WASHINGTON (38-75) @ KANSAS CITY (42-72)
STARTING PITCHERS
9YZ (5-10 4.27) 8 (3-13 4.86)
The Athletics jumped out in front on a Phil Roof homer but the Senators took back the lead in the 8th as a Campaneris error opened the flood gates which Jack Aker could not close. Leading 6-3 going into the bottom of the 9th when Phil Roof did it again, his hinder driving the game into extra innings. The visitors cracked through in the 14th to finally win this one.
WAS 000 000 141 000 01 7 15 0
KCA 000 021 003 000 00 6 12 3
2B WAS Casanova 19
3B KCA Gosger 5
HR KCA Roof 2(10 (5th off Pascual, 9th off Lines)
RBI WAS F. Howard 2(70) Valentine 24 Casanova 2(37) Be. Allen 21 Brinkman 19
KCA Roof 5(29) Hershberger 30
PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC
Pascual 6 5 1 2 5 3 3 25 53
C. Dobson 7 3 0 1 5 1 0 27 73
WP Humphreys 2-3 4.74 LP Lindblad 6-4 2.49
SCORING PLAYS
BOTTOM 5 .. Hershberger hit by pitch. Roof homered scoring two runs. WAS 0 KCA 2
BOTTOM 6 .. Donaldson singled. Cater singled. Webster walked. Hershberger hit into fielders choice scoring a run WAS 0 KCA 3
TOP 7 .. Nen reached on a two base error. Brinkman singled scoring a run. WAS 1 KCA 3
TOP 8 .. Cullen reached on an error. H. Allen singled. F. Howard singled scoring a run. Valentine singled scoring a run. Casanova doubled scoring two runs, WAS 5 KCA 3
TOP 9 .. Cullen singled and moved up on a grounder. F. Howard scoring a run. WAS 6 KCA 3
BOTTOM 9 .. Hershberger singled. Gosger singled. Roof homered scoring three runs. WAS 6 KCA 6
TOP 14 .. F. Howard singled . Casanova singled. Bernie Allen singled scoring a run. WAS 7 KCA 6
NOTES: Huge game for Phil Roof clubbing 2 homers and driving in 5 of the 6 KC runs. Kaycee had a golden opportunity in the 11 off Bob Priddy when Gosger lead off with a triple. Mgr Gil Hodges intentionally walked the next two. It worked this time as Bert Campaneris topped into a 2-2-3 DO and Donaldson grounded out.
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