Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1981 Major League Baseball American League National League East East New York 33 20 .623 — Philadelphia 32 21 .604 — Baltimore 30 20 .600 I'A St. Louis 28 19 .596 1 Milwaukee 30 23 .566 3 Pittsburgh 25 21 .543 3 Vi Cleveland 26 22 .542 4'A Montreal 27 25 .519 4 Vi Boston 28 25 .528 5 New York 17 31 .354 12 Vi Detroit 28 26 .519 5'/2 Chicago 12 37 .245 18 Toronto 16 39 .291 18 West West Los Angeles 35 19 .648 — Cincinnati 32 21 .604 2 Vi Texas 32 20 .615 Vss Houston 28 27 .509 7 Vi Oakland 35 22 .614 Atlanta 25 26 .490 8 Vi Chicago 28 22 .560 3 Vi San Francisco 27 29 .482 9 California 28 29 .491 7 San Diego 21 33 .389 14 Kansas City 18 29 .383 12 Seattle 20 34 .370 13 Vi Minnesota 16 37 .302 17 Monday’s Results Tuesday’s Games Monday’s Results Tuesday’s Gat Texas 8, Detroit 1 Minnesota 1, Milwaukee 0 New York 8, Kansas City 3 Seattle 2, Boston 0 Chicago 6, Toronto 2 California 10, Cleveland 2 Detroit at Texas Baltimore at Oakland Toronto at Chicago Milwaukee at Minnesota New York at Kansas City Cleveland at California Boston at Seattle Philadelphia 4, Houston 3 Houston at Philadelphia San Diego at Pittsburgh ppd. San Diego at Pittsburgh rain San Francisco at Chicago Atlanta at Montreal Cincinnati at New York Los Angeles at St. Louis Texas wins again to take over first United Press International ARLINGTON — On the hottest day of 1981 at Arlington Stadium, the Texas Rangers’ cauldron finally came to a boil. The Rangers, one of many teams seemingly drowned in the tidal wave of Oakland’s early-season victories, suddenly found themselves in first place in the American League West Monday night. “You don’t want to get too high and you don’t want to get too low,” said a surprisingly subdued Don Zimmer following the Rangers’ 8-1 blasting of the Detroit Tigers. “Sure, I’m glad we re in first place. But this isn’t the time to get excited.’’ In the first few weeks of the season, after Oakland had raced to a 17-1 start, Texas found itself 8V2 games out of first place. Texas still rests a half game back of Oakland in the won-loss column, but on a percentage basis — which is how the standings are determined — Texas is now ahead of the A s by a single percentage point. While Oakland was idle Monday night, the Rangers were taking advantage of some suspect Detroit fielding and three hits by Mickey Rivers to easily whip Detroit. Rick Honeycutt, blessed with all the run support, lasted eight innings in near 10()-degree heat to raise his record to 6-1. Texas has now won four in a row, six of seven and 13 of 17. “We never even talked about Oakland’s lead,” said the Rangers manager. “I’ve never seen a pennant won in April or May. The time to get excited is late September.” Detroit had won four straight and seven of its last eight coming into Texas for a two-game stand, but the Tigers found themselves behind by six runs after two innings. Loser Dan Schatzeder, 3-4, gave up a double to Mickey Rivers, a single to Al Oliver, walked Buddy Bell and then was tagged for a single by Bill Stein. Throw in errors by third baseman Tom Brookens and catcher Lance Parrish and the Rangers had scored four runs in the first. Bow a stars in Philly win Two more runs came in during the second on a single by Mario Mendoza, another single by Bump Wills, Rivers’ second double and a sacrifice fly by Bell. Detroit made three errors and botched at least two other plays that did not go as errors. United Press International PHILADELPHIA — Ever since he joined the Philadelphia Phillies 12 years ago, Larry Bowa has had to prove himself to his critics time and time again. That hasn’t changed this year, even though the 35-year-old shortstop batted .288 in the last half of the 1980 season, .316 in the league championship series and .375 in the World Series. “1 feel overall, right now I’m playing as good as I ve ever play ed, Bowa said Monday night after a 3-for-4 night with three RBIs that carried the Phillies to a 4-3 victory over the Houston Astros. “People always are reminding me of the first half of last season (when he hit .244) but they don’t remember the second half of the season, the playoffs or the World Series. I have to keep reminding people that I still can play.’ Bowa knocked in two runs with a second-inning single and singled home another in a two-run fourth to lead the Phillies in the season’s first matchup of last year’s division champions. He singled again in the sixth. “I’ve been hitting the ball well against Atlanta and against the Mets (in the team’s two previous series),” he said. “I go in streaks when I’m hitting down on the ball and keeping it out of the air. When I hit it in the air. I’m in trouble.” Bob Boone added the second run in the fourth with a sacrifice fly. The game also marked the re turn to Philadelphia of the Pete Rose Watch. Rose went l-for-3 with an intentional walk to come within four hits of breaking Stan Musial’s National League record of 3,630. Rose’s hit was a sharp single up the middle off loser Don Sutton, 4-7, in the third. “I told Don when I passed by him that I hit a pretty good pitch, an inside slider,” Rose recalled. “Don said, Yeah, but they pay you good money to hit pretty good pitches. ” Houston s runs came on Jose Cruz’ 10th homer of the season in the fourth and Cesar Cedeno’s two-run single in the fifth. The Astros outhit the Phillies, 12-8, but stranded 11 baserunners. Their final hope came in the eighth when Joe Pittman and Luis Pujols opened with singles. Pinch- hitter Denny Walling then hit a fly to deep left-center that Garry Maddox caught after a long run. McGraw entered and Bowa nailed Pittman at the plate on Tony Scott’s high chop. Craig Reynolds flied out to end the inning. “We had our opportunities but we didn’t get it done,” Houston Manager Bill Virdon said. “That was a problem for us in the early season when we were going bad. We had a tough time getting the big hit.” “We let the game get away from us,” added Art Howe, the league’s leading hitter. “We’ve had a lot of one-run ballgames against them with the same verdict. We’d like to turn that around quick. ” Rookie Marty Bystrom makes his first start since May 24 tonight for the Phillies against Joe Niekro. 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