The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-13
Hit N e W
Low Losing
To Tigers
POOR EXHIBITION
Club Leaves For Long
Road Trip, Opening
With Indians
BY KIRK MILLER

Losing to the Detroit Tigers
before 1900 Sunday Pensioners
by the laughable score Of 10
to IL after having lead their
bretheren in baseball by IL to l,
your Washington Nationals were
today meditating their sins pre-
paratory to embarking for Cleve-
land and jaunt generally
through the Western and Eastern
sectors of the American League.
With the Nationals the adage
about the better the day the
better the deed does not mean a
thing. In fact, with them, the
saying might well be reversed.
ALL WAS SERENE
The Nationals went to work as
though they expected to make
amends for some Of the mediocre
baseball exhibited on the home
stay, which happily has come to
an end-for the time being.
Perhaps, after all. what they
used is change of scenery.
Coming through with seven
runs in the third inning, they
looked unbeatable. Adding -four in
the fourth. while the Tigers were
getting one. there seemed to be no
question which was the better
team on this particular occasion.
THE HECTIC INNING
Enjoying this IL to lead as the
sixth opened, lightning commenced
to strike all around the Mats and
before the Tigers had been re-
tired they had compiled 10 runs
and tied the score at hall, driv-
ing the Washington pitching ace,
Yves Terrell, as well as Harry
Kelley, to the showers.
This was the hectic inning of
the game and bears a bit of de-
Scribing. Off Terrell, Gehringer
hit home run on top of the
right field fence, Green berg
walked, York hit his fourteenth
home run of the season to left
center, Foxx doubled and Laabs,
Piet and Rogell singled.
At this time even Bucky Harris
was convinced Terrell had outlived
his usefulness and Harry Kelley
was sent into the slaughter.
Mr.. Kelley was not exactly the
right guess on Harris part, which
he discovered after Harry issued
singles in succession to White and
Gehringer
Bucky then decided to try the
veteran Pete Appleton. Pete was
greeted with a triple to left from
the bat of Hank Greenberg, Scor-
ing the run that left the Nationals
in front by only II to 10. Up came
Rudy York with a long fly that
! permitted the tieing run to trickle
across.
ONLY HALF GAME
In half inning, the Nationals
had seen what seemed certain vic
tory become a deadlock, at the
hands of team which is today
breathing on their fourth-place
neckS.
But half game keeps the Ma.
tionalS in the first division and
half a game keeps the Tigers in
second.
| Washington again went into
the lead in the seventh inning, an
advantage which it could not hold.
With two out, singles by Lewis,
Chase and Stone put the Ma
tionalS a run ahead until the
: ninth inning, when the Tigers en-
joyed a SeVen-run spree to swell
their runs to 10 and make miser-
able the afternoon, both for the
Washington team and the sup.
porters in the pews.
Appleton started the ninth
weakly. walking Greenberg and
York in order. Then followed
|. Pete Fox'S double and Labs
single, both to right field. Christ
mans line drive was garbled by
Armada, an unusual thing for
Mel, and Rogell and White added
insult to injury by coming through
with singles.
Krakauskas went on the hot
spot for Appleton, yielding a hit
to Gehringer, his fourth for the
day. York's deep fly ended the
inning, which saw seven runs
cross and the end of the debacle.
LOTS OF HURLERS
Both teams used four pitchers,
Detroit's most effective. needless
}. to say. Besides Terrell, Kelley
and Appleton, Joe Krauskaukas
got into the game for Washington,
pitching two-thirds of the last
frame. Off the quartet, Detroit
Z got 20 hits.
Washington connected for Is
safeties off Poffenberger, Wade,
Coffman and Bridges.
The Nationals will do their win.
! ming and losing away from home
until July 4, when they are back
here for a doubleheader with
the New York Yankees. They
open in Cleveland tomorrow. Then
take on Detroit. Chicago, st.
Louis. Boston Philadelphia and
New York before returning.
NFFHH ~AAAFN