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■ MONTREAL (AP) — Mike Liut
continued his hot goaltending for
Hartford and Stewart Gavin had two
goals and an assist to lead the Hart
ford Whalers to a 4-1 triumph over
the Montreal Canadiens in the open
ing game of their NHL playoff series
Thursday night.
■ Liut, who faced 27 shots, was
working on a shutout until Chris Ni-
lan slid Mats Naslund’s rebound into
the net on a ■■
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midway
through the third period for the Ca
nadiens’ only goal. Up to that point,
the closest Montreal came to scoring
was on Mike McPhee’s shot that
ringed off the goal post in the eighth
minute of the final period.
■After a scoreless first period, the
Whalers struck for three goals on
Canadiens’ goaltender Patrick Roy,
who faced 23 shots. Two of them
came in 3 span of 2:20 early in the
period.
■The second game of the best-of-
seven Adams Division final will be
played at the Montreal Forum Satur-
dav.
Rangers 4, Capitals 3
HLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Brian
MacLellan scored his second goal of
the night, on a breakaway at 1:16 of
overtime, to give the New York
Rangers a 4-3 victory Thursday
night over the Washington Capitals
in the opening game of their best-of-
se\en Patrick Division finals in the
NHL playoffs.
JThe Rangers, who overcame a 3-
1, were winless in their last 21 over
time games — playoff and regular
season — while the Capitals had
played 25 extra-period games with
out a loss since last losing in the play-
offson April 13, 1984.
■The Rangers, who upset division
champion Philadelphia in the first
iCrtfJi round, sent the game into overtime
on goals by Mark Osborne and Mike
r. The if Rkiley.
■Osborne ignited the comeback
with a shorthanded goal at 17:33 of
the second period. Ridley, a rookie,
1C scdred on a backhanded shot during
Iv a scramble in front of goaltender
" Pete Peelers at 9:37 of the third pe
riod It was Ridley’s fourth goal of
the playoffs.
■lame 2 will be played in the Capi
tal Centre Saturday night.
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Rangers ‘walk’
by Brewers, 7-5
Cubs nip Expos on homer in 13th
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MON I REAL (AP) — Chicago’s Shawon Dunston
and Montreal’s Jeff Reardon both were surprised
when Dunston cracked a home run in the top of the
13th inning to notch a 7-6 Cub victory over the Expos
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tact, but I was surprised when it
went out,” the Cubs’ shortstop said of his home run off
Reardon.
Dunston’s homer was Chicago’s third of the game
and made a winner of Lee Smith, 1-2, who worked
three innings, allowingjust one hit.
Giants 4, Padres 1
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —Jeffrey Leonard had a
two-out, three-rufi double in the third inning and
Mike Krukow pitched a five-hitter for the San Fran
cisco Giants, who beat San Diego 4-1 Thursday to end
the Padres’ season-opening streak of one-run games at
10.
Mets-Cardinals (ppd)
NEW YORK (AP) — Thursday’s St. Louis Cardi-
nals-Mets York Mets game was rained out and re
scheduled as part of a double-header on Sunday, Aug.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwau
kee pitchers walked five Texas bat
ters in a three-run ninth inning, and
reliever Ray Searage’s wild pitch al
lowed Pete O’Brien to score the win
ning run Thursday as the Rangers
defeated the Brewers 7-5.
The three-hour, 27-minute game
saw a total of 21 walks, 21 strikeouts
and six wild pitches.
“That was bad,” said Milwaukee
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berger, whose
Brewers lost their fifth straight.
“That’s a nightmare. Base on balls
will kill you.”
Rookie starter Bobby Witt pitched
a no-hitter through five innings, but
his eight walks and four wild pitches
allowed the Brewers to score twice.
Texas Manager Bobby Valentine
replaced Witt with Ricky Wright at
the beginning of the sixth with the
score 2-2.
“1 wish I could have left him in
there,” Valentine said. “But I know
he’s not going to get a complete
game.”
Searage, 0-1, was the loser. Greg
Harris, the final Texas pitcher
raised his record to 2-1.
The Rangers, who entered the
ninth inning trailing by a run, 5-4,
scored three times — on three walks,
an infield out, a wild pitch by Sea-
rage, and a single by Don Slaught
that drove home the insurance run.
The Rangers had led 4-2 entering
the bottom of the eighth, when the
Brewers scored three runs on Jim
Gantner’s RBI double, Charlie
Moore’s RBI single and a sacrifice
fly by Mike Felder.
Tigers 10, White Sox 6
CHICAGO (AP) — A two-run sin
gle by Mike Laga and Alan Tram
mell’s' run-scoring double keyed a
five-run eighth inning Thursday
night, rallying the Detroit Tigers to a
10-6 victory over the Chicago White
Sox.
The Tigers, trailing 6-4 after
seven, got a single by Kirk Gibson
and walk to Lance Parrish to finish
reliever Dave Schmidt. Darrell
Evans walked against loser Juan Ag-
osto, 0-1, to load the bases.
Reliever Bob James came in and
struck out Chet Lemon. But Laga,
who drove in three runs, singled
home two to tie the score. Trammell
broke the tie with his double and
Larry Herndon added a two-run
triple.
Red Sox 6, Royals 2
BOSTON (AP) — Don Baylor’s
grand slam with two out in the
eighth inning Thursday broke a 2-2
tie and gave the Boston Red Sox a 6-
2 victory over the Kansas City.Roy
als.
Baylor, acquired from the New
York Yankees in spring training,
drilled his third homer of the season
and 11 th grand slam of his career
off Kansas City reliever. Steve Farr,
who hadn’t allowed a run in 8% in
nings this year.
Blue Jays 3-7, Orioles 5-4
TORONTO (AP) — Cliff John
son broke a 4-4 tie with a run-scor
ing single in the eighth inning, and
Willie Upshaw followed with a two-
run triple, to lead the Toronto Blue
Jays to a 7-4 victory over the Balti
more Orioles and a split of their
Thursday double-header.
In the opener, starter Mike Flana
gan and three relievers combined on
a five-hitter and Cal Ripken Jr. hit a
two-run homer, his first of the year,
to power the Orioles to a 5-3 victory.
Indians 6, Yankees 4
CLEVELAND (AP) — Phil
Niekro, released by New York dur
ing spring training, pitched three-hit
ball over seven innings Thursday
night for his 301st career victory as
the Cleveland Indians defeated the.
Yankees 6-4.
The 47-year-old Niekro, 1-1, used
his knuekleball and an astoundingly
slow changeup to snap New York’s
five-game winning streak. He re
tired 14 straight batters in one
stretch.
Twins 4, Angels 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Left
hander Frank Viola survived a
streak of wildness in the sixth inning
to pitch a five-hitter, and Greg
Gagne drove in two runs as the Min
nesota Twins beat the California An
gels 4-1 Thursday night.
Viola, 2-1, had a two-hit shutout
until he walked George Hendrick
with the bases loaded in the sixth. In
pitching his first complete game, Vi
ola struck out eigth and walked
three.
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