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Battalion/Pag?
September 6, i
Phillies sweep Astro
on Vukovich home
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — For Pat
Corrales, the best move he made
Sunday was the one he didn’t
make.
“We discussed in the dugout
making a double switch and tak
ing George Vukovich out of the
game,” the Philadelphia mana
ger said about some mid-game
strategy in the Phillies-Houston
Astros game. “But I wasn’t going
to take George out. He had good
swings all day.”
Vukovich saved his best
swing for the sixth inning, when
he teamed with Mike Schmidt
for back-to-back homers off
Nolan Ryan, giving the Phillies a
4-3 victory over the Astros and a
sweep of their three-game
series.
Vukovich’s game-winner, his
sixth homer of the season, came
one pitch after Schmidt had tied
the game with a two-run shot.
Ryan had allowed one hit and
retired 15 straight batters before
allowing a two-out walk to Gary
Matthews, which preceded
Schmidt’s 30th homer.
“It felt like a high fastball on
the inner half of
blasi,i
Astros’ Nolan Ryan loses
first game since early July
the plate,”
Schmidt said. “You’ve got to be
choosy when he pitches. When
he throws it above waist-high,
you’ve got to lay off it.”
So why did Schmidt swing at a
pitch that might have been
above waist-high?
“Well, I had about one one-
hundredth of a second to mull it
over,” he replied. “It just hap
pened. I was just looking for a
fastball and 1 wanted to take an
easy swing at it. And itmijlj
a home run.”
Vukovich, who hadatJ
RBI single in the first i|
said he felt Ryan would*!
get ahead of him right
lowing Schmidt’s
ignited the Veterans
crowd of 33,983. Hew
“I thought he might
ahead of me and throw
ball, and that’s what
for,” he said. “I got a
down and in. We m
win. You’ve got to beat
like Nolan Ryan if you
win this thing."
The weekend trend
Phillies appeared to be
the timely nit when theyi
it. Schmidt homeredin
for a 2-1 triumph Ft
and Bo Diaz brought
three runs with
Saturday’s 4-2 victory.
"Thai’s what l callut
hits," Corrales said. “I
we can get the samert
rest of the sea
Ryan, 14-10, who
four hits and struck oult
seven innings, lost hisfinti
since July 9 •
Finding some daylight
staff photo by David Fisher
George Smith, the Aggies’ freshman fullback from
Georgia, finds some running room during his team’s
defeat at the hands of Boston College Saturday night.
Smith rushed four times for 41 yards and had two
pass receptions for 13 yards during the game. Smith
was among the nation’s finest high school players.
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Rangers’ 19 hits
plaster Chicago
in 10-7 victory
United Press International
CHICAGO — The Texas
Rangers banged out a season
high 19 hits Sunday, leaving
their manager, Darrell Johnson,
at a loss to explain his team’s ex
plosiveness.
The Rangers ended Chica
go’s six-game winning streak
with a 10-7 triumph, preventing
the White Sox from sweeping
the series and gaining on first-
place Kansas City.
Johnson had one theory,
pointing to a science fiction con
vention that was being held at
the hotel where his team was
staying. The Rangers lost the
first six games they played at
Comiskey Park this year.
“There were 10,000 weirdos
there, maybe they put a spell
out,” Johnson said.
The Rangers, whose previous
high was 18 hits, scored two in
the first, three in the third and
took the lead with four in the
fifth inning. Buddy Bell’s two-
run single in the fifth put the
Rangers ahead to stay.
“We never seem to hit very
well here and I know I hardly
ever,” Bell said. “But it’s hard to
get excited when you’re 24
games out. Heck, a win is a win.”
Jim Sundberg, Larry Parrish
and Bucky Dent each had three
hits for the Rangers.
Dent, hitting only .175, had a
two-run double in the three-run
third and singled and scored in
the fifth.
“When I came over here from
New York, it was almost like
spring training again for me,”
said Dent, who was traded to the
Rangers in exchange for Lee
Mazzilli. “It was an adjustment
for me to start facing right
handers again.”
Jon Matlack, 6-6, who re
lieved starter John Butcher
when the White Sox scored five
runs in the fourth, earned the
victory while Dave Schmidt shut
out the Sox over the final three
innings to earn his sixth save.
“I just threw strikes and got
ahead and made them hit my
pitch,” Schmidt said.
The White Sox relief pitching
did not match the Rangers’.
Salome Barojas, one of five Chi
cago pitchers, was tagged with
the loss.
“It was one of those days
where our offense had to pick
up our pitching,” said Chicago
manager Tony LaRussa. “We
had our opportunities but we
just didn’t capitalize on them.”
After Vance Law’s solo homer
closed the gap to 9-7 in the fifth,
the White Sox had the bases
loaded in the seventh and two
runners on in the eighth without
scoring.
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