Page 12-Thursday, August 2, 1979--The Michigan Daily MAJOR LE AGUE ROUNDUP ARLIP reliever and pre tory oft] two-run winning over the Come in the se and con Tramme Kern shuts door on Tige By the AssoclatedPress score 4-3, Rangers, and the tying run on moved to second when Johnny Grubb NGTON, Texas-Texas Rangers second base, Kern came on to strike out was safe on an error. Sundberg then Jim Kern earned his 18th save Lou Whitaker. tripled into the left field corner on a ball served Steve Comer's 12th vic- Texas jumped on Tigers starter Milt left fielder Steve Kemp had trouble he season while Jim Sundberg's Wilcox (8-5) for a run in the third inning running down. triple provided the game- on Dave Roberts' double down the left run last night in a 4-3 victory field line and Mickey Rivers' RBI Braves 5, Padres 4 Detroit Tigers. single. ATLANTA-Bob Horner's two-run r (12-6) was chased with two out Texas broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth on a single and Dale Murphy's three-run venth inning on a walk, a single walk, a sacrifice and Buddy Bell's homer highlighted a five-run eighth- secutive RBI singles by Alan single. inning outburst and carried the Atlanta ell and Ron LeFlore. With the In the sixth, Richie Zisk singled and Braves to a 5-4 victory over the San rs, 4-3 Diego Padres last night. San Diego's Dave Winfield, who en- tered the game with hits in his last eight at-bats, went hitless in four trips to the plate. The Padres' Randy Jones was lifted in the eighth following consecutive singles by pinch-hitter Jeff Burroughs and Jerry Royster, his third hit of the game. Garry Matthews loaded the bases with a single off reliever Rollie Fingers and Horner hit a two-run single to left. Murphy then sent his 15th homer of the season over the right field fence. San Diego had taken a 4-0 lead on solo homers by Dan Briggs and Gene Tenace, a sacrifice fly to Jerry Turner and an RBI single by Jones. A's 7, Twins 1 OAKLAND-Rick Langford hurled the fourth consecutive complete game by an Oakland pitcher, leading the A's tok a 7-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins yesterday. Right-hander Langford (6-12) recor- ded his fifth complete game of the season and allowed eight hits as the A's won for the fifth time in their last seven games. Before the hot streak, Oakland was 4-26 over a 33-day period. Express blank Houston PONTIAC (UPI) - Trevor Francis scored two goals and Jim Brown recorded his sixth shutout of the season last night to give the h Detroit Express a 2-0 North American Soccer League victory over the Houston Hurricane. Detroit snapped the scoreless deadlock when Roger Osborne headed the ball away from Houston goalie Paul Hammond and Francis booted it into an open net at 53:25. It was the 11th straight game in which Francis either has scored a goal or drawn } an assist. Francis added his second goal, with Osborne recording another assist, with 2:30 to go in the mat- ch. ST. LOUIS CARDINAL outfielder Bernie Carbo tries to dance around Pittsburgh catcher Ed Ott, but he gets tagged out in plenty of time. Carbo attempted to score from first on a double by Mike Phillips. The play turned out to be crucial, as the Pirates won, 4-3. Consecutwe hits most singles.. . No pressure there, % NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Rose is at winter, had four hits - all singles - in it again, yesterday's 9-6 Phillies win over the This time, the switch-hitting Rose is New York Mets. taking dead aim at two more National THAT SPURT raised his career total League records - consecutive hits and to 2,422 singles, only four shy of most singles ina career. Wagner's all-time N. L. total, and gave Rose, in his first season with the him eight hits in his last eight official Philadelphia Phillies after a 16-year at-bats. Seven times in N. L. history, a career with the Cincinnati Reds and a batter has had 10 hits in 10 straight at massive free agent contract signing last bats. The major league record is 12, shared by two American Leaguers. SCORES Rose and the Phillies have a twi-night doubleheader today against the Mets at Shea Stadium, the same park where Texa meriaLeague Rose tied, and then broke the N. L. con- New York 9, Chicago 1 secutive-game modern hit record of 37 Oakland 7, Minnesota 1 last season during his 44-game batting National League streak. Philadelphia 9, New York 6 "It'll be tough," said Rose after Atlanta 5, San Diego 4 yesterday's game, "because the first Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3 game will be in twilight." Lefthander Pete Falcone, (2-7), is expected to be the New York starter in the first game of the doubleheader, but Rose didn't care who was pitching - or even if he got a hit. "I FIGURE I'm going to get a good at pitch because Schmitty (Mike Schmidt) and Bull (Greg Luzinski) are coming up next. But if I go 0-for-8 and we win two games, what's the difference?" Rose being held hitless in a Open 11:30am M-F doubleheader is a somewhat unlikely 1 pm Sat & Sun possibility. In fact, it hasn't happened yet this year. As for Wagner's singles' record, Rose ;ays Rose thought, "It's just a matter of time, there's no pressure there." WAGNER, A Hall of Fame shortstop, played with the old Louisville Colonels and the Pittsburgh Pirates in the N.L from 1897 to 1917. Ed Delehanty, another Hall of Famer, was the first to get 10 hits in 10 straight official at-bats. He turned the trick in 1897 and, later the same season, Jacob Gettman of Washington matched it. Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST W L Pct. GB Baltimore............71 34 .676 - Boston ................ 62 40 .608 7% Milwaukee ............ 63 43 .594 8% New York............57 48 .543 14 Detroit ................ 53 50 .515 17 Cleveland............53 52 .505 18 Toronto..............32 74 .302 39% WEST California............61 46 .570 - Minnesota............55 48 .534 4 Texas..............55 49 .529 4 / Kansas City ...........52 52 .500 7 / Chicago ............... 46 59 .438 14 Seattle....... ....45 53 .417 16 Oakland ............. 30 77 .280 31 Yesterday's games not included NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L Pct. GB Montreal.............57 43 .570 - Pittsburgh.............57 45 .569 1 Chicago ............... 54 46 .540 3 Philadelphia .......... 54 49 .524 4 St. Louis ............... 51 49 .510 6 New York............43 56 .434 13 WEST Houston.............61 47 .565 - Cincinnati...........5851 .532 3 San Francisco .... 52 55 486-- 8 / San Diego...........49 59 .454 12 Los Angeles . 45 61 .425 15 Atlanta.............43 63 .406 17 Yesterday's games not included