The Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American priest freed after nearly 19 months as a hostage in Lebanon, arrived here today clutching an American flag and remaining silent about the conditions under which other Americans are still being held. “It’s great to be back, but don’t forget three brothers are still there,” he said as he arrived at the United States Air Force Regional Medical Center for physical examinations and debriefing by American officials. In Washington, the Reagan Administration said Father Jenco’s release and a plea by one of the remaining American hostages to negotiate for their release would not sway its policy of barring concessions to achieve the captives’ freedom. Father Jenco received two special phone calls of congratulations, one from Pope John Paul II, who said he was praying for the release of other hostages taken amid the turmoil of the Lebanese civil war.
The Reagan Administration said today that it would not alter its policy and make concessions to free the remaining American hostages in Lebanon, despite the release of the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco and a videotaped plea by another hostage. But Father Jenco’s sudden release Saturday revived interest in the possibility that it might finally be a break in the crisis. Administration officials said they hoped to learn from Father Jenco what motivated the kidnappers to release him now, after 19 months as a captive. His captors, the radical Shiite Moslem group Islamic Holy War, said his health was failing, but his appearance and good spirits seemed to belie that explanation.
A top aide of Queen Elizabeth today publicly attacked The Sunday Times, which reported a rift between the Queen and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In a letter to the weekly’s sister newspaper, The Times of London, the Queen’s private secretary, Sir William Heseltine, confirmed that The Sunday Times had spoken to the Buckingham Palace press secretary, Michael Shea, but Mr. Heseltine said Mr. Shea had not known the Queen’s views on Government policy. Mr. Heseltine also said the newspaper report did not match conversations with him.
The world chess championship match begins today in London between titleholder Gary Kasparov and challenger Anatoly Karpov. In a pre-match ceremony attended by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the challenger drew the right to play first with the white pieces. The first 12 games will be played in London and the last 12 in Leningrad. Karpov, 35, champion since 1975, was dethroned last year by Kasparov, 23.
The Israeli Cabinet appointed a new justice minister, six days after Prime Minister Shimon Peres forced the resignation of Yitzhak Modai from the post. The appointee is Tourism Minister Avraham Sharir, a member of Modai’s branch of the right-wing Likud Bloc, a Cabinet communique said. Sharir, 54, will continue as tourism minister. Modai stepped down in a compromise after Peres, head of the centrist Labor Alignment, threatened to fire him because Modai opposed an inquiry into the role of Israel’s internal security service in the murders of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers in 1984.
Vice President Bush penetrated the silence inside a darkened memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims here today with a question that he really did not want answered. “Do you suppose this little kid knew he was selected for the gas chamber?” Mr. Bush asked as he stared at a poster-sized photograph of a child standing in a line with other Jews on their way to execution. The visit to the Yad Vashem memorial came as the Vice President began a 12-day tour of the Middle East. Aides say the visit will include several symbolic events as well as substantive discussions largely devoted to trying to rekindle Middle East peace prospects.
In an unexpected development, King Hassan II of Morocco announced today that he was resigning as Arab League conference chairman after strenuous criticism from some Arab countries of his meeting last week with Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel. In a letter to Chedli Klibi, Secretary General of the Arab League, King Hassan said he was turning over responsibility for organizing the next meeting of Arab leaders to Mr. Klibi, in order to enhance prospects that a full meeting might be held soon. The King has unsuccessfully sought to promote meetings of the Arab leaders for the last four years, and on Friday Mr. Klibi called for a new meeting after the Peres-Hassan discussions. The King’s resignation was the latest repercussion of the two-day meeting that he held with Mr. Peres last week. That meeting was the first publicly announced session between an Arab leader and an Israeli leader since those held by President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, beginning with Mr. Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977. The Peres visit has touched off a furious debate in Arab lands.
Iraqi fighter jets attack the central Iranian city of Arak, prompting Iran to threaten a missile attack on Gulf states supporting Iraq. Iran has threatened to attack Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or any other Persian Gulf country that gives Iraq money to buy arms to attack Iranian oil facilities. The Iranian warning, the strongest and most direct so far to Iraq’s allies in the region, was contained in an article by Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani in the monthly Pasdar-e Islam. “We hit their ships now, but if necessary we will do to countries supporting [Iraqi President] Saddam [Hussein] what we did to Kirkuk,” Rafsanjani wrote, referring to a missile attack on the northern Iraqi oil town.
Police in India’s West Bengal state fired on a mob of Gurkha separatists, killing nine, the United News of India said. The Gurkhas, seeking an independent homeland, attacked police with rocks and knives after 28 activists were arrested for defying a ban on public assembly, the agency said. In New Delhi, police arrested 800 people to try to end communal rioting, largely involving Sikhs and Hindus, in which six people were killed and 60 injured over the weekend. In Punjab state, Sikh extremists ended a two-day lull in violence, hacking a Hindu priest and a shopkeeper to death in the town of Patti, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Thailand’s oldest and largest civilian political party, the Democrats, emerged from parliamentary elections Sunday with a commanding lead, but not a majority, according to the Government-owned radio. The election followed a political campaign marked by voter apathy, scattered violence and charges of corruption. Three local polling officials and a voter were shot to death on Election Day, the police reported, and 38 people were arrested for election-related offenses. Although final official results were not expected to be announced until midday Bangkok time, the Democratic Party, led by Deputy Prime Minister Bhichai Rattakul, was reported to have won 101 out of 347 seats in the new Parliament. Its nearest rival, the Thai Nation Party, which led the opposition to the previous Government, had 62 seats, and the Social Action Party 43.
Riot police detained scores of dissidents today who tried to attend a prayer meeting to protest the reported sexual abuse of a government opponent while she was in police custody. Hundreds of police officers turned other protesters away from the meeting site, a downtown Anglican cathedral. One man was reported injured. The exact number of dissidents taken away was not immediately known. Opposition spokesmen said 19 protesters were later released. Earlier, the Government ordered the dissident Kim Dae Jung confined to a hotel room to prevent him from attending the meeting, his aides said. Opposition groups say the government tried to cover up the case of the woman who was reported molested early last month.
Manila police fired tear gas to break up a demonstration of about 500 supporters of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The police repeatedly fired tear gas in a Manila park today to disperse about 500 demonstrators supporting former President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The demonstrators beat one man to death, the police said. The sting of tear gas hung over Rizal Park as the police, swinging long bamboo truncheons, carried out an order by President Corazon C. Aquino to bar further demonstrations. The order was issued after the takeover two weeks ago of the Manila Hotel, in which Mr. Marcos’s vice-presidential running mate, Arturo M. Tolentino, declared himself acting president.
Nicaragua’s leader visited Brooklyn, where, at the Park Slope Methodist Church, he condemned the Reagan Administration for choosing to ignore a World Court ruling against American support for anti-Sandinista rebels. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra asked a standing-room audience whether “the American people are going to accept that their own President violates the law.” Mr. Ortega came to the United States to address the United Nations Security Council tomorrow.
Chile’s Roman Catholic Primate, Cardinal Juan Francisco Fresno, urged the Supreme Court today to take over the case of two youths burned in anti-Government protests, saying the explanations provided by an investigating judge were insufficient. One of the youths, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19 years old, a Chilean who had been living in exile in Washington, died.
Two American nuns who were briefly held by rebels in a Sudan war zone were asked to leave the country by the Khartoum government, the Sudan news agency said. A local official said the two, Sean Underwood, 44, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Nancy Lyons, 43, whose hometown was not given, violated orders barring civilians from military areas around Juba, the southern provincial capital besieged by rebels. They had been captured by the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army as they tried to deliver food to famine-stricken villages around Juba.
African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa today will consider measures to put pressure on Britain to reverse its opposition to sanctions against South Africa, sources said in the Ethiopian capital. Foreign ministers, who met through the weekend to prepare an agenda for the Organization of African Unity summit, advised their heads of state and government to condemn France, Israel, West Germany and the United States for their economic and nuclear cooperation with the white-dominated South African government. But they singled out the British government for “its relentless campaign against the imposition of comprehensive and mandatory sanctions against the Pretoria regime.”
South African security forces said today that they had shot and killed two armed black insurgents, one of whom was described by the officially controlled news organizations as the country’s leading terrorist. The Government said the two were killed Saturday in a gun battle in Katlehong, a black township 30 miles southeast of Johannesburg. One of them was reportedly wanted in connection with 17 bomb attacks. Three blacks were reported burned to death by other blacks in Soweto, Johannesburg’s black satellite.
An American Lutheran minister, expelled from South Africa, has returned to the United States to tell of official acts of repression and to transmit a plea from South African church people, black and white, for strong economic sanctions. The Rev. Brian Burchfield, who is white, went to Cape Town six months ago as “an ordinary parish pastor,” he said. He was expelled from South Africa on July 18 on an order from Minister of Home Affairs Stoffel Botha, who deemed his removal “in the public interest.” The missionary said he had left with his two teen-age daughters “out of concern for their safety.”
Senior officials in Congress and the Reagan Administration say it will take years to fully repair the weaknesses in security policies brought to light by the recent series of damaging espionage cases. Despite the distress sparked by last year’s breaches in the nation’s most sensitive military and intelligence agencies, proposals for security improvements are moving unevenly, and have been slowed by interagency disagreements over how to deal with the problem, the officials said. “I think we’re way behind and we have a long way to go,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence. “With some notable exceptions, particularly in the C.I.A., I don’t think near enough has been done. If this were private industry, the board of directors would be fired for a performance like this.”
The President and First Lady return to the White House after their stay at Camp David.
A year after the Defense Department canceled the Sergeant York air defense gun as a failure, the Army is seeking approval to spend $8 billion to $22 billion on weapons to protect front-line divisions from air attack. Army leaders will present the plan, pieced together over several months, at a top-level Pentagon review on Tuesday. The plan calls for buying a variety of weapons ranging from heat-seeking missiles to projectiles guided from afar through glass filaments. Critics say that the plan costs too much, that the Army could end up buying the wrong weapons and that a crucial mistake of the Sergeant York failure — trying to move too fast — is about to be repeated. The Sergeant York, also known as the Divad, or division air defense gun, was canceled last August by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger after the Army had spent $1.8 billion on its development.
Congress is investigating charges that the Federal Aviation Administration improperly fired controllers who were on vacation or leave during a 1981 strike, then altered personnel records to cover up the errors, it was reported. The House subcommittee on investigations and oversight subpoenaed records at the FAA Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois, where 454 of about 500 controllers were fired, the Chicago Tribune reported. Philip Wood, a lawyer who represents about 120 fired controllers at the Aurora facility, said that FAA officials doctored work records to make them conform to the notices.
Bargainers for the city of Detroit and 7,000 striking municipal employees pressed ahead today reviewing a long tentative agreement, forcing a delay in ratification. Both sides had met for more than six hours Saturday to put the final touches on an agreement to end a walkout of the 7,000 city employees and 5,000 support strikers. Votes on the contract, expected to begin today, were put off until Monday morning. City workers who belong to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees walked out July 16, and the 5,000 other city workers, among them bus drivers and trash haulers represented by other unions, honored the picket lines.
79 boxcars of fresh hay left Indiana for South Carolina to help drought-stricken farmers. This kind of response from Indiana farmers has been repeated from New England to the Great Plains as drought gripped the South. Thousands of tons of hay from the Middle West has been sent to the South by truck and rail, and by Air Force and Army planes. Among the many farmers involved in the haylift, as it is being called, were Pierrette and Larry Gordon of LaValle, Wisconsin, who were largely responsible for 10,000 bales of hay that were sent to Georgia from central Wisconsin last Wednesday. Mrs. Gordon, who got donations for the Southerners from her own neighbors, said: “I just felt sorry for those farmers. Being a farmer is hard enough these days without a drought.” This cross-country extension of the concept of neighbor helping neighbor has been repeated from New England to the Great Plains in the last two weeks as residents reached out to farmers in the South, where parched lands have ruined crops and brought the loss of livestock. Estimates of agricultural losses from the drought range to $1.9 billion.
Federal investigators said that a ring of 17 people defrauded the government of $500,000 in unemployment benefits by forging forms showing military service, and hundreds of ex-servicemen discharged for misconduct also improperly collected jobless benefits. Wrongful payments of at least $1.1 million from 1981 to 1985 were uncovered under a Labor Department program to provide up to 13 weeks of jobless benefits to newly discharged military personnel, investigators said. Four persons have been convicted in the forgery scheme, which involved people in California, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
A structural change in one of the world’s three major flu viruses may make the vaccine being manufactured for the fall and winter ineffective against the Russian flu, federal health officials said. The changed virus, called H1N1, already has caused influenza outbreaks in some parts of the tropics and in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. Dr. Karl Kappus of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said an option being considered is whether a supplemental vaccine should be recommended and who should receive it.
Dissatisfaction with charities’ neglect of their causes has spurred women to form fund-raising groups that collected nearly $4.8 million last year and set an $11-million target this year. “The popularity of women’s funds reflects women’s dissatisfaction with philanthropy’s spare nickel and dime,” said Elizabeth Wiener of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy in Washington. Programs for women received less than 4% of the $4.36 billion private foundations gave away in 1984.
The number of black elected officials at all levels of government increased last year, yet blacks held only 1.3% of the nation’s 490,000 elective offices, the Joint Center for Political Studies said in Washington. Blacks held 6,424 offices at the end of 1985, a 6.1% increase over the number a year earlier. L. Douglas Wilder was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia, the first black since Reconstruction to win a major statewide office in the South, and Alyce Clark was elected to the Mississippi Legislature, the first black woman to win such an office in that state.
The paramilitary group Civilian Materiel Assistance ended its convention in Memphis, Tennessee, pledged to fighting Communism instead of forming a civil patrol along the Mexican border to keep out illegal aliens and drugs. Jim Kent, a CMA spokesman, said the change of plans was irrelevant to objections by law enforcement agencies in Texas and Arizona to such a program. The group recently detained 15 illegal aliens in a remote town on the Arizona-Mexico border.
The nation’s steel crisis worsened since the LTV Corporation, the second-largest American steel producer, filed for bankruptcy reorganization on July 17. LTV’s move raises the specter of more bankruptcies, more plant closings and more layoffs in an industry that has suffered more than $7 billion in losses since 1982. It also raises questions the survival of the steel industry.
Police armed with searchlights and tranquilizer guns combed a densely wooded area of northeast Pennsylvania tonight following reports that a 450-pound tiger was on the loose. Two sightings of the animal, by a Nicholson resident and by State Police troopers in a helicopter, prompted the authorities today to warn local residents to close their windows and keep children indoors. “We have no knowledge of who owns it or where it comes from,” said Trooper Wallace Jess of the Pennsylvania State Police in nearby Gibson. Officials speculated that the tiger might have strayed from a wild animal farm near Nicholson or escaped from a circus that visited the area last week.
A 14-year-old violinist triumphed at a Boston Symphony concert at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, despite a broken E string, and yet another broken E string on a violin quickly borrowed from the concertmaster. Mi Dori, who is from Japan, then borrowed a third violin to finish Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade.
A tub of Cracker Jack that sickened one man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had been contaminated with a chemical found in mothballs, but it appeared to be an isolated case, health officials said. As a precaution, Pittsburgh-area stores were asked to remove all 10 1⁄2-ounce tubs of Cracker Jack from their shelves, but Allegheny County health officials later told store operators that they could restock the product.
Images of Mars recorded over a four-year period by Viking spacecraft have persuaded geologists that volcanic activity and fluid erosion have shaped the planet’s surface to a far greater extent than previously thought. Scientists now believe there is enough water hidden in the crust of Mars to flood the entire planet to an average depth of at least 1,000 feet. A geologist said the pictures showed that lava almost as fluid as water had erupted from some Martian fissures and swept across the landscape to form vast plains.
“Say Anything” director Cameron Crowe (29) weds “Heart” guitarist Nancy Wilson (32).
Freddie Mercury stood before 70,000 people in Budapest and created a moment that would stay with them for decades. Hungary was still under communist rule. Western music did reach people, but often quietly, passed from hand to hand on cassette tapes. For many, it meant more than entertainment. It offered a glimpse of a different world. When Queen announced their concert in Budapest during the Magic Tour, tickets disappeared within days. People came from across the country, many seeing a major Western band live for the first time in their lives. The band did not treat it like just another stop. They spent time in the city, paying attention to the place and its culture. During those days, Freddie came across Tavaszi Szél Vizet Áraszt, a traditional melody deeply rooted in Hungarian identity. He decided to learn it. Not for spectacle, but because it mattered to the people who would be standing in front of him. There is footage of him practicing, checking pronunciation, laughing at mistakes, and trying again until it felt right.
On the night of the concert, after the energy of the full band set, the mood shifted during the acoustic section. Freddie stepped forward and introduced something unexpected. He glanced down briefly, where he had written the lyrics on his hand. Then he looked up and began to sing in Hungarian. For a moment, the stadium fell quiet as people realized what they were hearing. A song they had grown up with, sung back to them in their own language. Then the reaction came. The crowd responded with emotion that went beyond excitement. Some sang along. Some stood still. Others held on to the people beside them. It was not just a performance anymore. It felt personal. Freddie did not turn it into a speech. He did not explain it. He simply gave the song back to them.
Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Board of Trade CC: Pat Bradley wins in a playoff against Ayako Okamoto of Japan.
24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA defeats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0).
The first Tour de France victory by a non-European since it was first held in 1903 was won by Greg LeMond, of Sacramento, California, who rides for the French Vie Claire team. He cruised across the final finish line on the Champs-Elysees in Paris as the overall winner of the 2,500-mile Tour, that included parts of the Alps and the Pyrenees. He finished the race, which began July 4 in a Paris suburb, in the total elapsed time of 110 hours 35 minutes 19 seconds, 3 minutes 10 seconds faster than Bernard Hinault, a French teammate.
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The New York Mets’ Rick Aguilera, suddenly the team’s most dependable pitcher, hurled them to a 5–1 victory over the Atlanta Braves on a warm, overcast day. They had one offensive outburst in the third inning — consecutive home runs by Gary Carter, Darryl Strawberry and Kevin Mitchell — and finished their trip with a 5–5 record. Aguilera won his third consecutive start and pitched his first complete game since last July 10, spreading eight hits and not walking a batter. In his last three games, he has permitted three earned runs over 24 innings, a 1.13 earned run average.
Jim Traber, the rookie who continues to fill in superbly for Eddie Murray, the Orioles’ injured first baseman, has a grand slam in the Orioles’ 16-hit attack as they pound the White Sox, 11–3. The Orioles scored nine runs in the fourth inning, four of them on Traber’s shot. The victory was Baltimore’s fourth straight, and completed its first four-game series sweep over the White Sox since 1972. Chicago has lost seven in a row, and 12 of 16.
Don Sutton pitched six scoreless innings to defeat Tom Seaver in a rare meeting of 300-game winners today as the California Angels, getting a home run from Bobby Grich, beat the slump-ridden Boston Red Sox, 3–0. Boston has not won in 13 games except for the two games Roger Clemens (17–2) has started. The loss reduced Boston’s lead over the Yankees to three games in the American League East. Sutton (9–7) was relieved in the seventh after yielding his eighth hit, a single to Tony Armas. Sutton’s 304th career victory was protected by Gary Lucas, who pitched one and one-third innings, and Donnie Moore, who worked the final one and two-thirds for his 10th save.
The Los Angeles Dodgers prevailed in a wild one over the Chicago Cubs, 13–11. Mike Scioscia’s two-run single keyed the Dodgers’ four-run ninth-inning rally. The two teams scored 11 runs in the last two innings. Trailing, 8–5, the Dodgers had rallied for a 9–8 lead in the eighth. But the Cubs scored three times for a 11–9 lead in the bottom of the eighth.
The Cincinnati Reds bested the Montreal Expos, 9–7. Eric Davis’s two-out, bases-loaded single in the eighth capped Cincinnati’s late-inning comeback. The Reds rallied against the Expo bullpen for four seventh-inning runs and three more in the eighth. Nick Esasky led off the eighth with a homer off Jeff Reardon (6–6), to tie the game. It was Esasky’s first homer since June 3. Cincinnati then loaded the bases against Dave Tomlin, and Davis hit a soft liner to left for the deciding two runs. Rob Murphy (1–0), the fourth pitcher for Cincinnati, threw a hitless eighth for the victory. John Franco earned his 16th save. Floyd Youmans, who started for Montreal, Mitch Webster and Tom Nieto drove in two runs each as Montreal raced to a 7–2 lead after the fifth. Youmans, who was trying for his seventh victory in his last eight decisions, struck out seven and allowed just four hits before leaving after the sixth with a stiff shoulder.
The Kansas City Royals edged the Detroit Tigers, 5–4. Steve Balboni singled home Willie Wilson with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to make Bret Saberhagen the winning pitcher in his first relief appearance since 1984. Willie Hernandez (6–5) walked Wilson with one out. George Brett flied out but Jorge Orta singled Wilson to second. Then Balboni followed with a single to center, that Chet Lemon could not catch. Saberhagen (6–10) pitched two innings of hitless relief.
Ron Guidry brought a feeling of hope and relief to the beleaguered Yankee pitching staff yesterday. After coming off the 21-day disabled list yesterday morning, the 35-year-old left-hander, the heart of the Yankee pitching staff since 1977, beat the Minnesota Twins, 4–1, at Yankee Stadium. More important than the victory was how Guidry did it. In the planned five innings he worked, Guidry faced 18 batters, three over the minimum, and threw 70 pitches. He struck out nine, including the first five batters, walked one and allowed three hits. One of those, however, was a home run by Mickey Hatcher.
Stan Clarke walks in the winning run with the bases loaded in the 15th as the A’s outlast the Blue Jays, 1–0. Jimmy Key pitched 10 innings and Curt Young goes 8+. The Blue Jays, who were shut out for the second straight game, have not scored in their last 26 innings. Jerry Willard led off the 15th with a single off Clarke (0–1) and moved to second on a sacrifice by Dwayne Murphy. After Donnie Hill flied out, Mike Davis bounced a slow roller to shortstop for an infield hit. Davis stole second to put runners on second and third. Tony Phillips walked to load the bases. Clarke then walked Alfredo Griffin on a 3–2 pitch to force home Willard.
Nolan Ryan and Aurelio Lopez combined for a two-hitter as the Houston Astros defeated the Philadelphia Phillies today, 3–2. Ryan (7–7), who struck out 10 batters in five innings, left the game because of slight tenderness in his right elbow. He allowed both Philadelphia hits and both runs — one was unearned — and he walked two batters. Ryan, who is baseball’s all-time strikeout leader, has struck out 10 or more in a game 160 times. Lopez pitched four hitless innings in gaining his fourth save of the season.
The Pittsburgh Pirates blasted the San Francisco Giants, 7–0. Sid Bream hit a two-run double and a two-run single to back an eight-hit shutout by Rick Rhoden and Don Robinson, as the Pirates ended a five-game losing streak. Bream’s hits gave the Pirates a 4–0 lead. Pittsburgh added three runs in the eighth on a triple by U. L. Washington, a double by Barry Bonds and Jim Morrison’s 12th homer. Morrison was 4 for 4 in the game. Robinson relieved Rhoden with two on and two out in the seventh and allowed two hits over two and one-third innings for his fifth save. Rhoden (10–6) gained his first victory since July 2. Vida Blue (7–6), who started for the Giants, suffered the loss even though he limited the Pirates to two runs on three hits in six innings.
The Milwaukee Brewers drubbed the Seattle Mariners, 8–1. Tim Leary pitched a seven-hitter over eight innings and Bill Schroeder hit a two-run homer to cap a six-run third inning. Leary (7–10), who snapped a personal five-game losing streak dating back to June 20, pitched a complete game for the third time this year after failing to make it out of the fourth inning in either of his last two starts.
The Cardinals nipped the Padres, 3–2. Andy Van Slyke’s two-run single capped a three-run rally in the seventh inning to extend the Cardinals’ winning streak to six games. St. Louis had managed only four hits and had not scored against Lance McCullers (5–5), until the seventh. Jose Oquendo walked while pinch-hitting for John Tudor (9–5). He took second on Vince Coleman’s single and scored on Ozzie Smith’s single. Craig Lefferts, the Padres’ reliver, walked Tommy Herr to load the bases with no outs. Then Van Slyke singled just beyond the reach of Bip Roberts, the second baseman.
The Cleveland Indians topped the Texas Rangers, 8–3. Tom Candiotti scattered nine hits in seven innings as the Indians broke a three-game losing streak. Candiotti (10–7) struck out five and did not walk a batter.
New York Mets 5, Atlanta Braves 1
Chicago White Sox 3, Baltimore Orioles 11
Boston Red Sox 0, California Angels 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 13, Chicago Cubs 11
Montreal Expos 7, Cincinnati Reds 9
Kansas City Royals 5, Detroit Tigers 4
Minnesota Twins 1, New York Yankees 4
Toronto Blue Jays 0, Oakland Athletics 1
Houston Astros 3, Philadelphia Phillies 2
San Francisco Giants 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Milwaukee Brewers 8, Seattle Mariners 1
San Diego Padres 2, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Cleveland Indians 8, Texas Rangers 3
Born:
Courtney Kupets, American gymnast (World Championships champion, 2002, 2003), in Bedford, Texas.
Andrew Desjardins, Canadian NHL center and left wing (NHL champions, Stanley Cup-Blackhawks, 2015; San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks), in Lively, Ontario, Canada.
DeMarre Carroll, NBA power forward, center, and small forward (Memphis Grizzlies, Houston Rockets, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Toronto Raptors, Brooklyn Nets, San Antonio Spurs), in Birmingham, Alabama.
Ryan Flaherty, MLB second baseman, third baseman, and shortstop (Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), in Portland, Maine.
Elih Villanueva, MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins), in Miami, Florida.
Died:
Leroy Holmes, 72, American orchestra leader (“The Tonight Show”, 1956-57).
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