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Subject: Yankees, Brewers split
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Date: 22 Sep 89 04:48:40 GMT
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	NEW YORK (UPI) -- After suffering a humiliating loss in the first
game of a twi-night double-header Thursday night, the New York Yankees
wanted to prove a point in the second game.
	Don Mattingly belted a two-run homer with none out in the 10th
inning to rally the Yankees to a 5-4 victory in the nightcap and salvage
a split with the Milwaukee Brewers.
	Milwaukee, which had gone ahead 4-3 on Rob Deer's homer in the top
of the 10th, sustained a crushing defeat because instead of moving
within 5 1-2 games of Toronto, the Brewers picked up no ground and
remained 6 1-2 games out in the AL East.
	``I'm glad,'' Mattingly said. ``We managed to hurt them a little
bit, especially after that first game. The second one became became very
important to us. No one likes to get pushed around.''
	Joey Meyer knocked in four runs and Charlie O'Brien had three RBI
to power  Milwaukee to a 14-1 rout in the opener.
	With Milwaukee ahead 11-1, Mark Knudson, 7-5, hit Luis Polonia in
the chest with a pitch. Polonia charged the mound and threw punches at
Knudson. Both benches and bullpens emptied. Mel Hall was ejected for
renewing hostilities after order had been restored.
	Polonia was convicted of a misdemeanor for having sex with an
underage girl on the Yankees' last visit to Milwaukee.
	In the seventh inning, Yankees reliever Kevin Mmahat hit O'Brien
with a pitch and was ejected by home plate umpire Dale Ford. He was
replaced by Jimmy Jones.
	New York Manager Buck Dent hopes that his team's performance in the
second game can carry over the rest of the way.
	``We were on edge in the first game, probably because we haven't
been playing good lately,'' said Dent. ``Winning the second game means
we'll continue to have a strong effort the rest of the way without a
slump.''
	Alvaro Espinoza led off the 10th inning of the nightcap by drawing
a walk off Milwaukee relief ace Dan Plesac, 3-4. Mattingly drove the
next pitch into the first row of the right-field seats for his 22nd
homer. It made a winner of Lee Guetterman, 5-5, who yielded Deer's 26th
homer in the top of the 10th.
	With only 10 games remaining time is running short on the Brewers.
	``We are going to need help from the other teams,'' said Milwaukee
manager Tom Trebelhorn. ``We can't afford to lose too many games. To me,
if we had been able to win 12 games in a row, we would have done it
already. The second game really hurt.''
	Milwaukee had tied the score 3-3 when Mike Felder belted a two-run
homer off reliever Lance McCullers in the eighth inning.
	McCullers, who had bailed starter Andy Hawkins out of a
seventh-inning jam, surrendered a one-out single to B.J. Surhoff.
Surhoff stole second and one later Felder hit his second home run, a
towering fly into the lower right-field stands.
	The Brewers knocked out New York starter Greg Cadaret, 5-5, during
a six-run third inning. Milwaukee had taken a 3-0 lead in the second on
Meyer's bases-loaded double. In the third, O'Brien doubled home three
runs. Milwaukee also scored on an RBI triple by Bill Spiers, a wild
pitch by Cadaret and a single by Glenn Braggs.
	The Brewers bolstered the lead to 11-0 in the fourth on sacrifice
flies by Braggs and Gregg Vaughn.
	Milwaukee added three runs in the seventh. Meyer hit his sixth
homer, Paul Molitor ripped an RBI double and another scored on a wild
pitch by Jones.
	Mattingly accounted for New York's run in the fourth with his 21st
home run. The Yankees managed four hits off three pitchers, while
Milwaukee banged out 14 hits.