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Show Pat THE DAILY HERALD, Prow, Utah, Thursday, September 23. B4 Straws 1 W ireep) to tUKH (sDeseo a o Chipper goes deep again while Lockhart plays hero in seventh By The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) For a team involved in its first September pennant race since 1993, the Atlanta Braves look right at home. Chipper Jones homered r Keith again, Lockhart broke a seventh-innintie with a sacrifice fly and the Braves extended their NL East lead to three games over New York, beating the Mets Wednesday night. Tom Glavine worked ) seven strong innings, his performance tarnished only by Mike Piazza's homer in the fourth. The 1998 Cy Young winner won for the only second time in his last eight starts. The Braves began the series with a slender over New York, but they've taken a major step toward extending their unprecedented streak of seven straight division titles. The Mets still have hope: the teams meet again next week in a series at Shea Stadium. yil LEAGUE runs in a 2-- 1 victory. CUBS 5 CARDINALS 3 pinch-hitte- g 5-- 2 (12-11- two-ru- n three-gam- e one-gam- three-gam- e e New York had a 3 12-gam- strike-shortene- d '94 season, d head-to-hea- c d -- . DLAMONDBACKS ROCKIES 3 11 V e lead in the race over which Cincinnati, played later at San Diego. The Braves haven't played such a meaningful game at this time of year since 1993, when they beat San Francisco by one game in the NL West. Since the wild-car- Even with the CHICAGO wind whipping out at Wrigley Field on a perfect day for home runs, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire couldn't clear the fence. with McGwire went two walks. Sosa, who still leads also the homer derby 61-5walked twice in an day as the Cubs beat the Cardinals. The two home run rivals will three mores go season series in the final times, at Busch Stadium. McGwire finished the three-gam- e and Sosa series 1 for-10 McGwire hit his was 59th homer Monday, had three walks and six strikeouts. Atlanta has won four straight East titles by an average margin of 14 games. Jones was serenaded with chants of "MVP! MVP! MVP" after his 44th homer, a shot in the first that gave the Braves a quick lead. It was his third homer in two days against the Mets, following up a pair of solo shots in the series opener that accounted for both Atlanta two-ru- DENVER Matt Williams homered and drove in four runs ) and Andy Benea pitched eight strong innings and had three RBIs as the Arizona (12-12- Diamondbacks drew closer to clinching the NL West. Arizona, in just its second season, lowered its magic number for clinching the NL West to two. The Diamondbacks began lead the day with a nine-gam- e San over second-plac- e Francisco. n EXPOS 5 MARLINS 3 JOHN BAZEMOREThs The sweat swing: Atlanta's Chipper Jones hits a Wednesday. two-ru- n two-ru- homer against the New n ball before Anthony Telford relieved to start the sixth. Tuesday. , Miguel Batista ) earned his first victory as a starter since June 11. He pitched five shutout innings of three-hi- t PITTSBURGH The Houston Astros lost track of the e count and, later, one of their baserunners. No won- der they still haven't lost 5-- A's playoff hopes fading away PIRATES 3 ASTROS 2 ball-strik- ' Baltimore's Ripken will miss rest of season with back problems York Mets in an Associated Press a crucial National League East game Cincinnati in the NL Central race. Todd Ritchie outpitched winner Jose Lima and bles Wednesday night and the Montreal Expos beat the Florida Marlins The Marlins had won five in a row against Montreal, including a doubleheader sweep (8-7- Orlando Merced and his replacement, James dou- Mouton, each hit MIAMI if. v BREWERS e the Pittsburgh Pirates turned two unusual double plays in as many innings to slow Houston's run at a third straight division title, beating the Astros. PHILLIES 12 3 MILWAUKEE Ron Gant, Abreu Rico and Brogna Bobby each had two hits during an run eighth inning, as Philadelphia used its biggest scoring frame in 18 years to beat Milwaukee. , 11 Box scores, B7 Duffers can still play golf while renovations continue The Yankees drew 27,549, By The Associated Press The OAKLAND, Calif. Minnesota Twins scored three walks in times on bases-loadeseventh to win a five-ru- n Wednesday over the Athletics, d walks while not getting an out in the seventh, was the loser. INDIANS 9 TIGERS 1 five-gam- wild-car- 5-- 4 further dimming Oakland's eroding playoff hopes. The A's entered play Wednesday five games behind the Boston Red Sox in the AL race and 5 12 games back of Texas in the AL West. Boston and Texas both played wild-car- d later Wednesday. ' The attendance of 9,895 e brdught the total for the series to 22,905. The A's drew 59,958 for a homestand that started with three games against the Kansas City Royals. The Athletics, whose sale to local buyers was tabled last week by baseball owners, have drawn 1,370,692 fans this season an average of 17,573 per even though the A's game have the best home record in the AL with a mark. The Twins scored all their runs with two outs in the seventh, an inning in which the A's used five pitchers. An Oakland error, a hit batsman and four walks led to the Minnesota runs. Jacque Jones and Matt Lawton had RBI singles in the inning, while Marty Cordova, Ron Coomer and Brent Gates all walked with the bases loaded against Tim Worrell and Buddy Groom. Mark Redman ) pitched one inning for his first major '. three-gam- six-gam- e 50-2- 8 pinch-hitte- league win. Mike Trombley recorded the final five outs for his 24th save in 29 chances. who gave up Worrell one run on two hits and two (2-2- ), DETROIT Jaret Wright allowed two hits in seven innings and Jim Thome's two-ru- n double keyed a four-ruCleveland first as the Indians pounded the Detroit Tigers 1 Wednesday night. who was win-les- s Wright in six starts since July 6, allowed one unearned run. He issued one walk and matched n 9-- (8-9- ), his season-higwith eight strikeouts. The Indians, who clinched the AL Central title on Sept. 8, had four runs and five hits off in the Brian Moehler h (9-1- first. Moehler, seeking his first win since Aug. 30, gave up single runs in the second, fifth and sixth, falling behind Moehler allowed seven runs 7-- and 13 hits in six innings. In the first, Roberto Alomar had an RBI single, Thome drove in two with a double up the gap in center and Harold Babies had an RBI single. Alomar had another RBI single in the second, Travis Fryman drove in the run with a groundout and Baines had an RBI single in the sixth. fifth-innin- g r' (1-0- game losing streak and snapped Boston's winning streak at six. The Red Sox still lead in the kept their race over Oakland, which lost to Minnesota. But Boston fell four games behind New York in the AL East. The Yankees beat Chicago BLUE JAYS 14 RED SOX 9 BOSTON Shawn Green hit his 40th home run and Toronto combined 22 hits and five Boston errors to stop the Red Sox and stall their drive to the playoffs. Toronto ended its seven- - e d 5-- The Blue Jays, who had lost six in a row at Fenway Park, maintained their slim playoff hopes. Toronto will be eliminated if it loses a game or the Red Sox win one. Green and Vernon Wells each had four hits. By the time the third inning was done, everyone in Toronto's starting lineup had at least one hit by the end of the game, every Blue Jays batter had an RBI. YANKEES 5 WHITE SOX 4 Paul O'Neill NEW YORK walked with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, forcing in the winning run as the New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox. New York, which tied the score on Jorge Posada's two-rutwo-ou- t single in the eighth, lowered the magic number for its fifth straight playoff berth to three. The Yankees increased their AL East lead to four games over second-plac- e Boston, wliich lost to Toronto 14-- Darryl Strawberry hit his second home run of the season, helping New York win for the seventh time in eight games. Former Yankees farmhand Chris Singleton had the first game of his major league career and drove in three runs two-hom- er for Chicago. raising their season total to 3,072,009, a record for a New York team, topping the 1988 Mets' total to 3,047,724. walked Jaime Navarro rookie D'Angelo Jimenez leading off the Yankees ninth and Chuck Knoblauch reached on a bunt single. Derek Jeter walked and O'Neill walked on a pitch. Mariano Rivera ) struck out Greg Norton to end the top half with a runner on second. (8-1- 3-- 2 (4-3- ORIOLES 7 RANGERS 4 Two Utah County golf courses are getting facelifts, but continue to be in the game. At Cascade Fairways in Orem, work to integrate a street from 800 North is three t r 4 GOLF BEAT i 4" MVS' t , $ d J weeks underway. At Hobble Creek, work has started on a $650,000 automated sprinkling system on the front nine. Sonny Braun, the head professional at Hobble Creek estimates the work on the Spnngville-ownecourse will be finished within when workers moved dirt to bury pipe. In Orem, Cascade has moved the No. 1 tee boxes to the old driving range where golfers have a straighter shot' at the No. 1 par-- green. Cascade's No. 9 finishing hole is now a par-- dogleg left to what was a practice green. That will be a permanent design move. The Cascade Amateur will be Saturday although Anderson has cut the field to 60 players with one shotgun Dick Harmon d 90-da- ARLINGTON, Texas On the day Cal Ripken was lost for the season, leaving him nine hits short of 3,000, Baltimore beat Texas for its 13th straight victory. The Orioles announced Ripken would be sidelined by back problems. He will have surgery Thursday morning in Cleveland to relieve pressure on a nerve that has been causing him discomfort. third Ripken, an All-Stbaseman made his first two trips to the disabled list this season. Baltimore's winning streak matches the second-longein team history, trailing only a string from Aug. 1973. The Orioles also won 13 in a row in 1978. Texas lost its third in a row. The Rangers' magic number for clinching the AL West is at six after Oakland lost 4 to Minnesota. Charles Johnson and Brady Anderson hit consecutive homers in the fifth inning for the Orioles. Albert Belle hit his 35th st 14-ga- 12-2- 5-- homer and Jesus Garcia hit his first in the majors. Box scores, B7 FALL CLASSIC: When Orem's Steve Watts dreamed up the idea for a member-gues- t tournament like the 4 4 big-priz- start at 8 a.m. TWO AGGIES: Both Chris Moody and Jason Wight have played golf at Utah State, but both live in Utah Valley. The two talented golfers led a contingent of amateurs to a win against club professionals in the Governor's Cup Tuesday at Glen Eagle Golf Course. The format calls for compe- tition in different formats including a scramble, individmatches. l ual and and Moody won 11 of Wight a possible 12 points to lead the amateurs to a 49.5 to 46.5 vic; tory. four-bal- famed Mulligan at Riverside, he primarily wanted members on a Mulligan waiting list to have a chance to play a e affair on the home course. He had no idea, he'd end up signing up a lot of players who were already playing in the coveted Milligan that takes place the first week of August at the Club. With 30 closest-to-th- e hole prizes ranging from trips to San Francisco to clubs and electronic equipment, the Fall Classic this past weekend at Riverside attracted 128 players. Scott Kirkland teamed with Bryant Safford for a plus-1score to win the Chicago scoring format tournament. 5 ', - Dick Harmon is The Daily Heralds executive sports editor. Reach him via at |
