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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune BASEBALL Sunday, May 23, 1999 ° BS Dodgers Top Cards, But McGwire Slugs One Out of the Park Rodriguez Pitches A Solid Game, But Buzz Still Fall THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Todd National League Hollandsworth triggered a wood outpitched NIL ERA leader Kevin Tapaniand the a year and the Los Angeles Atlanta Braves ended ChicaDodgers survived two home go's five-game winning runs by Mark McGwire to streak beat the St. Louis Cardinals Alll five of the Cubs’ wins 10-7 Saturday night. had come on the road. But McGwire hit a solo homer five-runfirst inning with his first home run in more than BY LAURENCE MIEDEMA THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE inthe first inning and a tworun shot in the eighth. That one cleared the pavilion in left-center field, making himonlythe third playerto hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadiumin the ballpark's 38-year history, The others were Willie Stargell FHi (twice) and MikePiazza. McGwire’s 469th career homer and 12th of the season gavebaseball's all-time single-season home run champion his 55th career multi-homer game. That tied himwith Hall of Famer F307 Aa, 179 (54.000) GIANTS 3 ASTROS 1 SAN FRANCISCO — Russ Ortiz did not allow an earned run in 6 innings en routeto his fifth straight win as San Francisco beat Houston. 30474 Lrason (i) opei . Houston (f) Kies(1) ChAlones Cleveland's Manny Ramirez runs right into umpire Jim Evans during a brawl on Saturday againstthe Detroit Tigers. 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Rodriguez has pitched extremely well this season Intwo starts against Mem. phis Rodriguez is 0-2 and hai in five innings for a miss faa! om 300-3 BTong inooge 8 gimere laghar 8 6a oor Svea Buzz Update § Saturday: Oklahoma6, Buzz 5 Highlight: Redhawks explodefor four runs in the top of the ninth, M Record: 17-24 @ Today: Okiahoma (Danny Kolb, 1-0, 5.14) at Buzz (Mark Redman, 4-3, 7.94), 2 pm. BUZZ SUMMARY Okdaheme Sot Lake 2) HP—4 (aides (oy Rat)unpresFoch Iname) Marquet. Wor are! Evert (bases) St AS Be Cratral Division W Pacific Cofere Southern Division W 28.80. In his other seven starts. Rodriguez is 3-2 with a 3.79 ER? RedHawks starting pitch: er Matt Perisho ran into trouble in the first inning whenDan Ceyhit a leadoff homerfor thesecond time in three games, and Chad Ruppsingled homeJeff F r guson. Then the lefty settled down Heretired 12 of 14 batters — nineby strikeout — before Eddie Williams's RBI single jn the fifth gave the Buze 3.2 lead Darrell Nicholas’ hometo lead off th seventhinning made it 4-2 before Oklaho ma’s ninth-inning come back wus 100 900 ons—« Be eS * ” ten 7 12-6 2-4) at esi Ba Rupe 1-1 11:35am 12.05 pm 4-2) at Chicago (Navarro 3) at Minn esota (Milton 1-4 12.05 pm 1) at Kansas City Appier 5-2 05 hit a bases-loadedtripleto spark a six-run fifthinning Totals 3904210 Yotom SAN DIEGO — Pete Har nisch hit his first career runin 341] at-bats and pitchedhis second shutout { the seas incinnati beat San Diego. 1-2 Chicago Philadelpua 22 19 Montre 1327 REDS 3 PADRES 0 0-0 73 MARLINS 4 ing Florida L-1 11-12 4-15 L10StrkHome Away Inte New York New Yort 3-7 W 29 PIRATES 11 as Pittsburgh ended five: game losing streak by beat 10) CENTRAL Cleveland 1998. when Seattle beat him while he was with Toronto ‘The major league record for consecutive winsis 24 by Carl Hubbell of the New YorkGiants in 1936-37 Fat Gore MIAMI — Jason Kendall arr aver Ted Ge 357 2148 Inte Tampa Bay 26 owe «~GBOLIO a Home Away Saturday's Games oe 6 Toconey: Anahe im8, Tampa Bay 6 Detroit 6, Clev Mines: jand 1 (10) Texas 8, Ballimore7 New York 10, Chicago. 2(1) Seattle 7 Haare ‘ity 4 cago 2. New York 1 (2nd) the disabled list with a strainedleft hamstring. He hasn't lost since May so oPet New York Baitimore to os Ten ee eremaetiates pee Seccre eet WoL Frank Rodriguez is a tough New Yorker who spent four seasons in the major leagues before 26th birthday But nothing preparedthe Brooklyn-bornpitcherfor a seasonlikethis withtheSalt e Buzz, who wasted a strong outing by Rodriguez onSaturday night at Frank lin Covey Field) Oklahoma rallied with four runs in the ninth inning for a 6-5 vic tory Rodriguezhas been linked to trade rumors ever since hefailed to make theparent Minnesota Twins’ roster in spring training Thedistraction helps ex plain why Rodriguez's ERA has hovered around 6.00 mostofthis season — even though hethrew the first no hitter in franchise history earlier this mon Rodriguez's ERAswelled to 7.30 on Wednesday after heallowed seven runs, hit three Memphisplayers with pitches and was thrownout of the gameafter facing just ninebatters it does takeits toll when you hear youare in a deal one day — the trade been made — andthen you hear the organization doesn't haveplansfor you at all the next day.” said Rodri guez, who worked through some mid-season problems inSalt Lake last season, but finished the year with the Twins But theformerjunior col lege playerof the year says he is no longer worrying about what heneeds todo to return to Minnesota, where he won 25, since 1995. His target has widened Every day's an audition,” hesaid. “Thereare 29 other teams out there. It is definitely timeto move on.” Rodriguez improved his stock Saturdayby allowing tworuns andfivehits in six innings. But the Buzz failed tocapitalize byblowing a 4-2 lead in the ninth The RedHawks” rally arted when Pedro Valdez was hit by a pitch Mike Zywica capped the come back witha home run, negating Salt Lake's one-runrally in the bottomof the inning It wasthefourthtimein 11 games the Buzz havelost in their opponent's final at bat. All four game-losing rallies were started by a leadoff walk or hit batter he Buzz havelost eight of 12 games, including an 18-1 rout Friday against Memphis Th one hurts just as —o. wr $ woaeswi4 8 "Sd wate ry DIAMONDBACKS8 ROCKIES 3 DENVER — Jay Bell hit his 14th homer. a three-run shot, to power Arzona past Colorado Bell's homer keyed a five run sixthinning for Arizona. which spapped a three-game josing streak he PHILLIES 9 METS 3 NEW YORK Mike Lic berthal homered, tripled anddrove in four runs. plen ty of support for Paul Byrd to pitch Philadelphia past New York RANGERS 8 ORIOLES 7 BALTIMORE J Gonzalez hii three-run homer in the ninth inning & Texas rallied to hand Balt more its ninth fn games 4 Sera POE: Whar ANGELS 8 DEVIL RAYS 6 ST PETERSBURG. Fla Mo Vaughnsnapped an cighth-inning with an RBI single as Anaheum ame knuckleballer Steve MARINERS 7 ROYALS 4 KANSAS CITY Mo — a two-run have TWINS2 ATHLETICS 1 (10) MINNEAPOLIS Todd Walker homeredto leadoff the 10thinning as Minnesota defeated Oakland in extra innings straight 1 Athletic first time since they were 4 4 Rafael Carmona allowed one run and three hits in innings of relief to earnhis first victory since 1996. Jos Mesapitched the ninth for his eighth save TH Kevin till EIN BASEBALL ‘te 1 bee Pepe be mas ag ng Vato 37 gh Tig wen tw ie a Ty me are me Care cd 6 ean wy |
