Times-Advocate, 1983-08-17, Page 8Pbge 8
Times -Advocate, August 17, 1983
Sports
Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
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A real battle
After some 115 games have been played in a major
league baseball season, most of the pennant races
should be down to two or possibly three teams.
That's not the case in the American league eastern
division this year with five teams still in contention and
only one and a half games separating the fifth place
Toronto Blue Jays from the Detroit Tigers and
Baltimore Orioles who are tied fur first place.
After losing eight of nine games, a lot of Blue Jays
supporters were beginning to believe their bubble had
burst. But, they forgot to tell Bobby Cox and his players.
They refused to give up on the weekend and bounced
back to take three straight from the Milwaukee
Brewers.
At a Jays dinner in Toronto Thursday noon, many of
the fans were asking what had happened. Paul Molitor
of the Brewers said he knew the Toronto club would
bounce back.
Molitor added, "I just hope we are out of town before
the Jays get out of their slump." That didn't happen and
the Brewers find themselves one game out of first due
mainly to the three game winning streak of the Jays.
We took a quick look at our predictions of March 23
and find we picked Milwaukee, New York and Toronto
in that order in the American league east. Those three
teams are in the thick of the race with the only problem
at the moment being that the other two clubs Detroit
and Baltimore are tied for first.
The Jays are away on a very crucial 14 game road
trip which pits them against the pesky Cleveland In-
dians who have been delighting in upsetting the front
runners, Boston, Baltimore and Detroit.
Fans like this reporter who have joint allegiance for
the Blue Jays and Tigers should be making plans to take
in the September doubleheader in Toronto between the
two clubs. The first game starts at 5:30 p.m. Tickets
will be grabbed up early and should be at a premium
by game time especially if both clubs are still in the pen-
nant race and that is a distinct possibility.
The Blue Jays in their last three wins over Milwaukee
were certainly doing it the hard way. Sunday, they left
the bases loaded three times without scoring a run.
Against Milwaukee the keys were good pitching from
the starters and the bull pen, great defensive plays,
speed on the bases and the uncanny hunches of manager
Bobby Cox. Lloyd Moseby, Dave Collins and George
Bell were great in the outfield.
In recent weeks, Cox has used unusual strategy.
Sometimes he goes strictly with the book on his platoon-
ing system and the next minute he might just go on a
hunch and in most cases his guesses have been right.
His main strength in recent games in the bull pen
have been lefty Dave Giesel and right hander Joey
McLaughlin. For an example Sunday Dave Stieb battl-
ed through eight innings holding the Brewers to a single
run, but when the Jays went ahead in the bottom of the
eighth Cox elected to go with McLaughlin and he
responded with three straight outs. Saturday it was
Dave Giesel coming on in a tough situation and doing
a very credible job.
The Jays continue to be the only major league
baseball team that has gone undefeated in the extra in-
ning games this year. The Jays have won all eight con-
tests that have gone into overtime.
Jays shortstop Alfredo Griffin is continuing his iron
man role and has now played in more than 300 con-
secutive games. in 1982 only Griffin; Dwight Evans and
Toby Ilarrah played in every game of the season.
In a sidelight to the infamous Dave Windfield sea gull
case in Toronto, a New York man has designed a T-shirt
with pictures of George Brett and Dave Windfield and
he calls it Tar and Feathers.
More tournaments
Ball tournaments to completed the season for the
Usborne Minor Baseball As,ociation are continuing this
weekend. A pee wee girls tourney will be held in
Cromarty Saturday while the same day atom teams will
he participating in Hensall.
On the just concluded weekend, Huron Park and
Crediton won the wo championships in the pee wee boys
division.
Lad;es fastball tournament
The Edgewood Penguins are hosting a ladies fastball
tournament at the Granton ball park for four days from
August 18 through 21. A total of 16 top notch teams from
Southwestern Ontario will he competing.
The tourney starts Thursday, August 18 with Usborne
township meeting Nelson Park at 7:30 p.m. and L.M.S.
Rackets taking on the host Edgewood Penguins at 9
p.m.
Three more games will be played Friday night. At
6:30 p.m. it's Stratford against Blanshard with Clark
Equipment meeting Sarnia Swat at 8 p.m. and Blyth
tangling with the London Oldtimers at 9:30 p.m.
The preliminary round will be completed Saturday
morning with Elgin Express and Goderich in action at
8:30 a.m.; Moore Centre meeting Union at 10 a.m. and
the St. Thomas Selects versus Forest at 11:30 a.m.
The B final will be played Sunday at 5:30 p.m. with
the A championship contest going an hour and half
later.
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Co -Op juniors win two Sunday to take north 'B' title
The Exeter Co -Op juniors
have won the northern divi-
sion B championship of the
Great Lakes senior baseball
league and will meet the B
winner from the southern
division. Currently Byron,
Strathroy and Thorndale are
battling for that spot.
Four games were involved
in the north division playoffs
this week. The juniors and the
Exeter Express played a 3-3
tie Thursday night and didn't
really accomplish anything,
so a three game round robin
was arranged for Sunday in-
volving the two Exeter teams
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and Walkerton.
In Sunday's first game
Walkerton edged the Express
4-2. The middle game saw, the
Co-op juniors blast Walkerton
1-5 and in the nightcap the
juniors eliminated the Ex-
press by a score of 10-4.
The opening game between
PART OF TRIPLE PLAY —
near home base was part
Umpire Don Beaver gets
play are Kevin Hern (23)
This tag by pitcher Jim Guenther on a Walkerton runner
of a triple play the Express pulled off in a game, Sunday.
set to make the call while other Express players in the
and Dave Hunt. The Express lost the game, however.
DOWN AND OUT Exeter Express third baseman Kevin Hern (23) hits the dirt
after being upended by a Walkerton player in Sunday's hardball action at the local
diamond. Hern suffered a sprained ankle and is shown being carted off the field
by Dave Hunt, Ken Pinder and Jack Chipchase. He returned to the second game
the Express played on Sunday.
Royals blank Sylvan
Hodgins
Rob Holden's leadoff single
in the seventh inning broke up
Exeter Royals pitcher Brian
Hodgins' bid for a perfect
game as the Royals edged
Sylvan 2-0 in Southwestern
fastball league play.
The Royals opened the
scoring in the second as Brian
Hodgins walked and Al Lovell
and Jeff Lindenfield singled.
They scored their final run
in the sixth as Barry
Baynham walked and scored
on Brian Hodgins single.
Rob Holden went the
distance for Sylvan allowing
five hits while striking out
four batters.
Brian Hodgins struck out 14
batters and allowed one hit in
picking up the win.
The Royals travelled to
Desboro on the weekend and
came up with a win and a loss.
They opened up against
Oakville on Saturday morn-
ing and came away with an
8-5 win.
Brad Marsden started for
the Royals and picked up the
win allowing one run on two
hits while striking out one bat-
ter. Dan Heywood came on in
relief pitching three innings
allowing four runs on hit while
striking out seven batters.
Mike Desjardine led the hit
ters with a triple and a single
In the second game they
lost 2-1 in nine innings to Pad
dys from Hamilton. Yaddya
opened the scoring in the
seventh on a double am
sacrifice fly.
The Royals knotted the
count at 1-1 in the bottom of
the seventh as Cecil Nickle'.
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Lindenfield came through
with a clutch base hit to tie the
score.
In the ninth inning a leadoff
triple and sacrifice fly pro-
duced one more run for Pad-
dys who held on to win 2-1.
The Royals managed eight
hits off the Hamilton pitcher.
Dan Heywood and Barry
Baynham each had two. He
struck out seven batters in
picking up the win Brian
Hodgins allowed four hits
while striking out 10 hatters in
taking the loss.
.The Royals played a
doubleheader against the
Lucan Astros last night, Tues-
day. while Thursday they host
the first place Poplar Hill
team at 9 o'clock.
The Royals team would like
to thank Ron Bogart, .terry
Maclean, the Exeter Co op,
Exeter Firemen, Massey
Ferguson, arena staff,
Ausable Conservation,
Labatt's and Ross Haugh for
their help in making the re-
cent tournament a•success.
We are grateful for their co-
operation in supplying us with
the tubs, trophies and tables
needed for the tournament.
We would also like to thank
the following companies for
donating hats that were given
out. Exeter Co-op, Agri Span,
Harron ilardware, Cashway
Lumber. Hill and Hill Farms,
Huron Tractor, Massey
Ferguson, Moses Farm
Systems, l3ayfield Lumber,
Karns Roofing, Akins Brewer
Lumber, Manning Lumber,
Beaver Lumber, Jack and
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Special thanks to Fred Cook
and Paul McKnight for being
tL,mre all weekend and for
Fred who did much planning
for the tourney.
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the Express and Walkerton
was featured by a very
unusual triple play. It
technically wasn't a triple
play, but, three Walkerton
runners were retired before
the action stopped.
A factualaccount of the tri-
ple killing appears elsewhere
on these pages.
Three runs for each team in
the third inning were all that
were scored as the Express
and the Co-op juniors battled
to a 3-3 tie Thursday in the
first game of the northern
division B playoffs:
Dave Atthill doubled to
open the Express third, Ken
Pinder walked, Brian Mercer
singled, Scott Burton was safe
on a fielder's choice as Pinder
was at the plate and another
fielder's choice by Kevin
Hern produced the three runs.
For the junior rally, Steve
Pearce and Dave Woodward
singled, Kevin Prager doubl-
ed to score two runs and Doug
Hoffman singled Drager
across the plate.
The only other Express hit
off junior hurler Jeff Fuller ,
was a single by Kevin Hern.
Singles by Dave Hayter and
Jeff Fuller were the only
other safeties allowed by Ex-
press hurler Ken Pinder.
Eac.. t,itcher recorded four
strikeouts in the eight inning
contest.
In Sunday's first game,
Walkerton scored three runs
in the top of the seventh inn-
ing to produce a 4-2 victory
over the Express. The only
other Walkerton run came in
the second inning before the
extraordinary triple play in
the third whicfi killed off a
visiting rally.
Both runs for the Express
came in the fourth inning as
Dave Atthill walked. Dave
Hunt singled and both scored
as Doug Fairbairn cracked
out a two -bagger.
Southpaw Jim Guenther
went the pitching distance for
the Express and allowed on-
ly two hits until the fateful
seventh frame.
In Sunday's game between
the two Exeter clubs, Dave
Shaw's first inning three run
homer sending Jeff McKellar
and• Kevin Drager home
ahead of him spelled defeat
for the Express.
The juniors scored at least
one run in every inning but
the fourth on the way to their
10-4 triumph.
In the second inning Steve
Pearce singled with two out
and scored on a similar hit
from the bat of Jeff McKellar.
Kevin Drager walked and
scored the fifth junior run in
the third as Doug Hoffman
singled.
In the junior fifth inning,
Three runners out,
few know how
The Exeter Express turned
an "extraordinary" triple
play in Sunday's contest
against Walkerton, and while
it may deviate slightly from
the accepted norm of such
plays, it nevertheless resulted
in three visiting players being
ruled out on basically the
same play.
Unfortunately, the play in-
volved so many players that
even those involved aren't
sure of the correct sequence
'of events. Adding to the con-
fusion was the fact that third
baseman Kevin Hern was in-
jured on the play.
The official scorekeeper's
book should have looked
something like this:
6-4-2-5-1-9-7-2.
For those unfamiliar with
scoring based on the numbers
assigned to players on the
field, here's how it worked:
In the top of the third, the
first two Walkerton batters
reached base safely on a
single and error, respective-
ly, giving the visitors a man
on first and one on second.
The next batter grounded to
shortstop Dave Hunt who
threw to second baseman Ken
Pinder to force the runner
who had been on first.
Because he was off at the
crack of the bat on the ground
ball, the runner from second
headed for home, and upon
seeing that, Pinder threw to
catcher Randy Kraul. The
runher stopped and Kraut
chased him back towards
third before tossing to third
baseman Kevin Hern,. The
runner turned back towards
home and Hern tossed to pit-
cher Jim Guenther who was
covering at home and the lat-
ter tagged the runner for the
second out.
Meanwhile, the batter, who
was safe on first, had started
towards second and Guenther
threw to first baseman Jack
Chipchase. The ball was out
of reach and was picked up by
right fielder Dave Atthill who
was covering on the play.
Atthdl picked up the ball
and threw it to Hern, as the
runner was now advancing
towards third. The runner slid
under Hern ( causing an ankle
injury) and the ball scooted
a way.
Thereupon left fielder Glen
Thurman picked it up and
tossed to catcher Kraut, who
tagged the runner out as he
attempted to cross the plate.
Confusing? Well, it pro-
bably wouldn't have helped
had you actually seen it. At
least a dozen players and a
similar number of fans saw
the same play and •none of
them has an identical story.
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singles oy Doug Hoffman,
Dave Hayter, Brian Horner
and Joe Becker sent three
more runs scurrying across
the plate.
In the sixth, Dave Wood-
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scored as the result of a single
delivered by Al Gaiser and an
Express error.
In the Express first, Brian
Mercer singled, was sacrific-
ed to second by Dave Bogart
and came home on Dave
Hunt's single.
Kevin Hern and Doug Fair-
bairn singled in the Express
sixth inning and came home
on a Randy Kraut double and
sacrifice by Dave Atthill and
Glenn Thurman.
The final Express run was
notched in the seventh as
Brian Mercer was safe on an
error and scored as Ken
Pinder singled and Kevin
Hern drew a walk.
Steve Pearce was the star-
ting and winning pitcher for
the juniors holding the Ex-
press to six well scattered
hits. Dave Hunt was the loser
for the Express.
In the Co -Op juniors 11-5
win over Walkerton their at-
tack was led by Dave Shaw's
grand slain home run.
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