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Monday, August 18, 1997
UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Royals continue road woes
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tigers 8. Royals 4
DETROIT — Travis Fryman drove in four runs and Damion Easley drove in three as the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 8-4 yesterday and stopped a four-game losing streak.
Greg Keagle (1-2) won for the first time in nine career starts, allowing three runs and five hits in seven innings. Keagle struck out seven and walked none.
Jose Rosado (8-9) was pounded for six runs and five hits in 2 1/3 innings, the shortest outing in 42 career starts. He is 1-6 in 11 starts since June 23.
Kansas City, which completed a 4-5 road trip, has not had a winning record on a road trip since June 13-15.
Detroit took a 3-0 lead in the first when Brian Hunter doubled, Bobby Higginson singled, Fryman hit a two-run single and Easley hit an RBI groundout.
Bip Roberts hit an RBI single in the third, but Detroit made it 6-1 in the bottom half. Higginson tripled and scored when second baseman Jay Bell misplayed Fryman's RBI grounder for an error. Easley added a two-run double.
Blue Jays 10, Indians 5
CLEVELAND—Roger Clemens struck out 11 in his 19th victory as the Toronto Blue Jays snapped Cleveland's four-game winning streak with a 10-5 victory against the Indians yesterday.
Clemens (19-4), who leads the majors in wins and is second in ERA, moved one victory away from his fourth 20-win season and first since 1990 as he bids for his fourth Cv Yount Award.
It was Clemens' third straight double-digit strikeout game, 11th this season and 79th of his career. His ERA went from 1.66 to 1.78, still tops in the AL but second in the majors to Montreal's Pedro Martinez (1.70)
Red Sox 10. Twins 5
BOSTON — Nomar Garciaparra extended his hitting streak to 20, tying Fred Lynn's team rookie record as the Boston Red Sox beat Minnesota 10-
5 yesterday and gave the Twins their ninth consecutive loss
Aaron Sele (12-9) allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings. He had a 11.25 ERA in his previous four starts
Boston improved to 62-63 and moved within one game of.500 for the first time since May 7 (15-16). The Twins, swept in the four-game series, have lost 12 of 13 and are on their longest losing streak since a nine-game slide from June 15-23, 1993.
Mariners 5, White Sox 3, 1st game
CHICAGO — Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 39th and 40th home runs yesterday to take the major-league lead, sending the Seattle Mariners to a 5-3 victory
against the Chicago White Sox in the first game of a doubleheader.
Griffey reached the 40-homer plateau for the fourth time in his career, and passed New York's Tino Martinez with his solo homer in the ninth.
It was the third multi-homer game this season for Griffev.
his first since April 25 — a three homer-game — against Toronto, and the 24th of his career.
Griffey homered to left-center field with one out in the first off Jaime Navarro (9-10), driving in Joey Cora who had doubled to put Seattle ahead 2-0. He homered off Chuck McEilroy in the ninth, singled and doubled as the Mariners won their third straight.
Orloles 5, Angels 4.10 innings
BALTIMORE — Lenny Webster singled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning yesterday as the Baltimore Orioles once again rallied to beat the Anaheim Angels. 5-4.
Aaron Ledesma hit his first major-league home run and Rafael Palmeiro had his 25th of the season for the Orioles, who moved a season-high 33 games better than .500 with their 15th win in 20 games.
Tim Salmon had three hits and an RBI and Rickey Henderson drove in two runs for Anaheim, which lost leads of 3-1 and 4-3 less than 24 hours after blowing a six-run cushion in a 10-9 loss.
Baltimore, which has won seven straight extra-raining games, leads second-place New York by 4 1/2 games in the AL East.
Yankees 8. Rangers 0
NEW YORK — After David Cone removed himself in the second inning with a tight right shoulder, Ramiro Mendoza pitched six innings of two-hit relief to lead the New York Yankees to an 8-0 victory against the Texas Rang-
Mendoza (5-5), the loser in Saturday's game, combined with Kenny Rogers on a three-hitter. Rogers, who left his last start on Aug. 10 after three innings with a tight upper back, struck out five in the final two innings.
Cone, who missed most of last season after surgery to repair an aneurysm in the same shoulder, threw 21 pitches in the first. He made several warmup tosses before the second but stopped and walked into the Yankees' dugout.
DENVER — Dante Bichette's bases-clearing double highlighted a four-run sixth inning as the Colorado Rockies beat New York 6-4 on yesterday to complete a three-game sweep of the Mets.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Rockies 6. Mets 4
Colorado starter John Thomson (5-7) pitched six innings for his second win against New York in 11 days. He gave up three earned runs, walked four and struck out one.
Jerry Dipoto pitched the ninth for his eighth save.
The Mets, chasing Florida in the wild-card race, lost for the seventh time in nine games.
Trailing 3-1 in the fifth, the Rockies broke through against Mets starter Dave Mlicki (5-10), who has just one win in his last 10 starts.
Cruising up to that point, Mlicki gave up one out singles to Thomson and Eric Young and a two-out walk to Larry Walker. Bichette followed with his bases-clearing double and scored on Ellis Burks' single.
HOUSTON — Billy Brewer walked in the
ting and go-ahead runs in the seventh inning
Astros 11. Phillies 6
yesterday as the Houston Astros beat Philadelphia 11-6 and stopped the Phillies' six-game winning streak.
With Philadelphia ahead 6-5, the Astros loaded the bases in the seventh off Wayne Gomes (2-1).
Brewer retired Luis Gonzalez on a popup, then walked Ricky Gutierrez on a 3-2 pitch and Tim Bogar on four pitches.
James Mouton singled off Brewer's glove for a 8-6 lead, and Houston added three runs in the eighth on an RBI single by Gutierrez and a two-run single by Mouton off Jerry Spradlin.
Tom Martin (5-3) won despite allowing a two-run single to Mike Lieberthal in the seventh that wasted a 5-4 lead. Russ Springer got six outs for his second save.
Derek Bell had four hits, including two doubles, in sending the Phillies to just their fourth loss in 15 games.
Gregg Jefferies of the Phillies left the game in the seventh with a strained left hamstring after sliding into second on a double steal. Philadelphia starter Garrett Stephenson left after two innings because of a tight right forearm.
Chuck Carr left in the top of the seventh complaining of a strained right side and was listed day-to-day.
Slade, Patriots defeat Denver
Reserve quarterback feels pain,not Elway
The Associated Press
Compiled from The Associated Press.
With John Elway watching from the safety of the Broncos sidelines, the Patriots sacked Lewis four times in the first half, three by Slade, and won yesterday's exhibition match of two of the AFC's top teams, 31-21.
FOXBORO, Mass. — Chris Slade and the New England defense showed Denver quarterback Jeff Lewis that getting more playing time has its drawbacks.
Meanwhile, New England quarterback Drew Bledsoe wasn't sacked and threw touchdown passes of 1 yard to Ben Coates and 17 yards to Vincent Brisby.
Elway missed his second consecutive game with a ruptured right biceps tendon as a precaution after a strong week of practice. It was a wise move against the defending AFC champs.
He sacked Lewis twice before his biggest hit of the game. With a second-and-14 at the Broncos 7-yard line, Slade raced in untouched from the right side and hit the unsuspecting quarterback to force a fumble. Slade dove on the ball in the end zone for a touchdown with 3:46 left in the half. Adam Vinatieri's kick made the score 14-0.
The Patriots (2-1) had allowed just one touchdown in their first two games and teed off on Lewis. Mark Wheeler sacked him on Denver's second offensive play, then Slade took over.
That wasn't the only punishment the Broncos (22) absorbed
ment the bruises on linebacker
Starting middle linebacker
Allen Aldridge left the game
twice in the first half after bruising his left knee and taking a blow to the head. Tight end Shannon Sharpe didn't return after twisting his ankle in the first half.
And cornerback Selwyn Jones suffered an apparent knee injury
covering Terry Glenn on a long completion.
But it wasn't all bad for Denver.
* Dedrick Dodge raced in front of Bledsoe's pass to Brisby in the flat and raced 53 yards down the right sideline for a touchdown on the first series of the second half.
Jason Elam's kick made the score 17-7.
And Bubby Brister, who replaced Lewis in the third quarter, threw scoring passes of 5 and 3 vards to Willie Green.
But New England already had taken a 24-7 lead on Bledsoe's 17-yarder to Brisby after Dodge's touchdown. Bledsoe's scoring pass to Coates had broken a scoreless tie with 5:06 left in the first half.
The Patriots passing game didn't drop off after Scott Zolak took over for Bledsoe on their second series of the second half. He led Dietrich Jells perfectly for a 46-yard completion that set up his 6-yard scoring pass to Kantroy Barber for a 34-14 lead.
Bledsoe completed 14-of-25 passes for 175 yards, while Lewis, Denver's fourth-round draft pick last year, finished 11-of-18 for 111.
The Patriots started the day hoping to shut down the Denver running game that had produced 198 yards in a 34-8 regular-season win in Foxboro Stadium last year.
But Denver's run defense was better as the Broncos outrushed the Patriots 117 vards to 41.
The Patriots had the edge in the kicking game. Vinatieri, 5-for-5 on field goal attempts, made a 25-yarder 37 seconds before intermission. Elam missed attempts from 44 and 49 yards. The Patriots have allowed just one field goal on seven attempts in the exhibition season.
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