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Scoreboard Classified Ogden Utah twill Wednesday August 20 1980 IWh ms ft® 201th Win rett's tfreeak United Press International Prior to this season Steve Stone’s major league career could easily be compared to a case of flat beer - (71-7- 4 ' ?"S£nS JV ' Ci Jfvsug r '- v - ' ' 4 v5K i 9) 5-- svtjK-- " tasted champagne A little more than a 500 pitcher for his previous eight big league seasons Stone became the first pitcher to win 20 games in the majors this year Tuesday night by leading the Baltimore Orioles to a 2 triumph over the California Angels The fact he almost pitched a nohitter in the process is characteristic of his remarkable season Stone 20-- 4 did not allow a hit until Bert Campaneris singled with one out in the eighth inning A pair of walks prior to Campaneris’ hit deprived Stone of the shutout and another bloop single by pinch hitter Dan Ford ruined his complete game effort No matter With the kind of year Stone is having what do shutouts and complete games matter? “It’s a great thrill” said Stone i r- tf ' On Tuesday night he 4“ S about reaching the plateau “I’ve pitched eight years in the big leagues before this one and never even came close The winner main reason I’m a 20-viyct- 20-ga- is the ballclub They’ve helped me tremendously defensively” SPARKLING PLAYS won 1169 games and lost 791 and his 596 winning percentage is the ing 34th homer in the eighth to snap an batting slump McCarthv Elsewhere in the AL Kansas City nipped Texas 3 New York beat Seattle 1 Cleveland defeated Chicago 5 Toronto edged Minnesota 3 Detroit beat Milwaukee 2 and Boston defeated Oakland 5 Mike Hargrove had four hits scored twice and drove in two runs and Ron Hassey had two RBI in a four-ru- n first inning to lead Cleve2 land Ross Grimsley overcame a shakey start to finish with an eight-hitte- r over 8 innings and Sid Monge retired the final batter for his 10th save best among active managers and the second best ever behind Joe 4-- 3-- 8-- 4-- 7-- 6-- Royals 4 Rangors 3 hitting George Brett’s streak came to an end but the Royals rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to post their seventh straight victory The Royals came back thanks in part to an error by shortstop Dave Roberts that allowed UL Washington to reach first After Brett’s out — he went with a walk against Jon Mat-lac- k — Hal McRae doubled to score 30-ga- r-3 Washington and McRae then scored the tying run on a single by Amos Otis Otis scored on a base hit by Willie Aikens Despite Brett’s hitless evening his batting innings Then with one out in the eighth Campaneris grounded a single past Stone into center field to end the suspense Although he lost the Stone didn’t hesitate bringing out the champagne to celebrate He had brought it with him from Baltimore to celebrate his 20th victory “I didn’t want to carry it to Oakland” said Stone Eddie Murray Dan Graham and Doug DeCinces helped Stone with home runs as the Orioles kept pace New York Yanwith the first-plac- e kees in the AL East ? ?—t? the $&$ WL j 1 V v-- m a- - f '- BALTIMORE ORIOLES’ pitcher Steve Stone delivers a pitch to the plate on his way to winning his 20th game of the season Tuesday night against the California Angels All-St- Staff He doesn’t say much — he lets his bat and glove do his talking Playing every day has worked 18 no-hitt- er 1-- Past Phoenix just need to work on eliminating left field Phoenix manager Rocky Bridges our mental and physical mistakes” then yanked Tufts in favor of leftall-arou- nd r-5 23-year-- er 4-- 4-- 1-- cellar-dwellin- soft-spoke- Du Sees Defecrf 5-- League baseball victory over the Salt Lake City Gulls Doug Harrison picked up his eighth victory in 20 outings while Rick Foley lost his seventh game of the year against five triumphs Salt Lake grabbed an early lead as Jay Peters slugged a solo homer his 12th of the year The Gulls then scored two runs in the fifth on s ar Weaver has guided the Orioles to four American League pennants six Eastern Division titles and one World Series victory in his 13 seasons with the club His teams have GAME In spite of his brilliant performace Grandas wasn’t the wonders for’ only A’s player who played well Bob Gran-da- s “Shooty” Babitt went and All the had 3 RBIs Kelvin Moore was with 2 RBIs and 3 runs scored center fielder and Pat Dempsey went did Tuesday scored twice and drove in a pair of night against runs Hhe Phoenix Southpaw Brian Abraham was for 11 hits over the first four at racked Giants John Affleck innings surrendering four earned Park was go runs before leaving in the 5th in score favor of right-handRick Lysan-de- r two runs Lysander pitched the final five knock in four innings and limited Phoenix to just more steal a two harmless singles in improving his record to 3 Phoenix’ Bob base a and coumake Tufts lasted only the first 3 in- ple of dazzl- nings and took the loss dropping ing defensive his record to 6 SOLO HOME RUN plays in the in Barrios Jose jacked a solo home “garden” to A’s a resoundGiants to a 0 lead to the the run stake Ogden leading 13-- 4 of ing triumph over the Southern in the top the 3rd but that lead g Division Giants was short lived as the A’s sent 13 n The is who Grandas men to plate in the bottom of the in his 2nd full season in the minor 4th and scored eight runs on five leagues when asked why he had hits and three Phoenix errors such a great night offensively just Moore started the barrage by kinda’ chuckled and said “clean getting aboard on an error by 3rd living” On a serious note Bob baseman Barrios and came around added “Jose (Pagan) has played to score on a bad-ho- p triple to centme for two weeks in a row instead er field by Grandas Dempsey’s of once every three days and it’s RBI single scored Grandas and helped along with a lot of hard Mike Rodriguez’ pop fly to the right work” side dropped between two Phoenix Grandas was at a loss to explain players just inside the foul line the A’s inconsistency from one Ray Cosey moved both runners up game to the next “It’s hard to put with a sacrifice and Babitt hit a your finger on it You have to come solid single to left to score Deprepared every day you can’t Rodriguez also came come in and just turn it on Jose mpsey around to score as Babitt’ s hot has staved with us all year and we smash handcuffed Chris Bourjos in ALBUQUERQUE NM (AP) — Don Crow lashed a sacrifice fly to break a tie in the sixth inning Tuesday night and lead the Albuquerque Dukes to a 4 Pacific Coast 17 decisions had a going 3 7 in innings running his through the first 20-season record to 4 UPI Telephoto G33Ifil©3 er who has won right-hand- er 33-year-- winning percen- st two-ye- n By DENNIS LARSEN third-highe- tage in major league history has extension of his signed a contract with the Orioles Weaver had already agreed to a salary of about $175000 a year but said he was “aggravated” because the contract extension did not provide that he would be paid if he was suspended or fired - The of his last ar WITH BRILLIANT Standard-Examin- EXTENSION Earl Weaver the manager with X v V R Gulls 5- John Harris’ single to take a 3-- 2 lead But the Dukes came back and scored a run in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game 3 Crow then delivered his sacrifice in the sixth and “Tack” Wilson doubled for another run in the same inning to ice the conquest for Albuquerque 3-- Second-plac- e Albuquerque proved its record to while the third-plac- e 35-2- 7 im- this year Gulls fell to 38-2- 5 hander Mike Williams Williams walked Milt Ramirez and after Derek Bryant rolled out Tim Hos-le- y drew an intentional walk Moore who led off the inning sfl park after Atlanta used four other Rex 2b If Bourjoi Barrioi 3b Holla 1b Londii rf Sularz u Brenly e Tufti p Nostu pH Grandas Landis (10) 211 Phillias 7 Padras 4 Philadelphia won its sixth in a row and eighth in the last nine games to pull closer to Pittsburgh Manny Trillo tied the game 4 g with a homer then Garry Maddox and Larry Bowa run with produced the consecutive doubles The Padres have now lost eight in a row prompting Manager Jerry Coleman to say “On a scale of one to 10 1 feel minus 10” 4-- fifth-innin- go-ahe- IP Dodgsrs 3 Expos 2 second on a single by Derrel Thomas and scored when Davey Lopes singled past the outstretched glove of shortstop Chris Speier “The pressure situation is already there” said Lopes “You don’t have to wait until September because if you do it may already be too late” run-scorin- 3 2-- hit” R - LaCoss 9 scattered seven hits over seven innings before giving way to Doug Bair Dave Collins and Joe Nolan slammed solo homers for the Reds off Silvio Martinez 7 - ER r- BB SO -3 Ogden 5 4 7 3 6 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 4 0 4 1 0 2 n 4' Abranam 2 5 Lywnder (W Abraham pitched to 4 batters in 5th WP — Williams Abrahom Lysander T— 258 A— 512 4-- 4 6 1 PB — Brenly 4-- - Giants 5 Mots 4 y TWV v 4-- ' 7-- Phoenix Tufti (L Williomi Plank Tucker Rods 4 Cardinals 2 Cincinnati pitcher Mike LaCoss broke an string at the plate g with a single in the fourth inning to break a 2 tie “I can’t remeber the last hit I had” said LaCoss Then he added “It doen’t matter I’m not paid to cf I ad Los Angeles got its winning run in the ninth inning when Steve Yeager led off with a single moved to 33 13 12 11 001 030 000 — 4 000 804 lOx— 13 Rex Bourjos Barrios Babitt DP — Phoenix LOB — Phoenix 11 Ogden 10 2B — Holla Sularz Hosley 3B — Grandas HR— Barrios 2 S— Cosey Grandas Moore SB— Babitt SF — Dempsey 2 game-winnin- Total Totals Phoenix Ogden E — Pechek 3 Ogden 1 the Los 4 10-1- 1 Dempsey c Rodriguez 3b Cosey rf 7-- 5-- 0 Patterson If Hosley dh Moore lb Philadelphia San Diego Padres 2 5-- 1 1 5-- 4-- r h bi 13 the Pirates Pittsburgh Phillies defeated the 3-- OGDEN 6 In other National League games the Houston Astros beat the when Braves Manager Bobby Cox Reds trimmed the St Louis Cardinwaved him in from the bullpen in als 2 and the San Francisco the Uth inning against the Chicago Giants nipped the New York Mets 4 Cubs Tuesday night “I always come to the park ready The win was Atlanta’s ninth in to pitch” said Niekro who set the the last 12 games and it was the Cubs down on one hit in the top of third time Hubbard has delivered the 11th and then got the victory the decisive hit when former Ben Lomond High “The other two times he did it star Glenn Hubbard doubled home with home runs” said Cox “He’s the winning run in the bottom half helped us tremendously both with of the inning as the Braves beat the his bat and with his glove” Cubs 4 Bob Horner opened the 11th with a in so as a broke relief “I pitcher single and gave way to pinch it’s nothing new to me” said Niek- runner Luis Gomez Chris Chamb4 ro who has appeared in 30 liss bunted Gomez to second and games this season and started 28 of then Hubbard came through with g them But his two relief stints have his hit been productive ones — the victory Astro 5 Piratos 2 over the Cubs and a save earlier Art Howe and Cesar Cedeno this season drove in two runs apiece as the Astros won their fifth in a row to remain one game ahead of Cincinnati and two ahead of Los Angeles in the NL West Despite the loss Pittsburgh remained two games in ahead of front of Montreal and Philadelphia in the East Astros starter Nolan Ryan struck out seven in 7 3 innings to even his record at 8 Joe Sambito finished up for his 12th save strikeouts gave Ryan’s seven season second in 142 the for him Carlton’s Steve behind the league pitcher ob tie-breaki- ng Angeles Dodgers edged the the Cincinnati pitchers Niekro wasn’t shocked Montreal Expos So John Sutton has been sold to the San Diego Padres organization and outfielder Glenn Burke has been recalled by the Ogden team 0 1 0 Babitt is 0 0 0 Ramirez 2b 10 0 Bryant If Red Sox 7 A's 5 Associated Press At the age of 41 Phil Niekro has learned to expect just about anything when he comes to the ball- six-gam- Pechek cf six-ga- ireoves io Win The A’s closed out their scoring in the 7th as Mike Patterson drew a leadoff walk and scored on a sacrifice fly by Dempsey Ogden now travels to Salt Lake e series with the City for a Salt Lake Gulls Game time tonight is 7:30 pm Meanwhile in two off the field r h bi Richie Hebner drilled a two-ru- n third triple to highlight a four-ru- n as a Detroit inning snapped losing streak and halted Milwaukee’s seven-gam- e winning streak Gorman Thomas hit his 27th home run to account for the Brewers’ runs ieEcroIHIuhhcird Help game ab Tigsrs 6 Brswsrs 2 game-winnin- 8-- PHOENIX 2-- er run-scorin- d 3-- 2-- 8-- right-hande- Blus Jays 4 Twins 3 Steve Braun’s pinch-hi- t RBI double in the ninth broke a 3 deadlock and lifted Toronto Reliever Mike Barlow 1 was the winner 8-- came through with a two-ru- n single and Grandas added another two-ru- n single to make it 1 for the A’s The Giants came back with three runs in the top of the 5th on a two-ru- n homer by Barrios his second of the night and 10th of the year g and a double by Craig Landis to make the score 4 Ogden still wasn’t through and put four more runs on the board in the bottom of the 6th Moore drilled his third single of the night and scored on an RBI single by Grandas Grandas scored on a passed ball by Giants’ catcher Bob Kearney and Babitt drove in two more runs with his third single of the transactions 3 0-- no-hitt- er TWO-YEA- 2-- Carl Yastrzemski singled home Tony Perez with the average stayed above the 400 run in the ninth inning to carry mark — at 401 Boston Perez who hit his 21st Yanktcs 3 Mariners 1 home run in the seventh led off the Reggie Jackson and Bob Watson ninth with a double off loser Craig slammed home runs and Tom' Minetto 2 and moved to third on Underwood and Rich Gossage coma wild pitch Yastrzemski then folto pace New lowed with his g bined on a five-hitthit to York Jackson hit his league-lea- d 6 make Bob Stanley the winner no-hitt- er V 4-- 8-- The Orioles were all over the field against the Angels and made several sparkling plays to help protect Stone’s through seven 4fc Indians 8 Whits Sox 5 CTO- - s wa : n S V XX- TO A Xv C ATLANTA BRAVES’ Bob Horner recoils after being hit by a pitch from Chicago Cubs’ hurler Dennis Lamp during Tuesday night’s NL contest The ball hit Horner’s elbow but the Braves’ slugger continued to play following a few minutes of recovery UPI Telephoto Darrell Evans hit his 200th career home run in the sixth inning and drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the seventh as the Giants dealt the Mets their sixth straight loss Bob Knepper 4 got the vicon the road tory Knepper is this season with both wins coming at New York 9-1- 2-- 10 |