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Page 16 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1981
Sports
Ranger bats
come alive
in 12-2 win
United Press International
ARLINGTON — The Texas
Rangers have had few offensive
performances in either season this
year to match the 18-hit, 12-run
assault launched on the Oakland
A s, but for Al Oliver — holding
one of the team’s hotter bats — the
win was not that great.
“Yes, it’s nice to have a good
night like the team had tonight,”
he said after Tuesday’s 12-2 win
over Oakland, “but it’s only one
win. Winning big every few days
doesn’t make it. Every game is a
big now and if we win only 1-0, it’s
a win just the same.”
For his contribution, Oliver hit
two doubles and two singles in five
at bats, collected four RBI and
scored once. Ahead of him in the
lineup, leadoff man Bump Wills
went 4-for-4 and scored four runs
while No. 2 hitter Mickey Rivers
had three hits, three runs and
three RBI.
But hot as the Rangers bats
were Tuesday, they have been
generally cool in the second half of
the season. The team was hitting
.284 before the players’ strike, but
registered at .251 before Tues
day’s outburst.
“For me, it was a good night. I
don’t think I’ve had four RBI in a
game this year,” Oliver said. “But
we have not been hitting as well
since the strike. It’s obvious some
guys didn’t lift a bat the whole
time we were off. I won’t say they
were wrong, but we haven’t been
hitting the ball as well because of
it.”
The A’s, however, have im
proved from a .243 pre-strike av
erage to .258 in the second half.
That is, until they ran into
knuckleballing Charlie Hough. '
Hough, while granting five
walks, spread six hits over eight
innings with seven strikeouts for
his first win of the season against
one loss. He was relieved by Bob
Lacey. Lacey, throwing in his first
major league game, allowed one
hit in the ninth inning, a solo hom
er by Oakland second baseman
Dave McKay. McKay had Oak
land’s other RBI, an unearned run
scored off Hough in the third.
“We needed a win badly,”
Hough said. “We need to win a
bunch of them badly. I struggled a
little out there. Oakland doesn’t
have the big names like Reggie
Jackson, but they have a lot of
players who hit the ball well. This
was one game we needed, but we
will be saying that for the rest of
the season.”
Oliver began the scoring with a
two-run single in the third, fol
lowed by Buddy Bell who sacri
ficed to right field.
The hits kept coming in the
fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Oliver doubled one run across
in the fifth and drove in another in
the seventh. Rivers had two RBI
in the sixth and one in the seventh
in handing Brian Kingman, 3-6,
the loss.
Ranger catcher Jim Sundberg’s
only hit of the game, a single in the
seventh, set a team career mark.
The previous record for total hits
was 916 notched by Toby Harrah.
Major League Baseball
National League
American League
East
St. Louis
Montreal
Chicago
New York
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Houston
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Atlanta
San Diego
East
19 13
.594
Detroit
New York
22
20
12
15
.647
.571
2V2
17
16
.515
2V4
Milwaukee
21
16
.568
21/2
16
18
.471
4
Baltimore
19
15
.559
3
15
18
.455
41/2
Boston
18
15
.545
31/2
15
21
.417
6
Toronto
16
17
.485
51/2
13
19
.406
6
Cleveland
17
19
All
6
West
22 13
.629
Kansas City
Oakland
20
16
West
15
17
.571
.485
3
20
15
.571
2
Minnesota
17
19
.472
3 */2
19
15
.559
2V2
Texas
15
18
.455
4
19
15
.559
2V4
Chicago
14
21
.400
6
18
16
.529
31/2
Seattle
14
21
.400
6
11
25
.306
111/2
California
12
21
.364
7
Tuesday’s Results Wednesday’s Games Tuesday’s Results Wednesday’s Games
Cincinnati 4, Houston 0
Philadelphia at New York ppd.
rain
St. Louis 3, Montreal 2
Montreal 4, St. Louis 3
Pittsburgh 8, Chicago 2
San Diego 8, Los Angeles 2
San Francisco 6, Atlanta 5
Houston at San Diego
Atlanta at Los Angeles
Cincinnati at San Francisco
Pittsburgh at Chicago
St. Louis at Montreal
Philadelphia at New York
Texas 12, Oakland 2
Detroit at Boston ppd. rain
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 6
Toronto 4, Minnesota 2
Milwaukee 2, New York 1
Seattle 8, Chicago 4
Kansas City 3, California 2
Oakland at Texas
Detroit at Boston
Minnesota at Toronto
New York at Milwaukee
Kansas City at California
Chicago at Seattle
Baltimore at Cleveland
Cincinnati does it again
United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston mana
ger Bill Virdon said the Astros
have no excuses for their 4-0 loss
to the Cincinnati Reds — they’ve
seen Charlie Leibrandt before.
“They just outplayed and out-
pitched us two nights in a row,”
Virdon said Tuesday following the
Astros’ second loss to the Reds.
Leibrandt tossed a five-hitter
while striking out four and walking
three en route to his first decision
since being called up from In
dianapolis Sept. 1. He won nine of
his last 11 decisions for the farm
club.
Speaking of Leibrandt, Astros
centerfielder Tony Scott said:
“Well, he got away with it. He had
good location on his pitches
tonight, but next time we might
be able to punch a few through
there. ”
Leibrandt said he expected at
the start of the game to pitch only
seven innings.
“But we got an early lead and I
got out of that first inning jam and
took it from there,” he said. “I
knew if I didn’t start challenging
the batters I’d be out of there after
one or two innings.”
Scott led off the first inning for
the Astros with a double and Leib
randt then walked Phil Gamer. A
double play helped get him out of
the jam.
Cincinnati took a 1-0 lead off
starter Nolan Ryan, 8-5, in the
first when Dave Concepcion sing
led with two out, advanced to
third on an error and passed ball,
then scored on George Foster’s
first single.
The Reds added a run in the
third as Paul Householder
walked, went to third on Ken Grif
fey’s single and scored on Concep
cion’s sacrifice fly to deep center.
Ryan was touched for two more
runs in the sixth, issuing leadoff
walks to Griffey and Concepcion
before Foster and Ray Knight del
ivered RBI singles.
The victory pulled the Reds to
within 2V2 games of first-place
Houston, the closest Cincinnati
has been to the lead since Aug. 31.
“At least we delayed the funer
al,” Reds first baseman Johnny
Bench said of the wins. “I want to
be able to read in the paper that
we’ve caught up with someone
and are going to make a pennant
race out of it.”
But Houston third baseman Art
Howe said, “We hope to go to Los
Angeles with a three-game lead
like last year.”
The Astros will finish this sea
son against the Dodgers.
Houston starts a five-game road
trip today in San Diego. The
Astros are 10-10 on the road in the
second half of the season.
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