Section B·Page 8
The University Daily Kansan
Thursday. April 22,199
McGwire sits as Brewers beat St. Louis by single run
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — David Nilsson hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 yesterday to stop a three-game losing streak.
Mark McGwire, bothered by a tight left hamstring, missed his first game of the season. McGwire, who has a .233 batting average with five home runs, left Tuesday's game in the fifth innings after going for 2.
inning after going 0-for-2 with a walk
Nilsson, who entered as a defensive replacement in the top of the eighth. connected off Lance Painter (0-2) in the bottom half for his second home run of the season.
Al Reyes (1-0) pitched a
Arkeyes (14) pitched a perfect eighth inning, and Bob Wickman finished for his first save of the season. With two outs in the ninth, J.D. Drew walked and took third on Placido Polanco's single. Shawon Dunston then ground to first.
Cardinals starter Darren Oliver allowed one run and three hits in seven innings. Milwaukee starter Rafael Roque gave up one run and four hits in four innings.
Milwaukee went ahead in the third on Fernando Vlna's two-out RBI single. St. Louis came back in the fourth on Fernando Tatis' homer off Roque. All four of Tatis' homers have come against Milwaukee.
St. Louis left the bases loaded in the sixth when Oliver hit an inning-ending groundout off David Weathers. Milwaukee stranded three the following inning on Bobby Hughes' inning-endng ground out.
- Eric Davis did not play. He was hit in the left hand by an Eric Plunk punk Tuesday night and sustained a bruise. X-rays were negative, and Davis is day to day.
Roque took the place in the rotation vacated by Bill Pulsipher, who went on the 15-day disabled list on Monday.
David Howard led off four different innings and made an out each time.
Milwaukee has yet to score in the sixth inning and has allowed 11 runs.
Astros' Bagwell hits 3 homers in win
CHICAGO — Jeff Bagwell matched career bests with three home runs and six RBIs yesterday — setting a franchise record for homers as the Houston Astros beat the Chicago Cubs 10-3.
The Associated Press
Bagwell's three homers gave him 225 two more than the previous Houston record set by Jimmy Wynn from 1963-74
set by Jimmy Wyman from 1960s.
Bagwell, who came in with just one
homer this season, connected off Scott
Sanders for a solo shot in the first. He
hit a three-run homer off Sanders in the
third and a two-run drive off Rodney
Myers in the seventh.
Bagwell also homered three times against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 24, 1994. He finished 3-for-5, extending his hitting streak to 10 games. He
fried, and all driven in by Bagwell - and six hits in six innings. Myers was tagged for five runs and six hits in 1 2/3 innings.
Sanders (0-2) gave up four runs—all
struck out swinging in the fifth, and grounded out to third leading off the ninth
Winner Shane
Reynolds (3-1) allowed two runs and eight hits in seven innings.
The Cubs closed to 4-2 in the third when Mickey Morandini hit an RBI double and scored on Glenalleh Hill's sacrifice fly. Morandini shouldn't even have
been around to score, but Bill Spiers botched a rundown between second and third.
Chicago could have added even more runs. With Sammy Sosa at third and Mark Grace on first, Tyler Houston popped out to shortstop and Jose Hernandez struck out. The Cubs' only other run came on Hill's fifth homer, an eighth-inning drive off Doug Henry.
Craig Biggio was out of the starting lineup for the first time this season. He pinch hit for Spiers in the seventh and staved in the game.
Jeff Blauer started at third for the Cubs, the first time he's played there since April 8, 1992.
throwing off the mound yesterday. He's missed one scheduled start, and man ager Jim Riggleman said he would make a decision today about whether Tapan could go again Saturday.
- Kevin Tapani, who hasn't pitched since the home opener because of a sore shoulder, didn't feel any pain after
"I threw everything, with more inten-sity," Tapani said. "I guess we'll see it they thought it was good enough. I'll wake up tomorrow and see how it feels putting more of a load on it."
■ Hideo Nomo will make his third start today at Triple-A Iowa and according to his contract, the Cubs must decide afterward whether to call him up or release him.
"That's a tough call, but that's the conditions he agreed to." Riggleman said. "I wish there was some more time involved, but that's the way it is."
NHL trying to influence Lemieux to save Penguins
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — The NHL may be about to exert the greatest possible influence to bring Mario Lemieux into its ownership ranks: No Mario, no Pittsburgh Penguins.
The NHL plans to file legal documents
tomorrow supporting the Lemieux group and offering to work with him to get the Penguins out of bankruptcy, league and legal sources close to the proceedings told The Associated Press.
The league wants the matter settled by June at the latest, they said, so the Penguins can sell tickets and the NHL can set a schedule.
"A lot of people could buy the Penguins, but one person can save them: Mario Lemieux." Penguins spokesman Tom McMillan said Tuesday.
The league is discouraging Florida investment banker Chip Gesner from submitting a bid, one that might further slow the process, the sources said.
U. S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Bernard Markovitz has scheduled a hearing on Lemieux's takeover bid for April 30. Markovitz has no obligation to follow the NHL's advice and choose the Lemieux group,
but the league does have some leverage.
If the NHL does not agree with the choice of owners, it could reject the judge's recommendation and revoke the franchise, essentially making it worthless.
William Daly, the NHL's vice president for legal affairs, said the revocation of the franchise is an unwanted but valid way for the league to settle the problem.
Under the NHL constitution, the Penguins' players then could be distributed throughout the league or the franchise could be awarded to a new city.
The NHL has not set a firm date to resolve the Penguins' situation, but the next step could be to do so.
Since Lemieux retired after the 1996-97 season and the Penguins' financial situation worsened, the team's season-ticket base has dropped from 12,000 to 8,300. By contrast, expansion franchises must guarantee season-ticket sales of 12,000.
The biggest hangup to reorganizing the Penguins' finances is the lack of a new lease with Spectacor Management Group, which operates the Civic Arena.
Despite playing in the NHL's oldest arena, the Penguins' pay the steepest annual rent, an estimated $6 million to $7 million that is blamed for much of the team's financial problems. The lease has been renegotiated several times under co-owner Howard Baldwin to supply cash needed to keep the team going.
Young Spaniard makes professional golf debut
The Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain — Sergio Garcia walked into his first news conference as a professional wearing a snappy suit with cameras clicking.
Equipped with the most celebrated amateur career since Tiger Woods, the 19-year-old Spaniard who was the low amateur in the Masters made his pro debut yesterday in the Peugeot Open.
"This is not a new page for me as a golfer, it's a new book. One that has no headings or records, the pages are still blank." Garcia said at the Golf Club of Prat. "My move to professional golf will start from zero."
He is the second European teen-ager in as many years to turn pro, only Garcia is expected to fare much better than Justin Rose. After his tie for fourth in the British Open last year, Rose immediately turned pro and hasn't made a cut in 18 tries.
Garcia will be able to play seven European tour events
this year to make enough money to avoid going to qualifying school.
He also is expected to use sponsor exemptions to play the Nelson Classic, the St. Jude Classic and the Sprint International on the PGA Tour.
"You never know what is going to happen," he said. "But if I should win, it would be fantastic."
That may sound like a big ambition. But then, the 19-year-old prodigy known as "El Nino" has always faced high expectations.
At 12, Garcia became the club champion at Mediterranean Golf Club, where is father is the pro. Two years later, he made the cut in his European PGA debut at the Mediterranean Open and became the youngest European Amateur Champion at 15.
He played his first British Open in 1966 and missed the cut at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. After the tournament, champion Tom Lehman handed Garcia the claret jug and told him, "Someday you will win this."
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