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Thursday, August 12, 1982

The Michigan Daily

Tigers trip Yanks, 3-2

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DETROIT (UPI) - Jerry Turner lof-
ted a sacrifice fly withone out and the
bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th
inning last night, scoring Lou Whitaker
from third base and providing the
Detroit Tigers with a 3-2 victory over
the New York Yankees.
Whitaker singled to startthe 12th af-
ter shortstop Roy Smalley dropped his
pop foul in left field for an error. Richie
Hebner then looped a single to short
center and Larry Hferndon sacrificed
both runners. Lance Parrish was then
intentionally walked to load the bases.
GEORGE Frazier, who came on in
the 12th, took the loss. Dave Tobik was
the winner in relief of Jack Morris, who
pitched 11 innings and allowed only
three hits.
Oscar Gamble's solo homer with one
out in the ninth tied the score 2-2 after
Morris had gone the previous 5-1/3 in-
nings without giving upa hit.
Dave Righetti balked home a run in
the third inning to give the Tigers a 2-1
lead. Tom Brookens tripled leading off
the third, a ball Ken Griffey had trouble
picking up in right-center, and Righetti
then balked with Alan Trammell at bat
to snap a 1-1 tie.
Parrish hit an -opposite-field homer
leading off the second for the Tigers.
New York scored its first run in the
first, taking advantage of a momentary
loss of control by Morris. Jerry Mum-
phrey walked with two out and Winfield
grounded a single up the middle after
first baseman Enos Cabell dropped his
foul pop for an error. Morris got a strike
on Oscar Gamble but then threw nine
straight balls, including a walk to Graig
Nettles, to force ina run.
Rangers 6, Brewers 3
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Buddy Bell
singled home the go-ahead run in a
four-run Texas seventh inning, rallying
the Rangers to a 6-3 victory over the

Milwaukee Brewers yesterday.
Dave Schmidt, 3-4, who relieved
Texas starter Rick Honeycutt after
Milwaukee had scored three runs in the
sixth, earned the victory. The Rangers
stopped a streak of seven victories in
nine games by the American League
East-leading Brewers.
LOSER MOOSE Haas, 9-7, carried a
3-2 lead into the seventh, but gave up
leadoff singles to Jim Sundberg and
Mike Richardt. Haas got the next two
batters but John Grubb singled up the
middle to score the tying run. Bell
singled to center, his third hit, to chase
Haas as the Rangers led 4-3.
Dave Hostetler and Larry Parrish
followed with RBI singles off Dwight
Bernard to make it 6-3.
The Rangers scored twice. Parrish
doubled to the left field corner and
scored on a double by Lamar Johnson
down the right field line. Johnson
scored on a single by Richardt.
THE BREWERS came back with
three runs in the sixth off Honeycutt,
who had allowed three hits through five
shutout innings.
Robin Yount singled with one out and
took second on a bloop single by Cecil
Cooper. Ted Simmons hit a shot off
Honeycutt's leg and the ball caromed
toward Bucky Dent at shortstop, who
flipped to second for a forceout.
Giants 8, Braves 6
SAN FRANCISCO- (AP) - Reggie
Smith's two-run homer with one out in
the bottom of the 12th inning Wed-
nesday lifted the surging San Francisco
Giants to their 10th consecutive victory,
8-6 over the Atlanta Braves, whose
losing streak went to nine games.
Joe Morgan led off the 12th with a
walk off pitcher Carlos Diaz, 2-2, and
was forced on Jack Clark's grounder to
short. Smith then belted a 2-1 pitch over
the screen in left-center for his 12th

home run of the season, and only his
second as a right-handed batter.
RELIEVER Fred Breining, 7-4, was
the winner after firing four shutout in-
nings. the victory gave the Giants their
longest winning streak since they
reeled off 12 in a row April 30 - May 13,
1966.

The Giants have posted the major
league's best record since June 27, 28-
13.
The Braves jumped to a 5-1 lead
behind veteran knuckleballer Phil
Niekro, but the Giants bounced back for
a tie with three unearned runs in the
sixth.

TEXAS' BUCKY Dent (right) races for
home plate as Brewer catcher Ted
Simmons waits for the throw in yester-
day's game. The Rangers defeated
Milwaukee 6-3 in that contest but were
not so lucky Tuesday when they lost to
the Brewers, 11-3. Milwaukee's Gor-
man Thomas (left) slides into second
during the Tuesday night game bet-
ween the Rangers and the Brewers.

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