AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Yankees Hold Off Brewers, 13-10, to Gain Split

The New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers split their four-game scoring spree in New York.

A nine-run eighth inning by the Yankees held up for a 13-10 victory Monday, because the Brewers scored only three runs during the ninth.

The final game of the series was a routine 4-3 game for seven innings, but 1 hour 14 minutes later, the game went into the ninth inning with the Yankees leading, 13-7.

In the top of the eighth, reliever Steve Farr walked in the tying run, Kevin Seitzer had a two-run single and Pat Listach stole home on a double steal and the Brewers led, 7-4.

Then came the Yankees’ turn. The first 10 reached base, and that included a grand slam by Danny Tartabull. Matt Nokes, who has been having trouble getting hits all season, opened the inning with a single and doubled after Tartabull’s home run.

A 13-7 lead wasn’t necessarily safe in this series. But the Brewers were held to three runs and the Yankees had their split. There were 35 hits in the game, four apiece for Nokes and the Brewers’ Dante Bichette.

In the first game Friday, the Yankees had a 9-3 lead and lost in 14 innings, 10-9. The next night, the Yankees played their fourth consecutive extra-inning game and lost, 5-4, on Robin Yount’s home run during the 10th. Sunday, the Yankees fell behind, 7-1, scored six times in the sixth and won on Nokes’ single during the ninth, 8-7. If the Yankees had had to go extra innings again, they would have tied an 84-year-old major league record.

“Have you ever seen a series like that? “ Brewer Manager Phil Garner asked. “It seemed to me there were some pretty decent pitches made and they got hits on every one of them.”

There have been complaints about slow play, that managers visit the mound too often and pitchers go to full counts on too many batters. But there was hardly a dull moment among the 14 1/2 hours this series consumed.

“The way things went in this series, we had a six-run lead with only three outs to go and I still felt uneasy,” Yankee Manager Buck Showalter said.

Seattle 7, Baltimore 3--Rookie Dave Fleming won his sixth in a row and Pete O’Brien hit his 11th home run and drove in three runs for the Mariners at Seattle.

Fleming gave up seven hits and five walks but only two runs in eight innings. Although he has an earned-run average of 3.86 and has walked 28 in 56 innings, his 6-1 record is the best of any rookie in the majors.

In his six victories, the Mariners have scored 35 runs.

Cleveland 10, Oakland 6--Albert Belle homered for the third game in a row, getting two in this one at Oakland to drive in four runs for the Indians.

Belle hit a solo shot during the third inning and a three-run homer during the fourth that was measured at 437 feet.

After 82 times at bat without a home run, Belle has four in his last 10 at-bats.

Joe Slusarski (4-2), who had won three in a row, left the game during the fourth inning.