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Texas A&M The Battalion Sport Wednesday, June 15, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9 u. rophasisJ d aside Reagaml fast lull, comnJ :a rxplanai te Housi educaii I it easiei 'is “bat hyofw schoo| •reign :s. of fim Reagan lj ised. it has s Id lx* reds lowerr •lives asi es it he hasij "lower di Clutch hit Hendrick’s single to right gives Cardinals a 5-4 victory •remium l out i icketst i other! s” to f ieve dial | list rybody hairman cialsstreiJ ns are ikl to order J seats lescribe i and veniK Ate* ■ t-a x- - : Burt Hooten United Press International It’s not that Phillies manager Pat Corrales didn’t know what he was doing, it was simply a matter of the proverbial wrong place at the wrong time. The wrong place was St. Louis, the wrong time was Tuesday night and George Hendrick was com ing to bat. With the winning run on second, one out and the game tied at 4-4 in the ninth inning, Corrales ordered Porfi Altamir- ano to walk Keith Hernandez. An inning-ending double play would have been Corrales’ reward, but Hendrick spoiled the Philadelphia skipper’s strategy. The St. Louis outfiel der lined a single to right that plated Tom Herr, giving the Cards a 5-4. “I don’t second guess what he did,” said Hernandez, who had put the Cardinals ahead 4-3 in the seventh with a two-out, two- run triple into the right field corner. “He has to decide if he wants to face both the No. 3 and 4 hit ters, or if he should walk me and set up the double play,” added Hernandez. “George is just such a good clutch hitter. He got the hit. That’s what he’s done all year.” Tim Raines Hendrick is batting .333 with 48 RBI — both are second high est totals in the National League. St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog understood Corrales’ strategy. “He (Corrales) has to do that,” Herzog said. “He has to take a shot at one. If he gets a ground ball, he has a chance at a double play. If he pitches to both, then he’s giving us three chances.” Philadelphia tied the game at 4-4 in the top of the liinth. With two out, Joe Morgan doubled to knock out Cardinals’ starter Joa quin Andujar. Pinch-hitter Bo Diaz greeted reliever Bruce Sut ter with a single to left that scored Morgan. Tom Herr led off the St. Louis ninth with a single to right and was sacrificed to second by Floyd Rayford, who made his pinch-hitting debut for the Cards in the seventh. After the intentional walk to Hernandez, Hendrick followed with his deci sive single and collected his team-high seventh game winning hit. The Cards battled back from a 3-0 deficit but only had one hit in the first five innings. “Wins haven’t been coming very easily for us lately,” said Hernandez, noting the Cardin als had lost eight of 1 1 games. “1 kind of thought Monday night we were fiat, but tonight I just thought we were down. “We were playing as badly as we can play. Sooner or later, things will fall into place. Hope fully this will be a tonic for us.” Elsewhere in the NL, Cincin nati downed San Diego 4-3, Montreal beat Pittsburgh 7-3, New York downed Chicago 4-3, Los Angeles nipped Atlanta 4-3, and Houston topped San Fran cisco 3-2. In American League games Toronto topped Oakland 13-7, Cleveland beat New York 9-6, Boston downed Detroit 6-2, Minnesota topped Kansas City 8-1, Texas beat Seattle 7-1. The California at Chicago and Balti more at Milwaukee games were rained out. DODGERS 4, BRAVES 3 — At Los Angeles, Mike Marshall’s two-run homer in the second in ning paced Burt Hooton, 5-2, to his fourth straight win. Dusty Baker doubled in the third to score Hooton and Steve Sax, each of whom singled. Dave Ste wart notched his eighth home run. REDS 4, PADRES 3 — At San Diego, rookie Dann Bilardello lined a single to center with one out in the ninth inning, driving in Gary Redus with the tie breaking run to power Keith Cato’s second major league win. Bill Scherrer earned his fourth save. Cary Lucas took the loss. MONTREAL 7, PIRATES 3 —• At Pittsburgh, Tim Wallach hit a two-run homer and Tim Raines and Andre Dawson each added solo shots to lead the Ex pos. Steve Rogers, 8-3, scattered nine hits over seven innings and Jeff Reardons got his eighth save. Pittsburgh’s Jason Thomp son hit his seventh homer of the year. Larry McWilliams, 7-4, absorbed the loss. METS 4, CHICAGO 3 — At New York, Rusty Staub’s fourth successive pinch hit, a single with two out in the 10th inning, scored Bob Bailor from second base with the winning run. Dave Kingman clubbed his 12th hom er of the year and Danny Heep added his second pinch-hit homer of the season to help win ner Doug Sisk, 2-1. Lee Smith, 1-4, took the loss. ubs, Ernie Banks finally part their ways United Press International - • .... .... ^ ule Sdfc he wa >' thin S s are turning ‘ Kor lit nie Banks, it’s not such dlc f-' treat day to play two. ^ s 0 " ( w or the past 31 years, he has ,e ‘ inifU Bbolized the Chicago Cubs lore than any other man who ; ■ever worn their uniform. Artie so even than Gabby Harl- If Charlie Grimm, Billy Her- ^ |an and Phil Cavarretta. Now ks and the Cubs have split, irst as a player and then as a 1 will ambassador employed em in a promotional capac- jlanks has been an integral of the Cubs for more than contribiiiffet decades. He was certainly :1, andtliwbest known and most identi- th theB Ible member of their “lamily,” stcheste[i|tjlast Saturday he was told his ule upoifcrvk es were no longer re- Sjed. One of the reasons for the lak was economic. Perhaps ore important was the fact aiiks had missed several sche- lled appearances in the past I years, and that led to his program rhichofl ;s they e.said lie* bs. borhoo v being labeled “unreliable,” something he never was called during the 19 years he played . for the Cubs. Maybe it won’t be much con solation to the generally happy- ( go-lucky, personable 52-year- old Hall of Earner, but he’s not alone in what has happened to him. He merely happens to be the latest victim. Banks’circumstance isn’t that much unlike Willie Mays’ follow ing Mays' retirement as an active player with the Mte at the end of 1973. He had signed a 10-year contract with them when they got him from the Giants in 1972. The question then became what he could do to earn the money the Mets would pay him for the next eight years alter he was eeough playing. A job in the front office was out because Mays didn’t have the inclination or patience for that. It was extremely difficult for him, and still is, to sit in the press box and watch a game be cause the instinctive desire to play is still so strong. “I know I can still go out there for a few innings or even play a whole game,” he said to me not long ago, “but what about the next day?” Mays was given the designa tion of part-time coach for the Mets and his duties were loosely defined. The Mets have to be blamed for that. Willie wasn’t crazy about going to some of the places in the country they sug gested he go because nobody’s really that eager to go back to the bushes, even to work with young players, once he’s gotten accus tomed to star status in the ma jors. When it came to appearances, Mays was no different than Banks. He got tired of making appearances but since the club was paying him for it, he was expected to go. Mays and Banks aren’t the only ones to have gotten them selves caught in such a box. I never saw a top star who was all that eager to make an appear ance even when he was getting well paid for showing up. Cu riously or not, the more “medi- core” a player is regarded, the more reliable he generally is ab out appearances. That’s because he hasn’t become jaded or weary yet from making that many appearances. Practically every ballclub has been faced with the problem of what to do with some of its top players after they obviously are all through. The clubs can’t just throw an Ernie Banks, a Willie Mays or a Stan Musial out on the street. Occasionally, when there is no place else, some clubs have found a place for a few of their special retired players in the radio or TV booth, but only so many of those jobs are available. There haven’t been as many men as popular as Ernie Banks, in baseball history. Some of the other players occasionally kid ded him about all those wonder ful things he’d say about the Cubs or about how he always in sisted it was “a great day to play two,” but everybody loved Ernie. It was hard not to. So the club comes out the villain for let ting him go. I don’t think that’s right, either. Neither Banks nor anyone else had a right to expect any club to keep a player on its payroll for the rest of his life. Ralph Kiner, the former home run king who does the Mets’ games on TV and radio now, has a viewpoint I agree with in respect to what any club owes one of its stars after he’s through playing. “To my way of thinking,” he says, “if the player is contribut ing to the organization after he quits playing, then he’s entitled to fair remuneration just like any other employee. 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