The Los Angeles Dynamos wasted no time in dominating Chicago Docs starter Curt Schilling, hitting 3 home runs in the 1st inning on their way to an 8-5 victory to close to within a game of the St. Louis Wizards. Eddie Mathews hit a 2-run homer to get things going, and then Johnny Mize and Chuck Klein hit back-to-back solo shots just two batters later. The Docs got 2 runs back in the bottom of the 1st off LA starter Don Sutton, but in the 3rd, Mize hit his 2nd homer of the game, a 2-run jack to extend the lead again. Frank Robinson hit LA’s 5th homer in the 4th, and they added another run in the 5th when Klein’s grounder scored Mize, who had reached on a triple. Chicago’s Jim Edmonds hit a 2-run homer off LA reliever Jim Bunning to make it 8-5, but that’s all they would get. Barry Bonds had a chance to be the hero when Goose Gossage allowed 3 singles in the 9th to load the bases, but Bonds grounded into a double play to end the game. Chicago dropped to 11-25.