Hoge Twelve . HE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, August 18, 1976 Kimm 's homer nips Angels Eighth-inning smash wins for Bird, 3-2 By The Associated P'ess D E T R O IT - Bruce Kimm smashed Frank Tanana's first pitch of the eighth inning into the upper deck in left field for his first major league home. run, giving the Detroit Tigers and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych a 3-2 victory over the California An- gels last night. Mitsi, who has heen the catcher in every start hy rookie sensation Fidrych, bounded around the bases with his arms raised, jumping for joy all the way, even after crossing the plate. Kimm originally was An- gels property but Detroit ac- quired him in a minor league trade in 1973.' The blast raised Fidrych's record to 14-4 while dropping Detroit native Tanana to 14-9 despite a four-hitter. Fidrych, who allowed five hits, wound up with his 16th complete game in 19 starts. He went into the game with a major league-leading 1.97 earned run average. Primarily because of the an- ticipated matchup between the two pitching stars, the game drew a crowd of 51,822-largest for a night game at Tiger Sta- dium in six years and largest for any game in Detroit in more than three years. California took a 2-0 lead off Fidrych with a run in the fifth inning and another in the sixth. California's Ron Jackson nailed a 1-2 pitch for a solo homer with two out in the fifth. An inning later, Dave Collins led off with a single, was sacrificed to second, took third on a wild pitch and s-ored on a sacrifice fly by Bruce Bochte. But the Tigers tied the score with a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth. Kimm hogan the rally with a one-out walk and scored on a triple by Ron Le- Flore. Alex Johnson sent Le- Flore home with a sacrifice fly. Detroit keptthe inning going when Rusty Staub singled and Willie Horton walked, but Jason Thompson ended the uprising by taking a third strike. Tanana fanned six and Thompson was the victim three times. Doyle deals NEW YORK-Craig Nettles slammed his 19th home run of the season on rookie Tommy Boggs' first pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the New York Yankees a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers last night behind Doyle Alexander's five-hit pitching. Oscar Gamble's 12th home run with two out in the bottom of the fifth was the Yankees' first hit off Boggs, 0-3, and the game's only run until the Rangers tied the score in the top of the ninth. Alexander, 8-8, walked Toby Harrah, the first Texas batter, and Mike Hargrove singled him to third. Harrah scored the tying run when Jeff Burroughs grounded deep in the hole to shortstop Fred Stnley, whose only play was a forceout at second. MARK "THE BIRD" FIDRYCH uncorks a pitch during a recent game at Tiger Stadium. Last night, Fidrych pulled off his 14th win, a 3-2 decision. PhillieS bomb Expos, 11-3; Braves clip Cincinnati, 3-2 By The Assocatled ress P 1I L A D E L P H I A - Jay Johnstone ripped a double and three singles and batted in five runs while Greg Lttinski collected a homer and four RBI as the Philadelphia Phillies bat- tered the ;Montreal Expos 11-3 last night. Winner Tommy Underwood, 8-3, allowed just four hits, striking ostt five and walking fosur. One of the Montreal runs was unearned. The Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the first inning off Steve Rogers, 5-11, who had allowed only two earned runs over his last 25 2-3 innings. Dave Cash started the game with the first of his four singles and Larry Bowa scored him with a triple. Rogers departed in the third Major League Standings AMERICAN LEA1,UE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East nw L Prt. GB w L Pt. Gi New York 71 45 .612 - Philadelphia 76 40 .655 - Baltimore 61 54 .534 '.. Pittsburgh 64 52 .552 12 Cleveland 57 59 .491 14 New fork 61 58 .513 16'. Detroit 56 60 .483 15 Chicago 55 67 .451 24 Boston 54 61 .470 16. St. Louil 50 65 435 25', Milwaukee S1 6' .451 18'. Montreal 41 72 .363 33' west west Kaisas City 11 45 .612 - Cincinnati ,6 44 .633 - Oakland 65 54 .546 ' Los Angeles 63 54 .538 1 ti Minnesota 57 61 .483 15 San Diego 60 63 .488 17 Texas 56 6 ? A75 16 oston 59 64 .480 18' Chies;e 50 67, A- ,21l Atlanta 56 64 .467 20 Calito'nia 50 O6 C20 T'. San Vrancisco 51 69 425 25 Yesterday's Results late grmes not included Chicago 2. oston 1, first game Yesterday's Results New York C. Texas 1 Philadelphia 11, Montreal 3 Detroit 3. Calitornia Atlania 3. Cincinnati 2 Oakland 5, MIlwaukee 4 St. Louis 9, San Diego 4 Cleveland at Kansas City. i Botiston 0. Chicago I Baltimore 10. Minnesota 3 Pittsburgh at San Francisco,U Today's Games New York at Los Angeles, n California (Iyan 9-15) at Dttroit (Ruhle 7-9), 8 p.m. Today's Games Texas (Umbarger 8-9) at New Nor ' Pittsburgh (Candelaria 11-4) at (Holtzman 10-8), 8 p.m. San IFrancisco (Montefusco 13-9). Oakland (Blue 11-10) at Milwau- Montreal (Rogers 5-10) at Phtla- kee (Slaton 13-10), 8:30 p.m. delphia (Lonborg 12-8), n. Cleveland (Eckersley 7-10) at Atlanta (Ruthven 13-10) at Cin- Kansas City (Fitzmorris 14-8), 8:30 cinn.ll (Billingham 10-8), n. p.m. San Diego (Jones 19-7) at S1. Baltimore (Palmer 16-10) at Min- Louis (Falcone 9-11), 1-t nesota (Gottz 9-12), 9 p.m. New York (Seaver 9-8) at Los aoston (Jenkins 11-10) at Chicago Angeles (Jahn -9), a. (F'orster 2-9). 9 pinm. Only games scelted when the Phillies scored four runs on five hits, including a three-run double by Johnstone and an RBI single by Luzinski. The Phils added one run in the fourth during a rundown play and two more in the fifth on Luzinski's 18th home run. The Phillies scored three more runs in the sixth on a bases - loaded walk to Luzinski and a two-run single by John- stone. Cincy slips C I NCI NN AT I -Pinch- hitter Tom Pacicrek's two-out, eight inning single lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 3-2 victory over Cincinnati last night, ex- tending the Reds' longest losing streak of the season to four. Jerry Royster drew a one out walk from Manny Sarmi- ento to start the rally, then stole second off reliever Bill McEnaney. Royster went on to third on Rowland Office's groundout and scored on Pa- ciorek's single. Adrian Devine, 2-3, got the victory, bailing the Braves Out of a bases - loaded jam in the seventh. Sarmiento, 2-1, the Reds' 20-year-old reliever, took the loss. Devine relieved starter Frank LaCorte when the Reds loaded the bases on a single by Pete Rose and walks to Joe Morgan and George Foster. Devine then got Tony Perez to ground into an inning ending double play. FRED STANLEY STRUGGLES to keep his ba being upended by Texas runner Gene Clines last . ley's Yanks beat the Rangers, 2-1.