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THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 10, 1987

Nunez comes back to haunt Royals

By The Associated Press The Kansas City Royals gave up on rookie pitcher Jose Nunez just this past winter, and are already living to regret it. Selected out of the Kansas City organzation in the major league draft by Toronto, the 24-year-old right-hander came back to haunt them last Saturday in relief and again in a starting role Thursday night in the Blue Jays’ 7-1 victory. “It’s like finding a diamond ring,” Blue Jays pitching coach Al Widmar said after watching Nunez strike out 11 batters and give up but six hits in eight innings Thursday night. “People like that are the future of the ballclub.” Nunez could be the right man in the right place for the Blue Jays, who have been desperately trying to find a reliable fifth starter all season. Nunez, 1-0, overcame a shaky start. Willie Wilson opened the game with a triple and Kevin Seitzer followed with a RBI single. The Blue Jays extended their winning streak to four games while the Royals, who had swept the Blue Jays last weekend in a four-game series, dropped their fourth game in a row. White Sox 6, Yankees 3 Carlton Fisk hit a go-ahead home run in the fourth inning to lead Chicago over New York.

Cards shuffling away with NL East

By The Associated Press The St. Louis Cardinals are starting to walk away with the National League East. “That was crazy. Sometimes it seems like we have to be challenged and put in a bad spot before we come back,” Willie McGee said after the Cardinals rallied for four runs in the bottom of the 10th inning Thursday night to beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6. The Cardinals extended their winning streak to eight their longest since winning 12 in a row in 1982 and now lead the National League East by 9V 2 games over Chicago. St. Louis’ rally was fueled by three walks that loaded the bases. McGee hit a two-run double and the Cardinals won it on run-scoring singles by Tony Pena and Jose Oquendo. Rick Horton, 4-0, got the final two outs in the top of the 10th for the victory. Garrelts, 6-6, took the loss. Braves 11, Phillies 6 Dale Murphy’s grand slam

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Fisk’s two-run homer came after a one-out single by Greg Walker off Yankees starter Bob Tewksbury, 1-4, and gave the White Sox a 2-1 lead. Richard Dotson, 7-5, gave up six hits, struck out three and walked six in 8 2-3 innings. Twins 3, Orioles 1 Rookie Les Straker and Jeff Reardon combined on a seven-hitter and Tim Laudner hit a three-run homer as Minnesota defeated Baltimore, handing the Orioles their 32nd loss in 39 games. The 32-year-old Straker, who spent 10 years in the minors, allowed just six hits in 7 1-3 innings before needing relief help in the eighth from Reardon. Laudner, batting .181, hit his 12th homer, in the fifth off Eric Bell, 6-7. Indians 10, Rangers 4 Chris Bando cracked two hits, knocked in two runs and scored twice as Cleveland beat Texas and extended its winning streak to a season-high four games. Cory Snyder and Brook Jacoby also hit solo homers for the Indians, who are last in.the AL East. Doug Jones, 3-1, got the victory after taking over for starter Scott Bailes in the fifth inning. Texas starter Jose Guzman, 6-8, held the Indians hitless for the first two innings but was shelled as Cleveland scored three runs in the third and three

highlighted a six-run sixth inning and led Atlanta over visiting Philadelphia. Murphy, who drove in five runs, hit his 25th homer of the season. He hit his fourth career slam and first since 1980. Ken Griffey followed with a home run as the Braves overcame a 6-5 deficit. Jeff Dedmon, 3-3, got the victory. Tom Hume, 1-1, took the loss. Astros 4, Mets 3 Bill Doran hit a solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, leading Houston over New York. Doran hit his Uth homer of the season off Randy Myers, 1-4, spoiling the Mets’ two-run rally in the top of the ninth that made it 3-3. Dave Smith relieved starter Jim Deshaies in the ninth to win his first decision of the season. Reds 7, Expos 2 Nick Esasky hit a three-run homer and Tracy Jones and Dave Parker also homered as Cincinnati defeated

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more in the fourth. Angels 5, Tigers 2 Jack Howell’s sixth-inning homer snapped a 2-2 tie and Don Sutton pitched three-hit ball for seven innings as California beat Detroit for its fifth straight win. Howell’s leadoff home run, his 15th of the season, tagged Jack Morris, 12-4, with the loss, only his second defeat in his last 13 decisions. Sutton, 6-9, didn’t issue a walk and struck out three in gaining his 316th career victory. Brewers 8, Athletics 3 Chris Bosio struck out a careerhigh 10 and combined with Mark Clear on a nine-hitter as Milwaukee took an early seven-run lead and coasted over Oakland. Bosio, 5-2, pitched seven innings, allowing the Athletics seven hits and two runs to earn his second straight victory in only his third start of the year. Mariners 11, Red Sox 5 Phil Bradley and Alvin Davis hit two homers each, including a pair of two-run jobs in a seven-run seventh inning, and Roy Thomas pitched 4 2-3 innings of scoreless relief as Seattle defeated Boston. Bradley, who had hit a solo homer in the third, tied the score 5-5 with his shot. After a single by Dave Valle off Wes Gardner, 0-5, Davis hit the tiebreaking homer.

Montreal. The host Reds beat Montreal for the eighth straight time since July 24, 1986, including five games this season. Bill Gullickson, 9-5, gave up two runs on five hits in seven innings. Gullickson, traded by the Expos to Cincinnati after the 1985 season, is 30 against his former team. Esasky hit his 10th homer in the second inning against Neal Heaton, 10-4, breaking a streak of 20 straight scoreless innings by the Expos’ staff. Cubs-Dodgers Paul Noce homered and drove in five runs and Keith Moreland and Manny Trillo also hit homers, giving Chicago a 12-5 lead over Los Angeles in a game suspended in the sixth inning because of darkness at Wrigley Field. The game was to be resumed this afternoon prior to the regularly scheduled game between the two teams.

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DAVE SMITH 15 saves, 0.52 ERA

From all-star squads

Deserving players

By The Associated Press Terry Leach, Rick Rhoden and Dave Smith all have All-Star stats, just not All-Star status. Leach, a career reliever, became a starter this season when the New York Mets’ pitching staff was decimated by injuries. He has responded with an 8-0 record and a 2.08 earned run average. In 73 2-3 innings, Leach has walked just 13 batters. But Davey Johnson, manager of Mets and the Nationl League All-Stars, picked Leach’s teammate Sid Fernandez, 9-5. “Sure, I’m a little disappointed because I might never get a chance like this again. I was hoping something good might happen at the end,” Leach said. “If I could take nine or 10 pitchers, it might be different,” Johnson said. “With eight, there’s no way I could take Terry. It would’ve been impossible for me to name a guy who’d been both a starter and a long reliever.” Leach started the season as a non-roster player and spent parts of the last two seasons in the minors. “It doesn’t really matter,” Leach said. “I never thought I would’ve gotten this far.” Not making the American League All-Stars did matter to New York Yankees right-hander Rick Rhoden. Rhoden said he was left off the team because of accusations he throws scuffed pitches. “I don’t know what else it could be,” he said Thursday, shortly after the nine-man AL pitching staff was named. “I’m sure they’ll say it wasn’t the reason, but I’d like to know what it was then.” Rhoden, 11-5 with a 3.76 ERA, has won more games than all but two of the AL All-Star pitchers Kansas City’s Bret Saberhagen and Detroit’s Jack Morris. “I deserve to go as much as anybody,” Rhoden said. “I’m a little frustrated and a little angry.”

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ANDRES GALARRAGA Third in NL hitting

In his first 34 2-3 innings this season. Smith allowed 11 hits had 15 saves and a 0.52 ERA for Houston. “Unless you’re voted in by the fans, you can never be sure,” Smith said. “I’m not going to put up any better numbers than I have,” Smith said. “I don’t think I can do any better. “Not everybody is going to make the All-Star team. A lot of players are going to be disappointed this year.” The NL staff includes relievers Steve Bedrosian of Philadelphia, John Franco of Cincinnati and Lee Smith of Chicago. “He (Dave Smith) should be on it. He deserves it, but so does Lee Smith and Bedrosian, and Franco has a couple more saves and about the same ERA,” Johnson said. Johnson picked Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez at first as a reserve over Montreal’s Andres Galarraga, third in the league in batting. “I had a feeling I was going,” Hernandez said. “In fact, my average (.292) is better than it was last year at this time (when Hernandez was named to the NL’s starting squad).” In the American League, California’s Wally Joyner is missing from the stars despite 19 homers and 71 RBI. “It doesn’t matter. That’s not what we play for,” Joyner said. Also missing from the AL team is Toronto’s Jesse Barfield. “Last year I led the major leagues in home runs (with 40),” said Barfield who has 19 home runs and 49 RBI. “And I feel I have good enough stats right now to make it. “I was planning on going so I’m a little disappointed. But I’m a big enough man that I won’t let it get to me. Maybe next year I’ll be voted in.”

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WALLY JOYNER 19 HR, 71 RBI

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