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Page 12 Saturday, July 10, 1982 The Michigan Doily
BELL'S HOMER WINS 1ST OF 2
Texas trips
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)- Buddy
Bell cracked a two-run homer with one-
out in the bottom of the ninth inning last
night, leading the Texas Rangers to a 3-
2 victory over the slumping Detroit
Tigers in the first game of a twi-night
doubleheader.
Johnny Sample led off the bottom of
the ninth with a double, only the third
hit off Tigers' starter Pat Underwood.
DAVE TOBIK, 2-3, replaced Under-
wood after the hit and retired Bill Stein
on a line drive to first. Bell then slam-
med a 1-1 pitch over the left field fence,
handing Detroit its 20th loss in 25
games.
Tom Brookens had put Detroit ahead
2-1 in the sixth.
Lance Parrish singled with one out, and
when Texas starter John Butcher went
to a 3-2 count on Mike Ivie, Danny Dar-
win was brought by Rangers skipper
Don Zimmer. Ivie drew ball four and
Darwin then walked Jerry Turner to
load the bases. . Brookens singled in
Parrish, but Darwin retired Lynn Jones
and Alan Trammell on pop flies to end
the inning.
TEXAS TOOK a 1-0 lead in the first
when Bell doubled and scored on a
single by Dave Hostetler. Detroit tied
the game in the fifth when Jones
doubled and Trammell singled him
home.
Underwood, who retired 17 straight
batters at one point, walked one and
struck out two in eight innings of work.
Darwin, 5-2, pitched 3 2/3 innings of
one-hit relief, allowing one walk and
striking out two in picking up the win.
Padres 5, Mets 3
NEW YORK (AP) - Terry Kennedy
singled home the tie-breaking run in the
seventh inning and an insurance run in
the ninth while rookie reliever Luis De
Leon snuffed a New York uprising in
the eighth as the San Diego Padres beat
the Mets 5-3 in the first game of yester-
day's twi-night double-header.
Keninedy's seveth-inning hit off loser
Charlie Puleo, 6-6, broke a 3-3 tie and
was his 10th game-winning RBI of the
season. Tim Flannery led off with a
single off Puleo's foot and was walked
to secnd. Two outs later, Kennedy
blooped a single to left to score Flan-
nery.
IN THE SAN Diego ninth, Garry
Templeton singled, stole second - the
Padres' fifth steal in as many attempts
- and scored on another single by Ken-
nedy.
The victory was the Padres' sixth
straight and stretched the Mets' longest
losing streak of the season to seven.
The Mets, who erased a 3-0 deficit
with a run in the fifth and two in the six-
th, threatened to pull it out in the eighth
when Mookie Wilson singled and Bob
Bailor was hit on the forearm by a pitch
from winner Floyd Chiffer, 4-1, who
replaced starter Chris Welsh in the six-
th. Bailor was taken to a hospital for X-
rays.
DELEON RETIRED George Foster
on a fly ball and Dave Kingman and
Ellis Valentine on pop-ups and went on
to post his eighth save of the season.
The Padres took a 3-0 lead in the four-
Tigers,
th inning on Ruppert Jones' leadoff
double, an RBI single by Sixto Lezcano,
a single by Broderick Perkins, an in-
field out and Welsh's two-out, two-run
single.
The Mets, held hitless through four
innings, picked up a run in the fifth on
Valentine's single, Ron Hodges' double
and Wally Backman's grounder. They
tied it in the sixth with the help of two
San Diego errors, scoring on a grounder
by Bailor and a single by Kingman.
Cubs 12, Reds 0
CHICAGO (AP)- Gary Woods drove
in three runs with a homer and a single
and Jerry Morales' bases-loaded triple
highlighted a six-run seventh inning
yesterday to lead Fergle Jenkins and
the Chicago Cubs to a 12-0 victory over
the Cincinnati Reds.
r Woods' third homer of the season -
came in the sixth inning off loser Bob
Shirley, 2-7, following a walk to Leon
Durham.
JENKINS, 6-9, threw a five-hitter and
struck out seven in posting his 48th
career shutout, first in three years and
his third complete game of the season.
The Cubs jumped ahead with a run in
the first when Ryne Sandberg doubled,
went to third on a wild pitch and scored
as Bill Buckner grounded out.
Chicago added an unearned run in the
third. Sandberg walked with one out
and was caught off first by Shirley, but
shortstop Dave Concepcion dropped
3-2
Dan Driessen's throw and Sandberg
was safe at second. Buckner then
singled him home.
Junior Kennedy started the seventh-
inning rally, against reliever Greg
Harris with a single. Buckner grounded
to Ron Oester but his throw on an at-
tempted force at second was wild and
the runners advanced to second and
third.
Durham was given an intentional
pass before Morales tripled to center
and then scored on a single by Woods.
Jody Davis walked and Larry Bowa
doubled to score Woods. before Davis
scored the final run of the inning on a
sacrifice fly by Jenkins.
Twins 4, Red Sox 1
BOSTON (AP) - Rookie Frank Viola
scatttered six hits in recording his first
complete game in the major leagues
last night as the red-hot Minnesota
Twins beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1 for
their ninthvictory in their last 11 games.
Viola, 3-0, struck out six and walked
one as the Twins snapped Boston star-
ter Dennis Eckersley's three-game
winning streak. The Red Sox right-
hander has been unofficially named by
Oakland Manager Billy Martin to be the
starting pitcher for the American
League in next Tuesday's All-Star
Game at Montreal.
Minnesota took a 2-0 off Eckersley, 9-
7. in the fourth.
Mc Gee a loser in
Sanders hoop action
by RON POLLACK McGee and friends had knotted the
Something went wrong with the score at 81 on a basket by another
script. former Wolverine, Johnny John-
High-scoring Mike McGee went son.
from Michigan to the Los Angeles But once again PAL went on a
Lakers where he earned a World. rampage, outscoring Roundhouse
Championship ring last season. Pizza 19-2 the rest of the way.
Last night, he returned to the cour- The game's leading scorer was
ts of Ann Arbor making his debut PAL's Keith Jackson (Arizona)
in the Sandy Sanders Summer with 25 points. Spencer Gardner
Basketball League at Pioneer High (Eastern Michigan) and Dean
School. Hopson (Michigan) added 20 and
BUT RATHER than a trium- 15, respectively.
phant return, as the script would IN A LOSING effort, McGee had
have it, McGee and his Roun- 14 and Johnson had 20. Former
dhouse Pizza teammates lost to the Michigan forward Thad Garner
Washtenaw County Police Athletic was held to four points.
League team (PAL), 100-83. Whereas McGee, Johnson and
Things started out well for Garner were on the losing end of a
McGee and his teammates as they final score, the same was not true
quickly jumped to a 10-0 lead. for a team of past, present and
Roundhouse Pizza had leads as big future Wolverines.
as 22 points in the first half. Moe's Whiffletree downed
But everything went wrong for Brewer's Gulf, 84-77. Leading the
Rondhouse Pizza early in the way to victory were Mark Lozier
second half, as it was outscored 27- (past), Eric Turner (present) and
9 to put it down 70-66. recruits Robert Henderson and
WITH THREE minutes to go, Roy Tarpley (future).
AP Photo
DETROIT'S LYNN JONES (35) scampers home to score in the fifth inning
as Texas catcher Jim Sundberg (10) leaps to catch the late throw from the
Ranger outfield. Jones' run wasn't enough for the Tigers, however, as they
dropped the first game of last night's doubleheader by a score of 3-2.