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June 29, 1982
Rain-delayed victory
Astros recover to bump Braves, 6-2
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d a three. saw l l' e storm clouds rolling in
streak wt ' wt|il e the Houston Astros were
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Blight, “Here we go again.”
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without (i!*|p r i se d everyone by deciding
er ''Ippntinue the game after a two-
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leckspasiB middle of the first inning
Hh the Astros on top 20.
■ Houston went on to a 6-2 vic-
|ofy behind the combined four-
f pitching of Nolan Ryan and
Irt Roberge.
|“There’s no way I thought we
re going to play,” said Knight,
jjiGeorgia native playing before
I TPfhishome folks. “I had 28 passes
I (T t° the game and I sent all of
■emhorne. It seems like every-
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going to get us again.”
When play resumed, the
Astros took advantage of wild
ness by Atlanta starter Rick
Mahler and scored three more
runs in the second inning, which
was more than enough to offset
solo homers by Biff Pocoroba
and Rufino Linares that
accounted for all of Atlanta’s
runs.
Ryan, 7-8, struck out. 10 and
had perfect control until the
eighth, when he walked the
bases full but got Bob Horner to
look at a called third strike to
end ru „mal Atlanta threat.
^ ^crge pitched hitless ball in
the ninth.
It was the fourth time this
year that Ryan has struck out 10
or more and the 139th time in
his career, a major-league re
cord.
“Anytime I strike out in dou
ble figures I have a good break
ing ball to go with my fastball
and I’m throwing it for strikes,”
said Ryan.
Although pleased with the
win, Ryan noted it was just one
victory.
“We’re at the point we need to
put several wins together,” he
said. “We have to play consis
tently good ball all the way out
and hope we get some breaks
and hope that the teams that are
in the lead don’t play as well and
help us get back in the race.”
Despite the loss, the Braves
remained 2‘/a games ahead of
San Diego in the National
League West as the Padres
bowed to Los Angeles 6-4,
enabling the third-place Dod
gers to pull within 4‘/a games of
the lead.
Mahler, 7-6, walked the first
two men in the second inning
and three runs scored as Knight,
Jose Cruz and Alan Ashby fol
lowed with consecutive RBI
singles.
“That’s the most guys I’ve
walked all year and I did it in two
innings,” said Mahler, who
walked four and gave up all six
Astros’ runs in 5% innings.
“You can’t give a guy like
Ryan five runs and really expect
to come back,” he continued. “I
never thought the game would
continue but I was glad even
though we were two runs back. I
just didn’t pitch well. There’s no
excuse for walking guys like I
did. That’s just not my game.”
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■DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —
Former Houston Astros star
■cherJ.R. Richard survived a
■cky first inning on the com-
Back trail from a 1980 stroke
■onday night and won the
Budits of Astros General Man-
Q C ago A1 Rosen.
L/ U I “J R- will be back in the big
Bgues,” Rosen predicted after
■chard pitched the first four in-
avertimeitnings, as planned, in a Class A
mdon, biili Florida State Leagud game,
their res ■ Richard’s appearance on the
i a quarteiffound for the Daytona Beach
[exico,.win Itros against the FSL’s divi-
after Eng sion-leading St. Petersburg Car-
ninuteslo lials was his first competitive
;h Ron Gil lowing before a paid audience
join the 1 |k e the stroke two years ago
when heJ that paralyzed his left side.
icedbytbiR The 6-foot-8 right-hander
ve not pkBmitted he had “butterflies” in
y startsW the first inning during which the
and them Cardinals scored three runs
;ainst him, one of them un-
icn annotit rned.
J.R. Richard
The over-capacity crowd of
4,719 gave him a standing ova
tion when he walked to the
mound, cheered every strike he
threw and booed the umpire’s
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call of every ball.
St. Petersburg won the game,
8-4, but Richard wasn’t upset
with the loss because his Astro
teammates managed to tie the
score at 3-3 in the sixth after
Richard had left the mound at
the end of four with the Cardin
als leading, 3-1.
In four innings, Richard
hurled 63 pitches to 18 batters,
37 of them strikes. He gave up
five hits, three runs, walked two
and struck out one.
In the first inning, Richard
twice failed to cover first base in
time when the ball was hit to the
right side and the blows were
recorded as infield hits.
One opposing hitter rapped a
sharply hit ball right at him that
hit the back of Richard’s glove.
Richard didn’t flinch, reached
down, retrieved the ball and
threw the batter out at first.
Rosen had said before the
game he would be watching how
Richard reacted to fielding
situations.
“I felt very good about J.R,”
Rosen said. “I was, overall, very
delighted with the way he pitch
ed and fielded his position,”
Rosen said later. “You have to
remember he was on the operat-
Agreeing to terms Monday
were fifth-round pick Vance
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ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis
lardinals have signed two more
Iraft choices but still have six
lections — including their top
gvo picks — unsigned.
round selection Eddie McGill of
Western Carolina.
The Cardinals also
announced they have signed two
other players — Sam Bowers, a
tight end claimed on waivers
from the New York Jets, and
Alan Mitchell, a wide receiver
from Michigan signed as a free
agent.
| NBA to send 30-player
team to China in July
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i PEKING — The NBA will
launch its own sports diplomacy
njuly with a series of games in
^hina, the league’s Players Asso-
iation said Monday.
The games will be the first
ippearance of American profes-
ional basketball players in Chi-
aa and will be televised in the
Jnited States, the association
aid.
Thirty players, one from
each NBA team, are to arrive
July 10 in Peking to play an in
trasquad exhibition match and a
game against the Chinese na
tional team.
Other exhibitions and games
will be played in Shanghai, Chi
na’s largest city, and Hangzhou,
a former national capital known
for its love of sports.
Former NBA greats John
Havlichek and Oscar Robertson
will coach the American team.
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had a fatal stroke.”
The 32-year-old pitcher said
the “butterflies” forced him to
make the errors in the first in
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thrown another two to three in
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“I felt fine,” he added. “I
didn’t worry about my velocity.
It will come. I wasn’t worried —
there wasn’t anything to worry
about.”
Still, Richard said he faces a
lot of work before he finally
makes it back to Houston.
“It took a lot to get here, and
it will take a lot of work to get
back (to the major leagues). I’m
used to hard work,” he said. “I’m
learning how to pitch again. I’m
starting all over again.”
Rosen said Richard would go
straight to the Class AAA Tuc
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pitcher decides he’s ready. He
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