The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 15, 1984- Page 15 BASEBALL JIOUNDUP White Sox giround Orioles. 3-2 BALTIMORE (AP) - Julio Cruz and Harold Baines homered for two of the three hits off Mike Flanagan, and Tom Seaver won the pitchers' duel by hurling the Chicago White Sox to a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles yesterday. Seaver, 8-6, yielded seven hits, walking one and striking out seven. He retired 11 in row until John Lowenstein hit his sixth homer with one out in the ninth. BAINES WAS 0-for-14 lifetime again- st Flanagan when he hammered his 15th homer with one out in the fourth to snap a 1-1 tie. The switch-hitting Cruz, batting .200, sliced his fourth homer into the right field bleachers in the third after Flanagan, 9-7, had retired the first eight Chicago batters. Flanagan had retired 13 in a row when Carlton Fisk led off the ninth with a single, and the White Sox eked out what proved to be the winning run on a fielder's choice grounder by Dave Stegman. Baines was safe after an attempted sacrifice was bobbled by third baseman Wayne Gross, and Fisk was forced at third on Ron Kittle's bunt. A wild pitch moved the runners ahead, and Greg Luzinski was walked intentionally to load the bases. Baines scored when Stegman grounded into a forceout, just beating the relay to first on the attem- pted double play. Dodgers 8, Cubs 0 CHICAGO (AP) - Orel Hershiser pitched a two-hitter and German Rivera doubled and hit a two-run Greg Luzinski of the White Sox slides hard into Baltimore second baseman Rich Dauer to break up a double play. This allowed Harold Baines to score from third with the winning run in Chicago's 3-2 victory over the Orioles yesterday. homer, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-0 victory yesterday over the Chicago Cubs. Hershiser, 5-3, who has allowed only one run in his last 35 2/3 innings, struck out nine and walked one as the Dodgers snapped a three-game losing streak. The Cubs had won three ina row. Hershiser allowed only two singles and did not give up a hit after the third r- e ewr- a n inning. The only hits off the rookie righthander were by Jay Johnstone in the first and Bob Dernier in the third. Pirates 6, Giants 2 PITTSBURGH (AP) - Rick Rhoden pitched a five-hitter, and Jim Morrison drove in four runs with a homer, single and a ground ball to power the Pit- tsburgh Pirates to a 6-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants yesterday. Rhoden, 7-7, retired 14 batters in a row at one point and struck out six while walking two. Manny Trillo singled with one out in the second, and Rhoden did not allow another baserun- ner until Jeff Leonard doubled to lead off the seventh. The Pirates, winning their fifth in a row, jumped on loser Mark Davis, 3-9, for two runs in the first. Tony Pena singled and Bill Madlock doubled with two out before Morrison lineda two-run single into left field. Mets 7, Braves 0 ATLANTA (AP) - Bruce Berenyi and Tom Gorman combined on a two- hitter and Keith Hernandez knocked in three runs and scored three as the New York Mets extended their winning streak to eight games with a 7-0 trium- ph over the Atlanta Braves last night. Berenyi, 7-9, pitched the first seven innings and allowed just two singles. Scott sets pace in mile BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - American record holder Steve Scott held off 1976 Olympic champion John Walker of New Zealand and won the featured mile yesterday in the Kinney Invitational track and field meet, while three United States relay teams turned in sizzling times. Scott, after taking the lead with about 300 meters remaining, was clocked in 3:56.40, far off his American mark of 3:47.69. THE U.S. MEN'S 400-meter relay unit of Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith and Harvey Glance smashed the stadium mark, clocking 38.91. Graddy, Brown, and Smith are +"Y%:::%:ititm v{t : :v:'{:ti " i: v~i' >i Y:": .k' i ?"1:} : scheduled to run in that order in the Olympic Games, with Carl Lewis replacing Glance on the anchor leg. Lewis, also competing in the 100, 200 and long jump in the Games, skipped Saturday's meet in order to concentrate on his training for the Olympics. HIS ABSENCE drew criticism from some of his teammates. "I just feel being part of the team that all of the athletes should be here," Smith said about the first dress rehear- sal for the U.S. squad. "It would be nice to have the four of us here." Brown said Lewis "definitely" should have run Saturday. .;. ; yxv;}. {: ff3 if:I:Lv 42 ;:;}3 { <:::{{:F:{iM,.. ti +k Associoted rress The Cubs' Leon Durham slides into third before Los Angeles Dodger German Rivera can apply the tagin first inning action yesterday at Wrigley Field. U.S. ousts Argentina in Davis Cup play ATLANTA (AP) - John McEnroe and Peter Fleming tur- ned back Jose-Luis Clerc and Martin Jaite 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in doubles yesterday to clinch a U.S. victory over Argentina in a quarterfinal Davis Cup match. In contrast to two singles matches Friday night, Satur- day's contest became an emotional battle. McEnroe and Clerc argued at the net, and McEnroe became so enraged by two line calls he bellowed, "America" at the officials. THE DOUBLES victory gave the Americans an insur- mountable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five series. The match turned on a string of service breaks in the third set. With the match even at one set each, the Americans broke Jaite to open the third set when the young Argentine netted a volley at 15-40. But Fleming then dropped his own service on successive double faults. Clerc then found himself serving a break point. He fended off two blistering ground-strokes from McEnroe before the American's third drive at him tipped the net cord and boun- ced over Clerc for a winner and a 2-1 U.S. lead. Moore KO's Benitez MONTE CARLO (AP) - Davey Moore stopped Wilfred Benitez at 1:18 of the second round of their scheduled 10- round middleweight fight yesterday. Moore, the former World Boxing Association junior mid- dleweight champion, knocked Benitez down with a right in the first round and Benitez never seemed to recover as Moore kept him pinned in his corner. Referee Gerlando Lucia of Italy stepped in and stopped the fight after Moore connected with a right uppercut and another right.