The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 29, 1984 - Page 15
Bosox edge Tigers, 3-2
Error lets in
winning runsa
By LOREN HAWKINS
Special to the Daily
DETROIT - 49,372 fans piled into Tiger Stadium
last night to watch the home team be stifled by the
Boston Red Sox in a 3-2 loss.
The Tigers jumped to an early lead in the first
inning with a solo home run into the upper deck
in right field by second baseman Lou Whitaker.
IN THE second inning, the Tigers added to that
when Larry Herndon led off with a triple to the wall in
right-center field. Herndon then scored on Darrell
Evans' fly ball that fell between Boston shortstop
Gutierrez and leftfielder Jim Rice.
Boston's first run came off a solo homer by Dwight
Evans with two out in the fifth inning.
In the Red Sox eighth, Detroit pitcher Jack Morris
gave up a walk to Evans leading off the inning. Rice
followed with a single which advanced Evans to
second. Tony Armas then hit what appeared to be a
routine grounder to third baseman Howard Johnson.
Johnson, however, threw wildly to first, thus allowing
Evans to score from second and as the ball rolled all
the way into the Boston bullpen, Rice was also able to
score.
Detroit manager Sparky Anderson gave Morris the
okay for an early shower, and Willie Hernandez came
in to end the rally by striking out two batters.
The Tigers loaded the bases in both the eighth and
ninth innings but could not produce the tying run.
Associated Press
Larry Herndon of the Tigers slides safely into third base with a triple during second inning action last night as
Detroit took on the Boston Red Sox at Tiger Stadium.
Late Cub explosion buries Mets
NEW YORK (AP) - Leon Durham
singled home the go-ahead run and Ron
Cey, Ryne Sandberg, and Henry Cotto
each drove in a pair as the Chicago
Cubs broke a tie with eight runs in the
eighth inning yesterday to beat New
York 11-4 and shatter the Mets' seven-
game winning streak.
The victory pulled Chicago within 31/
games of the National League East
leading Mets, who had won six of their
seven straight by one run. When the
Mets, who trailed 3-0 after 41/2 innings,
pulled into a 3-3 tie in the seventh, it
looked like another close one.
BUT WITH five unearned runs
among the eight they scored in the
eighth, the Cubs made it a rout. San-
dberg started the big inning with a walk
off reliever Doug Sisk, 1-4, who came on
after starter Ron Darling was lifted for
a pinch hitter. Sandberg went to second
on a wild pitch and to third on an in-
field hit by Gary Matthews. Durham
singled home the first run of the inning
and when Sisk bobbled Keith
Moreland's sacrifice bunt the bases
were loaded.
Brett Gaff relieved Sisk and balked
home another run. Jody Davis was
walked intentionally to reload the bases
and Cey followed with a two-run single.
Pinch-hitter Jay Johnstone was walked
intentionally after Gaff fell behind 3-0
and the Mets finally got the first out of
the inning when relief pitcher Lee
Smith struck out.
Bob Dernier grounded into a forceout
at the plate, but Sandberg doubled hme
two more runs and Cotto, who entered
the game as a pinch runner for Mat-
thews earlier in the inning, followed
with a two-run single.
Scores
BASEBALL
Cleveland 6. Baltimore 3
Texas5, Toronto4
New York (AL)3,Chicago2
Mon"real4, Philadelphia 1
Atlanta 4, Sac Francisco 3
Los Angeles 1,Cincinnatia
Houston3, San Diego1
St. Louis5, Pittsburgh 5
Durham
... whacks game-winner
0 OLYMPIC ROUNDUP:
Reagan gives U.S. team pep talk
LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Reagan, eager
to inspire U.S. Olympic athletes to victory, reached
back into his acting career yesterday and exhorted
the team to "do it for the Gipper."
The president traveled here to deliver a pep talk to
the 614-member U.S. team at Olympic Village and to
officially open the Summer Olympic Games at the
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
"MANY YEARS ago, when I competed in sports,
our coaches would spur us on with a few punchy
phrases," Reagan told the team at Heritage Hall on
the University of Southern California campus.
"We count on you to push yourselves to the limit,"
he declared. "So when you're out there set your
sights high .. then go for it.
"Do it for yourselves, for your families, for your
country," the president advised. "And if I may be a
bit presumptous ... do it for the Gipper."
In a 1940 film entitled "Knute Rockne-All
American," Reagan played a Notre Dame football
star, George Gipp, who dies. Years later, during an
especially tough game, Pat O'Brien, playing Coach
Rockne, inspires victory by recounting Gipp's story
and imploring: "Win one for the Gipper."
After formally opening the games, Reagan was
flying by helicopter to his ranch near Santa Barbara
Calif., to begin a 19-day vacation that includes the
Aug. 14 wedding of his daughter, Patti Davis.
Bovcotters still complaining
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungary and
Czechoslovakia, two Soviet-bloc boycotters of the Los
Angeles Olympics, criticized aspects of the event
yesterday as the Summer Games officially began.
Nepszabadsag, the newspaper of Hungary's Com-
munist Party, chastised the Reagan administration
for not curbing anti-Soviet groups in the United
States. The Soviet Union and the 13 other nations that
joined its boycott alleged that such groups would
have posed a threat to the security of their athletes.
The United States denied the allegations.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S state-run CTK news agen-
cy, noting the absence of powerhouse Soviet
volleyball and women's basketball teams, suggested
the competitive value of the Games would suffer.
"It is highly regrettable that the first 'winners in
Los Angeles' were the extremist anti-Communist
organizations, which the American government did
not feel inclined to check," said Nepszabadsag, in an
editorial carried by the state-run MTI news agency.
"We are sorry that our athletes will be absent from
the Olympics," said the editorial. "We do not wish to
deny Los Angeles its Olympics, just as the unjustified
American boycott did not change the fact of the
Moscow Games."
THE UNITED States and more than 60 other coun-
tries boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest
the Soviet presence in Afghanistan.
CTK, noting the Soviets captured gold medals in
women's basketball since the event became an
Olympic competition in 1976, said, "Now the
American women basketball players hope to win the
gold medal.