The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-08-20


Jack Larson, plus a big fifth inning,
the Braves won their final game
with Portsmouth on Friday night by
a score of Z to 5, to give them the
series four games to one. Ted
Laguna was behind the plate.
Bill Wilson started for Hagers-
town but was taken out during the
fourth inning when Portsmouth
scored three of their five runs.
Bill Williams, the Merrimacs left
handler, started the game and was
charged with the loss. He pitched
no-hit ball for the first four innings
but was knocked out in the fifth
when six runs were scored against
him and was relieved by Charlie
Bradshaw, a highlander, who went
the rest of the way. Harry Land
did the catching.
Portsmouth took a one-run lead
in the second when Guettler walked
and scored on Neighbors' three
Dagger
It was 40 Portsmouth in the
fourth. With one away, Jenis sin
gled to left and went to second on
Neighbors single to right. Peete was
up next and he was safe at first
when Wilson bobbled his grounder
and the bases were loaded. Land,
the next man up, got the third hit
of the inning, another single to left,
scoring Jenis and Neighbors, with
Peete stopping at second. Will
liams came right behind him with
the fourth straight hit, another sin
gle to left, scoring Peete, with Land
stopping at second. At this point
Larson went to the mound and walk
ed Della Rocca, the first man to face
him, again filling the bases. But the
rally ended when Cornwell hit in
to fast double play, Concannon
to linn to Myers.
Then came the Braves big fifth in
ming, when ten men went to bat and
six runs crossed the plate after two
were out.
Blake, the first man up, singled
to center and went to third on Con-
lannon's double to center. Larson
took third called strike for the first
out and Zinn flied to center for out
number two, but Blake scored af-
ter the catch and Concannon raced
to third Myers was up next and he
got a base on balls. Vince Pizzitola
kept things going with the third hit
of the inning, a single to left, scor-
ing Concannon with the second run.
Barrett got the second walk, load
ing the bases. Ted Laguna was up
next and he got hit number four, a
single to right, scoring Myers and
Pizzitola with runs three and four
and Barrett went to third on the
throw-in. Dick Guyton, the ninth
man to bat, slammed a solid double
to center, scoring Barrett and La
guna with runs five and six. That
was all for Williams and Bradshaw
went to the mound and ended the
rally by getting Blake, up for the
second time in the inning, on a
grounder to second.
That was all the scoring until the
seventh inning when both teams
picked up run, to make the score
7 to Hagerstown.
In the top half, leila Rocca hit
one over the leftfeld wall with no
body on.
In the bottom half, Myers opened
the inning with . single and Pizzitola
laid down a perfect bunt along the
third base line and beat it out, with
Myers going all the way to third
Barrett then flied out to center.
scoring Myers. Pizzitola went out
stealing and Laguna made the
third out when he flied to center.
The Braves were retired in order
in the eighth, and Jack Larson
really bore down in the last two
frames, retiring the side in order in
the eighth and ninth, with only one
of the outs being made in the out
field.
Summary; Portsmouth, 5R, III,
0E, 5 Left. Hagerstown, 7R, III, lie,
q Left.