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Friday, September 16, 1988/The Battalion/Page 11 by!C oles;: 4-hitter over Reds shows age isn’t weakening Ryan CINCINNATI (AP) — Nolan Ryan’s star hasn’t burned out at age 41 Hlhs latest shining moment was a step back in time, to the days when he could overpower hitters with his fastball. Ryan pitched a four-hitter Wednesday night to lead Houston to af-1 victory over the admiring (Cin cinnati Reds. ^■‘He pitched a masterpiece,” As- irps manager I lal Lanier said. Hit was artistic, with Ryan’s usual broad strokes. He threw a fastball docked at 96 mph in the first inning. He allowed just four hits and fanned a season-high 13. He didn’t walk a baiter for his second consecutive start. H’lt was a pleasure playing against hon, and it’s a pleasure watching hin,” Reds manager Pete Rose said. Hlhe pleasure’s been Ryan’s since tht All-Star break. ^Hfyan went into a deep slump in June, going 0-5 in seven starts with a 6.20 earned run average. He beat New York on July 9 to end the skid, and wound up 6-7 with a 4.26 ERA at i he All-Star break. Hlhe Ryan Express has rolled again in the second half. He’s 6-4 in 13 starts for the weak-hitting Astros with a 2.60 ERA. H’He’s pitched well since the All- Star break,” Lanier said. “We’ve started scoring some runs for him. He’s pitched some big ballgames for us.” Astros make ready before hurricane ■CINCINNATI (AP) — The Houston Astros had more than base ball on their minds Thursday night when they prepared to play the Cin cinnati Reds. ■Some of the Astros were making long-distance preparations for Hur ricane Gilbert, which is heading for northeastern Mexico and the South eastern coast of Texas. V': Pitcher Nolan Ryan, who beat the Reds Wednesday night, took an eafly flight home Thursday morn ing to help prepare his ranch near Galveston for the arrival of the hur ricane. ; “In 1983 it took me six months to recover from the storm w'e had,” Ryan said. “You get a tremendous amount of wund damage with some- thiig like this.” gfpther Astros listened for reports of the hurricane’s advance. ^■We’re all concerned, jut like ev- enfbody else in Texas,” Manager Hal Lanier said. Hl’m a little concerned about my house,” he said. “Eve got 20-foot ceilings and eight big windows in the living room. I’ve got to find some way to tape them up or cover them tip; ^■’he Astros had a chartered flight home after their game Thursday night against Cincinnati. ■ club spokesman said no prob lems were anticipated returning to Houston. || The Astros are scheduled to play a weekend series against San Fran cisco in the Astrodome. NBC. which was scheduled to broadcast the Saturday game as the nationwide backup feed, cancelled itsltelecast for safety reasons, a net work spokesman said. HfNTK'' did not want to send any crews into areas that may be affected bylhe storm. His most recent starts have been hi= B^st. Ryan has allowed just four earned runs and 22 hits in his last five starts, covering 39 innings. Ryan, who has led his league in walks eight times during his career, hasn’t allowed a w'alk in his last 20 in nings. While the wmlks get fewer, the strikeouts remain plentiful. He leads the National League with 224 strike outs, and has fanned 10 or more bat ters seven times this season to push his total in that category to 181. His career numbers are 4,771 strikeouts and 273 wins against 253 Davis, Larkin power Reds past Astros 7-5 CINCINNATI (AP) — Eric Davis and Barry Larkin drove in two runs apiece to lead the Cin cinnati Reds to a 7-5 victory over the Houston Astros Thursday night. The Astros rallied from a 6-2 deficit on sixth-inning homers by Billy Hatcher and reliever Danny Darwin off starter Norm Charl ton, but w'ere shut down by the Reds’ bullpen over the last three innings. John Franco pitched the ninth to gain his league-leading 34th save in 36 opportunities. The loss dropped the second- place Astros to seven games be hind Los Angeles in the National League West. Charlton, 2-4, got his second victory in seven major league starts despite allowing five runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings. The Reds handed Bob Forsch, 10-5, one of his w'orst drubbings of the season. Forsch had allowed more than three runs just once in his previous 14 starts for St. Louis and Houston. The right-hander suffered his first loss since being traded to Houston. He’s 1-1 in three starts for the Astros. Cincinnati got to Forsch early Thursday. Chris Sabo singled in the first, Kal Daniels walked, and the runners executed a double steal. Davis then hit a soft single to right for his National League leading 21st game-winning RBI. Larkin led off the third wath his 11th homer and his first since July 1. Davis reached on a field er’s choice later in the inning and scored on Paul O’Neill’s double off the wall in right. Nick Esasky’s RBI single capped the rally. The Reds knocked Forsch out of the game in the fourth with a run on doubles by Ron Oester and Larkin. Hot-hitting Rafael Ramirez drove in Houston’s first two runs with a double in the second and a single in the fourth, giving him a seven-game hitting streak and 12 hits in his last 26 at-bats. The Astros cut the lead to one in the sixth on Hatcher’s two-run homer, his sixth, and Darwin’s first major-league homer in 136 at-bats. Darwin relieved Forsch in the fourth. A’s beat Rangers, close in on AL West title OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dave Parker drove in three runs w'ith a pair of singles as the Oak land Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 Thursday, moving another step closer to the Ameri can League West title. The A’s magic number for clinching the division race w ; as cut to five. They began the day with an 11 ‘/a-game lead over second- place Minnesota, which played Chicago at night. Rookie Todd Burns, 7-2, pitched his second complete game, allowing seven hits, strik ing out six and walking one to best the Rangers’ Bobbv Witt, 6- 10. Storm Davis was scheduled to start for Oakland but was scratched after complaining of a stiff neck while warming up. Dave Henderson and Parker had RBI singles in the first in ning. The Rangers made it 2-1 in the second on a single by Ruben Sierra, who had three hits, and a triple by Chad Kreuter. Parker had a two-run single in the fifth, when the A’s got three consecutive singles after Hender son walked with one out. Oakland’s fifth run came on Tony Phillips’ first homer of the season, a leadoff drive in the sixth. Terry Steinbach led off the bottom of the eighth with his sev enth homer of the season to make it 6-1. Geno Petralli hit his seventh home run with one out in the top of the ninth for Texas to com plete the scoring. Cards snap losing streak, beat Phillies 3-1 PHI LADELPHIA (AP) —Set>11 Terry won his seventh straight decision and the St. Louis Cardi nals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 Thursday, snapping a three- game losing streak. Terry, 9-3, struck out six and walked none in eight innings. He made his first start on Aug. 11 and he has allowed 1 1 runs in 57 innings mm eight starts, a 1./4 earned run average. Todd Worrell finished for his 30th save. Shane Rawley, 7-15, gave up nine hits and three runs in 6 1-3 innings. 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