Tuesday, September 15, 1970
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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FROM THE
DRIVER's SEAT
'By Phil Hertz
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Mets
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MONTREAL - The New York;
Mets, capitalizing on errors by
Ron Fairly and John Bateman,
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Gridde Pickings
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THE REGULAR baseball season is about to come to its con-
clusion after nearly six long months of competition, and
unless you happen to be a Pirate, Cub 'or Met fan or- a believer
in miracles there is little left to do but begin to follow your
favorite football team, or the way things go nowadays your
favorite hockey or basketball team, or if you are a follower of
the Orioles, Twins, or the Big Red Machine, wait for the com-
mencement of the play-offs and the World Series.
Fortunately for baseball fans like me, the race in the
National League East promises to be the best in baseball since
four teams battled for the American League pennant in 1967.
Barring an unforeseeable hot streak, the three ball clubs should
spend the remainder of the campaign fighting tooth and nail
for the unenviable right to .meet the Cincinnati Reds. Inevitably
two of the 'teams will spend the, off-season second-guessing
themselves and thinking about the won games which landed in
the loss column, especially the ones late in the season.
If the Pittsburgh Pirates fail to capture the .East Division
title, they will be spending an inordinate amount of their free
time this winter, thinking about Sunday's loss to the Chicago,
Cubs at beautiful Wrigley ERield.
WHEN DISASTER STRUCK the Bucs, they were on the
verge of their second straight triumph over the Cubs, a win
which would have dropped the /Cubs three games off the pace
and dropped the Mets, who were in the process of dropping an
extra-inning decision to the St. Louis Cardinals,' a game and a
W half behind. The loss would not have been overly disheartening
if it had not occurred the way it did.
Steve Blass, the Pirate starting pitcher, had not allowed a
hit to.the Cubs since the third inning and was one out away
from his tenth victory when he induced Cub pinch-hitter Won-
derful Willie Smith to loft a fly ball to centerfield. Blass im-
mediately leaped/ into the air and began waving his hands in
jubilation. He later commented, "I Always get excited about win-
ning, but this had a little something extra about it." Pirate
manager Danny Murtaugh was "on the way to the mound to
shake hands With Steve.
All the celebration, however, was a trifle premature because
Matty Alou, the Pirate centerfielder and usually one of the
surer gloves in the National League, was having difficulty with
the wind and failed to catch Smith's fly ball. He later said, "I
have no excuse; I should have caught it. But the wind was
blowing the ball in and I kept coming and coming and coming.
It looked like it was hit from center field to home plate. I
just missed it."
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erupted fr four unearned runs
in the 10th inning last night end S
defeated Montreal 9-5 to gain a
virtual first-place tie with idle
Pittsburgh in the N a t i o n a 1 NIGHT EDITOR:
League's torrid East Division race. JERRY CLARKEA
The victory, eighth for the Mets
in their last 11 starts, gave them
a 78-69 won-lost record for a ,5306 Bucs g t Mudcat
percentage. The Pirates are 77-68
for a .5310 mark. The third-place PITTSBURGH - The Pitts-
Chicago Cubs, also idle yesterday, burgh Pirates did not play yester-
trai th leaersby oe gme. day, but they wert not idle. In a
trail the leaders by one game. mvb indt hr ptea
Afte Jery rot ;pnedthemove designed to shore up their
After Jerry Grote o ened the bullpen for the National League
10th with a single off Mike Mar- East pennant drive, they acquired
shall, pinch-runner Rod Gaspar ace reliever Jim "Mudcat" Grant'
stole second and took third when from' the Oakland Athletics,
first baseman Fairly cobbled Bud
Harrelson's sacrifice bunt.V Pittsburgh General Manager
The world must be full of losers since 674 of them couldn't find
anything remotely useful to be unsuccessful at this week and for lack
of anything worse entered the Daily's gridde pickings contest. Since
the prize fund has never managed to grow past first place there have
to be 673 losers with 674 entries, so the odds of losing are pretty good
and the risk of suffering the ignominity of winning is slight.
Even with the odds, tnere was, however, one loser unlucky enough
to win. He is Robert Hodes, of 908 Sybil No. 2. Even more unlucky,
though, are Bob's roommates, who wil have to eat his prize the next
time it's his turn to cook dinner.
It must be said in his favor that Bob didn't apply his full efforts
to being unsuccessful. He decided to make his gridde picks the same
way that Dickie Nixon, who once tried to become an FBI man but
didn't make the grade just as he has.failed at all his endeavors, de-
cides on his foreign policy: This method entails flipping a three faced
coin. If it lands on its edge you make the right decision. As everyone
knows, Dickie's coin has once beerf used by a hotshot coin flipper
from Reno who had it specially balanced to improve the odds. Unlike
Bo, this ace player of the odds believed in winning.
As, all soap opera watchers can tell you, there is sorrow in the
midst of happiness. Bob's true sorrow is that his prize for winning
Gridde Pickings is a genuine Cottage Inn pizza. This really makes
him a loser, so he 'can rest in peace after he eats it. If he can prove
that his hospitalization insurance is paid up he can pick it up any
time he feels like taking his life in his hands.
In case anyone wants to lose next week, here are the games.
-Associated Press
Going out for a peace
DALLAS COWBOY ace Lance Rentzel, famed for his ability to
catch passes, appears yesterday' with his wife, dancer Joey
Heatherton, equally famous for throwing them, to announce the
formation of Student Alternatives to Violence. The group is
dedicated to establishing peace among various factions on Amer-
ican campuses.
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Tommie Agee bounced to third
baseman Bailey, who threw to the
plate to trap Gaspar in a rundown,
but Gaspar scored the tie-breaking
run when Bailey let the return
throw from catcher Join Bateman
get past him.
Wayne Garrett's run-scoring
double, a walk, a sacrifice fly by
Ron Swoboda and an RBI singleI
by Donn Clendenon completed the
rally.
Met reliever Danny Frisella,
who retired the last 15 batters
he faced before leaving for a
pinch-hitter in the 10th, earned
his seventh victory against three
setbacks.
The Mets struck for five runs
in the fifth, erasing a 4-0 Mon-
treal lead, but the Expos tied it
in the bottom half against Fri-
sella on a walk, a bloop double
by pinch hitter Mack Jones and
Bobby Wine's sacrifice fly.
Billboard
The intramural department
has announced new pool hours
for the fall semester.
Faculty and administrative
only may use the varsity pool
from 11 a.m..to 1 p.m. and the
IM pool from 11:45 a.m. to 1
p.m. Monday through Friday.
Coeducational hours in the
IM pool will be 3:30 to 10 p.m.
Monday through Thursday and
3:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7 to 10
p.m. on Friday.
The IM pool will also be open
Saturday from 10:30 to 12:30
p.m. and from 3:30 to 5:30.
Joe L. Brown refused to disclose
what the A's received in exchange
for the righthanded veteran, who
has compiled a 6-2 record with 24,
saves and a 1.71 earned run aver-
age among the best in the Amer-
ican League. The player or players
will be named at the end of the
season.
Grant will join the Bucs tonight
in Philadelphia, where Luke Walk-
er, who pitched a two-hitter last
week against the St. Louis Car
dinals, will oppose the Phils' Bar-
ry Lersch.
1. Arizona at MICHIGAN
(pick score)
2. Wisconsin at Oklahoma
3. Texas Christian at Purdue
4. Minnesota at Missouri
5: Colorado at Indiana
6. Oregon at Illinois
7. Notre Damegat Northwestern
8. Iowa at Oregon State
9. Michigan State at
Washington
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10. Nebraska at Southern Cal
11. Ohio U at Kent State
12. California at Texas
13. Lafayette at Rutgers
14. Navy at Penn State
15. UCLA at Pittsburgh
16. Virginia Tech at Alabama,
17. Syracuse at Houston
18. North Carolina State at
North Carolina
19. Maryland at Duke
20. Geneva at Slippery Rock
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Major League Standings
THE CUBS, as often happens, took advantage of their
reprieve and followed Alou's error with three singles, producing
a 3-2 victory. When you lose a game 13-0 you laugh about it,
and are unable to second guess the result, but losses like Sun-
day's are the kind that iingrained indelibly in your mind (Thirty-
minutes after the fiasco, the Pirates were still stunned by the
turn of events and were unable to do much more than slowly
undress), and often effect a'team's play in future contests.
A win Sunday might have given the Bucs that extra mo-'
mentum that might have meant the difference in their four
game series at Shea Stadium in New York this weekend. It
might have meant the beginning of the end for the Cubs, who
must play their last 14 games away from home. It certainly
would have made life considerably more miserable for the
Mets, who were losing a tight game, but were able to take con-
solation after hearing of the Pirates' troubles.
But then baseball has always been a game of might have
beens and never were.,
SOME RANDON THOUGHTS: Chuck Tanner, the new
manager of the Chicago White Sox, may actually be going down
in the world. He had been manager of the Hawaii team in the
Pacific Coast League, and the Hawaiians drew over a half mil-
lion fans to their home games, a figure that the White Sox will
probably not surpass. . Speaking of the White Sox, they have
now replaced the Cleveland Indians as the team most likely to
be moved in baseball's game of musical chairs.
Don't give up hope if you didn't win The Daily's Gridde
Pickings contest this weekend. Displaying my! penchant for
ipsets and underdogs, I went 8-12 last weekend, good enough
for last place in the Sports Staff's pool.-
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East
Baltimore
New York
betroit
Boston
Cleveland
Washington
Minnesota
Oakland
California
Kansas City
Milwaukee.
Chicago'
W L
95 51
81 65
75 71
75 71
71 76
68 77
West
87 58
80 67
77 68
58 88
55 90
53 93
Pct.
.651
.555
.514
.514
.483
.469
.600
.544
.531
.397
.379
.363
Today's Games
Oakland at Milwaukee
Chicago at Kansas City
California at Minnesota
'Detroit at Cleveland
Baltimore at Washington
Boston at New York, 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
GB
14
20
20
241
26
10
291%
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Los Angeles 78 67 .538
San Francisco 77 69 .527
Atlanta 72 76 .486
Houston 70 76 1479
San Diego 58 89 .395
Yesterday's Results
New York 9, Montreal 5, 10 inn.
Atlanta at San Francisco, inc.
San Diego at Los Angeles, inc.
Today's Gamnes
New York at Montreal
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia
St. Louis at Chicago
Cincinnati at'Houston
San Diego at Los Angeles
Atlanta at San Francisco
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211,
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East
W L
New York 78 69
Pittsburgh 77 68
Chicago 76 69
St. Louis 70 77
Philadelphia 66 81
Montreal s64 82
West
Cincinnati 93 56
Pct.
.531
.531
.524
.476
.449
.438
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