Evening star., 1955-09-03
Senators Weak
Righthond Unit
Helpful to Yonks
BY BURTON HAWKINS
star star correspondent

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Chuck
Dresser would prefer to platoon
his Senators, but he's discovering
1.-THE predominantly righthanded
batting order he presents against
Iefthanded pitching is somewhat
short Of perfection. The YAM
KEGS Az victory yesterday was
added proof of the weakness.
Dressen's rather restrained
platooning at the moment con-
sists Of yanking Second Base
man Pete Runnels and Catcher
Clint Courtney, lefthanded hit
ters, when q lefthander opposes
the Senators. Into those spots
are showed Jerry Snyder and
Ed Fitzgerald.
It's the accepted pattern
these days to juggle lineups &C
cording to the manner in which
the enemy pitcher fires. II he's
righthanded, load the lineup
with lefthanded hitters. II he's
lefthanded, jam the batting Or
der with righthanded swingers.
Most baseball men are agreed
the percentage lies in that di-
rection. but Snyder and Fitz-
Gerald are functioning against
such reasoning.
Lose Seven Straight
The team the Senators have
trotted out against left-handers
has won one of its last 10 games.
losing seven straight. The lone
game that lineup won was by a
10 margin. 1t has scored II
runs over that 10-game span.
Snyder has obtained three hits
in his last rs tries over that
period; FITZGERALD, two hits in
"a attempts. Those averages
read .l20 and .0S3, respectively,
and aren't calculated to disturb
the leagues pitchers.
Runnels and Courtney will be
restored to duty in the remaining
two games with the Yankees
here, since Righthanders Don
Larsen and Bob T'urley are due
to work today and tomorrow.
with Camilo Pascual taking the
mound for the Senators today
land Pedro Ramos due to fire
tomorrow.
Carlos Paula deprived Whitley
Ford of a no-hitter yesterday,
delivering single with one out
lin the seventh inning for the
Senators only hit as the YAM
lkees won before $500 spectators.
Mickey Mantle crashed q three
/, run homer, No. 36. of Bob Por-
terfield in the sixth inning to
help Ford to his 10th triumph.
! Porterfield Starts Well
;. Porterf1eld, limping on a left
? knee injured in his last outing
! against Chicago, held the
Yankees Scoreless for I'VE innings,
but Billy Martin touched of the
. sixth-inning outburst with q
!. single and Yogi Berra followed
|, with another. Mantle then
thumped his homer far into the
rightfleld seats.
/ The Senators, with an assist
|, from Leftfielder Irv Noren, re-
!, duced their deficit to 80 in the
i seventh Mickey Vernon walked
: before Roy Sievers fouled out and
Paula then injected his solid
| single to left. Vernon halted at
= second base, but came on to score
: and Pcula went all the way to
third when Noren permitted the
: ball to get past him. Paula
scored when Tom Umphlett
grounded out.
New York clipped Maury Nc.
Dermott for a run in the eighth.
Berra singled put was forced by
Mantle before Sievers made a
spectacular running grab of Bill
Skowron's well-taeged drive.
ElSton Howard, batting for
Noren. tripled to left-center,
3 scoring Mantle.
Martin, playing his first game
with the Yankees since he star
red in the 1858 World Series,
|. contributed a double and single
:. to New York's l1-hit attack.