Saturday, August 12, 1972 17HE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Elever TIGERS LOSE, FALL TO SECOND By The Associated Press DETROIT-Steve Dunning cut down Detroit with a seven-hitter as the Cleveland Indians took a 5-1- baseball victory and dropped the Tigers out of first place in the American League East. Dunning (2-1) pitched shutout ball until the ninth when Mickey Stanley spoiled it with his 12th homer of the year. John Hiller, making his first "start since his return from a heart attack after the 1970 season, was the loser in his first decision this year. The Tigers, who had sole pos- session of first place since July II, lost- their ninth game in the last 12 starts. The Baltimore Orioles took over the top spot by a half-game by beating the Boston Red Sox 2-1. The Indians scored three runs in the first inning as a result of a muffed line drive by Detroit left fielder Gates Brown. Buddy Bell and John Brohamer had singled in the first before the next two batters flied out. Then Ray Fosse's hard sinking liner was dropped by Brown to score Bell. Graig Nettles fol- lowed with a two-run single. Nettles added a run-scoring single in the eighth off Fred Scherman after a single by Roy Foster and a walk to Fosse, Tom - McCraw then hit a sacrifice fly. Birds tops BALTIMORE - B o b b y Grich led off the ninth inning with a home run, powering the Baltimore Orioles and Mike Cuellar to a 2-1 triumph over the Boston Red Sot last night. Grich broke up the tense American League battle with his ninth homer of the year, a towering blast into the left field bleachers off reliever Don New- hauser, 3-2. Cuellar, who recorded 13 strikeouts, improved his record to 12-9. The lefthander struck out the side in the third inning and worked out of a bases- loaded jam in the sixth before giving up the tying run on three straight singles in the eighth. The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Terry Magic Number: 50 The end of the world is at hand. All life has ceased. A great stillness now fills the universal void and a vast nothingness prevails every- where. Death, war, famine, and pestilence have taken over . . . The Tigers are in second. Crowley's home run, his sev- enth of the year. Cuellar held Boston without a run until the eighth, when the Red Sox tied the game 1-1 on singles by Luis Aparicio, Carl Yastrzemski and Rico Petro- celli. Yankees stopped NEW YORK - G e o r ge Scott drove in two runs with a triple and a homer to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees last night. The Yanks, in the midst of the scramble for supremacy in baseball's American L e a g u e East, gave up a pair of costly unearned runs in the first in- ning. Rick Auerbach was safe when first baseman Ron Blomberg bobbled his grounder. S c ott then tripled to right center field and he scored when Ollie Brown singled. New York got a run back in the second as Roy White sin- gled, stole second, took third on a grounder. and scored when center fielder Dave May drop- ped Celerino Sanchez' fly ball. But Scott made it 3-1 in the sixth with his 13th homer. The Yanks cut the margin to one GENE CLINES (15) of the Pittsburgh Pirates tried to stretch a single into a double last night aga St. Louis and might have made it if the ball hadn't preceded him to second base. Dal Maxvill, Ca nal shortstop, calmly waits at the bag with the baseball for Clines' arrival. run in the bottom of the inn- Otis ad ing on Thurman Munson's sin- the yea gle, a stolen base and White's reliever single. The Brewers knocked out starter Mike Kekich, 10-11, when they scored their final Pirate run in the seventh on Mike P I T Ferraro's single, a sacrifice and P IeT Auerbach's single. Skip Lock- ieandeb wood, 6-9, with ninth-inning an G relief help from Frank Linzy' s wuks got the victory. ' spark a the Put victory AL West dinalsh The v A'S hold first New Yo OAKLAD ., cago, b OAKLAND - Joe Rudi's in bas 15th home run of the baseball East to season in the 19th inning pow- Pitto ered Oakland to a 5-3 victory Oliverc over the Chicago White Sox a first- last night in the conclusion of gig Cle a suspended game that kept nec fo the A's atop the American homer League West. over th The game, halted by curfew his 14th with the score tied 3-3 after 17 Nelso innings, preceded last night's 7-0 leas regularly scheduled contest. when t Bert Campaneris' bunt set up the ma Rudi's homer off Stan Bahnsen (15-12) that gave the victory to lets C Jim "Catfish" Hunter (15-5) C H and enabled Oakland to widen pas bac its lead over Chicago to two ing byc games. a doubl Chicago scored twice in the the Chi second inning, with Luis Alva- York M rado singling for one run and Pappe Tom Bradley squeeze - bunting the Na across the other. Oakland knotted it in the eighth on George Hendrick's pinch-single, Rudi's triple and a wild pitch. P1 In the top of the 13th, Pat Kelly tripled and raced home on a wild pitch to put the White Sox up .3-2, but the A's iialtimuore came right back in the bottom Berloit of the inning on Angel Mang- New York ual's double and Gene Tenace's Boston pinch single. Cleveland ~ Milwaukee Royals wiu Chicago ARLINGTON - Roger Nelson Minnesota pitched a three-hitter and Richie Kansas Ci Scheinblum and Amos Otis hit Calioenia home runs last night as the Kansas City Royals defeated Milwaukee Texas 2-0 in an American League Baltimore baseball game. Kansas Ci Nelson, raising his record to Cleveland Oakland 5, 5-4 with his fourth shutout of the Chicago at season, surrendered a fourth-in- Minnesota ning single to Larry Biittner, 'Milwaukee then retired 13 straight Ranger York (Pe batters before Vic Harris and Baltimore pinch-hitter Frank Howard sin- ander, 5 gled in the eighth. Nelson struck Kansas Cit Texas (P out four without issuing a walk. Cleveland Scheinblum gave him he only (Lolich,I run he needed with his eighth Chicago ( homer, leading off the fourth in- Mionesota ning against Rich Hand (9-8). Californi ded his eighth homer of r in the ninth inning off Horacio Pina. NL East s pummel T S B U R G H-Rich- er belted two home runs ne Clines drove in three ith a pair of singles to 16-hit attack that gave ttsburgh Pirates a 10-5 over the St. Louis Car- ast night victory, coupled with the rk Mets' 7-2 loss in Chi- oosted the Pirates' lead eball's National League 9/2 games. urgh never trailed as Al opened the assault with inning single off Reg- veland (12-8) and Heb- llowed with his 13th of the season, a shot e wall in right. He hit h in the eighth inning. o Briles (11-5) had a d until the sixth inning he Cardinals narrowed rgin to 7-4. lubbed IC A G 0 - Milt Pap- ked his four-hit pitch- driving in five runs with e, homer and single as cago Cubs beat the New :ets 7-2 yesterday. as' homer, his first of tional League baseball season, drove in Glenn Beckert in the sixth inning and broke a 2-2 tie. The homer was off rookie Jon Matlack, 10-6, as was Pappas' RBI double that gave Chicago a 2-1 lead in the fourth. NL West Braves bomb ATLANTA - Jim Breazeale hit a three-run homer to high- light a five-run eighth inning that carriedathe Atlanta Braves to a 7-5 National League ver- dict over the Cincinnati Reds last night. Breazeale's blast came on a first-pitch offering from Cin- cinnati's star relief pitcher, Clay Carroll, and tied the con- test at 5-5. Ralph Garr then singled, Hank Aaron walked and Earl Williams came through with a run-scoring base hit to drive in Garr with the go-ahead run. Dusty Baker capped the rally with another RBI single. The outburst wiped out a 5-2 Cin- cinnati lead. (iants smashed H O U S T O N-The Hous- ton Astros used a five-run sec- ond inning and Jim Wynn's 19th run of the baseball season to defeat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 last night. rofessional League Stondings American League National League East East W L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB 58 48 .547 - Pittsburgl 66 39 .629 -- 58 49 .542 ( New York 56 48 .538 9(V 55 50 .524 21,2 Chicago 57 51 .528 10!2 53 51 .510 4 St. Louis 51 53 .490 141, 49 57 .462 9 Montreal 47 57 .452 18/ 43 64 .402 15?/ Philadelphia 40 65 .381 26 West West 63 44 .589 - Cincinnati 64 41 .610 - 60 45 .571 2 Houston 60 48 .556 5 54 49 .524 7 Los Angeles 54 50 .519 9/2 ity 51 54 .486 11 Atlanta 50 59 .459 16 48 58 .453 14% San Francisco 48 61 .440 8 42 65 .393 21 San Diego 42 63 .400 22 Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results 4, New York 2 Chicago 7, New York 2 2, Boston 1 Montreal 4, Philadelphia 1 ty 2, Texas 0Pittsburgh 10, St. Louis 5 5, Detroit 1 Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 5 , Chicago 3, 1st, 19innings Houston 6, San Francisco 3 Oakland, 2nd, inc. Los Angeles at San Diego, inc. at California, inc. Today's Games Today's Games (Lonborg, 10-6) at New New York (Seaver, 12-9) at Chicago eterson, 12-11) (Jenkins, 15-10) (Dobson, 13-11 and Alex- Montreal (Morton, 5-10) at Philadel- -6), 2, twinight phia (Reynolds, 0-8) ty (Splittorff, 9-8) at St. Louis (Gibson, 12-6) at Pittsburgh 'aul, 4-4) night (Moose, 8-6) (Tidrow, 9-10) at Detroit Cincinnati (McGlothlin, 5-5) at At- 18-8) lanta (Reed, 9-11), night Wood, 19-11) at Oakland San Francisco (Barr, 4-5) at Houston 9-4) (Wilson, 7-I), night (Blyleven, 10-14) at Los Angeles (John, 9-5) at San Diego da (Messersmith, 2-6) night (Arlin, 8-13), night A FINE TAG IS applied by Chicago's Don Kessinger on New York Mets' Wayne Garrett (11) but Garrett was safe as the ball, above, sailed past the Cub shortstop into centerfield. A New York run scored on this play, but the Cubs won the ball game.