Evening star., 1951-06-03
-Four Home Runs
Account for 10
Tribe Scores
Victors Tie Record
For FIuwIess Fielding
Set by Yunks in 1889
By Burton Hawkins
Ssar Staff corresnondent

| CLEVELAND, June 2.-The IN
Idians slashed the Mats pitching
for 13 hits, including four homers,
tand romped to a 1874 conquest
today. It was their sixth in a, row.
jim Hogan. Luke Easter, Sam
Chapman and Ray Boone devel-
oped fondness for the pitching
OF Sandy Consuegra and Bob
Ross. slamming drives out Of the
park to account for 10 runs.
Eddie Yost injected a home run
for the Mats of Lou Brissie In
| a four-run uprising in the third
inning. but Steve Gromek later
arrived, limited Washington to
three hits in 61s innings and
emerged a winner for the first
time this season.
The Indians supported their
pitchers with f1awless fielding for
the ninth straight game, tying
an American League record set
by the 1899 Yankees. Tomorrow
the Indians will try to. tie the
major league mark of 10 conSecu-
tive errorless games held by the
1912 Dodgers,
Mats Get 10 Hits.
Washington accumulated 10 hits
while losing its 18th decision in
12 games. But five of these were
jammed into the third inning.
Thereafter the Mats stirred up
only three singles.
Don johnson, recently acquired
from the Browns, gave the Mats
their lone effective pitching effort.
He hurled the last three innings
and allowed two singles.
Consuegra, belted from the game
for the fifth straight time, pitched
the Mats into a TO deficit in tie
first two innings. The Indians
nauled him for two runs in the
first inning when Boone walked,
Larry Dolby doubled him across
and AL Rosen scored Dolby with
a single to left.
Indians Get In Second Inning.
Cleveland clipped Consuegra
for five runs in the second inning,
when Hogan and Easter contri-
buted their homers. Bob Kennedy
started the uprising with a single
to left and Hogan rammed his
third homer of the year into the
lower left field stands. Brissie
and George Stirnweiss went oqt,
but Boone beat out a slow roller
down the third base line. Dolby
walked and Easter slammed his
second homer over the right field
fence.
The Mats retaliated with four
runs in the third. when Pinch
hitter Gene Verble batted twice
and accounted for two outs.
Verble started the inning by
grounding out, but Yost lashed
his fourth homer of the season
over the left field fence.
Mike Mccormick walked and
Irv Noren beat out a bunt. Mickey
Vernon singled to left and when
Mccormick attempted to score he
was out, failing. to slide at al
time when hitting the dirt meant
a run. Same Mele, waiting to
bat, failed to give Mccormick the
Slide sign and Mike was al
victim Of Sam Chapman's high
throw to Catcher Hogan.
Mele Scores Vernon.
Mele atoned somewhat with q
single to left, scoring Vernon, and
Cass Michaels walked to fill the
bases. Sam Dente delivered a.
double to left-center, scoring
Vernon and Mele and blasting
Brissie from the mound. Gromek
came along to walk Mike Guerra. |
again filling the bases, but Verble |
went down swinging after work
ing the count to 3 and 2.
Bob Ross took over the Nats'I
pitching in the third and es-
capped damage until the fourth
when Chapman unloaded a three
run homer over the left field
fence to boost Cleveland's lead
to 10-4. That blow came after
Ross beckoned trouble with walks
to Boone and Rosen.
With two out in the fifth the
,nolans increased their margin to
11-4 Wnen Stirnweiss singled and
6oone crashed a home run over
the left field fence.
Inc defeat was the Mats 18th
n their last 25 games