SEPTEMBER 13, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN SEPTEMBER 131967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN Victorious i Tigers Move Within One By The Associated Press DETROIT - Al Kaline's two- run homer in the sixth inning sparked Detroit to a comeback 6-4 victory over Baltimore last night. Kaline's homer, his 23rd, was hit off loser Eddie Watt, 2-5, and came with Don Wert, who had singled, on first. The victory, Dertoit's 14th in 17 games with the world-champions this season, left the third place Tigers one game behind Boston and Minnesota. The Tigers overcame deficits of 3-0 and 4-2 to win behind re- lief pitcher Fred Gladding 6-4, the fourth of five Detroit pitchers. Gladding left the game at the top of the eighth because of a muscle strain in his hip. Fred Lasher finished up. Detroit tied the score 4-4 in the fifth on Bill Freehan's bases load- ed single. The Tigers loaded the bases off starter Gene Brabender on a disputed infield single by Jim Northrup and Norm Cash after two were out. Watt took over and was greeted by Free- han's single. The Orioles jumped on 20-game winner Earl Wilson for three runs in the first two innings. Luis Aparicio hit his fourth homer leading off in the first and Dave Johnson slammed a two-run homer, his 10th, in the second. Detroit picked up an unearned run off Brabender in the second on singles by Jim Northrup and Norm Cash and a passed ball. The Tigers scored again in the fourth. Cash doubled and held second on Bill Freehan's infield single. Pinch-hitter Gates Brown singled to right and when Orioles' right-fielder Dave May fell down while fielding the ball, Cash scored. Baltimore picked up another run in the fifth when Gladding hit Brabender with a pitched ball. Aparicio sacrified. Brabender took third on a wild pitch and scored when Paul Blair beat out a hit to short stop Dick Tracewski. Red Sox Move Up , BOSTON - Jim Lonborg socked a tie-breaking triple in the eighth inning and pitched the Boston Red Sox to a 3-1 victory over Kansas City last night to become the American League's second 20-game winner this sea- son. The Red Sox went into the game trailing the league-leading Minnesota Twins by one game in the four-way pennant scramble. Boston, caught up with Jim "Catfish" Hunter in the eighth after the Kansas City right - hander held them to three hits over the first seven innings. After Hunter fanned Reggie Smith for his 12th strikeout of the game - tying the club record - Mike Ryan singled to center. The A's, expecting Lonborg to bunt, drew their defense in, but the Red Sox' ace crossed them up by lacing the first pitch up the right center field alley, scoring pinch runner Jose Tartabull to break a 1-1 tie. Lonborg then tallied an insur- ance run on Mike Andrews' sac- rifice flp to center. Lonborg checked the A's on eight hits and struck out eight in. boosting his season record to 20- 7 and joining Detroit's Earl Wil- son in the 20-victory circle. The tall right-hander pitched out of several serious jams in the early innings with the aid of four double plays by the Boston infield. He blanked the A's until Bert Campaneris' leadoff homer in the eighth tied the game 1-1. Smith's solo homer in the fifth - the first hit off Hunter - had given the Red Sox a one-run edge. Lonborg retired the first three batters he faced, but the A's test- ed him in each of the next four innings. * * * White Sox Scalped CHICAGO - Reliever Bob Al- len halted a Chicago rally in the eighth inning and Orlando Pena preserved Cleveland's 4-3 victory over the White Sox in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader yesterday. Chicago, fourth in the American League pennant scramble, went into the doubleheader 21/2 games back of first place Minnesota. The White Sox had scored. a run and had men on first and second with one out in the eighth when Allen came out of the bull- pen and struck out pinch hitters Tom McCraw and Wayne Causey to end the threat. -Associated Press THE CHICAGO CUBS, struggling for their highest finish in a decade, rallied in the ninth inning last night as George Altman knocked over Houston catcher Ron Brand to score. Altman's run, how- ever, was one short and the Astros won 5-4. a double but was thrown out try- ing to stretch it by Frank How- ard. The Twins knocked Bertaina out in the seventh but Dave Baldwin struck out Bob Allison with run- ners on first and second to pre- serve the one-run lead and the victory. Frank Kostro batted for loser Jim Merritt after Versalles was thrown out and singled to center. With two out, Cesar Tovar sin- gled, and Kostro scored when Harmon Killebrew's grounder went through Frank Coggins' legs for an error. Tony Oliva's single scor- ed Tovar before Allison fanned. * * * Angels Over Yanks NEW YORK-Roger Repoz de- livered a 12th inning sacrifice fly that scored Jim Fregosi with the winning run as the California An- gels edged the New York Yankees 2-1 ih the first game of a twi- night doubleheader last night. Fregosi and Hawk Taylor open- ed the 12th with singles and Fre- gosi went to third on Tom Sat- riano's fly ball. Then Repoz' fly brought him home. The Yankees had tied it with two out in the ninth. Joe Pepitone had doubled and then raced home as Roy White beat out a bouncer and Bobby Knoop threw wild. Braves Nip Mets ATLANTA - Joe Torre's run scoring single capped a two-run ninth inning rally that gave At- lanta a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets last night and snapped the Braves' losing streak at five games. Trailing 3-2 in the ninth, the Braves filled the bases on singles by Mike Lum and Felipe Alou plus a walk to Mack Jones, Hank Aar- on's sacrifice fly knocked in the tying run and Torre then deliv- ered the winner with a single to left. Ron Swoboda drove in all the Mets' runs with a single and homer while Aaron blasted his 36th homer for the Braves. * * * Reds Rip Pirates CINCINNATI-Pete Rose's three run homer and Vada Pinson's two run shot keyed a barrage of 23 hits as the Cincinnati Reds buried the Pittsburgh Pirates 15-7 in a slugfest last night. The Reds exploded for four runs in the first inning off Bob Veale and then battered reliever John Golnar for five more runs in the next two innings as they post- ed their fourth straight victory. Pinson, who banged out three hits, sparked rallies in the first, second and fifth innings. Tommy Helms and Leo Cardenas each had four hits. FRATERNITY, Larry Brown doubled in Cleve- the fifth on singles by Fuller and land's first two runs in the second pitcher Sam McDowell and Chuck inning after Chicago starter Steve Hinton's ground ball. Jones walked Jose Vidal and Vern McDowell was working on a Fuller with two out. three-hit shutout going into the The Indians added a run in 'sixth when he walked the bases MSU THIRD: Irish Top Pre-season Poll II Major League Standings 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota Boston Detroit Chicago California Washington Cleveland Baltimore New York Kansas City W 83 83 82 8Q 74 69 68 64 64 59 L 63 63 64 65 70 76 78 80 82 85 Pct. .569 .569 .562 .552 .514 .476 .466 .444 .438 .410 GB -- 1 2Y2 13% 15 1$ 19 23 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Detroit 6, Baltimore 4 Boston 3, Kansas City i Cleveland 4, Chicago 3 Washington 5, Minnesota 4 California 2, New York 1 TODAY'S GAMES Cleveland at Chicago (n) Minnesota at Washington (n) Baltimore at Detroit (n) California at New York (n) Kansas City at Boston (n) NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GS St. Louis 91 55 .624 - x-San Francisco 79 65 .549 11 Cincinnati - 80 66 .548 11 Chicago 79 70 .531 13% Philadelphia 74 69 .524 15% Atlanta 73 71 .506 17 Pittsburgh 72 74 .494 19 x-Los Angeles 65 78 .455 24% Houston 59 88 .400 32 New York 54 90 .375 36 x-Late game not included. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 0 Atlanta 4, New York 3 Cincinnati 15, Pittsburgh 7 Houston 3, Chicago 2 San Francisco at Los Angeles (inc) TODAY'S GAMES New York at Atlanta (n) Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (n) San Francisco at Los Angeles (n) Philadelphia at St. Louis (n) Only games scheduled By The Associated Press Five Big Ten football teams re- ceived votes in the Associated Press's annual pre-season poll. Michigan State ranked third, with Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio State, and Purdue also represent- ing the Big Ten, though not pla- cing in the first ten. The Spartans collected 183 points to secure their third-place' ranking behind Notre Dame (296), their nemesis of last season, and Alabama (282), moving up from last year's finish of third. The Fighting Irish and the Spar- tans had quite a duel going for the poll lead most of last year, be- fore Notre Dame pulled ahead fol- lowing the dramatic late-season meeting that ended in a 10-10 deadlock. This year, Michigan State re- tains the nucleus for a strong squad despite the loss of Bubba Smith, Clint Jones, Gene Wash- ington, and Jerry West, among others. Jimmy Raye at quarter- back, Bob Apisa at fullback, and Al Brenner at end are among the holdover standouts. 'Duffy's Boys' from East Lansing find themselves closely trailed in the standings by Texas, unranked in last year's final pool. Only seven points separate the two teams, with Texas collecting two first place votes to Michigan State's one. The remainder of the Top Ten is made up of Miami of Florida, Georgia, Southern California, U.' C.L.A., Tennessee, and Colorado. The national panel of 32 sports writers and broadcasters who participated in the voting, ballot on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. In the ranking that follows, first- place votes are in parenthese: 1. Notre Dame (17).......296 2. Alabama (11)..........282 3. Michigan State (1) ...... 183 4. Texas (2) .............. 176 5. Miami ......... ....... 134 6. Georgia ................128 7. Southern California (1) . 114 8. U.C.L.A . ............... 113 9. Tennessee .............. 88 10. Colorado ................ 43 I loaded with two out. Reliever George Culver wild-pitched one run across and another scored on Rocky Colavito's infield sin- gle. Culver ended the rally by get- ting pinch batter Smoky Burgess to line to short. Hinton opened the Cleveland eighth with a triple and one out later scored on an infield single by Max Alvis. With one out in the bottom of the eighth, Culver hit Tommie Agee with a pitch and Ken Boyer singled Agee to third. Pete Ward then singled Agee home before Allen came into snuff out the rally. Pena worked the ninth in- ning. * * Senators Nip Twins" WASHINGTON-Pitcher Frank Bertaina's two-run single and home runs by Fred Valentine and Frank Howard carried the Wash- ington Senators to a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins last night and dropped the Twins into a tie for the American League lead with the Boston Red Sox. The Twins rallied for two runs in the seventh and might have tied it in the inning except for some over-eager base running by Zoilo Versalles, who opened with Do you know what is happening on campus? Do you follow Wolverine sports? Do you keep up with world events? YOU NEED m4r MfrIhigrnx ttii WAKE UP TO THE DAILY AND STAY INFORMED! SUBSCRIBE NOW CLIP HERE ___________.mm===m=====__"==inm mmmwmiom n r=====_ ____mmoomn. 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