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Show cé AMERICAN LEAGUE Johnson’s 11 Strikeouts Lift The Mariners The 6-foot-10 jefty‘Teads oflast year because of back problems. of tomorrow helped their 91innings. David Justice, the only fans forget aboutthecurrent left-handed hitter in Cleve- version. Suppan held the Athletics land’sstarting lineup, struck out all three times against to four hits. He walked two and struck outsix in 7% inJohnson. Seattle’s Ken Griffey Jr. nings — matching = longwent 2-for-3 with two walks. est outing of his care In thefifth, ettFr a doubled in one run and Garcia- ame port he needed. Garciappara, a rookie shortstop who CUYRAND oom retri non waite turned 24 Wednesday, also Seon 339 See 88 had a double in the third inGio 3220 Rewert 4040 ning and a leadoff homerin Bishan 233 Amen184 | the eighth to raise his aver- fer, tities Rese 2110 Onision iba 1900 Bani: 3123 Booms fae aia teed Seatto Cuan 41 62 398 17 19-35 64 's Games Kansas City5, Minnesota $ Toronto 5, Milwaukee 4 Boston 3, Oakland 0 Chicago 2, , Te Texas Seattle 11, Cleveland 1 Anaheim at New York, ppd. ‘Today's Games Anaheim (Dickson 10-4) at Boston (Gordon 5-8), Ist, 11 a.m. Anaheim (Finley8-6) at Boston (Rose 0-0), 2nd, 5 p.m. Oakland (Reyes $-1) at Cleveland (Nagy 10-6), 5 p.m. Milwaukee (Karl 4-10) at Detroit (Sanders 3-6), 5 p.m. Seattle (Moyer 10-3) at New York (Wells 10-4), 5:30 p.m. Kansas City (Rusch 3-5) at Toronto (Person 3-6), 5:30 p.m. ‘Texas (Burkett 7-9) at Chicago (Navarro 8-8),6 p.m. Baltimore (Kamieniecki 6-4) at Minnesota (Radke13-5), 6 p.m BOSTON — Jeff Suppan and tworelievers combined Johnsonhas been especial- on a six-hitter, and Nomar ly sharp lately, going 9-1 Garciaparra doubled,tripled with a 1.35 ERA in his last 12 and homeredasthe Red Sox starts with 138 strikeouts in ona 38484 Matoed F5%'9 320 1 oo t Sret 4040 Cameco th 3000 34000 Contes 3040 3000 2000 1040 O60 sosTon cocopom nt132 mmo2040 joenmncy 3040 $000 3040 3020 3000 3140 atte 103 20-27 7-3 Oakland EAST idie league WoL Pet 0 Sirk Home Away Intr Atlanta 64 Florida New York Montreal Philly NTRAL Houston Pittsburgh St.Louis Cincinnati Chicago WEST SanFran LA San Diego Colorado 57 58 52 30 W 54 49 48 43 43 W 87 33 50 47 L2 San Diego catcher John Flaherty applies the tag and umpire Rick Rickercalls Pittsburgh's Jose Guillen out at home. Guillen tried to score on the wild pitch by Danny Jackson,top. 1037 — 7, San Francisco 4 San Diego8, Pittsburgh 6 22-33 3.7 's Games Colorado 7, Chicas Veo wane feng 3 MINNEAPOLIS = Yéinil Benitez hit a threé-ruo homer in his first AL at-bat and Ricky Bones woh as &@ Umpmes—Home, Riskor Pee Ft Mon Sitond2 kemgs ted forme run single to break a tie in TONS BITS the sixth as the revitalized San Diego Padres won their fifth straight game Thursday, 8-6 over Pittsburgh. Phillies 7 Giants 4 SAN FRANCISCO _ The defending NL West champion Padres are the top Mickey Morandi and Midre three ‘ummings team in basel since the All-Stai r break, having won hits and two RBIs and Phils. homethe go-ahead run in the 12 of 15 games to pull within seven games of the divisioneighth for Chicago. delphia overcame a hand injury to start pitcher Tyler Ventura, who had missed leading San Francisco Gi- Green. Green was part in the the entire season after frac- ants. San Diego was 13 back third inning when baseat the break. Ken Caminiti and Shipley man Scott Rolen spiked his righ le in a spring trainright hand while both playconsecutive homers in ing slide back in March, was hit firstinning. Shipley ers chased Stan Javier's slow 0.for-3 when he came to bat four-run roller. The extent of Green's against Ken Hill with a run- finished 3-for-5 with three injury was not RBIs and Caminiti, who had ete 128) Seem 1112 Menthaklein aspringtain ; Seren 3330 See” 2924) Seren Sewer wnatgf 929 Cem $992! F222 A-BN2(339255 Blue Jays 5 starter for the first in Brewers4 nearly a year, k TORONTO — Carlos Delsas City. ne oesma straight gado's club-record third Fiicher "couldn dntgtou out af the second 3348 Vile NEVES Nee Shipley homeredin thefirst inning andhita two-out, two- Delgado followed with his dramatic fashion, doubling 22nd homer. ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — Craig New York3, Los Sele 1 Houston 10, Montreal 5 "s Games Atlanta (Smoltz 8-9) at Cincinnati (Schourek 5-5), 5:30 p.m Florida (Hernandez 3-0) at St. Louis (Petkovsek “ 6pm. Montreal (Juden 11-3) Creer (Kile 13-3), 6 rad (Castillo 6.9), 7 pan New York (Mlicki 5-7) at San Diego (Ashby 6-6), 8 p.m. itsburgh (Schmidt 4-6) at San Francisco (Rueter 7-4), 8 p.m. UE nt OM ony Padres Jump Out Early, Beat Pirates for Fifth Straight Win grand slam of the season and Toronto's second in as many es powered the Blue jays. was tagged for ae oe ‘The BlueJays set the stage five hits in 1% innitigs, be for Delgado when Otis Nixon led off the first with a bunt ‘Toingle, Orlando Merced wehed on an error by secbaseman Fernando Vina and Joe Carter, who hit a grandslam in Toronto's 8-0 victory Wednesday night, singled. pomp ates AGoracer s 3010] Momenyc 4040 ner on second and twoouts. 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LEADERS Sees 1 400744 4 000008 BATTING—t.Walker, Colorada, 364: Gyn, (pote Spee egg Sn Daeg 291; Paz. Lox Angeles. 256, Lefton, ume W39 tocar r 9}ooo) a4 Premed + 3 | Nein 823, itt io by Mins oye) WRPMaet season after the strike, The million last year, the first Associat ted Press has learned. With attendance down from prestrike levels, the 28 teams lost $875 million overthe last three years, according to data obtained from a managementsource onthe condition he not mieideation NiL-Catarag Cora 1. RagenHo 1996 bottom line was the best since before the ssoday Tomine strilee, with last year's loss nearly halfthat de. Ket, Son Prarie, 0: Chen, Alana of the 1995 In 1993, last full season before the strike, the teams fit of $36 million on record operating revenue of $1.87 billion. The following year, 119; Marten, Seat when the World Series was wiped out for the first time since et, 11 1904, the teams had an operating loss of $363.8 million on ue 18 Ger, Texas 118, FMiowsas, Chieags, Calor Our Mantra 6 Mar revenue of $1.21 ma DOUBLED<7 Ye Yak,ER Cor ts Lansing, Montreal, 1 In the 1995 season, shortened "ee weeks because of the strike, the teams combined for avase pahges 3 million on revenue of $1.38 billion, according to figures recently given to teams by "s > Revenue rebounded to $1.67 billion last year, but ex- aMeta homer, was 2-for-4 ith two runs scored. 3 Atm bate 2 [LWaiher, Calor 30, Bagwell, Houston, hast 7, Cee Mena Beare Tam etn, Deter, New ort, Barns, Midewakoe, & Koctisech, Min: nu ‘ HOME KUNS—MeQeire, Onbinad, 4, Tia oer” Buzz Score Win OverStars @ Continued from C-1 big offensive day by driving said S34 home Todd Walker on a sev- NotRoof. bad for a player Roof enth-inningtriple didn’t think had enough powpatme Ogden capped the er to be productive Uses, om, Torte, Ht wit long im potential 3% Hndiey, New York. 2 the Pacific Coast League ‘Their salary, $1.17 million at the end of the 1904 ‘Tioedetn, Kaname (ty, Darbam, Chengs, 3; STOLEN SASISDSend, Clacnast, blast that neatly weet oret season, fi ly eee its _—— level, increasing to Vasqoet Atadeigoe, Seale, 20 Womack, Pitabargh, 3 Othe, Louie, 7 the right-field scoreboard “That's the longest home $1.38 million on opening day this ye: While are up thispool 0 is attendance, run I've seen hit to right field,” Roof said. “Another three feet and it would have cleared the scoreboard.” Baseball's 1997 revenue also will be helped by a 7.1 perThe Pioneers Day victory went rise in the average ticket price to a record $11.98. in front ofa sell-out crowd of 15,500 was Salt Lake's 13th winin 17 games. RETURNS TO CHISOX Brede has hit safely in 13 Months of oo rehabilitation made Robin renee penses rose to a record $1.85 billion. If the strike hadn't occurred, revenue Probablywwould o a 1ith timethis season a the 79th timein his caree: 28-22 5-5 23-27 28 Texas 2SSse2Sses-se-5 SSossosscososck Johnson reached double digits in strikeouts for the Away Intr 2 Bo amewuvue. last 43 regular-season decisions. GB 44 564 45 545 ¥ Johnson allowed one run, seven hits and one walk. He won for the 39th timein his L Pet Seattle Anaheim Ht Hyiei if night. WEST wenn? gone® three runs,leading the Seattle Mariners past the Cleve- 52 4648 37 LS 16-3345 54.455 9 7-3 L2 23-29 22-25 45 56 417 12% 46 W-2 20-26 20-30 45 e Red Sox 3 Athletics 0 and Russ Davis each drovein land Indians 11-1 Thursday Milwaukee Minnesota KC. fll en oT outs. He has fanned at least 200 in six of the last seven seasons, having missed most en innings and Dan Wilson 5 & the majors with 209 strike- Ieooownet 3122 $120 eae 4044 Ba 4020 Sooo 3000 Mom Serowmt Sgio” 4110 1008 Gamm 4440 $008 CMyesc 4004 Soren’ 2100 Mesoor Mocarone ct3113 000 Meo lowicnt 4900 $900 Were 3410 Mae 4010 Totots ‘M595 Tota 32362 Yansas Cty 430 090 000-5 Miete f—Darnon (2). Karson (Oban & Nemes & 13 Stahowiak Rooae (11),ih rca HJ a Fhe mew Eoreco sa 711 $32 $35 000 pews 145 4 ioe odo Serco 423 20.0 (Guardado pichad to 4 boiler in the 6. gene sr ute Secset (aera Ted Cours HOM Aas THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — Randy Jobnson struck out 11 in sev- bare topped $2 billion in 1996 based on past performan |, came out relatively well following a ii i in a After surgery, and then after being in a cast until early ne coletantot AES io is post satiafying and May, Ventura was able to work his way back quickly and by te y imaginable Thursday night, doubling in the June run in the eighth inning as the White Sox beat the the field could have was just mentally better for me a of his slide just once and that was ended up with his foot pointed in a different direction from the rest of his Gold Glove third baseman, He “1 didn't set the world on fire, butt didn't do terrible. 1 came away with deace that 1 can play there and hopefully make it back, | Seenet mi Tee Om a Caterers Toren Toemma VeneerPeet 27.718 #227168 Rascanck n hitting @ ball off a tee and catching balla in jor He's seen the TL sever relleciet Bree Oy cons even though it enough for the four. = Eine rehaband oan If could play,” Ventura said aS hitting 279 in the ma- eoese? sasee? guess,” said Brode. plate during Thursday to rs 2-3 wal a 1 peneares osae n care oe overore after roteoquty dislocating and eesecr of those games, sporting a 379 average (25-0 66) with Rea y major league baseball agai was an algae stint in the ee thator oe him a breaking his right ankle when he alid into home a March 21 exhibition game, Ventura returned the Chicago White Sox. 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