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; Raines’ triple leads NL to 2-0 win in 13 innings
■>AKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Tim
lafiies’ two-run triple in the 13th hi
ring Tuesday night gave the Na-
ioiial League a 2-0 victory over the
Vrmrican League in an All-Star
}ame that made a mockery of base
ball’s year of the home run.
Blaines, the Montreal superstar no
earn wanted during his free agency
ift^i last season, lined a 2-0 pitch
rom Oakland’s Jay Howell to left-
:enter field to decide the third-long-
:st All-Star Game in history. The
sfalionals now have won all eight ex
rajinning games and lead the series
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Bitching dominated like never in
>7 previous All-Star games.
|n the twilight /one of Oakland
Alameda County Coliseum, it was
more like the dead ball era. In the
midsummer showcase of a season of
record paces for home runs and
scoring, the only records set were for
offensive futility.
There were just seven hits by both
teams through nine innings — the
fewest ever — and no All-Star Game
had gone scoreless past the sixth in
ning. Only 11 times before were
there no homers, the last time in
1978.
But Raines, who missed the first
four weeks of the season before re
signing with Montreal, finally pro
duced the verdict.
Atlanta’s Ozzie Virgil opened the
13th with a single, and pitcher Lee
Smith struck out trying to bunt be
cause there were no pinch-hitters
left on the NL bench. Montreal’s
Hubie Brooks singled to right field,
moving Virgil to second, and Willie
McGee filed out before Raines
tripled off Howell, whose 4.96
earned run average was the highest
among the 17 All-Star pitchers.
Smith pitched three innings of
two-hit ball with four strikeouts for
the victory, and Sid Fernandez, the
last player left on the NL roster,
pitched the 13th for a save.
AL starter Bret Saberhagen, Kan
sas City’s 15-game winner, was al
most perfect for three innings and
Detroit’s Jack Morris, Seattle’s Mark
Langston, Milwaukee’s Dan Plesac,
New York’s Dave Righetti and To
ronto’s Tom Henke were nearly as
good.
NL starter Mike Scott of Houston,
Rick Sutcliffe of Chicago and Orel
Hershiser of Los Angeles each
pitched two innings of one-hit ball
before Rick Reuschel of Pittsburgh,
John Franco of Cincinnati, Steve
Bedrosian of Philadelphia and
Smith took over.
Bedrosian, who leads the majors
with 24 saves, saved the NL in the
ninth with his glove and arm.
Bedrosian walked the Yankees’
Dave Winfield and the Red Sox’s
Dwight Evans with one out and the
Manners’ Harold Reynolds followed
with a grounder that first baseman
Keith Hernandez of the New York
Mets fielded and threw to second for
a forceout. The relay from Brooks to
Bedrosian covering first base was
wide, but Bedrosian caught the ball
with a dive, rolled over and threw to
Virgil at the plate, who held on in a
hard collision with the charging
Winfield to finish the double play
and end the inning. It was the sec
ond time Winfield had been doubled
up in scoring position.
In the top of the ninth, the Na
tionals posed their biggest threat
when Raines reached third with one
out with a single, stolen base and
first baseman Mark McGwire’s
throwing error.
Howe reports
to Rangers'
farm team
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —Steve
Howe reported to the Oklahoma
ty 89ers Tuesday declaring him-
f to be in the best shape of his life.
ackson, LA. agree to contract;
aseball still Bo’s main priority
■VUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Heisman
Trophy winner Bo Jackson said
Tuesday that he had agreed to a
coiltract with the Los Angeles Raid
ers that would enable him to fulfill
his dream of playing both profes
sional football and baseball.
jjBackson said he would join the
Bh team in the fall as a running
back after he finishes playing out
field for the Kansas City Royals,
where he is the team’s leading home
run hitter.
■S’eithei Jackson nor his agent,
Richard Woods, would comment on
the terms of the contract. But
sources told the Associated Press
that the deal is for $2.6 million over
five years, including a $1 million
signing bonus. He also will receive a
$1 million loan.
"Ble is believed to receive about
$300,000 a year from the Royals on
iBve-year deal.
BWoods said it may be a few days
before the Raiders contract is
signed.
"Braiders Coach Tom Flores said
Jackson’s agent approached the
team, which had drafted the former
Auburn star in the seventh round*
last April.
B'This all happened in just the last
couple of weeks,” said Flores.
■The 24-year-old Jackson, who
combines power and speed in both
sports, said he would rest “as long as
I need” back home in Alabama after
the baseball season before joining
the Raiders.
When that would be depends on
the success of the Royals, who trail
Minnesota by two games in the
American League West.
If Kansas City fails to win the divi
sion title, its season would be over
Oct. 4, but if the team is involved in
playof fs and World Series, the sea
son could run until November.
If the Royals fail to win their divi
sion, Woods said he expected Jack-
son to be ready for football by early
November — which would be about
halfway through the regular NFL
season.
Jackson said he anticipated being
used on a part-time basis, splitting
time with Marcus Allen and other
backs.
“I don’t have anything to prove to
no one,” Jackson said at a news con
ference near the Auburn campus
where he played both sports. “I’m
doing it because it’s a goal.”
Flores said, “Obviously, we would
find some ways to use him. We said
when we drafted him, we were doing
it with the idea of not disrupting his
baseball career. We feel that if any
body has the ability to play both, he
is the person.”
Jackson was the No. 1 pick in the
1986 NFL draft, but spurned the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Since a year
had gone by, he was again eligible to
be drafted again this year.
The 1985 Heisman Trophy win
ner, who signed with the Royals last
year after turning down a $7 million,
five-year offer from the Bucs, spent
the last half of last season in base
ball’s minor leagues.
This year, he is hitting .254 with a
18 home runs and 45 runs batted in
for Kansas City after surprisingly
making the big-league club.
He also has 115 strikeouts in 277
at-bats, which is on a pace to break
the single-season record of 189 set
by San Francisco’s Bobby Bonds in
1970.
At his news conference, Jackson
said he is pleased with the way his
rookie season is going and pledged
that baseball would continue to be
his “No. 1 priority,” with football
only a part-time job.
“I’m very happy with my perfor
mance,” he said. “The more I play,
the better I get.”
Asked if he thought he might
change his mind and devote all his
energies to football, Jackson said,
“Not in this life.”
Jackson said several times this
year that his football days were over.
Several players have played both
sports on the major league level —
including George Halas, Jim
Thorpe, Steve Filipowicz, Carroll
Hardy, Ace Parker and Tom Brown
— but none recently.
Kerfeld has shaky return
with Astros after AAA stint
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Astros relief pitcher Charlie Ker
feld, a cartoon character of sorts
on his first night back fYom the
minors, wasn’t able to help the
team avoid another loss to the
New York Mets.
After relieving Astros starter
Bob Knepper, Kerfeld held the
Mets scoreless in the eighth in
ning Sunday despite two walks.
But New York outfielders Len
Dykstra and Mookie Wilson
reached base to start the ninth,
and Astros Manager Hal Lanier
chose to take no more chances.
Down came the curtain on Ker
feld, and on came reliever Dave
Smith with the Astros still behind
3-2. T wo more runs were scored
with Smith on the mound, and
Kerfeld was charged with them,
along with the three walks and a
hit.
“I know the fans wanted to see
me strike out six guys in a row,”
said Kerfeld, who nad one strike
out. “It wasn’t exactly the way I
wanted to come in. I just had a
bad day.
“I’ve had plenty of bad days in
Houston,” Kerfeld added. “This
one was just magnified. One day
isn’t the whole season.”
Banished to the club’s AAA
team in Tucson in April after er
ratic work in the Astros’ first 19
games, the 23-year-old right
hander was called back late Satur
day night as Lanier continued his
search for relief help.
Reliever Ron Mathis returned
to Tucson after five weeks with
the Astros to make room for Ker
feld.
A crowd of 33,582 welcomed
Kerfeld, whose off-beat antics —
unlike last year — failed to make
Astros management laugh this
season when his pitching faltered.
Kerfeld has been known to don
cartoon character T-shirts under
his uniform and has worn an ear
ring. During the playoffs last
year, he sprayed fans with cham
pagne after the Astros clinched
the Western Division.
Kerfeld said his demotion to
Tucson in late April did several
things.
“I learned about myself,
mostly. You find out a lot about
yourself when things go bad.”
Bad they were. When he left
for Arizona, after just 12‘/a in
nings pitched for the Astros, his
ERA had ballooned to 9.23. With
the Toros, he went 4-4 with a 4.74
ERA.
What was different, however,
was Kerfeld’s attitude and weight,
which, like his ERA, had bal
looned — to 265 pounds. He now
weighs 249 pounds.
“That probably wouldn’t have
mattered so much if I had been
pitching better,” he said. “But
when you’re not throwing well,
everything adds up.”
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The Texas Rangers signed Howe
to a minor league contract Sunday.
Oklahoma City is the Rangers’
American Association farm team.
“I’m throwing the ball condition-
wise and arm strength-wise right
now as well as 1983,” Howe said. In
that year, the lefthander appeared
in 46 games, had an ERA of 1.44
and had 18 saves.
Texas General Manager Tom
Grieve introduced Howe at a news
conference at All Sports Stadium.
He said Howe would pitch two or
three innings in Tuesday night’s
game against the Iowa Cubs.
“The only thing we know for sure
is that he’ll pitch tonight,” Grieve
said. “I haven’t been in baseball that
long but I do know you don’t make
redictions . . . until you see the per-
brmance on the field.”
Grieve said Howe would make
“no more than two outings” from
the bullpen before starting a game.
“Steve is healthy and ready to
itch,” Grieve said. “He can proba-
ly do more than we think he can.”
Howe answered questions for 40
minutes, while glancing down on the
field where the 89ers were prepar
ing for their 7:35 p.m. game against
Iowa.
“There’s times when I didn’t want
the spotlight and times that I did,”
Howe said. “But it’s there and I have
to deal with it.”
Howe said he’s not nervous about
his initial step in returning to the
majors. “I’m more nervous about
what I say when there’s 50 million
people asking questions,” Howe
quipped. “I can close everything out
out there.”
Howe, the National League’s
Rookie of the Year in 1980, said
whispered threats that this is his last
chance in baseball don’t bother him.
“I don’t look at it that way,” he
said. “I’m going after ROpkie of the
Year again. I’m here to play baseball,
and the days I’m here I’m going to
help Oklahoma City win ballgames.
That’s the way I look at it.”
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