The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-06
Cats, Rocky Mount Battle To Sc Tie;
PASCAL Equals Series Pitching Record
Passeau Pulls Tigers
Claus In Third Contest
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they set to work.
Peanuts Lowrey opened their
winning rally in the fourth on a
double off the left field wall at the
34O-foot mark just inside the foul
line. Cavarretta then laid down the
first of three perfect Cubs sacri'
fees of the game, sending Lowrey
to third. Andy Pafko walked ION
four wide pitches, and Nicholson
ropped single just over Webs
head at shortstop to bring Lowrey
home with what proved to be the
only run Passeau needed.
Roy Hughes brought Pafko in
with the second score few min.
utes later when he dropped sim.
ilarly weak but effective single
over Mayo's head into short right
field. Livingston's double off the
right field wall, another sacrifice
and Passeau's long fly to Cramer
in center field produced the last
Cub run in the seventh. Hack got
double later in the inning, but
died on base.
Hack, the Chicago third base.
man, fast was proving himself the
hitting star of the series. His dou.
BILE and single today ran his total
for tie series to six hits in Is Of
fetal times at bat. Cavarretta had
connected safely five times in 10
official tries.
Detroit, loaded pretty heavily
with slow-footed veterans, demon
strated once again that it cannot
hit the class of pitchers represent.
ed by Passeau. Roy Cullenbine, the
clubs right fielder, went hitless for
the third straight series game.
Yurk's hit that spoiled Passeau's
!. nearly perfect game came after
! two were out in the second, and
Jimmy Outlaw followed him with
fly-out to center field.
Ed Boron, Tiger Utility player
who ran for swift after the catcher
had worked Passeau for his only
) pass to open the sixth inning. came
the closest of any Detroiter to
reaching second base-.and that was
approximately halfway down from
4 the first sack.
Hubby walker, who then was sent
in to hit for Overmire to try to
, get rally started, slapped a ball
directly at Don johnson, Cubs sec.
}. ond baseman. He raced in to tag
Boron on the base path and threw
to Cavarretta at first to get Walk.
err and complete the double play.
The Tigers put up a squawk that
;, Johnson had not put the ball on
Boron, but Bill Summers, the
American League I'm pire who
called the play, waved them Wig
orously away. That broke the Ii.
. gers collective backs. apparently,
tor from there on they subsidized
so meekly that Passeau almost
looked like he was loafing at times.
They went down in clocklike sue.
cession in the last three innings.
not hitting a ball that was a hard
. chance
!, Hank Greenberg, Who was the he
70 of yesterdays Detroit victory
with his three-run blast into the
left field stands, was Passeau's only
strikeout victim in his first appear.
ance at the dish today. On his 9TH
er two tries he lofted out to left
field.
Passeau, who won II games
while losing 9 during the past sea-
son, has been one OF the major
leagues better pitchers for the past
.. seven years, but in preserves es-
Inmates of the Cubs mound staff
he scarcely was figured to turn on
any such heat as that which with.
cred the Tigers today.