The Michigan Daily-Thursday, May 14, 1981-Page 19
MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP
Oakland edges anks, 5-4
NEW YORK (AP)-Unbeaten Matt
Keough held New York to one hit over
the first seven innings while Dave
McKay drove in two runs and Cliff
Johnson homered as the Oakland A's
held on to edge the New York Yankees
5-4 last night.
Keough, 6-0, held the Yankees hitless
until Willie Randolph ripped a one-out
double to right-center on a 1-0 pitch in
the sixth inning. The Oakland right-
hander was kayoed in the eighth when
the Yankees scored four times on
Bucky Dent's single, doubles by Bobby
Murcer and Dave Winfield and Reggie
Jackson's 414th career homer and four-
th this season.
THE LAST three hits came with two
out and brought on Bob Owchinko, who
recorded his second save and the fifth
for the A's relief corps.
Dave McKay drove in his two runs
with a double and a sacrifice, fly and
Cliff Johnson walloped his seventh
homer of the season against Tommy
John, 4-3.
The A's eked out a run without a hit in
the first inning. Dwayne Murphy
walked, advanced to third on an infield
out and a wild pitch and scored when
John balked on an attempted pickoff.
MIKE HEATH, who had three hits,
opened the Oakland second with a
single and scored on McKay's two-out
double. In the fourth, singles by Heath,
Shooty Babitt and Fred Stanely made it
3-0. Johnson opened the fifth with his
homer and the A's added what turned
out to be the winning run on a bunt
single by Tony Armas, Heath's
sacrifice, two walks-one inten-
tional-and McKay's sacrifice fly.
Astros 3, Cards o
HOUSTON (AP)-Don Sutton gained
his first-shutout in a Houston uniform
with a five-hitter and Art Howe slugged
his third home run of the season to lead
the Astros past the St. Louis Cardinals
3-0 last night.
Sutton, obtained by the Astros as a
free agent before the season, raised his
record to 3-4, striking out four and
walking one. The former Los Angeles
Dodger retired 12 consecutive batters
over one stretch on route to his first
complete game for Houston.
The Cardinals managed only six
baserunners and none reached second
until the eighth inning.
Red Sox 5, Twins 2
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) - Carl
Yastrzemski's first home run of the
season, a three-run shot in the third in-
ning, paced the Boston Red Sox to a 5-2
victory over the Minnesota Twins last
night behind the combined seven-hit
pitching of Mike Torrez and Mark
Clear.
The 41-year-old Yastrzemski, whose
batting average has been under .200 all
season, just cleared the wall in the right
field corner with his 420th career homer
after Jerry Remy and Dwight Evans
singled with one out off Twins starter
Fernando Arroyo, 2-2.
JIM RICE DOUBLED and Tony
Perez singled on the next two pitches,
with Rice scoring an infield out by Car-
ney Lansford to give the Red Sox a 4-0
lead.
In the seventh, Yastrzemski walked
with one out and scored on a double by
Perez, chasing Arroyo.
Torrez, 3-2, was unable to get out of
the first inning in a May 3 start against
Minnesota but allowed only three hits
over the first five innings this time.
The victory, Boston's seventh in nine
games, also was the Red Sox's first in
sixth meetings with Minnesota this
year.
Orioles 4, Jars 0
TORONTO (AP) - Scott McGregor
hurled a three-hit shutout and John
Lowenstein drove in two runs with his
first homer of the season, as the
Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto
Blue Jays 4-0 last night.
McGregor, 3-1, was touched for
singles by Ken Macha, Jorge Bell and
Buck Martinez as he recorded his first
shutout and second complete game of
the season. He had a career-high nine
strikeouts and walked two while
allowing just one runner to reach third
base.
THE ORIOLES GOT a run off Mark
Bomback, 3-3, in the second when Eddie
Murray singled, went to third on Terry
Crowley's double and scored on Lowen-
stein's fly.
Baltimore added a run in the fifth
when Doug DeCinces led off with a
double and moved to third on Rick
nlmnsev's single. DeCines senred
when Bob Bonner, called up from
Rochester of the International League
on Monday, grounded into a forceout.
The Orioles made it 3-0 in the eighth
as Bonner walked, advanced to third-on
two grounders and, after Ken Singleton
walked, scored on Murray's infield
single. Lowenstein homered in the nin-
th.
Reds 8, Cubs 3
CINCINNATI (AP) - George Foster
drove in three runs with a homer and a
sacrifice fly and Tom Seaver hurled a
five-hitter last night as the Cincinatti
Reds pounded the Chicago Cubs, 8-3.
Foster slugged a two-run homer, his
seventh, of the year, off starter Mike
Krukow, 1-3, as the Reds unleashed a
15-hit assault on five Chicago pitchers.
SEAVER, 4-1, gained his 249th career
victory and moved within two of Bob
Gibson, 30th on the all-time list.
Krukow surrendered a run in the
second on a pair of singles and Ron
Oester's RBI grounder. Oester later ex-
tended his hitting streak to 15 games,
longest in the National League this
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NEW YORK YANKEES shortstop Bucky Dent comes down with a late tag
after catching a high throw from catcher Barry Foote in the second inning
Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. That's the Oakland A's Mike Heath
that was safe with a stolen base at lower light.'Heath theft scoredon Dave
McKay's double.
PETE ROSE OF THE Philadelphia Phillies tips his hat to the crowd after a
seventh-inning single, putting him past Hank Aaron, o thse. National
League's all-time 'bit listThe hit wasnuber,3,64,:21its short of Stan
Musial's league record. Giants won, 5-2.