The Kansas City A’s roared into the Motor City promptly putting up a 4 stop off Mickey Lolich in the 2nd highlighted by a long ball by Ramon Webster. Jim Nash had a easy three innings but Norm Cash and Mickey Stanley went deep to tie the game in the 4th. A pair of doubles in the 6th chased Nash from the game and proved to be the winning margin as the Bengals took the opener.
KCA 040 000 000 4 5 0
DET 000 401 00x 5 7 1
2B DET Cash 14 Freehan 15
3B KCA Roof 5
HR KCA Webster 12 (2nd off Lolich)
DET Cash 28 (4th off Nash) Stanley 4 (4th off Nash)
After scoring 6 in the opener, the White Sox doubled their pleasure with 12, registering 4 runs in three consecutive innings, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th pounding Steve Barber and Fred Talbot. Cisco Carlos tossed six shutout innings in his second Major League start garnering his first win in the bigs, giving the Sox a sweep of the doubleheader while keeping pace with the first place Red Sox.
Two flame throwing lefty came out a blazing, matching series and strikeouts over the first three innings. Then the Sox broke the stymie with a pair of runs in the 4th and 5th off Downing giving Gary Peters plenty of run support as he combined with Bib Locker on a three hit shutout.
CWS 000 220 200 6 9 0
NYY 000 000 000 0 3 0
2B CWS Agee 22 Ward 13 Colavito 9
NYY Whitaker 10 Tillman 3
RBI CWS Boyer 2(7) Colavito 2(37) Agee 44 Martin
SB CWS Agee 18
PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC
Peters 7 3 0 1 8 0 0 24 78
Downing 6 7 0 3 4 4 4 28 43
WP Peters 18-5 2.46 LP Downing 12-8 2.28
SCORING PLAYS
TOP 4 .. Ward doubled. Colavito doubled scoring a run. Martin singled scoring a run. CWS w NYY 0
TOP 5 .. Buford walked. Agee singled putting runners on the corners. Agee stole second. Boyer sac fly scoring a run. Colavito singled scoring a run. CWS 4 NYY 0
TOP 7 .. Buford walked. Agee doubled scoring a run. Boyer singled scoring a run. CWS 6 NYY 0
Poor Dick Nold never had a chance against the potent Bosox lineup, even the juggled game 2 order. 7 Sox had multiple hit games (19 Boston safety’s in all) and 5 drove in runs totaling 10. All in support of Jerry Stephenson’s seven workmanlike innings and a couple of seldom used lefty’s finished up. The Nats avoided the doubleheader whitewash when they nicked Stephenson for a rally in his last inning of work.
BOS 102 300 301 10 19 0
WAS 000 000 100 1 11 1
2B WAS F. Howard 19
3B WAS Be. Allen 1
HR BOS Yastrzemski 53 (9th off Humphreys)
RBI BOS Yastrzemski 3(127) Petrocelli 3(79) Andrews 2(33) R. Smith 62 Siebern 4
WAS Brinkman 22
SB WAS Valentine 17
PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC
Stephenson 7 9 0 3 6 1 1 30 58
Nold 4 11 0 1 2 6 5 26 19
WP Stephenson 2-0 1.80 LP Nold 0-3 9.00
SCORING PLAYS
0.. D. Jones singled. Yastrzemski walked. Siebern singled scoring a run. BOS 1 WAS 0
TOP 3 .. Yastrzemski singled. Siebern walked. Petrocelli singled scoring a run. Andrews hit into a fielders choice scoring a run. BOS 3 WAS 0
TOP 4 .. Tartabull singled. D. Jones singled. Siebern walked. Petrocelli singled scoring two runs. Andrews singled scoring a run. BOS 6 WAS 0
TOP 7 .. Stephenson singled. Tartabull singled. D. Jones walked. Yastrzemski singled scoring two runs. R. Smith sac fly scoring a run. BOS 9 WAS 0
BOTTOM 7 .. Be. Allen tripled. Brinkman sac fly scoring a run. BOS 9 WAS 1
TOP 9 .. Yastrzemski homered BOS 10 WAS 1
NOTES: Interesting that with 19 hits, only one by the Sox was for extra basss, Yastrzemski homer. He is now 8 behind Roger Maris to all time single season leader. Carl has 25 games to accomplish the feat. Only member of the Hub to go hitless was catcher Mike Ryan. Even pitcher Jerry Stephenson had two safety’s.
A very tight contest thru 6 innings, the oaky thing separating the two teams was a Carl Yastrzemski home run. The Sox then broke the game open off Darrell Knowles when the flood gates opened thanks to a miscue by Dick Nen, culminating with a Ken ‘Hawk’ Harrelson big fly. When Dave Morehead tired , fireman Johnny Wyatt got the last 6 outs to notch this one onto the Beantown ledger.
BOS 000 001 400 5 9 0
WAS 000 000 000 0 6 0
2B BOS Foy 24 Adair 21 Harrelson 9 E. Howard 2(9)
HR BOS Yastrzemski 52 (6th off Pascual) Harrelson 11 (7th off Knowles)
It took 2 batters for the Indians to snag the lead but not to be deterred, the Angels scored 8 unanswered runs in support of Rickey Clark who went six strong .
CLE 100 000 000 1 6 2
CAL 310 110 20x 8 10 1
2B CLE Davalillo 18 Hinton 14
CAL Reichardt 11 Knoop 14
HR CAL J. Hall 18 (5th off S. Williams) Mincher 21 (7th off Bo. Allen )
RBI CLE Hinton 44
CAL Reichardt 2(37) Morton 18 Mincher 2(64) J. Hall 53 Fregosi 42 A. Rodriguez 3
PITCHING LINE IP H HR BB SO R ER BF GSC
S. Williams 4 8 1 0 3 6 2 22 33
Ri. Clark 6 5 0 3 6 1 1 27 61
WP Clark 7-8 2.21 LP S. Williams 2-2 2.80
SCORING PLAYS
TOP 1 .. Davalillo doubled. Hinton doubled scoring a run. CLE 1 CAL 0
BOTTOM 1 .. A. Rodriguez singled. Fregosi reached on an error. Morton singled scoring a run. Reichardt doubled scoring two runs. CLE 1 CAL 3
BOTTOM 2 .. Clark reached on an error. A. Rodriguez singled putting runners on the corners. Fregosi sac fly scoring a run. CLE 1 CAL 4
BOTTOM 4 .. Knoop doubled. Clark sac bunt. A. Rodriguez sac fly scoring a run. CLE 1 CAL 5
BOTTOM 5 .. J. Hall homered. CLE 1 CAL 6
BOTTOM 7 .. J. Hall walked. Mincher homered scoring two runs. CLE 1 CAL 8
NOTES: Aurilio Rodriguez had a nice start to his MLB career going 4-10 with 3 RBIs.
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