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one hit an inning. walked four
and famed four. The Dodgers
pried their run of him in the
fifth when Junior Gillian
walked, went to third on Peewee
Reese's single and scored when
Duke Snider forced Reese.
FitzGerald Out For Week
It was a costly victory. for the
Senators lost the services Of
Catcher Ed Fitzgerald for about
a week. FITZGERALD. who belted
a home run of Billy Loes in the
second inning to stake the Sem
ators to a 10 lead, suffered a
dislocated finger in the third in
ming when a foul off Gil Hodges
bat clipped him.
Pete .Runnels, who obtained
three Of the Senator'S 13 hits,
Dashed Loes for a home run to
start the bottom of the fourth.
and Washington picked up an
other run in the same inning
on singles by Tom Umphlett,
Bob Oldis and Alternately. If
Brooklyn got a run off Bob
Porterfield, pressed into action
to preserve the Senators lead,
in the seventh when Gino Cimoli
scored from third base on
Hodges fly to First Baseman
Mickey Vernon in short right
field. Mickey, running with his
back to the plate, had no chance
to nail Cimoli.
POrterfieId Kills Threat
The Dodgers tied it up in the
ninth after successive singles by
Gillian and Reese. Snider
squeezed Gillian across and the
bases were jammed when
Hodges beat out a bunt. Por-
terfield then poured it on. strik-
ing out Roy Campanella and
Don thinner. then getting Sandy
Amoros on a fly to Jim Busby
in center.
Roy Sivers opened the 10th
with a single off loser Tom
Lasorda and Umphlett followed
with a single to center. Juan
Dellis. running for Sievers, con-
tinued to third when Snider
bobbled the ball. Alex Crespo
batted for Oldis and was pur-
posely passed, filling the bases.
That set the stage for Jesse Le-
van, who batted for Bob Kline
and broke up the game with a
sizzling smash off Hodges glove.
Maury McDermott will oppose
the Yankees here today as the
Senators open a four-game trip.
They'll battle the Phillies tomor-
row at Clearwater, then take on
Cincinnati at Tampa Friday and
Detroit at Lakeland Saturday.
Johnny Sain is due to make
his spring debut for the Yankees
in today'S game. The veteran
right-hander is scheduled to
follow Bob Turley to the mound.
NOTES: Sievers made the play
Of the day in the seventh inning
when he banged into the left
field fence after a long run to
haul in Snider's drive at a time
when the Dodgers had two on
base A threatening day, with
occasional light rain, held the
crowd to 3,107 The Dodgers
normally draw about $500 at
Orlando.
Crespo banged three balls over
the fence in batting practice . {.
After he. whacked two over the
leftfleld fence. Dresser said,
through an interpreter, Let me
see you hit one to rightfleld' . I.
Crespo promptly hit one over the
rightfield fence .. Crespo hasn't
played for several weeks, but says
he'll be ready to go in three or
four days He doesn't speak a
word of English.
The game had a World Series
flavor for all-out effort A
hassle developed in the ninth
when Eddie Yost seemingly stole
third base -. Umpire Joe Papa
rella said he had called time, but
Dresser and Vernon, batting at
the time, insisted action had
started before time was called
;. Paparella won, of course T.. g.
Four Of the Dodgers last five