Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-26
Senators Transfer
Their Jinx to Boston
Red Sox Are New
Cousins in Place
OF Cleveland
BY BURTON HAWKINS
Star stan Correspondent

BOSTON, May 26.--When the
Senators sank last season they
grabbed at the Indians and
dragged them down, drowning
Cleveland's hopes by beating
them Is times.
This season they're threaten
ing to bury Boston's pennant
Aspirations. They've whipped
the Red Sox four times in five
games and in two games here
ALREADY have matched their total
of triumphs at Fenway Park last
year.
Chief tormenter of the Red
Sox is Roy Sievers, who has
Slashed three of his nine homers
against them. The slugging first
baseman also has made them a
victim of 9 of his q runs batted
in and after five games boasts q
.438 mark against Boston pitch
ing.
Sievers slammed two homers
and crashed across five runs last
might as the Senators snapped
their five-game losing streak
with a 1915 win before 24,879
fans who also saw Ed Yost and
Carlos Paula deliver homers for
Washington. Jim Piersall belted
a pair successfully off Pedro
Ramos, the winning pitcher.
Stobbs Goes Today
The Senators will be shooting
for their third victory here in
as many games today when
Chuck Stobbs tries for a third
win against Ike O'clock. The
Senators and Red Sox will clash
in double-header tomorrow.
Chuck Dresser is hopeful the
Senators rash of extra base hits
last night indicates the club will
recover its punch. They collected
only seven hits off George Susce,
Tom Hurd and Dave Sisler, but
there wasn't a single among
them. In addition to the four
Ihomers, Ramos injected a triple,
while Jim Lemon and Jerry
Snyder supplied doubles.
Once again the Senators re-
ceived sparkling relief effort
from Bob Chakales, who is be-
having like the most improved
pitcher in the league. Bob took
over from Ramos in the eighth
with the bases loaded and one
out. He got Frank Malone TO
drill into double play, then
held Boston hitlesS in the ninth.
Took Quick Lead
Yost pumped the Senators in
to a quick lead with his leadoff
homer in the first and Paula
made it 20 in the second with
another smash into the net back
of the fence, but Dick Gernert
walked and Piersall lofted his
first homer over the wall to tie
the game in the same inning.
Ramos opened the third with
a lusty triple off the fence and
Whitley Herzog brought him in
with a long sacrifice fly to CEN
ter. Pete Runnels walked and
Sievers doomed his first homer
to provide Ramos with a So
bulge.
/ Billy Goodman's single, a walk
to Mickey Vernon and Gernert's
single produced a run for the
Sox in the third and Piersall re-
duced BoSton's deficit to 5-4 in
the fourth with his second big
clout. Boston tied it in the fifth
when Gernert walked, stole Sec
ond, continued to, third on Clint
Courtney's wild throw and scored
on Piersall'S single.
Breaks Game Open
That situation existed until
the eighth, when Sievers broke
the game open. Yost and Her
Izoe walked and after Runnels
flied out, Sievers hit homer No. 9.
The Senators came up with
two more runs in the inning after
Lemon doubled to chase Susce.
Hurd walked Paula and Snyder
doubled to right. scoring Lemon.
When Jackie Jensen's throw was
wide of Vernon, the relay man.
Paula scored on the error.
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