The Michigan Daily-Saturday, May 16, r981-Page 18 MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP Tigers. down Angels, 5-1 By MARK BOROWSKI Specialtothe Daily DETROIT - After a 63-minute rain delay, Detroit finally got a chance to play the high-flying California Angels, who had won five straight coming into last night's game. But it was the Tigers who proved red hot as they snuck past their opponents, 5-1, before 13,529 fans at rain-drenched Tiger Stadium. Starter Jack Morris, 4-3, went the distance while striking out eight bat- ters. First baseman Rick Leach con- tributed two RBIs and some fine defen- sive plays. THE TIGERS GOT on the board first in the second inning. Champ Summers cracked a mile-high double off the rightfield wall to lead off the inning. Summers then moved on to third on a long drive to lift by Al Cowens. Leach, a former Michigan baseball and football star starting his first game at home in a Detroit uniform, followed with a long sacrifice fly to center off California starter Mike Witt that scored Summers. Three innings later, the Bengals sent Witt to the showers as they tagged him for two runs to take a 3-0 lead. Cowens started with a single to left and Leach walked. Cowens then moved to third on a wild throw to second trying to pick him off. Catcher Bill Fahey then brought Cowens home with a single. TOM BROOKENS followed with a single to load the bases, and " Angel manager Jim Fregosi decided to replace Witt with bullpen ace Jesse Jef- ferson, who allowed leftfielder Rick Peters to bring Fahey home from third on a fielders choice. The Angels finally tallied a run in the sixth, as rightfielder Larry Harlow led off with a single and scored on a double to left by designated hitter Don Baylor, making the score 3-1. Detroit picked up two more runs in the eighth when Peters led off with a single, Alan Trammell sacrificed him to second and then the Angels inten- tionally walked Richie Hebner. Sum- mers and Leach then followed with RBI singles to give Detroit the 5-1 victory margin. The Angels return to Tiger Stadium this afternoon fora 2:15 p.m. game with Detroit. The Tigers' Dave Rozema (2-3) is slated to face Doug Rau, who will be making his first American League start. Braves I1, Cards 3 ATLANTA (AP)-Bruce Benedict belted a three-run homer and Glenn Hubbard added a two-run single in a seven-run sixth inning that carried the Atlanta Braves to an 11-3 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals last night. Hubbard also had a two-run double in the seventh., The Braves sent 11 batters to the plate in the sixth inning, collec- ting six hits and two walks as they bat- tered Lary Sorensen, 4-2, and erased St. Louis' 3-21ead. Atlanta tied it at 3-3 when pinch-run- ner Jerry Royster scored from third on an infield forceout by Rufino Linares. Chris Chambliss then broke the tie with a ground-rule double that bounced over the centerfield fence. St. Louis got two runs in the third when Keith Hernandez doubled and scored on Ken Oberkfell's single to cen- ter. George Hendrick, who walked after Hernandez daubled, later scored on a wild pitch by Hanna. Reds 4, Pirates I PITTSBURGH (AP) -Former Tiger Jason Thompson bobbled Ron Oester's bases-loaded grounder to first base in , the ninth inning, allowing George Foster to score the tie-breaking run and the Cincinnati Reds went on to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-1, last night. Rookie pitcher Pascual Perez, making his first start after being sum- moned from the minors earlier this week, blanked the Reds on two hits for six innings before they nicked him for a run. .Just perfect! Barker tosses gem, 3-0 CLEVELAND (AP)-Power-pitching Len Barker of the Cleveland Indians hurled the first perfect game in the major leagues since 1968, shackling the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 last night with the help of strong infield support. Barker's control was flawless from start to finish. The big right-hander from Fort Knox, Ky., struck out 11 bat- ters and never threw more than two balls to any Toronto hitter. THE LAST TIME a perfect game was pitched in major league baseball was back on May 8, 1968, when Oakland's Catfish Hunter hurled a 4-0 classic against the Minnesota Twins. Barker's no-hitter was the second in a week in the majors, following Charlie Lea's no-hitter for Montreal against San Francisco last Sunday, but only the third in two years. Last season, Los Angeles's Jerry Reuss pitched the only no-hitter in the big leagues, against the Giants. Barker's splendid support included some standout plays by shortstop Tom Veryzer, .second baseman Duane Kuiper and third baseman Toby Harrah. IN THE FIRST inning, Veryzer went behind the-mound to field a slow chop- per and throw out leadoff man Alfredo Griffin at first.e In the fifth, Harrah crashed into the third base seats to haul in a foul pop by Cecil Upshaw. Kuiper made two splendid plays at second base to preserve the perfect game. In the sixth, he roamed far to his right to pick up a hard-hit smash by Rick Bosetti and threw the runner out in a close play at first. In the seventh, Kuiper went far to his left to field a hard smash by Griffin and get the runner. Scores American League Detroit s, Cairornia1 _ Cevelanad3Toronto0 Texas 2, Chicago i National League Atlanta 11, St. Louis 3 Cincinnati4, Pittsburgh 1 Houston 5, Chicago 0 ~f~ -O- If You Find Your Name and Address in Today's Mich- igan Daily Classified Page YOU WIN TWO FREE TICKETS To Any One Of STATE 1-2-3-4 MIDNIGHT MOVIES If your name and address appear, come to the Daily during our business hours (9 am-5 pm), 420 Maynard, within 48 hours. O NNERS'EVERY DAT- NO CONTESTTO ENTER? GEORGE HENDRICK OF the St. Louis Cardinals (right) slides in safely at 1hrneuder ;the to oof Atlanta's Preston Hanna. The run wasn't nearly enough to help the cardinals, howeveras hek ave ohipdcSt is-Il: - - - 3, in Atlanta last night.