8B - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, April 22, 1996 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Brewers take 7th straight A's stop Sox; Griffey, Martinez each go deep twice The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The pressure of a winning streak can be almost as difficult as a losing streak. Teams that are winning, though, somehow find "way to keep it going. The Milwaukee Brewers rallied for four runs in the eighth yesterday to beat Kansas City for their seventh straight win, while sending the Royals to iheir fifth straight loss and seventh in eight games. "It was kind of a somber attitude on the bench all day," said Jeff Cirillo, whose single drove in :4e final run of the rally as the Brewers swept the Royals in a four-game series for the first time ever. -"It was kind of quiet. Then Kevin Seitzer gets a fit. And (Hipolito Pichardo) throws high and tight t Greg Vaughn. I think that kind of woke us up." Pinch hitter Jesse Levis had a two-run single in the rally. "This is a real confidence booster for me," said fevis. "Not playing every day, it gives me a chance to show skip I can make some contact and put the ball in play and drive in some runs. That really helps me out a lot." OAKLAND 6, CHICAGO WHITE Sox 5 Pinch-hitter Pedro Munoz doubled home the go- ahead run in the seventh inning as the Oakland Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 yesterday and stopped a four-game losing streak. Frank Thomas, Chris Snopek and and Ron Karkovice homered for the White Sox, who had won three straight. SEATTLE 9, TORONTO 5 Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez twice hit consecutive home runs, leading Randy Johnson and the Seattle Mariners past the Toronto Blue Jays 9-5 yesterday. Though not his usual, overpowering self, Johnson (4-0) stopped a two-game Seattle losing streak for the third time this year. He gave up four runs, one of them unearned, in five innings and struck out six. Griffey hit a two-run homer in the second in- ning and Martinez followed with a home run off Erik Hanson (2-3). TEXAS 9, BALTIMORE 6 Dean Palmer hit a grand slam and a two-run homer yesterday, and the Texas Rangers over- came another leadoff home run by Brady Ander- son to beat the Baltimore Orioles 9-6 for a three- game sweep. Palmer's second two-homer game of the week- end-he also did it Friday -and the second four- hit game of his career kept the Rangers off to the best start in club history and the best in the majors at 13-4. CLEVELAND 11, BOSTON 7 Carlos Baerga drove in five runs, matching his career high, and Manny Ramirez homered twice Sunday as the Cleveland Indians came from behind to beat the reeling Boston Red Sox 11-7. Cleveland, aided by nine walks, completed a three-game sweep ofthe Red Sox and improved to 7-0 against them this season. Boston has lost 1I of its last 12 games to fall to 3-15 for only the second time in franchise history. Clemens, who did not get the decision, is off to the worst start of his career at 0-3 after five starts. Reliever Brad Pennington (0-2) took the loss. NEW YORK YANKEES 9, MINNESOTA 5 Kenny Rogers, finally getting a chance to pitch for his new team, held Minnesota hitless until the sixth inning yesterday and ledthe New York Yankees past the Twins 9-5. Rogers (1-0) allowed only an infield hit, worked around five walks and did not give up a run in 5 1- 3 innings of his Yankees debut. Signed to a $20 million, four-year contract in January, Rogers lost his spot in the rotation after a poor showing in the exhibition season and began the year in the bullpen. Rogers did not work in relief and, after two potential debuts were postponed because of bad weather, was sent to Florida to pitch April 12 in an extended spring training game. Rogers left after an infield hit by Chuck Knoblauch with one out in the sixth and a walk ran his pitch count to 85. ~ . Angels use. COmeback 0k over t1gers The Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. - Garret Anderson's RBI triplecapped California's four-run eighth inning Sunday night that sent the Angels to their fifth straight win, 6-5 over the Detroit Tigers. Detroit starter Greg Gohr took a 5=2 lead and a three-hitter into the eighth before the Angels rallied to send the Ti- gers to their fifth consecutive loss. Reliever Mark Eichhorn (1-1) carn4 the victory with three scoreless innings. Troy Percival got three outs for his sixth save. Danny Bautista's two-run homer and Kimera Bartee's RBI single in'the sixth inning had given the Tigers a 5-2 lead. But Gohr was unable to protect his lead ,r .in the eighth. Gary DiSarcina's single chased the right-hander, who was re- placed by Richie Lewis (1-1). Randy Velardethen singled before Jim Edmonds double made it 5-3. ' Velarde scored on Tim Salmon's grounder, and Chili Davis followed with a bloop RBI single to center to tie it at 5. One out later, Anderson tripled into the right-field corner to score Davis withthe go-ahead run. Bautista's first homer of the season snapped a 2-2 tie in the sixth inningw Eddie Williams singled to open t ie sixth off starter Jim Abbott, and Bautist 0-for-9 lifetime against the Californi pitcher, homered to left field. Following Bautista's homer, Alan Trammell singled to chase Abbottls 6le second and scored on Bartee's single Off Eichhorn. Abbott allowed five runs and six hits in five-plus innings. He struck out one while matching his career high with six walks. & Abbott had also walked six Tigers on t F; May 8, 1993. California took a 1-0 lead in the first without the benefit of a hit as Gohr's wild pitch scored Velarde, who had walked and worked his way to third on a walk and s a fielder's choice. - Don Slaught's solo homer, his third, gave the Angels a 2-0 lead in the second. 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Mark Grace hit three doubles for the second time this season, the sixth time in his career. Luis Gonzalez drove in three runs. SAN DIEGO 2, ATLANTA I Rookie pitcher Tom Thobe made two errors that let San Diego score the go- aheadrun inthe 15th inning, then grounded out to end the game yesterday, giving the Padres a 2-1 win over the Atlanta Braves. Steve Finley hit a sacrifice fly in the Padres 15th. But with a runner on first and two outs in the Atlanta half, the Padres intentionally walked Fred McGriff. The Braves, with no position players left to pinch hit, let Thobe bat for the first time in the majors. After badly missing the first pitch, he grounded weakly to second. COLORADO 6, NEW YORK METS 4 Just when the New York Mets seemed poised for their first two-game winning streak, John Franco and Lance Johnson combined to boot it away. 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