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_ THAT makes for long weekend Catcher Dunc MacDonald attempts to gun down a base stealer while Brantford, ducks out of the way of a pitch during Monday‘s lopsided former Waterioo Tiger manager Alf Payne, now a designated hitter with Brantford win. Waterloo Tigers lost their opening two games of the Interâ€"County Major Baseball League season last weekâ€" end, one by the narrowest of margins and the other by a humungous score. t But the bottom line, regardless of the fact Tigers were devastated 20â€"0 in Brantford Monday after being nipped 5â€"4 in their home opener by Stratford Saturday, is that Waterloo needs, and will be getting, reinforcements in the near future. ‘"Hey, when the smoke has all cleared this team wili still be there," said the quiet spoken Tiger boss after Monday‘s matinee ambush in the Telephone City. "Don‘t forget, we‘re still missing ‘key people in our lineup, like our (American) pitchers, the Schnurr brothers, Jimmy Taylor, they‘re all big additions to the lineup. _ ‘‘Today, what happened happened, the best team in baseball could go out on the field and have the same thing happen to them that happened to us." What Tigers don‘t need, according to field manager Gary Jeffries, is anyone‘s sympathy. The tempo was set for the rout as early as the second inning when Red Sox, abetted by four Tiger errors, touched starter Kevin Emke for four runs and three hits. Emke, through little fault of his own other than a limited sophistication in the pitching variety department, was in trouble in évery inning but the third and received little support from his mates either offensively or defensively until Renald Gabriel took over in the fifth. Gabriel, like Emke still of junior age, gave up four runs in the sixth and had the sacks full again in the seventh when he gave way to Terry Boegel. PAGE 20 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MaAY 20, 1981 Actually, it was a courageous move on Boegel‘s part to By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sports Editor ‘"‘That was a horsebleep move on his (Dix‘s) part,"‘ mutâ€" téred Jeffries. ‘"He (Dix) said Valcke hit him with his elbow but Tom‘s not that kind of kid at all." ‘‘Kevin did all right, if we had made some plays behind him and gotten him a few runs it would have helped," offered Jeffries. ‘"As things turned out, today was just a good chance to let everyone throw." Having been forced to use Mike Simpson and Greg McEachern for half a game each against Stratford Jeffries was left with Emke as his only option for Monday‘s start. Tigers got two doubles from Mickey Kozlowski, a double and single from Dave Barrett and double from Mike Yosurack but couldn‘t bunch any at key times to bring in the runs. Twice Tigers led off their haif with runners on second and third but failed both times to push a run across. In the seventh, right fielder Tom Valcke was caught in a nasty rundown at third with former Tiger Dave Dix with Dix taking a wild swing at the Waterloo player after tagging him, claiming Vaicke elbowed him on the way back to third. All in all, Red Sox counted their 20 runs on 18 hits while Tigers committed eight errors. Nick Noonan homered and singled twice, former Tiger manager Alf Payne homered and singled out of the designated hitters role, and Larry Ellins tripled and doubled to pace the hit parade. > enter the contest at all since he injured his heel early in Saturday‘s contest against Stratford and wasn‘t even able to start in centrefield Monday. p Unfortunately, the scales of justice refused tabalance as Boegel offered up a perfect pitch on a 3â€"andâ€"2 count to former Piger Gary Dix and he unloaded it over the left field fence for a grand slam to further cement the victoâ€" ry. Tigers have a bit of a breather now as they are off until Saturday when they will entertain London Majors at Bechtel Park at 7:30 p.m. However, their plate fills quickly after that as they travel to Kitchener Sunday and Stratford Tuesday. The most costly factor in the loss was that Simpson threw so many pitches before exiting in the fifth, rendering him useless for even spot duty Monday. The leadâ€"off batter for Hillers reached base in the first six innings of Saturday‘s game. . Mike Mallory and John Lanteigne, who is exhibiting outstanding earlyâ€"season confidence at the plate after seeing minimal action the past two seasons, each had two singles for Tigers while Dave Hunt had a double and two singles and Al Gates three singles for the winners. ‘"‘The real bonus was the way McEachern pitched, he showed me a lot out there," said Jeffries. "And I‘m confident Simpson can pitch in this league too, he just has to get a little more control." ‘‘Mentally and physically, I‘ve never seen a worse game in the 10 seasons I‘ve been associated with the Interâ€"County league," said Stratford field manager Dennis Schooley. "The only thing we did was get good pitching, thank heavens for that, there‘s no way even with only one or two infield practices that we should be booting the ball like that." Waterloo pecked away with a run in the sixth and threatened in the ninth with runners on first and third but outfielder Dan Caldwell hit into a~gameâ€"inning grounâ€" dout. _ Saturday‘s home opening loss was a horse af a completely different color. Tigers thrilled their hardy crowd on a freezing cold night by jumping into a 3â€"0 third inning lead but costly errors in both the fourth and fifth allowed the visiting Hillers, who booted the ball all night themselves, a 5â€"3 lead.