Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-24
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BoItimore's Victory
Barely Beuts Curfew;
All 3 Leaders Win
(Standings on Page C-3)
By the Assoeioted Press


early today ended a nine-game
losing streak, may not be giving
their fans any better baseball
than the st. Louis Browns did,
but they offer more of it.
The Orioles and Boston Red
Sox played II innings in Balti-
more last night, the game lasting
four hours and So minutes. The
teams played as if they were bat
ting for the pennant instead
of fighting to escape the cellar.
The Orioles finally won, 81.
The marathon that ended two
minutes before l am. was two
innings longer than any played
in either league this season and
8 minutes longer than any
game ever played in the Ameri-
can League.
The longest game in baseball
records, however, was a 5l2-hour
National League contest between
Brooklyn and Boston in 1910. It
went 20 innings.
AZ Players Take Part.
Managers Lou Boudreau of the
Red Sox and Jimmy Dykes Of
the Orioles contributed to an
other record when they used AZ
players, one more than the
previous high for an extra-i1-
ming game.
Boudreau used % players, in
Guiding six pitchers and Ted
Williams, who got in the game as
a pinchhitter for the first time
since June 5. Dykes called on
five hurlers. Fortunately, the
teams are off today.
It was the second straight
night the two tailenders went
overtime before reaching a de-
cision. It took the Red Sox IL
innings to win Tuesday.
Last nights game ran right
into an American League rule
that no inning may start after
1850 am. The curfew arrived
during the 18th inning with the
score tied, TT. The Orioles
avoided a stalemate after all
their labors by scoring in their
half of the inning to win on a
close play at the plate on an in
field grounder with the bases
loaded
Score Four in Ninth.
The Red Sox had forced the
extra innings by scoring four
times in the ninth.
The 24,843 fans got an extra
thrill, besides their fill of base
ball, in the seventh inning when
Williams strobe to the plate with
two out, the bases loaded. and
the Orioles leading, Az.
Williams had been out Of ac-
ton since June 5 with q virus
! infection that was close to pneu-
tmonia. He fouled out after one
called strike.
Williams also failed as a pinch
hitter in Baltimore on May Is,
when he made his first appear
ance Of 1854 after breaking his
left shoulder in spring training.
The next day he got eight hits
in nine tries at Detroit.
Three Leaders Win.
In other American League
games, all three contenderS won.
Cleveland tripped Philadelphia,
So: Chicago outlasted WASH
ington, 8-6, and New York de-
feated Detroit, ga.
The Indians stayed three
games in front Of the White Sox
with the help of a home run
attack on the Athletics. HomerS
by Larry Dolby, AL RoSen and
Pitcher Bob Lemon accounted
for all of the Cleveland runs.
The victory was Lemons ninth.
Chicago wasted a f1ve-run
first inning lead but finally beat
Washington on Sherm Lollar'S
two-run, pinch-hit single in the
sixth.
The Yankees came from be-
hind at Detroit as Gil McDou-
gald pounded three doubles and
a single, good for four runs. The
Yankees received 10 walks and
converted six of them into runs.