Evening star., 1942-07-19
Register Second
Shutout in Row
By 80 Score
CorrosqueI Masters
luobs in Cruckinq
Visitors Streak
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

The Mats poked their heads out
Of the American League cellar yes
terday and breathed the compare
lively exhilarating oxygen of sew
enth place. Alexandra Carrasquel
lifted 'em there with a superb brand
of five-hit pitching to beat the
Browns, 80, and extend Washing
tons winning streak to five games.
Carrasquel, grim -visaged Vene-
zuelan right-hander, thus cooled off
the hottest team in the league. He
snapped St. Louis string of vic
tories at eight straight, presented
the Mats their second successive
shutout and their third in five days
and stopped the sensational batting
of Outfelder Chet Laabs.
Laabs, who had belted seven home
runs in eight previous games, gave
Carrasquel no trouble. He faced him
only three times and went out on a
pop fly, an outfleld fly and a strike
out. Laabs had considerable COM
pany, though, for Carrasquel per-
mitted only two Browns to reach
second base and none to advance to
third.
Carrasquel walked anybody and
although he struck out only one he
had the Browns popping up most of
the afternoon, much to satisfaction
of 1000 customers.
Waste Only Two Hits.
The Mats didn't knocked down
any fences. For the third straight
game they failed to muster more
than six hits, but capitalized on their
blows. Denny Galehouse and Pete
Appleton collaborated in restricting
Washington to six safeties, but the
Mats wasted only two of them.
In the second inning Bobby Esta-
leila singled sharply to center and
scooted to second on a wild pitch.
Bob Repass sacrificed him to third
and the Mats owned 10 lead when
Bobby scored as Jake Early ground
ed out.
Washington came up with anoth-
er run after two were out in the
fourth. After Stan Spence and
Mickey Vernon had flied out Gale
house walked Estalella and Repass
shifted him to third with a single
to right At that juncture Estalella
and Repass negotiated double
steal, with the Cuban on the busi-
ness end of it, before Early flied to
Laabs.
Carrasquel Crosses Plate.
Galehouse was yanked for Pinch
Hitter Tony Criscola in the eighth
and in Washington portion of the
inning the Mats nicked Appleton
for their final run. Appleton's first
act consisted of walking Carrasquel
and after George Case popped out
Spence raped a single off First
Baseman George McQuinn's glove
Carrasquel stopping at second. Car
rasquel moved to third as Vernon
forced Spence at second. but Esta-
leila smashed a single to left, scor-
ing the Venezuelan.
Meanwhile Carrasquel was having
an easy time of it. He permitted
two hits in. the first six innings and
was introuble only in the seventh
During those first six innings the
only Browns to reach base were
| Vernon Stephens and Don Cutie
ridge, both of whom singled.
In the seventh, however, the
Browns made scoring gestures. With
one out McQuinn slapped single
to center and after Walter Judnich
flied to Case, Stephens also singled
to center, McQuinn halting at Sec
ond. Carrasquel took personal COM
mand by scooping up Mike Char
tak's meek tap and beating him to
first base.
The Mats thus moved into seventh
place ahead of the idle Athletics,
deserting the cellar for the first
time in more than a month. The
Mats haven't been scored on in ls
innings.