Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Soturday, July 20, 1974 HIS ERROR RUINS PERFECT GAME Indians' Bosman no-hits A's Miscue on grounder gives A's lone runner p ' From Wire Service Reports CLEVELAND-Cleveland In-- dian righthander Dick Bosman, who has struggled on the mound after some good years in the late Sixties and early Seventies, defeated the World Champion Oakland A's on a no-hitter last night, 4-0, at Cleveland Muni- cipal Stadium. Only a throwing error by Bosman in the fourth inning deprived him of a perfect game. With two out in the fourth, Bosman fielded Sal Bando's slow hopper to the right of the mound but his off-balance throw glanced off the glove of first baseman Tom McGraw and roll- ed away, allowing Bando to go to second as Oakland's only ::tr baserunner. Ironically, Bosman led Amer- ican League pitchers in fielding in 1970 while hurling for the Washington Senators. He han- dled 51 chances that year with- out an error. Bosman, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound right-hander, then fanned slug- ger Reggie Jackson for one of his four strikeouts, leaving Bando stranded at second. Bos- N M man wound up the game by re- tiring the last 16 Oakland bat- ,. ; <.ters. AP Photo Bosman came into the game DICK BOSMAN, well-traveled Cleveland Indians pitcher, whips home another high, hard one with a 1-0 record and a 4.54 on his way to a 4-0 no-hit triumph over the slugging Oakland A's. Now his name, along with earned-run average and had those of Bobo Holloman and Bo Belinsky, will take up another line on the "No-Hit Pitchers" allowed 46 hits in 3921 previous plague at Cooperstown. innings this season. CAREW SHINES wins overtake igers By JOHN KAHLER special To The Daly DETROIT - It must be said for Tiger fans that they are a hardy lot. After the Tigers had beaten the Minnesota Twins Thursday night, all true Bengal boosters felt that the Tigers' prolonged skid was at an end, and the Detroiters would return to winning ways. These hopes were a trifle pre- mature. The Tigers lost their eleventh game of their last thir- teen last night, bowing to the Twins, 7-5. Tiger pitcher Lerrin LaGrow, now 7-9, did himself in through a lack of control. Leading 4-3 in the fifth, he walked Glenn Borgmann to start things off, and yielded a single to Rod Carew, one of thre hits the Xl- Star second haseman collected last night Attempting to sacrifice. Steve Braun popped up a bunt that LaGrow fielded on one p and nearly threw past Bill Fr-h n at first. Larry Hisle then drove a double up the left centerfid alley to score the runners and bring out Ralph Hoek to lift LaGrow, a move many of the Tiger Stadium partisans felt should have been made innings' earlier. Woodie Frvman strug- gled out of the inning. The first inning was a night- mare for LaGrow, as his in- ability to get the ball an waere near the plate cost him three runs. Ar-lin l7'drio",p ribbad Bra' uof a able on a arest stab to his right. bit could not get him out. Attemptinu to ni-k Rran off, LaGrow threw the h-ll into the Twins' dugout. Hisle walked, and Tony Oliva singled in Braun. L a G r o w wildnitched Olivat e second. bn sruce our the obliging Bobby Darwin. promptly hit a hard fair drive Royals edge With Eric Soderholm at the into the leftfield seats to give NEW YORK (A') - Amos Otis plate, LaGrow threw first one, the Tigers their temporary lead. slammed a three-run homer then another wild pitch, empty- Aside from that lapse, Goltz with two out in the fifth inning ing the bases for the Twins. was brilliant for the rest of the and John Mayberry followed The Tigers got these runs way. After yielding back-to- with a solo shot, powering the and one more back in their half back doubles to Freehan and Kansas City Royals to a 5-4 of the first. Mickey Stanley led Jim Northrup in the eighth, he victory over the New York off with a homer off Twin start- was lifted for Tom Burgmler, Yankees last night. er Vic Albury, who followed that who stifled Detroit the rest of New York starter Sam De- by issuing a walk to Gary Suth- the way. Dowell, 1-4, allowed only two erland and allowing a sngle to Fryman, on the other hand, hits over the first four innings Al Kaline Proved ineffective as usual, giv- but walked Fred Patek with With Bill Freehan hitting ing up solo runs in the fifth two out in the fifth. Jim Wohl- some vicious foul drives, Twin and eighth. All in all, it was a ford grounded a single to left Manager Frank Q'tilici decided sorry performance all around, field and Patek just beat Lo't to lift Albury and bring in Dave and it will be interesting to see Piniella's throw to third before "Pelican" Goltz. F r e e h a n how Ralph Honk alibis this one. Otis parked his seventh home xx ww:> ::x :::x::w< . :: x x:: :- : : run of the season over .he left - field fence. Mayberry then drlt CI 0r s 0 ! aed his 19th into the right field bullpen. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE The Royals added a run in East East the ninth on Fran Healy's sin- w L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB gle. Patek's double and Wohl- Boston 50 43 .538 - Philadelphia 47 45 .511 - ford infield hit. Caltimare4 43 s.527 Montreal 44 454 4 Dal Canton, 5-4, allowed eight Cleveland 47 44 .5162 St. Louis 44 49 473 37t. isbfr iigwyt o' Milwaukee 46 46 .500 3'h Pittsburgh 43 49 467 4 New York 46 47 .495 4 Chicago 40 51 .440 6 . Bird with the bases loaded and Detroit 45 48 .484 5 New York 38 51 .427 7 none out in the ninth. Bird fan- West West ned 'Thurman Munson a1nd Al Oakland 54 40 .574 -- Los Angeles 62 32 .660 Cowens hauled in p nd Ate Chicago 47 44 .516 5 Cincinnati 57 39 .594 6 Cpinchhitter Kansas City 47 45 .511 6 Houston 51 44 .537 11' Roy White's long drive against Texas 46 50 .479 9 Atlanta 5 47 .515 131% the right field fence with the. Minnesota 45 50 -474 9' San Francisco 42 52 .447 20 runners holding before Sandy California 37 58 .389 17' San Diego 42 56 .429 22 r.e Yesterday's Results Alomar delivered a two-run sin- Minnesota 7, Detroit 5 Yesterday's Results gle. Maddox then grounded out Cleveland 4, Oakland 0 Pittsburgh 2, Atlanta - to end the game. Baltimore 5, California 4, 10 innings Cincinnati 4, Chicago 1 ,5* Kansas City 5, New York 4 Houston 5, St. Louis 1 Boston 3, Texas 1 New York at San Diego, inc. Chicago 7, Milwaukee Philadelphia at Las Angeeles, Inc BATMOE-.o Byo Today's Games Montreal ataSan Francisco, inc. BALTIMORE- Don Baylor Kansas City (Busby 13-8) at New powered a 2-2 pitch from Skip York IMedich 11-7). Today's Games Lockwood into the left-field Oakland (Holtzman 10-11) at Houston (Roberts 6-8) at St. stands in the bottom of the 10th Cleveland (Peterson 7-5). Louis (Foster 4-6). Milwaukee (Champion 4-1) at Montreal (Renko 9-6) at San inning last night, giving the Chicago (Kaat 10-6). Francisco (Halicki 0-1). Baltimore Orioles a 5-4 triumph California (Ryan 11-9 and Fi- Chicago (Reuschel 9-7) at Cin- over the California Angels. gueroa 1-1) at Baltimore (Cuellar cinnati (Kirby 7-5), night. 12-4 and McNally 8-6 or Garland Pittsburgh (Kison 5-4) at Atlan- Baylor's third hit of the game 3-2), twi-night. ta (Morton 11-7), night. -he had singled in the first and Minnesota (Decker 9-8) at De- Philadelphia (Twitchell 4-2) at seventh - lifted Baltimore to troit (Lolich 10-11), 8 pm. Los Angeles (Sutton 6-7), night. Boston (Cleveland 7-7) at Texas New York (Koosman 9-7) at San y (Margan 8-5), night. Diego (Laxton 0-0), night, last eight games He picked up 15 of his outs on ground balls and the A's hit only seven balls to the outfield. Shortstop Frank Duffy and third baseman Buddy Bell help- ed preserve the Indians' first no-hitter since Sonny Siebert turned the trick against Wash- ington in 1966. Duffy made a leaping catch of Larry Haney's liner to end the third inning-the hardest hit ball by the A's-and Bell dived to his left to snag Bert Camp- aneris leadoff grounder in the seventh, then threw to first to retire the speedy shortstop. It was the second no-hitter of the season, coming exactly one month after Kansas City's Steve Busby pitched one against Mil- waukee. It also was the fourth no-hitter in the last six years against Oakland. In the ninth inning, Bosman retired Dick Green on a ground- er to third, pinch-hitter Jesus Alou on a grounder to second and struck out Bill North. Green had broken up a no-hit bid by Baltimore's Wayne Gar- land Monday night with a lead- off single in the ninth inning. TheIndians scored two runs In the third inning and two in the 'fourth against loser Dave Hamilton, 6-. In the third, Tom McCraw led off with a single and Joe Lis followed with his second home run of the seaso. An inning later, John Ellis singled with one out and scored on a double by Bell, who took third on the throw to the plate and s c o r e d on McCraw's grounder off reliever J o h n "Blue Moon" Odom. Bosmian, who was born and still lives in Kenosha, Win , led American League pitchers with a 2.19 ERA in 1969 with Wah- ington. He moved with the Sen- ators to Texas and was traded to Cleveland on May 9, 1973, along with outfielder Ted Ford for p it c h e r Steve Dunning. Neither Ford nor Dunning is still in the majors. A masterpiece OAKLAND ab r h bi North cf 4 0 0 0 Campnris ss 3 0 0 0 Bando 3b 3 0 0 0 R Jackson rf 30 0 0 Rudi If 3 0 0 0 C Whntgn dh 3 0 0 0 Bourque 1b 3 0 0 0 D Green 2b 3 0 0 0 Haney c 2 0 0 0 J Alou ph 1 0 0 0 Hamilton p 0 0 0 0 Odom p 0 0 0 0 Knowles p 0 0 0 0 Total 28 0 0 0 CLEVELAND ab r h bi Lowenstn if 3 0 0 0 R Torres If 0 0 0 0 Duffy ss 4 0 0 0 Hendrick c 3 0 1 0 Spikes rf 3 0 0 0 Ellis c 3 1 1 0 B Bell 3b 3 1 21 McCraw lb 3 1 1 1 Lis dh 2 1 1 2 Gamble dh 1 0 0 0 Brohamr 2b 2 0 1 0 Bosman p 0 0 0 0 Total - 27 4 7 4 Oakland 000 000 000-0 Cleveland 002 200 00x-4 E-Bosman. DP-Oakland 2. LOB-Oakland 1, Cleveland 1. 2B-B. Bell. HR-Lis (2), . o ip hr er bb so Hamilton L, 6-3 3% 5 4 404 Odom 3/100 11 Knowles 1 1 0 0 0 0 Bosman W, 2-0 9 0 0 0 0 4 HBP-by Hamilton, Broham- er. T-1:56 A-24,302.