National League Roundup : Clark, Coleman Lead Cards Past Cubs, 2-0

Baseball’s Hall of Fame asked the Chicago Cubs to send the lineup cards of Saturday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals to Cooperstown, N.Y. It also asked for Larry Bowa’s cap.

The Cubs would have liked something in return, like a victory over the Cardinals, for example.

Instead, in the 16,000th game played in 110 seasons by the Cubs, the most by a major league club, Chicago lost its fourth in a row, 2-0, at Wrigley Field.

Jack Clark and Vince Coleman did the damage. Clark hit his 14th home run and Coleman tripled and scored a run to back the four-hit pitching of Danny Cox.

It was the third straight triumph for the Cardinals, who have won seven of their last nine games, and extended Chicago’s longest losing streak of the season to four games.

Cox, 8-2, hurled his second shutout and fifth complete game of the season. He walked four, struck out seven and retired nine batters in a row in one stretch.

Ray Fontenot, 1-2, was the loser. He yielded six hits before leaving for a pinch-hitter in the seventh.

Coleman opened the game with a triple to center and scored one out later as Tom Herr, the National League’s leading hitter, grounded out.

Fontenot kept the Cardinals in check after that until Clark led off the seventh with his solo homer.

Cox gave up singles to Davey Lopes and Leon Durham in the first and did not allow another hit until Keith Moreland singled with one out in the sixth.

Durham got the Cubs’ final hit, a double, in the ninth.

Oh, yes, about Bowa’s cap. On May 10, Bowa played in his 2,154th game at shortstop to break the National League record previously set by Rabbit Maranville.

That’s why the hat goes to Cooperstown.

San Diego 1, San Francisco 0--LaMarr Hoyt pitched a five-hitter for his sixth consecutive victory and Tony Gwynn knocked in the only run of the game with a fifth-inning single as the Padres beat the Giants at Candlestick Park.

Gwynn’s two-out hit off loser Jim Gott, 3-4, was all Hoyt needed as the Giants were shut out for the fifth time in their last 10 games.

Hoyt, who walked none and struck out five, improved his record to 8-4.

Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 0--Steve Bedrosian and Jeff Dedmon combined on a four-hitter and Terry Harper belted a three-run homer in a five-run third inning that carried the Braves to a rain-interrupted victory over the Reds at Atlanta.

Bedrosian, 3-5, allowed three hits, walked three, struck out four and hit one batter in seven innings before leaving for a pinch-hitter. Dedmon pitched the last two innings.

Joe Price, 2-1, took the loss.

Philadelphia 13, Pittsburgh 3--After exploding for 26 runs earlier in the week against the New York Mets, the Phillies struck 13 times in beating the Pirates at Pittsburgh.

“There’s not a lot to say tonight,” said Pirate Manager Chuck Tanner, who, along with catcher Tony Pena, was ejected by home plate umpire Dave Pallone at the start of the seventh inning for arguing ball-and-strike calls. “When you give (John) Denny a lead like that, he’s tough.”

Denny, 4-5, struck out a career-high 13 batters, scattered 10 hits and walked two in pitching his third complete game of the season.

Montreal 3, New York 2--Hubie Brooks singled home Andre Dawson from second base with two outs in the ninth inning to lift the Expos to their second straight ninth-inning victory.