Sunday July 9,1967

WASHINGTON (29-53) @ CLEVELAND (42-39) game 2

STARTING PITCHERS

8W (5-9 3.64) 15Y (9-5 1.88)

Back to back homers by Jose’ Azcue and Larry Brown off Bob Humphreys put the Indians ahead for good as they sweep the Senators in the Sunday doubleheader leading into the All-Star Game.

WAS 000 002 000 2 7 1

CLE 000 203 10x 6 10 0

2B WAS Casanova 14

CLE Hinton 8 Demeter 5

3B CLE Azcue 3

HR CLE Salmon 3 (4th off Moore) Azcue 3 (6th off Humphreys) L. Brown 3 (6th off Humphreys)

RBI WAS Casanova 2(28)

CLE Demeter 15 Salmon 2(6) Azcue 2(18) L. Brown 19

PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC

Moore 5 7 1 0 2 2 2 21 47

Siebert 7 4 0 5 7 2 2 30 63

WP Siebert 10-5 1.86 LP Humphreys 1-3 6.15

SCORING PLAYS:

BOTTOM 4 .. T. Horton singled. Salmon homered scoring two runs. WAS 0 CLE 2

TOP 6 .. F. Howard singled. Valentine walked. Casanova doubled scoring two runs. WAS 2 CLE 2

BOTTOM 6 .. T. Horton singled. Azcue homered scoring two runs. L. Brown homered. WAS 2 CLE 5

BOTTOM 7 .. Alvis reached on an error. Demeter doubled scoring a run. WAS 2 CLE 6

NOTES: The Tribe are now 10-2 versus Washington. Sonny Siebert won his team leading 10th. Ken McMullen went 10 for 19 in the series. So far in July he is hitting a robust .465. Paul Casanova gad a great week also driving in 9 runs.

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

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