Show 48 Saturday September 17 1988 r Standard-Examine- Sports Jefferies helps New York lower magic number to 6 Assoc aed Press In New York they’re already calling Gregg Jefferies “The Natural” and oh boy does he play the part so well Jefferies was in the first slump of his career going hitless in 13 through the fourth big-leag- ue at-ba- ts inning Friday night But he broke out of it with a bang He singled in the fifth and seventh and then singled in the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth 3 at inning leading New York past Montreal Shea Stadium The Mets have won eight of nine games and 18 of 23 as they continue their roll to the National League East title The magic number is down to six and the lead remains at games over Pittsburgh which beat Philadelphia 5 Jefferies batting 397 with 27 hits in 68 has taken over New York’s tabloids One already has suggested that he be considered for rookie of the year even though he was in the minors until the last week in August There was also an article about his marketing and endorsement opportunities But then he went into that slump “I knew it wasn’t going to last hitting 480” Jefferies said “It was frustrating for a while especially the first two times up when I lined out I wasn’t too womed because I was hitting the ball OK I wasn’t striking out or hitting choppers” Randy Myers 3 pitched 12A hitless innings striking out three He followed Terry Leach who came m during the seventh after Bob Ojeda was injured when he fell attempting to field Johnny Paredes’ bunt Ojeda was diagnosed as having a strained muscle in his right hip and may miss a start but his condition is not considered serious 4-- National League - off the glove of shortstop Rafael Ramirez scoring Robby Thompson and Will Clark Pinch-hittErnest Riles then singled in Candy Maldonado from third and Kirt Manwanng doubled in two more runs Atlee Hammaker 8 was the winner giving up one run on two hits in five innings before leaving the game with a stiff left elbow Craig Lefferts who came on in relief of Scott Garrelts in the ninth and d pitched out of a jam earned his 10th save Bob Knepper 13-- 5 was the loser er 8-- bases-loade- no-o- ut 1 1 7-- at-ba- ts 7-- Giants 5 Astros 4 At Houston pinch-hitt- single sparked a five-ru- er n Mike Aldrete’s sixth inning two-ru- n Aldrete hit for With the Giants trailing Kevin Mitchell with two outs and the bases loaded He hit a soft liner into shallow center that bounced 1- -0 Associated Press Ozzie Smith leaps over Cubs’ Mitch Webster to complete double play Pirates 7 Phillies 5 At Philadelphia Bobby Bonilla had three hits drove in three runs and scored the on er Sid Bream’s Prts The ghosts of the 1978 massacre are gone The Boston Red Sox exorcised them Friday night and erased — for now — the New York Yankees’ hopes of again haunting Fenway Park “It puts an end to any sweep talk” Manager Joe Morgan said after Boston won 4 and increased its American League East lead to 4Vi games over the 5-- Slvke Reliever Jeff Robinson 7-- Yankees The Red Sox and ace Roger Clemens lost the opener of the four-gam- e series evoking memories Thursday night from 10 years ago That time the Yankees’ went on a rampage at Fenway for a four-gam- e wipeout in the midst of their miracle comeback This time the Red So hung tough They trailed 0 just pitches into the game before rallying with Marty Barrett's single sparking a filth inning The Yankees brought the tying run to the plate in the eighth and ninth In the eighth Mike Pagliarulo the hero in Thursday night’s 3 victory hit a fly ball that right fielder Dwight Evans caught at the fence “This game meant a lot to us but we still have 15 to go and we have to keep playing the way we are nght now” winning pitcher Wes Gardner said Boston won for the ninth time in 12 games New York has lost only two of its last nine Tigers 8 Orioles 7 2-- five-ru- n 5-- At Detroit Fred Lynn traded from Baltimore to the Tigers last month hit n homer in the ninth inning The Tigers’ comeback came immediately after an delay and enabled them to stay within five games of division-leadin- g Boston Detroit which overcame an early 1 deficit won for just the fifth time in 24 games Baltimore took a 6 lead in the top of ninth on Eddie Murray’s fourth RBI of the game and then a thunderstorm delayed the start of the bottom of the ninth a two-ru- Mariners six-hitt- er 0-- run-scori- At Seattle Don August a late replacement for Teddy Higuera pitched a and Robin Yount and Jeffrey Leonard each drove in two runs 6 August replaced Higuera who warmed up prior to the game but was pulled due to a strained left shoulder Blue Jays 4 Indians five-hitt- er 11-- 3 Royals 3 Athletics 0 At Toronto Kelly Gruber doubled home the winning run in the 10th in- At Oakland Calif Mark Gubicza and Kevin Seltzer’s pitched a two-ru- n double broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning Gubicza 18-- 7 walked none and struck out eight in his third shutout He outpitched Bob Welch 15-- 8 who finished with a two-hitt- ning Pinch hitter Pat Borders started the Toronto 10th with a single off Don 4 Gordon and went to second on a walk to Ranee Mulliniks After Jesse Barfield popped out Gruber lined his double to the alley in nght center Tom Henke 4 pitched the 10th 2-- four-hitt- er 4-- Angels 7 Rangers 2 Twins 5 White Sox 4 At Anaheim Calif Wally Joyner hit n a double during a four-ru- n first inning and Chili Davis had a two-ru- n homer as California beat Texas and e ended a losing streak Willie Fraser 0 pitched four-hball for 6'j innings and won his sixth consecutive decision Paul Kilgus retired only one batters before leav- - At Minneapolis Jim Dwyer and Gene Larkin hit consecutive home runs in the sixth inning and Kirby Puckett double for his 1000th cagot a two-ru-n reer hit Puckett doubled and scored on Dwyer’s single in the first Puckett became the fourth player to reach 1000 hits before completing five years in the two-ru- jured” five-gam- 12-1- it 11-- 1 8' U WhltQ Soxs 0zzje Guien out by Twins’ Al Newman feg8658 Michigan seeks to stop Miami road win streak In the Second Ten No 12 West Virginia entertains Maryland East Carolina is at No 14 South Carolina Boston College is at No 16 Penn State Armv is at No 17 Washington No 18 Ohio State is at Pitt under the lights and Colorado is at No 19 about Michigan offensively is the experience and the size of the offensive linemen They're a very physical group “They run the football most of the time but they’ve got the ability to pass protect They're probable as experienced an offenIowa sive line as we’ll (ace all year” Three Top Twenty teams are idle — No Schembcchler calls Miami “Without 5 Southern Cal No 11 Nebraska and No team in the nation question the No 20 Oklahoma State I’m not so sure that they're not better than Miami’s success on the road doesn't last year's national championship team” Michigan’s 80th consecutive 100000-plu- s crowd will be on hand for only the mean a thing to Schembcchler And he Florida State’s national championship second meeting between the two schools says it “doesn’t mean anything to them eihopes can’t afford another loss and Coach ther None of their players were around Bobbv Bowden is concerned about Miami also visited Ann Arbor on Sept just then” 8 19S4 when Bernie Kosar threw six instaving in the rankings refresh To Miami was “W’e’ll let the national picture take care your memory terceptions in a 4 loss the Hurricanes’ playing its third game in 13 days After of itself” he said “Our expectations did only setback away from home other than bowl games under Coach Jimmy Johnson winning its final 11 games cn route to the not permit us to have two losses in the 1983 national championship the Hurrifirst three games yet that could easily hapa They currently own winning canes beat Auburn 8 the Kickoff in streak 33 straight regular-seasopen” victories 0 Classic and Florida regular-seaso“Cknisuii is a running and a They were the road winfootdefending national champions and they ball team with a great kicking game and ning streak had a they play great delense So far in their two winning streak Today’s only other game between memDo you believe in Deja vu? Johnson wins they haven't played bers of the Associated Press Top Twenty anything but doesn’t finds No 10 Florida State a 0 opening-straight vanilla football “I think all the players are anxious to go “I'm sure we'll see some things they d game loser to Miami at up to Michigan" he says “Michigan looks didn't run in those games We’re going to Clemson catch everything they've got” One game — No 13 Alabama at Texas like a typical Bo Schcmbechler-coache- d funClemson's Danny Ford is trying to stay AcfLM — was postponed because of Hum-can- e football team They’re Gilbert It was rescheduled for Dec damentally and they play with a lot of en- low kcv thusiasm “I ain’t going to do nothing to make it “They’ve still got an outstanding football any bigger than it is” Ford says “We’ve I'CLA enterElsewhere second-ranke- d It just so happens that they missed a been in big ones before This is a big one tains Long Beach State at night No 4 team field at the end of the game against “It would have been an interesting congoal No 6 to Arizona Oklahoma plays host test as tar as national interest had Honda loss) But Auburn is at home against Kansas under Notre Dame (last week's anticipate they'll be one of the better State beaten Miami But it will not make the lights No 7 Georgia visits Mississippi State tor a night game No 8 Notre Dame teams in the country at the end of the this game any less important for Clemson year or Honda State is at Michigan State and No 9 LSU visits “Probably the most impressive thing “We’re having a grand crowd (83000) Tennessee Can Miami hold onto the No national ranking longer than Florida State did? The Hurricanes will learn the answer today when they visit No 15 Michigan “We'll have a shot at them It's not an insurmountable task Don’t write us off at all” Michigan Coach Bo Schembcchler says “I he thing that will hopefully help us is we’re playing on our turf” 1 1 22-1- 20-1- n 19-ga- 32-2- n ball-contr- ol 13-ga- 31-- third-ranke- well-school- 1 19-1- t 7 1 Players not hurt in wreck NASHVILLE Ind (AP) — Members of the University of Kentucky football team escaped serious injury Friday when their chartered bus collided with a car near Brown County State Park killing two people in the car authorities said The crash occurred about 2:45 p m west of Nashville on Indiana 46 about a quarter-mil- e east of the west gate to the park Kentucky Coach Jerry Claiborne and his wife Faye were aboard the bus When reached at his hotel room about two hours later Claiborne said none of his players was hurt but declined further comment “It was an unfortunate accident and obviously a very traumatic experience for us all” he said in a statement released about an hour later “We’re just grateful no one in the travel party was in- 1 5-- 7-- score- At Chicago Jose DeLeon and Todd Worrell combined on a and Willie McGee tripled home a run DeLeon 12-- 8 who won for the sixth straight time allowed five hits walked four and struck out three in innings Worrell finished up for his 31st save Cubs’ rookie Mike Harkey 2 allowed seven hits in eight innings The Cardinals scored twice in the eighth on Rod Booker’s RBI single and a double by Tony Pena 10-1- 5 pitched two Cardinals 3 Cubs 0 four-gam- Brewers 10-- 5 less innings for the victory Jim Gott closed out the last inning for his 30th save Greg Hams 4-- 5 took the loss major leagues joining Joe Medwick Paul Waner and Earle Combs Puckett who leads the majors with 206 hits will complete five years on May 7 1989 5 Bert Blyleven ended his e losing streak Jeff Reardon got his 39th save American League single Bonilla opened the Pirate eighth with a single stole second took third on shortstop Jackie Gutierrez’s error and scored on Bream’s line drive to left to break a 5 tie The Pirates added an insurance run in the ninth on an RBI single by Andy Van Red Sox top Yankees exorcise demons of 78 Associated g eighth-innin- and four bowl scouts Now all that don't mean anything Absolutely zero The most press in the world that don’t mean nothing “W hat means something is that if we can block and tackle and play football we can win the game If we don’t do a good job at it we're going to get beat If we win we go to Game 4 if we lose we still go to Game 4” UCLA coach Terry Donahue says it “means a great deal” to be ranked No 2 (The Bruins vaulted from fifth after last week's 8 rout of Nebraska) “But this a young team Let’s not put it into the Hall of Fame this week Give it 11 weeks One game does not a season make That sounds trite but it’s true” Oklahoma’s Barry Switzer predicts the Sooners will get a severe test against Arizona offense “They have a which will test our inexperienced defense With two victories their confidence level will be high” Arizona's Dick Tomey concedes the Wildcats have a chance to be a very good team but we are not there yet “This is an opportunity to take a shot at the No team in the history of college football but we’re not building our season around this game” Auburn is a lopsided favorite over Kansas a team it beat 49-- 0 a year ago But Coach Pat Dye points out that last week the Jay hawks “had Baylor beat until late in the game and for the most part did a good job of keeping them out of the end 41-2- high-power- ‘ 1 zone” The Bluegrass Charter bus was one of three in a convoy carrying the 67 players from Lexington Ky to Bloomington for today’s game with Indiana University Joey Howard a Kentucky assistant sports information director said about 30 players were on the bus which was struck when the car apparently crossed the center line The driver of the car Charles B Stone 70 of Louisville Kydied at the scene of the accident according to Tony Gardner a dispatcher at the Indiana State Police post at Bloomington Gardner said the accident occurred when Stone’s car dropped off the shoulder of Indiana 46 and the driver over-correct- ed steering the car across the center line and into the path of the bus A passenger in the car Charles Steele 73 of Brooksvillc Fla died in the emergency room of Bloomington Hospital of head and neck injuries about an hour after the accident according to hospital spokeswoman Sandy Fis-cus Three other passengers were injured Steele’s wife Margaret 61 was listed in critical condition at Bloomington Hospital Jean Carver Stone 66 of Louisville Ky was in critical condi- tion with head injuries at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis where she was flown by helicopter Shannon Cloyd 19 of Lexington Ky an Indiana University student was in satisfactory condition at Bloomington Hospital Howard said the Kentucky players would conduct a practice session and attend a team meeting and cat together Friday night |