Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!uunet!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com Newsgroups: clari.sports.baseball,biz.clarinet.sample Subject: Orioles 9, Tigers 2 Keywords: baseball, men's professional Message-ID: Date: 21 Sep 89 03:24:19 GMT Followup-To: biz.clarinet.sample Lines: 35 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com ACategory: sports Slugword: bba-orioles Priority: regular Format: game story ANPA: Wc: 364; Id: s0068; Sel: ns--s; Adate: 9-20-1125ped Codes: ysbpgxx. BALTIMORE (UPI) -- Mickey Tettleton drove in four runs and Jeff Ballard combined with two relievers on a six-hitter Wednesday night, powering the Baltimore Orioles to a 9-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The win, coupled with Toronto's 10-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox, moves the Orioles to within one game of the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East. Ballard, 18-7, scattered five hits over seven innings. He walked one and struck out four. Kevin Hickey pitched the eighth and Gregg Olson worked the ninth. Frank Tanana, 9-14, was battered for four runs and 10 hits in 3 1-3 innings. Tettleton had an RBI single in the first inning, smashed his 25th home run in the third and added a two-run single during a four-run fifth. Tim Hulett had four hits and Craig Worthington had three to pace a 17-hit attack for the Orioles, winners of four of their last five. Detroit jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first when Alan Trammell doubled and scored as second baseman Tim Hulett missed a Gary Ward ground ball for an error. The Orioles came back with two in the bottom of the first on RBI singles by Tettleton and Randy Milligan. Baltimore took a 4-1 lead in the third. After Tettleton homered, singles by Milligan and Worthington and an RBI groundout by Mike Devereaux scored Milligan. Detroit closed to within 4-2 in the fourth when Gary Ward walked, Rick Schu doubled and Mike Heath grounded out, scoring Ward. Baltimore scored four runs off relief pitcher Ed Nunez in the fifth inning to take an 8-2 lead. Worthington singled and scored on Devereaux's double. Devereaux went to third on a sacrifice before Stan Jefferson and Phil Bradley walked to load the bases. Hulett then singled, scoring Devereaux and Tettleton's two-out single scored Jefferson and Bradley. Worthington drove in the ninth Baltimore run in the seventh inning on a sacrifice fly.