Evening star., 1954-06-05
Yost's Sky Gazing
Gives Sievers Race
For Sabotaging Prize
By Burton Howkins

Eddie Yost, whose reputation
as a ball player has been en-
hanced by a sharp eye which
has enabled him to lead the
league in passes, has learned
it is hoped-that umpires are
paid to determine whether a ball
plops in fair territory or outside
the line.
It was a mechanical fluff by
Roy Sievers which cost the Sen
ators a 80 defeat by Detroit
yesterday at Griffith Stadium
before smattering Of / ,689 Gus
toners, but Yost perhaps is
equally as guilty for sabotaging
Bob Porterfleld.
The Senators suffering at the
gate, will be hurting more pain
fully II they don't play more
alertly. They're giving away
runs in punches and they're not
scoring when they should. The
combination is enough to wreck
any club and drive their fans
to other entertainment. @
Costly Pause by YOSt.
With the Tigers and Senators
locked in a IL struggle in the
third inning Yost waited a long
fly to right. Eddie logged down
the first base line, paused and
watched the fight Of the ball,
apparently certain 1t would land
in foul territory
It was a costly look, for the
ball struck a foot inside the
foul line and, too late, Yost
turned on speed. He tried to
atone for a late start by taking
a desperate gamble on stretch
ing the hit into a triple. He was
nailed and it came as no COM
fort to the Senators that Pete
Runnels' smash of Pitcher Billy
Hoeft's glove would have scored
Eddie.
Yost seldom, if ever, has been
accused of loaf1ng. He normally
is the personif1cation Of the old
college try, but on this occasion
he at least could be charged with
behavior expected only from a
raw recruit. His failure to
sprint conceivably cost Porter
field a seventh triumph and the
Senators a series sweep.
Schmitz Faces White SOx.
Johnny Schmitz. pitching ex-
cellently despite a 1-3 record.
will open a three-game series
with the White Sox tonight.
Schmitz, who whipped the Yam
KEGS, 10, I'M his last start, car
ries a highly 'creditable ITO
earned-run average into the
game. AL Sima, who has a OIL
record. will pitch for Chicago.
The clubs will clash in double
header tomorrow at 1870.
Sievers, ironically, had staked
Porterfield to both of Washing
tons runs before committing
the bobble that handed Bob a
second successive loss.
Roy baptized the visiting bull
pen with a home run into that
screened incloSure in the second
inning, but the Tigers tied the
score in the third on successive
singles by Frank House, Harvey
Kuenn and Hoeft.
Bob Nieman's blast into the
leftfield seats sent Detroit into q
2-1 lead in the fourth, but the
Senators knotted the score in the
sixth when Runnels' hit to center
bounded over Delsing's head fol
a triple and Sievers singled.
That % situation existed with
two down in the eighth and
Frank Boiling on first as the re-
suit of forcing Hoeft. Delsine
lifted a routine fly to left, but
Sievers was bothered by the sun
and the ball ficked out Of his
glove, permitting Boiling to score
Mickey Vernon opened the bot
tom of the ninth with q single
and continued to second on Don
Lund's tumble, but the Senators
couldn't move him. Sievers, who
had accounted for three Of the
teams seven hits. went down
swinging. Jim Busby flied to
Lund in short right and Jim
Lemon send q ame-ending pop
f1v tn Third Baseman Raw Boone