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assignments without throwing a
ball this spring.
Harris will carry 10 or II
pitchers, which means the three
or four open bullpen specialists
will come from among Dixon,
Sima, Pearce, Paul Sanchez, Lou
Sleater, Bunky Stewart, Dean
Stone. Zeke Zeisz, Buck Flesh
man and Don johnson. Flesh
man currently is hampered by
sore arm and johnson has been
woefully inept in both his ap-
pearanceS.
Harris Beams Over COan.
Meanwhile, Harris is beaming
at the continued clouting of Gil
Coan.
'The way Gil is hitting has
been the most encouraging part
of our training so far" Harris
said. He's numbering the ball.
We see lot of rinky- -dink pitch
ers in exhibition games, of
course, but Gil has been hitting
the good ones, too"
Coan entered today's game as
a 500 hitter with 13 hits in 26
tries. Among his blows have
been three home runs, two
triples and two doubles. He has
blasted across II runs and that
is source of particular elation
to Bucky, for Gil batted in only
20 runs last season.
After getting a cheap single to
left off Ed Monahan in the first
inning, Gil doomed a triple to
center in the third inning and
scored the Mats lone run after
Jackie Jensen flied to Gus
Zernial in left. Gil thus account
ed for two of the Mats five hits
off Rockies Monahan, Bill Har-
rington and Ed Hrabcsak.
The AS had clipped Stone for
a run in the third inning on
successive singles by Eddie Joost,
Elmer Valo and Dave Philley.
That IL situation existed until
the seventh, with Sleater throw
ing three scoreless innings along
with the AS Harrington.
Pearce was greeted by a Ray
Murray triple in the seventh and
Plnch-hitter Allie Clark brought
Murray across with a single to
left. zernial later unloaded a
bases-loaded double to score
three runs and came around
himself on Cass Michaels' single.
Keith Thomas completed the
AS scoring with a homer off
Zeisz in the eighth.
NOTES: Juan Vistuer broke
into action but didn't distinguish
himself he reached base on
an error in the eighth inning.
but the Cuban outfielder neg
lected to touch second base en-
route to third on Fred Taylor's
DloW TO center. Jensen missed
a baseS-loaded homer in the first
inning when a well-kissed sock
over the wall curved foul by a
lew feet. Jackie then took
a third strike and Pete Runnels
hit into double play.
The game ended in confusion.
The Mats filled the bases
with one out in the ninth on a
walk to Ken Wood and singles
by Wayne Terwilliger and Floyd
Baker. Mel Hoderlein batted
for ZeiSz and smashed a liner to
left which Ed McGhee trapped.
+. The Mats runners thought
the ball had been caught. :.
Baker was forced at second base
and when Wood belatedly broke
for the plate he was nailed.
Joost made a brilliant back
hand stab of Jensen's sixth-in-
ming grounder and whipped him
out. Ed YoSt made the play
OF the day when he went far
back of third base for Pete
Suder's grounder in the fourth,
but Pete beat the long throw to
first. Michaels deprived Yost
OF a hit in the seventh with a
leaping grab of a liner.
Washington will take on the
Dodgers tomorrow at Orlando.
Wednesday at Vero Beach and
Thursday night at Miami. . :.
The Mats will be off Friday prior
to plunging into a schedule of
21 games in % days before open
ing the regular season with the