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.