MINNESOTA (69-59) @ CLEVELAND (69-60)
STARTING PITCHERS
13YZ (10-5 2.84) 14XY (13-7 2.75)
The home club scratched out a run in the 1st then the flood gates opened against Jim Merritt in the 4th highlighted by a homer by Tony Horton. The Indians continued to bludgeon the Minnesota relief corps, adding another 5 runs to cap a convincing 10-1 win.
MIN 000 001 000 1 5 0
CLE 100 403 02x 10 14 2
2B MIN Oliva 18
CLE Salmon 9
3B CLE L. Brown 3
HR CLE T. Horton 11 (4th off Merritt)
RBI MIN Killebrew 91
CLE T. Horton 3(38) Wagner 2(32) L. Brown 2(32) Hinton 40 Alvis 51 Tiant 9
PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC
Merritt 4 7 1 0 4 5 5 19 32
Tiant 8 5 0 0 11 1 0 31 81
WP Tiant 14-7 2.62 Merritt 10-6 3.06
SCORING PLAYS
BOTTOM 1 .. Hintom singled. Alvis singled putting runners on the corners. T. Horton sac fly scoring a run. MIN 0 CLE 1
BOTTOM 4 .. Alvis singled. T. Horton homered. Salmon doubled. L. Brown tripled scoring a run. Tiant singled scoring a run. MIN 0 CLE 5
TOP 6 .. Tovar reached on an error and advanced on a groundout. Killebrew singled scoring a run. MIN 1 CLE 5
BOTTOM 6 .. Azcue singled. Salmon singled. L. Brown singled scoring a run. Tiant singled loading the bases. Wagner singled scoring two runs. MIN 1 CLE 8
BOTTOM 8 .. Salmon walked. Tiant singled. Hinton singled scoring a run. Wagner walked loading the bases. Alvis sac fly scoring a run. MIN 1 CLE 10
NOTE: The Indians sent the Twins to their 9th loss in the last 10 games, capping a truly awful month of August in which the Minnesota club fell out of the pennant race. In the prochess, the Indians leapfrogged them into 4th place. With Luis Tiant going 3-4, the Indians pitchers had quite a hitting week, going 8-19 (.421) forbthe week, spearheaded by Looie Tiant going 4-6 and Steve Hargan 3-6. Speaking of Tiant, he registered his 12th game of 10 or more whiffs. On the Twins side, Cesar Tovar is mired in a 1-30 slump.
STAR OF THE GAME: 2-4 Triple 2 RBIs
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