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Home , Alfredo Griffin, Amos Otis, Dick Howser, Hal McRae, Jesse Barfield, John Wathan

I Royals9 5-h- it pitching conquers Indians f UiiitedPressInternational the sidelines by Blue and some season, a shot that went off the tip of shortened season 8-- warmer weather would get the vet- nght-cent- er fielder rry Mumphrey's The Blue Jas closed the gap to 7 KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jerry Mar- - eran left-hand- er back into the rota- glove and over the wall Gibson in the eighth on a bv f tin belted a two-ru-n homer and U.L. tion probably for the second game of cracked his third home of the , his first I Washington doubled home one run League the two-gam- e senes in Boston year in the fourth homer of the year Alfredo Griffin and scored another Saturday night to against the Red Sox Wednesday A walk to Gibson and a single bv beat out an infield and went to 5-- bv I lift the to a 1 Bake McBnde ended Splitorffs no-h- it night. preceded Herndon's second on a throwing error Bob g victory over the bid leading off the fifth with an in- three-ru- n shot in the sixth The Ti- Stanley Damaso Garcia and Ranee I behind the combined five-h- it pitcb- - field single. He stole second, ad- DETROIT 7, NEW YORK 2 at New-Yor-k gers picked up two runs off reliever Mulliniks walked Tom Burgmeier K ing of and Dan Qui- - vanced to third on a flyout and Larry Herndon cracked a George Frazier in the ninth when relieved and Barfield connected with g senberry. scored the lone Cleveland run on a three-ru-n homer in the sixth inning John Wockenfuss delivered one run his dnv e to left field I Splittorff (1-- 0) allowed four hits, groundout by Chns Bando and Jerry Turner and with a and fol- including two singles, walked City two De- low ed w an RBI single infield Kansas added insurance added sdlo shots, enabling the ith 1 Arling- n MILWAUKEE 4.TEXAS at I I one out over 6 in--1 on a two-ru- hom- w and struck three runs m the eighth troit Tigers to extend thier inning ton, Texas Pete Vuckovich nings. Quisenberry contained the In- - er by Martin, his third homer, fol-low- ig to eight games with a BOSTON 8. TORONTO 7 at Toronto streak victor1 pitched a three-hitt- er and struck out dians on one hit the rest of the way a walk to Dennis Werth. . capped a five-ru-n 8 over the seven and Ro Howell hit a two-ru- n 1-- three-ru- . sixth-innin- g single by Toby Har-ra- h 0, fifth with a n I for his fifth A Larry Pashnick, worked the inning homer as the season-lon- g 10 430th of career, to H The Royals collected four of their increased his hitting first 6 , scattering hits, in homer, the his defeated the eight hits in the first two innings to streak to 13 games. earning his first major-leagu- e victo- lead the to a victor Den-- over Toronto Blue 'S score three runs and drop John Splittorff was given the start by ry. Kevin Saucier worked the final 3 the Jays BALTIMORE 7, CHICAGO 4 at ' ny's record to 2-- 1. Denny gave up a in place of innings for his third save. Yastrzemski slammed a two-o- ut 's second (0-- 2) Baltimore (0-- 1) single to , a walk to , who was suffering stiff- Doyle Alexander made his fastball from loser Dave Steib three-ru-n " of the game, a and hits to Tom Poquette ness in his shoulder. Blue was shel- season debut with the Yankees and over the nght-fiel- d fence for his tape-measu- re blast in the seventh in- and Hal McRae in the first inning to lacked by the his allowing fourth homer He only hit only sev en in lasted six innings, six hits ning, enabled the Orioles to snap a Hj give the Royals a 1--0 lead. outing, allowing six runs on runs. He walked two, struck during the strike-shortene- d season last six and five rone-gam- e losing streak with a victo-- r Kansas City added two runs in the m 1 innings Low tempera- out one, a balk sur- Yastrzemski slammed a two-o- ut a hits committed and ov er the White Sox 9 second on a lead-of- f tnple by Frank tures and high winds contributed for rendered all three Detroit homers fastball off Dave Steib over the right-fiel-d - S White, double by Washington- and poor conditions. The Tigers took a 1-- 0 lead m the fence for his fourth homer. He I run-scori- ng single by Wathan. Howser said some soft throwing on second on Turner's first homer of the hit only seven during the stnke- -