Evening star., 1952-08-27
Porterfie|d Finds
Certain / Remedy
For LOT Plague.
Moreno Given Task
Of Defending Mats
Fourth-PIoce Berth
By Burton Howkins


Bob Porterfield finally has fig-
ured a method Of winning with
the Mats. It consists, simply, of
pitching q shutout and, batting
across p run himself. It's the
hard way. of course. but Bob has
considerable experience at deal
ing with the difficult.
Porterfield personally propelled
the Mats back into the first divi-
sion last night with a stirring
10. four-hit conquest of the
White Sox. clubbing across the
games only run in the eighth
inning when he delivered the third
and final hit off Billy Pierce.
What Porterfield accomplished,
Julio Moreno (8-8) will attempt
to retain tonight when the White
Sox make their last appearance
Of the season at Griffith Stadium.
Chuck Stobbs (7-10) will oppose
Moreno. who was slated to pitch
last night but yielded to strategy
switch by Manager Bucky Harris.
(Tonight's game will be tele-
vised by WTTG, channel S.
The Mats victory, coupled with
the Athletics defeat by the In
dians. leap-frogged the Mats into
fourth place, a half game ahead
Of Philadelphia and Chicago. :,
Drives in Busby.
Involved in five 10 games this
season. Porterfield won his second
by that score after Jim Busby
opened the bottom of the eighth
with a double to right. for the
Mats second hit of Pierce. Clyde
Kluttz'S grounder to Nelson Fox
at second base enabled Busby to
shift to third and Porterfield's
single to right scored Busby.
That run, incidentally, was the
first the Mats have produced for
Porterfeld in 20 innings. It also
was the first run the Mats scored
of Pierce in Is innings.
Porterf1eld retired the first II
White Sox in order before Orestes
Minoso singled and stole second
with two out in the fourth inning.
That was Chicago's only hit until
Eddie Robinson singled with two
out in the seventh. Tom Wright
followed with a walk. but Bob
eased out Of that jam when Jim
Rivera popped to. Mel Hoderlein.
Hoderlein Saves the Day.
Bob was in a more distressing
|predicament in the eighth inning,
but the heads-up fielding of
Hoderlein and the heads-down
running of. Hal Brown got him
out unharmed.
Sherman 4Loffar- opened the
eighth with a single to left and
Pinch-runner Brown moved to Sec
ond when Pinch-hitter Ed Stewart
grounded out. Pierce lifted a fly
to Gil Coan in short left, but Hec-
tor Rodriguez singled over second
base.
Rodriguez blow seemingly was
destined to travel into centerfield,
but Hoderlein speared it. Lum
Harris. coaching at third base for
the White Sox, frantica1ly tried to
flag down Brown, but Brown had
eyes only for the ground in front
Of him. :
Hoderlein's throw to the plate
trapped Brown, but there was con-
siderable confusion in the run
down. Nobody backed up Eddie
Yost at third base and Brown was
retreating successfully to that sta
ton when he stumbled. He re-
gained his feet as Hoderlein came
over to cover third and Mel caught
up with him in a chase toward
the plate.
Spectacular Fielding.
1t was a game which featured
spectacular fielding. Rivera con-
tributed a fantastic catch at Yost's
expense in the sixth when he raced
from centerf1eld into ~left-center.
banged hard against the fence but
chung to the ball. In the ninth
(See MATS, Page C-2.)