Umpires Didn’t Hear a Thing

The ruling that Omar Vizquel did not foul off a squeeze bunt attempt, which bounced off catcher Lenny Webster’s glove and allowed Marquis Grissom to score the winning run in the 12th inning, wasn’t Baltimore Manager Davey Johnson’s only beef with home-plate umpire John Hirschbeck.

“I asked for an appeal from the second-base umpire and didn’t get it,” Johnson said. “I was about ready to go crazy because [Hirschbeck] made the call and began walking off the field. Then he came back to hear me out.”

Said Hirschbeck: “Every umpire is taught that if you see or hear something you let the other umpire know. None of them did.”

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Baltimore’s bullpen is considered the best in baseball, but the Indian bullpen has outperformed it in the first three games, combining for a 2-0 record and 0.87 earned-run average, giving up one earned run and four hits in 10 1/3 innings. The Oriole bullpen is 0-2 with a 2.61 ERA, giving up three earned runs in 10 1/3 innings.

TODAY’S GAME

ORIOLES’ SCOTT ERICKSON (16-7, 3.69 ERA) vs. INDIANS’ JARET WRIGHT (8-3, 4.38 ERA) Site--Jacobs Field.

TV--Channel 11, 4:30 p.m.

* Update--Wright, who won two division series games against the Yankees, was given five days’rest before today’s start. Counting the postseason, the 21-year-old right-hander who began the year at double-A Akron has made 33 starts, with a 17-7 record and 3.59 ERA, 179 strikeouts and 84 walks in 200 2/3 innings. Erickson, the Oriole right-hander, will start on three days’ rest after shutting out the Indians on four hits in eight innings in Baltimore’s 3-0 Game 1 victory.

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(Indians lead, 2-1)

* Game 1: Baltimore 3,

Cleveland 0

* Game 2: Cleveland 5,

Baltimore 4

* Game 3: Cleveland 2,

Baltimore 1 (12)

* Game 4: Today

at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m.

* Game 5: Monday

at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

* Game 6: Wednesday

at Baltimore, 1:15 p.m.*

* Game 7: Thursdat

at Baltimore, 5:15 p.m.*

* if necessary