| Show ---i - 1 1 1 21) ThP Saq taaki Tribuno '22 Sunday May 190 IHL Faceoff Eagles Shoot for Turner Cup Tonight Ey Joe Baird 'Tribune Sports Wnter FLINT Mich —0Golden Cagle assislant coach Bobby Francis knovvi a thing or tvvo about ss inning a championship on the road As the heart of a line that iriclud-Morrison and Ted Pearson a :cair ago Francis 4 as instrumental in 'aalt 1ake s first Turner Cup champ-- orehip st hiih stas earned in six s arnes vith a virtory in Muskegon oler the Lumberjarks Now in his first iseason as a assistant under head coach Paul Baxter Francis thinks this Eagle team is similarly capable of pulling off a road coup as they bead into Game 6 of the II1L championship rks Sunday night against the Flint Spirits Faceoll is 5 p m NIDT It takes a It of character and a learn that builds off ea( h (Jther tr) in a championship on the road Frans said Saturday afternoon -- And I think this is definitely' a group that is capable of doing that" The Eagles as Ivo took a series lead with a dramatic 43 overtirrie tory over the Spirits on Friday night ILeiog 7-- full-tim- e e 3-- in the Salt Palace IA ill certainly be up a7nst it Sunday They face a Flint team that has yet to lose at home in Turner Cup play including and 6-4 bins over the Eagles in the first two 5-- 2 the finals The 4500-sea- t Arena will likely be full and it definitely will be rocking -You have to be able to focus on nothing but what s going on- out on the ice w hen you go out there- said Francis "Its important to be able to do that on the road because you don't have your fans to get you going "They'll be a better- team in front of home crowdtheir Francis said -You have to assume that Therefore you have to be that much more intense and that much better than they are Eagle defenseman Jim Leavins is another veteran road warrior ho has won a championship in enemy territory His accomplishment might be the moq impressive of all because he did it as a member of the 1984 Tulsa Oilers — the Central Hockey League carps ho play-e- every one of their Adams Cup playoff games on the road when the local ownership in IIIIS2 fell apart late in the season games 1MA Of Sp-rift-s Morris ails Ptmehless I I -- s n IMA "Theyre going to be playing like the Boston Celtics did at Atlanta Friday night" Baxter said of the Spirits "They-rgoing to be desperate and we have to play in the same manner" 'This doesn't stop with the three home" noted the Eagle games at coach -- We have to continue the trend or the home ice advantage is really going to mean something to them" Along with Friday night's overtime victory that trend included 3 and 3- 2 wins over Flint at the Palace in Games 3 and 4 that gave the Eagles control of the series The Salt Lake recipe was nearly the same in all three of its home dates: A smothering forecheck combined with lots of shots on goal and perhaps most crucially team wide restramt of saintly proportions Easter has been preaching the virtues of taking abuse and not giving it back throughout this series and it paid off in act--s on Fnday night The d and Spirits slashed roughed their way into 10 Eagle power plays Salt Lake connected on two of them arid those two scores ended up being the difference in the game -We've become a lot more disciplined from the retaliation standpoint- said Baxter who admitted his team didn't always play that way in Games 1 and 2 in Flint and it hurt therm The value we gained from thathe explained "is we realized that if we had to take one punch in the head or even three or 10 the chances of success are much better if we don't cross-checke- retaliate There's 5-- no system in hockey But you can deliver a knockout punch by scoring a goal" Eagle center Rick Barkovich who has taken more than his fair share of no' Inc crook4-- r ocrrsltrg rSZersSros Po hscryc ''' 1 "le I 13 ?con Cnis7ors A )01- r crç re scot eighth-innin- run as Lattimore beat Seattle iin his first start since Jeff Ballard being recalled from Class AAA Rochester on Thursday got the victory He allowed 10 hits struck out three brid walked none in 813 mnings Tom Niedenfuer got his third save ran COr c pe r sees 4 7S9VS see- - 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Away 650 W Boston I e Home 14 Sobsday's Games - A '" 11171 26 26 EST Chicago Seattle Minnesota California e ' - W 20 23 34 L f ' r Aro-- I that's for sure Weve gotten to the point now that the team willing to take the most punishment and make the commitment is the team that-- going to in the series- said Baxter lie hopes it will be the road team 7 I C to play a role 'Sunday) cross-checke- tit e t mods "v)to? n:"1 punishment in this series u holebeartedly subscribes to the theory ''My game is aggressive" hP said "I go to the net hard and if it takes d to put the puck getting in the net that's what you ha e to do Staying out of the penalty box is going - 2 - ' 11Zi It) I 1 7 EAST New York 1 1 W j Yankees 3 A's 2: At New York Rick Rhoden who came off the disabled list on Saturday pitched five strong in- ' 1 ' f 4 4 '''''' '4 ' i 1 ' ''A ) '''' '41140 ' 3-- —Untied Press iniemotonot His "boarding house reach" is not long Atlanta's Ken Oberkfell can't 1 enough 3-- 4 became the eighth Texas pitcher to take a into the eighth inning but Gaetti hit a hard line drive to field on a pitch Kilgus 6-- 3 no-hitt- left-cent- er 0 Blue Jays 4 Brewers 0: At Milwaukee Dave Stieb al reach the wild throw and Pirates' Bobby Bonilla slides safely into third base National League I W - 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toNcro cro :4oner 147 l'EN fe:At 7ynes te r nve — 11-- 7: Am Baseball Standings Major League MI Time MDT l te Sox Ocry 0MRiremons if- f down to the clisciTIne and mental aspects: said Leavins -Wanting to strive for success really brings out a lot in a team That really overrom the minor problems of playing on the mai" The Eagles figure V) let it all hang out Sunday becsuse jumping on the Sprits while they"re still down and getting quickly out of town with the Cup is preferable to seeing the extended to an anything-can-happeseventh game on Monday night at corne-- eo o Samos I vibes vs PO Sores 7 AA Sysel rT 16 11 341 289 110- W5 11-- 5-- 5 W2 16-- 7-- 3 WI WI 4-- 6 17-- 11-1- 0 10-1- 0 6-- 9 13-1- 2 it'471 9-- 7 4 Via 7-- 7 6 Li LI Li LI 4 6-- 4-- 6 Away 10-- 12-1- 11-1- 0 L3 3-- 7 Home 16-- 8 1 5-- 5 6-- ts Au ay 4-- 6 3-- 7 10 1 1 Home 7-- 3 7 79 10-1- 0 13-1- 3 8-- 8 12-1- 5 2 4 713 SolutOoy's Games Montteol 6 Son koncisco Chicago 11 Cincinnati 6 Pittspuigh 7 Avant° 3 St louts 7 Houston 4 11 innings New York 4 Los Angeles 0 Philoaelphio 4 Son Diego 3 lowed six hits in seven innings for his fifth straight victory and Lloyd Moseby homered to lead Toronto had lost his six previous decisions to the Stieb Brewers going back to September 1985 Tom Henke pitched the final two innings for his eighth save 6-- 3 tt eirsbu!cirriNT4"-271e$13- Ationta (Mahler a tri Chicano (Mosiduk oumans lanks Giants With Two a ' Tribune Wire Services Everything coming together for Montreal's Floyd Youmans meant nothing for the San Francisco Giants Youmans vkho hadn't WW1 since last Sept 6 pitched his struck out seven and walked one fourth career Saturday as the Expos beat the San Francisco Giants -It h a situation thyre everything came together" said Youmans 13 "All my pitches were there the fastball the changeup and the slider" Expos Manager Buck Rodgers called N'oumans perforr mance his best since last July 26 in the beat Cincinnati "It was a big one for us and for Youmans" Rodgers said ''lle's the one guy on the staff tin ran pitch nine innings Before today he hadn't been getting ahead in the count and hitters were sitting on his fastball "It wasn't so much a hitting slump as a case of a guy with a great arm" Giants manager Roger Craig said "You two-hitte- r 6-- 0 right-hande- 6-- 0 mans has the potential to be one of the best" Youmans allowed singles to Candy Maldonado in the second and Chris Speier in the seventh The Expos scored three runs in the fourth inning off Rick Reuschel Reuschel has been shut out in all three of his 101iSeS Consecutive doubles by Tim Raines and Ilubie Brooks lead in the fourth Andres Galarraga gave the Expos a followed with a single that sent Brooks to third and Galarraga moved to second on the throw home Jeff Reed followed with a two-rusingle Pirates 7 Braves 3: At Pittsburgh Andy Van Slyke hit a homer in the fifth inning carrying tiebreaking three-ruPittsburgh over Atlanta 5-- 3 0 n Cubs II teds 6: At Cincinnati Vance Law and Darrin Jackson hit consecutive home runs highlighting an attack that led Chicago past Cincinnati 1B-h- I! 12 15 pm al Cincinnati tBrowning Houston (Desholes 12) at St Louts fluor 12 15 p New York !Cone at Los Angeles )valenzueta 205 pm Philaaelonta Gloss ) ot Son Diegc (Show 1 2 05 o cst Son fianctsco (Downs Manties! (Heaton 2 05 p m itter Jody Davis who had a pair of RBI singles and Ryne Sandberg each got three hits Every Chicago starter got at least one hit Cardinals 7 Astros 4: At St Louis Tony Pena hit a three run homer with one out in the 11 th inning to lift St Louis The blast Pena's fifth of the season and second in two nights came off Joaquin Andujar 04 who relieved to start the inning It marked Andujar's first appearnace in St Louis since the 1985 World Series Phi Hies 4 Padres 3: At San Diego Steve Bedrosian earned his first save of the season and Von Hayes and Juan Samuel homered as Philadelphia held off San Diego fly Ken I 1 4 I I I I a ) I CUITITIlinS t' laws a benefit that no other professional sport in this country enjoys An end to baseball's antitrust protections would among other changes remove the power that owners now have to block new teams from locating in nearby cities and would prevent owners from working together to hold down players' salaries "how do you justify continuing that ex fmption when major league baseball is not fulfilling its obligation to serve the pubhc7 Graham said in a recent interview 'Its like Florida Power & Light which II as been granted a monopoly to provide electricity taking the position that it will not extend service to the new areas in west Itroward County" Graham said "That is essentially what baseball is saying that it will not serve the new population centers" The group of senators known as the Senate Task Force on the expansion of Lase-bal- l has requested a meeting with Ueberroth before he meets with team Di tiers in San Francisco on June 1 The task force formed laat November to apply political pressure on team owners to expand had its first meeting with L'eberToth in December But the senators in a letter sent to the commissioner on May 13 al they were "disappointed" that the first meeting produced -- little apparent 1rogress toward the development of a timetable for expansion Dodgers 0: At e 4 1 6 "Apparently he didn't hear us very well" Graham said of lieberroth Graham and his Senate colleagues are not setting an By John Lowe Knight-Ridde- r Newspapers At first glance it seems that the National League is experiencing a Year of the Pitcher While scores seem as high as ever in the Ai several Ni teams have been struggling for runs much of the season Many extra-inningames have dragged 12 innings or longer without anyone able to get the decisive run Three pitchers have taken into the ninth inning One recent day there was one NI homer in six games and it was hit by San Francisco's Jose Uribe The average NI game this year has one less run per game than the average NL game last year In 1987 each NL team averaged almost a homer per game This year each team is averaging three homers every four games But this isrft the freak year Last year was The offensive production in the NL this year is almost the same as it was in 1985 and 1986 Here are the breakdowns Runs per average N L game: 1985 — 81: 1986 — 84 g Los Angeles Dwight Gooden to become the National Leagues pitched a four-hitte- r winner and he singled home two runs to first eight-gamlift New York to its sixth straight triumph MetS 4 Senators Balk At Lack of Baseball Expansion Talk SunSentinel Pt Lauderdale News WASHINGTON — Saying that pro base ball's intransigent team owners respond only' to piihtical pressure If senators are playing hardball with major league officials The legislators are threatening to strip the sport of its antitrust exemptions unless owners lay out a timetable for ex anon — and soon The senators led by freshmen Tim SA'irth Pia and Bob Graham tia‘e goer) Commissioner Peter l'eberroth and American and National League franchise owners only until the AU Stair break on July I11 to announce a plan for adding at least four new teams by the early 11490s Pla Graham and Sen Lawton Chiles are hoping either St Petersburg or Miami or possibly both wil get tine of the TWIN franchises These are two of three rities that so far have won nods of :wpm al from the Major League Baseball Players Assoc' ation in kin ongoing study of 23 possible locations fur new teams The other 14 senators involved representing eight states each are also hoping to get tone of the TI teams for his state if Uelierroth and the wAmers fail to take steps toward expansion by the July dead-linthe group has vowed to launch Senate hearings into whether pro baseball should ront!nue to be exempted from antitrust Pitching Dominance More Evident in NL r break deadline for Ueberroth and the owners to determine the cities which will receive new franchises in the next decade But they are demanding that the commissioner and the team owners establish a timetable for adding new teams in both the American and National Leagues The senators also are seeking establishment of a procedure and criteria setting out how cities can compete for one of the new franchises "II we don't get a response to that very modest request then the signal is going to be that the reason major league baseball is not expanding is because were dealing with an admitted monopoly" Graham said Ed Durso Ueber roth's top assistant responded by issuing the following statement: ' kiseball has been thoroughly responsive to all of the Task Force inquiries and we ve acted in good faith every step of the av As ke announced at our annual meeting last Iierember baseball is giving expawAnn its clear attention A program for expansion is tieing developed hy a joint committee of the American and National Learnes and we will eoritinue to report regularly on its progress" Such statements bae only intensified All-Sta- the frustrations among members of the Senate task force "That's not satisfactory" Graham said of Durso's statement 'It's a little unfair to ask cities to continue to mobilize their efforts if nothing is going to happen" Wirth said "They major league officials play one city off against another" Norm Clarke sports writer for the Rocky Mountain News calculated in a December 1986 article that 14 cities feverishly trying to attract expansion teams combined had spent more than $68 million as of that date to convince major league of fivials to add franchises in their locales Denver with $22 million at the time and St Petersburg with $17 million topped the cities in spending Since then an $85 million baseball stadium being constructed in St Petersburg has neared completion and the Florida Legislature appears headed toward spending another $30 million in the effort to attract a tram to the state The legislators' action comes as St In their battle to force baseball to expand the senators have a staunch ally in the Major League Paseball Players Association The assoetation has been conducting studies of 23 cities to determine how many can financially support a new franchise Favorable reports on three Miami the 'PampaSt Petemburg area and Phoenix— have been released so far 1987 — 90 1988 — 81 Homers per average NL game: 1985 — 15: 1986 — 16: 1987 — 19 1968 — 14 The hall may have been juiced up last year Or maybe it just so happened that few N L pitchers had a superb year Or said Milwaukee GM Harry Dalton "This may be just another example of how baseball goes in cycles" Calling All Area Codes: Texas entered Saturday 10-since manager Bobby Valentine's contract was extended through 1991 before the extension the Rangers were 10- 16 were tied for fifth had scored more than four runs three times and had won two in a row just twice Texas won its first eight games after the extension including its first-eve- r three-gamsweep of the Yankees and its first sweep of the Orioles in nine years After the streak ended the Rangers swept a series in Toronto here they had lost their last nine games Maybe its just a coinci&nee Or maybe its a sign that more teams should give their managers long-tersecurity so the players can't think they can use the manager as an excuse for poor play 2 two-gam- e General Manager Mike Port on their current is accompanying the Angels trip But he declined to go in the clubhouse after the last place Angels lost to the Orioles Wednesday -- I wouldn't want my embarrassment to overflow ' he said After St Louis Cris Carpenter threw a fourhitter for last-plac- See D13 Column 1 4 4 4 4 4 int Pi Aitilittrntin tintPtot jiit ink Aok oho k 0 No 0s Pk fiftIW0101 A aw JIMAM“anwilWant-WAWA- 4M 11111A11-1161-- 7 |
