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Show _ TheSalt LakeTribune SPORTS Friday, June 14, 1996 feyKT.' LEAGUE Atlanta 3 It was Atlanta's fifth defeat in seven games — its worst slidesincelosingsix of eight in April Los Anos arn seventh Hamilton allowed three Tuns on four hits, struck out seven and walked four in eight innings He experiencedearly control problems, hitting the retired 13 of the last 14 batters he faced before being replaced by Mike Magnante with two outin the seventh. Baltimore (Mussina 8-3) at Kansas City (Gubicaa 4-9). 6 pm Hanson6-8) at California (Grimsley 3-5), 8 pm. \go(Alvarez 7-3) at Seattle (Hitchcock 5-2), 8 pm Linton is amazing.” Pet 40 GB LIO Boone “That's twice where he’s sat 8-9 days and come SirkHome back strong. It wasreally a masterful job 24.625 28 56: Fh ida Craig Paquette had four RBIs and keyed a four-run New York Philly CENTRAL Houston St Louis Chicago L10 Sirk Home 18-19 20-13 20-12 San Diego La Away 18-11 15:18 219 SanFran five decisions He was charged with eight hits and five runs, walked three and did not get a strikeout Reed's two-out si 5AM O00 Serums Marlins 4 Pirates 3 PITTSBURGH — Devon White's two-run single in the ninth capped off Florida s late-inning comeback against Pittsburgh's bullpen. andthe Marlins stopped the Pirates five-gamewinning streak wine Florida had lost four of cluding his first home run in over a month andSanFran cisco scored six runs in the first inningto beat Houston Leading9-0 after the second inning, the Giants had to Saxe withstand a six-run fifth by Toro 83.9123 Toto five and were only 1-7 in the Astros that included a fon Qege 900 200 100 oon ob-3 00 040 000 c+ Pittsburgh since last season pinch-hit grandslamby Sean Teewer rgmone while the Pirates had won Berry cage | Depe t oh Bonds’ homer, a two-run nineof 10 Yorkis Perez (2-1) pitched shot, cameinthe eighth off 1"3 innings for the victory DeanHartgraves and was his and Robb Nen finished for first since May 11 whenhe his 15th save had his then-major league leading 17th hor string 102 at was the st of his caree lon, 22 at bat stretch f Mets 2 Cardinals 1 ST LOUIS — Robert Per son. called up from the mi nors earlier in the day. al. lowed three hits over seven ngs and New York got home runs from Todd Hund ley and Jeff Kent on consec utive at-bats The Mets have wonfive of a Arseeti (urea an Rekar contin tery of Philadelphia as Colo rado won Rekar, returning to the Rockies on Monday af. week stint at Triple to 13-15 at home St Louis Brewers 16 Athletics 3 MILWAUKEE — John Jaha hit two homers. including a 458-foot shotthat nearly cleared the County Stadium bleachers in Milwaukee's rout of Oakland Pat Listach drovein three runs and Matt Mieske went 3-for-3 with a triple and a homer as the Brewers roughed up Oakland starter Steve Wojciechowski for nine runs, six earned. on nine hits and a balk in 42s innings Thebarrageonly got worse against Oakland's belea guered bullpen Todd Van Poppel surren si Red Sox 8 Rangers Bi 7 (10) BOSTON — Alex Delgado singled home the winning run in the 10th inning with his second major league hit Giants 12 straight-away center. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Interim Reds Boss Puts Focus on Field BY SONJA BARISIC THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATI — John Allen. who's ver the Cincinnati Reds for the next two months, said he's going to work on putting thefocus back on the field Allen. the team controller. said he d stage more promotions —a ma k with owner Marge Schott s philosophy — andtry to iner ase at tendance en was appointedinterimchief on Wednesdayas part c an ent under which Schott su dereddaily control of theball cl throughthe 1998season Allen declined to talk about Schott except to credit her with maintaining eds’ financial stabi declined during baseball strike I’m not going to rehash the past or the reasons why I'm here Allen said 4 news conference Thursday also declined to say what Schott’s role would bein the negotia tions for a new stadiumforthe Reds Allensaid herealizes his timeat the top will be short, but that he can get somethings accomplished T'm not a puppet here. hesaid. “1 will be making decisions, and some changeswill be made Thebiggest changewill be a push to attract fans. Attendance has been down 10,000 a game over the ls ds havehad the third-big; in attendance in the National League this year behind Philadelphia and Chicago I can games at Riverfront Stadiuma fun and exciting n Let's get some n the n said he wa liven upthe ed during games, possibly reduce ticket prices for some games and put up banners re! Reds winning her Wehave no ecognition that w: a World That will takepl days Schott had refusedto discounttick: ets — even whenthe Reds planned to play games with replacement players during thebaseball strike. And she has declined to play rock music or to put upbanners recognizing the Reds won championships Allen also intends to hire morein terns to help out in the front office which is the smallest in the major leagues with only 40 full-time employ ees. Hesaid he wouldleave any deci sions about payroll or additionsto the scouting staff to genera] manager Jim Bowden personal things are known about Allen, and he prefers it that DENVER — When Bernie Bicker. staff completed a four-player trade with the Indiana Pacers early Thurs. day afternoon, he was just getting warmed up way ae fe praia Jalen Rose I'mnot whatyouwould call a lime- andWithin Reggie W o the Pacers. light kind of guy,” hesaid the Denver Nears PiedaNit controver: He grew up in Norton, Kan. re sial guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf to ceived a degree in accounting from the SacramentoKingsin exchange for Kansas State, and worked at Arthur Sarunas Marciulionis and a second: Andersen. an accounting company draft andthenhadhis own firm for a num round ‘Obviously it’s got to be done on the ber years but we've got people whoare said he then decided to get in floor, said Bickerstaff volved in baseball because heloves about winning.” coach andpresident of basthesport, so he earned a masters's de Denver's ketball operations, "Winning is what's gree in sports management from Ohio State Hespent five years as director of business operations for the Columbus Clippers, the New York Yankees’ Tri ple-A team, beforejoining the Reds in May 1995. In less than a year, he became Schott’s adviser and point man on non-teammatters His close association with Schott has madesomepiayers wary. Allen planned to meet on Friday with play ers to reassure them that “there will not be a wholesale fire sale right now He alsosaid he wants tolet players knowthat he is not ‘someogre Schott reportedly wanted Allen runtheteam in her absence. but Allen said it is doubtful that he would be designated as her permanentreplace ment whenhis 60 days are up 1 would love the opportunity,”” he said “I'm in lovewith Cincinnati. and with the fans. e385 : ttt tie z i ie (QoS f romero of ears Sona oval Sone Ssor0 temm sons RS eH hind four times before de.Aregesis apmrend feating Texas The Red Sox, wholead the major leagues with 15 extrainning games, tied the score 7-7 on John Valentin’s seventh homer of the season with one out in the 10th rhe orn mak: ing the score7-3 andsending GAMESUMMARY the Dukes to victory cot Klingenbeck started It Lakeand pitched an effective five innings, giving upjust tworunson fivehits Barcelo (2-2) was hit with the loss siqe.arming Will Brunson earned the win for AlbuGuerque. The 6-foot-4 left. pander recently called AA SEW AatO nig. John Cummingspitched 4° scoreless ninth’ for the fave Klingenbeck was the recipient of an early 2-0lead as Salt Lake's Todd Walker belted a first-inning two-run homer — his 11th of the year — off thescoreboard in right field After the Dukes tied it Anderson and second basewith single runs in thefirst man Guerrero put the Buzz and fourth, the Buzz took ad- back on top, 3-2 intentional walk to re-load vantage of Albuquerque's Three games remainin the the bases. Oreste Marrero shoddy middle-inning de. first half of the PCLseason bashed a grand slam to fense. Errors by shortstop Salt, Lake was eliminated Abdul-Rauf, Ros Astros 8 SAN FRANCISCO — Bar ty Bonds had four hits. in Eee and Boston came from be- WM hasscored three runs in the fourlosses. feertoc Same Sen | Seen Gran ¢ sso". fer Strikeout Costs Buzz Against Albuquerque ALBUQUERQUE, N M — A strikeout is usu: wel. comenews for a relief pitch er On Thursday night, how ever. a strikeout ended up costing Mare Barcelo and the Salt Lake Buzz a 7-3 loss to h innings, ee the Albuquerque Dukes in Rekar Pacific Coast Leagueplay traight batters Of the Buzz leading 3-2 six major league in With the seventh, Barcelo have come over whiffed Albuquerque's WilHe won his ton Guerrero. but the ball bouncedin the dirt and got e debut andlater clone away fromSalt Lakecatcher Damian Miller. By the time Miller rounded it up, Guerrero had advanced all the way to second base An intentional walk to Chris Deme. tral thenloadedthe base Then, on what should have beenthe thirdout ofthe inning, Albuquerque's Karim reia hit a sacrifice fly scoring Cliff Anderson from third base and knotting the score at 3-3 After another while the Cardinals © lost four of five and fell The Angels tied it at 4 with Salmon’s drive on Juan Gue 2 man’s first pitch of the sixth inning lasted just 25 innings while losing for the fourth time in fourth Tony Gwynnled off with his third homerof the season and Jason Thompson doubled and scored on Jody The James gotthelast three outs forhis first save Joe Vitiello had three RBIs as Kent Mercker(3-5) San Franc burgh Rich Monteleone, who re 4i turned to the Angels on Wednesday in a trade that sent Mike Aldrete to the New York Yankees. pitched two scoreless innings and Mike third basemanhas three dou- Colorado site field double down the left field line San Diego tied it 2-2 in the uae opening nig! h bles. four homeruns and 10 RBIs WEST. scored on Gonzalez’s oppo: sn iii handeris 6-0 in eight starts at Anaheim Stadium since Milwaukee beat him 15-9 on lomez meee days asthe Royals snapped a four-game skid In his last nine games. the outfielder- Pittsburgh first batter he faced and walking the second McRae and Bret Barberie then four runs andsix hits over six innings with six strikeouts and a walk. The left- ee }$340 x first inning with his second three-run home run in two Cineinnat | Chuck Finley (8-4) allowed ee ome Sete said Kansas City manager Bob Pease! EAST Atlanta Montreal ded single in the and nobody out. Rafael i sending an 0-1 pitch from starter TomGlavineover the left-field wall hases t ' fielder. Cedeno homered on the 181st at-bat of his career combined on a three-hitter. Linton. making his fifth start, walked two, struck out six and surrendered a run on a Brady Anderson homer He eighthoff reliever Jeff NelBournigal blooped a ball son to drive in another . an. overthird baseman Jeff CirCleveland took a 1-0 lead in the sixth when Kenny Lofton illo’s head, freezing Giambi at second and Damon Mashore at third The ball bounced in front of Valentin, Orioles managed off Linton (2-2) and relievers Tum Pugh | and Mike Magnante, who ston 8. Texas 7 (10 California 6, Toronto4 Only games scheduled Angelesrallied to beat reel ing Atlanta. A rookie out first hit. But that was about all the fi 29 35 WS 20-11 Riel | third. Wojeiechowski then balked home Matheny and Murray hit his seventh surrendered Kevin Seitzer's homer of the season after RBIsingle thatput the BrewYankee starter Kenny Rog- ers on top 6-2 ers (4-3) issued a full-count Valentin madea sensationwalk t» Manny Ramirez lead- al play atshort in the third ing of! 2 seventh. He hita inning. With the bases full | i x Lis 64 W2 18:15 double madeit 3-2, Giambi mishandled Pat Listach’s | two-out grounder, allowing Jose Valentin to score from i Hf oF 32 Oakland runs to “s Cleveland over NewYor! Hershiser (6-4) allowed one run on fourhits, struck out five and walked one in 74s The Baltimore shortstop. innings, set to break Sachio Kinugasa’s record tonight, drew a big ovation whenhesingled | in the second inning for the 490 492 if #3 ret ai §it i in his 2.215th consecutive game. “I was just out there trying to keep our team in a game we needed very much to win.” 34 six-run fourth-inning rally | ome shiser and two relievers com- that was aided bythird base- Se cementite one Se(8} fotos | foren +108toxs bined on a five-hitter and | man Jason Giambi's error. Eddie Murraydrove in three After Mike Matheny’s RBI | i 10-2 on the dayRipkentied | the worldrecord byplaying gg 8 Seattle California | six hits in 2% innings. | Sere” 4000 stenone MarkLoretta’s two-run sin- | fore gle tied it at 2 and sparked a "0" 417447 Tom 42 NEW YORK — Orel Her- a hitter Scott Bullett’s out infield single in the mini eo Texas Cleveland 6 Yankees 2 son will stand out in his eG Reyes gave up three runs on S231, {420 SSepaioc i y Sosa doubled and scored ton plowed only one hit throughthe first six innings a two-run double in the first by Luis Gonzalez Hamilton didn’t allowanother hit until Away 16-16 “It's Cal Ripken's day. Linton said Thursday after Kansas City beat Baltimore 29 Ww 40 Homfonct 4410 2 al caine thou= dered four runs on four hits limonte $211 SO in 3of an inning, and Carlos | Nemen? 1110 Somme - AMERICAN LEAGUE aro Mognante (Sun,Winton about his two-hit pitching Motes Pwd ftkio I-238 A performance of June 13, 70,108 (025) 1996, one very special per- 3 bs tied it 3-3 in the fter twoouts as Sam- 20-10 Cleveland 42 Chicag: 40 Minnesota 31 Milwaukee 30 < n ¥i for the Sick Home 2 Boston Toronto National) “ATLANTA — Roger on an 0-2 Geno hit his first pitch a three-run shot in Doug Jones (2-2)ol pitehed homer. the seventh inning. and Los innings 5-5 26. Mo. rs RESS CHICAGO — Terry Shum: pert hit a three-run homerin the bottom of the 14th inning Thursday night to lit the ChicagoCubsto a 6-3 victory over San Diego. the Padres seventh straight loss Jose Hernandez opened the inning with a single off Willie Blair (0-4) Hernandez moved to second ona sacrifice by DougGlanville. After Brian McRae wasintentional y walked, Mike Hubbard grounded out to second McRaereached second safeafter being caught in a rundown when first baseman Archi Ci threw to thurdto try to get Hernandez Auge Pea Wet f the b Siuanriwhe cme oe ar Dodgers 6 acement. won rae GB LI New York 36 Baltimore KANSAS CITY. ne THE ASSOCIATED PI All Times MDT EAST THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When Doug Linton thinks > For Cubs in 14th American League 5 ae cy aw a MAJOR LEAGUE REPORT R 3-Run Shot Wins important. Most of these guys have had good playoff experience with good basketball teams Denver's playoff experience since Abdul-Rauf arrived as No 3 overall pick in the 1990 NBADraft has been limited to two appearances as the Western Conference's eighth seed. Abdul-Rauf also sparked a national controversy last year when he was suspended indefinitely after refusing to stand for the national anthem. He missed one game — and $31,707 of his salary — before agreeingto comply with NBArequirementsto stand for the anthem. Bickerstaff said Abdul-Rauf’s sus. pension and season foot injury subconsciously may have played a part in the trade, but was not the rea son for shipping him west The Abdul-Rauf trade came after the Nuggets acquired veteran point uard Mark Jacksonfrom the P: long with swingman Ricky Pierce The teams also swapped first-round Williams Exit Nuggets picks in the draft, with Indiana moving to2 No, 10 and Denver droppingto u look at the teams in the playafteais they're all veteran basketball teams.” Bickerstaff said don't think you can do it with just youth anymore.” In drafting Rose No. 13 overall in 1994. Bickerstaff had hoped the former Michiganstar would blossom into a Magic Johnson prototype with his size (6-foot-8) and passing skills (5.5 assists per game) I really don’t think it has anything to do with Jalen,” Bickerstaff said. “It has to do with someone who was prov- en from the Northern Division race earlier in the week, and will return home Monday to open the season's second stanza with four-game sets against Tucson and Calgary Unfortunately we gave up a guy who has excellent potential, but we had to make a tough decision, and the decision was we need people nowthat will make us a better basketball team. Tt was about an immediate need.” With young players such as Rose, Jackson is expected to start at the point, where he will focus on getting the ball to high-flying forwards McDyess and Ellis I don't have anyreservations that he’s a true point guard and he'll getit done,” Bickerstaff said Jackson, 31, was the 1989 Rookie of the Year in 1989 and has led the New York Knicks and Indiana to the play offs a combined eight times in nine seasons. He also has topped 600 assists in each of the past five years. “Mark will do a greatjob for [Dan ver], said Pacers president Donnie Walsh. “I thought, ofall ourares onthe team last season, he played as well as anyone. He kept our teamto getherthrough a lot oftrying times. It isn't easyto give him up For Bickerstaff, parting with Atidul-Rauf may have beena little easier In additionto the flag flap. Abd)! Rauf's occasionalfasting periods (he converted to Islam in 1991) left him ed with raw talent but sometimes short on desire. In Marciulionis and Pierce, the Nuggets will get that desire as well as near 140 pounds at times Butthat didn’t stop him from hav ing his best season last year, leading the team with a 19.2-point seeing @¥ erage to go with 6.8 assists. He has averaged 16 points a game in is sx year career. ability to get to the foul line. plosive scorers in the NBA.”said Sac- Abdul: Rauf.LaPhonso Ellis and last year's No. 2 overall draft pick Anto- nio McDyess, the Nuggets were load- strong perimeter shooting and The two guys, even Pierce with his agi are as competitive and tough as anyone around in terms of just physical and mental toughness,” Bickerstaff said “That's what we need in terms of teaching our young players about mental toughness and competi: tiveness While Marciulionis and Pierce likely will berole players off the bench, “Abdul-Raufis one of the mosttg Tramento general manager Geoff Be- trie. “He will team with Mitch Richmondto give us two ot the bast outside shooters in the gam Marciulionis, the firstpls puayer trim the former Soviet Uniontoplay inthe NBA. has been hampered by injuries in his eight-year career. missing the 1993-94 season with a torn ligamentin his right knee " e POOR |
