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Padres Beat Niekro, Houston
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, June 5, 1901
First Base Crowded At San Diego
DIEGO (AP) — ters for 13 days in May. After Houston rallied lore also stapled home a McGlothen to snan a lflth- Pirate reliever
SAN DIEGO (AP) - ters for 13 days in May.
It’s getting so crowded “I’m a little tired and
around first base that San ovter-anxious. I’m glad to
Diego Manager Frank let Randy get a chance
Howard must make a because he hadn’t played
decision. in so long. I’m willing to
Will the rookie manager play the outfield, if
start Broderick Perkins, necessary, just to play
who led the National everyday.”
League in batting earlier The 27-year-old Bass
this season with an has compiled impressive
average above .400 and is minor league batting
batting .321 now, or Ran- statistics, including 37
dy Bass with his awesome homers and 143 RBI for
home run power? Denver last year. But he cut starter Steve Mura, 3-
Bass, who started the played in just four major 7, tiring in the heat, left
season at first and then league games for Kansas the game with two out in
City and-Montreal before
he was traded to the
Padres by the Expos last
August.
“When Frank sat me
After Houston rallied
for a pair of runs in the
fourth, including a leadoff
homer by Jose Cruz, San
Diego came back with
three in its half of the inn-
ing, highlighted by Terry
Kennedy’s two-rwi dou-
ble. The Padre catcher
also kept alive his 12-
game hitting streak.
Bass doubled home a
run in the sixth to give San
Diego a 7-2 advantage.
But starter Steve Mura, 3-
Iorg also singled home a
run in the third inning and
singled and scored in the
sixth.
Pirates 5, Cuba 4
Lee Lacy tripled and
scored on Dale Berra’s
single off reliever Lynn
McGlotben to snap a 10th- Pirate reliever Kent
inning tie and lift Pitt- Tekulve, 2-3, pitched the
sburgh over Chicago. The last two innings for the
loss dropped the Cubs’ victory, while Dave
record to 10-36, worst in Parker drove in three Pit-
the big leagues, and they tsburgh runs with a
remained winless in 17 homer and a single and
games on artificial turf Tim Foil also rapped four
this season.
hits.
SPORTS tmk:
JOE CHARBONEAU
was benched for 32 games
when he hit below .200,
returned to the the lineup
Thursday afternoon to
power the Padres to a 7-5
victory over the Houston
Astros with a single, dou-
ble and home run and four
runs batted in.
the seventh after giving
up a two-run home run by
Cesar Cedeno.
The Astros’ final run
To Make Ruling On Injunction
Judge Considers Arguments;
Interviewed by Howard Siner
down (April 28), he said it
would be for two to five
Joe Charboneau. 25. an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians.
— became the 1980 AL Rookie of the Year by hitting .289 with 23
came in the eighth off home runs and 87 RBIs. His flake image quickly made "Super
reliver John Curtis. Gary Joe a sorl °f folk hero. He was even the subject of a popular
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Baseball Action Could Cease
“It’s not really a dilem-
ma for me,” said Howard.
“Broderick has been
struggling with a lazy bat
lately. I’m going to play
Randy for a couple of
days and see what hap-
pens.”
But the Padres’ skipper
admitted he is thinking of
putting Perkins in the out-
field where he played 10
games last year, and
resting right fielder Joe
Lefebvre, who is hitting
.223.
days,” Bass recalled
“But it turned out to be 40
days. Perkins got so hot
that he couldn’t take him
out of the lineup.
“I didn’t feel any
pressure today. If I didn’t
do the job, I knew he
(Perkins) would go out
and play again tomor-
row ”
Lucas worked the ninth to
earn his ninth save.
In the only other Na-
tional League games, St.
Louis beat Montreal 4-1
and Pittsburgh edged
Chicago 5-4 in 10 innings.
Cardinals 4, Expos 1
Dane Iorg had three At this point how does Cleveland shape up? Do the Indi,
hits, knocked in a run and really believe they can be a contender?
scored two for St. Louis We’ve always felt we had a chance. We’ve had some good
Do you worry about a “sophomore jinx”?
No, there’s no such thing. No jinx. Really, there’s no such
thing. It's really how hard you work. What you put into it.
Ha ve you set any personal goals for this season ?
No. Just first place. That would be nice. That’s probably the
only thing. We’re winning. That's all that counts, really. That’s
what we want to do. So if we keep winning, 1 guess we’ll do
OK.
rochestI^, n.y
(AP) — Baseball could be
heading into its final
weekend of action for a
while today as federal
judge Henry Werker con-
siders arguments on a Na-
tional Labor Relations
Board petition for a
preliminary injunction
against the major
leagues.
If Werker decides that
compensation formula to said. "That's a fact
replace free agents lost in Everybody knows that
the re-entry draft with
professional players from
the teams signing them
has twice brought
baseball to the brink of a
strike and Marvin Miller,
executive director of the
union, said the players
are still ready to walk if
necessary.
But Miller remained
hopeful that some solution
This industry is not a
‘mom and pop’ operation.
Our owners are captains
of industry. To suggest an
inability to pay makes no
sense. There may be un-
Much of the NLRB’s •
case was constructed,
around Kuhn’s speech and;
other quotes in which
management complained'
about costs. The labor;
board argued that the
owners should open their
willingness but inability books to support such
to pay is impossible to claims and that refusal to
conceive."
“I’m not disappointed
about being benched to-
day,” said Perkins, who
led National League hit-
run single in the first inn- ®even'h tter'
ing off loser Joe Niekro, 6- Iorg started a two-run
4, and belted his third rally against Montreal
homer of the season to right-hander Bill
lead off the third, giving Gullickson, 2-6, with a
the Padres a 3-0 lead. The double in the second,
home run was only the After Sixto Lezcano walk-
third by a Padre in 24 ed, Mike Ramsey and
home games and the Orlando Sanchez singled
team’s first since May 24. inruns.
scorea iwo tor si. LOUIS we ve always ieu we naa a cnance. we ve naa some gooa « nsnw ueciues uihi hoDeful that som
against Montreal, while acquisitions in the off-season. And we’ve got a good hitting the NLRB attorneys fail- pnll^, hA “ vT
Lary Sorensen pitched a team We werenJ’t hitting real good early. But I just think ed to make a good enough
r we ve got a good chance. We ve got as good a chance as the case for arantina the in me name is n
Yankees (the defending AL East champs)........ Junction and he does not
Bass delivered a two-^ Sorensen Pltched a
ab0Ut Wtotag roof Ut Mts from the 0„e „ Could result in lt-snot aga^e ”
Grimsley’s Sports World
The game is not over,”
he said at the conclusion
of the hearings Thursday.
1980 season? ' " ' !!! "And it’s not a game."
Throughout tne *two
I1UU1S' days of testimony,
Management is ready management attorney
lways been a slow starter I’m just trying to swing Junction which would healthy Industry, com-
hopefully they’ll fall in. Lately they haven't been delay any strike action for pletely capable of paying
3 often. But that's all I can hope to do . . Usually one year by forcing the the high salaries that
No, not really. Because it’s too hard. There’s too much pres-
sure. Hopefully, yes. It doesn't look good the way I've been
swinging lately. But hopefully someday I’ll get hot. And I’d
like to reach what I did last year - even better it
Hoynes shrugged off
published remarks by
various management
representatives and the
speech last December by
Commissioner Bowie
Kuhn expressing concern
over baseball’s economics
as “conduct carrying no
credence in the capacity
to pay.
Baseball Is Fun Again
When ErnieAround
June's my best month.
Did you do much In the off-season to stay In good condition
going Into your second year?
That's the best shape I’ve even been in - this year. I was
running five miles a day. During the season, I swing a weight-
ed bat, lift some weights, stretch. I just lift once a week during
the season and do my stretching. And just hope for the best.
owners to put off im-
plementation of their free
agent compensation plan
until next February. The
"No such claim was
made by management’s
authorized spokesman
“re mail muoucs mm (Ray Grebey, director of
have evolved from free the owners’ Player Rela-
agency in baseball. tions Committee.) No
"The clubs have no in- other spokesman was
ability to pay,” Hoynes authorized." ‘
do so constitutes an unfair:
labor practice of failure to
bargain in good faith. An
administrative law judge
will hear that case June 15
in New York.
Werker said he did not
expect to have a decision
on the case until Monday. .
Meanwhile, Kenneth E.
Moffett, the federal
mediator who has been
working on the conflict,
summoned both sides to :
another negotiating ses-
sion today. The last ses-
sion, held Monday, lasted !
3Mi hours with both .
management and the ■
union reporting no pfo- '
gress.
What kind of baseball skills are you working on now?
Everything. Seriously. Outfielding, base running, hitting.
Really. I've got a long way to go before I’ll be happy.
Longhorns Stay Alive In CWS
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
What baseball needs is more Ernie
Banks.
Owners and players are at bitter log-
gerheads. A strike Impends. Bowie Kuhn
is in court. Billy Martin bumps an ump
and tosses handfuls of dirt at his stern.
The ump sues Billy for assault. Ellis
Valentine changes from an Expos’ to a
Mets' uniform and blasts his ex-boss,
Dick Williams. In Cincinnati, team-
mates snipe at a hobbled legend, Johnny
Bench.
Discord and dark clouds envelop the
game.
Then Ernie Banks comes to town. Sud-
denly, the clouds open up. There is a new
burst of sunshine. Birds warble from the
city’s skyscrapers. Smiles light up peo-
ple’s faces. Again all’s right with the
world.
“It’s a good day to play two,” says the
former Infield wizard of the Chicago
Cubs, baseball's ambassador.
Ernie, Inducted into the Hall of Fame
in 1977, has been appointed - along with
fnother Hall of Famer, former home run
king Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh
Pirates — baseball's official traveling
salesman for the 1981 All-Star Game,
scheduled July 14 in Cleveland.
Their Job is to get out the vote. Since
1970, when the election was turned over
to the fans, more than 83 million ballots
have been cast in the nationwide elec-
tion, run by Gillette for baseball. Ernie
was in New York this week, doing Inter-
views, eating spinach salads, attending
the New York-Baitimore games at
Yankee Stadium and jogging five miles
daily in Central Park
He looks as skinny and frail as when he
As a rlgbty bitter, you platoon a lot. don’t you? OMAHA, NeD. (AH) - Longhorn star Tony Ar-
Oh yeah. I usually play against left-handers. If right-hand- The anticipated battle of nold, 17-1, pulled a groin
ers start, I don t usually play because I platoon. It’s me and outstanding pitchers fail- muscle in his pregame
vio oiou, a mvii t uouaiij |
played shorstop and first base for the George Orta. We trade off. . , ma7e-tallze when
Cubs for 19 years, starting in 1953, dur- Are there certain teams you like to face? Personal favorites? wn 9 Miami Fla farad
ing which time he was a dervish in the I think my best stats were against the Orioles last year. For M ‘, ’ ’’
....... Lome runs and BRI« I Ilka nlavlno aoainat t(w> Vanina™ thn WO. S lexas,
pregame
warmups and never threw
a pitch to Miami. Texas is
still alive in the tourna-
ment but the Injury could
have sidelined Arnold for
the rest of the tourna-
ment, according to Texas
Coach Cliff Gustafson.
Hurricane star Neal
field and polMl 512 homeruns His devth home usiMtoe^; tta ^ATtxas. still alive in the touma- Hurricane star
tion to the game has never waned. * Orioles, Brewers. I like to play the tougher teams. , , l __
At one of his several appearances, H»ve particular coaches or players on the Indians helped you HOCKetS LI&11T1 1 ltle 111 West MlUOr 1 LOOD
Banks was asked what current player • 1°'”* ""corner? Who has helped tha most? __ „ r
most clnselv renre«„t* hi« „u,„ Everybody. The whole team, the whole coaching staff.
r beca
He nonderwi a moment and then that’s hard to do for a team. This team really gets along good
He pondered
replied:
"Dave Winfield, the new rich kid with
the Yankees,” he said. "I am impressed
with his hustle and attitude. When
somebody asked him why, as a $20
million ballplayer, he hadn’t hit more
home runs, Winfield replied, ‘When I
came to the Yankees, I didn’t promise
home runs. I said that other things win
games - Ilka speed, defense, a good
arm. These are assets I could offer; My
job Is to help the team win. The home
runs will take care of themselves. ’
“Then Tuesday nlgty he hit a home
run. He was like a happy kid at
Christmastime when he circled the
bases. There was pride and Joy In his
face that $20 million could never buy.
Once, when he got a hit and rounded
first, he fell down and had to scramble
back. He looks like he really enjoys play
Ing."
Banks added that he had no Intention
of Ignoring the obvious — the
Philadelphia Phillies’ unbelievable Pete
Rose, who at age 40 is bearing down on
Stan Musial's career record of 3,630 hits.
"Rose typifies what the game is all
about,” the former Cubs great said. “He
still plays the game as he did on the cor-
ner lot. His career probably has been ex-
tended five or six years just because he
enjoys it so much."
Cleveland has a lot of guys who haven't played on a winner.
What's the spirit like on the club?
I think everybody on this team IS a winner. It's really the
way they conduct th< ‘ ‘ ‘ *.......
duct themselves. And act. So I really think this
team was meant to win.
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Minor I
Rockets 15, Steers 6
The Rockets claimed
the West League’s Minor I
title Wednesday as they
blasted the Steers, 15-6.
Trey Bayne was award-
ed the win for the Rockets
as he held *tbe Steers to
fivfc hits and no walks.
Bayne struck out five,
Michael Springer was
charged with the loss as
he walked 10 batters and
allowed two hits. Springer
fanned eight.
Sean Smith and Bayne
were the leading batters
for the Rockets. Smith
went one-for-two at the
plate, while Bayne had a
hit in his four visits to the
plate.
The Steers' Springer
had a hit In all three of his
trips to the plate.
Heaton was stung by two '
Texas homers in suffering ;
his first loss of the year, 5- -
4, in a Thursday elimina- -
tion game. Heaton had :
been 160 coming into the-'
game. Arnold had been 17-
0 prior to meeting Arizona
State In a first-round CWS
game.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP)
— Any day now, Pete
Rose Is going to erase one
of baseball’s hallowed
records, Stan Musial’s
become the third all-time
career major league hit
producer
The late Ty Cobb, an
American Leaguer,
National League mark of amassed 4,191 hits, while
3,630 career hits. Hank Aaron collected
Rose needs just eight 3,771 — 3,600 in the Na-
hlts to pass Musial and tional League and the rest
in the twilight of his
career In the American
League with Milwaukee.
Rose Is approaching the
magic number at the age
of 40, when most baseball
players are waiting to
become 50 and collect
their pensions. He still
plays like a 21 year old.
"Up to this point, " says
the Philadelphia Phillies
first baseman, "it will be
my biggest accomplish-
ment But 111 be honest
with you, my proudest
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