The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-18
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New Xork, May 18 = CUP) = The Brooklyn Dodgers, possibly noting the success of the ''retreat-to-the- front" technique of the Boston Red Sox, made five errors in yesterdays game-and today they were re- warded with the National League leadership.
 This was made possible largely by the Pittsburgh Pirates, who out retreated Brooklyn yesterday by making six errors and losing to the Dodgers, 16 to 6, while the Boston Braves, still very much in the Na- tional League race, defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 to 1.
 Brooklyn now leads by 8 half game, having won one more-16 to Is - while both the Dodgers and Cards have lost nine.
 Lead Regained on Homer
 The Dodgers made four of their errors in the third innings, during which Pittsburgh got two runs and went into a 5 to 3 lead. Brooklyn regained the lead in the fourth on Pete Reiser's three-run inside-the- park homer, achieved as Ralph Kiner and John Barrett each stood politely waiting for the other to pick up the ball.
 The Dodgers Sewed it up in the sixth with seven runs, two of which scored on wild throws during double steal.
 Boston played very busineSS-like baseball in whipping the Cardinals. John Sain allowed only seven hits, and Tommy Holmes batted in two Brave runs with two doubles and a single, scoring a third run himself. John Beazley was the loser.
 Andy Seminick, Philadelphia Phil catcher, moved to the top of the major league hitting race with .392 average fattened by homer and double in two tries as the Phils defeated Cincinnati, 4 to 2, in a six inning night game cut short by rain. Seminicx batted in three runs. Schoolboy Rowe was the win- ner for his first postwar victory.
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 Chicago at New York was rained out.
 In the American League the Bos- ton Red Sox, who have been get ting fewer and fewer hits 8 game but winning nonetheless, saw a half-game shaved of their lead as rain idled them while New York and Detroit won.
 The Yankees to 2 win over Chi cago was tainted but official. Charley Keller drove in two runs in the first inning with a homer which the White Sox claimed should have been two-bagger be- cause it bounced of the top of the fence, and Luke Appling's error helped them get two more in the next inning. Lefty Joe Page got in trouble in the fifth and Randy Gumpert came in. The oh1cial scorer gave Gumpert the win.
 Detroit topped Philadelphia, 3 to 1, riding to victory on Virgil Trucks. Trucks scattered eight hits, and himself scored the winning run after singling in the eighth inning. Eddie Mayo batted him in. It was Trucks third straight triumph.
 Feller Strike Out King
 Bob Teller struck out IA batterS- making his season total 85-as he shut out the Washington Senators in the first part of a doubleheader, 3 to 0. Teller gave up only five hits | as he won his fifth game against | three losses. Washington bounced | back in a hurry, getting eight runs | in the first two innings of the nightcap, and coasted to a g to 4 victory in an eight-inning game shortened by darkness. Mickey Vernon and Gerry Priddy led the attack.
 YESTERDAYS STAR Bob Teller, Cleveland Indian speedball who struck out IA, his highest total of the season, in shutting out Washington, 3 to o.