louisville Buffalo at Indianapolis Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City at Denver Omaha at lowa Nashville at Louisville Buffalo at Indianapolis