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Subject: Orioles 9, Tigers 2
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Date: 21 Sep 89 03:24:19 GMT
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	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.