BASEBALL MISCELLANY

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--Bret Saberhagen, Danny Jackson, Charlie Leibrandt and Mark Gubicza had a combined 65-37 record for the World Series champion Kansas City Royals last year. This season? They’re 28-33.

--Ron Cey has 3 hits in his last 27 at-bats and has been reduced to a part-time role again with the Chicago Cubs after a streak in which he reached base nine straight times. He had seven hits in that string and raised his average to a season-high .304.

--The 13 home runs by Shawon Dunston are the most by a Cub shortstop since Ernie Banks hit 29 in 1961.

--Candy Maldonado, with two home runs Wednesday against Cincinnati and one Friday night against the Dodgers, now has 11, the only San Francisco player in double figures.

--Bobby Witt, the Texas rookie who probably will become the American League’s most dominating pitcher once he finds his control, has thrown 18 wild pitches, only three shy of the American League record set by Walter Johnson in 1905 and equaled by Earl Wilson in 1963 and Nolan Ryan in 1977. The major league record seems beyond Witt’s reach. William Stemmeyer threw 64 wild pitches in 41 games with the Boston Nationals in 1886.

--Add Witt: The 22-year-old right-hander has also walked 111 batters in 111 innings. He will tie Jim Bibby’s Ranger record for walks, set in 1974, with just two more. Bibby issued his 113 walks in 264 innings.

--Philadelphia catcher Ronn Reynolds has thrown out only 2 of 30 opposing base stealers since his purchase from Portland. Twenty-seven straight base stealers had been successful against the Phillies until Reynolds nailed Dunston at second the other day.

--Chicago White Sox Manager Jim Fregosi got his last major league hit, a pinch double for Pittsburgh, in June 1978. It was off the newest member of Fregosi’s pitching staff, Steve Carlton.