Evening star., 1946-03-31
Mistake by Nat
Leads 10 3-Run
Homer in 9Th
Blow CIimuxes 7-TuIly
Attack After George
Replaces Wrong Man
BY Burton Hawkins
Star SioT Correspondent,

| ORLANDO, Fla, Mar 30-An-
other George Binks brainstorm
burst upon the Mats here today, but
it was a happy mistake that led to
seven-run explosion in the ninth
inning and a 1912 Washington vic
tory over Brooklyn.
Binks belted a home run with
the score tied, two mates on base
and two out in the ninth, but be-
came a hero through a display of
i stupidity.
Instructed by Manager Ossie
Bluege to replace jeff Heath in left
field in the eighth inning, Binks
nodded and promptly trotted to the
outf1eld. The next time Bluege
glanced at his outfield he became
aware that Binks had ignored in
structions by replacing Stan Spence
in center, leaving Heath in the
game.
The error worked out very we'll
for the Mats, who owned 1873 def
icit entering the ninth. Gerald
Priddy, AL Evans and Pinch hitter
Sherry Robertson belted successive
singles to fetch one run, but George
Myatt flied out to short center. Gil
Coan walked to load the bases. Into
that situation stepped Heath and
lifted a pop fly to Shortstop Peewee
Reese.
Binks Atones for Mistake.
Cecil Travis unloaded sharp sin
gle to center, scoring Evans and
Robertson, and Jack Sanford blast
ed Coan across with the tying run
with single to center. Binks, a
notorious signal misser and the man
who cost the Mats a crucial game
late last season by dropping a fly
after forgetting to don sun glasses
in Philadelphia, then poked one of
Art Herring's offerings over the
right field fence, scoring Travis and
Sanford ahead.
Herring and Joe Hatten had lin
tied the Mats to eight hits before
the ninth, but into the final inning
the Mats sprayed five singles and
Binks' homer.
The Dodgers previously had come
up with a seven-run inning in the
fourth, slamming Mickey Haefner
for five hits and capitaizing on
two walks and three errors by Third
Baseman Myatt. Brooklyn had
grasped a 20 lead in the first inning
as Pete Reiser hammered a homer
over the right field fence, Carl Fu-
rillo singled and Johnny Rizzo
doubled.
Myatts single, brace of walks
and Travis fly to left permitting
Myatt to score, fashioned Wash
ington run in the first and the Mats
locked the score at %. In the Sec
ond as the result of Al Evans single,
two walks and an error by Third
Baseman Reiser.
Washington enjoyed a AZ mar
gin in the third when Hatten hit
Heath and walked Travis, Mickey
Vernon and Spence successfully.
Spence forced across run and
Priddy got another across with a
long fly to center.
Dodgers Punish Haefner.
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of its II hits in the fourth to manu-
facture seven runs and boosted its
lead to 11-4 in the fifth as Howie
Schultz singled and Elmer Durrett
and Reese doubled off Vernon Cur
tbs.
Evans home run to deep center
after Spence had reached first on a
Schultz error, netted the Mats two
runs in the fifth, but Brooklyn
scored its twelfth run In the sixth
as Reiser doubled and Furillo sin
gled.
Singles by Travis and Spence pro-
duced Washington run in the sixth
and the Mats picked up another in
the eighth as Coan singled, moved
to third on Heath's single and scored
as Travis forced Heath.
Reiser and Furillo each registered
four hits for the Dodgers, while
Evans, who had hammered three
home runs, in his last two games,
collected three of Washington's IA
hits.
Travis, the only other Nat to OBJ
tain more than one hit, belted across
four runs. Rookie Coan, seeing ac-
ton for the first time in 10 days,
slashed a single to center and
walked in his only appearances at
the, plate.