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Thursday, April 17,1986/The Battalion/Page 11 yan hits game-winner s Astros zap Giants, 4-1 a National league AN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nolan Ryan had a routine day on the mound with nine strikeouts, but the 39-year-old fireballer came up with something special at the plate — the first game-winning hit of his 19-year career. giRvan, who had a .122 career bat ting average, lined a two-out, two- run single with the bases loaded in a I the second inning Wednesday to pace the Hous- — ton Astros to a 4-1 victory over the San Fran- a cisco Giants. I Hi didn't realize that was it,” Ryan S|Pf: said of his game-winning RBI. “A big RBI man like me, that is pretty surprising,” he added with a w'ry (AP) - smile. ednesdajff he game-winning RBI statistic ackieft has been used only since 1980, when hi s , Rvan went to Houston af ter eight years in the American League. But he paid he couldn’t recall ever having one in his four years with the New ly thatihtf () f ^ Mets from 1968 to 1971. rjjj^Pecond-vear Giants pitcher Roger n j venr Mason said he gave Rvan a “way too fat’ fastball over tbe middle of the plate on the first pitch and Rvan :k invo ’pufched k to ^ft. theschodB*^ was a mistake pitch on his he maiit part,” said Ryan, 2-1. “A pitcher needs to take advantage of every op- may fe [boa (unity that arises.” y true,"hat was all Ryan needed. He al- Steve H lowed six hits, three walks and one iecase,ii unearned run before leaving after gram. 1AA repif aw no teeming innings. Reliever Dave Smith came in ter record his league-leading third save with one-hit pitching the rest of the w ay. Ryan, the all-time major league strikeout king, boosted his career strikeout total to 4,101 before a crowd of 3,590. Ryan avenged his opening-day loss to the Giants in Houston after ending a first-inning threat by strik ing out Bob Brenly following a dou ble by Joel Youngblood atnd a walk and wild pitch to Jeff Leonard. Kevin Bass opened the second-in ning rally against Mason, 0-1, with a one-out double off the right field fence. Mason then walked Denny Walling and Mark Bailey and struck out Dickie Thon before giving up the hit to Ryan. Rain started to fall in the third in ning when the Astros made it 3-0 on Phil Garner’s double and Bass’ grounder up the middle which ca reened off second base for a single. The Giants scored an unearned run off Ryan after a w'alk and an er ror in the eighth as second baseman Bill Doran lost Brenly’s RBI pop fly single in the first bright sunshine of the day. “I just couldn’t see it,” Doran said. “I felt bad because it cost (Ryan) his ~ shutout.” Reds 5, Braves 3 ATLANTA (AP) — Dave Con cepcion hit two home runs and drove in three runs, and piheh-hitter Tracy Jones drove in the tie-break ing run with a sacrifice fly as the Cin cinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 5-3 Wednesday night. With the Reds trailing 3-2, Con cepcion opened the seventh inning by lining Rick Mahler’s first pitch for his first homer of the year. He also hit a first-pitch homer off reliever Bruce Sutter in the eighth. Bo Diaz followed the seventh-in ning homer with a single. He was re placed by pinch-runner Eric Davis, who raced to third on Ron Oester’s single to right, chasing Mahler, 1-2. Jones greeted reliever Paul Assen- macher with a fly, scoring Davis with the go-ahead run. John Denny, 1-0, allowed six hits, walked two and fanned four in six innings. John Franco, the third Cin cinnati pitcher, worked the final in ning for his second "Save. Phillies-Pirates (ppd) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The game between the Philadelphia Phil lies and Pittsburgh Pirates," sched uled for Wednesday night at Veter ans Stadium, was postponed because of rain. It was the second straight postponement of the series, and the games will be made up in twi-night double-headers Aug. 15-16. Mets-Cards (ppd) NEW YORK (AP) — Wednesday’s scheduled game at Shea Stadium be tween the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets was postponed because of rain. The game was re scheduled as part of a twi-night dou bleheader Aug. 14. Royals ride 2-hitter, nip Red Sox spomibfe hletic pttj sibilitv fe hen a me teoitiKtiHjOSTON (AP) — Steve Balboni belted a long homer and Bret Saber- hagen allowed only two hits Wednes- lsani ' da\ as the Kansas City Royals posted thir fourth victory in a row with a 1- ' : Ochcision over the Boston Red Sox. in cialctt^p a llj 0n j s second home run of the depan:!;|»j S()M which led off the second in- ^rganiza/.'-fejl g against aiding:- Boston’s A1 thletes.’ Ki, ■Ipper, was all mplv, itijSiber ha ge n needed for his season. or the - partku t,” Horn te school American League first victory of the Baberhagen, the 1986 American League Cy Young Award winner lionoftM an d the World Series MVP, allowed that itc#ilM v singles by Tony Armas with two what theirJtojHri the second and by Don Baylor leading off the fifth. Neither Armas nor Baylor advanced beyond first. questtot ■plie on ly other Red Sox runner llegedth was Wade Boggs, who walked and an ant 1 was erased as Jim Rice grounded lease if- into his third double play in eight make games in the fourth. auenrS| 1 ab 5 rha g en struck « ut 1 . six and walked just one in outduelmg Nip- pet, 1-1, who went the distance. ’tit.: Twins 7, A’s 5 1INNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gary Gaetti hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning off Oakland reliever h leant Keith Atherton Wednesday, lifting tochooseefl ■gin. All If I same timt' ■d on a hi The m ace retthl place m. Theif j: , :ore is tfe 1 the Minnesota Twins to a 7-5 victory over the A’s. With two outs in the 10th, Mark Salas reached on an infield hit. Gaetti then hit a two-strike pitch deep over the left-center field fence as the Twins snapped a four-game losing streak. Ron Davis, 1-0, earned the victory in relief of Twins starter Burt Blyle- ven with 1% innings of one-hit work. Atherton, 1-1, took the loss. Salas had hit a one-out homer in the eighth inning off Jay Howell, the third A’s pitcher, to tie the game 5-5. White Sox 10, Tigers 4 CHICAGO (AP) — Ron Kittle drove in four runs with a three-run hortier and a sacrifice fly and Carl ton Fisk also homered Wednesday night to lead the slump-ridden Chi cago White Sox to a 10-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The triumph, behind the four-hit pitching of Floyd Bannister, Bill Dawley and Bobjjames, was only the second in eight games for the Sox and came at the expense of Walt Terrell, 1-1. The game was disrupted in the seventh inning when a Bannister pitch sailed behind Dave Collins. Collins charged Bannister, 1-1, as both benches emptied, but order was quickly restored. Collins was ejected. Two innings earlier, Detroit’s Randy O’Neal had hit John Cange- losi with a pitch. Blue Jays-Orioles (ppd) TORONTO (AP) — Rain forced postponement of Wednesday’s scheduled game between the Balti more Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays. A Blue Jays’ spokesman said that the game was rescheduled for Thursday as part of a day double- header starting at 2:35 p.m. Rangers-Brewers (ppd) MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wednes day night’s game between the Mil waukee Brewers and Texas Rangers at Milwaukee County Stadium was postponed due to cold weather, a Brewers spokesman announced. The temperature at 4:30 p.m. was 41 degrees, with winds of 23 mph, a team spokesman said. T he game will be made up as part of a twi-night doubleheader at County Stadium on Aug. 1. Yankees-lndians (ppd) CLEVELAND (AP) — Rain forced postponement of Wednes day’s scheduled game between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians. iticipate irbaratof i petition st' 1 one rateij ip. 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