Evening star., 1950-08-20
.Parne|I Wins
Ninth Straight
From Griffnen
Rosor Singles With
Bases Loaded to Drive
Across Winning Run
By Burton Hawkins
Stor Stoff Correspondent

inning wallop today that defeated
the Mats 5 to 4.
He blasted a single of Fenway
Parks short leftfleld fence with
two out and the bases filled to
score Vern Stephens with the win
ming run as the rain came down.
The Mats carried a As margin
into the ninth. but Johnny Pesky's
single, Billy Goodman's sacrifice
and Stephens double quickly tied
the score. Bobby Doerr was pur-
posely passed and Connie Marrero,
who went all the way for the Mats,
famed Walt Dropo who batted for
Clyde Vollmer. Dropo was re-
Gently released from q hospital
where he had been taken when he
was hit on the head with a pitched
ball.
A walk to AL Zarilla filled the
bases before Rosar delivered his
ninth hit Of the year. The blow,
high off the leftfield wall, pre-
sented the Red Sox their seventh
straight victory.
Only Time Up.
Rosar's clout came on his only
time at bat. He has been used
chiefly in the bull pen this year,
but was put into the game in the
ninth inning, after Matt Bats was
lifted for a pinch hitter in the
eighth. Birdie Tebbetts. the Sox'
No. / catcher, is laid up with q
wrenched back.
The Red Sox's string of seven
straight equals their best pervious
mark this season, which was COM
piled Immediately after Steve
O'Neill took over as manager from
Joe Mccarthy in June. 1t was
their second straight one-run
victory over the Mats.
BY the victory. Mel Parnell. un-
beaten by the Mats since May 20,
1948. posted his ninth successive
win over Washington and his
eleventh decision of the season.
The defeat was Marreros eighth
against five wins. Fl
Mats Get 10 Hits.
Parnell gave up 10 hits including
Johnny Ostrowski's sixth homer,
but he left IA Mats stranded. Mar
rero yielded IL hits and the Red
Sox packed four of them into a
3-run third inning and three more
into their ninth inning uprising.
The Mats moved into a 10 lead
in the second inning when AL
Evans singled. Marrero and Eddie
Yost walked and Cass Michaels
lined to zarilla in right, but Bos-
ton retaliated with three runs in
the third.
Parnell opened that session with
double to right and Dom
DiMaggio sacrificed. Pesky's sin
gle scored Parnell and Goodman
followed with a single that shifted
Pesky to third. Stephens fly to
Gil Coan in center scored Pesky
and. after Doerr walked, Vollmer
singled to left, scoring Goodman.
Washington picked up a run in
the fourth after Doerr booted
Coans grounder.
Evans single sent Gil to third.
but when Marrero tapped to Par
nell. Gil was trapped between third
and the plate and was run down.
Coan consumed time on the run
down, though, permitting Evans
to reach third and Marrero to
take second. Yost popped out, but
M1chaels singled to right, scoring
Evans.
Ostr0wski Hits Homer.
With one out in the seventh,
Ostrowski pumped the Mats into
a 3-3' tie with blast over the
screen back of the left-field fence.
The Mats then pushed ahead in
the eighth when Yost singled.
Michaels flied out and Sherry
Robertson famed. but Sam Mele
lashed a double to left and Yost
legged it home. It was a daring
bit of running which paid off when
Stephens relayed poorly to the
plate.
Rain descended as the Sox ninth
started but it wasn't hard enough
to prevent play, to the ultimate
regret of the Mats.
NAT NOTES: The Mats will at
tempt to salvage one game from
the 3-game series tomorrow
when Bob Kuzava G-8) will take
the mound against Chuck Stobbs
(7-5 :. . Idle Monday, the Mats
will open a 3-game series with
Cleveland at Washington Tues
day night.
Mele was charged with his first
error since May % when he fun
bled Goodman's grounder in the
fifth Sam Dente hasn't hit
in his last 10 attempts Irv
No-en returned to center field as
a defensive measure In the ninth
X-rays of his right arm,
banged by a pitch from Dick Lit
tlef1eld Friday night, showed no
bone damage.
The Mats now have an 1919
record in games decided by one
run Washington has made
10 errors in its last seven games
The Mats left runners on
third base in five innings today.