TUESDAY JULY 4,1967

NEW YORK (26-48) @ MINNESOTA (48-27)

STARTING PITCHERS

9Z (0-5 6.43) 4Z (7-2 2.09)

NYY 000 400 001 5 8 1

MIN 021 211 00x 7 11 3

2B NYY Mantle 13

MIN Uhlaender 3

3B NYY Tresh 4

MIN Nixon 2 Uhlaender 3

HR NYY Whitaker 7 (4th off Grant)

MIN Oliva 2(10) 3rd off Verbanic 5th off Monbouquette)

RBI NYY Gibbs 14 Tresh 2(26) Whitaker 2(35)

MIN Oliva 2(39) Nixon 3 Uhlaender 2(12) Valdespino 2 Kostro 2

SB MIN Tovar 13

PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BG GSC

Verbanic 3.1 7 1 2 1 5 5 19 25

Grant 4 5 1 1 2 4 4 19 37

WP Roland 1-1 3.00 LP Verbanic 0-6 7.22 SV Worthington 14

SCORING PLAYS:

BOTTOM 2 .. Allison walked. Versalles singled. Uhlaender doubled scoring g two runs. NYY 0 MIN 2

BOTTOM 3 .. Oliva homered. NYY 0 MIN 3

TOP 4 .. Mantle walked. Pepitone singled. Tresh tripled scoring two runs. Whitaker homered scoring two runs. NYY 4 MIN 3

BOTTOM 4 .. Versalles singled. Nixon tripled scoring a run. Valdespino singled scoring a run. NYY 4 MIN 5

BOTTOM 5 .. Oliva homered . NYY 4 MIN 6

BOTTOM 6 .. Uhlaender tripled. Kostro singled scoring a run. NYY 4 MIN 7

TOP 9 .. Hegan reached on a two base error. Howser singled. Gibbs sac fly scoring a run. NYY 5 MIN 7

NOTES: Uhlaender is in a 9 game hitting streak, batter .467 over the stretch. Tovar has reached on an error four times, all not Howser who is filling in for Horace Clarke. Top 9 Yanks had the tying run coming to the place in the figure of Mickey Mantle. Somehow, Dick Howser got caught napping, getting picked off to end the game.

STAR OF THE GAME: 2-4 2HR 2RBI

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