The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
TIGERS BEAT REDS
TO CAPTURE LEAD
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the best of the long-hitting cannon
aders from the junior circuit.
The Reds gave him a run in the
first inning when Bill Werber hit
the first pitch for two bases and
Poison Ival Goodman singled him
home.
Turner faced only ten men in
the first three innings, struck out
three and once pitched seven sue
cessive strikes. He had the Tigers
right-handed power short circuited
apparently hopelessly, although he
was having some trouble with the
portsiders.
Campbell Gets Double
The only hit he gave up in the
first three innings was a double
by the left-handed hitting Camp
bell after he had famed Green
berg and York in succession in the
second.
Then in the fourth Detroit tied
up the score when McCosky and
Gehringer. both left-handed batters
led off with singles and McCosky
reached home as Greenberg hit
into a double play. York hit a
wasted single but the Tigers were
routed one after another after that
until the big blow-up in the sew
enth.
During all this time after the
faulty first, Bridges was pitching
exactly the same kind of ball, cut
ting the corners inside and out
and giving nothing that looked like
a good ball.
Ernie lombard, the Reds in
jured catcher who started tn e
game in a surprise move by Man.
ager Bill McKechnie and played
sever innings led off with a lum-
bering double in the second inning
and Bridges retired the next II
batters in order.
In the sixth he gave up his only
walk of the game, to Werber, who
Immediately was erased trying to
steal second. After M. Mccormick
singled, the slender control spe-
cialist who won two games for
Detroit in the World Series of 1885,
snuffed out the Reds one by one
until the last two innings, when,
with the game won, he relaxed
to give the Reds six of their ten
hits and three of their runs.
Singles Bring Tally
One of these tallies came on
singles by Bill Myers, Werber and
Mike Mccormick, and the other
two came in the ninth, one of
them being unearned.
Jim Ripple, who hit a two-run
homer yesterday in Cincinnati to
spark the Reds to victory, tried
to set off another rally by singing
off York's glove at the start of the
ninth. Pinky Higgins fumbled a
bounder by young Bill Baker, who
had relieved Lombardi, and 1.-THE
Eddie Joost whacked a single
along the ground to center, scor-
ing Ripple and leaving two on base
with nobody out.
But Myers whitfield on four pitch
and pinch-hitter Lonnie Frey,
another Cincinnati cripple, lifted
a lazy fly to center. Werber, fight
ing to the bitter end as usual
singled into short left and Baker
beat the throw to the plate, but
Mike Mccormick famed and the
game a over.
While Turner was the principal
victim of the Detroit bombardment
up eight of the Tigers hits
before turning the tussle over to
Whitley Moore, Joe Beggs also was
given a going over by the Tigers.
The former Yankee farmland,
who made a reputation for him
self as a relief specialist in the
National league this year, report
ed for duty on the mound at the
start of the eighth after Moore had
been removed for a pinch hitter.
Greenberg Gets Triple
His first batter was Greenberg,
who bombed a tremendous triple
against the center field wall 415
feet from the plate. York looked
at a third strike, but Campbell
Greenberg home, took Sec
ond on Mike McCormick's poor re-
turn throw, and scored when Hug
gins lifted a fly that fell a foot or
two inside the right field foul line
for a double.
Higgins homer in the seventh
and Greenberg's triple were the
,wo most powerfully hit drives OF
he game. Pinky sent the ball on
line into the upper deck of the
eft field stands, $40 feet from
home plate.
The round tripper by York was
an arching fly that fell steeply
nto the front rows of the same
downstairs.
The whole exhibition of power
oaralleled, if not exceeded, the
set off by the Tigers IN
he first game at Cincinnati and
showed again that Detroit is cap.
able of capturing any contest in
mighty blast if it gets the
slightest chance.
Tomorrow McKechnie said he
would use young Gene Thompson,
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