Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1991                   TAG: 9104030316
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: AUSTIN, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Medium

RYAN, 19, CAN'T KEEP UP WITH RYAN, 43

Nineteen-year-old Reid Ryan found out Tuesday night that 44-year-old pappy Nolan is still top gun in the Ryan family.

Ryan, a freshman at the University of Texas, gave up four runs in two innings and trailed 4-1 to his dad when he left the exhibition baseball game with the Texas Rangers.

Nolan led 5-3 when he left after throwing 111 pitches in five innings. He gave up five hits and three runs, walked three and struck out seven. The Rangers won 12-5.

"I'm not happy with the way I pitched but I have to put it in perspective against who I was pitching against," Reid said. "It was fun and something I'll always remember."

It was the first known mound duel between a major leaguer and his son.

Nolan was a proud father.

"I was pleased with the way Reid threw and I thought he pitched better than I did," the senior Ryan said. "He got some bad breaks on a couple of those hits. He did a good job.

"My intensity level was not there. I think I was probably distracted watching him. It's two different mind sets and I prefer competing to being a spectator."

Nolan brought the "senior heat" at 92 mph in the first inning while Reid's "junior heat" was clocked at 84 mph on the radar gun.

The Rangers took a 1-0 lead off Reid in the first inning on Jeff Huson's double, a fly out and Geno Petralli's run-scoring grounder. They got two cheap runs in the second on a broken bat single, a double over third base, and a two-run bloop double by Donald Harris.

Facing metal bats for the first time in his career, Ryan gave up consecutive two-out singles in the first inning before getting out of the jam. A walk and Shane Halter's ground double down the left field line gave the Longhorns a run in the second. Texas got two more runs in the fifth on a double, a walk, two wild pitches and a single.

Ruth Ryan was nervous about the mound duel between her husband and son. She told Reid: "Go out and have fun. The sun will come up the next day."

Ruth then fired the ceremonial first pitch, low and into the dirt. It was too slow for the radar gun to clock.