Evening star., 1951-05-10
Batting
Adds 10 Pitching
Jinx on Indians
Gionts Surge Upword
With 17-to-3 Defect
Of Crippled Cords
(Bor Scores on Page ca
By jack Hand
A.soeiafed Press Sports Writer

| AS lOllg DIS Ol6Y6lduu Is III the
American League. Eddie Lopat has
a steady job. Since June IT. l949,
the chunky Yankee lefty has a
100 record against the Tribe.
With lifetime 1876 edge over
the Indians, Lopat is money in the
bank for Manager Casey Stengel.
It's rare Cleveland series that
doesn't find Lopat pitching the
key game for the Yanks. He beat
them six times last year as well
as the last three times he faced
them in '49.
Casey was criticized last summer
when he used Lopat and. Tommy
Byrne as pinch hitters against
Cleveland. But last night Lopat
proved his batting power once
more. He hit a three-run homer
and drove in five Yankee runs in
their 9-2 triumph.
Lopat Tops Both Leagues.
Lopat now tops both majors
with a perfect SO record for the
year although his string Of 80
innings without an unearned run
was snapped when Cleveland
scored two in the fourth inning.
Loser Bob Lemon. knocked out in
the sixth, was followed by Lou
Brissie and George Zuverink.
1t was the Yanks' seventh win
in nine starts on their first West
ern trip that ends today at
Cleveland. They stretched their
first place margin to two full
games and left the Indians in
third place.
The Yanks' victory probably
was the most important of yes
Iterday's action. The Giants
romped. 1873, over the makeshift
Cards. Leo Durocher's crew now
has won eight Of its last 10 starts.
Throwing off their slump, the
Giants have climbed out of the
cellar. With eight Cards down
with flu. the Giants blasted Max
Lanier and three reliefers for 81
hits. The hit and run totals tied
the season high in both leagues.
Noble Hits Two Homers.
Ray Noble, husky Cuban catch
Ier, hit two home runs and two
singles. Bobby Thomson hon.
cred and Alvin Dark hammered
a triple. double and two singles.
Sal Maglie curve-balled his way
to his third straight win with a
lflve-hitter. One of the hits by
the crippled Cards was Don Rich
Imond'S first homer.
In the upper brackets Of the
National League, the Braves took
advantage Of the Card collapse
to widen their lead to two games.
IVern Bickford allowed only two
Cincinnati singles in winning his
fifth straight, 40. It was the
Braves sixth shutout job in "a
games.
The Braves collected only six
hits OF Howie Fox and Harry
Perkowski. but four were doubles
and one was Earl Torgeson's Sec
ond homer.
Konstanty Gets First Win.
Jim Konstanty, the Phillies' ace
reliefer, picked up his first win
after three defeats as the Phils
took a 10-inning game from Pitts
burgh, 6-5.
Konstanty rescued Russ Meyer
in the ninth with Pirates on third
and first and one out. He forced
Gus Bell and Ralph Kiner to
ground out. Then he blanked
them in the 10th. while the Phils
got to Reliefer Joe Muir for the
winner.
Pirate reliefers held the Phils
hitless for seven innings from the
second to the 10th before they
got to Muir in overtime. Eddie
Pellagrini's single with two out
drove In Eddie Waitkus with the
lbig run.
Dodgers Beat Cubs.
Clyde King, replacing Girls van
Cuyk in the second, tanned the
Cubs for a 5-4 Brooklyn victory
A timely double by Cal Abrams
scored two runs to break a %
tie in the sixth. Turk Lown,
drafted from the Brooklyn farm
gang by Chicago last December,
was the loser on relief.
The American Leaguers got
notice to expect the worst from
Hal Newhouser from now on as
the Detroit lefty shut out Wash
lington, 40.
!; The Philadelphia AS scored six
lin the 10th to drub the Browns
1872, after tying the game on Ed
Idle Joost's homer in the ninth
The Boston at Chicago night
game was rained out.
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