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East 12s come up short in pitchers’ duel
Oy DREW BARFIELD
The Baytown Sun
NASA East’s Matthew Decker and
Baytown East’s Larry Baird sparred
through six innings of a pitcher’s duel
before NASA struck the final blow to
take a 3-2 win in the two teams’ District
14 major league tournament opener
Thursday night at the Baytown East
League Park.
Decker put up outstanding numbers,
striking out 13 batters and only allowing
two hits.
“They had a good pitcher,” said Bay-
town head coach Donnie Jones. “We
can’t win with 13 strikeouts. Lack of
offense is what hurt us the most. At this
level, you have to score runs, and we
didn’t do that.”
Baird, despite recording the loss,
turned in a tremendous game on the
mound, striking out nine and only allow-
ing one hit.
That one hit came in the fourth inning.
Ryan Johnson singled and scored Ben
Volk to give NASA the 3-2 lead.
NASA opened up the game, taking
advantage of two walks and an error to
put runners at the comers with one out.
Baytown catcher Derek Kelley conced-
ing a run to stop a steal attempt, though,
and Baird finished off the inning with a
strikeout to minimize the damage
Baird owned the second inning, throw-
ing out one runner at first and striking
out the next two.
NASA got its second run of the game
in the third after a walk and three wild
pitches, but Baird’s defense came to his
aid immediately afterward.
With one out and runners at second
and third, a grounder was sent to short
stop Spenser Dennis, who threw the run-
ner out at home. The batter then took
second base, and, on the throw to second,
the runner at third attempted to take
home. Second baseman Corey Wadley
thwarted that effort with a strike to Kel-
ley for the second out at the plate.
“We had some good defense that kept
the score close,” said Jones. “We don’t
like to lose by one run, but at least we
made a game of it.”
Baytown put its two runs on the board
in the third inning with the help of some
heads-up base ijunning. Dennis started
off the inning with a walk and a stolen
base, but ended up on third after a throw-
ing error on the catcher. With one out,
Todd Cunningham plated Dennis with a
grounder that skipped through by the
second baseman. A mix up in the base
running got Cunningham hung up
between first and second, but a throwing
error put him on third. His pinch runner,
Buddy Coleman, scored on a grounder
to first.
In the end, it was the overpowering
pitching of Decker — who struck out the
side three times — that kept Baytown
from producing enough offense to take
the game. T
Baytown East will play at 8 p.m. Fri-
day night in League City.
Baytown
East’s Larry
Baird warms
up before
his team’s
first game of
the District
14 major
league ail-
star tourna-
ment. Baird -
and his
opponent
dueled
through six
innings, but
Baytown
East fell 3-2.
Cards avoid sweep
with 104 victDiy
HOUSTON (AP) — Kent
Bottenfield became the NL’s
first 12-game winner as the St.
Louis Cardinals overcame a
three-run deficit to beat Hous-
ton 104 Thursday, the Astros’
seventh loss in 10 games.
J.D. Drew hit a two-run,
inside-the-park homer for the
Cardinals, who avoided a three-
game sweep, and Bottenfield
helped himself with a two-run
double.
Joe McEwing singled leading
off the game, extending his hit-
ting streak to 22 games, which
tied the St. Louis rookie record
set by Johnny Mize in 1936.
Bottenfield (12-3) allowed
four runs, seven hits and four
walks in five-plus innings, and
four relievers followed. Only
Boston’s Pedro Martinez (14-2)
has more victories.
Chris Holt (1-8), who has
won just once in 19 starts since
Aug. 21, 1997, gave up five
runs and six hits in six innings.
Craig Biggjo’s solo homer
and Carl Everett’s two^run
homer put Houston ahead 3-0
in the first.
St. Louis tied the score on
Holt’s run-scoring wild pitch in
the second, Mark McGwire’s
opposite-field RBI single in the
third and McEwing’s sacrifice
fly in the fifth
The Cardinals then took a 7-3
lead in the sixth after Holt
walked and McGwire chased
Holt with a double. Fernando
Tatis greeted Jose Cabrera with
an RBI single, Edgar Renteria
hit a sacrifice fly and Botten-
field doubled for a four-run
advantage.
Rick Croushare forced in a
run by walking Bagwell with
the bases loaded in the bottom
half. McEwing hit an RBI sin-
gle in the eighth ahead of
Drew’s third homer, which went
past Everett, who had charged
in center, and rolled to the wall.
Notes: Bottenfield has four
RBIs this season. Biggio leads
the NL with 31 doubles. Everett
has a career-high 10-game hit-
ting streak.
McEwing’s streak is the
longest by an NL rookie since
Renteria’s 22-gamer in 1996.
Ray Lankford’s sixth-inning
double was his 100th career
Sit off the AstrOs. Tony Euse-
bio had three of Houston’s 10
hits.
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catfish. He caught the 35-pounder in Cedar Bayou.
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Rangers overpower Angels, 18-4
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
Rafael Palmeiro and Todd Zeile
each had four hits and four RBIs
and the Texas Rangers, despite los-
ing Ivan Rodriguez to a sprained
left knee, routed the Anaheim
Angels 184 Wednesday night for a
three-game sweep.
The Rangers were already lead-
ing 11-0 when Rodriguez led off
the fifth inning with a slow
grounder to third. The seven-time
All-Star catcher ducked just as he
reached first base to avoid getting
hit by Jeff Huson’s throw and hit
the bag hard before falling down in
short right field. 1
Rodriguez will undergo an MRI
in Texas on Thursday.
Rusty Greer helped pace a 20-hit
attack with three hits and Mark
McLemore homered for the AL
West leaders in their highest-scor-
ing game of the season.
Texas outscored the Angels 32-5
in the series. The Rangers have
won six in a row at Anaheim by a
combined 57-8 margin.
Rookie Ryan Glynn (2-2) got the
victory, allowing two runs and four
hits in six innings. He gave up 20
earned runs over 20 1-3 innings in
his previous four starts.
Ken Hill (3-8) lost his fourth
consecutive start. He gave up eight
runs, eight hits and four walks over
3 1-3 innings. The right-hander
" was pushed back two days in the
rotation because of arthritis in his
elbow. '
The three Angels starters in the
series, including Chuck Finley and
Omar Olivares — each working on
three days’ rest because of Hill’s
revamped schedule — pitched only
13 innings combined and allowed
19 runs on 23 hits.
After retiring the final 19 Ana-
heim batters Tuesday night, the
Rangers’ pitching staff extended
the streak to 26 in a row before
Glynn walked Matt Walbeck with
one out in the third.
Darin Erstad’s .leadoff single in
the fourth ended a drought of nine
hitless innings by the Angels, held
to one hit on Tuesday night.
Notes: Angels shortstop Gary
DjSarcina played in his 1,000th
major league game. The crowd of
23,452 put Anaheim over the 1
million mark in 35 home dates, one
fewer than it took them last season.
But the Angels were leading the
AL West by a half-game over the
Rangers last year when they
reached the mark — Anaheim now
trails Texas by 91/2 games.
HOUSTON (AP) — Tina
Thompson scored a career-high
26 points and Houston pulled
away with a 15-0 spurt midway
through the first half Thursday
night as the Comets defeated the
Cleveland Rockers76-64.
Cynthia Cooper and Sheryl
Swoopes added 13 points each in
the win. Cooper had six assists
and six rebounds, while Swoopes
had five rebounds and three steals.
Cleveland (2-8), which was led
by 15 points from Michelle
Edwards, made two runs in the
second half to pull within six
points, but Houston was able to
stave off both charges.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 210, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1999, newspaper, July 2, 1999; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019168/m1/12/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.