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Evans lifts Boston to within one game of title
By The Associated Press In a lot of ways, Dwight Evans is what the Boston Red Sox are all about. Evans has been with the Red Sox since 1972. He has played in two World Series and his team lost them both in seven games. HE WAS AROUND in 1978 when Boston blew a 14 Vi-game lead to the Yankees in July and lost in a one-game playoff on Bucky Dent’s three-run homer at Fenway Park. But Evans is back again, one victory away from being on the American League East champions. Boston clinched a tie for the East title Monday night as Evans snapped an eighth-inning tie with a run-scor-ing single to give the Red Sox a 4-3 victory over Chicago. The win moved the Red Sox two games ahead of Toronto with two games left for each team. The Blue Jays lost to Baltimore 6-3 and will be eliminated tonight if the Red Sox win or they lose. THE RED SOX, with Evans, also won the AL East
Giants racing Dodgers for second place
By The Associated Press Just because it’s over doesn’t mean it’s ALL over. The National league division titles have been decided but “if you can’t get first (place), you want second,” San Francisco’s Kevin Bass said after the Giants lost to Atlanta 5-3 Monday night and fell into third place in the NL West, one game behind Los Angeles, which beat San Diego 2-1. “SURE YOU DO (watch the scoreboard),” Giants manager Roger Craig conceded. “We’re trying to get into second place. We’ve got to win the next two games and hope they (the Dodgers) lose.” “Of course I was watching what was happening to L.A.,” added Giants catcher Gary Carter, who appeared as a pinch hitter. “I didn’t have anything else to do in the bullpen except watch the scoreboard.” Elsewhere, it was New York 4, Pittsburgh 1; Cincinnati 4, Houston 3; Philadelphia 7, Chicago 6; Montreal 15, St. Louis 9. Dodgers 2, Padres 1 Ramon Martinez capped his first full season in the major leagues with his 20th victory and Eddie Murray singled home the winning run in the ninth inning. In becoming the second-youngest 20-game winner in Dodgers history behind Ralph Branca (1947), Martinez (20-6) recorded his major leagueleading 12th complete game with a jfive-hitter. : Chris Gwynn started the ninth with the sixth hit off Andy Benes (10-11) and took second when center fielder Joe Carta’ fumbled the ball. Murray then grounded a 1-1 pitch out of the reach of first baseman Phil Stephenson to scored pinch-runner Jose Offerman. The Dodgers tied it in the eighth inning when Juan Samuel led off with his 13th home run. Mike Pagliarulo gave San Diego a 1-0 lead in the fifth with his sixth home run. ; “I wasn’t nervous. I just went put there trying to be relaxed,” Martinez said. “When Eddie got the base hit I was almost at home plate. I’ve never felt this way in my life. “I feel so special because there aren’t that many pitchers who win 20 games. I’m really happy to be one of them in my first year. My career is just starting and I hope to win a lot more games.” Martinez fattened up on the NL West with a 13-0 record and 1.92 ERA. “A guy like that comes around once every 10 or 15 years,” the Padres’ Joe Carter said. “He’s going to be around a long time. He had our number. He had the National League West’s number all yearlong.” Braves 5, Giants 3 Francisco Cabrera hit a three-run
China dominating games
: BEUING (AP) China marked its 41st year under communism by reaffirming its traditional supremacy in table tennis, but also won enough in other sports Monday to give the one-time “sick man of Asia” nearly half the gold medals contested at the Asian Games. Officials have made a point of describing their country as a sports basket case that finally has made it to the top in continental competition. Nobody is arguing. The hosts already have captured
in 1988, but have not won a World Series title since 1918, when a fellow named Babe Ruth helped them to it “This is great, just a great feeling,” Evans, 38, said. “But we still need to win one more.” After the White Sox rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth off Dana Kiecker and Larry Andersen, Boston came right back. Reliever Ken Patterson walked Watte Boggs to start the eighth. Barry Jones (11-4) relieved and was greeted by Ellis Burks with a single off the left field wall. Boggs, however, was thrown out at third by Ivan Calderon, with Burks taking second on the throw. MIKE GREENWELL WAS walked intentionally and Evans followed with his third hit of the game, a ground single to center. “The job’s not over yet,” Evans said. “We want to win this thing; we don’t want to back into it” Jeff Reardon (5-3) got the victory by bailing out Andersen in the eighth.
homer and John Smoltz broke a personal four-game losing streak against San Francisco. Smoltz (1411) was 0-4 with an 8.00 ERA in his other four starts against San Francisco. He yielded three hits in seven innings, including a home run by Ernest Riles. Ron Gant opened the Atlanta fourth with a single off loser Trevor Wilson (8-7) and Dave Justice walked. After Jim Presley struck out, Cabrera hit his seventh homer for a 3-1 lead. Jeff Blauser’s RBI single in the sixth made it 4-1 and Jeff Treadway hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth for Atlanta’s final run. San Francisco’s Will Clark tied the NL mark of 13 sacrifice flies by a left-handed batter set in 1971 by Philadelphia’s Willie Montanez and equaled in 1988 by Pittsburgh’s Andy Van Slyke. Mets 4, Pirates 1 David Cone pitched a three-hit-ter, struck out 12 and hit two runscoring singles. Cone (14-10) improved his career record against the NL East champion Pirates to 6-0 and leads the league with 233 strikeouts. Pittsburgh’s run was unearned. The second-place Mets, who were eliminated from the race on Sunday when the Pirates beat St. Louis, scored two unearned runs in the fifth against Zane Smith (12-9). Cone singled home the second one and hit another RBI single off Ted Power in the ninth. Reds 4, Astros 3 The West champion Reds won when Ron Oester scored from second on Houston shortstop Rafael Ramirez’s throwing error in the bottom of the ninth. Brian Meyer (0-4) walked Oester to start the ninth. Todd Benzinger sacrificed and Billy Hatcher hit a grounder to deep short. Ramirez fielded the ball but threw it past first into the Reds’ dugouL Randy Myers (4-6), the fifth Cincinnati pitcher, pitched a perfect ninth. Starter Tom Browning was erratic in his five-irining tune-up for the playoffs. He gave up three runs, eight hits and three walks in five innings and failed to hold a 2-0 lead. Franklin Stubbs homered for Houston, his 23rd, matching his career high with Los Angeles in 1987. Mariano Duncan hit his career-high 10th for Cincinnati. Expos 15, Cardinals 9 Tim Raines’ grand slam off Frank DiPino highlighted a sevenrun seventh inning as Montreal, which had scored only 16 runs in the previous 11 games, used two seven-run outbursts to defeat St. Louis. Raines also had a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning and a careerhigh five RBIs. Raines’ grand slam offset four home runs by the Cardinals, two by Milt Thompson. It was the first time since April 11, 1987, the Cardinals hit four homers in a game.
139 gold medals in the Games’ 308 events, and five days remain in the 37-nation sports fesL Japan has gained 33 golds, South Korea 30 and North Korea 11. China’s 13 victories on National Day included a 1-2 sweep by its world-class shot putters, the 50kilometer walk, the Games’ longest cycling distance and three golds in a sport long associated with the country, table tennis. Japan took four golds and South Korea two. In all, China had 255 medals to 138 for Japan, 119 for South Korea and 65 for North Korea.
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“I was probably as pumped up for the final out as I’ve ever been,” Reardon said after striking out Calderon to end the game. “Coming back from from the (back) surgery, I wanted to be part of it. Now I feel I am.” Orioles 6, Blue Jays 3 Toronto moved within one game of elimination in the East as Baltimore beat the visiting Blue Jays behind the strong pitching of rookie Jose Mesa. Mesa (3-2) gave up four hits and three runs in 7 2-3 innings for his second victory over the Blue Jays in 19 days. Kevin Hickey got one out and Gregg Olson finished for his 37th save. Baltimore trailed 3-1 in the sixth before rallying for three runs against David Wells (11-6). “As long as there are some games left it’s a possibility,” outfielder Mookie Wilson said. “Granted, it’s no easy task. Only a fool would say it would be easy.” Tigers 2, Yankees 0 Rookie Travis Fryman, not Cecil Fielder, homered for Detroit and Frank Tanana pitched three-hit ball for
Strawberry and figures to be the first second baseman to lead the majors in home runs since Rogers Hornsby hit 39 in 1925. (AP wirephoto)
7 1-3 innings as the Tigers beat New York at Yankee Stadium. Fielder went 0-for-4 and stayed stuck at 49 home runs. He struck out three times, increasing his major league-leading total to 179, and grounded weakly to the mound. He has gone 16 at-bats without a home run and has just two games left in his bid to become the first player to hit 50 since George Foster in 1977, and the first American Leaguer to reach the mark since Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961. Angels 2, Athletics 0 California rookie Joe Grahe gave up three hits in 8 1-3 innings to beat Dave Stewart at Oakland. Grahe (3-4), a University of Miami star last year, walked seven but pitched out of jams in the second and sixth innings. Bryan Harvey got the last two outs for his 25th save. Stewart (22-11) yielded two runs on 11 hits for his 11th complete game. His next start will be Game 1 of the AL playoffs, scheduled for Saturday.
Phillies’ Kruk, Cubs’ Sandberg building numbers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The season’s almost ova, the Cubs and Phillies were eliminated long ago, and John Kruk and Ryne Sandberg are feeling relaxed. “I really feel good up there,” said the Phillies’ Kruk, who had a double, triple and three RBl’s as Philadelphia beat Chicago 7-6 Monday night and moved two games ahead of the Cubs in the “battle” for fourth place in the NL East. “I FEEL RELAXED,” Sandberg said. “I got my home run and the two RBl’s I needed.” Sandberg hit his 40th home run and reached 100 in RBIs with a two-run homer in the third. Kruk struggled during the first half of the season but has had a fine second half. In his last 17 games he is 22-for-58 (.379) and has raised his average to .294. “Things are getting better,” he said. “But I wish I had had a better first half. I usually play better in the second half but I don’t know why.” KRUK SAID HE is playing just as hard now, in the season’s last three games, as he had played earlier in the year. “We get paid to play 162 games,” he said, “and I’d like to go home for the winter feeling good
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about myself.” Kruk’s hitting helped the Phillies to a 7-3 lead behind the pitching of Jose DeJesus (7-8), who went six innings. Sandbag has three more homers than New York’s Darryl Strawberry and figures to be the first second baseman to lead the majors in home runs since Rogers Hornsby hit 39 in 1925. SANDBERG STRUCK OUT in the first inning on a DeJesus fast ball. “He threw it right by me the first time,” Sandbag said. “The second time I made contact on a fastball.” “Sandberg is just unbelievable,” said Cubs’ manager Don Zimmer. “You’re talking about the best in his position. In my 42 years in baseball he’s the best second baseman I’ve ever seen.” THE CUBS SCORED three times in the eighth on Marie Grace’s two-run double and an RBI grounder by Andre Dawson. But Phillies’ centerfielder Lenny Dykstra threw out Grace at the plate as he tried to score after a Derrick May fly ball. The Phillies have won 12 of their last 16. Dykstra was 3-for-3 in the game and raised his avaage to .326.
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