Evening star., 1953-06-22
Late-|nning Rallies
By Milwaukee Keep
Rivals From GAINING
sy the A..oeiut.d Pres.

have the big lead the Yankees
have in the American League.
but they seem just as hard to
catch.
Just when their closest rivals
seem on the verge Of gaining a
mite. the Braves pull out. That
21a-game lead they had over the
second-place Dodgers after Fri
days 15-1 shellacking by the
Giants is still there. Yet the
Braves failed to- win a game in a
double-header with New York
yesterday.
You can't call it luck, however.
When the Dodgers were beating
the Cubs Saturday, the Braves
came up with four runs in the
eighth inning to edge the Giants,
5-3. Another four-run eighth
inning gave the Braves a 6-6 tie
with the Giants in the second
game yesterday.
Dodgers and Cards Lose.
The Giants won the first game,
SO, behind the two-hit pitching
Of Ruben Gomez, but the Dodg-
ers and Cardinals picked that
time to lose to the two bottom
clubs. The lowly Pirates knocked
off st. Louis, So, while the Cubs
beat Brooklyn. 80, on a 10TH
inning homer by Eddie Miksis.
A near-capacity crowd of 34,-
343 fans, boosting Milwaukee's
home attendance to 525,823 for
81 dates. watched Gomez, a
Puerto Rican rookie, pitch eight
perfect innings. He didn't give
up anything In the first inning,
allowed singles by Jim Pendle-
ton and Jack Dittmer in the
second, and pitched perfect ball
the rest of the way. He didn't
walk a man.
Dittmer Gets Key Blow.
Dittmer's two-run single in the
eighth highlighted the Braves
rally in the nightcap. The game
was called after that inning be-
cause Of darkness. Saturday the
Giants had a three-run eighth
inning wiped out by the Braves
rally. Yesterday it was q four
run seventh the Giants saw 20
to waste.
Miksis, an ex-Dodger. ruined
his former teams chances by
parking the first pitch of the in
ming by Rookie Bob Milliken.
Both Billiken and Bubba Church,
recently acquired by the Cubs
from Cincinnati, were pitching
flve-hit ball up to that point.
Roy Campanella got three of the
Dodgers hits. including his 10th
homer.
Danny o'Connell's two-run
double and Murry Dickson's
nine-hit pitching helped the
Pirates break the Cardinals five-
game winning streak. The
O'Brien twins got five Of the
Pirates IL hits.
The fourth-place Phillies, now
6a games behind. were the only
team to gain on the Braves, NOV
ing up a half-game by splitting
a double header with Cincinnati.
The Phils won the first. So, and
lost the second, 5-3. Gus Bells
18th homer with two on ac-
counted for the Redlegs' second
game victory, which broke a five
game losing streak.
Yanks Gain With Split.
In the American League, the
Yankees took advantage Of an
other lapse by Cleveland, NOV
ing liz games in front by split
ting with Detroit while the
Indians were defeated, 5-1, by
Washington.
New York won the first game,
6-3. for Whitley Ford as Mickey
Mantle, Billy Martin and Yogi
Berra hit homers. but lost the
second, 1913, as Walt Dropo
drove in four runs with a homer
and two singles.
Ford survived a rugged ninth
inning in 102-degree heat at
Yankee Stadium to go the dis
tance for his eighth triumph
after the Yanks knocked out Hal
Newhouser in the fourth inning.
Billy Hoeft, with the help of
Ned Carver, won the second
game. charged against Tom Cor
man, who yielded q triple to Ray
Boone with the bases loaded in
the fifth. German replaced
Ewell Blackwell, who hurt his
arm while striking out Don Lund
in the fifth. Blackwell had al
lowed one one hit up to the in
jury. Dropo had q homer in
each game, knocking in total
of six runs.
White SOx and AS Divide.
Chicago climbed within
game of Cleveland by breaking
even with Philadelphia. The
White Sox came back to win the
second, ga, on homers by Fred
Marsh. Ferris Fain and Minnie
Minoso after Harry Byrd shut
them out with seven hits. SO, in
the first game.
The Browns broke a six-game
losing streak on Bobo Hollo-
mans two-hit. 20 win over Bos-
ton in the second game after
losing the opener, 81. on Skinny
Browns flashy three-hitter.
Holloman, aided by Satch