Legends League

STANDINGS END OF PLAY, MAY 24.

Mad Dogs/40/24/16/.600/—/W2

Clippers/37/22/15/.595/.5/W1

Naturals/38/21/17/.553/2/L1

Terrifics/41/21/20/.512/3.5/L1

Sultans/40/19/21/.475/5/L2

Comets/38/18/20/.474/5/L1

Peaches/36/17/19/.472/5/W4

Hammers/34/10/24/.294/11/L1

RESULTS OF MAY 24 GAME

Mad Dogs 2 Terrifics 1. After three days in second place, the Mad Dogs returned to the top of the standings, with a 2-1 win over the Terrifics, in the only game on today’s slate. It was a great pitcher’s duel between David Wells and Mickey Lolich, with each starter trading zeroes for seven innings. Relievers, Mariano Rivera and Goose Gossage each pitched a scoreless eighth, but in the top of the ninth, the Mad Dogs’ Mark McGwire belted a two run homer, his fourteenth of the season. That was the fifth consecutive game in which McGwire has homered, tying a Stratball record set by Ted Williams in my 1949 Red Sox Replay. The Terrifics made it interesting in the bottom of the ninth, when Johnny Bench clubbed a one out, solo shot off of Rivera, but the reliever threw his cutter past Larry Bowa and pinch hitter, Rennie Stennett, to clinch the victory. WP-Mariano Rivera(1-1). LP-Goose Gossage(0-2). HR-Mark McGwire(14); Johnny Bench(7).

MAY 25 SCHEDULE AND PROBABLE PITCHERS

Comets at Clippers(Ford 3-1 vs. Hubbell 5-0)

Terrifics at Naturals(Seaver 3-5 vs. Verlander 1-2)

Sultans at Mad Dogs(C. Mays 3-2 vs. Clemens 4-2)

Peaches at Hammers(Waddell 1-4 vs. Drysdale 1-5)