DETROIT (51-33) @ BOSTON (51-32)
STARTING PITCHERS
10TW (8-6 3.68) 4 (5-3 5.31)
Norm Cash went 5 for 5 , driving in 4 as the Tigers soundly defeated the hometown Sox, leapfrogging them is the standings. Joe Sparma navigated through five messy innings and the Bengals bullpen closed out the game with four shutout innings.
DET 101 020 012 7 14 2
BOS 010 000 000 1 7 1
2B DET Cash 8 w. Horton 9
BOS Brandon 1
HR DET Northrup 7 (8th off Santiago)
RBI DET Cash 4(58) W. Horton 2(36) Northrup 39
BOS Brandon 1
SB DET Stanley 1
PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC
Sparma 5 5 0 4 7 1 1 24 56
Brandon 6 9 0 2 2 4 4 27 48
WP Sparma 9-6 3.61 LP Brandon 5-4 5.35
SCORING PLAYS:
TOP 1 .. L. Green singled. Lumpe singled. Cash singled scoring a run. DET 1 BOS 0
BOTTOM 2 .. Adair walked. Ryan walked. Brandon doubled scoring a run. DET 1 BOS 1
TOP 3 .. Lumpe singled. Cash doubled scoring a run. DET 2 BOS 1
TOP 5 .. Lumpe singled. Cash singled. W. Horton doubled scoring two runs. DET 4 BOS 1
TOP 8 .. Northrup homered. DET 5 BOS 1
TOP 9 .. J. Landis singled. Stanley singled and stole second. Cash singled scoring two runs. DET 7 BOS 1
NOTES: Jerry Lumpe us enjoying his new found playing time, ripping three hits. Joe Sparma won his third straight altho this one was tough. Yaz has been in a power outage, falling behind Killebrew in both HRs and RBIs. He still comfortably leads the league in batting average.
STAR OF TGD GAME: 5-5 Double 4RBIs
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