Salt Lake Tribune | 1999-05-28 | Page 40

24 ° The Salt La » Tribune BASEBALL Friday, May 28, 1999 The Rocket’ Stuns Ex-Team, lakes 19th Straight Decision SSUCIATED PRESS W Troy O'Leary walked to leadoff the fifth before be ing erased on a doubleplay With a 1-0 lead, Clemens openedthesixth by walking Trot Nixon, who advanced to second on a groundo After a walk to Frye, Valen tinlined a single toleft and Nixonjust beat Tony Taras co's throw home mensthen retired the next fivebatters andleft af ter throwing 105 pitches MikeStantonand Jeff Net son combinedto piteh a hit eighth and Mariano Ri vera finished for his 13th seven innings to beat his 19th consecutive ns struck out seven alked three. He has tarts, datiny | May 29 whenhefell veland while pitching onto inning streak is the ver in the AL and longest in major history, five shyof for ni TIGERS 10 WHITE SOX 5 DETROIT — Rookie Jeff Weaver continued his role Detroit's stopper with eight strong innings and Luis Polonia went 5-for-5 as the Tigers snapped a fourgamelosing streal ebinbi 1 WoL Detroit ‘esol Minnesota 13 46 Witld3 914 00 L297 17 1720-36915 29 369 15% 4646 L.2 9-17 8120-0 812 0.0 WEST WoL Texas ; 26 Gakland Seattle ayiahelal 1 , eva tel ie (Nava EE a de fehl See me OMEEE: nehermes Paes fitun Gubanich’s ng error and scored «ahead run on Tino 2's single it thestory of the game lemens, who spent the vars of his career in joston, winning three Cy ‘yung Awards and tying Cy ATHLETICS 6 2 for the most wins ROYALS 1 2) in Red Soxhistory. against his former 0-0 00 500fect. Idon't like walking Big Mac but I've got to do cee" (28%, ‘8 New vo 0.0 1.2 941 1814 0.0 “| ae Sehate tas onto Care ORIOLES 6 ANGELS 3 VAHEIM. Calif. — Bra Anderson hit a grand m in the seventh inning and Juan Guzmanpitched six strong innings. OAKLAND, Calif. — Ken. ny Rogerspitcheda six-hit ter for his 14th straight win at Oakland and Eric Chavez and AJ. Hinch each homeredin a six-runfifth inning as the Athletics beat Kansas City, completing a 15-8 1410 0.0 zi 2139 1411 0.9 < Philadelphia 28. 2 5 9111411 00 Montreal 15we229 341 12h W27-18 811 0-0 Montes ee Florida 15 32 319 14 46 L-1 6-20 9-12 0-0 CENTRAL WL Pet GB L10 StrkHomeAway _Intr Hanis 17 630 — 64 111610 137 00 betes : “__—— Chicago 47-3 W-1 109 1411 St Louis 44 64 W1 G13 158 ae esr et u7 ee Pittsburgh 1212111013 0-0 Milwaukee Ga)|| posters Colorado 1610 1110 00 WS 175 1016 oo wap ipar jg 46 W2 1212 1210 0-0 2%2 San Di Manager Joe Torre ded Clemens’ return from } hamstring injury one day list weekin order te keep a from pitehing at Fenark. Clemens made ist of the opportunity hursday he right hander opened e bystriking out Jeff of six players in up who played with er said. “The guyven miss oe the ball andstill hit it 400 or what I've gottodo I'mglad wedon'tseehim again fora while ce Two misplays by the Githe 13th. BrieDavis tripled with one out off Jerry r Hescake Creel ene meee “| San Franciser elorado (Br A Buzz Use Real Pitchers AndStill Fall to Trappers EDMONTON, Alberta — The Salt Lake Buzz used real pitchers Thursday night, but not even they could vent Edmonton from winning again. t's because the Buzz defense let down in the nth inning, when two errors — including Chris ‘ * i !! Ao 18 “13 6, re 3 4g Davis scored two pitches later when Spradlin missed a pitchout sign and threw a ATLANTA 8 i 90 $3 00 09 a9 a7? coo pe : { upper deck in leftfield fora Twnshot as A 06 : ? a 1 breaking andin theball dirtthat was inside BREWERS7 MILWAUKEE — Chipper McGwire’s 14th homer Jones, a home-runhero the was a 427-foot shotinto the Previousnight,hit athree{Mi ao ee ROCKIES 4 1Olead, Asanadded bonus Waukee for its third straight ce = for Cardinals fans, the ball Victory ASTROS 3 landed in Big Mac Land, Jones hit his 12th home “gpg, which meantatree fastfood)ina third Thi in homer the third tamingbis pitches and sandwich for everyone in the fouryonein a gameseries, On Wednesday. sacrifice{ sellout crowdof 47,829. eaiecosealt “Vim just happy for the Ts selo driveinthe 1000 in. Colorad fans,” sald McGwire, who ing gave Atlanta a 3-2 win 251 also’ joked that he'd buy Ver the Brewers ae: Gardner a Big Mac. “It’s not anama sana ao pacee Me st Ti wom, of the Cardinals thank themforthat s o n ? 122% Gao st two at-bats, fee, $021 Beawc McGwirewas intentionally Sash S010 Sum walked in somewtal oc al circumstances. John Johnstone put the go-ahead run cubase wien bewales him with twoouts and arunheron secondin the eighth, and Felix Rodriguez walked him with two outs and nobodyoutin the 10th 5 jaker walked McGwire intentionally three times in one gamelast year. contrib uting to his league.leading is total of 28 McGwire has drawn seven intentional walks 605 pm. _PCLSTANDINGS eftre Mbole1 tos ances gunnrane i, Dreifort 5:2) at Atlanta San f ego(Murray 0-1) at Milwaukee (Eldred1-2), tn Sogithy st ncevedo: AR Neier awa cles. 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LOUIS — After one 00 32 22 23 AEG Renee? ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRE: y_ ate 00 Clevelan Kansas City = chars Ends No-Hitter big hit from Mark McGwire, the, San Francisco madesure he couldn'tGiants doit again, Thenthe: beating themselves McGwire broke up Mark pg 0-0 2 oe p _Intr i100 00 a aoe Bay Tampa altimore Baltimore SAD CENTEA save in 14 chances. losing the opener ikees won thelast s of the series to in a half-gameof ie 2719887 New York 11 batters. a 4-1 Thursday night ord 7. American W L_Pet GB L10 StrkHome Away Boston himin Boston, After alloy ing aninfield single to John Valentin, heretiredthenext emens over s They've just nev. “en him quite like this. 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Edmonton wenton to a 6-3 tory, adding two runsin the eighth The four-gameseries continues tonight andSatur: 4iy night, then the Buzz head to Calgary for four in Wednesday's 12-6 loss at Edmonton. manager of was forced to usethree position play TS as Roster moves by the parent Minnesota Twins vullpen left himwell short in the Help arrived Thursday ung liver Jeff Ferguson's but the Buzz offense failed o-run homer in the fifth pulled Salt Lake into a 2-2 tie and Mike Moriar {BI single earned themanother tie in the topof enth, but that was all TheBuzz failed to scorein hth after collecting two hits who used four pitchers Thursday. will return emblance of a starting rotation tonight Mark will pitch for the Buzz against Pau! Morse iwberry’s Status Still Up in the Air Belle Won’t Rule Until Next Week Th New York ved no word from ball Thursday 2 Darryl Strawberry the star-crossedslugger contest in Tampa to f solicitation and drug BASEBALL NOTEBOOK NITKOWSKI SUSEERUED thowski uspend Straw Come test drive the completely redesigned Volkswagen Jetta GL — new shape, chassis and more standard features, including: tate him fromthe * ABS brokes * 5 ech wheels * control locking sytem + ort thet alorn + eget speaker Cometie stereo pystey tiga oe pre ere eres * 2.0 tier, 115 horsepower engine * dual font ond side enpod airbogs ——__—— as was ee Stondord with every new Volkswoger: 10 year / 100,000 mile limited power train warranty, 2 year / 14,000 mile bumper to bumper It’s not just a motor,it’s a monster. It’s the most pov engine any factory has ever put in a custom. The \ from Honda. Andright now, during Custom Finance C is offering 5.9% APR financing and no down paym« new Valkyries until May 31st. 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