American League Roundup : Newest Yankee Schulze Gives Team a Lift by Helping Beat Tigers, 1-0

Don Schulze, promoted from the minors earlier in the day, pitched seven strong innings for his first major league victory since 1987 as New York beat the Detroit Tigers, 1-0, Tuesday at Yankee Stadium on the 50th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech.

Tom Brookens, who like Schulze played in the Detroit organization last season, singled home Jesse Barfield in the fourth inning for the only run. Don Mattingly went three for four, extending his hitting streak to 17 games.

Schulze gave up six hits, three in the first inning, for his first big league victory since July 20, 1987, with the New York Mets. He became the 11th pitcher to start a game for the Yankees this season, getting the opportunity because of several injuries to the staff.

“To get that kind of performance out of him was special,” Manager Dallas Green said. “It came at a time when we needed it. And we didn’t give him much breathing room.”

Schulze, 26, a throw-in in the trade that sent Rick Sutcliffe from the Cleveland Indians to the Chicago Cubs in 1984, is with his sixth organization. He spent all last season with Detroit’s triple-A club in Toledo and went 10-13.

“I don’t think he was close to being called up,” Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson said. “We didn’t have any pitching injuries last season. It seemed like we saved them all for this year.”

Loser Frank Tanana (7-8) gave up nine hits in his third complete game.

A crowd of 32,198 also watched a brief pregame ceremony honoring Gehrig and a postgame concert by the Beach Boys.

Kansas City 10, Oakland 1--Bo Jackson homered twice to give him 20 home runs and 20 steals at the midway point of the season, and Bret Saberhagen won his fifth consecutive decision in the victory at Oakland.

Saberhagen struck out a season-high 11 while improving to 8-4, and he has not lost since May 19 at Detroit. The Royals are 13-4 in games he has started.

Matt Young (0-2) gave up four runs and five hits and walked five in three-plus innings. He was making his fourth start since elbow surgery.

Oakland has lost nine consecutive times when either Matt Young or Curt Young has started. The two are a combined 2-10 with a 5.65 earned-run average.

Cleveland 3, Chicago 2--Luis Aguayo beat Scott Bailes with a two-run homer last year. This time, Aguayo and Bailes were on the same side.

“When he came off, I told him it was about time he did that for us,” the pitcher said after Aguayo’s two-run homer gave Bailes and the Indians the victory at Cleveland.

Aguayo has four career home runs, including a pinch-hit, two-run shot for the Yankees that beat Bailes, 5-4, last September.

Aguayo, who has started three consecutive games at third base because Brook Jacoby has a pulled thigh muscle, had little trouble recalling that last homer.

“I think it was here, off Scott,” he said. “When you only have three home runs, you remember them.”

Bailes (4-3) won for the third time in four starts since replacing Rich Yett in the rotation last month. Bailes is 3-1 with a 3.14 ERA as a starter this season.

Seattle 3, Minnesota 2--Scott Bankhead gave up three hits and one run in 7 1/3 innings at Seattle to gain his fifth consecutive decision.

Bankhead (7-4) has not lost in eight starts, since Milwaukee beat him, 9-6, on May 17. Mike Schooler pitched the ninth inning for his 18th save, giving up a run-scoring single to Al Newman. With the tying run on third and one out, Schooler struck out Tim Laudner and got Randy Bush on a fly out.

Seattle scored its three runs in the fourth. Henry Cotto and Alvin Davis singled and Jeffrey Leonard followed with an RBI double. Leonard took third on Darnell Coles’ run-scoring groundout and scored on Jim Presley’s single.

Baltimore 8, Toronto 0--Dave Schmidt pitched a perfect game for 6 1/3 innings, and Cal Ripken drove in three runs to lead the Orioles at Toronto.

Schmidt (8-7) lost his bid for a perfect game when Tony Fernandez beat out a bunt single down the first base line. Catcher Mickey Tettleton fielded the ball and threw off line to first, but second baseman Bill Ripken picked up the loose ball and threw Fernandez out at second.

Cal Ripken’s two-run homer, his 10th, gave Baltimore a 3-0 lead in the seventh. The Orioles added five runs in the ninth on Worthington’s fifth homer, RBI singles by Ripken and Tettleton and a two-run triple by Joe Orsulak.

Toronto has lost four of its last five.

Milwaukee 4, Boston 3--Paul Molitor snapped a 2-2 tie with a leadoff home run in the eighth inning Tuesday night to key the victory at Boston.

Molitor homered off Joe Price (1-4). B.J. Surhoff added a sacrifice fly in the ninth for a 4-2 lead, and Wade Boggs singled in a run in the bottom of the inning to draw the Red Sox within a run.

Chris Bosio (8-5) gave up seven hits in 7 2/3 innings, struck out eight and walked three. Dan Plesac got the final four outs for his league-leading 21st save.