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till a coi KTRK-Tl| s still sui ion given ) years, i firms thi ave on tli(i:| id. doesnotn ainst the Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Wednesday, August 3, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9 ajor leagues Doran’s homer pushes Astros to victory in 12 innings solutelynB ^ / O iuse I feell .* an oper AN DIEGO — Sometimes a hereisa] aseball appears to be the size of 1 corrup BB to a hitter. Tuesday night, louston’s Bill Doran saw one || |ize of a beachball. y nobodyJ [n the 12th inning, Doran — like that he pjo. 8 hitter in the lineup daughter fho brought a .244 average into g drawni'||fganie — worked the count to ess." was t hen given t he signal an ex-Tt,t) swing away, surprising at least :fofFavettlo Ipeople — Doran and San v died lar )ie|o pitcher Sid Monge. vho acted! “When I looked for the sign ' of ndpaw the green light, I blink- her baritl” Doran said. “I couldn’t be- ' ago ; eve it.” ) obscuritr Neither could Monge. Want- ig desperately not to walk )oran, he offered a fastball that I ^y> rasbadly misnamed. Doran de- yJ llited it into the seats, lifting || Astros to a 4-2 triumph over • he Padres. ra ||f , f^itting eighth in front of the litcher like I do, I never see the Teen light on 3-0,” Doran said. Itvyas a good ccxaching move by sofar They took a chance giving t in fiveSoifl unties torities rases will m Hurler Vern Ruble picked up third victory Tuesday. me the green light and it paid off. “I really don’t think Monge thought I’d swing. He’s been getting me out pretty consistent ly. Three-and-0 was probably the only chance I had of getting a hit off him.” It was the fifth homer of the year for the Astros’ second base- man, who was 0-for-3 batting from the left side before blasting his homer batting right-handed against the southpaw reliever. Vern Ruble pitched the final three innings and evened his re cord at 3-3. Ray Knight opened the Houston 12th with a single be hind second base. Denny Wall ing ran for Knight and was sacri ficed to second by Alan Ashby and Doran followed with his homer. “It worked out well,” Hous ton Manager Bob Lillis said. “Billy’s been hitting the ball much better than his average showed. He had a tough April, but since then he’s done well to bring his average up to where it is now. He’s got a little sock.” Trailing 2-0, the Padres tied it in the ninth. Kurt Bevacqua opened with a single and Dave Smith replaced starter Mike Madden, who carried a two- hitter into the ninth. After Ruppert Jones forced Bevacqua at second, Terry Ken nedy singled. Pitcher Luis De Leon ran for Kennedy and Jones moved to third on a fly out. Tony Gwynn then singled to score Jones and DeLeon moved to third. Reliever Frank DiPino entered, and his first pitch to pinch-hitter Bruce Bochy was wild and DeLeon trotted in with the tying run. Houston scored in the first off starter Ed Whitson when Omar Moreno led off with a single, stole second, moved to third on Terry Puhl’s ground- out and scored on Thon’s sacri fice fly. In the fourth, Puhl singled to left and stole second. Thon grounded to shortstop Mario Ramirez, who threw to third to get Puhl, but Phil Garner’s sing le sent Thon to third and he scored when Cruz bounced out to second. leveland wins fourth in a row iryan Bn IS like [Jfl United Press International arlier trialN° w that the Indians have a lile In iew chief, they seem intent on p j n t t, e aking no prisoners, d then r Since Pat Corrales took over gled witkl mana g er °f the Cleveland In- lians last Sunday the team has von four games in a row and, 1 B^ eover > they’re playing an ilert brand of baseball that lTO i a sn t been seen in Municipal itadium in quite a while, i , ||The Indians accomplished T Tuesday night what a week ago l heir fans might have deemed Bossible. They swept a dou- ported. iile-header from the high-flying , membervlaltimore Orioles, 3-1 and 4-3. for a Fulf In the opener, Bert Blyleven, ice, dainr iiaking his first start in 19 days, ihing ani; tattered four hits over six in- lings to spark the Indians’ as refuseoriumph and in the nightcap ar weapAndre Thornton singled in two it has coni ■un s to trigger the sweep. Relief pitcher Bud Anderson was instrumental in both ctories by recording a save in ich game. Catcher Ron Hassey attri butes the club’s improved play to Corrales’ wider range of ideas. “We got a little lift right now. We’re doing a lot more. We’re using the hit-and-run, bunting and it becomes contagious,” said Hassey. Corrales said: “We got exactly what we wanted out of Blyleven and I’m impressed with Bud Anderson’s arm.” RED SOX 6, RANGERS 5 — At Arlington, Texas, Glenn Hoffman belted his second homer in four days and Jim Rice and Gary Allenson each drove in a pair of runs as the Red Sox handed the fading Rangers their seventh straight loss. BLUE JAYS 10-13, YANK EES 9-6 — At Toronto, Dave Collins’ one-out single in the 10th inning scored Garth lorg from second base and gave the Blue Jays a victory. In the night cap, Ranee Mulliniks smacked a double and a single to drive in four runs and Damaso Garcia went 3-for-3 with three RBI to help Toronto complete the sweep before a record crowd of 45,102 at Exhibition Stadium. The double-header featured 11 homers, including eight by the Yankees. Roy Smalley ho- mered twice in the opener for New York while Oscar Gamble, Graig Nettles and Don Matting ly also connected for the Yankees. BREWERS 5-3, ROYALS 1-2 — At Milwaukee, Ben Oglivie drove in four runs with a sacri fice fly and a homer and Bob Gibson and Jim Slaton com bined on a three-hitter in lead ing the Brewers to victory in the opener. WHITE SOX 7, TIGERS 5 — At Chicago, Greg Luzinski drove in three runs and Greg Walker added two RBI, includ ing a solo homer, to lead the White Sox to victory. ANGELS 2, TWINS 1 — At Minneapolis, Ron Jackson hit a two-run homer in the ninth in ning off Bobby Castillo, 7-9, to lift the Angels to victory. MARINERS 15, A’S 12 — At Seattle, Dave Henderson belted two of Seattle’s six home runs and drove in five runs, offset ting a two-homer and five-RBI performance by Oakland’s Car ney Lansford to pace the Mariners. In National League games, New York topped Montreal 5-2, Pittsburgh whipped Philadel phia 10-3, Chicago defeated St. Louis 5-3, San Francisco toppled Atlanta 7-3 and Los Angeles edged Cincinnati 3-1. 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There was a time when it was popular to jump ten 18-wheelers on a motor cycle, for example. Those who have watched the television series That’s Incredible are well aware of the insane tests to which people put themselves. Big deal. You want to hear about a real challenge? Here’s what you do. Leave your defending national championship college football team — one that’s returning 13 starters this fall, and take the head coaching job at a school that’s had to start keeping records of touchdowns instead of victories. Now turn them into a winning team before the boosters lose patience and dump you for someone else. Jim Wacker’s going to try. He’s already handed over his defending NCAA Division II championship team to someone else — for feited Southwest Texas State for TCU. Yes, the “there’s always Rice” Horned Frogs. But Wacker’s not scared. He’s seen the pre season picks, and he knows he probably won’t see amazing results immediately. “They (Southwest Texas) were a pretty good football team for the level we were play ing, obviously, and I’m not going to be in that same position right now,” Wacker said before the SWC Coaches Kickoff Luncheon Monday. “Everybody’s picking us down there about eighth in the league, and that’s a good place to be now. I just hope we’re not down there at the end of the season.” And if Wacker were worried about press ure, he probably wouldn’t have taken thejob in the first place. If he were shaky at all about a program that past coaches have failed to de velop, he wouldn’t be so simplistic in his philo sophy. “Go out, line up and play ’em as hard as you can,” he says. No way-out goals. No panaceas for a team with no depth, no experience and no recent history of winning. If there’s pressure, Wack er’s not feeling much of it. “Coaching’s a pressure job wherever you are,” Wacker says. ” I don’t care if it’s high school, college, junior college or where it is. You’ve got to win, you’ve got to produce, you’ve got to compete. That’s the bottom line. But maybe pressure doesn’t fit into the TCU situation. In the first place, up is almost the Vr only direction Wacker can take the Frogs. “Frankly, I don’t get real excited about the pressure,” he says. “At this point, I don’t feel any more pressure — maybe less pressure — than if I’d have had another team coming back at Southwest Texas. The fans are spoiled. Man, that even makes it tougher. “At TCU, they’ve won 11 games in the last six years. That’s a lot easier thing to build on, quite frankly, and I’m excited about that chal lenge.” Those words make it sound like more fun than it’s liable to be if TCU’s problems con tinue. But one of Wacker’s plans for his new team involves shifting the offense to a run- oriented attack similar to the one he taught at SWT. “There’s no question. We want to establish the run first and the pass second,” he says. “We plan to run the veer and we plan to make it a true triple option attack. The quarterbacks are going to have to do a lot of reading. I’m going to put a lot of the burden on their shoulders. “That’s what I’ve coached for 13 years. I don’t know anything else.” Whether Wacker’s scheme will work is any body’s guess. But a lot of the talk about Wacker concerns his ability to motivate. TCU’s football program needs that, and motivational ability may be the edge he has over past Horned Frog mentors. The mere fact that Wacker has dived into the middle of all this with enthusiasm says something for him. Maybe he’ll be the one to revive the Frogs. Wacker’s challenge? That’s Incredible. We’re the leader in home loans. We don’t imitate the competition. 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