r >age Twelve TE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, May 23, 1974 'age Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAiLY Thursday, May 23, 1974 SNAP FOUR GAME SKEIN Horton's 11th HR paces Tigers Angels dump Royals _ /: on freaky rundown By The Associated Press MILWAUKEE -- Willie Hor- ton's two-run homer, his 11th of the season and third in two nights, paced the Detroit Tigers to a 6-4 victory over the Mil- wankee Brewers last night. Horton connected following Al Kaline's single in the seventh inning off rookie Bill Travers, who relieved starter and loser Kevin Kobel, 2-2, in the fifth. It gave the Tigers a 5-2 lead. The Brewers closed to within 5-4 in their half of the inning when Charlie Moore singled and. Bob Coluccio homered off Mick- ey Lolich, 4-5, but the Tigers held on to snap a four-game losing streak. Until Moore's single, Lolich had allowed only two hits, none since the second inning. The Tigers went ahead to stay at 3-2 in the fifth on a walk to Ed Brinkman, a sacrifice and a single by Kaline. Cherubs rejoice KANSAS CITY - Frank Rob- inson and Joe Lahoud hi. home runs and a controversial play paved the way for three first- inning runs, leading the Calif- ornia Angels to a 6-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals last night behind Bill Singer's five-hit pitching. Mickey Rivers, who tripled' leading off the game, got caught in a rundown between third and home after a ground- JOHN BOCCABELLA, San Francisco Giant catcher, isn't fooled for a moment by Atlanta's Johnny Oates running out of the baseline. Oates was trapped between third and home when Phil Niekro muffed a squeeze play for the Braves. Standias A t i. t Pe . Mkileatsse, 19 1 .5?8 - Borston 21 19 .5".i - Itattimoes- 519 18 .514 Detroit 19 19 .500 I Cleveland 19 20 .487 11 New York 20 23 .465 2'. Oakland 23 18 .561 - Chicago 19 16 .543 1 Kansas City 19 20 .487 3 T-Xas 19 20 .487 3 California 19 22 .463 4 Minnesota 16 26 .444 4' Yesterday's results Baltimore 1, Cleveland 0, 1-i2n. iBoston 6. Nesw York 3 California 6, Kansas Cit.y tI Oakland 7, Minnesota 4 Detroit 6. Milwatukee 4 Chicago 6. 'Texas 2, (Ist) Texas at Chicago (2nd), inc'. Today's Games California (Ryan 5-4) at Kansas City (Dal Canton 2-1), night. Texas (Hargan 3-3) at Chicago (Balnsen 5-3), night. Detroit (Coleman 6-2) at Milwau- kee (slaton 4-5), 2:30 p.m. wJR-. Cleveland (G. Perry 6-1) at Bal- timore (Palmer 2-4), night. Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE East W 1L Pet, Gi Philadelphia 23 1 .5755 - Montreal 17 15 .531 2 St. Louis 20 19 .512 2'., New York 18 23 .439 5'. Chicago 15 21 .417 6 Pittsburgh 13 23 .361 8 West Los Angeles 30 11 .732 - Cincinnati 27 17 .541 8 San Francisco 23 21 .523 8 Atlanta 22: 21 .512 9 Houston 22 23 .489 10 San Diego 17 29 .370 1513 Yesterday's revlts Atlanta 6, San Francisco 2 Pittsburgh at Montreal, ppd., rain Chicago 9. New York 6 Philadelphila , St. Louis I Houston 5, San Diego1 Cincinnati at Los Angeles, inc. Today's Games Pittsburgh (Reuss 2-3) at Mon- treal (McAnally 2-4 or Renko 3-4), night. Chicago (Reuschel 3-2) at New York (Matlack 5-1). Cincinnati (Kirby 2-3) at San Diego (Arlin 1-5), night. Los Angeles (Messersmith 4-0) at San Francisco (Caliwell 7-1), night. Only games scheduled. er by Bobby Valentine. Short- stop Fred Patek, certain he had tagged out Rivers, fired to second, attempting to nail Valentine. But Rivers continued home and both home plate umpire Bill Deegan and third base um- pire Dave Phillips allowed the run, claiming Patek missed the tag, and the Royals shortstop was given an error. Robinson then walked, Bob Oliver singled Valentine home and Paul Schaal singled home the third run of the inning. Bosox hex BOSTON - Cecil Cooper and Bernie Carbo drove in fifth- inning runs and the Boston Red Sox went on to defeat New York 6-3 last night, extending their Read about the trials and trib- ulations of West Virginia High School basketball star Maurice Robinson and check out Major League Leaders on page 11. Fenway Park hex over the Yankees. In sweeping the two - game series, the Red Sox posted their eighth consecutive home victory over the Yankees. Boston has won 17 of 18 Fenway meetings with New York since August 1972. The Yankees pulled into a 2-2 tie with a pair of runs off Luis Tiant, 4-5, in the fifth inning but the Red Sox bounced right back with two runs in their half of the inning. Tribe tripped BALTIMORE - Paul Blair's run - scoring single in the 12th inning following an intentional walk to Brooks Robinson gave the Baltimore Orioles a 1 - 0 victory over the Cleveland In- dians last night behind Ross Grimsley's eight-hit pitching. Giants scalped SAN FRANCISCO - B a n k Aaron's run-scoring double and a two-run single by Johnny Oates sparked a four-run sixth- inning rally that carried the At- lanta Braves to a 6-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants yesterday. The Braves, who have won eight of their last 10 games, started their winning rally with consecutive singles by Ralph Garr and Darrell Evans off loser Jim Barr, 1-2. Dusty Baker was safe on a fielder's choice and Aaron belt- ed a double to left center for the go-ahead run after Mike Lum was walked intentionally, loading the bases. Dave John- son hit a run-scoring single and Oates capped the rally with a two-run single. Chisox roll CHICAGO - Chicago's Jerry Hairston pinch hit an RBI sin- gle that ignited a four-run seventh inning for the White Sox and gave Wilbur Wood his fifth straight victory, a 6-2 de- cision over the Texas Rangers .last night Chicago's six-hit outburst in the seventh snapped a 2-2 tie and a tight pitching duel be- tween Wood, 7-5, and Jim Bib- by, 5-7. Texas opened the scoring when Jeff Burroughs hti his 10th homer of the baseball season, a two-run shot in the first. AP Photo BILL BERGEY, erstwhile linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals, has been spending time in court trying to jump to the World Football League. Here he tries the tennis court, posing as a huge tennis player.