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 D e 2 r t 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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