The Prince George Citizen — Wednesday. August 12. 1987 — 13
RODGERS, TEAM MEMBERS IN SHOCK
Cook's resignation stuns Expos
 NEW YORK (AP) — General manager Murray Cook predicted this spring that his Montre-’ al Expos might surprise some people.
 Cook provided his own surprise Tuesday night when he resigned, effective immediately.
 “When he called me down to his room I thought we were going to talk about players, and he dropped it on me,” said Expos manager Buck Rodgers. “When he told me this afternoon •I dropped my teeth.
  “I’m still in shock. I’m surprised something like this would happen at this time in the season.”
  The team announced Cook’s resignation after the Expos lost to the New York Mets 6-2. A statement said Cook resigned for personal and .family reasons.
  “He’s going through the (marital) separation and everything.” Rodgers said, ‘it’s been tough for him ever since spring training.”
 The Expos said Bill Stoneman. the club's vice-president of baseball administration, will be general manager and vice-president for baseball operations. David Dombrowski was promoted from director of minor league clubs to assistant general manager.
  Stoneman pitched two no-hitters as a member of the Expos. He still holds the club record for most strikeouts in a season with 251. He retired from baseball in 1974 with a record of 54-85.
 The Expos have been one of the surprise teams in the major leagues this season. Despite losing Andre Dawson to free agency, playing
without Tim Raines for the first month of the season and owning a shaky pitching staff, the Expos have stayed in contention in the National League East all season.
  The Expos are third in the NL East with a 62-50 record, seven games behind St. Louis.
 Cook, 46, was named Montreal’s general manager on Sept. 5, 1984. He spent 25 years in baseball administration, the first 21 in the Pittsburgh organization and more than a year as the New York Yankees’ general manager.
  “He finally got things together here and all of a sudden he resigned,” said Montreal pitcher Floyd Youmans. “Now we’ll have a new GM. Who knows what he’ll think about the play-
  PITCHER SUSPENDED
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The National League suspended Philadelphia pitcher Kevin Gross for 10 days Tuesday for putting sandpaper on his glove.
 The suspension was appealed, but Gross admitted having the sandpaper.
The right-handed Gross was ejected from a Monday night game agairist the Chicago Cubs by umpire John Kibler. The glove was sent to the league office along with a ball.
 “I was caught with sandpaper in my glove." Gross said Tuesday before the Phillies met the Cubs again. “They (umpires) thought I was supposedly scuffing the ball and I was ejected.
 “I was not scuffing any ball in the game last night.”
 He said he was just “fooling with” the sandpaper. “I didn’t use it,” he said.
 National League spokesman Katy Feeney said Tuesday that sandpaper and an unidentified sticky substance were found.
 League president Bart Giamatti said Gross's suspension was effective immediately. Because of the appeal, however, the suspension was delayed pending a hearing.
Herzog sapped by thrills provided by his Cardinals
        by Canadian Press Whitey Herzog doesn’t need to shoot the rapids on a raft to get his thrills. He’s manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, a team which has developed the habit of winning close games on the way to a 5V2-game lead in the National League East Division.
   “It was a breath-taking adventure,” Herzog said after a 6-5 victory Tuesday night over the Pittsburgh Pirates. “We’ve been struggling to win games, we’ve played a
 lot of extra-inning games and 1 thought we had another one tonight.”
   Ozzie Smith’s fielder's choice grounder drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth inning and Tommy Herr followed with a sacrifice flv, giving the Cardinals a 6-4 lead. The Pirates then loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, but scored only one run as Todd Worrell got his 24th save in relief of Ken Dayley, 7-2.
   In other NL games, it was: the
Young A's slugger sets record in vain
by Canadian Press
    Mark McGwire's longest home run drought of the season ended with his most significant homer of 1987.
    He hit his 38th home run Tuesday night and set an American League baseball record for homers by a rookie, but his Oakland Athletics lost to the Seattle Mariners 8-2.
    McGwire had gone 11 games, 41 at-bats, since his last home run July 29. He set the AL mark with a solo shot in the seventh inning against winner Mike Moore, 5-14.
    “It would have been nicer to do it with a victory,” McGwire said. “This one is the American League record but the next one is the overall record.”
    McGwire tied the major-league record for homers by a rookie set in 1930 by Wally Berger of the Boston Braves and matched by Cincinnati’s Frank Robinson in 1956.
    Seattle’s Alvin Davis and Jim Presley drove home three runs each to offset McGwire’s home run.
 Davis hit a two-run homer in the first inning off Jose Rijo, 2-6. It was the 18th home run of the year . • for Davis and his seventh in 14 ; games.
In other games, it was: the To-
 ronto Blue Jays 8, Boston Red Sox 3; Cleveland Indians 6. Baltimore Orioles 3; Detroit Tigers 9. Chicago White Sox 6: Minnesota Twins 7, California Angels 2; Kansas City Royals 8, New York Yankees 5; and Texas Rangers 7, Milwaukee Brewers 1.
        Jays 8 Red Sox 3 Jesse Barfield’s solo home run snapped a sixth-inning tie and Jimmy Key won his fifth straight decision as Toronto kept atop the East Division. Key, 14-6, gave up nine hits in the first four innings, but only two more the rest of the way in his seventh complete game.
        Royals 8 Yankees 5 Bret Saberhagen. staked to a 6-0 lead in the first inning, won his first game in a month as New York lost for the fifth time in six games and fell \V2 games behind Toronto.
        Tigers 9 White Sox 6 Alan Trammell had three hits including a three-run homer and Lou Whitaker added three hits and scored three runs to move Detroit into a second-place tie with New York.
   The Blue Jays visit the Red Sox at 7 tonight on BCTV (chan*-nel 12, cable ll)(taped).
 New York Mets 6. Montreal Expos 2; St. Louis Cardinals 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 5; Philadelphia Phillies 9. Chicago Cubs 8 in 13 innings; Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Cincinnati Reds 2; San Diego Padres 7. Atlanta Braves 6; and Houston Astros 7, San Francisco Giants 3.
         Mets 6 Expos 2 Terry Leach won his 10th game without a loss, scattering six hits over eight innings for New York. Leach, in his fourth start since coming off the disabled list July 27 and his 10th start of the season, struck out two and walked two as he passed Detroit’s Jack Morris for the longest winning streak in the majors this year.
         Dodgers 7 Reds 2 Bob Welch held Cincinnati to two hits for five innings and John Shelby had two hits, scored two runs and drove in two for Los Angeles. Welch, 11-7, had to leave the game when he strained his right groin muscle going after Cincinnati pitcher Jeff Montgomery’s ground ball up the third base line in the fifth inning.
         Padres 7 Braves 6 Benito Santiago's bases-loaded single with one out in the ninth inning gave San Diego its seventh consecutive victory. Mark Davis. 7-6. who pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, got the victory, the 10th in 12 games for the Padres.
          Phillies 9 Cubs 8 Milt Thompson’s single with one out in the bottom of the 13th inning knocked in Luis Aguayo and gave Philadelphia its victory. Aguayo lead off the 13th with a single off losing pitcher Bob Tewksbury, 0-4. Kevin Gross, 7-10, who is appealing a 10-day suspension for doctoring the baseball, pitched the 13th inning for the Phillies and was the winner.
          Astros 7 Giants 3 Craig Reynolds led off the seventh inning with a tie-breaking home run and Jose Cruz added a three-run shot, his second homer of the game for Houston. But San Francisco remained one game behind first-place Cincinnati in the West.
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Series ends
with big win
   A tight series finished with a blowout Tuesday as Fred Walls and Son Motors blasted Coach’s Corner 27-7 to win the Prince George women’s slo-pitch B Division playoff title.
   The lopsided win came in the deciding game of the best-of-five series.
  Jackie Bayley and Suzanne Katerinchuk were both four-for-four, Bayley driving in five runs and Katerinchuk two. Winning pitcher Karen Bourgeois was two-for-four with four runs-batted-in.
   Donna Poepell hit a solo inside-the-park homer, as did Katerin-chuck and Bourgeois.
   Losing pitcher Carol Gorman hit an inside-the-park homer for Coach’s Corner, as did Chris Bell.
Gap widened by top squad
   Tabor Arms Pub extended its league lead in the Prince George Senior Soccer League with a narrow victory Tuesday over College Heights Pub.
   Tabor Arms tripped College Heights 3-2 at Spruceland Elementary School to move three points ahead of second-place First Choice Deli.
   The win lifted Tabor Arms to an 8-1-1 record, while College Heights remains fifth at 3-8-1.
   Gary Rodwell scored the winning goal late in the second half and Brian Cullinane tallied twice for Tabor Arms.
   Kevin Iverson and Mark Beaugie replied for College Heights.
Thrower tough in playoff win
   Barry McLeod was outstanding Tuesday as he led Holiday Inn-Ted Doyle Trucking to a 3-0 victory over Bencher Logging in the Spruce City Men’s Fastball Association playoffs.
   McLeod threw a one-hitter and struck out eight as Holiday-Doyle evened its record in the Kokanee Division round-robin preliminary series at 1-1. Bencher fell to 0-2-1.
   In Tuesday’s other game. Tabor Lake Logging beat TSN 9-4 to sweep TSN from their best-of-three Labatt’s Division quarter-final 2-0.
   McLeod warmed up as the game went on, striking out the side in the sixth inning. Tom Carson got Bencher’s only hit off McLeod when he singled in the fourth inning.
   Dave Bakala singled in the winning run in the bottom of the sixth, driving in Pete Tuttosi who singled and stole second before Bakala's hit. Bakala later scored on an error before Ian Tott drove in Rick Favell.
   Tott and Rick Tuttosi were both two-for-three as Holiday-Doyle got nine hits off starter Dale Newberry and eventual loser Terry Bromme-land, who started the fifth inning.
   Quietwood Logging, 2-0 in the round-robin, plays Fred Walls and Sons Motors (0-0-1) at 8:30 tonight.
Tabor Lake 9 TSN 4
   Dave Claire’s grand slam homer in the fifth inning put the game, and the series, out of reach of TSN. The grand slam turned a close 5-4 game into a 9-4 blowout
 and moved Tabor Lake into the La-batt’s Division semi-finals against division champion Mainline Plumbing and Heating, which got a first-round bye.
   Claire went four-for-five with five runs-batted-in. Chuck Zimmer was two-for-two, Larry Crowe two-for-three and Gary Flaubert two-for-four for Tabor Lake, which made a winner of reliever Reg Boychuck.
  Boychuck entered the game in the third inning with the score tied 4-4 and TSN threatening. Boychuck and starter Herb Craig allowed a total of seven TSN hits, with Lyle Stelliga going two-for-three and Brian Graves two-for-four.
   Brian Lazco took the loss.
  The Slaton Sluggers, who finished second to Mainline and earned the other first-round bye, play the Lad’s Dads juniors in the opener of their best-of-three Labatt’s semi-final at 7 tonight.
Cavaliers short, opener postponed
   The Nicholson Chev Olds Cavaliers couldn’t field a team Tuesday for the opening game of their Prince George senior baseball semi-final against the Klassic Auto Body Royals.
  A league spokesman said today that the Cavaliers and Royals will reschedule that game for later this week. The best-of-three series opens Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Monty Gabriel Field.
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