Expos’ Fassero Wins Fourth
Lefty Jeff Fassero became the first fourgame winner in the majors and the Montreal Expos had eight extra-base hits Friday in a 9-6 road victory over the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
Mike Lansing had a three-run homer and drove in four runs for Montreal, which scored five runs in the sixth.
Reds 5, Braves 4, (11)
Atlanta
Ron Gant, playing for the first time against his former team, led off the 11th with a homer to give Cincinnati its sixth straight victory.
Rockies 10, Marlins 6
Miami
Vinny Castilla had two homers and six RBIs and Larry Walker homered for the fourth time in five games as Colorado kept Florida winless at home.
The Rockies won their fourth straight. The Marlins dropped their sixth in a row and fell to 0-8 at home.
Dodgers 8, Cardinals 4
Los Angeles
Hideo Nomo, making his Dodger Stadium debut, pitched four hitless innings but settled for his third straight no-decision as Los Angeles defeated St. Louis.
The Cardinals committed seven of the game’s 12 errors, including two on one play that allowed the Dodgers to score the go-ahead run in the fourth.
Phillies 5, Astros 2
Houston
Curt Schilling (3-0) of Philadelphia cooled off high-scoring Houston, allowing seven hits to a team that averaged eight runs per game on its recent nine-game road trip.
Darren Daulton had a two-run double for the Phillies, who hadn’t won at the Astrodome since Aug. 20, 1993.
Pirates 9, Giants 4
San Francisco
Jeff King snapped a tie with a three-run homer and Denny Neagle pitched seven strong innings as Pittsburgh beat San Francisco to end its threegame losing streak.
Neagle allowed three runs on six hits while striking out three to pick up his first victory of the year and send the Giants to their season-high fourth straight loss.
Cubs 8, Padres 3
Chicago
Sammy Sosa drove in three runs with a double and two singles as Chicago sent San Diego to its ninth loss in 11 games.
Jaime Navarro (3-0) shut down the Padres, the league’s top-hitting team with a .307 average coming in.
Historic moment
Hideo Nomo made his Dodger Stadium debut on the same field where a Japanese baseball team led by pitchers Akimitsu Ito and Yukio Yoshida beat Team USA for the 1984 Olympic gold medal.
That upset victory prompted manager Reiich Matsunaga to proclaim, “It was the greatest victory in the history of Japanese baseball.”
Nomo provided another long-anticipated milepost for the Japanese community of Southern California when he took the mound against the St. Louis Cardinals.
“As a Japanese, it’s a terrifically big event for all of us,” said Irene Tanji, the Dodgers’ director of human resources. “And reading the Japanese newspapers, everyone’s excited and is hoping he does what we know he can do.”Friday night was the Dodgers’ latest chapter in a 40-year association with Japanese baseball that began when late owner Walter O’Malley took his 1956 N.L. championship team on a goodwill tour of Japan.
Nomo settled for his third straight no-decision before a crowd of 34,159. Clearing the bases
Atlanta manager Bobby Cox, who was arrested Sunday night in a domestic violence incident, was booed twice in Atlanta when he went on the field to make pitching changes. … All the tickets were free to Friday’s Philadelphia-Houston game at the Astrodome, but there were still 23,522 no-shows… . San Francisco’s 8-8 start is its slowest since the 1992 club opened with same mark.