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Page 16 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1981 Houston beats Braves 2-1 for first win streak of year Texas takes Red Sox, 9-0 United Press International ATLANTA — Don Sutton says there’s nothing like the “comforts of home” to get him back on the winning path again. “I can’t explain it, but there’s something about pitching in Atlanta Stadium that brings out the best in me,’ the 36-year-old former Los Angeles Dodger said after beating the Braves, 2-1, for the 34th time in 15 years — but his first as a member of the Houston Astros. “I’m from the South (Clio, Ala.) and I always feel comfortable to be back here, to be in Atlanta,” he said. “For some reason, I always have better stuff in this ball park. ” Sutton really had “better stuff” Tuesday night. He had a perfect game through the first four in nings, then retired nine more in a row after giving up a leadoff homer to Bob Homer in the fifth. He allowed a leadoff single by Chris Chambliss to start the eighth, then retired the next three batters before retiring for the night with a two-hit, eightstrike- out, no-walk performance for eight innings of work. Astros’ manager Bill Virdon went to his bench in the top of the ninth when Houston, trying to pad that one-run, loaded the bases with only one out. That move almost backfired when the Astros failed to score and Mike Lum led off the bottom of the ninth with a pinch-hit single off reliefer Dave Smith. “The thing is, it didn’t back fire,” retorted Virdon. “The thought of leaving Sutton in never crossed my mind. He said he was getting tired.” “That’s right,” said Sutton. “Coming out was my idea. Even if the situation hadn’t called for a pinch batter in the top of the ninth, I wasn’t going back in to pitch. I’d had it.” For Sutton, who left Los Angeles after 15 seasons to sign as a free agent with the Astros, the victory was his first for Houston after getting off to an 0-3 start. “Don hasn’t been pitching as badly as that 0-3 might indicate,” said Virdon. “In his previous start (six days earlier) he lost a 1-0 deci sion to the Dodgers.” Kings, Rockets ready for tonight’s fifth game United Press International ARLINGTON — Pat Putnam’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run fourth inning and three pitchers combined on a five-hitter Tuesday night, lifting the Texas Rangers to a 9-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox 9-0 in a game de layed 48 minutes by rain. It was the second straight shut out registered by the Rangers’ pitching staff. Buddy Bell beat out an infield hit to load the bases and Johnny Grubb gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly. Putnum then followed with his first homer of the year, a 420-foot shot over the center field fence. Texas added three runs in the sixth on a two-run single by Mario Mendoza and an RBI single by Bump Wills. The Rangers scored two runs in the seventh on a sacri fice fly by Jim Sundberg and an RBI single by Billy Sample. Texas starter Ferguson Jenkins gave up two hits and struck out three before taking himself out of the game after three innings be cause of respiratory problems. Steve Comer, 2-0, picked up the victory, giving up two hits in 3 2-3 innings, and Bob Babcock hurled the final 1 1-3 innings. Major League Baseball American League National League East East Cleveland 7 4 .636 y* St. Louis 9 2 .818 New York 10 6 .625 Montreal 12 3 .800 Milwaukee 8 6 .571 i Philadelphia 11 6 .647 Boston 7 7 .500 2 Pittsburgh 5 6 .455 Detroit 7 10 .412 avi New York 4 8 .333 Baltimore 5 8 .385 3V 2 Chicago 1 13 .071 Toronto 6 11 .353 4y 8 West West Oakland 17 3 .850 Los Angeles 14 4 .778 Chicago 11 4 .733 3y 2 Cincinnati 9 7 .563 Texas 8 7 .533 ey* Atlanta 9 8 .529 California 10 9 .526 ey* San Francisco 8 12 .400 Minnesota 5 12 .294 ioy a San Diego 6 12 .333 Seattle 5 13 .278 ii Houston 5 12 .294 Kansas City 3 9 .250 ny2 2 Vol. 74 No 5 132 Pages i %-m, Tuesday’s Results Wednesday’s Games Tuesday’s Results Wednesday’s i Texas 9, Boston 0 Minnesota 4, Seattle 1 New York 4, Detroit 1 Kansas City at Cleveland ppd. rain Toronto 6, Milwaukee 2 Chicago 8, Baltimore 6 California 3, Oakland 1 California at Oakland Boston at Texas Seattle at Minnesota Toronto at Milwaukee Chicago at Baltimore New York at Detroit Kansas City at Cleveland Houston 2, Atlanta 1 St. Louis at Chicago ppd. rain Montreal 6, Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati 11, San Diego 2 Pittsburgh 8, New York 0 San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 1 Montreal at Philadelphia San Francisco at Los Ai|iia| St. Louis at Chicago Houston at Atlanta San Diego at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at New fork United Press International KANSAS CITY — Cotton Fitzsimmons resents the status of his NBA Kings as third class citizens in Kansas City and is always quick to comment on the subject. The Kings annually line up behind the baseball Royals and football Chiefs for fan interest in this town and they sometimes even have to fall in behind local golfer Tom Watson. So it was with an impish grin that Fitzsimmons offered comment on the current sports scene in Kan sas City — even though his Kings appear on the verge of elimination in the Western Conference championship series against the Houston Rockets. Kansas City trails in games, 3-1, with Game 5 on tap here tonight. But the defending American League champion Royals are in even more of a predi cament with their worst start in history — 3-9 — to fall behind the frontrunning Oakland A’s by an already whopping 11 games. “I’ll bet the Royals are glad the playoffs are going on,” said Fitzsimmons. “I’ll bet I’ll get a thank you from Jim Frey (Royals’ Manager). The heat’s off them right now. And I don’t mind. I kind of like playing basketball in baseball season. Two or three more weeks of this would suit me fine. ” To extend that season the extra two or three weeks their coach desires, the Kings would have to provide a third straight miracle in the 1981 playoffs. Kansas City, a 40-42 finisher during the regular season, defeated the Trail Blazers in Portland in the third game of their best-of-three series and then defeated the Suns in Phoenix in the seventh game of their best-of-seven series to earn its berth opposite Houston. But only three teams in NBA history have ever rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win a playoff series. “This makes it all the better,” said Fitzsimmons. “Now if we win, not only will all of the the NBA be talking about us, the whole world will be all talking about us, too. ” The Rockets themselves are miracle workers, having beaten the Lakers twice in Los Angeles to win that best-of-three series and then the Spurs three times in San Antonio to capture that best-of-seven series. The Rockets have taken the 3-1 lead in this series with back-to-back wins over the weekend in Houston. “We’re on the doorstep,” said Houston guard Calvin Murphy. “I’m almost afraid to think about it. There’s a quiet tension around here now. It isn’t over until you’ve got four (wins). But it sure feels good to go back to Kansas City up 3-1.” “We’re confident we won’t have to go back home Friday,” said Houston forward Robert Reid of a potential Game 6. “At first during the playoffs we were surprising people. But now we’re playing well and it shouldn’t be a surprise any more. We’re play ing with a lot of confidence.’' Kansas City, which captured the season series from the Rockets 4-2, is not in a mood to concede anything to Houston and appeared loose in workouts Monday and Tuesday — almost as if the Kings them selves were ahead 3-1. “You can’t think about being down 3-1 just like you can’t think about being up 3-1,” said Kansas City guard Phil Ford. “You can’t worry about numbers. You worry about the game — not the series. We were up 3-1 on Phoenix and they pushed us to seven (games). We still feel we can win this thing.” Kansas City hopes for increased playing time Wednesday night from All-Star guard Otis Birdsong, the team’s leading scorer this season with a 24.9 average. Birdsong sprained an ankle in the opening game of the Phoenix series and did not see any action against Houston until Game 3. Birdsong scored 12 points in 21 minutes in Game 3 but came back after only one day of rest to score a mere two points in 14 minutes in Game 4. He has now had three days to rest the ankle for Game 5. Yaz, Evans escape injury in fatal crash after game United Press International DALLAS — Boston Red Sox outfielders Carl Yastrzemski and Dwight Evans escaped injury in a grinding three-car collision late Tuesday that killed three persons and injured four others. The collision occurred on Inter state 30 just inside the Dallas city limits about 11:45 p.m. “Suddenly lights just came at us,” Yastrzemski said. “The cars just exploded. They hit head on and just exploded. The car in front of us just started to spin and the cabbie jammed on the brakes but our cab still hit the other car. “The front end of our cab was just ruined — totaled. We don’t know how nothing came through the windshield. There were bodies flying all around us and tires, even the roof of one car. “The cab pulled over to the side of the road and we got out to see if could help but there wasn’t much we could help but there wasn’t much we could do. There were bodies lying all over the road. I’ll never know how we weren’t kill ed or hurt.” A sheriffs department spokes man said it appeared the accident was triggered by a collision involv ing two-cars in front of the cab occupied by Yastrzemski and Evans. 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