FRIDAY JULY 14,1967

CLEVELAND (44-40) @ NEW YORK (29-52) game 1

STARTING PITCHERS

9YZ (2-3 4.51) 14X (8-4 2.49)

A pitchers duel between two veteran southpaws, the Indians drew even in the 7th only to explode in 8th off Bill Monbouquette turning this one into a laughter punctuated by a grand slam off the bat of Chuck Hinton.

CLE 000 000 180 9 12 1

NYY 001 000 000 1 4 1

2B CLE Salmon 8

HR CLE Hinton 8 (grand slam 8th off Monbouquette)

RBI CLE Hinton 4(35) T. Horton 3(22) L. Brown 21

NYY Kennedy 5

PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC

O’Donoghue 6 4 0 3 5 1 1 24 62

Downing 7 6 0 1 7 1 1 28 67

WP Bailey 1-1 2.69 LP Monbouquette 2-2 2.75

SCORING PLAYS

BOTTOM 3 .. Hegan walked. Downing sac bunt. Howser infield single. Kennedy single scoring a run. CLE 0 NYY 1

TOP 7 .. Salmon doubled. T. Horton singled scoring the run. CLE 1 NYY 1

TOP 8 .. Demeter singled. Azcue singled. Wagner hit by pitch. T. Horton singled scoring two runs. L. Brown singled scoring a run. Maye reached on an error scoring a run. Alvis walked . Hinton homered scoring four runs. CLE 9 NYY 1

STAR OF THE GAME 3-5 2RBI

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