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.
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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.
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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
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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.
The players were returning to
their Dallas hotel following Tues
day night’s game with the Texas
Rangers in Arlington.
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MONTREAL — Vince Ferra
gamo says he turned aside repe
ated appeals from his former
teammates and signed a contract
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cause they made him an offer he
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Team officials said Ferragamo,
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The package also was believed
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mo a share of the gate receipts for
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treal’s Olympic Stadium.
The Alouettes also announced
the signing of receiver James
Scott, 29, who played out his op
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Last season Scott caught 36 pas
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“I’m very happy to be here, and
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Scott. “Playing on a team with
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Rams’ General Manager Don
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decision but he expected his club
would have another good season
with Pat Haden back in the spot he
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