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Soports

Page 12

Tuesday, August 11, 1981

The Michigan Daily

Tigers down Blue Jays, 4-3

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By BUDDY MOOREHOUSE
Daily Executive Sports Editor
Special to the Daily
DETROIT-Major League baseball returned to
Detroit last night for the first time in two months-
and Detroit responded.
Only X5,187 fans bothered to show up for the first
game following the 50-day player strike, but they
liked what they saw, as the Tigers downed the Toron-
to Blue Jays, 4-3.
THE DETROIT FANS were cheering their
team-evidence that all was forgiven over the strike,
until the ninth inning when the Tigers committed two
errors which allowed the visitors to tie the score at 3-
3.'
But the boos turned back into cheers in the bottom

of the ninth, when shortstop Alan Trammell laced a
bases-loaded single down the leftfield line which won
the game.
The game seemed to be all wrapped up for the
Tigers as they took a 3-2 lead into the ninth inning.
The top of the ninth started innocently enough with an
Otto Valez single. John Mayberry then hit what
seemed to be an easy double play but Trammell
threw the ball' over the first baseman's head,
allowing Mayberry to move on to second. With Mark
Bomback pinch-running for Mayberry, pinch-hitter
Boomer Wells then stepped up and hita ground ball to
second baseman Lou Whitaker who mishandled the
ball andlAllowed Bomback to score the tying run.
BUT THE Tigers led off their half of the ninth with
two walks to Kirk Gibson and Tom Brookens.
Whitaker then laid a picture perfect bunt down the
third baseline, beating out a hit. After a Rick Peters

strikeout, Trammell then hit the game winner.
The Blue Jays got on the board first as Damasco
Garcia led off the third inning with a single, moved to
second on a sacrifice, and came home on a Lloyd
Mosley single to right.
THE DETROIT fans who showed up didn't have
much to cheer about until the fifth when Brookens led
off with a single up the middle. The Tigers then took a
2-1 lead when Whitaker knocked a Jim Clancy pitch
370 feet over the right centerfield fence, for his third
homer of the year.
Toronto evened the score in the sixth on a Valez
homer to left field.
Reliever Kevin Saucier picked up the win, his first
of the year, as he came on to relieve in the ninth. Joey
McLaughlin took the loss for the Blue Jays.
The two teams go at it again tonight in the second of
their three-game series.

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Rose surpasses. Mi

CHICAGO CUBS' pitcher Mike Krukow
'delivers the first pitch of yesterday's
Mets game as the Major Leagues
resumed play after the strike. Mookie
Wilson of the Mets was the leadoff hit-
ter.
isijal
was intentionally walked, Wallach
followed with a single to center.
Bill Lee, 2-2, yielded only one hit over
the final four innings to record the vic-
tory.
The Expos, with 37,275 fans watching
the return of baseball at Olympic
Stadium, grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first
inning on Dawson's solo homer off Jim
Bibby. It was his 14th home run of the
season and 100th of his career.
Pittsburgh, retired in order by Scott
Sanderson in the first two innings, got
the run back in the third. Tony Pena
started it off with a one-out single,
moved to second on Bibby's sacrifice
and scored when Omar Moreno singled
to center.
Sanderson threw 56 pitches before
leaving after fine innings. He hald the
Pirates to only two hits. Bibby gave
way to reliever Victor Cruz after scat-
tering four hits in 4 2-3 innings.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Pete Rose
snapped the National League all-time
career hit record last night when he
singled into left field in the eighth in-
ning in his fourth at-bat of a Phillies
game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Rose broke Stan Musial's 19-year-old
record with his 3,631st hit on the second
pitch from St. Louis Cardinals reliever
Mark Littell.
ROSE, THE Philadelphia Phillies'
first baseman, had gone hitless in three
previous trips to the plate against Bob
Forsch, who pitched five innings and
gave up only one hit, a first-inning
double to Mike Schmidt.
Rose, 40, had tied Musial's record
June 10 in the last game before the 50-
day baseball strike when he singled in
the first inning off Houston's Nolan
Ryan. He struck out in his final three at-
bats that night.
Rose was greeted by teammates as
he stood at first base while the crowd of
more th'.n 60,000 gave him a standing

ovation and fireworks lit the sky.
Musial came onto the field and
congratulated Rose, who told the for-
mer outfielder "I wasn't going to make
you stay another day."
Yankees 2, Texas 0
NEW YORK (AP)- Graig Nettles
and Oscar Gamble ripped home runs
while Tommy John and two relievers
stopped Texas'on three singles as the
Yankees opened the second half of the
strike-interrupted baseball season with
a 2-0 victory over the Rangers last
night.
A Yankee Stadium T-Shirt Night
crowd of 40,373, almost 8,000 more than
the average for the first 26 home dates,
welcomed the players back from their
two-month walkout with louder cheers
than usual.
The only boos were reserved for
United States Secretary of Labor
Raymond J. Donovan, who threw out
the first ball.

Nettles lined a shot into the lower
right-field stands with two outs in the
second inning and Gamble unloaded in-
to the bleachers in right-center with one
out in the fourth. It was the eighth home
run of the season for each and they
were the only Yankees to reach base
against loser Danny Darwin, 7-5, who
worked five innings.
Expos 3, Pirates 1
MONTREAL (AP)- Gary Carter,
the most valuable player of Sunday
night's All-Star Game, doubled home
the tie-breaking run and Tim Wallach
added a run-scoring single in the eighth
inning to lead the Montreal Expos to a
3-1 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates
last night.
Andre Dawson led off the eighth with
a double against reliever Pascual
Perez, 2-3, before Carter drilled a
double to left. After Warren Cromartie

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