Saturday, June 24, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Saturday,.. June 4- 172.TE.MIHIGN DALY PgeEeve Pirates plank Cubs, Texas rips Reds whack Astros, 7-1 By The Associated Press CHICAGO-Roberto Clemente drove in two runs with a wind- blown triple in a three-run fourth inning Friday and Steve Blass gained his eighth straight victory as the Pittsburgh Pir- ates beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2. Blass, 9-1 and 5-0 against the Cubs dating back to 1970, need- ed relief help from Dave Giusti after he walked Rick Monday with one out in the ninth inn- ing. Giusti got Ron Santo to hit into a game-ending double play. Trailing 1-0, the Pirates, lead- ers in the National League East, took the lead for good in the fourth against Ferguson *Jenkins, 1-6. Dave Cash opened the fourth with a single and moved to third on Vic Davallilo's double. Then both scored on Clemente's wind-blown shot to center which eluded Monday. Al Oli- ver brought in Clemente with a single. Pittsburgh added a run in the eighth against reliever Dan McGinn on a walk, a wild pitch and Manny Sanguilen's single. Reds romp CINCINNATI - J o h n n y Bench cracked his 19th home run of the season and Ross Grimsley pitched a five-hitte.r White Sox ninth inning magic fails to materialize By The Associated Press ARLINGTON -Dick Billings' eighth inning single broke a tie and the Texas Rangers whipped the Chicago White Sox 4-3 in American League baseball Fri- day night. Dave Nelson opened the eighth with a walk and moved to second on a sacrifice. Then, after Ted Ford walked, Billings delivered his tie-breaking hit. The White Sox tied the score in the top of the seventh when Mike Andrews and Dick Allen drew one-out walks. After Car- los May popped out, Rick x< Reichardt and Jimmy Little de- :livered run-scoring s i n g 1 e s. .. Lyttle's hit was his third of the game. Lyttle had doubled home Chi- *ago's first run in the fourth in- ning following a leadoff double by May. Frank Howard's fifth homer of the year tied it for the -Associated Press Rangers in the bottom of the NORM CASH, the home run king, takes advantage of the rain- fourth, then Ford tagged a two- out to practice his sliding. After Norm hit third base, he went run homer in the bottom of the inside and polished his bat. sixth, putting Texas on top. OFF THE DIAMOND: Allen -spar-ces AL 'o te Tribe hacked CLEVELAND - Bernie Allen stroked his first home run of the season and Fritz Peterson scattered six hits as the New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians 4-1 in an American League baseball game Friday night. The victory was the Yankees' sixth straight for their longest winning streak in two years. Allen delivered his homer, a two-run shot over the right field fence, in the third,, following Horace Clarke's one-out infield single. Magic Number: 100 Bad luck, Detroit. With to- day's rainout, the number on the big board is 100. You all remember the legend that states: a team which has a magic number of 100 on June 24 will surely finish third in their division. The Indians got one run back in their half of the third on singles by losing pitcher Milt Wilcox and Del Unser and a fielder's choice. The Yankees came back with two more runs in the fifth, when the knocked Wilcox, 6-7, on Peterson's single, Bobby Murcer's two-out triple, and a single by Roy White. Royals romp KANSAS CITY-John May- berry drove in four runs-three of them with an eighth inning home hun-Friday night, lead- ing the Kansas City Royals to a 5-0 American League baseball victory over the Minnesota Twins. Mayberry's two-out single in the sixth inning drove home Richie Scheinblum with the game's first run and Paul Splittorff protected the slim edge until the eighth inning. With two out, Lou Piniella doubled and Ed Kirkpatrick was hit by a pitch. Scheinblum laced a single, scoring Piniella, and then Mayberry tagged a three- run homer, wrapping up the vic- tory for the Royals. Splittorff, 6-4, allowed seven hits and was in constant trouble in the early innings. He struck oct nine and walked two. The Twins had base runners in each of the first six innings and had their best chance in the fourth, when Harmon Killa- brew drilled a leadoff double. as the Cincinnati Reds regained By The Associated Press first . place in the National League West with a 7-1 victory NEW TORK (In -Dick over the Houston Astros Friday len, Brooks Robinson and E night. gie Jackson are leading geti{ in baseball's private elect Bench's , three - run homer this election year, leading came in the fourth inning fol- poll for American League sp lowing walks to Pete Rose and in the annual All-Star game. Joe Morgan. The Reds scored The game is scheduled J again off Astro hurler Jerry 25 in Atlanta. Positions on b Reuss, 5-6, in the fifth when the American and Natio Dave Concepcion doubled and League teams are determin scored when Houston shortstop by a popular ballot except Roger Metzger misplayed Mor- the case of pitchers, chosen gan's grounder, the respective managers. In the Reds' eighth, Rose The fan balloting will walked, moved to second on July 15. Morgan's bunt single and Of the more than half a scored on Bobby Tolan's single lion votes already in hand, to left center, Morgan moving len, Chicago White Sox f to third. After Tolan stole sec- b a s e m a n, is leading w ond and Bench was intention- 189,071. He has more than ally walked, Tony Perez hit °a 50,000-vote edge over his ci sacrifice fly, scoring Morgan. est first base rival, Norm C After pinch hitter Joe Hague of Detroit. struck out, Denis Menke doub- The veteran Robinson of B; led, driving in Tolan. timore has received the sec largest total, 112,319, putt Phils fail him well out in front of C cago's Bill Melton for the th MONTREAL -- Right-hander base spot. Jackson, of the 0 Mike Torrez scattered nine hits basd At. Jacs, os a and the Montreal Expos rallied fielders 149,905. Be is follof for two runs in the bottom of b Bbyuer of th i ' the eighth inning Friday night by Bobby Murcer of the T to defeat the Philadelphia Phil- York Yankees and Carl Yas zemski of the Boston Red Si lies 2-1 in National League Rod Carew of Minnesota baseball action. running well ahead-more th Professional League Standings Al- eg- .ters ion the pots uly oth nal ned in by end mil- Al- irst ith na Los- ash Bal- ond ing hi- iird ak- ut- wed New str- lox. is ,han double his closest rival, Cookie Rojas of Kansas City-at sec- on base with 137,318. Luis Aparicio of 'the Red Sox tops the shortstops and Bill Freehan of the Tigers leads all the catchers. The National League's voting progress was announced Tues- day. Lolich to Tribe CLEVELAND - The Cleve- land Indians Friday recalled outfielder Ron Lolich from their Portland farm club to replace Chris Chambliss, who'll be Hayes goes, toBaltimore HOUSTON (A) - The Hous- ton Rosckets of the National Basketball Association Friday traded center Elvin Hayes to the Baltimore Bullets in ex- change for forward Jack Marin and undisclosed future consid- erations, Hayes, 26, a former Univer- sity of Houston All-American, has been with the Rockets for his entire professional career. He spent three years with the team when it was based in San Diego and last year in Houston. Hayes was the Rockets' No. 1 draft choice in 1968. He led the NBA in scoring as a rookie with a 28.4 average. He has not missed a game as a pro and goes into next season with a 328-game streak. He led the Rockets in scoring for the fourth straight year last season, averaging 25.2. His ca- reer average is 27.4. Marin has been with Balti- more for all of his six years as a profressional. Last year he av- eraged 22.3 points a game and led the league in free throw shooting, edging out Calvin Murphy of the Rockets, .894 to .890. Main has a career scoring average of 18.7 points. He was the Bullets' first round draft choice in 1966 after being the fourth all-time leading scorer at Duke University. "Both Coach Tex Winter and I feel that our rebounding in- side will be very strong and we believe a proven forward like Jack will be of immediate bene- fit to us," Ray Patterson the Rockets' president, said. spending the next six days on Army reserve military duty in Wichita, Kan. Chambliss, last year's Ameri- can League Rookie of the Year when he hit .275, missed about the first five weeks of the sea- son with a pulled muscle and is hitting .255. Lolich, 25, is the cousin of Detroit pitcher Mickey Lolich. The right - handed hitting out- fielder is currently hitting .349 with 12 homers and 59 RBI in the Pacific Coast League. McClain to Oakland OAKLAND - Denny McLain he's ready to pitch again for the Oakland A's and arrived here Thursday to discuss his future with owner Charles O. Finley. McLain, who won 31 games for the Detroit Tigers in 1968, was demoted by Oakland to Birmingham in the Class AA Southern League. The A's said McLain was in the minors to get his soreness-plagued arm in shape. American League East W L Pet. GB Detroit 42 24 .571 - Baltimore 31 25 .554 1 New York 26 29 .473 5'.z Boston 24 30 .444 7 Cleveland 24 31 .436 71/2 Milwaukee 19 36 .345 127 West Oakland 38 18 .679 -- Chicago 35 23 .603 4 Minnesota 30 25 .545 7tz Kansas City 26 30 .464 12 California 27 32 .458 12f Texas 25 34 .424 1415 Yesterday's Results New York 4, Cleveland 1 Milwaukee 8, Boston 1 California at Oakland, inc. Texas 4, Chicago 3 K-psas City 5, Minnesota 0 Detroit at Baltimore, postponed Today's Games Detroit (Lolich 11-4 and Coleman 8-5) at Baltimore (Cuellar 4-6 and Me ally 7-6), 2, twi-night New York (Kline 6-2) at Cleveland (Kilkenny 0-0) Boston (Siebert 7-3) at Milwaukee (Lonborg 4-3) Minnesota (Kaat 8-2) at Kansas City (Rooker 3-4, night Chicago (Lemonds 0-0) at Texas (Brobeeg 5-5), night California (Wight 7-3) at Oakland (Blue -3)' National League East W L ct. G613 Pittsburgh 37 21 .638 - New York 37 22 .627 7 Chicago 34 24 .586 3 St. Louis 26 32 .448 11 Montreal 26 33 .441 11% Philadelphia 21 37 .362 16 West Cincinnati 37 24 .607 --- Houston 37 25 .597 1f Los Angeles 33 26 .559 3 Atlanta 27 30 .474 .8 San Diego 20 39 .339 16 San Francisco 22 44 .333 171/ Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 4, Chicago 2 St. Louis at New York, postponed Atlanta at Los Angeles, inc. Cincinnati 7, Houston 1 Montreal 2, Philadelphia 1 San Francisco at San Diego, inc. Today's Games Pittsburgh (triles 4-2) at Chicago (Hand.; 6-2) Philadelphia (Fryman 2-7) at Mon- trealt(Stoneman 6-5) St. Louis (Spinks 3-4 at New York (Matlack 7-3) Houston (Dierker 6-4) at Cincinnati (Gillingham 4-7) night San Francisco (Barr 0-2) at San Diego (Grief 3-10) night Atlanta (Schueler 7-2 and Kelley 4-5) at Los Angeles (Singer 3-7) and Sutton 8-2), 2, twi-night WITH THE WEATHER threatening, pitchers Larry Dierker and James Reuss take an insipid moment to test Newton's Law of Gravity. They threw up a pitcher of lemonade.