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Show 4B Saturday, July 27, 1991 SPORTS Standard-Examuner After nine-inning no-hitter, Montreal loses anyway The Associated Press Montreal's Mark Gardnerpitched a nine-inning no-hitter, but lost the game 1-0 when Los Angeles scored a run in the 10th. Gardner is the first to pitch a nine-inning no-hitter against a Dodgers’ home team since Johnny Vander Meer beat Brooklyn at Eb- bets Field on June 15, 1938, for his second straight gem. An opponent had never thrown a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles pitchers have thrown five no-hitters at Dodger Stadium, including three by Sandy Koufax. Fernando Valenzuela pitched a no-hitter against St. Louis on June 29, 1990. In 1965, Cincinnati’s Jim Maloney pitched two no-hitters and was left with a 0-0 tie after nine innings. He lost 1-0 in 11 innings to New York on June 14, and beat Houston1-0 in 10 innings on Aug. 19. Lenny Harris led off the Dodgers’ 10th with an infield single to shortstop for the first hit off Gardner (5-7) and Eddie Murray followed with a single to send Harris to third. Jeff Fassero relieved and Darryl Strawberry ended the game with a single. Gardner suffered the same fate as Andy Hawkins of the New York Yankees, who lost a no-hitter last season to Chicago at Comiskey Park. Alfredo Griffin led off the L.A. ninth with pop out to second, struck out Chris Gwynn and then got Brett Butler on a grounder to second for the no-hitter. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the National League’s official statistician, Gardner’s effort will be listed as a nine-inning no-hitter. It was the fourth nine-inning no-hitter of the season. Nolan Expos on May 23 and a combined no-hitter by four Baltimore pitchers at Oakland on July 13. der .500 on April 15, at 2-4. Todd Zeile had three hits and two RBI, including a double and a triple, and Ozzie Smith had two hits and scored once for St. Louis. The Cardinals have won eight out of 10 games since dropping four straight to Atlanta following the All-Star break. Pirates 8, Astros 1 Giants 3, Phillies 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Ryan of Texas tossed the first one on May |, followed by Philadelphia’s Tommy Greene against the At San Francisco, former Viewmont High School pitcher Kelly Downs and’ four relievers combined on a four-hitter as the Giants won their sixth straight. San Francisco’s winning streak matched its season-high. The Phillies lost for the fifth straight game. At Houston, Bobby Bonilla drove in four runs with a homer and a double as Pittsburgh posted its 12th victory in 15 games. It may have been a costly win for Pittsburgh, however, as starter Bob Walk had to leave the game in the second inning when he strained his nght hamstring while scoring a run. Houston has dropped six straight Downs (6-4), who moved from the bullpen into disabled Don Robinson’s rotation spot, allowed two runs and four hits in 5% innings in his first start since June 5. He walked two and struck out four. Dave Righetti, the Giants’ fifth pitcher, worked the ninth for his 14th save. The Phillies were held games, to equal its longest losing streak of the season, and 11 ofits last 13. Neal Heaton (2-1) was the winner in relief of Walk. Heaton pitched 4% innings, giving up one run on three hits, and Bill Landrum finished. Pittsburgh took a 3-0 lead in the second inning off Darryl Kile (3-6). hitless over the final 37s innings by the four relievers. Padres 8, Mets 2 At San Diego, met-killer Bruce Hurst allowed four hits and struck out 10, a season-high, in eight in- Cubs6, Braves 2 At Chicago, Steve Avery allowed five hits over 8% innings for his third straight win as Atlanta raced to its 10th victory in 14 games since the All-Star break. Avery (11-5) has allowed just nine hits over his last three starts, all victories. He struck out four and walked four before Andre Dawson’s two-run homer in the ninth inning, his 16th. The Braves scored three runs in the second against Frank Castillo (3-1), who lost for the first time in the major leagues. nings and Darrin Jackson hit a two-run homer. The denuded fans Atlanta shortstop Jeff Blauser hoids up his go’s Shawon Dunston at second base for the glove containing the bail after tagging out Chica- back half of a double play Friday. Cardinals 5, Reds 1 beat Cincinnati, sending the Reds to their 14th loss in their last 16 At St. Louis, Bob Tewksbury pitched an eight-hitter as St. Louis games. The defeat dropped the defend- Langston leads Angels to win over Yankees Standard-Examiner wire services stopped the New York Yankees 5-1 before 22,108 rain-soaked fans at Yankee Stadium. At 14-4, Langston appears headed for his best season ever. The quiet southpaw’s previous high-water mark came in 1987, when he was 19-13 for the Seattle Mariners. “But if I win 20 games and we AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota by seven games. “What we’ve decided to do as a club is get a set lineup and stay with it,” said Angels’ first baseman Wally Joyner, who hit a two-run homer. “Hopefully, it will help us be more consistent, because we haven’t been playing very well.” Mariners 7, indians 4 At Cleveland, Alonzo Powell hit a two-run homerin the second inning and Seattle scored four runs on five straight hits in the third. The win was Seattle’s 11th in 15 games since the All-Star break. The Mariners are 9-1 against the Indians this year. Twins 6, Brewers 3 At Minneapolis, Dan Gladden’s don’t win (the division), big deal,” three-run double in the eighth inLangston said. “It would be a big- ning handed the Brewers their fifth ger thrill for me to win 10 games straight loss. The Twins built their winning and win the division.” But if the Angels hope to chal- rally with a leadoff single by Mike lenge for the American League Pagliarulo, a sacrifice and a throwWest crown, they'll need a lot of ing error by reliever Darren games like Friday’s. All it did was Holmes and another sacrifice by Al give them a record of 5-13 since Newman, who was safe at first to load the bases. the Fourth of July. The Angels still trail first-place Gladden then followed with the starter Kevin Tapani (7-7). Minne- sota also had a third sacrifice in the inning to tie an American League record held by three other teams. Blue Jays 6, Royals 5 At Toronto, third baseman Kevin Seitzer’s error with the bases loaded in the 11th helped Toronto to a win in front of 50,326, the largest crowd in Blue Jays’ history. Devon White started the inning with his third hit of the game, a line single to right. Roberto Alomarsacrificed White to second and loser Tom Gordon (5-9) walked Joe Carter intentionally and John Olerud unintentionally to load the bases for Kelly Gruber. Seitzer, a late-inning replacement at third, couldn’t handle Gruber’s run-scoring grounder as White crossed with the winning run. Athletics 12, Orioles 9 At Baltimore, the Oakland Athletics blew a six-run lead, then got the tie-breaking run in the ninth in- for third time this season The Associated Press Eric Swann, the former semi-pro player who was the first-round draft pick of the Phoenix Cardinals, injured his left knee for the third time this season on Friday. Swann, who underwent arthroscopic surgery for removal ofcartilage on May16, reinjured the knee July 17, missed several practices while fluid was drained, and has been held to a one-a-daypractice schedule since. He said something popped in the morning practice, the team’s second with the San Diego Chargersat the Cardinals’ camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. Dr. Russell Chick, the team physician, drove to Flagstaff from take him. His injuryoffset the good news in the Cardinals’ camp, the signing of Freddie Joe Nunn and cornerback Aeneas Williams, the team’s thirdround pick. That left just running back Johnny Johnson and wide re- ceiver John Horton, both of whom have contracts, out of camp. Pepper Johnson, the All-Pro Johnson, who is negotiating by himself, was advised by assistant general manager Harry Hulmes to find an agent, but insists on doing it his own way, backers Lawrence Taylor and Carl Banks because the Giants don't always 165/TR13 185/TR14/R 175/70TR13 185/70TR13 185/70TR14 195/70TR14 Giants Bengals is SPORTS FANS and Fantasy a Players CALL THE SPORTS REPORT 1-900-346-GAME (4263) 99° A minute MaAUSCEe Cagle ce tec ltryteyif) HIGHPERFORMANCE need him in camp yet SIZE 185/75R14 155/TR13 from that and make Dingle sign a three-year deal,” He also suggested that he may not have reached agreement on a contract, which will probably make him the team’s third highest-paid defensive player behind fellow lin whicl CLASSIFIEDS METRIC RADIALS “With the recent court ruling, it the former Washington Redskins defensive end signed by the Cardi nals after being suspended for a year for drug use Cincinnati, Salt Lake maintained a share of first place with Idaho Falls in the Pioneer League’s Southern Division. Standard-Examiner PREMIUM appears the NFL will have some sort of free agency in the next two years,” Anderson says. “The Bengals will want to protect themselves new contract Meanwhile, Coach Joe Bugel said he was happy with Dexter Manley, the loss. “I’m newto this whole process,” end, is being moved back to line- $700,000, SAVE DAILY! SHOP Paul Bruno and Eddie Ortega had two hits each for the Trappers. Butte starter Terrell Berthau took CS24___|CH/CV51 Dingle said Thursday. “I don't Nunn, who led the team in sacks in 1987 and 1988 as a defensive ing for $1 million a year, but the team reportedly was offering about winner of Mike Henneman (8-2), the fifth Detroit pitcher. and John Gilligan combined for a five-hit shutout as the Salt Lake Trappers defeated the Butte Copper Kings 5-0 in a Pioneer League game played Friday night before 711 fans at Alumni Coliseum. Marcon worked 74 innings, struck out five, walked four and surrenderedall five Copper Kings’ hits. The key to Marcon’s performance was that he never allowed more than one hit in an inning and was aided by a Trappers’ double play. Gilligan mopped up by going the final 1% innings. He retired all five Butte batters he faced. Rick Hirtensteiner and Benny Castillo provided Marcon with all the runs he needed. Each socked a solo home run, and Hirtensteiner added two singles and a second RBI single to pace a 13-hit Salt Lake attack. Then there’s Mike Dingle, a running back from South Carolina, the eighth-round pick, who is staying out on the advice of agent Ron Anderson. linebacker of the Super Bowl champions, has returned to his home in Detroit after failing to negotiate a backer, the position at which he started his career. He had been ask- fired a pickoff throw but the ball went into center field before shortstop Mario Diaz could get to the bag, and Phillips advanced to third on Rodriguez’s second error of the game. Livingstone slapped a 1-1 pitch to left to score the run and make a BUTTE, Mont. — David Marcon week of camp didn’t help. and I guess we’re not seeing eye to eye on everything.” As with Smith, the length of the contract is at issue. Anderson wants a two-year contract, the Bengals are offering one for three years. sive lineman. Still, Phoenix used the sixth overall pick in the draft to ingstone, catcher Ivan Rodriguez as they beat Copper Kings Special to the Standard-Examiner EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGYAT DISCOUNTTIRE PRICES What is unusual is that their eighth-rounderis still a holdout. The 1lth-rounder is tight end Chris Smith from Brigham Young University, who must. beat out three veterans, including Pro Bowler Rodney Holman. Missing a but there was no immediate word on the severity of the injury. Swann, who failed academically ered talented but rawas a defen- At Arlington, Texas, Scott Livingstone, playing in his first pro game in his home town, singled home the winning run in the 10th off Jeff Russell. Tony Phillips led off the 10th with a sinking liner to center that Gary Pettis dropped for a two-base error. On the second pitch to Liv- are still without top pick Alfred Williams, which isn’t unusual. know too much about negotiations, na State, played last season for the Bay State Titans and was consid- Tigers 3, Rangers 2 had rookie holdouts, have just signed their 11th-round pick and Tempe, Ariz., to examine Swann to gain admission to North Caroli- ning on Mark McGwire’s grounder. Terry Steinbach had three RBI, and thelast of his four hits helped set up the winning run. After Harold Baines drew a one-out walk, Steinbach singled pinch-runner Scott Hemond to third. 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Cincinnati was last two games un- Hurst (12-5) has won his last five decisions against the Mets and is 5-1 lifetime against New York. Hurst, who walked two, won for the fifth time in his last six decisions. Craig Lefferts pitched the ninth, allowing one hit. Hurst is ahead of his 1988 pace, when he posted a career-best 18 wins while. with the Boston Red Sox. He didn’t get his 12th win that season until Aug. 7. HOURS: MON.-FRI. 8:30-6 SAT. 8:30-5 Ask About O ur Free Replacement Certificate. PROUOLY SERVING YOU WITH 225 STORES NATIONWIDE BOUNTIFUL ROY 2527 S. Main, Hwy 89 5387 S$. 1900 W. 773-6876 298-8401 |