Show Section tribune jlalt fa! le C 28 Monday Morning—September 1987 Page Tor Recorded Scores 1 Call Sports 1 Loral 217-202- Sports Information Call 5 Tigers Keep the Pressure on Blue Jays Gibson’s Single Averts Sweep j ’wrrwmfiM yi American League Da! ma4 a a a i si i i j ' I j g- - i w i 1 Tribune Wire Services Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson says his team still controls its own destiny after the Tigers pulled out a 2 victory over Toronto in 13 innings Sunday “Toronto has a lead and they should have it because they came back and won good ballgames” Anderson said “This means that we are still breathing and we don’t have to depend on Milwaukee “I don’t think it’s fair to ask Milwaukee to help us by beating Toronto” Anderson said he thought the Tigers who lost the first three games of the crucial weekend series each by one run showed great ' k 3-- Alex Grammas I didn’t see the play I figured something must have happened out there I heard Alex say ‘You gotta go’” Moseby said “I had to try to make the catch because I knew Manny Lee was backing me up That is the price you pay on artificial turf” Mike Henneman 2 Vi innings on 10-- 3 Saturday who had worked pitched See C--3 lVb innings Column 4 Montreal WTBS1 Houston 2 San Diego 4 4 3 5:30 pm — Major League Atlanta at Cincinnati CD 7 Prix CBS) pm 8:30 Base-ba- ll Auto Racing Alamo Grand — pm — Auto Racing River-sid- e World Championships - (D) 9:10 pm College Football BYU at New Mexico (replay) ffl 11:30 pm — College Football Chuck Shelton and USU Football Show Murray Speaks — Toronto’s Nelson Liriano left takes a dive into second base while Detroit’s Lou Whitaker waits for the Asiociatsd Prea Photo throw Liriano was safe and completed the circuit but the Blue Jays lost to Tigers in 13 innings 2 3-- Cubs Stall Cardinals Mets Expos Win Tribune Wire Services e The Chicago Cubs angered by team president Dallas Green’s charge they “quit” down the stretch slammed four homers Sunday to stall the St Louis Cardinals’ drive for a National League East title The Cubs who have hit 203 homers on the year got solo homers from Andre Dawson Bob Dernier Rafael Palmeiro and Keith Moreland to turn back the Cardinals 3 The loss reduced the St Louis lead in the NL East to 2 Vt games over the New York Mets Montreal is three games back The Cardinals finish with four games against the Expos and three against the Mets at home “Not bad for a bunch of quitters” said Cubs catcher Jody Davis “Dallas has a right to his opinion” More last-plac- 7-- land said “I just know that when I go out there no matter who we are playing I’m giving it my best” Dawson had a dramatic end to his first season at Wrigley Field He slammed his 47th homer of the year in the eighth to cap the scoring “I wanted to stand back and tip my cap in said Dawson who had three my last hits and three runs scored "Everyone has been great here It’s tough when you’re in last place but we’ll be back” 2 Les Lancaster pitched 6 Vs innings while Lee Smith worked two innings for his 35th save Danny Cox 10-- 9 surrendered five runs in 4 innings in losing to Chicago for the second time in 10 days “He’s had trouble with the location of his at-ba- t” 8-- pitches” St Louis Manager Whitey Herzog said of Cox “That’s why he’s been so inconsistent Give credit to their pitcher He threw it well” The Cubs took a 0 lead in the first when Dernier hit a 0 pitch into the d bleachers for his eighth homer of the year 2-- left-fiel- In the fourth Palmeiro led off with a solo homer to right Moreland homered in the seventh St Louis cut the lead to 1 in the sixth Ozzie Smith led off with a double to left went to third on Tom Herr’s infield out and scored on Dan Driessen’s grounder to short The Cardinals pulled within 3 in the seventh knocking out Lancaster With one out See C-- 3 Column 4 5-- 5-- BALTIMORE (AP) — Eddie Murray the object of trade rumors for two seasons said Sunday “It could be time for me to move “Sometimes you say you've worn out your welcome here” the Baltimore first baseman said in a rare interview prior to the team’s last home game of 1987 “I don't know what they expect of me” Murray told Rex Barney a former major league player on the cable network Home Team Sports "I’m doing things but obviously it’s not good enough" Crimson Club Meeting The weekly University of Utah Crimson Club luncheon will be held Monday at noon at the Salt Lake Hilton Head football coach Jim Fassel will be the speaker The public is invited Quotable “They should enjoy it while they can because it might be different next week” — Detroit outfielder Kirk Gibson after Toronto rallied for three runs in the ninth inning Saturday and beat the Tigers 10-- 9 The Tigers came back to win 2 in 13 innings on Sunday 3-- NFL Strike Leaves TV Available For Exciting Sport — Baseball Well those striking NFL players sure put a in my Sunday See normally there is no good reason to watch television on autumn Sunday afternoons You can take a walk or read a book or do almost anything without the fear of miss- crimp By John Nelson AP Sports Writer NEW YORK — The NFL strike claimed its first day of games Sunday apparently without hope of making them up later in the sea- g son as coaches continued to train players for replacement games next weekend Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Hugh chairman of the NFL’s executive committee said it now appeared unlikely the 13 games scheduled for Sunday and the one between Denver and Cleveland Monday night would be replayed Union boss Gene Upshaw held a meeting in Los Angeles with representatives from West Coast NFL teams amid reports there would be a revolt among Raiders players Upshaw has other regional meetings set for later this week in Chicago Atlanta and Blast Rutherford NJ Coach Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins meanwhile admitted the replacement product will not be “as sophisticated” as fans are used to watching and some players warned that “scabs” could pay a price for defying the 2V4-ho- ur ing a significant sporting moment If you have some interest in the NFL well you can just catch the best plays on the evening news and skip all the repetitive boredom in between But by taking this particular Sunday off with their little strike the NFL players planted an idea in the minds of the network geniuses and in turn created a reason to watch TV on a sunny afternoon: Baseball The network folks — who have spent most of the last two decades subverting baseball to the NFL and who take Monday Night Baseball off the air in early August so they can show us exhibition football and who force baseball to play its Sunday World Series games at night so they don’t conflict with NFL games — rediscovered baseball over the weekend How convenient for them! Faced with the strike-inspire- d washout of its NFL schedule NBC said “Hey let’s show ” In other words let’s the Blue return September to its original purpose — pennant races And there of course went my Sunday Ar easy as it is to walk out on any prefabricated NFL game on any given Sunday that’s how difficult it was to miss even a pitch of " four-hobaseball drama Sunday's 1 ning But th oaseball forewarns its followers of the obability of being frozen to the ‘le first three games of the Blue screer Jays-- ’ gers series were decided by one run and t e last two including Saturday's NBC Toronto ralgaire had ended with three-ru- n lies in the bottom of the ninth We should have known there'd be no free moments Sunday After all that’s the pattern of baseball: The drama heightens at precisely the moment you think it can’t get any more intense Last fall’s n play — the wringing series the miracuGame 6 of the Mets-Astrseries and lous Game 5 of the Red Sox the anguishing Game 6 of the Mets-Re- d series — only underscored the point So did game for that matter Sunday’s Jays-Tigeis By contrast there almost never anything n memorable about NFL play In nine NFL playoff games last year there were maybe two moments of drama — a chip-shfield goal by some guy (Mark Moseley) for the Browns to end a double-overtim- e game he could have ended with the same kick a half-hou- r earlier and John Elway’s Bronco drive against the Browns a week later Say football fans how many plays in that drive can you remember? Usually though we baseball fans avoid silly arguments that compare the national pastime with NFL football since we consider it beneath our game’s dignity But hey when the networks finally give us such a stark com— Sunday’s Blue s parison of the two game instead of the usual bland NFL menu — there's a natural impulse to state the obvious Evidently Thomas Boswell the elegant Jays-Tigers- strike V Negotiations broke off Friday in Philadelphia and NFL Management Council spokesman John Jones said over the weekend he didn’t expect talks to resume until Thursday at the earliest That heightened the prospect the strike could not be settled in time to get the regulars back to work next weekend and owners would go ahead with plans to stage replacement games using lower caliber players who have been working out for about 10 days at most “The NFL is going on and any players who want to have a place to work” Jones said The Daily Breeze of Torrance Calif reported in its Sunday editions that four to six prominent Raiders players would take up the 3 TV Sports Will Not Be Replayed salaries 3 Philadelphia Los Angeles Indications Are Games ar 5 Cincinnati NFL Strike Washes Out Week’s Play Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton was asked on CBS-Twhat would happen if the striking players scrimmaged against nonstrikers He said " they’d have to use a lot of body bags” Many of the striking players took the weekend off from the picket line and there were reports some would cross them Monday Other teams reported their players were solidly behind the strike which entered its sixth day Sunday Management has said the lone unsolvable issue remains free agency The union wants unrestricted free agency for any four-yeplayer and owners are unwilling to grant this The union says there also are other key issues including pensions and minimum Louis 7 St San Francisco 15 Atlanta 6 four-gam- head-first- 1 New York 12 Pittsburgh 3 13th-innin- Ernie Whitt’s tag “Your hands are easier to go around to the ” plate than your feet so I went Walewander said “I was just diving and I didn’t see the play I saw third base coach Cleveland 8 Kansas City New York 5 Boston 6 Chicago 5 Oakland 0 Seattle 5 Texas 3 National League “You have never witnessed a club that has stood up to more pressure than this club here and no club showed more character” Ander- 5-- California Minnesota 8 Baltimore 9 Milwaukee 9 11 Chicago character son said “These guys had their behinds nailed to the wall and they won this game “I don’t know what will happen now and I don’t care These men have showed me all I ever want to see” g Kirk Gibson’s single drove in e the run to avert the sweep by the Blue Jays The Blue Jays’ magic number remained at five and their lead over the Tigers dropped to 2 Vi games The two teams finish the season with three games at Detroit next weekend Jim Walewander started the 13th with a walk off Jose Nunez 2 the fifth of six Toronto pitchers Walewander went to second on Lou Whitaker’s sacrifice and scored when Gibson's soft fly ball bounced off the artificial turf and over center fielder Lloyd Moseby’s head Walewander the fastest runner on the Detroit team beat a good throw by Manny Lee Walewander slid belly first around catcher 1 “Sports Capsule 4 v:t 237-200- ' — Raiders' backup QB Marc Wilson V ‘ y iy I United Press International Photo has walked the players’ picket line and is among a growing legion of players disregarding the strike (6) offer Monday and join other players Raiders backup quarterback Marc Wilson crossed picket lines on Tuesday along with three injured-reserv- e linemen Mickey Marvin Chris Riehm and Curt Marsh Upshaw executive director of the NFL Players Association flew to Los Angeles Saturday and on Sunday met with more than 50 players from the Raiders Rams 49ers Broncos and Chargers A similar number of teams was expected to attend Monday's meeting in Chicago Initial reports were Upshaw would look into the reports of a Raider revolt during his West Coast swing but Upshaw said after the meeting- “I have players from the Raiders here I don’t think we have to discuss our solidarity It’s there We are on strike and will remain on strike until we sign a collective bargaining agreement" Raiders player rep Mike Davis also denied reports more Raiders players intended to cross picket lines and Raiders kicker Chris non-striki- Sea-haw- Bahr said he didn't know of any Raiders who intended to cross lines “from Marcus Allen on down to Stan Talley” the club’s punter “You’re going to see a smattering of players cross That’s not going to harm us in any way” Bahr said "You can’t play with five players or 10 players” In San Francisco 49ers starting quarterback Joe Montana who was critical of the 1982 players strike indicated he might consider crossing picket lines Appearing on KFOG radio Montana was asked if he would play in replacement games and he replied: “There’s always that possibility" While not commenting directly on union solidarity Jones said all indications are players feel "free agency is not an issue to walk out over” “I would expect there are players wondering what's going on” the management See 6 Column 1 C-- post-seaso- ls post-seaso- ot Jays-Tiger- baseball writer for The Washington Post felt the same sort of reaction last January when he was juxtaposing his feelings about Bowl hype with the the shameless warming thought of spring training being only a month away So Boswell penned 99 reasons why baseball is better than football He probably labored some to limit the list to 99 but some of his reasons were more telling than others For instance: Reason Nos 7 and 8: “All XX Super Bowls haven’t produced as much drama as the last World Series” and “All XX Super Bowls haven’t produced as many classic games as either pennant playoff did last year” Reason No 15: “Before a baseball game there are two hours of batting practice Betraffore a football game there’s a two-hofic jam" Reason Nos 26 and 27: “The best football announcer ever was Howard Cosell” and “The worst baseball announcer ever was Howard Cosell” Reason No 54: “At a football game you almost never leave saying ‘I never saw a play like that before’ At a baseball game there’s almost always some new wrinkle” Reason No 63: “The baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown NY beside James Feni-mor- e Cooper’s Lake Glimmerglass the football Hall of Fame is in Canton Ohio beside the freeway” Reason No 84: “Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down Pitchers never do” To update the list with recent events you could add Reason No 101: After striking once in 1981 baseball players learned their lesson and settled their next contract without a strike albeit just barely Football players didn’t And Reason No 102: Football players strike for a “principle" that won’t tangibly help them Figure it out: On the one hand they say the average length of an NFL player's career is 3 Vi years and then they turn around and say they want some form of free agency for players with four years in the league Translation: The “average” player wouldn’t be able to qualify for free agency anyway So what are the “average” players striking for? Who knows? But if they choose to keep striking and if the networks choose to over the next the league’s scab-gamfew Sundays then maybe we’ll get the Jays-Tigeor again next Sunday and maybe we’ll even get a Sunday afternoon World Series game later in October If the NFLers can just stay out for four more weeks they might interrupt a few more of my Sunday afternoons — something they didn’t do when they were working pre-Sup- er soft-ped- al es rs Mets-Cardina- ls |