Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday August 29 1996 — Page 17 Rich get richer — Braves add Neagle to rotation By The Associated Press WI don’t care if I’m the fifth starter if I get a World Series ring on my finger” Neagle said “It seems like every time I pitched here the guys were counting on It hardly seems fair The Atlanta Braves keep adding qual- toy pitchers to aa already loaded an NL record by bomcring from both sides of the plate for the seventh time in his career and pinch-hittArchi Cianfrocco singled in the winning run in the 12th as San Dkgo won its fourth straight 0) Bottenfield er took the loss (2-- 3) The Astros overcame a 0 me to stop a losing streak If I deficit Iteesday night to beat dm - They bring have an them up from the farm or go out and get them in trades The off-ga- over there there will be Glavine or Maddux or Smoltz to pick me And Denny don’ cell Wade (5-0- ) Wade who may be the odd-m- an out in the Braves’ postsea- World Scries champions fortified themselves for the 3-- Cubs The Meta have lost siz in a row and are 2 since Bobby 6-- 5 Expos ( Dodgers 5 At Montreal David Segui’s two-o- ut 0-- Vdentine replaced fired manager Dallas Green single in the ninth drove in the winning run as Montreal Caminiti’s 31st homer in the ninth gave Mets reliever John Franco his seventh blown save rallied from a five urns down The Expos stopped Loa Ange- son rotation pitched 5 les’ five-gawinning streak effective innings against the and moved game ahead Pirates of the Dodgers in the NL wild- Caminiti also homered in the seventh off starter Mark dark 1- -3 pen-na- nt one-ha- lf drive Ryan Klesko homered twice giving him 32 for the season and Terry Pendleton chased Pirates starter Esteban Loaiza ) with a three-ru- n double in the second that made it 1 Pendleton who drove in four runs and Fred McGriff ndded RBI singles in the sixth off Ramon Morel Elsewhere in the National League it was: Houston 5 Chicago 4 Montreal 6 Los Angeles 3 San Diego 3 New York 2 in 12 innings Colorado 10 Cincinnati 9 Florida 3 St Louis 2 in 10 innings and San Francisco 7 Philadelphia 6 csterday y acquir- ing Gregg Olson (1-acquired this week from Detroit got two outs in the ninth for the win Kent lefthander (0-1- Denny beagle from the 6-- Pittsburgh Pirates in jexchange for two minor leaguen and a player to be named later Neagle simply had to walk 'from one clubhouse in Three JRivers Stadium to the other after the deal was completed He got his first taste of life with the Braves as Atlanta routed the Pirates Neagle 9--4 27-1with the woeful 4 Pirates the past two seasons now joins an Atlanta rotation with winner John Smoltz four-tfq- Sean Bergman (6-pitched one perfect inning and TVpvor Hoffman pitched the 12th for his 32nd save Derek career-hig- h Wrilace (0-- took the loss Rockies 18 Reds 9 At Denver Andres Galarraga tied a team record until his 40th homer a two-ru- n shot in the 8) card race With two outs Henry Rodriguez bloopcd a double off Chan Ho Park (3-and Scgui followed with a single to right Rodriguez easily scored aheadof 4) 1) Raul Moodcsi’s throw Mel Rojas pitched one (7-- 4) scoreless inning for the win Padres 3 Mets 2 12 innings At New York Ken Caminiti set y Castilla hit a three-ru- n for Colorado which won for the eighth time in 10 games and overcame five Cincinnati Dennis Eckersley homers Castilla's homer in the fourth give him 102 RBIs snd made At San Francisco Glenallcn 3) win despite allowing Barry Larkin's RBI groundout in the ninth Jeff Shaw (3-was the Hill had the last of four consecusevtive RBI singles in a five-ru- n enth With one out the Giants used 3) Marlins 3 Cardinals 2 10 innings At SL Louis reliever Cory Bailey walked the bases loaded in the 10th for Devon White who hit a sacrifice fly to give Florida its fifth straight win The loss dropped second-plac- e St Louis 2 12 games behind Houston in the NL Central The Cardinals have lost seven of their last nine Bailey six straight singles off three Phillies pitchers to overcome a 5-- 2 deficit Desi Wilson and Marvin Bcnard had RBI singles off Ricardo Jordan (1-- 2) and Bill Mueller and Hill had RBI singles off Ken Ryan The Giants added their fifth run of the inning when shortstop Kevin Stocker booted a grounder Mark Dewey (6-got one out for the win Rod Beck picked up his 30th save walked Edgar 2) 2) Renteria Gary Sheffield and Jeff Conine before he was relieved by Astros5Cubs4 At Houston Brian Hunter’s double in the ninth comt pleted Houston’s second straight rally over Chicago Kirt Manwarfng singled with one out and scored from first when Hunter drove a double to two-ou- 20-gaj- ie Cy Young Award winner Gmg Maddux and Tbm Glavine He’s not worried about what his role might be with his new 'team the gap in 12 op 18 Months Interest Free Computer Sale left-cent- er Bench’s number yvill look perfect bn Riverfront wall his entire career in Cincinnati By BM Koch 'Scrippa Howard News Service CINCINNATI — Only a shred irf' hope remained The Reds trailed the Pittsburgh JPirates by me run as they entered the bottom of the ninth inning in the fifth and deciding game of the djt72 National League playoffs He still was around in the early 1980s when the Big Red Machine 1 had faded into memory and Dick Wagner was attempting to retool s the dub No longer able to handle the physical burden of catching Bench was shifted to third base But Bench couldn’t play third youngand excitablcand patching' on TV with my two snd the Reds were terrible losing ’ brothers convinced that the Reds were finished 100 games for the only time By the break it was adub in disarray snd Bench was it the centerofiL In 1982 10 years after that My did was asleep on the momentous Bench home run dare wake couch and you didn’t the Pirates I found him when he was asleep on the againstin the visitors’ clubhouse myself couch at Busch Stadium in St Louis Then Johnny Bench got hold of first road trip with a a Dave Giusd pitch and lofted a making mybaseball team home run to right field to tie the The place was in an uproar score We jumped out of our The players had just returned seats sefeamed and generally lost break and mancontrol Dad woke up He wasn’t from the John had been McNamara didn’t care We ager happy unthinkable to to do ordered the runner long pinch V BeforeFoster remove Bench from the lineup to with home scooted fjorge the winning run on i Bob Moose shift Ron Oester from second wild pitch snd the Reds were base to third base snd to call up Tbm Lawless from Class AAA to beaded to the World Series That was a long time ago play second base Bench was as furious as he was dollar conbefore tracts and cable TV before I frustrated He sulked snd refused would become a jaded scribe who to talk to reporters ' (would have the privilege of It was a rude awakening for a the game up dose and the naive reporter my first indication misfortune of seeing its warts that baseball players were not Bench’s uniform No 5 was always heroic ' All-St- I ar Commentary 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