Evening star., 1948-07-04
-Four Runs Cross
AsBonlbers Get
3Hits, Walks
RoIIy Eroses Lead
Kozur Had Made 81
With Homer in 7th
BY Burton Howkins
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NEW YORK, July SID Hudson.
sailing serenely With . two-run lead
and . 4-hit game in his grasp for
seven innings, was bu1eted by
squall Of Yankee hits In the eighth
inning here today and New York
thus capsized the Mats into . SIS
defeat.
A few moments before, Al KoSara
had projected the Mats into conn.,
mand ut 3-1 with his first major
league home run-a seventh-inningq
smash which eased into the first row
of the right field stands. But Hud.
sons control over the Yankees van-
ished suddenly.
Hudson, who had outpitched the
Yankees Allie Reynolds, walked
Tommy Heinrich to launch his
misery. Yogi Berra's stinging
single to right propelled Heinrich
to third and Joe DiMaggio then
dashed double OF Shortstop Mark
Christman's glove into left field,
scoring Heinrich and shifting Berra
to third.
In that crisis. George McQuinn
Intentionally was given q base-fill-
ing walk, but that strategy back
fired practically Immediately when
Bill johnson rifled q single into
DiMaggio to stake the Yankees to
q 4-3 margin.
Hudson First Man Out.
The first man out in the inning
was Hudson, who was replaced at
that juncture by Earl Harrist.
Johnny Lindell attempted to sacri-.
fice. but forced McQuinn at third.
George Stirnweiss walked to refill
the bases and johnson scored from
third after Bobby Brown, batting
for Reynolds, flied deep to Garden
CLEARWATER. Phil Rizzuto's fly to
Gillenwater ended the Yankees out
burst.
Reynolds, who became the first
Yankee pitcher to win 10 games as
Hudson absorbed his eighth loss,
was replaced by Joe Page In the
Mats ninth and Washington made
threatening motions against the
famed relief pitcher.
With one out in the ninth. Gill
lenwater lashed . single to left
and Christman duplicated the blow
to place the potential tying run on
base, but the Mats then meekly
subsidized. Kozar lifted an easy fly
to : Heinrich and Tom Mcbride,
batting for Jake Early, was thrown
out by Second Baseman Stirn-
weiss.
The Mats captured the consolation
prize of outhitting the Yankees
9 to 7, but New York clustered three
of its hits in the eighth to wreck
Washington's ambition Of creeping
closer to the first division. :
Reynolds in Trouble ut Start. :.
Reynolds was in trouble in the
first inning when he walked Eddie
Yost and Gil Coan to start the
game. Ed Stewart popped out,
but Mickey Vernon singled to right.
scoring Yost. Coan dashed to third
after Gillenwater flied to Di Maggie.
Coan and Vernon then attempted
q double-steal, but Berra fouled
that notion when he faxed a throw
TO second, then whipped the ball
to johnson at third to catch a
surprised Coan scrambling back to
the bag.
Washington boosted its lead to
30 In the fourth when Vernon
singled to left, took second on q
wild pitch and scored when Gillen.
waters grounder took a bad hop
past Rizzuto into center field =
Hudson, who had been annoyed
only by Stirnweiss' single in the
first four innings, yielded his sec
end hit in the nth when Stirnweiss
tripled to right. Reynolds grounder
caromed of Vernon's glove to Kozar.
who beat Allie to first base as Stirn-
weiss scored.
That situation existed until the
seventh, when Kozar pumped his
initial homer into the right field
stands. Then came the Yankees
eighth and there went Hudson and
the ball game.
NAT NOTES: Coach Charley
Dresser Of the Yankees was clipped
on the head by batted ball during
batting practice today He was
leveled by . blast on Henrich's bat
and after resting in the club house
Dresser dressed and went home.
Walter Masterson, who has
walked SO men in his last 80 innings,
may be named to the American
League All-Star squad He twice
has hurled sparkling games against
the Yankees this year and Bucky
Harris, New York manager, win
select the pitchers The fans
name only the starting lineup, ex-
elusive of the starting pitcher
Early Wynn will shoot for win No.
8 tomorrow against the Yankees
.. His mound foe viii be I'D Lopat,
who has won four straight games
and allowed only one run and nine
hits In his last 20 innings.
Manager Joe Kuhel Of the Mats
recently squawked three times
against the use on burnt resin on
enemy bats He has been up
held once and claims the next
time he isn't upheld he'll protest
the game :. The rule book says no
foreign substance may be used above
18 inches from the bottom Of the
bat :. Coan hasn't hit IN his last
81 attempts =. The Mats return to
Grifith Stadium Monday for