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runner pays for a long lead off the bag. The Aggies (30-10)
Photo by GREG BAILEY
swept the double-header from the Broncs (27-18) Tuesday at
Olsen Field by scores of 13-4 and 13-9. The three-game series
resumes today at Olsen Field with a single game at 3 p.m.
Houston opens season by edging LA.
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Astros 2, Dodgers 1
I HOUSTON — Nolan Ryan scat
tered three hits over seven innings
Bud Dickie Thon singled and scored
in his first game since being beaned
a year ago to give the Houston As-
Kros a 2-1 victory over the Los An-
geles Dodgers in both teams’ season
opener Tuesday night.
I Ryan retired lb of 17 batters from
the second inning through the sev-
■nth. Frank DiPino relieved to start
the eighth and got a save. Ryan
struck out four to increase his all-
time leading strikeout total to 3,878,
three ahead of Philadelphia’s Steve
Karl ton, who fanned three in a loss
to Atlanta.
I Thon, who was hit in the head by
a pitch from Mike Torrez at the As-
Brodome in the fifth game of the
1984 season and missed the remain
der of the year, singled off Fer
nando Valenzuela in the third in
ning. Thon took second on a
throwing error by catcher Mike
Scioscia and scored on a singled by
Phil Garner to make it 1 -1.
Thon finished the night with one
hit in four at-bats.
The Astros took the lead in the
fourth when Bill Doran doubled to
center and scored when Ryan’s
grounder tipped off second base
man Mariano Duncan’s glove for an
error.
Mike Marshall got the first hit off
Ryan with a second-inning double
and scored on Sid Bream’s single.
Mets 6, Cardinals 5
NEW YORK — Gary Carter, in
his first game with his new team, hit
a one-out home run in the 10th in
ning to give the New York Mets a
season-opening b-5 victory over the
St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.
Reliever Neil Allen struck out
Keith Hernandez to start the 10th,
then had one strike on Carter before
the Mets’ catcher hit a line-drive
homer into the Cardinal bullpen in
left field.
Tom Gorman, the fourth Mets
pitcher, worked a scoreless 10th in
ning for the victory.
Mets’ starter Dwight Gooden, at
20 the youngest opening-day pitcher
in modern baseball history, left the
game after giving up consecutive
singles in the seventh. Gooden
yielded six hits, walked two and
struck out six.
Braves 6, Phillies 0
PHILADELPHIA — Rick Mahler
allowed three hits over seven innings
and reliever Bruce Sutter retired the
final six batters Tuesday night as the
Atlanta Braves took advantage of six
Philadelphia errors to beat the Phil
lies 6-0 Tuesday night in a National
League opener.
Mahler struck out five and walked
two. Sutter, the free agent who left
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year, $10 million contract with At
lanta, struck out three in his two in
nings to preserve the three-hitter.
Steve Carlton lost for the eighth
time in 10 opening-day assignments.
He missed a chance to move into a
tie for 10th place on the all-time vic
tory list as he gave up four hits,
struck out three and walked six in six
innings.
Cubs 2, Pirates 1
CHICAGO — Keith Moreland
drove in two runs with a single and a
home run and Rick Sutcliffe won his
15th consecutive regular-season
game Tuesday to lead the Chicago
Cubs to a 2-1 opening-day victory
over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Sutcliffe, the 1984 Cy Young win
ner who had a 16-1 record for the
National League East champions last
year, went 7 2-3 innings, allowing six
hits and striking three,.
See Major Leagues, page 10
Ag homers make
a long, long night
for Pan American
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
“He’s back to the wall. The balls going, going — it’s out of here.” Aside
from “I want to go home,” that became the battle cry for the announcers
and Ians at the Texas A&M baseball double-header against Pan American
'Tuesday at Olsen Field.
The Aggies hit seven home runs and the Broncs added three. A&M’s
homers paced the Ags to 13-4 and 13-9 wins in the twinbill that began at
5:30 p.m. and ended at 11:51 p.m.
For the Ags, 30-10 overall, it was worth waiting for.
A&M banged out 15 hits in the first game and scored at least one run in
every inning out the fifth. Jeff Schow started the Ags off right when he
nailed the scoreboard for a homer in the bottom of the first. With two outs,
Fred Gegan slammed a ball to right center just over the 375-foot mark.
However, the big blow to the Broncs came in the second when A&M scored
five runs on four hits.
Gegan added a home run, his eighth of the year, in the sixth and Mike
Scanlin pushed his total homers to seven.
So the Ags guns were blazing. The Ags were hitting so well, the Pan Am
announcers began to compare them to the 1927 New York Yankees “on a
good day.”
“We are hitting the ball real well,” said A&M Coach Mark Johnson.
“We’ve been on a roll offensively since Texas Tech. 1 hope it continues.”
First baseman Gegan remained on the front burner against the Broncs.
Before the Tech series, he went three-for-five. Against the Red Raiders, he
was 12-for-15 and was named Southwest Conference Player of the Week.
Cegan’s parents Hew in from Washington to see their son play and he
didn’t disappointment them. He went four-for-four in the first game with
the two home runs before going one-for-three.
“I have never seen anyone hit the ball so hard for so long,” Johnson said.
“That type of thing doesn’t happen very often. He is having a career in a
week.”
It was a special night for Gegan since his parents were in town.
“I talk to them on the phone and tell them how I did, but it’s just not the
same as them being here,” Gegan said. “I am just feeling real confident at
the plate.”
In the second game, only the die-hards were left feeling the chilly
weather and the hard seats. The corps had dwindled to three and total at
tendance from 3j200 to perhaps only a couple of hundred.
When the bullets are Hying, the wise take cover. And the bombs were
indeed dropping in the second game.
The Ags jumped out to a quick 8-2 lead in the second. Robi Chandler ,
Rob Swain and Greg Wallace all had second inning home runs.
The Broncs brought their own fire power from the valley although they
did manage to steal a missle from the Ags.
Pan Am outfielder Rick Villarreal had a two-run homer in the second to
begin the Bronc rally. He also added a triple and a single.
Villarreal is a former A&M player, having walked-on to the Aggie team
in his freshman year.
By the seventh inning the Broncs had worked their way back to a 9-9 tie
but six walks and a balk were all the Ags needed. Their guns had been
shelved until Wednesday. ,
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