Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-21
Dodgers Rising
AS Three Younq
Pitchers Click
Aston Not Surprised
As Averages Show
Stoff Is Best in Nj
By the Associated Press


The Dodgers "kiddie corps" Of
pitchers is giving Manager
Walter Aston that look Of fat
cat contentedness.
In preseason picking, the
Braves. with Warren SPAIN. Lew
Burdette and Bob Buhl. gener-
ally were acknowledged to have
the best moundsmen in the
league.
But Aston demurred then
and last night. after the Dodg-
ers wallopped the Cardinals
l0-4, behind Don Drysdale and
Glen Labine. the Brooklyn skip
per admitted that he knew all
along he had some pretty fair
hurlers.
A three-homer barrage by
Duke Snider, Sandy Amoros and
Carl Furillo eased the task as
the Dodgers won their fourth
straight and pulled within q
half-eame Of Milwaukee and az
games Of the front-running
Redlees.
Best Team Average
The cold facts Of the earned
run averages show Brooklyn has
the best pitching in the National
League with q team mark Of 2.99.
And the standouts are the young
| pitchers-Drysdale. Johnny Pod
res and Sandy Koufax.
Drysdale. 20-year-old. 6-foot-5
lsidearmer, has o 80 record and
10 2.10 earned-run average. The
I21-year-old Koufax. described by
Frank Lane Of the Cards as
faster than Herb Score" is 20
and 1888. The 24-year-old Podres
is "a. but both Of his victories
were shutouts and his earned
run mark Is 1.o5.
The Dodgers have been run
ming sixth in team batting at
.251, but with this trio and Don
Newcombe. Labine. Sal Maglie
and Don Bessent besides, there's
little doubt that they'll make it
70 three-club race.
Labine Ends Trouble
Drysdale was coasting on q
9-2 lead when he ran into trouble
in the eighth inning last night.
He yielded nine Of the Cards IL
hits and gave way to Labine
after loading the bases with none
out.
Labine. who has won three
without q defeat. all in relief,
permitted two Redbirds to score
before retiring the side and
hurled q scoreless ninth to save
his fourth game.
The Dodgers also got II hits
but made nearly all Of them
count. Besides his homer, Furillo
singled in the seventh to drive
in half Of the Dodgers four runs
In that inning. The loser was
Herman Wehmeier, first Of three
Cardinal hurlers. He now has lost
three in q row after winning
his first two.
Joe Cunningham and Wally
Noon each got three hits for
the Cardinals, with Moon
extending his hitting streak
through is consecutive games.
In the American League. the
Senators snapped o five-game
losing streak as Pete Ramos out
pitched Frank Larry to beat the
Tigers. 2-1. Ed FitzGerald's In.
f1eld hit scored Pete Runnels.
who had singled, to break up the
duel in the ninth.
Two-Hitter for Johnson
In the only other game played
In the majors. the Orioles
blanked the Athletics, 30. be-
hind the two-hit pitching Of
Connie johnson. The victory
lifted Baltimore into q virtual
tie with Kansas City for sixth
place.
johnson was superb for Balti-
more as he faced only 20 batters
and set the Athletics down in or
der in eight Of the nine innings.
One Of the three men to reach
base against him was erased on
an attempted steal.
The tall, gangling righthander
walked one and struck out four
in posting his second victory
against four defeats. Harry
Simpson. who singled in the
second. and Billy Hunter, who
doubled in the sixth, were the
only AS to hit safely against
him.
The Orioles tagged Ned Gar.
yer and Virgil Trucks for eight
hits. They broke q scoreless
deadlock In the sixth when Bob
Nieman cracked q two-out dou-
BILE and scored on q single by
Gus Triandos. The other run
came in the eighth when Trucks
walked Bob Boyd, who advanced
on . wild pitch and scored on a
single by Tito Frsncona.
Bad weather knocked out the
Indians game at Yankee Sta
dium ana the White sox' game
|at Boston. u
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