PAGE 44, THE HERALO, Tuesday May 31, 1977

Angels can’t touch ©

22-yr-oldEckersley

CLEVELAND (AP) —
Dennis Eckersley of
Cleveland Indians, who
pitched 7 2-3 hitless innings

wrap up his last outing,
hurled a no-hitter Monday
night in besting Fran
Tanana and California

els 1-0.

The Angels didn't get aliy-
thing close to hit off the 22-
year-old right-hander, in his
third season jn the majors.
Eckersley walked one
batter—Tony Solaita ona 3-2
pitch with two out in the first
inning--and struck out 12,

Bobby Bonds was the only
other Angel to reach base
when he struck out on a wild
pitch in the dirt to open the
eighth inning and made it to
first base when catcher Ray
Fosse was unable to come
up with the ball.

It was the second no-
hitter in the majors this
season, Jim Colborn of

‘Kansas City Royals pitched
the first one May 14 against
Texas Rangers.

Eckersley, a six-foot two-
inch native of Oakland,
Calif., was ahead of Solaita
0-2 in the first inning and
then walked him on four
consecutive pitches. .

The Indians scored the
game’s only run in the first
inning when California
centre fielder Gil Flores
missed a shoestring try for
Duane Kuiper’s line drive
and it rolled to the fence for
a triple. Kuiper then raced
home as Jim Norris laid
down a suicide squeeze

t.

The crowd of 13,400,
which turned out in 13
C.nweather, gave Eckersley
a standing ovation as he
went to the mound for the
ninth inning with en
Grich, Terry Humpare
Flores the scheduled bat-

ters.

‘He fell behind Grich 2-1
and, after Fosse went to the
mound for a reassuring
word, fired two strikes past
Grich for his 11th strikeout.

* May 25,

‘Rookie Willie Mays
Aikens was sent up to pitch
hit for Humphrey and flied
to left fielder Paul Dade on a
2-2 pitch,

Flores, the last man
between Eckersley and his
no-hitter, brought a batting
average of .351 into the
game. He took the first pitch
or a ball and then fanned on
the next three offerings to
become Eckersley’s 12th
strikeout victim as Indians .

yers and fans swarmed
onto the field. The final pitch
of the game was Eckersley’s
117th of the game and gave
him a 53 record for the

_ Bason.

In his previous outing on
kersley hurled a
five-hitter to beat Seattle
Mariners 2-1 in’ 12 innings.
He held the Mariners hitless |
over the final 7 2-3 innings
and Monday night’s nohitter
gives him a streak of 16 2-3
innings without allowing a
base hit. ;

s Jays’ best pitcher
| battered for 10 hits

TORONTO {CP)
Rookie Joe Zdeb delivered a
tie-breaking single in the
sixth inning and Buck
Martinez doubled home
another run to lead Kansas
City Royals to a 4-1 victory
over Toronto Blue Jays in an
American League baseball
game Monday night.

Royals starter Paul
Splittorff, 44, allowed five
hits and walked four before
needing relief help from
Larry Gura in the eighth
and Mark Littell in the
ninth.

The loser was Jerry

Garvin, 6-3, who allowed 10°

hits and struck out one
before giving way to Pete

Vuckovich in the ninth.
With the score tied 1-1,
Amos Otis singled to start
the Kansas City sixth and
Garvin walked Al Cowens.
Garvin picked Cowens off
first base but replaced him

-when he also walked John

Mayberry. Zdeb followed
with a single to score Otis
and Martinez doubled
Mayberry home.

The Royals got their
fourth run in the eighth
when Zdeb, who was safe
on a fielder’s choice, scored
on Fred Patek’s double.

‘The Blue Jays went ahead
2:5 in the third inning when
Hector Torres singled and
moved fo second on *

Expos sweep.
two from Mets.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-
run homers by Tony Perez
in the first game and Andre
Dawson in the nightcap led
Montreal Expos to ‘a
National League baseball
doubleheader sweep over
New York Mets 5-1 and 3-2
Monday.

Steve Rogers fired a four-
hitter in the first game and
Perez hit his sixth home run
of the year. In the nightcap,
Stan Bahnsen, making h
first appearanct for oe
Expos since being acquir
from Oakland, Sarned the
win with Dawson hitting his
second homer of the season.

In the opener, the Mets
nicked Rogers for a run in
the fifth, but the lead lasted
only until the next inning.
Chris Speier had one of the
three hits he had in the
game and Perez followed
with his homer. An inning

East
W L Pet. GBL

Baltimore 26617 «605 —
New York 26 20 1565 = (1'/a
Boston 23°21 «523 «(3%
Milwaukee 25 25 500 4%
Cteveland 19 22 443 6
Detralt WF 26 395 9
Toronto 18 28 371) 9%

West
Minnesota 78°17 «422 —
Chicago 25 19 568 1

East

WoL Pet. GBL
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Pittsburgh 26 16 «619 «Ya
St. Louls a7 18 «4.600 2
Philadelphia 24 19 .558 4
Montreal 1a 25 .419 10
New York 15 29 341 134

Wast
LosAngeles 33 14 707 —
Cincihnati = 2-23-47? WOVE
San Diego 23 29 451 12
San Fran-

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ist

later, Dave Cash and Speier
singled and when Dawson's
hit eluded Ed Kranepool in
right field, all three runners
scored on the error.

In the second game,
rookie Warren Cromartie
drove in a first-inning run
with a single and Dawson hit
his homer after Del Unser
had reached base on an
error by second baseman
Felix Millan in the second.

Consecutive figth-inning

\doubles by Kranepool. an

Mike Vail accounted for the

-only New York run off

nsen, who held New
York hitless through the
first four innings. The Mets
added another run in the
eighth on Lee Mazzilli's
sacrifice fly, but reliever
Bill Atkinson, the fourth
Montreal pitcher, shut off
the rally.

American League

Texas 21 21 600 5%
California 23°23 «50 (Sle
Oakiand 22 273 489 6
Kansas City 21 29 477) 6¥2
Seatle 21 30 .412 10

Monday Results
Milwaukee 4-3 Chicago 3-8
Seattle 7-9 Texas 4-3
Kansas City 4 Toronto 1
New York 5 Bestan 4
Cleveland 1 California 0
Oakland 6 Detroit 3

_ Baltimore ? Minnesota 7

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Houston
Atlanta WJ 354 we
Monday Results
Montreal 5-3 New York 1-2
St. Louis 14 Chicago 0
San Diego 12-9 San Franclaco
6-6
Philadalphia 6 Pittsburgh 4
Cincinnati 7 Atlanta 3
Houston § Los Angeles 3

Tonight's Games
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia N

andings

19 27 419 19% |

sacrifice. He then went to
third on Bob Bailor’s bloop
single and scored when
shortstop Patek bobbled
Roy Howell's potential
double-play grounder.

Bailor and Howell were
safe on the play and both
moved into scoring position
on a double steal, but Ron
Fairly grounded out to end
the inning.

Howell was hitless in two
official at-bats plus two
walks and saw lus hitting
streak end at 15 games. He
hadhit safely in every game
since being traded to
Toronto from Texas
Rangers 2% weeks ago.

The Royals tied it in the
fourth when Cowens doubled

off Howell’s glove at third to. -§

open the inning. With the
infield’ shifted around to
right and shortstop Bailor in
back of second, Mayberry

’ gingled through the vacated

shortstop position to score
Cowens,

Zdeb was safe on an error
by second baseman Torres
to put runners at first and
second with one out, but
Garvin got Patek to hit into,
a foreeout and Martinez

- popped up to end the inning.

Four wins
for Phillies

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Tim McCarver’s three-run
double in the opening inning
and a fifth-inning home run
by Ted Sizemore led
Philadelphia Phillies fo a 6-4
victory over the Pittsburgh
Pirates in a National
League baseball game
Monday night.

Left-hander Steve
Carlton, 7-2, gave up 10 hits
and went the route as the
Phillies gained their fourth
victory in a row and handed
the Pirates their fourth
consecutive loss.

Today's Games
Callfornia at Cteveland N
New York at Boston N
Oakland at Datrait N
Baltimore at Minnesota N

Wednesday Games
Kansas City at Toronto N
Cleveland at Detroit N
Bostan at Texas N
New York at Minnesota N

Baltimore at Chicago N
Oakland at Seattle N -

Montreal at New York N
Atfanta at Cincinnati N
Chicago at St. Louls N

‘Los Angeles at Houston N
San Diego at San Francisco N

Wednesday Games
_ San Diego at San Francisco
New York at Montreal N
Pittsburgh at Philadetphia N
Atlanta at CincinnatlN -
Chicago at St. Louis N
Los Angeles at Houston N

| Split doubleheader

| Plavsic is confirmed —

' as Swiftsure winner

VICTORIA (CP)

faen Viadimir Plavsic, a Van-
= couver architect sailing his

self-designed 41-foot sloop
Kanata of the West Van-
couver Yacht Club, was
named today as the over-all
winner of this year’s

[) Swiftsure sailing race.

Plavsic won on corrected

s4 time over Bob Smith’s 46-

j foot sloop Warlock, of -
= Tacoma,

Wash., which
crossed the finish line firat
in the 136.2-mile race.
Warlock crossed the finish
line near the Ogden Point
breakwater at 2:12p,m. Sun-
day, 35 minutes ahead of
Kanata.
the

Plavsic receives

Scott Freeman drives a single down third base line in Swiftsure Trophy for over-
Laketse Hotel’s 4-3 victory over Kitimat Merchants in all winner and the T. Eaton

the second game of a double-header in Pacific Nor-
thwest Fastball action Sunday. Kitimat won the first

game 3.0,

Dark leads Padres.
out of the dark

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
San Diego’s Mike Ivie
rapped a record-tying five
doubles as the Padres, in
their first day under new

manager Alvin Dark, swept &

a National League baseball
dubleheader from San
Francisco Giants 12-8 and 9-
§ Monday. ,

Ivie tied a major-league
record when he dokbled
twice in the seven-run
seventh-inning rally that
carried the Padres to vic-
tory in the opener. His five
doubles in the twinbill tied a
National League record
shared by three other

players.
The first baseman was
fivefor-five in the second
game, with three doubles
and three runs batted in,
after going twofor-five and
two RBIs in the opener.
‘The Padres, who pounded
‘okt 28 hits—16 of them in-the
second game—used 41

Branch 13 Royal Canadian Legion
Dart Championship were held fast
Wednesday night. Left toright: Keith .
Grace, Liza Gautheau and Bob Bennett

players in the doubleheader,
reaking the National
League record of 39. The two
teams used a major league
record 74 players in the two

ames. .

Relief pitcher Rollie
Fingers got his 11th and 12th
saves of the season, retiring
the only four men in faced in
the two games.

Two home runs by Darrell
Evans ahd Lxnn
MeGlothen's two-hitter gave
San Francisco a 2-1 lead
after six innings. But the

Padres pounded out four .

doubles in the inning, in-
cluding two by Ivie, in
taking an 8-2 lead.

George Hendrick’s homer
and two Giant errors in-
creased the score to 12-4.
Rookie Jack Clark hit a

and slam homer in the

ttom for the Giants.

The Giants made three
errors in the opener and five

recelve team trophy from legion

more in the second game. |

Darts championship
president Dave Simons. Bennett took
most of the hardware home that
evening. He also won a gold metal at.
the B.C. Winter Games this season. .

Trophy for first in the
Second Division of the Inter-
national Offshore Rule

boats.

Plavsie sailed Kanata to
eighth place in her division -
in the 1976 Swiftsure.

“we're very happy,” he
said Sunday. “It’s not really
completely strategy. ;

‘The percentage of luck is
tremendous.” ; .

Smith receives the Royal
Canadian Navy Trophy for
the first boat to round the
Swiftsure mark mid-way
through the race and the

City of Victoria Trophy for .

the first boat to finish.
Tom Friedland's Sally
Lightfoot of the Bellingham,
Wash., Yacmt Club won the
Third Division, while John
Evetts' Big Sister of the
Kitsilano Yacht Club was
first in the Fourth Division.

Bill Watkins’ Jubilee of
the Seattle Yacht Club was
first of the boats racing in
‘A’ division of the Pacific
Handicap Racing Fleet.
‘Winner of ‘B’ division was
Donald Flynn’ Outward
-Bound of Seattle, while ‘C’
division winner was Doub
Fryer's African Star, also of
Seattle. ,

The gusty westeplies on
-the return leg of the

Mariners bombard Rangers ~

ARLINGTON, Tex. (AP)
— Seattle Mariners knocked
out Texas pitching aces Bert
Blyleven and Gaylord Perry
on Monday night and swept
an American League
baseball doubleheader from

the Rangers 7-4 and 9-3 on a.

salvo of 26 hits.

Ruppert Jones lashed a
twoout, two-run double in
the seventh inning of the
opener and Bill Stein and
Dave Collins homered as
Blyleven was beaten. Carlog
Lopez knocked in three runs
with two homers and a
double and Stein delivered
three singles in the night-

cap.

Enrique Romo, 2-3, picked
up the opening-game victory
in relief, while John Mon-
tague, 4-3, was the winner in
the nightcap as the ex-
pangion Mariners ran their
winning streak to a club
record five games.

Blyleven is 4-6 and Perry
45 and the Rangers have
logt seven of their last 10

mes. Blyleven allowed six

ts and five runs while
Perry was clipped for 10 hits
and four runs during the
double embarrassment.

Romo was taken to a
hospital after being hit by a

26 HITS

line drive on the left wrist in
the eighth inning but x-rays
were negative. —

Texas had four runners
thrown out by Seattle out-
fielders in the first game,
one short of the major-

league record,
ni tee lasted six in-

before Diego Segui relieved
him. Toby Harrah’s double
keyed a threerun Texas

TTHE AMERICAN

MOST VALUABLE

YANKEES’ CAPT.

THURMAN
MUNSON.

HE'S THE SQUATTY,
PEPPERY 29-YR. OLO
CATCHER WHO HIT
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HOME 105 RUNS
AS HE LED ANS :
TEAM TO THEIR
FIRST PENNANT

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THURMAN HAD A GOOD WORLD
SERIES AT THE PLATE LAST FALL,
IN A LOSING CAUSE. IN ‘75, HE
BATTED 4B AND HAD 102 R.8. 1s,
FOUNDING OUT 190 BASE HITS {

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ngs in the second:game —

otherwise moderate-calm
race caused at least one
mishap. Hugh Porter’s Er-
rigal of the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club was dismasted.
R. Marshall's Deaquin of

the Corinthian Yacht Club
was the first- boat home in
the 75.6-mile Juan de Fuca
race to Clallam Bay and
back, crossing the finish line
‘at 12:20a.m, Sunday.

IN BASKETBALL

Blazers

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
Suddenly, Philadelphia
‘Igers have something to
think. about,

Portland Trail Blazers put
some thoughis in their heads
Sunday, unleashing a torrid
fast break for a 129-107
vietory and cutting their
deficit in the National
Basketball Association

‘championship final series to

The Blazers can even the

‘pest-of-seven playoff series

with a victory tonight on
their home court where they
have won their-last 16 in a
row and are 44-5 on the year.

It was the way the Blazers
won Sunday’s game that has

ot the 76ers thinking. After
wo lacklustre _per-
formances, they ripped off a
20-4 burst in the first quarter
to grab an 18point lead,
then buried the °76ers
beneath a 42-point fourth
quarter.

“We can’t come out
Tuesday and dig ourselves
another hole like that,” said
Philadelphia’s George

narrow

‘Philadelphia lead

McGinnis. “Portland is a
good club,-and now that the
series is 2-1, they have
something to fight for.”
The 107 points which were
enough to win the first two
games for Philadelphia
were far too few for the third

game.

“Portland played a very
aggressive game, especially
on defence,” said
Philadelphia coach Gene
Shue. ‘We had too many
defensive and rebounding
breakdowns. They got
control early and we played
catch-up all day.”

Portland coach Jack
Ramsay got good produc-
tion from his reserves,
particularly Lloyd Neal,
Dave Twardzik and Corky
Calhoun. But when Shue
went to the Philadelphia
bench, he ran into trouble.

With Steve Mix ap-
parently still bothered by an
ankle sprain—he sat. out
most of Monday’s workout—
and with McGinnis slum-
ping so badly, the "76ers lack
depth at forward.

Yankee bats —
edge Bosion

BOSTON (AP) — Reggie
Jackson and Graig Nettles
drilled consecutive home
rung in the second inning
Monday night, starting New
York Yankees on their way
to a 54 American League

’ baseball victory over Boston

Reid Sox.

Mike Torrez, 6-3, out-
duelled Bill Lee, 2-1, before
a Fenway Park crowd of
95,521. Torrez allowed six
hits, includng a solo homer
by Carlton Fisk in the
eighth, However, he had
control problems, walking

six.
Lee, helped by right
fielder Dwight Evans’
spectacular sliding catch of
a shallow fly by Chris
Chambliss at the start of the
second, was bombed-one out
later by Jackson and Nettles
for a 2-1 New York lead.
Jackson belted his eightt

. chomer of the season into the

right-ield stands and Nettles
followed with his 10th into
the Boston bullpen in right-
center.

The Red Sox tied the
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before the Yankees went in
front to stay with a pair oi
runs in the fourth. ;

With one out, Lou Peniella
tripled off the wall in left-
centre field and scored wr

arp gr e to right
by op Sisont Hatties forced
Jackson, but JimnWynn
doubled off the left field
wall, scoring Nettles. ~

The Yankees made it 5-3
with what proved to be the
deciding run in the fifth.
Willie Randolph led off witth
a walk and took third on the
secondof three singles by
Mickey Rivers. Randolpl
then scored as Thurmar
Munson forced Rivers al
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