Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Senator's Fight Skeir
Of Black Saturdays
After Uphill Victory
By Burton Hawkins
Stor Ssoff Correspondent

Stor Stutf CoHospondont
BALTIMORE, June 19.-Sat-
urday Is recognized by children
as the day they climb into the
bathtub, by farmers Is the day
they whoop it up in town and
by the Senators as~the day they
lose consistently, that Is.
The Senators have played
seven Saturday games and have
lost them all. Today. with a
revived Joe Coleman confront
ing them, the prospects Of ex-
tending that streak aren't too
remote. The Orioles Coleman,
seeking an eighth win, will be
opposed by Johnny Schmitz,
who has won one game.
Bob Porterfield, with the con-
siderable aid Of Mickey Vernon,
struggled 13 innings to a Us
triumph over Baltimore here
last night to terminate the
Senators String Of defeats at
three and prolong the Orioles
losses to five in q row.
POrterfield Goes Distance.
Porterfleld, who notched his
eighth win, went the distance
for the 18th consecutive time in
registering one of his more diff
f1cult victories. He was in jeop-
ardy until the final out and
there were few occasions during
the contest wher pressure wasn't
on him.
The Orioles amassed 16 hits,
as did the Senators, and collect
ed at least one in each of the
last nine innings to keep Porter
field busy. A sturdy physical
specimen, Bob was near exhauS-
ton when Dick KryhoSki sent a
long fly to Jim BuSby with two
aboard for the final out.
Vernon famed and popped out
his first two attempts, then
ratified of five successive hits.
including his 18th homer, and
four of them figured in the Sen
ators' run production.
Orioles Lead in Second.
The Orioles grabbed the lead
in the second inning when Clint
Courtney and Chuck Diering
singled and Porterf1eld unleashed
a wild pitch, permitting Court
ney to score from third.
Washington tied it up off Lou
Kretlow in the sixth after Johnny
Pesky singled. Vernon doubled
and Roy Sievers was purposely
passed, filling the bases. Busby's
slow roller to Shortstop Bill
Hunter got PeSky across.
Vernon smashed a home run
into the right-f1eld bleachers to
start the sixth and the Senators
picked up another run in the in
ming when Sievers walked and
Pete Runnels and Tom Implicit
singled.
Shaky Fielding Helps Orioles.
Shaky fielding enabled the
Orioles to score three runs on
one hit in the eighth. Vernon
fumbled Kryhoski's slow roller,
Kennedy walked and Courtney
sacrificed. Diering popped a sin
gle into short left. and with
Sievers playing in the vicinity
of Annapolis, Roy had to cover
considerable ground to reach the
ball.
Sievers had no chance to pre-
vent two runs scoring, but he
threw to the plate anyway. In
the general direction Of the
plate, that is. Diering took Sec
ond on the peg and when the
wild throw went past Catcher
Ed FITZGERALD, Diering continued
to third. Gil Coan's fly to BuSby
scored him and presented the
Orioles a 4-3 lead.
Eddie Yost was walked by
Mike Blyzka to start the ninth
and Pesky sacrificed. Vernon S
single off the rightfield wall
again tied the score.
Vernon's Single Scores YOst.
That situation existed until
the 18th. Yost beat out a bunt
off Marlin Stuart and PeSky
looped q hit-and-run single into
left, sending Eddie to third.
Vernon's single to right scored
Yost. Mickey shifted to second
base when Sievers tapped back
to Stuart. Busby then slashed
a two-run single to center.
With one out in the bottom of
the 18th, Bobby Young walked
and Pinch-Hitter Vern Stephens
forced him, but Cal Abrams and
Jim BrideweSer beat out inf1eld
hits to score Stephens and place
Kryhoski at the plate, represent
ing the potential winning run.
Busby, the only Washington out
fielder who made a putout,
caught his ninth fly to seal the
win.
Porterfield struck out 10, twice
as many as he has famed in any
game in the last two years. He
accounted for six of them in the
first five innings. Kretlow struck
out the first four Senators he
faced.