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American League Jackson’s home run lays out Red Sox By FRED ROTHENBERG AP Sports Writer Bunters build runs a base at a time. Home run hitters, an impatient lot, deliver them in four-base clusters. Reggie Jackson is no bunter. In the ninth inning of a score less game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, Jackson was flashed the bunt sign to advance Thur man Munson to second base. He squared around on the first and third pitches, but didn’t offer at tosses by Boston’s Reggie Cleveland. “I had to talk to (third base Coach Dick) Howser about the sign because I don’t bunt often enough to know it,” said Jack son. Unable to gently lay the ball down, Jackson worked the count to 3-2 and instead laid out the Red Sox, smacking his 26th home run of the season and giving the Yankees a 2-0 victory Wednesday night. The triumph, the Yankees’ second in two games in a crucial three-game series with the Red Sox, lifted New York 3% games ahead of third-place Boston in the American League East. Baltimore, with 6-5 and 4-2 National League Anderson, Tanner keep the faith By BARRY WILNER AP Sports Writer Despite their nearly-hopeless positions in the National League divisional races, Cincinnati’s Sparky Anderson and Pitt sburgh’s Chuck Tanner are keeping the faith. Anderson’s Reds came from behind with six runs in the final two innings to nip Los Angeles 9- 8 Wednesday, leaving at four the Dodgers’ magic number for clinching the Western Division. The Reds trail the Dodgers by \2Vi games. The Pirates were rained out after leading St. Louis 2-0 in the third inning, but that didn’t dampen Tanner’s spirits. With the Phillies losing to the Mets 1- 0, Pittsburgh gained one-half game in the standings and is 7% games back. Elsewhere in the National League, San Francisco nipped Houston 3-2, San Diego took At lanta 6-4 and Montreal outlasted Chicago 3-2 in 12 innings. “That was a courageous comeback we made,” Anderson said after Ken Griffey smashed a two-run homer in the ninth inning to win the game. An in ning earlier, the Reds scored four times, three on Cesar Geronimo’s home run. George Foster also belted a homer, his 48th, tops in the major leagues, and knocked in his 137th run as the Reds beat Tommy John for Sports World An AP Sports Analysis | JgT f \ By WILL GRIMSLEY k /ft/ AP Special Correspondent Ifiartin wants pennant “We’re going to win the pennant — I’ve never doubted that,” Billy Martin said. “I felt that way last April. I feel that way now.” The scrappy little manager of the New York Yankees was a picture of contentment and confidence as he sat in the swivel chair of his Yankee Stadium office, puffing on a pipe, his feet propped on a desk. The clouds of controversy that had swirled around his head in mid-season had evaporated. The Yankees had drawn first blood in the important showdown series against the Boston Red Sox. The infantile family feuds somehow had gotten lost in the mad rush toward another World Series. “This is the kind of team that rises to the big occasion,” Martin said. “It is at its best when the going is toughest.” The combative one-time Yankees infielder said he did not underestimate the Red Sox — “They always come out swinging” — but felt the schedule was the ally of the Yankees. “The Red Sox have six games left with the (Baltimore) Orioles,” he said. “That’s the rub. I look for them to split those games 3-3.” The Yankees meet Boston for the last two times next Monday and Tuesday at Fenway Park. The telephone on Martin’s desk rang repeatedly. Someone asking about tickets. A private call (“I’ll call victories over Toronto, sneaked into second place, 2% games behind New York. Elsewhere in the AL, Detroit swept a pair from Cleveland, 5-3 and 2-1; Kansas City beat Oakland twice, 5-2 and 6-0; Minnesota blanked the Chicago White Sox 7-0; Texas edged California 2-1, and Milwaukee beat Seattle 8-5. Orioles 6-4, Blue Jays 4-2 Lee May belted a two-run homer, his 23rd, in the first game and smacked a run-scor ing double in the nightcap, pac ing the Orioles to their sixth and seventh straight victories. Royals 5-6, A’s 2-0 The Royals continued to make a mockery of the race in the AL West, winning their 13th and 14th straight games, a club record and a major league high this season. The Royals’ magic number now is nine; they lead second-place Chicago by nine games. Dennis Leonard hurled an eight-hitter in the second game and Jim Colbom scattered sev en hits but needed relief help from Larry Gura in the final two innings of the opener. Rangers 2, Angels 1 Texas right-hander Doyle Al only the second time ever. John, 18-6, got home run sup port from Dave Lopes, Steve Yeager and Steve Garvey, who had four hits and his 30th homer. Pittsburgh’s plight is not quite as discouraging as Cincin nati’s. “We’re not out of it until we’re two games out and there’s just one to go,” said Tanner. “A collapse has happened before. One weekend can change a season. One club can get hot and another cold.” BASEBALL STANDINGS 5 -. Baseball At A Glance By The Associated Press National League East ..W L Pet. GB Phila 90 55 .621 - Pitts 83 63 .568 7% S Louis 76 69 .524 14 Chicago 75 69 .521 14% Montreal 67 78 .462 23 N York 58 87 .400 32 West Los Ang 89 57 .610 - Cinci 77 70 .524 12% Houston 73 73 .500 16 S Fran 68 79 .463 21% S Diego 64 84 .432 26 Atlanta 55 91 .377 34 exander stopped California on three hits and became the win ningest Ranger pitcher this sea son with 15 victories against 10 losses. Texas’ John Ellis drilled his third home run of the year in the third inning. Tigers 5-2, Indians 3-1 A sacrifice fly by Ron LeFlore in the 10th inning gave the Tigers a doubleheader sweep. The Tigers had ended a six game losing string in the open er, in which Tim Corcoran dou bled home two runs and Ben Oglivie pounded out four hits, including a solo homer. Twins 7, White Sox 0 Dave Goltz, 18-9, checked the White Sox on seven hits and be came the first pitcher to throw a complete-game shutout against them this season. The Twins snapped a six-game losing streak. Brewers 8, Mariners 5 Sixto Lezcano’s three-run homer in the fifth highlighted a Milwaukee comeback that en abled the Brewers to wipe out a 5-0 Seattle lead. Reliever Eduardo Rodriguez allowed Seattle just four hits over the final 7 1-3 innings. Metsl,Phillieso Nino Espinosa outdueled Philadelphia mound star Steve Carlton to help the Pirates. Es pinosa hurled a three-hitter, struck out four and walked three. He also knocked in the game’s only run with a single in the fifth. Giants 3, Astros 2 Rookie left-hander Bob Knep per carried a three-hitter into the ninth inning for the Giants but needed relief from Dave Heaverlo and John Curtis to hold off Houston. American League East W L Pet. GB N York 90 56 .616 - Balt 87 58 .600 2% Boston 86 59 .593 3% Detroit 69 78 .469 21% □eve 66 81 .449 24% Milwkee 62 87 .416 29% Toronto 48 96 .333 41 West K.C. 89 54 .622 - Chicago 81 64 .559 9 Texas 79 65 .549 10% Minn 78 68 .534 12% Calif 69 74 .483 20 Oakland 56 86 .394 32% Seattle 57 91 .385 34% you later”). A business call. No call from owner George Steinbrenner. “You seem to have run out of crises,” someone said. Martin laughed. “The last thing I want is another crisis,” he said. “I want to keep everything nice and quiet.” Reggie Jackson is nodding politely now to Thurman Munson. Mickey Rivers is hitting game-winning home runs instead of being accused of loafing. And Graig Nettles, who rarely takes batting practice, is taking vicious cuts in the cage. Martin’s office, just off the players’ dressing quarters, i is a spacious room ringed with cushiony sofas and chairs, cluttered with baseball memorabilia, lined with book shelves. A giant fish is mounted behind the manager’s desk, a to ken of his otherlove, and close by a huge poster of Charles Schultz’ Charlie Brown, standing morosely on the pit cher’s mound under an umbrella in a pouring rain. The inscription: “Thought for the Day: A smile makes a lousy umbrella.” On one shelf is a marker reading: “Billy Martin No. 1” and hanging on the wall nearby a poster defining what it calls, “Company Rules — Rule 1, The boss is always right; Rule 2, if the boss is wrong, see Rule 1.” A photo of a younger Casey Stengel in a Dodgers uniform and a color sketch of an older Stengel, doffing his cap, attest to Martin’s devotion to his craggy old boss. “No, I haven’t patterned my philosophy as a manager after Casey,” Billy said. “Everybody has his own way of managing. But I learned a lot from Casey as I did from all the managers I played for. “One thing I learned. That was never to say T when I meant ‘we,’ never say ‘my ball club’ instead of ‘our ball club.’ “Also that playing is more fun than managing — and pays a heck of a lot better, too.” Orioles Catcher Rick Dempsey makes tag on Blue Jays’ Rick Cerone. Second race today ' Alan Bond wants to take America’s Cup to Australia NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - If Alan Bond has his way this year, the famous silver mug called the America’s Cup will be leaving the trophy room at the New York Yacht Club and heading for Sun City near Perth, Australia. Bond heads the Australia syndicate, this year’s Cup chal lenger. He is rich, witty, driving and determined. He’s a real estate developer, owns two life insurance companies, a brick making plant and a mining company. Sailing, he says, is a hobby — one on which he has spent millions of dollars. He became interested in the America’s Cup in 1970 when his 53-foot sailboat shared a moor ing with the American 12-meter racing yachts. “We happened to be moored at the same jetty and the American boats weren’t too keen to let us have a look at them. We were also sharing a sail loft and they started a bit of a rumpus about that,” said Bond, who traditionally is one of the best rumpus-starters in Newport. “Everything about the Amer ican boat was a big secret. Well, we were walking down the jetty and this American skipper started yelling, ‘Don’t look at our boat,’ and got all nasty and sparky about it, and I said, ‘Gosh, you guys are so up tight about this whole thing, I’ll come over here and beat you myself.’ It’s just a yacht race, after all.” Bond had one slight obstacle to overcome before he could mount a challenge. There were no facilities in Western Austral ia to accomodate a 12-meter. So he built a harbor, a yacht club and a town — Sun City — “be cause we couldn’t have had a challenge without it.” A failure by Southern Cross, Bond’s boat in 1974, to win the Cup didn’t dampen his en- thusiasm. “I feel the Americans can be beaten. They’re so uptight about it.” Australia, Bond’s boat this time, beat two challengers, France I and Sweden’s Sverige, and is a fast boat, especially in light air. Although she lost Tuesday to Courageous in the first race of the best-of-seven Cup series, Australia has proved she is competitive. Weather permitting, the two boats were to race again today. Bond says a summer of rac ing off Newport has honed the boat and crew. The sails are tuned, the boat is tuned and the crew is in top form, he said. As for Courageous’ skipper, Ted Turner, Bond said he thinks he is the easiest to beat of the Americans who fought for the right to defend the Cup this summer. 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The Homewreckers defeated the Firm Foundations 3-1, Studs defeated the Body Builders 4-0, Nuts and Bolts downed the Sawdusters 4-0, the Ham merheads and the Putty Bud dies tied, 2-2 and the Sore Thumbs stopped the Screw drivers 4-0. i —Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 15,1977 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ SPORTS ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Padres defeat Braves, 6-4 SAN DIEGO (AP) - The San Diego Padres aren’t going anywhere special this season, but right fielder Dave Winfield still has some personal goals he’d like to attain. “I’m just trying to finish up this season as best I can,” Win field said after reaching one of his two major objectives during a 6-4 Padre victory over the At lanta Braves Wednesday night. Winfield scored three runs during the triumph, bringing his runs scored total to an even 100 for the year. No other player in Padre history ever scored more than 92 in a season. “I would also like to get the 100 RBI,” Winfield added, “but I’m going to have to start hitting the ball a little better to do it. I haven’t been making real good contact lately.” Winfield, however, made good contact in the eighth in ning off Braves’ reliever Max Leon and the result was the big outfielder’s 25th home run of the season to bring his RBI total to 89. That makes Winfield’s season already the best with the Pa dres after arriving five years ago directly from the University of Minnesota as a No. 1 draft choice. “I’m just sorry we haven’t David Brown wins mid-week tourney David Brown won first place in the championship flight in the Mid-Week Golf Tournament at Cabin Creek Golf Club. Jim Hice took second in the flight and Gay McMichael won third. Morris Corckarell won fourth. David Lewis was the winner of the first flight. Jim Brewer made more team progress,” he said. “I think everyone is just looking forward for this season to end so we can regroup a little.” The victory ended a six-game losing streak for the Padres and moved them eight full games ahead of the last-place Braves in the National League West. “We’ve got youth and we’ve got talent on this team,” said Atlanta manager Dave Bristol. “If some of these guys all start coming together at once, some good things can happen.” San Diego got it together Wednesday night as Jerry Turner, Gene Richards and Dave Roberts all collected three hits to pace a 12-hit Padre at tack. Right-handed Dan Spillner picked up the win in relief to improve his record to 7-5 with help from ace reliever Rollie Fingers. Fingers, who replaced Spill ner with one out in the eighth and the Padres leading 5-4, blanked the Braves the rest of the way to earn his 33rd save of the year. Preston Hanna, a right-hand ed rookie, worked the first sev en innings and absorbed the loss for the Braves to see his record dip to 2-5. was second, Wendell Rhodes third and Ophra Pitts fourth. Hugh Hillard was the winner of the second flight. Chester Kile won second. Melvin Wages won third place and Bobby Phillips won fourth. The next Mid-Week Tour nament will be Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 1 p.m.
