4 Soports Page 12 Tuesday, August 11, 1981 The Michigan Daily Tigers down Blue Jays, 4-3 4 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. 4 4 4 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. I I 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 4 4