Saturday, April 12, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Yankees put stopper to ae U' By PETER KENT............... Special To The Daily DETROIT-The red-hot Detroit Tigers were cooled off by the combined pitching efforts of New York's rookie Bill Burbach and veteran Lindy McDaniel yesterday. It was the . Tigers' first loss of the season, 9-4. Joe Pepitone collected four hits, including a home run, y to lead the way for the Yankees. Bobby Murcer also had two, hits and scored four times. E Earl Wilson had a very poor spring training season, and the Tigers pennant hopes may hinge upon whether or not } Wilson will make it as the third starting pitcher. Wilson£ d a jpitched well through the first I seven innings, yielding only two hits and two unearned S g runs, although the defense fell apart behind him. Wilson wasf hit hard, however, and the . NIGHT EDITOR: roof fell in in the eighth. PAT ATKINS After a hard ground-out by Jerry Kenney. Murcer lined a sin-. I Tigers, 9-4 Cards edge Mets for first win; Senators shut out Orioles, 4-0 By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Joe Torre. who had only one hit in his first 14' at bats this season, rapped a single, a double and a homer yes- terday as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the New York Mets 6-5 for their first victory of the sea-! son.I The Cardinals, who have won the national league pennant the the bases, Tim Cullen delivered a pitcher, had entered the game in two-run single. the 14th while Hamilton became Cleveland's fifth hurler in the BostonnipsCleveland 13th. CLEVELAND - Singles by Rico Petrocelli and Russ Gibson and pinch-hitter G e o r g e Thomas'J ground out brought home the winning run as Boston nipped Cleveland 2-1 yesterday in 16, past two years, lost their- first innings. three games to Pittsburgh. Petrocelli and Gibson stroked Torre, acquired last month from their hits with one out off loser Atlanta for Orlando Cepeda, Jack Hamilton before Thomas singled in the first inning after batted for winning pitcher Bill a Vada Pinson had doubled home Landis and grounded out to sec-1 Lou Brock. ond, Petrocelli scoring. Then he triggered a two-run Landis, 2-0 Boston's fourth burst in the third with a double and in the seventh sealed the Cards' triumph with his first home Major Leagu run, a 400-foot blast well over the left field wall. All of his hits were American League off Met starter Jerry Koosman. East DivisionL Pt. B The Mets rallied in the eighth, Washington 3 1 .750 - scoring a run with no outs on Detroit 2 1 .667 VI singles by Cleon Jones, Ed Charles Boston 2 1 .667 l and Ron Swoboda plus Jerry BaltiNore 1 2 .333 1 Grote's sacrifice fly. Cleveland 0 3 .000 2 ] Cubs blank Expos CHICAGO -- Billy Williams singled home Don Kessinger in the 12th inning yesterday after- noon to give the Chicago Cubs a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Expos. Kessinger walked with two out, stole second and took third on John Bateman's wild throw. After Glenn Beckert walked, Montreal brought in Dan McGinn to pitch to Williams, who singled to center breaking up the ball game. W olverine golfers s ink to 14th spot Special To The Daily COLUMBUS - Hoping that today will be a better day, the Michigan golf team finished the first round of the Robert Kepler Ohio Invitational Tournament in Columbus yesterday in fourteenth place in a 15 team field. The Wolverine golfers finished the round with a five man total of 417. Michigan State and Purdue' were tied for the lead at the end of play yesterday with totals of 385. tow man for the Michigan links- men was Randy Erskine with a score of 79. Captain Keith Mohan was next with an 82. Following him were Rod Sumpter with 83, Mark Christenson at 86, Dan Schewe with an 87 and John Roska at 91. Only the top five scores were counted in the team total. Coach Bill Newcomb had little to say after the round, comment- ing only that, "All we can hope is that there will be a great im- provement in today's play."' The 54 hole tournament con- eludes today with 36 holes of play. The golfers next competition does not take place until after the se- mester ends, May 2, in the North- ern Intercollegiate Tournament, again in Columbus- gle to right. Roy White then laced a high change-up over the 325 mark in right field. That was all for Wilson. Bill Burbach looked very im- pressive in his major league de- but, although he did not earn the victory. He held the tough Tiger sluggers scoreless through the first six. He maintained control most of the way, finding himself in trouble only once. Dick McAuliffe led off the third with a walk and took second on Al Kaline's one-out line single off third - baseman Murcer's g 1 o v e. Norm Cash walked to load the bases for Willie Horton, but Hor- ton grounded into a double-play to end the inning The Yanks took the lead in the fourth when Murcer led off with a grounder to second. The ball pop- ped out of Cash's mit, and Murcer Beninington ill Michigan State basketball coach John Bennington was placed in the intensive observa- tion unit at Lansing's Edward W. Sparrow Hospital list night following a heart attack. His condition was described as "critical."' was on. White struck out, and Pepitone drilled a stand-up double down the alley in right-center to score Murcer. Murcer, again, started the Yan- kee rally in the sixth, this time by drawing a walk. White hit a sac- rifice bunt to Wilson, but Wilson t 'rwthe ball into right field. Murcer scoredand White was left on third for the rest of the, inning. ie Standings National League East Division 7 -Associated Press TIGER THIRD BASEMAN Don Wert tags out New York's Jake Gibbs in the second inning of yes- terday's game. Gibbs, who was trying to advance from second on Horace Clarke's infield grounder, never quite made it but the Yankees won anyway, 9-4. The loss dropped the Tigers out of the top spot in the American League race, a game behind the league-leading Washington Senators. Chicago Pittsburgh New York Montreal St. Louis Philadelphia. Atlanta xSan Diego LsAngeles W L 4 0' 4 0 2 2 123 1 3 0 4 West Division 4 0 3 0 2 1 Pct. 1.000 1.000 .500 .250 .250 .000 1.000 1.000 Detroit finally fought back in. Bill Freehan started the rally the bottom of the seventh. Don with a single down the left field Wert lined a single to left-center. line. After Wert flew out, pinch- Manager Mayo Smith then decid- hitter Gates Brown hit into a force ed to send Wilson to bat rather play. McAuliffe, walked, putting than pinch-hit for him. Brown on second. Stanley then hit The calculated risk paid off as a perfect hit-and-run play, sin- Wilson came through with a hard gling to center. Brown scored all single to left, sending Burbach to the way from second and Mc- the showers. Lindy McDaniel Auliffe made it to third. McDaniel didn't fare much better in his re- got out of it by striking out Ka- lief appearance, although he gain- line. ed the victory. Relief pitching was put to the After McAuliffe struck out, test again in the top of the ninth, Mickey Stanley grounded a single when Dick Radatz took over. Hor- through the hole to left to score ace Clarke singled to left, leading Wert. Kaline thei'struck out. Cash off the inning. Rookie Jerry Ken- drew a walk to load the bases for ney hit a sacrifice bunt to the Horton again., This time Horton pitcher, but once again the throw hit 'aroutine grounder to short, but Gene Michael booted it, and Wilson scored. Jim Northrup Yankees grounded out to end the inning. DETROIT White's two-run homer gave the ab r h rbi Yankees a chance to work on the McAuliffe, 2b 3 0 0 0 Detroit weak spot - the relief Stanley, r 4 0 1 0 pitching. John Hiller was the first Cash, lb 3 1 1 0 victimn. He faced three men, giving Horton, if 5 0 0 0, up one run and two hits, before he Northrup, of 3 0 1 0 could retire the side. Freehan, c 4 0 3 1 The Tigers may have been Wilson, p 3 1 1 0 thinking about one of their pat- Hiller, p 0 0 0 0 ented come-from-behind surges, Brown, ph 1 1 0 0 but the rally in the bottom of the Kilkenny, p 0 0 0 0 eighth fell short. Total 36 4 10 3 went into right field. Clarke scor- ed and Kenney went to third. Murcernsingled up the middle to score Kenney. White then tagged another one to right field, but it was pulled in by Kaline. Joe Pepi- tone followed with his booming two-run blast in the upper deck in right. Manager Smith finally brought in a rookie, Mike Kilken- ny, to put out the fire. Norm Cash surprised everyone in the ball park with a perfect bunt down the third base line to lead off the Tiger ninth. He was brought around on a wild pitch, single, and sacrifice fly by Free- han. However, that was all for the Tigers, and the end of a long day. go home NEW YORK Clarke, 2b 5 1 1 0 Kenney, cf 4 1 0 0 Murcer, 3b 4 , 4 2 1 White, If 4 1 1 2 Pepitone, Ib 5 2 4 3 Tresh, ss 0 0 0 0 Michael, ss 2 0 0 0 Robinson, rf 5 0 1 1 Gibbs, c 3 0 0 0 Burbach, p 3 0 0 0 McDaniel, p 1 0 0 0 Total 36 9 9 7 New York 000 101 034--9 Detroit 000 000 211--4 * * * BALTIMORE - Barry Moore, Casey Cox and Dennis Higgins combined to blank the Baltimore Orioles 4-0 on six hits last night as the Washington Senators won their third straight game after losing the season opener. The Senators, who took a .361 batting average into the game, were held pretty well in check by loser Jim Hardin, but a Boog Powell error led to three unearned runs in the third inning. A bases-loaded sacrifice ,fly by: Mike Epstein scored the first run and after another walk reloaded West Division W L P xKansas City 2 0 1. Seattle 2 1 .61 xOakland 1 1 .5 xCalifornia 1 1 .5 Chicago 1 2.3 xMinnesota 0 2 .0 x-Late games not included. Yesterday's Results New York 9, Detroit 4 Boston 2, Cleveland 1, 16 inn. Seattle 7, Chicago 0 Washington 4, Baltimore 0 Today's Games Kansas City at Oakland Minnesota at California,tnight Chicago at Seattle, night New York at Detroit Boston at Cleveland Washington at Baltimore 'et. 000 150 00 GB I-% , 1 3 1 0 2 Cincinnati 1 2 .333 2/2 xSan Francisco 0 3 .000 31/j Houston 0 4 .000 4 x-Late game not included. Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 6, New York 5 Chicago 1, Montreal 0, 12 inn. 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