Page 12-Thursday, August 9, 1979-The Michigan Daily
MAJOR LE AGUE ROUNDUP
Indians snap Bosox streak,6-4
By The Assocaied Press leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a come-from-behind 8-4 victory over the T
BOSTON-Bobby Bonds and Toby Harrah collected three hits apiece yesterday York Mets.
and the Cleveland Indians snapped Boston's four-game winning streak with a 6-4 Pete Vuckovich, 11-8, was tagged for four-runs in the first inning but allo
victory in the first half of a day-night doubleheader. only three hits the rest of the way, pitching the Cardinals to their fourth4
Veteran Rick Wise allowed 11 hits but picked up his ninth victory in the last 10 secutive victory.
decisions with four innings of relief from Sid Monge. Wise's record improved to 12- Reitz' three-run homer, following singles by Ted Simmons and Tony Scott
6 as Monge collected his 14th save. the Cards back in the game against Andy Hassler, 3-4.
The Indians picked up an unearned run in the fourth, but slugger Jim Rice put St. Louis kayoed Hassler in the fifth with Hendrick's two-run homer cappi
Boston in front 2-1 with his 29th homer in the fifth. four-run rally. Garry Templeton and Jerry Mumphrey singled and, after K
The Indians rebounded by shelling Boston starter Bob Stanley, 11-8, in a three- Hernandez flied out, Simmons' double scored both runners. Wayne Twit
run sixth. relieved Hassler and Hendrick greeted him with a long drive into the left f
Rick Manning and Bonds singled, and Harrah tied the score 2-2 with a line seats for a 7-4lead.
double to left. Tom Burgmeier replaced Stanley and, after striking out one batter The Cards added a run in the sixth when Ken Oberkfell tripled and score
and giving up an intentional walk, was tagged for a two-run single by Duane Vuckovich's single up the middle.
Kuiper.
Cleveland nailed down the decision in the seventh, scoring two runs on a single Pirates 5 Cubs 2
by Mike Hargrove, a wind-blown triple by Bonds off reliever Dick Drago and a wild
pitch. CHICAGO-Phil Garner's three-run homer off Dick Tidrow in the
Giants 10, Padres 7 inning yesterday lifted the Pittsburgh Pirates a 5-2 victory over the Chicagot
Vr and their sixth triumph in seven games.
SAN FRANCISCO-Left-hander John Curtis knocked in three runs with a The homer off Tidrow, 8-3, was the Pirates' third of the contest and Garr
pair of singles and Mike Ivie hit two solo home runs yesterday, helping the San eighth of the year. It followed two-out singles by Rennie Stennett and Ed Ott
Francisco Giants to a 10-7 victory over the San Diego Padres. gave the victory to the Pirates' fourth pitcher, Kent Tekulve, 6-6.
San Francisco took a 1-0 lead against Bob Shirley, 5-12, in the second when Ivie A fifth-inning homer by Bill Madlock and a seventh-inning blast by
hit his 18th home run of the season. The Giants added two runs in the fourth on Milner had given the Pirates a 2-1lead.
Darrell Evans' 15th homer, Johnnie LeMaster's single, an intentional walk to Den- But the Cubs tied it in the bottom of the ninth when Barry Foote's singl
nis Littlejohn and a run-scoring single by Curtis. Tekulve scored Jerry Martin from second. Martin had walked and mov
San Francisco sent 11 batters to the plate for five runs in the fifth off relievers second on a single by Steve Ontiveros.
Rollie Fingers and Mark Lee. Milner's 14th homer of the season, which barely made it over the right.
Curtis, 7-7, blanked the Padres until the sixth, when Ozzie Smith singled, Paul wall, was hit off Lynn McGlothen. To that point, the only runs were a leadoff h(
Dade walked and Dave Winflied hit his 26th home run of the season. by Ivan DeJesus off Jim Bibby in the Chicago first and Madlock's 10th o
Curtis departed in the ninth, when the Padres scored their final two runs. Greg season leading off the fifth.
Minton and Gary Lavelle finished up.
Cards 8, Mets 4
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By GEOFF LARCOM
special toThe Daly
DETROIT - After dropping a twin-
bill to the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday
night, the Texas Rangers decided
they'd had enough of that kind of action.
So, in danger of slipping a notch fur-
ther away from California in the tight
AL race, the Rangers brought out the
heavy artillery at Tiger Stadium last
night, bombarding Detroit 16-9 in the
opener of the second straight twinbill
between the two teams.
Ageless Fergusen Jenkins picked up
the win for Texas, going eight innings in
what could only be described as a pit-
cher's dream. Jenkins' teammates ex-
ploded for four quick first inning runs
off Tiger starter and loser Pat Under-
wood, now 6-3, and never came close to
trailing as the durable righthander up-
ped his record to 11-8.
BUT THE Tigers didn't exactly roll
over and play dead for Jenkins, rapping
out 11 hits, including homerun shots by
Champ Summers and Steve Kemp, who
remains the junior circuit's second
leading hitter.
It wasn't nearly enough though, as
Texas showeredDetroit with 17 hits, the
big blow coming off the bats of third
baseman Eric Soderholm, who had two
homeruns - one of them a three-run
blast - and Al Oliver and Micky
Rivers, who chipped in a circuit clout
apiece.
Soderholm continued, as he has
throughout his big league career, to
feast on Tiger pitching, picking-up a
base hit along with his homers and
going three-for-four.'
OLIVER meanwhile, upset at playing
leftfield since the Rangers' acquisition
of Rivers, helped to seal the Tigers' fate
with a double anda single to go with his
solo shot off reliever John Hiller in the
sixth inning.
For Underwood, early Ranger hits
spelled a not-so-welcome chance to cool
off from the muggy heat with a clubhouse
shower.
Rivers led off the game with a double,
and then sped home on shortstop Buddy
Bell's two-base shot. Oliver then
worked Underwood for a walk and
scored on Richie Zisk's single, with Zisk
then being tagged out trying for second.
Soderholm then cranked his seventh
home run of the season to make it4-0.
THAT WAS IT for Underwood, Tiger
manager Sparky Anderson sending in
Steve Baker, who finally retired the hit
happy Rangers.
The Tigers answered back with two in
their half of the second, on a walk to
Champ Summers, a perfect hit-and-run
single to right by Jerry Morales and
catcher Lance Parrish's line drive
double down the leftfield line.
The Rangers had their guns ready,
nicking the Tiger arms for two more in
the third inning, then following that
with three in the fifth, five in the sixth
and single runs in the seventh and
eighth.
SCOES
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American League
Texas 16, Detroit 9, istgame
(Tiger won the 2nd game)
cleveland 6, Boston 4, istgame
clevelandsBoston2,a2ndgame
calliornia S, Oakland i
New York 4, chicago3
National League
cincinnati, a aiLag
Philadelphia 4, Montreal 3
St.Louiss, New York 4
an Francsco10 an Dego7
Pitsburgh 5 cgo2
A losing RECORD A
Matt Keough of the Oakland A's throws to Brian Downing of the Cali-
fornia Angels during second inning action yesterday in Oakland. Keough
entered the game with an 0-13 record and left after 3% innings after giving
up 3 runs on nine hits. California went on to win the game 8-1 behind Don
Baylor's four hits and three RBIs.
Keough got the loss and it tied him with Joe Harris for the most con-
secutive losses at the start of a season. Hariscame out of the gates and .
went 0-14 for the 1906 Red Sox.