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Rich Gedman drove in three runs with a homer and a grounder, Dave Stapleton lined two bases-empty homers, and Mike Torrez and Mark Clear combined on a five-hitter, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 7-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers last night. The Sox are now in third place, a game behind the first-place Tigers, in the make-believe pennant race...
...week remaining before major league rosters must be trimmed to 25 men. Red Sox manager Ralph Houk still has 15 pitchers fighting for nine or ten spots. Houk has virtually guaranteed spots to starters Dennis Eckersley, Frank Tanana, Steve Crawford, Chuck Rainey, John Tudor, and the apparently untradable Mike Torrez (only Pittsburgh has expressed real interest) will probably be included as well...
...barring injuries, nine spots seem fairly certain. Those nine belong to returnees Dennis Eckersley, Mike Torrez, Chuck Rainey, (although his arm is questionable). Bob Stanley, Dick Drago, Tom Burgmeier and the rehabilitated Bill Campbell, plus newcomers Frank Tanana and Mark Clear (both from California). That leaves one spot--and 12 pitchers...
Obviously, a great deal is riding on the young arms. If Tanana's arm isn't better, if Campbell cana't make the comeback, if Rainey isn't the same and if Torrez confinues his inadequacy, the Sox will need plenty of work from the kids to go anywhere...
...Mike Torrez was pitching for the Sox and through six innings had managed an untidy shutout. He had thrown hundreds of pitches, it seemed, and baserunners were much in evidence. None, however, had scored. An epochal Jim Rice home run with no one on in the fourth provided the only score...