Wednesday' April 9, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Wednesday, April 9, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY McLain; Tigers rolling again By JIM FORRESTER Associate Sports Editor Special To The Daily DETROIT -- Balmy breezes, warm temperatures and a huge, happy, light-hearted crowd welcomed the defending World Champions of Baseball to the Motor City yesterday. It was opening day at Tiger Stadium. And the Tigers opened the 1969 championship campaign by scalping the Cleveland Indians, 6-2, behind the three-hit pitching of last year's 31 game winning Denny McLain. A two run double in the third inning by Norm Cash and a two run homer off the bat of Al Kaline were the big blows for the Tigers as they won in their patented come-from-be- -Daily-Larry Robbins STEVE FORSYTHE, WOLVERINE SECOND SACKER is shown as he bats against Bowling Green in yesterday's 12-11 defeat. Forsythe, a senior out of Ohio, had another fine day at the bat yester- day, garnering two hits and a walk in five plate appearances. The second baseman also scored three runs and fielded his position flawlessly. Yesterday's performance raised Forsythe's season aver- age to .256. 'Al rally fall1s short; hind fashion, though a little earlier than usual. McLain and the Tigers spotted the Tribe a run in each of the first two innings to stir some in- terest in the contest before cut- ting loose with the full wrath of their pitching and power. McLain was definiitely having' his troubles in the first two frames with his control and was forced to rely on his fast ball in the early going. Shortstop Larry Brown took full advantage of the erratic Detroit hurler as he loft- ed a floating fly ball just into the left field seats to give the Indians a s1'0 first inning lead. The Tigers threatened in their half of the first as Dick McAuliffe and Mickey Stanley led off with back to back doubles but w e r e unable to score as Tricky Louis Tiant, ace Cleveland hurler, bore down to strike out Al Kaline and Willie Horton, both on called third strikes. Norm Cash popped to short in between, Cleveland scored again in the second as Jimmie Hall singled and then appeared to steal second base. It appeared the Tigers had a chance to cut Hall down but Bill Freehan's throw to second w a s about three feet left of the bag. Despite the throw, the play was still close as Hall was barely able to get a hand on the sack before second baseman McAuliffe put on the tag. But that was the end of Cleve-. sports NIGHT EDITOR:, ELLIOTT BERRY ed to second on Stanley's single. Then Kaline flied to deep center to move both runners along. Cash came up and smashed his double into left-center field, scoring Stanley and McAuliffe. In the fifth the Bengals went ahead to stay as Kaline lined the first pitch over the 365 foot mark in left field. It was his 315th ca- reer home run. Scoring ahead of Kaline was McAuliffe, who led off the inning with a walk. The Tigers picked up insurance -Associated Press DICK MCAULIFFE, DETROIT TIGER SHORTSTOP, attempts to put tag on Jimmie Hall of Cleve- land in yesterday's game at Tiger Stadium. Hall was safe on the play, and later scored to give the Indians a short-lived 2-0 lead. McAuliffe got on e hit and scored \twice in the 6-2 tiger victory., runs in the sixth and seventh in-I nings. They led off the sixth with three singles, the third of which was a solid run-producing blow into the opposite field by Mc- Lain. In the seventh the Tigers/ loaded the bases with three straight singles. The run scored when Don Wert walked on five pitches. Though they collected six runs and eleven hits, the Tigers dis- played weaknesses resulting from position changes. Jim Northrup, playing center field, over-ran Zoilo Versalles single in the fifth, allowing Versalles to reach second. Mickey Stanley displayed h i s lack of familiarity with the short- stop position as he failed to double Lose to By PHIL HERTZ and LEE KIRK Michigan took on Bowling Green1 yesterday afternoon at Ferry Field in a real slugfest. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, the Falcons hit when it counted and pulled out a 12-11 victory in ten innings. The Blue trailed throughout most of the game, falling behind by five in the seventh ining. They trailed by four going into the bot- tom of the ninth, and up in the pressbox, the official scorer had already filled in Bowling Green's final totals in ink. 'The Wolverines, however, were not willing to concede that easily. Pinch-hitter Rich Orr'opened the inning with a base on balls. Short- stop Chuck Schmidt then lined a single over short to put runners on first and second. MICHIGAN (11) ab r h rbi Schmidt,' ss 6 1 2 1 Forsythe, 2b 4 3 2 0 Redman 3b 5 2 3 2 Kraftlf 4 1 1 1 Arvae, rf 5 1 2 2 Bowen pr 0 0 0 01 Carrow, p 0 0 0 0 Lundstedt, lb 2 0 1 1 Hosier, ib 3 1 1 1 * Titone,e 4 1 1 0 Rafferty, cf 5 0 1 1 Fleszar, p 3 0 0 0 'Fife,p 0 0. 0 0 Ritter,.p 0 0 0 0 Orr, ph-rf 1 1 0 0 Totals 42 11 14 9 BOWLING, GREEN 200 020 330 2-12 10 3 ' MICHIGAN 100 103 014 1-11 14 1 BOWLING GREEN (12) ab r h rbi Knox, 2b ,6'5 4 1 McKenzie, cf 2 3 1 2 Miller, if . 3 1 1 0 Harris, if .1 0 1 2 Hagerty, rf 3 0 0 3 Rasor,.c . 5 0 1 1 Barry, lb 4 1 0 2 Hill, 3b 4 1 1 0 Karnehm, ss -4 1 1 0 Leininger, .p 2 0 0 0 Theis, p 2 0 0 0 Wellman, p 1 0 0 0 Totals 37 12 10 11 Bowling Steve Forsythe was then hit by a pitch thrown by reliever Tom Theis to load- the bases and t h e scorer, pulled out his eraser. Third-sacker Glenn Redmon then lined a single to right-center to score Orr and Schmidt. When Fal- con right-fielder Russ Haggertyt threw wildly to third, Forsythe took third and Orr moved on to second. Falcon Coach Dick Young then yanked Theis and brought in sophomore right-hander Ron Wellman. Wellman got Wolverine slugger John Kraft on an easy pop foul to first. Wellman then uncorked a low fastball that bouncedoff the glove of Bowling Green's catcher Bruce Rasors mitt for a passed ball, allowing Forsythe to score' while Redmon took third. John Arvai followed with a single to right over the drawn in Falcon infield and the game was tied. Wellman extinguished the rally by getting Jim Hosler to bounce into a double play, setting the stage for the anti-climactic tenth. Mark Carrow' came on to pitch for the Wolverines in the tenth and struck out the first batter. But John Knox looped a single to right and Jim McKenzie walked on four pitches. Mike Harris then sent a roller up the middle that was just beyond Schmidt's reach, Knox scoring and McKenzie tak-. ing third. Russ Haggerty came up and hit a long fouil fly to right that Orr caught, but McKenzie was able to score easily from third with what proved to be the winning run. The valiant Wolverines o n c e again attempted a comeback. Cap- tain Pete Titone lashed a single to left, and he advanced to second on a wild pitch. Mike Rafferty struck out and Orr grouned to first with Titone moving on to thirdj. Schmidt then singled sharp- ly to left to score Titone, b u t GG *Green Wellman squelched the last glim- mer of Wolverine hope by induc- ing Forsythe to ground into a force play. Both teams blew several excel- lent scoring opportunities in the wild and woolly affair or the score, could have been even higher. The victory upped Bowling Green's record to 8-5. The Wol- verines, now 3-10, travel to De- troit today hoping to avenge Mon- day's loss to the Titans. off Versalles when the Tribe's third baseman broke for third on a grounder to short. Instead of trapping Versalles in a rundown, Stanley went for the play at first. But the most unfamiliarity was shown by Versalles. His first prob- lem was the base paths. After Stanley let him\ get away the first time he turned around and did the same thing on the next play. He broke for third as Tiant hit a grounder to Wert. The Tiger third sacker tagged Versalles as he ran past and then threw Tiant out at first. The Tigers surprised everyone in the park when they tried the hit-and-run, a rarity for the Ben- gals in seasons past. They surpris- ed the crowd even more when the tactic worked. Less than speedy, Freehan was on first and Wert was at bat. The Indians saw the hit-and-run coming so second baseman Vern Fuller held his position, the idea of the strategy to' field the ball hit behind the runner to the right side, and had shortstop B r o w n cover second. So Cleveland thought. Wert proceeded to hit the ball to the exact spot Brown had moved from for a single, ad- vancing Freehan to third. If the Tigers plan on winning another championship, they have started out right. One game down and a mere 161 to go. Cardenaf' c Brown, ss Schnblum, T. Horton, J. Hlail, if Azcue, c Versalles,3 Fuller, 2b Tiant, p Hamilton, Snyder, ph Plan, p CLEVELAND (2) ab f 4 4 rf 4 lb 3 3 3 3b 2 3 2 r 0 1 0 0 0 0 a h rbi 1 1 a0 0 0 S 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 I r--- -_.. I) SCORES Baseball Scores Detroit 6, Cleveland 2 Boston 5, Baltimore 4, 12 inn Kansas City 4, Minnesota 3, Montreal 11, New York 10 Chicago 7, Philadelphia 6, 11 Atlanta 10, San Francisco 2, HIouson at San Diego, inc. Chicago at Oakland, inc. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, inc. - ii land as they were able to place 1 only one more runner on the base paths for the remainder of the contest. McLain was phenomal as he retired 23 of the last 24 men to face him, and the one man was erased on a double play. In all, the nings burley 'right hander pitched to 12 inn, only 30 batters. inn. The Tigers started their ball game in the third as they scored twice to tie the contest. McAuliffe led off with a walk and advanc- McAuliffe, 2b Stanley,ess Trcewski, ss Kaline, rf Cash, lb W. Horton, I1 Northrup, cf Freehan, c Wert, 3b McLain, p 0 0 0 0: 1 0 0 0 00 0 0 Total 28 2 3 2 DETROIT (6) ab r hrbi b 3 2 1 0 5 1 2 0~ 0 0 0 0 4 2 2 2 3 0 2 22 5 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 3 0 1 1: 4 0 1 1 Total 34 6 11 6 110 000 000-2 002 021 10x-6 TENANTS' UNION, UNION BALLROOM 8..-ThursdayApriI10th I I iscount rOCprdS, inc. TUTORIAL BENEFIT HARAf mME Fashion Show and Dance FEATURING: J. J. BARNES MUSIC BY: THE "SOUL AGENTS" FASHIONS BY: THE "NEW BREED" Friday, April 11 9 P.M.-1 A.M. MICHIGAN UNION BALLROOM TICKETS AVAILABLE: Tutorial Project-2547 S.A.B. and at door DONATION-$2.00 "rriimminmminminm minmmmmmmm mmmminminmm rmmmmmmmmmm U rl 1 Ei I I Foreign Student Orientation Meet a foreign student next fall. 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