Spring Training Highlights : Seaver Allows Mets Just One Hit in Five Innings

Tom Seaver became the first Chicago White Sox pitcher to go five innings this spring in a 6-0 exhibition victory over the New York Mets at Sarasota, Fla.

Seaver struck out three and allowed only one hit.

Chicago broke a scoreless tie with three runs off left-hander Randy Myers in the sixth. Daryl Boston’s sacrifice drove in the first one, and Mike Squires’ single accounted for the other two. Harold Baines’ first home run of the spring made it 5-0 in the seventh, and Boston’s single accounted for the final White Sox run.

New York’s Dwight Gooden, the National League Rookie of the Year, made his first appearance of the exhibition season, pitching three scoreless innings, giving up two hits and striking out one.

At Winter Haven, Fla., Chet Lemon, making his 1985 exhibition debut, broke a tie with a three-run homer in the sixth inning as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Boston Red Sox, 6-2. It was the Tigers’ fifth straight win after an opening 3-2 loss to the Red Sox last Friday.

Lemon, who has been nursing a pulled hamstring, hit his home run off Jim Dorsey,

Mike Laga, hitless in five previous games, also belted a long home run off Boston relief ace Bob Stanley in the ninth.

Dan Petry blanked the Red Sox for three innings for the second time within a week.

Boston left-hander Bob Ojeda surrendered eight hits and a walk, but Detroit was able to score only one run off him.

At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Larry Parrish knocked in four runs, including two in a four-run eighth, as the Texas Rangers handed the winless New York Yankees their sixth exhibition loss, 10-7.

The Yankees led, 7-4, in the eighth when the first three batters reached base off Dale Murray on errors, one by shortstop Bobby Meacham and two by second baseman Rex Hudler. Jeff Kunkel scored one run with a sacrifice fly, the second scored on a single by Wayne Tolleson, and Parrish’s blow then made it 8-7. Don Slaught’s two-run homer in the ninth concluded the scoring.

Willie Randolph had a two-run homer for the Yankees, and Butch Wynegar also drove in two runs.

At Mesa, Ariz., Bob Dernier hit the first grand slam of his baseball career as the Chicago Cubs held off the Oakland A’s, 5-4. Dernier’s hit was also his first of the spring.

The Cubs had a 5-1 lead in the eighth inning when the A’s erupted for three runs off relief ace Lee Smith. Smith also walked two men in the ninth but struck out Danny Meyer to end the game.