Evans, playing with a severe thigh and right knee injury, un- loaded a three-run shot for his 13th homer in the seventh in- ning. The Red Sox nailed down the decision in a four-run second inning fea- tured by Fisk's 18th homer, a two-run shot to left center. Red Sox 11, Mariners 1 Carlton Fisk and Dwight Evans hit home runs, leading Boston over Seattle. The Indians pounded 17 hits, including 10 in the game- breaking fifth, to ease the way for Wayne Garland's 10th 1 of the season. Tomor- row night, we might in a close game and I'll have some- one rested." Cleveland won the first game as Buddy Bel! touched off a nine-run fifth inning with a homer. "We have been having a lot of doubleheaders and I'm not about to use up all my pitchers in one game. "He should have known that I did not have many guys in the bullpen," said Grammas, ex- plaining why he kept Travers in so long. As Travers left the game, he was greeted by a standing ovation from the crowd, which had booed Grammas for taking him out of the game. "Then, after going down sa id to myself, 'Well, I might as well finish the game as best I Ironically, with one out to go in the Cleveland eighth, Grammas finally pulled his beleaguered starter and let Bob McCture get the last out. "Then in the fourth, when I got in trouble again, 1 thought he would pull me. "I thought after the first in- ning that I would settle down butwhenldidnotsettledownin the second, I thought that he (Milwaukee Manager Alex Grammas) would pull me," said Travers. It was a longer aftenoon for the Brewers, since they had already lost a 12-4 decision in the opener at Cleveland Sta- dium.
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Travers' long afternoon in- cluded all 14 runs and IB hits by the Indians, plus four walks, two hit batters and a wild pitch. It wasn't good enough to withstand further attack by Ihe Cleveland baseball team, but his courageous performance did earn him some applause from the crowd after a 14-5 shelling by the Indians in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader. "I said to myself, 'I might as well just throw the ball as well as 1 said the Mil- waukee Brewer pitcher. "They just came and one of our rookies we had back to block made a mistake." Red Sox stop Mariners 11-1 Indians rip Brewers twice feyKENRAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer Bill Travers was surrounded by Indians and there was no sign of rescue. "They didn't anything unusu- al," said Browns Coach Forrest Gregg. Veteran Fred Cox, who is alternating with Danmeier during the preseason, added th extra point kick to cut the defi- cit to 33-31.
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Steve Craig blocked Greg Cole- man's punt and Windlan Hall scooped the ball up in full stride at the Cleveland 10 and scored. With just four minutes and 10 seconds left in the game. "If the ball bounces your way, that's okay." Grant was referring to anoth- er special teams touchdown, which put Minnesota into posi- tion to win. "Luck is the name of the game," said Minnesota Coach Bud Grant. "We just told Keith (Hart- ivig) what to do and he picked up on it right away." Lee also said the presence of Chuck Foreman helped a lot in the Vikings' 62-yard march in just 88 seconds preceding Rick Danmeier's 30-yard game-win- ning field goal, Danmeier missed a 35-yard Iry with three seconds left, but Browns' defensive end Jerry Sherk was called for illegal use of hands to give Minnesota a cha nee for the victory with time elapsed. "We had veterans in the game tor the most part," ex- plained quarterback Bob Lee about the makeshift two-minute drill. Although the Vikings haven't started working on that part of their game, they put the short- order, long-yardage strategy in use just in time to slip away with a 34-33 National Football League preseason victory- over the Cleveland Browns Saturday night. (Journal photo by Brian Hansel) Vikings slip to 34-33 win in preseason BLOOMINGTON, i (AP)-The Minnesota Vikings may have picked a strange time to start working on their two-minute offense, bat al least it was in time. (Journal photo by Brian Hansel) SPORTSMAN CLASS LEADER-Kelth Kolle, who emerged as the Sportsman Class point leader Sunday night, tinkers with his Fo rd Mustang prior to taking a lilth in heat two and a econd In the trophy race. Roger kept In touch with the pit area via a headphone set Sunday night whfle Jan kept tabs on the results. At West Central Anderson, Lesmiester pace weekend action BEHIND THE SCENES COUPLE-Roger Ness, left, and his wife, Jan, are a couple which handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes workload at West Central.
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