f'g wleI'LMItIcNUSL Ve~ A.s .LAy,1 ^ut T' - Page T welve HE MINHL AN 3A11 W~ednesday, August 4,I V 16 Yank HR's clip Bird, 4-3 Gamble, White hit decisive drives flyThe stoeiad res N W YORK _ c rtGamble's tw-rIo htrnrr in the seventh innig gave the New York Yankees a 4-3 victory over Mark "The Bird" Fidyrch and the Detroit Tigers last night. Gamble connected off the young Detroit ace after Craig Nettles had opened the seventh with a singe. It was only Fidr- ych's fo'trth loss in 15 decisions and it marked the first time the rookie was defeated when De- troit had scored. Grant Jackson, 2-1, the third Yankee pitcher, was the win- ner. Jackson relieved Jim York in the fourth inning af- ter Detroit had scored its third run on a single by Tom Veryzer, a walk to Rusty Staub and Willie Horton's RBI single. - The Tigers scored two un- earned runs in the first inning. Ron LeFlore opened the game with an itfield hit and stole second. After Ritsty Staub walk- ed, Horton grounded to Craig Nettles at third. Nettles, at- tenpting to make the force at second, threw badly, allowing Horton to reach base. LeFlore came home as second baseman Sandy Alomar threw the ball past catcher Thurman M tt n s o n. Jason Thompson's sacrifice fly delivered Staub. The Yankees tied the game in the third when Roy White hit his ninth home run of the sea- son into the right field stands with Fred Stanley on base. The homers by White and Gamble were only the sixth and seventh homers off Fidrych- Twins tumble KANSAS CITY - Sore- legged Hal McRae hobbled around the basepaths with a double and a home run and Buck Martinez added a two-run double last night to spark the Kansas City Royals to a 7-1 triumph over Minnesota and snap the Twins' eight-game winning streak. McRae, playing sporadically since suffering a painful muscle pull July 15, can run only at a trot. His first-inning double off Eddie Bane would have been a triple for an average runner. Bane, 4-2, surrendered three rttns in the first inning on a single by Ceorge Brett and dou- bles by McRae; Amos Otis and John Mayberry. In the third, McRae's solo homer made it 4- 0 and Martinez added his two- run shot later in the inning off reliever Tom Johnson, which scored Mayberry and Al Cow- ens. Sax sag CLEVELAND - Dennis Eckersley pitched a three-hitter and Tommy Smith drove in the winning run with a 10th inning sacrifice fly last night as the Cleveland Indians ended Bos- ton's four-game winning streak with a 1-0 victory. Boston reliever Tom Murphy, 2-5, who relieved starter Luis Tiant at the start of the 10th, was tagged with the loss. Tiant allowed only three hits in his nine innings. Breson,%i Fisk sign con tracts fty The Associated Press B O S T O N - Shortstop Rick Burleson and catcher Carlton Fisk have agreed to multi-year contracts with the Boston Red Sox, the American Leafue club said yesterday. G e n e r a I Manager Dick O'Co,nell said he looks for out- fielder Fred Lynn to come to tertts within the next few days. Lynn is the only remaining holdout on the team. Red Sox officials said Bur- leson and Fisk agreed to the terr-ts in telephone conversa- tions from Cleveland where the team is playing the Indians. Contract signing was scheduled to take place in Detroit Wednesday where the Sox move for a series against the Tigers. ;r5 AP Photo MARK "TIlE B I R D" FIDRYCH expresses his disgust at getting his feathers ruffled by a two-run homer by Roy White. Later in the game, Oscar Gamble added another two-run blast to give the Bird his fourth loss of the season, 4-3, though only his first in which the Tigers scored any runs. M.jor iud Garry Maddox hits grand slam NATIONAL LAUL AMERICAN LEAGUE iadeiphi W t. .116 - NewP Y.k 63 35 .610 GEt. o Ph l es sp it w it Ubs etsburgh 57 47 .549 13 Baltimore 52 51 .505 11 Phi Pitt New York 53 55 .49o 19 Chicago 46 60 .433 25 St. Louis 44 58 .430 25 Montreal 36 62 .367 31 Cincinnati 68 38 .640 - Los Angeles 58 46 .558 9 Houesto a55 5t .5ti 14 San Diego si5 as8.468 18- Atlanta 47 59 .442 21 San Francisso 46 61 .430 ?2t4 Vesterday's Results Phladelphia 0-8, Chicago 4-5 Pittsbturght-2, St. Losis 1-4 Atlanta 7. San Diego 3 New Yoork 9, Montreal 8 Cincinnati at San Francisco, n. Ronston at Los Angeles, a.i Today', Games Montreal (Carrithers 5-6) at New York (Koosman 12-.). ?:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Christenson 10-5) at Chicago (Renko 4-6), ,.30 p.m. Cincinnati (Gullett 7-3) at San Francisco (Montetusco 10-9), 4:05 p.m. San Diego (strom 9-12) at Atlan- ta (RuthVen 11-9), 5 p.M. St. Lois (Forsch 5-6) at Pitts- burgh (Candelaria 10-4). 7:35 p.m. Houston (Richard 12-11) at Los Angeles (Rau 10-7), 10:30 p.m. Cleveland 51 51 .500 12 Detroit 48 53 .475 14t Boston 48 55 .466 151t Milwaukee 45 55 .450 17 West Kansas City 62 40 .608 - Minnesota 54 51 .514 9'-- takland 54 52 .509 10 Texas 09 53 .000 13 Chicago 46 57 .447 161' California 46 60 .434 18 Yesterday's Results Clevelansd 1, Bostono0, 10innsins New York 4. Detroit 3 Milwaukee 4. Baltimore ? Kansas City 7. Minnesota I Oakland 7. Chicago 3 Califoria 4, Texas 0 Today's Games Baltimore (Palmer 14-9) at Cleve- land (Bibby 7-3), 7:30 p.m. Boston (Jenkins 10-8) at Detroit (Roble 6-8). 8 p.m. New York (Holtzman 8-7 and lioter 11-10) at Milwaukee (slaton 10-8 and Travers 12-8), 8:30 p.m. Minnesota (Singer 8-7) at Kansas City (Leonard 12-4), 8.30 p.m. Oakland (Mitchell 7-5) at Chicago Brett 6-5). 9 p.m. California (Ryan 8-13) at Texas (Umharger 7-8). 9 p.m. By The Associated Press C H I C A G O- G a r r y Maddox' grand - slam home run c a r r i e d the Philadelphia Phillies to an 8-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs yesterday for a doubleheader split. Rookie Wayne Tyrone's first major league homer and Jerry Morales' 12th of the season backed the nine-hit shutout pitching of Rick Reuschel and gave the Cubs a 4-0 triumph in the opener. Maddox' homer was his sixth of the season and his second career grand slam. It came in the fourth off loser Steve Stone, 2-4, after the Phillies had loaded the bases on sins eglby Tim McCarver and Larry Bowa and a walk to Dave Cash. Steve Carlton, 12-4, was staked to a four-run lead in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Mike Schmidt, a run-scor- ing double by Jay Johnstone and a two-run single by Mc- Carver. Ron Reed relieved in the eighth to pick up his eighth save. The Cubs got two back in the bottom of the first on a leadoff inside - the - park homer by Joe Wallis and a run-scoring double by Morales. Carlton then retired 15 straight batters be- fore Tyrone singled in the sixth and scored ahead of Bill Madlock's 11th homer. Kranepool kiouts NEW YORK - Ed Krane- pool's 100th career home run, with one man on in the eighth inning, enabled the New York Mets to battle back for a 9-8 victory over the Montreal Ex- pos last night. Montreal had scored six runs in the seventh and eighth in- nings to go ahead 8-7. But Felix Millan beat out an infield hit off pitcher Joe Kerrigan in the eighth and Kranenool hit his seventh homer of the season over the right-field fence. The loss went to Kerrigan, 1- 1, while Bob Apodaca, the fourth New York nitcher, pick- ed up the win to lift his record to 2-5. The Exoos took an 8-7 lead into the bottom of the eighth after scoring the lead run on an error by shortstop Mike Phil- lips, who stumbled and fell while fielding a ground ball with two out and the bases loaded.