Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-15
Past Performances
Favor Tribe, Giants
In Stands at Home
BY the Assoeioasd Press

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New York Giants open long
home stands tonight with bright
| prospects. if past performances
mean anything.
Home again after taking 10 Of
II road games. the Indians face
the Senators in three games and
then meet the Red Sox in four
this week end as they make their
bid to pull away from the White
Sox and Yankees. who trail by
two and four games, respectively.
Cleveland has the best home
record in the league-16 and 6.
compared to the Yanks' 2l-13
and Chicago's 10 and 8. After
slugging the Red Sox. 1876. with
a 22-hit attack yesterday. the
Indians are riding flve-game
winning streak and in q position
to open UP ground on their
rivals.
Significantly, the Indians have
been winning despite the abb
sences of AL Rosen and Bobby
Avila, the leagues top two hit
tiers, who are out with broken
fingers. Vic Wertz. a bust at
Baltimore, has been hitting well
/ while filling in for Rosen at f1rsts
Sam Dente and Hank Majeski
have subbed adequately for Avila.
There is a good chance that both
regulars will be back in the
lineup this week.
Yanks Set for Orioles.
The White Sox get q chance
to recover from their disastrous
week end in New York when they
entertain the Athletics tonight.
but they must face the Yankees
again this week end.
Casey Stengels crew moves in
to Baltimore tonight, deter
mined to start playing as well
against the also-rans as it does
against the contenders. Most
pennant winners make q spe-
cialty of battering the little fell
low, but the Yankees seem to
have lost the knack this season.
While the Indians have been
numbering the last four clubs,
winning q and losing 5, the
Yankees have only a five-game
edge over second-diviSion out
fits. The Indians are 11-12
against firSt-diviSion teams, the
White Sox are 1911 and the
Yankees are 1913.
With this in mind, Stengel
will pitch Allie Reynolds, Whitley
Ford and Jim Mcdonald against
the Orioles in an effort to get a
streak going. Reynolds Gid
takes on Joe Coleman (7-4) in a
bid for his fourth win over Bal
timore tonight.
Giants Position Unique.
The Giants are unique in the
National League. Deadlocked
with the Dodgers for the lead.
they open a series with the Red
legs at the Polo Grounds while
the Dodgers and Braves cut
Threats at Ebbets Field.
Leo Durocher'S club is the only
one in the league with a winning
record at home. It has won Is
and lost 8 in its own park, while
the next best record is the
Dodgers 9-10 figure.
The road clubs took the honors
in the intersectional battles Just
completed. The Giants won II
of Is in the West and Brooklyn
took II of IA. The Phillies won
6 and lost 5 and the Pirates
were At.
In the American League, the
Yankees were the only home club
to come out ahead, taking 8 of
ID. The travelling White Sox
were second to Cleveland with
an 8-4 record and Baltimore had
an 81 mark. Detroit. a big win
ner on it's previous trip East, fell
apart and took only 4 of 16
games.
Cubs Happy to Escape.
The Cubs were as happy to
escape from their own park yes
terday as were the Skidding Red
Sox. After dropping 10 of their
last IL in Wrigley Field, they
moved into Pittsburgh to take a
6-5 victory. Hank Sauer's Goth
home run provided the edge.
The Red Sox. who plummeted
into the cellar as they took
their seventh straight beating
yesterday. won only nine of %
games in Fenway Park. They
started the home stand with
high. hopes of overcoming their
early-season misfortunes and
driving into the first division.
But that big. convenient wall
in leftf1eld has proved to be the
downfall of the Red Sox. They
no longer have the righthanded
! power to capitalize on it. Their
cleanup hitter, Jackie Jensen. is
batting .237. Opponents now
have "a homerS in Fenway Park
to % by the home team.