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Yankee starter Dave Righetti and relievers Ron Davis and Rich Gossage combined to limit the A's to four hits, only one after the third stanza...
...Dave Righetti and Rich "Goose" Gossage combined to shut out the Brewers on seven hits, and Lou Piniella and Reggie Jackson hit home runs as the Yankees beat Milwaukee, 3-0, yesterday afternoon to move to within a game of winning the American League East "mini-playoff" series...
...Righetti was close to untouchable for six innings, giving up just four hits while fanning ten. Only in the fourth, after Piniella had put the Yanks on top with his solo shot into the left field bleachers in the top half of the inning, did Righetti run into trouble, yielding a lead-off single to Sal Bando. Bando moved to second as Ted Simmons grounded out, but Righetti struck out Gorman Thomas and Ben Ogilvie to retire the side...
...Brewers did not threaten again until the seventh inning. Ron Davis, the winner of Wednesday night's game, came on in relief of the visibly tired Righetti and induced Bando to pop out to start the inning...
...Three first-round K.O.s followed, and in fight No. 5, Spinks' competitor withdrew at the last minute. A standin, signed just hours before the scheduled bout, left in a stupor after three rounds. By then, even Spinks' ho-hum matches against Journeyman Scott LeDoux and Italian Alfio Righetti could not dim his TV marketability...