Show ass? i The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday August 19 1998 — Page 7 Red Sox sweep but Yankees Orioles stay hot -7- Rangers fall further off the pace in AL wild card race Bv The Associated lead after five The Red Sox tied it in the sixth on Mike Stanley's RBI double and Jason Varitek’s sacrifice fly Derek Lowe (3-pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief of Bret The Boston Red Sox played all offs and played another 120 or so games in ’98 before getting to the ones they really wanted “This is what you train for in the offseason Why you work hard in spring training” outfieldday-nig- 5) 1- -3 ht the year It’s fun to come to the ballpark every day because you're in a pennant race” three-hitt- Mo Vaughn homered to break a tie and give the Red Sox a 4 victory in the 5-- In the early game Pedro Martinez struck out 10 in 8 3 innings to lead Boston to a 4--1 victory “These two games are very very important to us” Vaughn 2-- dropped the 12 games behind the Red Sox in the AL wild-car- d race Baltimore moved into second “We're just a little bit out of synch right now" Rangers manager Johnny Oates said “It's not Rangers 8 front-runni- Luis Alicea and Roberto Kelly hit consecutive home runs in the night game to give Texas a 4-- 2 Continued from Page 6 e hits and catcher a pair of Eddie Perez sealed the victory in the seventh with a three-ru- n double San Francisco dropped three games behind the New York Mets and Chicago in the NL wild-car- d race The Cubs got three RBIs from catcher Scott Servais — all on infield grounders — and four hits from Jose Hernandez as Steve Ttachsel (13-6- ) won for the seventh time in eight deci-- i sions With runners at the corners and one 200-hitti- oc 20 J 14 Calumbue MM 11 11 7 TampeS ‘ EngjhdS W LSOWnaOFOA 0 1 55 71 37 LoaAngataalS 13 10 1 87 40 34 11 14 2 20 43 57 12 12 4 23 33 46 KanaaiCI 10 14 2 25 33 40 S 14 2 23 40 40 SanJoM ni jrawionwi prana ram NOTE Tima potato lor victory ona point lor ahooioul o4n and wo poMi tor loaa Shootout (SOW) la a oubootolwtae " Naw Jersey 4 York-Ne- DMMiat Miami 530 Co- 000 34 45 000 20 35 52 14 55 43 51 40 47 54 44 54 23 24 40 04 74 TONAL L Arizona NY QianM miaimiim waahtngton Magmas achadulad 1 1 TMIVN 0 300 37 37 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 300 300 300 300 52 0 70 55 IS 17 53 37 38 43 2 0 01300 1 0 357 1 1 0 300 NawOriaanaO 2 0 300 SLLoulB 0 2 0 300 42 50 23 17 40 nanirti NY Giant alNY BuBMo 2 0 01000 37 2 0 01300 43 2 0 01300 OS 2 1 0 337 36 1 2 0 333 41 - 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vio Veras broke a two-thir- 4) wild-car- AMERICAN LEAGUE 2 0 01000 2 1 0 507 1 1 0 300 Daiott Tampa Bay 1 2 0 333 0 2 0 300 Chicago Mkirwaoto Oram Bay Dan Miceli (9-of pitched an inning and Trevor Hoffman got four outs for his 40th save in 41 chances Pirates 6 Dodgers 4 Freddy Garcia hit his fifth homer in d drive seven games a two-ru- n in the sixth Jason Schmidt (10-9- ) survived three 6) go-ahe- TMVM - 6-- since June 26 Tigers 7 Mariners 6 Bobby Higginson hit a grand slam in the sixth off Bobby Ayala season a pace that would give him 157 far behind Hack Wil Bryan Rekar 0) allowed four runs and eight hits in eight innings Athletics 10 Blue Jays 5 Scott Spiezio and Matt Stairs each homered twice and drove in four runs at Oakland and Jimmy tied the A’s season Haynes (9-high with 10 strikeouts Woody allowed six runs Williams (9-- 8) first in seven games and his first RBI in six games He has 120 this by less than a Chicago Cubs (69-5d percentage point in the NL 15 ar (19-2- 6) day Texas put two on in the ninth on singles by Mark McLemore and Will Clark Gordon retired 4) 11 0 NY Jeto 11 0 2 0 NswEngtondl 0 2 0 rain-o- ut in the first game Tues- m ar W L 2 0 01000 33 20 San Diago - near-ge- ts ng thing — how well I've played is indicative of how the team has done” Davis said Baltimore (67-5moved nine games over 500 for the first time this year Rookie Sidney allowed one run Ivan Rodriguez on a flyout for Ponson (7-and seven hits in six innings to the save Gonzalez’ 34th homer was his improve to 0 in nine starts on Monday and Martinez since Aug 11 and just since the All-Stbreak with 10 homos and 19 RBIs Mets 6 Rockies 2 Mets 6 Rockies 3 A1 Leiter (12-shut down Colorado for eight innings in the opener and Mike three-ru- n double Piazza hit a in the second game New 'York five doubieheaders fins year has won eight of 11 and moved ahead of the NFL LAOWPtsGFQA S 6 48 M 26 11 2 80 40 12 0 33 47 37 12 S 23 30 47 IS 0 21 33 47 17 2 20 42 56 “Here's the most important “I just missed two foul balls off Beck” said McGwire homerless in 18 two-bas- 6) 5-- out in the ninth Rod Beck came on and struck out both McGwire and Ray Lankford for his 37th save as the crowd went wild NL W 30-gam- about that now thanks to a e second-plac- 6) e night's game afire having his hitting streak end Sunday in Cleveland hit a solo shot in the first inning and gave the Orioles a 1 lead in die seventh a three-ru- n homer his 24th AP photo lead in the 1 Texas Belle's homer off Chuck Finley (9-was his 37th He has 19 homers and 44 RBIs in his last 38 games Indians 4 Devil Rays 2 At Jacobs Field Dwight Gooden (5-dazzled the team from his hometown allowing one run and eight hits in six innings and Mike Jackson pitched the ninth for his 3 1st save Cleveland crept within a game break of 500 since the All-St- ar Boston Rad Sox first baseman Mo Vaughn watches the ball sail through the rain at Fenway Park Tuesday night for a home run 1 AL West over Davis who sat out Monday 1- -3 quite kosher whatever that means I’m not Jewish" opened a behind Boston in the wild-car- d race improved to 29-- 8 since the All-Stbreak Award winner stopped a minislump by allowing five hits and one walk In his previous two starts he was 0-- 1 while allowing nine earned runs in 13 innings The rest of the Red Sox rotation hasn't been any better They haven’t had a complete game in more than a month No starter has pitched more than 6 innings since Aug 8 “If you have to worry about saving your bullpen all the time then you’re in trouble” Boston manager Jimy Williams said Williams doesn't have to worry chipped in and we came up with pair of runs in the seventh Despite the loss Anaheim runs Baltimore seven games Last year’s NL Cy Young “I’m glad everybody Albert Belle tied the game with a solo homer in the sixth at Anaheim then doubled home a two-hom- er Boston beat the Rangers in the opener “You've got to get the first out of the way and then go for the second one" he said after beating John Burkett “I figured that my teammates were going to get to him so I just had to hold on and keep the battle tight” seventh-innin- g 7) 0) into the ninth as er ts ke took game Danny Patterson (1-the loss after allowing one run on two hits and a walk in 1 innings in relief of Rick Helling Tom Gordon earned a save in each game giving him 36 this season and 33 straight Martinez (16-4- ) ate up Texas batten and innings alike taking a “For me it's the best time of sweep 0) Saberhagen to win the second Texas Rangers two” The 3-- 1) 1- -3 7) er Darren Lewis said Tuesday after the Red Sox swept a doubleheader from the said aWBjfo who entered with a 2 and quickly gave up a game-tyin- g double to Gabe Alvarez Ken Griffey Jr the AL leader in home runs at 42 was 1 -- for-5 with two RBIs He struck out in die eighth with runners on second and third and has just one homer in his last 63 Alex Rodriguez went with two doubles at the King-dom- e Seth Greisingre (2-won and Todd Jones got three outs for his 21st save White Sox 4 Angela 3 lead run-scori- ng Press of 1997 without sniffing the play- nightcap son's record of 190 in 1930 Yankees 3 Roysb 2 After Mariano Rivera failed to hold a lead in the ninth Chad skid Curtis snapped an with a single off Matt in the 13th at Whisenant (1-Kansas City New York (92-3swept the season series 10--0 oulscoring the It’s the first time in Royals 77-2- 1 a non-striyear the Yankees blanked an AL opponent for an entire season series The Yankees have won 12 of 13 moving 62 games over 500 for the first time since Sept 28 1939 Joe Borowski (1-pitched two innings for his first win since May 1997 Orioles 7 Twins 1 At Camden Yards Eric Davis had his fourth game of the season and drove in four -—: 1 Lombwdfc GoM HamM (7) MMto awa (3) and Brtta oM L 12 WMwna42 Ntatariib8ktaFUIKtata opi i |