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Tiant baffles Twins
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The ageless
Luis Tiant outdueled rookie Frank
Viola and pinch-hitter Reggie Jackson
doubled in a pair of runs to snap an
eighth-inning tie as the California
Angels beat the Minnesota Twins 3-1
yesterday.
The 41-year-old Tiant, 1-1, making his
second start for the Angels since being
purchased from Tabasco of the
Mexican League.on Aug.2, went seven
innings and gave up six hits while
striking out four and walking one. His
last win came on Sept. 15, 1981, when he
beat the Chicago Cubs for the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
LUIS SANCHEZ struck out Gary
Gaetti with runners on second and third
to end the game and record his second
save.
Viola, 3-4, went 7 1/3 innings, yielded
five hits, struck out ten and walked
none.
With one out in the eighth, Bobby
Grich doubled and Tim Foli singled him
to third to chase Viola. Pete Redfern
walked Brian Downing to load the bases
and Jeff Little came on to face Jackson,
pinch-hitting for Juan Beniquez.
JACKSON doubled home Grich and
Foli with a drive just inside the right-
field line that bounced over the glove of
diving first baseman Kent Hrbek.
Tiant retired eight Twins in a row
before Sal Butera singled with two out
in the third. Minnesota went ahead 1-0
in the fifth when Gary Ward led off with
a double and scored on Gaetti's single.
Viola retired the first ten Angels,
striking out five of them, before Juan
Beniquez singled cleanly up the middle.
Viola then retired nine more in a row
until Doug DeCinces tied the score with
his 24th homer with one out in the
seventh.
DeCinces' homer, the 12th in his last
13 games, allowed California to break a
21-year-old club record with homers in
17 straight games.
Padres 8, Braves 2
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Terry Kennedy
whacked a two-run homer and pitcher
Chris Welsh added a two-run double ina
five-run sixth inning as the San Diego
Padres routed Atlanta 8-2 yesterday,
handing the Braves their 10th straight
loss.
It was the Braves' 14th loss in 15
games, who were nine games in front
in the National LeagueWest when their
slide started July 30. Atlanta is now 0-8
on their current road trip and one loss
shy of themost consecutive losses by a
Brave team on the road.
WELSH, 6-5, earned the win in relief of
starter Andy Hawkins and set a club
record for most RBIs in a season by a
pitcher with 10.
Rookie Tony Gwynn continued his
feast on Atlanta pitching with a fifth-in-
ning double which broke a 2-2 tie. He
added an RBI-double in the sixth inning
outburst when the Padres sent nine
men to the plate.
Kennedy's 14th homer of the year, a
line-shot over the right-field fence off
starter Bob Walk,10-8, came after Sixto
Lezcano drew a one-out walk. Luis
Salazar followed Kennedy with single
and stole second. With two out, Tim
Flannery was intentionally walked set-
ting up consecutive doubles by Welsh
and Gwynn.
Atlanta took a brief 1-0 lead in the
second on Jerry Royster's RBI-double
following Glenn Hubbard's one-out
single. The Padres capitalized on a
two-base error and a wild pitch to move
in front 2-1 in the third.
Dodgers 6, Giants 2
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ron Cey
knocked in three runs with a home run
and a bases-loaded single as the Los
Angeles Dodgers defeated the San
Francisco Giants 6-2, snapping the
Giants' 10-game winning streak.
The Dodgers' victory increased their
lead in the National League West to 1%
games over slumping Atlanta, which
lost its 10th straight game, 8-2 to San
Diego.
THE DODGERS broke open a 2-2 tie
with four runs in the eighth. Reliever
Al Holland, who entered the game with
the bases loaded, nobody out and a 3-0
count on Pedro Guerrero, served up
ball four to score Steve Sax with the tie-
breaking run. Cey, who stroked his 17th
homer in the fourth inning, followed
with a two-run single.
Tom Niedenfuer, 2-2, who relieved
starter Jerry Reuss when the Giants
had the bases loaded in the sixth, ear-
ned the victory.
San Francisco took a 1-0 lead in the
fourth when Joe Morgan doubled, Jack
Clark singled him to third and Reggie
Smith's base hit to left produced the
run.
CEY'S HOMER with one out in the
fourth tied it 1-1, and the Dodgers then
went ahead 2-1 when Steve Garvey
followed with a single and Bill Russell
hammered a triple to right-center field.
In the sixth, Chili Davis and Morgan
led off with singles, and Clark doubled
to center to score Davis and tie it 2-2.
Niedenfuer took over and, after
walking Smith intentionally to load the
bases, Jeff Leonard lifted a fly to right
that Guerrero caught. His throw to the
plate doubled Morgan, who was attem-
pting to score.
The Giants' 10-game win streak was
their longest in 16 years, when they won
12 in a row in 1966. Los Angeles has now
won nine of 10, and 13 of 15,coming from
10 2games behind the Braves to take
the division lead
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VETERAN RIGHT-HANDED pitcher Luis Tiant is back again. H6 is now
hurling for the California Angels. Yesterday, he earned his first victory sin-
ce September 15, 1981 when he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
WBC champion dies in car crash
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QUERETARO, Mexico (UPI)- World Boxing
Council featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez
died yesterday morning when his sports car plowed
into two trucks on a dark highway north of Mexico
City, police said. He was 23.
A federal highway police spokesman said Sanchez
was killed when his Porsche sports car crashed into a
cargo truck and a pickup 145 miles north of Mexico
City on the highway linking Queretaro and San Luis
Potosi.
A POLICE spokesman said the 3:30 a.m. crash ap-
parently was caused when Sanchez tried to negotiate
a high-speed pass of the cargo truck on the dark road,
driving his car underneath the truck and crashing in-
to the pickup.
All three vehicles flipped off the highway and two
people aboard the cargo truck were slightly injured,
the spokesman said.
Sanchez was driving to the northern town of San
Jose Iturbide, where he trained for all of his fights.
S.SANCHEZWHO held the chAdrhlonship since Feb.
2, 1980 when he defeated the legendary Danny "Little
Red" Lopez, last fought on July 21 at New York's
Madison Square Garden. In that bout, he scored a
15th-round TKO of Azumah Nelson of Ghana.
The curly-haired, handsome fighter was born in
Santiago Tiangiustenco, Mexico, on Jan. 26, 1959. He
was one of 11 children and fought 45 times, winning 43
bouts, losing one and drawing one, while scoring 31
knockouts.
His best days as a fighter and money maker were
clearly ahead of him as he was on his way to
becoming one of boxing's top champions and was
already a national hero in Mexico. After defeating
Nelson, there was talk of a multi-million dollar
showdown with WBC lightweight champion Alexis
Arguello and the ring possibilities in the future for
him were endless.
His greatest ring triumphs were his two victories
over Lopez and his eighth-round TKO over WBC
super bantamweight champion Wilfredo Gomez last
August.
SIn successfully defending his title 10 times;Sanchez
beat Ruben Castillo, Lopez, Patrick Ford, Juan
LaPorte, Roberto Castenon, Nico Perez, Gomez, Pat
Cowdell, Jorge Garcia and Nelson.
Bruins sign top pick
BOSTON (AP)- Gord Kluzak, the first player
picked in the National Hockey League's June draft,
signed a multiyear contract with the Boston Bruins
yesterday.
General Manager Harry Sinden also announced
that former goalie Gerry Cheevers, coach of the
Bruins the last two years, has been given a new two-
year contract. His assistants, former Boston team-
mates Gary Doak and Jean Ratelle, also were re-
signed.
Sinden told a news conference that Kluzak, only 18
but standing 6-feet-4 and weighing 220 pounds, had
signed for "longer than one year and less than 25." As
usual, the Bruins declined to disclose any terms.
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