Phillies Rally; Singleton’s Knee OK

By Randy Montgomery, Intelligencer Journal Sports Writer

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A two-out, eighth-inning rally produced five runs and led the Philadelphia Phillies to an 11-7 exhibition victory Friday over the Chicago White Sox.

Mike Anderson drove in two runs and Bake McBride, Luis Aguayo and Garry Maddox one each in the spree.

It was the second big inning of the game. The Phillies also scored four times in the fourth inning, including one on Keith Moreland's home run off Steve Trout.

Harold Baines smacked a 410-foot home run for the White Sox, who outhit the Phillies 15-13. Lamar Johnson and Fred Frazier each had three hits for Chicago.

The game-winning assault came against Ed Farmer after two were out in the eighth. It began with an infield hit by John Vukovich and concluded with Anderson's two-run single. Farmer took the loss, while Kevin Saucier gained the victory.

✔ Baltimore pounded out 21 hits, including home runs by Pat Kelly, Wayne Krenchicki and Mark Corey, while Dennis Martinez and two relievers held New York to four hits as the Orioles crushed the Yankees 14-0 in Fort Lauderdale.

The Orioles ripped Ed Figueroa, coming off elbow surgery, for five runs and seven hits in the first three innings and then hammered rookie sensation Dave Righetti for six runs on seven hits in the fourth.

Doug DeCinces, Dan Graham and Mark Belanger and Corey drove in two runs apiece for the Orioles. Kelly and Corey, who shared the leadoff spot in the batting order, each had two singles and a homer.

Martinez, who worked five innings, yielded only a leadoff walk to Reggie Jackson in the second inning before Jim Spencer got New York's first hit, a scratch double with one out in the fifth when second baseman Rich Daver ran into right fielder Corey and knocked the ball out of his glove.

Kelly's home run touched off Baltimore's four-run third inning. Krenchicki and Corey hit consecutive home runs off Greg Cochran in the eighth.

Cochran came on after Rudy May felt a twinge in his back while warming up to start the eighth.

✔ Baltimore outfielder Ken Singleton returned to the Orioles' training camp in Miami Friday night after X- rays on his left knee proved negative.

"We feel the will take care of itself," said team physician Dr. Leonard Wallenstein, one of the two doctors who examined Singleton in Baltimore. "Kenny did not have much swelling and only minor stiffness, so we felt no need for surgery."

Singleton, who has managed only three hits in 19 times at bat this spring, will be able to resume playing today when the Orioles meet the Detroit Tigers. Singleton has been troubled during spring training by loose cartilage in the knee.

✔ The Toronto Blue Jays Friday became the 16th major league baseball team to support a strike mandate by the Major League Players' Association.

"We took a strike vote which I'm glad to say was unanimous," said Roy Howell, the Jays' representative after meeting with Marvin Miller, executive director of the players' association.

The support from the 35 Blue Jay players eligible to vote means more than 620 players now have given support to the association to strike if it feels necessary.

Only one player has voted against a strike.

Elsewhere on the exhibition scene, left-handers Randy Jones and Bob Shirley allowed eight scattered hits and pitched the San Diego Padres to a 1-0 exhibition baseball victory over the San Francisco Giants…. Freddie Patek's two-run homer in the ninth inning broke a tie and gave the California Angels a 5-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs…. The game was marked also by the ejection of Angels Manager Jim Fregesi and two of his players, Rod Carew and Don Baylor. Jim Quick, National League umpire, threw them out after a chain-reaction outburst to Carew's objection to a called strike in the eighth inning.... Robin Yount drove in five runs three hits, including a three-run home run, to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 14-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.... Catcher Jim Essian singled in one run and stole home for the other tally as the Oakland A's posted a 2-0 Cactus League victory over the Seattle Mariners.

Tony Scott socked three doubles and a single and Ken Oberkfell drove in three runs power the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-4 triumph over the Houston Astros…. The Cardinals, winning their third straight exhibition game, hammered six of their 14 hits off fireballing righthander Nolan Ryan in the first four innings. Two of the four runs off the 33-year-old veteran hurler were unearned. In Orlando. Fla., The Minnesota Twins won their fifth consecutive game when designated hitter Jose Morales connected for a three-run homer in the sixth inning to give the Twins a 5-4 victory over the New York Mets at Tinker Field.

Maddox and Phillies Are Negotiating, Again

CLEARWATER, FLA. (AP) - Garry Maddox and the Philadelphia Phillies have reopened negotiations over the outfielder's demand for a five-year contract some insist is in excess of the $3.2 million the team pays Pete Rose.

The Associated Press learned that Maddox' agent, Jerry Kapstein, contacted the Phillies' Ruly Carpenter to reopen the negotiations which both sides said last week had reached an impass.

Carpenter told a reporter he had a long telephone conversation with Kapstein, who was in San Diego.

"We talked about several things," Carpenter said. "It was a very long conversation." The Philadelphia owner said no new numbers were exchanged, but that he and Kapstein agreed to get together in a few days and talk again.

"Today we talked about general concepts," Carpenter said, declining to elaborate.

But the Phillies owner made it clear that Maddox had sought the resumption of negotiations. "I always leave the door open," Carpenter said.

The 30-year-old Maddox, considered one of baseball's best centerfielders, confirmed that Kapstein and Carpenter talked for an hour and a half Friday.

"Jerry told me it was a positive meeting. Negotiations are open again. They will talk again Sunday," Maddox said. "Nothing different happened, but both are optimistic."

Maddox made it clear that he wanted to stay in Philadelphia but that the Phillies were going to have to come close to meeting his terms.

Maddox was concerned that people might misunderstand his demands.

"I don't mind if people get on my back as long as the get the fair figures," said the outfielder who last season won his fifth consecutive Golden (sic) Glove.

Maddox also said the negotiations would have to be settled by the end of spring training and before the season opened April 11. He said he would not negotiate during the season. Maddox is in his option year and can become a free agent at the end of the 1980 season.

Maddox said he wanted to be careful not to make any negative statements that would affect the new talks. But he did say that the Phillies had told him he is worth what he is asking and that he probably could get on the open market.

Maddox said he has the feeling that Carpenter is determined to draw the line on the ever-escalating baseball salaries, and that now is the time to do it.

When the negotiations, which began January 1, 1979, were terminated last week, Phillies’ personnel director Paul Owens said he would have to consider trading Maddox.

“We have to consider moving Maddox,” Owens said at the time. “I’m not going to take the chance of losing him for nothing.”

Teams which lose a free agent receive in return only an amateur draft pick, which is a bone of contention in the collective bargaining negotiations between baseball and the Players Association.

Owens said Friday that three clubs had inquired about the outfielder’s availability, but that no names were mentioned and he told them that he would get back to them.

Owens said that the terms of contract was no problem.

“It’s strictly the money,” said Owens.

Maddox, who hit .281 with 61 RBI and led the team with 26 stolen bases, said that if he was unable to reach an agreement he would make public the numbers involved so that the fans would not misjudge him. Maddox reportedly earns in excess of $400,000 a year.

Phils Win…

Sarasota (AP) – A two-out, eighth-inning rally produced five runs and led the Philadelphia Phillies “A” team to an 11-7 exhibition victory Friday over the Chicago White Sox.

Mike Anderson drove in two runs and Bake McBride, Luis Aguayo and Garry Maddox one each in the spree.

It was the second big inning of the game. The Phillies also scored four times in the fourth inning, including one on Keith Moreland’s home run off Steve Trout.

… And Lose

Dunedin, Fla. (AP) – J.J. Cannon hit a two-run homer run in the bottom of the 11^th inning to power the Toronto Blue Jays over the Philadelphia Phillies B squad Friday.

Cannon’s blast marked the second day in a row the Jays have won on a homer in the 11^th. Thursday, Lloyd Moseby hit a three-run shot to beat the New York Mets 4-2.

The Phillies moved in front 5-4 in the top of the 11^th after Greg Gross scored on a double by George Vukovich, his second RBI of the game.

Jesus Hernaiz, the Phillies minor league pitching instructor, came on to pitch in the 11^th after Philadelphia had run out of pitchers.