SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 12, 1994
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Kruk rejoins Phillies in home loss
By John F. Bonfatti The Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA — John Kruk slid his nameplate into the lineup board in the Philadelphia Phillies clubhouse. General manager Lee Thomas came by later and started to slide it out, then stopped.
Thomas' change of heart signaled good things for the Phillies yesterday, who nonetheless lost their home opener to the Colorado Rockies, 8-7.
Kruk, seeing his first major league action since doctors removed a cancerous testicle March 8, went 3-for-5, had an RBI and scored two runs.
Six hours after undergoing the 16th of 18 low-level radiation treatments he is scheduled to receive, Kruk forced himself into the lineup by taking manager Jim Fregosi into taking him off the disabled list.
"We had discussions," he said. "The concern was if I played one game and then I couldn't play for two-three days, then why take me off? I had to convince them to let them know that I didn't think it would be any problem. They bit."
Kruk said he felt as if he was ready to be an everyday player, but Fregosi said otherwise.
"I will not play him every day." Fregosi said. "He will have rest. I probably play him four-five times a week."
"That's up to him," Kruk said. "I'm just glad they let me play today."
Kruk was told the radiation treatments, which are designed to assure that the cancer does not spread, might make him weak. But he insisted he felt fine.
"Everything will be all right," he said. "They had a concern about whether I could back-to-back games or three-four in a row, but I don't think it would be that much of a problem."
The first game certainly wasn't a problem, although Kruk wasn't happy that he dropped a one-hop throw from shortstop Kevin Stocker on his first fielding play in the first inning.
Joe Girardi reached on the error charged to Stocker and then scored on Andres Galarraga's double to put Colorado up 1-0.
But in the Phillies' first, Kruk, batting third, drove a high fastball off Mike Harkey deep to center field, bringing home Mariano Duncan with Philadelphia's first run.
His thought at the time?
"It's a tie game, thank God, because I dropped that ball Stocker threw and let them score," he said.
The sellout crowd, which saved its loudest and most sustained pregame ovation for Kruk, roared again.
"I didn't know whether I should tip my hat or stand there and be stupid," Kruk said. "So I just decided on that."
Kruk lined a single past second in the sixth and another single in the seventh, but he missed his chance to be the Philies' hero in the ninth.
With Lenny Dykstra on second and one out, Kruk looked at a curve ball for strike three from reliever Darren Holmes.
"Dickie Noles didn't throw me too many of those breaking balls when I was here," Kruk said, referring to the former pitcher who threw him batting practice during the past month.
Fregosi and the Phillies were thrilled to have Kruk, who, in addition to being the starting first baseman for the National League in last year's AllStar game, is a fun-loving guy who helps keep the clubhouse loo
"He can still swing the bat," Fregosi said. "He can hit, and everybody knows it. When you're a veteran player, the time he had off he can get back in batting practice."
"Having him back was the lift we needed to get out of this losing streak," pitcher Roger Mason said. "Unfortunately, things didn't hold up."
The Phillies have followed a three-game winning streak at the start of the season with four straight losses.
Mason said Kruk, whose final two radiation treatments are Tuesday and Wednesday, "should be the ingredient we need. He is more support than we realized."
Red Sox score three off Royals in 10th
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Otis Nixon tripled to lead off the 10th inning and scored the lead run on Billy Hatcher's sacrifice fly, and Tim Naehring added a two-run triple last night as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 8-5.
Nixon scored after left-fielder Vince Coleman caught Hatcher's liner into the left-center field gap. Mike Greenwell singled off Mike Magnante, 0-1. M Vaughn grounded out, Andre Dawson was intentionally walked and Naehring tripped to right.
ninth. Magnante allowed three runs and five hits in 2/3 innings.
Paul Quantrill, 1-0, Boston's sixth pitcher, went 1 1/3 innings and got the win after blowing a save chance in the
Kansas City trailed 5-2 in the ninth but rallied to lie on Lind's run-scoring single off Jeff Russell, Coleman's RBI double and Brian McRae's run-scoring double off Quantrill.
Boston starter Frank Viola gave up two runs and five hits in 2/3 innings. Royals starter Mark Gubicza, who pitched out of the bulpen last year and was seeking his first win as a starter since June 19, 1992, allowed two runs and six hits in six innings.
Vaughn's RBI double gave Boston the lead in the first, but McRae's RBI single tied the score in the bottom half. Jose Valentin's RBI single put the
Red Sox back on top in the second, but David Howard hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Boston took a 5-2 lead in the eighth on Nixon's sacrifice fly and Vaughn's two-run single.
Notes:
Vaughn has hit safely in six of Boston's first seven games.
With left-hander Viola pitching, Royals manager Hal McRae flip-flopped left-handed hitting Wally Joyner and the switch-hitting McRae. Joyner batted second and McRae third.
Henderson's fifth-inning double was his first hit in 14 at-bats this season.
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Kansas Statutes Annotated 76-742 requires that in such cases a student referendum shall be conducted and the results of the referendum be made public and presented to the Board of Regents.
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