The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, June 12, 1984 - Page 15
NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP
Late HR pushes Expos past Cubs
CHICAGO (AP) - Tim Wallach led off the ninth inn- a run-scoring single. third victory with relief help from Bruce Sutter, who
ing yesterday by cracking his ninth home run of the After Smith relieved, Raines stole second and Pete earned his 15th save.MartyBsrom 2-3 whc
season on the first pitch from Lee Smith to lead the Rose was intentionally walked to load the bases. Marty Bystrom, 2-3 was the
Montreal Expos to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Smith ended the threat by inducing Andre Dawson to loser.
Cubs. bounce into a forceout at the plate and striking out It was the Cardinals' ninth victory in thoir last 12
Smith, 3-4, had put down an Expo rally in the eighth Gary Carter. games and fourth agaist Philadelphia in four
inning in relief of starter Rick Reuschel. Reliever meetings.
Bob James, 2-3, who pitched two innings, was the Cardinals 6, Phillies 4 Mets 3, Pirates 1
winner. PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Darrell Porters two-
THE EXPOS had tied it 1-1 in the eighth. Reuschel, run double highlighted a four-run third inning and the NEW YORK (AP) - Dwight Gooden and Jesse
bidding for his first major league shutout in five years, St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4 Orosco teamed up on a seven-hitter, and Hubie
took a four-hitter into the inning but left after Derrel last night. Brooks and Keith Hernandez homered to lead the
Thomas singled, was sacrificed to second, pinch hit- Right-hander Danny Cox; who had lost seven and New York Mets to a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh
ter Mike Stenhouse walked and Tim Raines delivered had three no-decisions in his last 10 games, earned his Pirates last night.
Boston topples
Yankees, 9-6
BOSTON (AP) - Reid Nichols capped a six run ninth inning
with a three-run pinch homer last night, lifting the Boston Red
Sox to a 9-6 victory over the New York Yankees.
After Bill Buckner tied the score with a two-run single off
reliever Bob Shirley, Nichols batted for Rich Gedman and
drilled a 2-2 pitch into the screen for his first homer this season.
JACKIE GUTIERREZ started the rally with a single off Ray
Fontenot. After Wade Boggs walked, Jay Howell replaced Fon-
tenot. Dwight Evans lined a single, filling the bases. Jim Rice's
single to left scored Gutierrez.
Shirley came on with one out and got Mike Easler to pop out,
but Buckner grounded his single, setting the stage for Nichols.
Mark Clear, 5-1, relieved starter Bruce Hurst with two out in
the ninth. Howell, 1-4, was the loser. The victory extended
Boston's winning streak to four games and gave the Red Sox
their 11th victory in their last 14 starts.
HURST WAS tagged for eleven hits, seven of them doubles
Willie Randolph, Ken Griffey and Mike O'Berry each doubled
twice for the Yankees. Jose Rijo allowed 10 hits and three runs
in 4% innings before giving way to Fontenot.
The Yankees scored three runs in the first on singles by
Randolph and Griffey, a sacrifice fly by Dave Winfield, a walk
and Toby Harrah's two-out double.
Rice got the run back for the Red Sox with his 11th homer in Associated Press
the bottom of the inning but the Yankees made it 4-1 in the New York Mets second baseman Wally Backman goes head over heels after forcing Pittsburgh's
second on an RBI double by Griffey. Benny Distefano (with tongue). Backman threw to first to double up batter Jim Morrison for the
final out in the Pirate second.
NBA final expected
to be a sauna war
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BOSTON (UPI) - The dream series
comes down to the dream game, and
the Boston Celtics vow it will be a war.
Tonight's seventh game of the NBA
championship series (9 p.m. EDT)
brings the Los Angeles Lakers back to
Boston Garden for the finale of the 1984
season.
"IT WILL be warfare," said Celtics
forward Cedric Maxwell.
"Everybody's back is against the wall.
We're going to get down in the trenches
and win it."
Because a heat wave in New England
has remained stationary, Game 7 may
be a repeat of Game 5's steambath in
which temperatures hit the mid-90s at
the Garden, which has no air con-
ditioning.
The Lakers and 37-year-old Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar were most affected by
Friday night's heat and the stifling
humidity indoors, as Boston scored a
121-103 victory.
"I HOPE it's 100 degrees on
Tuesday," said Celtics sixthman Kevin
McHale after L.A. evened the series
Sunday at The Forum in Inglewood,
Calif., with a 119-108 comeback victory.
"We've got to come back and be strong,
but the fans will be behind us 110 per-
cent."
In the first quarter of Game 6, James
Worthy shoved Maxwell into the crowd
on a fast-break attempt. The move was
seen by Boston as evening the score, as
McHale had leveled Los Angeles for-
ward Kurt Rambis in a similar
situation in Game 4.
"They retaliated for what we did the
other day," Maxwell said. "And they
wanted to get the crowd into the game
early. But we're a physical team. We'll
get him (Worthy) back in Boston."
Worthy agrees with Maxwell about
the roughness of Game 7.
"It will be an all-out war," he said.
"The crowd won't be an advantage; the
heat will have no effect. It's what we
play for all year, and we'll be ready."
Guard Magic Johnson, tagged as the
goat for his play in LA's two overtime
losses, said the Lakers hadn't given up
because they are winners.
"When you're a loser, you end up
losing, but we don't have those thoughts
in our head," Johnson said. "We feel
good and confident that we can go into
Boston and win."
"Whoever controls the tempo of the
(seventh) game and plays it their way
will win," said Johnson, whose total of
80 assists has set a record for a cham-
pionship series. The record of 73 was
previously held by Walt Frazier of the
New York Knicks.
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