Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-30
WobbIy Relief Work
And 7 Injuries Give
Dodgers Uphill Fight
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him, Roy hit a homer over the
left-field stands to tie the score.
Labine stopped the Giants in
the ninth and Jim Hughes,
Brooklyn's most effective relief
hurler. got them out in the 10th
before going out for hitter.
LOes Fails in Clutch.
Then Billy LoeS, 24-year-old
highlander, took over the task
of battling the 36-year-old Girls
som, and it was no contest.
Grissom, waived out of the
American League by the Red
Sox last season, scattered six
hits over the last four innings
and picked up his eighth win IN
10 decisions when Rhodes played
the hero.
Loes had the victory in his
pocket when Don Hoax sliced a
homer into the convenient right
field seats in the top of the 18th,
but he looked like anything but
a relief pitcher when the Giants
came to bat.
He walked Whitley Lockman to
start the inning. Hank Thomp-
son fouled out and Don Mueller
hit into a force play. Then LoeS
lost his control. He walked Mays
and Irwin to load the bases.
Rhodes looked at two strikes,
took time out to Squawk about
them and then slammed a hot
single to center to end the game.
It was the 10th time this year
that the Giants won in their last
time at pat. Six of their Is VIC
tories in their last 10 games came
the same way.
Elsewhere in. the National
League the Cubs lost their 18th
in row, TO, to Milwaukee;
Philadelphia whipped Pitts
burgh, 40, and Cincinatti
crushed st. Louis, liza.
Indians Lead by Two
Cleveland picked up half a
game on Chicago in the Ameri-
can League and now leads the
White Sox by two games. The
Indians beat Baltimore. ST., but
Chicago had to settle for split
in a twin bill with Detroit, win
! ming, SO, after losing. 1913.
The Yankees stayed three games
back with a 14-5 triumph al
Boston. Philadelphia shaded
Washington, 80.
Art Houtteman of the Indians
broke q f1ve-game Baltimore
winning streak with a FIVE
hitter. One of the Orioles hits
was single by Dick KryhoSki
who stretched his streak to Is
games, longest in the majors this
season.
Detroit jumped ahead of thu
White Sox in the first game a:
Harvey Kuenn opened with &
home run and the Tigers added
a dozen more hits in piling VI
their seven-run winning margin
Sandy Consuegra won his 10tf
by checking the Tigers on three
safeties in the nightcap, which
was shortened to eight inning!
by the 1880 am. curfew.
Mickey Mantle paced thu
Yankee assault on the Boston
pitching corps with four hits il
five times up, including a triple
Harry Byrd. unaccustomed II
such robust support. weakened
in the closing innings and needed
help from Tom German.
Wilson Hurls Third ShutOut.
Jim Wilson Of the Braves, whit
was on the market for $10.00l
with no takers until he pitcher
a shutout and followed it with {
no-hitter earlier this month
turned in his fifth victory with
out loss and his third shutou
in beating the hapless Cubs. Ed
die Mathews hit his 14th homer
An nside-the-park home ru1
by Richie Ashburn with two me1
on base broke a Scoreless tie il
the eighth inning at Pittsburgh
as Herman Wehmeier pitched ,
seventh shutout. It was Web
meier's second victory and sec
ond complete game since joining
the Phillies from Cincinnati.
Stan MuSial hit his Gath HON,
run, tying Mays tor the League
lead, but the Cardinals contin'
ued to sink deeper into secont
division.