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Saturday, it mound. The lef and four walks And in their for the second behind win on 3 _ ; ofy5 are considered to have excellent pitching, and pitching was also Tigers‘ strong point in recent games as they held Toronto Maple Leafs to three hits in a 2â€"0 home victory Saturday night after giving Stratford Hillers just four hits in a 4â€"0 win last Wednesday. And in their only gam.. i. . & Blue Jay;-;r:-‘c and pitching was Nob AbiGininkate d ol 28 i 5 111 Both teams have risen fr respective divisions last y season. Tigers, for their part the lnter«County Major Base after weekend action. It‘s on a smaller scale than the furore over th Blue Jays and Heward Cosell won‘t be paying Bechtel Park. But Waterloo Tigers pennant fever is a realit) Tigers & Jays have a lot in enmman 115 °CC blr .0 1 Strong Tiger Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staff n their only game last week, second night in a row with ; Win am m 0. w 11 D00 0220 C200 an n Thursday night. it was Kevin Rood‘s turn !efthanded IMDOrt gava .. L .. 4. 3 ,__**e0uU 5 turn to handed import gave only and went the distance for 18 Unmanippmmmmmmmmmese.. nc on 63 0 Counooe ts A@Ct, _ 10t in common this season. risen from finishing last in their last year and are leaders this eir part, led the Hamel Division of or Baseball League by one game TE se and tha; y . j2e°S allow a runner to get to second C base and that was in the eighth inning when Rood gave up xcellent pitching, bgck to back walks to Paul McKeegan and Tim Pipher : point in recent _ with one out. . . . . s to three hits in a The next batter, Bill Ashby, hit a line drive. But giving Stratford veteran second baseman Dan Arbic had positioned ednesday. himself perfectly and was able not only to make a routine gers beat Hillers Sattl')l'l bul( also to catch McKeegan off second base for a . C ouble play. 11â€"8 comeâ€"fromâ€" Tigers‘ Nick Noonan scored in the second inning on a . single by MacDonald. In the third, Tim Barone scored on to shine on the Terry Boegel‘s safety. ly three singles Boege! also doubled in the eighth to go twoâ€"for fanr 1+ for Tigers, who the plate. M s CR over the Toronto paying a visit to mV. RKL Y 20, 1983 Repmemaaas22200 eff éir own ortsmcreatethelr own pennant fever Only once did T base and that was i back to back walk with one out. The next batter E «tz;p.. _ _â€" "UFO innings. A Hnood, who didn‘t strike out a single batter after the second inning, used offspeed pitches â€" ang Tigers‘ errorless ball throughout the game, which lasted only one hour and 54 minutes . "I had to struggle here and there," said Rood, who acknowledged that catcher Dune MacDonald called his finest game of the season for him . ' ""My fastball wasn‘t really on tonight. We had to relv on offspeed pitches." once did Tigers l . positioned _ Same. a routine ts : up Tigers play their closest Saturday, Ti Bechtel Park ami _ " o_ "f PDURH lecided tha ;...._ Pame Into exgra innings. Kurt Deluca decided the issue in the top of the 10th with a threeâ€"run homer off losing pitcher Pete Spiliotis. The night before, Scott Bailey had the fourâ€"hitter and a complete game victory over Stratford. Deluca hit a twoâ€"run homer in the first inning to open the scoring and Tigers added another pair of runs in the third. Dennis Schooley opened the third inning with a double, went to third on Boegel‘s single and scored on a base hit by Deluca. Boegel then scored on a double by Noonan. Tigers collected a total of nine hits in Wednesday’s game. Thursday, Tigers were back to force the game i decided the issue in th.. , play Thursday in St sest challenger for . Tigers host Stra Tigers were down 7â€"0 at one point but fought > the game into extra innings. Kurt Deluca ssue in the ton of tha i.i °2. 1 in St. Thomas against the Elgins, for the division title. Then on Stratford Hillers at 7 p.m. at