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Pgge 10-Sunday, September 16, 1979-The Michigan Daily
SMERICAN LEA GUE ROUNDUP:

Pirates, Reds keep

Tigers split pair with Yanks

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By the Associated Press
NEW YORK-Willie Randolph, Juan Beniqiez and Graig Nettles drove in
two runs apiece to lead the New York Yankees to a 7-1 victory over the Detroit
Tigers and a split of yesterday's doubleheader.
In the opener, Jack Morris and two relief pitchers held the Yankees to six hits
as Detroitposted a 4-3 victory.
Ron Davis, 12-2, the second of three New York pitchers, was the winner in the
second game. The rookie right-hander came on in4he third inning after starter
Don Hood was removed with a bruised left shin sustained on Lynn Jones' inflield
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hit in the second. Jim Kaat pitched the final three innings for the Yankees and
gained his second save.
Davis, who allowed only one hit in four innings, appeared when the Yankees
had -already built a 5-0 lead against Detroit starter Mike Chris, 3-2. New York
socred five times in the second inning when Chris issued three walks and gave up
three hits. Fred Stanley drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly and both Ran-
dolph and Beniquez contributed two-run singles.
Chris was relieved by Jack Billingham in the third when New York scored
again. Reggie Jackson was thrown out trying to stretch his inning-opening single
into a double. George Scott followed with a double and took third on an infield out.
When Nettles doubled Scott home, Billingham relieved Chris.}
Nettles hit his 19th homer with the bases empty in the fifth off Billingham to
account for the final New York run. New York had 14 hits in the game while the
three New York pitchers limited the Tigers to four hits.
Alan Trammell singled home the tie-breaking run in the fifth inning to help
the Tigers win the first game.
Morris, 14-7, worked the first five innings, allowing only three hits and all
three New York runs, two of them coming on Jim Spencer's third-inning homer.
Pat Underwood and Aurelio Lopez finished up, with Lopez gaining his 19th save.
Tommy John, 18-9, was the Yankee loser.
Blue Jays 5, Indians 2
TORONTO-Bob Bailor tripled home two runs to back the pitching of'Balor
Moore and reliever Tom Buskey as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Cleveland
Indians 5-2 yesterday.
Toronto scored an unearned run in the first off Cleveland starter Len Barker,
6-5, on a pair of walks, a passed ball and Roy Howell's double-play grounder.
The Blue Jays took a 2-0 lead in the second on a run-scoring single by Luis
Gomez. Cleveland got a run in the fourth on Ron Pruitt's RBI single but Toronto
took a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the inning on a pair of singles and a double-play
grounder by Gomez.

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By The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - Bill Robinson's
two-out, tie-breaking single in the
seventh inning gave the Pittsburgh
Pirates a 5-4 victory over the New York
Mets yesterday.
The Mets had scored twice in the top
of the seventh to tie the game 4-4 before
Robinson's game-winning blow for the
Pirates.-
The Mets took a 2-0 lead in the first on
Richie Hebner's RBI single and a
sacrifice fly by Ed Kranepool.
Steve Nicosia led off the Pirate third
with a single, took second on a
sacrifice, went to third on Omar
Moreno's single and-scored on a single
by Tim Foli. Moreno stole second, went
to third on Folhs single and scored on
Parker's sacrifice fly to tie the game at
2-2.
The Pirates took a 4-2 lead in the fifth
on a run-scoring single by Foli and an
RBI grounder by Robinson.
Bruce Boisclair led off the Mets'
seventh with a double and one out later,
pinch-hitter Ron Hodges was walked.
Sergio Ferrer, running for Hodges, was
safe at second on Frank Taveras' in-
field grounder to load the bases. John
Stearns grounded to third base, forcing
Boisclair at the plate, but Ferrer and
Taveras scored on Lee Mazzilli's single
to tie the game.
Kent Tekulve recorded his 28th save
for the Pirates in relief of winner Dave
Roberts, 5-3.
Reds 2, Dodgers 1
LOS ANGELES - Dan Driessen
slugged a solo home run with two out in
the top of the ninth inning to break a tie
and give the Cincinnati Reds a 2-1 vic-
tory over the Los Angeles Dodgers
yesterday.

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igh in NL
Mario Soto, 3-2, who relieved starter
Fred Norman, earned the victory with
two scoreless innings of relief. Rookie,
Joe Beckwith, 1-2, who relieved Bob
Welch in the fifth, took the loss, givingi
up both Cincinnati runs.
Dusty Baker homered with one out iii
the fourth inning, his 22nd of the year,.
to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Shut out
for seven innings, the Reds tied' the'
score with one out in the eighth where
Dave Collins cracked his third homer of-
the year.
AMERICAN LEAGUE

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Baltimore................... 96
Milwaukee.................. 85
Boston. 81
New York .......7..........79
Detroit.................... 78
Cleveland..................74
TorontoE...................7
WEST

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California ..................81 66
Kansas City................77 70
Minnesota ............ ...... 75 72
Texas ......................... 74 74
Chicago........... ......... 83
Seattle ..................... 62 86
Oakland ...................52 96
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Montreal................. 8
Pittsburgh .................... 8
St. Louis....................7
Chicago.. .................7
Philadelphia..............
New York ...................5
WEST
Cincinnati .................
Houston .......................8
Los Angeles ...................7
San Francisco.............
San Diego............. ....6
Atlanta . ....................5
(yesterday's games not included)

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SPORTS OF THE DAILY

Winless Lions, Jets c

By The Associated Press
NEW YORK-Both clubs will be
seeking their first victories of the
National Football League season today
at 1 p.m. when the New York Jets host
the Detroit Lions.
Although winless through the first
two weeks of the schedule, the Jets and
Lions had opposite experiences last
week. Detroit came from far behind to
catch Washington only to be beaten 27-
24 by a field goal in the final seconds of
the game. New York, meanwhile, ab-
sorbed the worst defeat in the fran-
chise's history, walloped 56-3 by the
New England Patriots.
Coach Walt Michaels of the Jets
blasted his team after the em-
barrassing loss to the Patriots.
"I know they're young, but they have
to take the responsibility of being part
of professional football," he said. "It's
simply a matter of getting ourselves
together.

The Lions will start rookie Jeff
Komlo at quarterback for the second
straight week, coach Monte Clark an-
nounced. Komlo, a ninth-round choice
from Delaware, hit on 11 of 22 passes
against the Redskins.
Miam n ((.) 15, Kentucky 14
LEXINGTON, Ky.-A clipping
penalty cost Kentucky an apparent
winning touchdown with five seconds
left, and Tommy Griggs then missed a.
34-yardfield goal atterpt.asMiami of
Ohio held on for a 15-14 college football
victory yesterday.
Freshman tailback Chris Jones fell
onto the end zone flag to cap a Kentucky
drive in the fading seconds after Miami
had gone ahead on Mark Hunter's one-
yard run and quarterback Chuck
Hauck's two-point conversion run with
59 seconds left.
The clipping penalty moved Ken-
tucky back to its 17, but the chance of

lash today
victory in the Wildcats' season opener
flittered away a second and fianl time
when Griggs' field goal try sailed off tb'
the left.
Miami, 2-0, was soundly outplayed in'
the first half, falling behind 14-0 when'
Kentucky quarterback Mike Shutt-
scored on a pair of one-yard runs in they
first period.
But the Redskins rallied in the second'
half behind Hauck's passing, drawing
within 14-7 when Hauck passed 39 yard
to Don Treadwell with eight minuts
left in the third quarter.
Wake Forest 22, Georgia 21
ATHENS, Ga.-Jay Venuto fired
three touchdown passes and JameĀ§
McDougald ran for 193 yards as Wake
Forest upset 12th-ranked Georgia 22-21
in college football yesterday.
Venuto connected with McDougald on
a 9-yard pass for the game-winning
touchdown 31 seconds into the final
quarter of a sloppily-played game in
which both teams suffered seven tur-
novers.
Venuto, who completed 20 of 34.
passes for 273 yards, hit on four of five,
for 65 yards in an 89-yard drive that'
erased Georgia's 21-16 lead after three,
quarters.
Venuto's other two touchdown passes
came in the first quarter and covered 16
and 10 yards, both going to Wayne'
Baumgardner.
The Demon Deacons got a 34-yard.'
field goal from Frank Harnisch in'the
third quarter after Georgia had bolted
to a 21-13 halftime lead with two touch-
downs following fumble recoveries irr
the final 90 seconds of the second quar-
ter.
It was the second straight victory for
the Deacons, who won only one game
last season.

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