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| HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
$fana^er Hal Lanier was in a more
conciliatory mood Sunday after the
Astros 3-2 win over the San Diego
Padres than he was after being cnt-
Ja/ed by General Manager Dick
K^««^^f^p.;.|yagner after a loss on Saturday
I Lanier had complained about the
* : mstros failure to make trades that
i^eould have strengthened the team
during the pennant race.
I “I said we needed more pitching,
Hut I was not singling out Wagner,”
anier said. “I think Dick Wagner
d I can settle our problems. This
olrganization has to get along to be
successful.
■ “You can’t point the finger at him
(Wagner). He can’t swing a bat for
our hitters and that’s been our prob
lem."
I Pinch-hitter Jim Pankovits’ bases-
loaded single in the ninth inning
provided the Astros with their win
ning margin and snapped an eight-
the Astros. The Astros had lost five
straight and the Padres had won
four straight overall.
“We still have something to play
for. There’s still money to be made,”
Pankovits said. “People pay money
to come see us play and it’s not that
hard to give 100 percent,” said Pan
kovits.
Mike Scott, 16-12, was the winner,
pitching his eighth complete game
of the season and giving up two runs
on four hits while striking out seven
and walking three.
“Obviously we’d like to be playing
for more than second, but we get
paid to play 162 games and we’ve got
to do the best we can,” Scott said. “I
got ahead of the batters better today
than I have recently and I threw
more strikes than I have been throw
ing.”
Kevin Bass led off the ninth with a
double. An intentional walk to
Glenn Davis and an intentional walk
to pinch-hitter Davey Lopes, after
Chuck Jackson’s sacrifice bunt,
loaded the bases before Pankovits
delivered the game-winning hit.
Mark Davis, 8-8, was the loser in
relief of starter Eric Nolle, giving up
two hits and a run.
Houston scored its first two runs
with the help of infield throwing er
rors.
The Astros grabbed a 1-0 lead in
the second after Davis reached first
on a throwing error by third base-
man Tim Flannery. Davis moved to
second on Ken Caminiti’s sacrifice
bunt before Ronn Reynolds
doubled.
They made it 2-0 in the fifth when
Reynolds reached first on a throw
ing error by shortstop Luis Salazar
and went to second on Scott’s sacri
fice. Reynolds advanced to third on
Gerald Young’s single and scored
when Bill Hatcher’s grounder
forced Young.
The Padres tied the score 2-2 in
the seventh on a single by Carmelo
Martinez, a double by Marvell
Wynne, an RBI grounder by Flann
ery and a sacrifice fly by Salazar.
Benito Santiago, whose 23 game-
hitting streak is the longest in the
National League this year and ties
the longest hitting streak by a rookie
in modern major-league history, did
not play.
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ARLINGTON (AP) — Because
has a long memory, Texas Rang-
s designated hitter Darrell Porter
as able to drive in the winning run
ithout taking the bat off his shoul-
r.
With the bases loaded and one out
the 10th inning, Porter drew a
%ilk off California reliever De-
Wayne Buice to give the Rangers a
2-1 victory Sunday and a sweep of
their three-game series with the An-
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■ “I’d faced him earlier in the sea
son, and he made me bite on some
load changeups,” said Porter. “I de
cided not to swing until he threw a
Strike, and he didn’t.”
I The four-pitch walk was the third
of the inning for Buice, who came
on after loser Greg Minton, 4-4,
gave up a leadoff single to Scott
Fletcher.
Reliever Steve Howe, 3-3, earned
the victory with two perfect innings
after replacing starter Charlie
Hough to open the ninth.
“Walking isn’t new to me,” said
Porter, who won the opener of the
six-game homestand by walking with
the bases loaded to beat the Oakland
Athletics. “I’ve always had a good
eye. I think that was the 900th walk
of my career.”
After Fletcher stole second, Buice
walked Pete O’Brien intentionally,
then walked Tom O’Malley to load
the bases for Porter.
“We had our mind made up,” said
California Manager Gene Mauch.
“Minton would get Fletcher and
Buice would finish up. It didn’t hap
pen today, and it hasn’t happened a
lot lately.”
Hough commited two balks for an
American League one-season record
and hit three batters for a franchise
record.
In the first, with Devon White on
first, Hough commited his eighth
balk of the season, tying the Ameri
can League record set by Frank Tan-
ana in 1978.
Two batters later, he hit Wally
Joyner with a pitch for his 13th hit
batsman of the season, tying a Rang
ers record set in 1972 by Pete Bro-
berg. Hough, a knuckleballer, then
broke the record when he hit Brian
Downing in the fifth and hit Joyner
again in the seventh.
His balk following Downing’s one-
out single in the seventh set a league
record and set up California’s tying
run when Downing scored on
Johnny Ray’s two-out single.
With the victory, the Rangers im
prove their season record to 73-76
and increased their lead over Cali
fornia to 4 , /2 games. Both teams
however, trail first-place Minnesota,
which has a 79-70 record.
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