Evening star., 1958-07-14
Tigers Reach
SecOnd,A Await
Shot al Yanks
nr the Assonlatsd Preaa

and took over second place In
the American League. l2h
games behind the runaway
Yankees.
Runaway. that is. from every
team except the Tigers. who
have humbled Casey stengel's
champs in eight Of IL meetings.
II they ever expect to make a
serious move on the leaders.
the Tigers get their chance to-
morrow when they move into
Yankee Stadium for a three
game series.
Detroit suffered a severe blow
yesterday while winning two
from Baltimore, 6-5 and 5-3.
Al Kaline, ace rightfielder. was
hit on the right wrist by a
pitched ball and lost to the
club for an indefinite period
with a severe bruise.
Cleveland knocked Boston
down to third place by taking
advantage of seven unearned
runs while beating the Red Sox,
ga, behind Cal McLish.
White Sox Beat Larsen
Jerry Lumpe's pinch single
with the bases full in the 10th
gave the Yankees an even
break with the White Sox. The
Yanks took the second game,
5-4, after bowling, IA, when
Chicago bombed Don Larsen
G-3) and Duke Mas in two
big innings.
Washington took advantage
of fine pitching by Camilo Pas
cual and Rookie John Romono-
sky to sweep two from Kansas
City, 20 and Az.
The injury to Kaline took
some of the edge OF the Tigers
f1rst-game decision over Balti-
more. Charley Beamon settled
down after a wild first inning
in which he also hit Frank Boil
ing and walked two others
Beamon didn't allow a hit until
the sixth when the roof caved
L in as the Tigers scored four
times. The victory went to
Paul Foytack (7-8).
O'Dell Knocked Out
In the second game, the
Tigers knocked out Billy O'Dell
(8-l0), whose great pitching
was the talk of the All-Star
Game last week. The Orioles
almost pulled it out in the
ninth, loading the bases be-
fore Bill Fischer got Dick Will
liams on a force play. George
Susce got the win but had to
leave in the ninth when hit
on the arm by q George
Zuverink pitch.
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Woody Held drove in tive
runs with a homer and single
and Vic Power boosted his
average to 1928, tying Chicago's
Nellie Fox for the league lead.
in Cleveland's triumph at Bos-
ton. Shortstop Don Buddin of
the Red Sox booted two double
play balls among three Boston
errors. Ted Williams missed
a home run by inches when
his drive hit the top of the
bullpen fence and dropped
back for a double.
Lumpe's game winning hit
at New York came after Ryne
Duren, Yankee relief pitcher.
had bunted safely with two
strikes for his first hit of the
year. A single by Gil McDou-
gald, a sacrifice, and an inten-
tional walk preceded Duren's
hit.
Duren and Johnny Kucks re-
tired the last 16 Chicago bat
tiers in succession in 5ls per-
feet innings after Bobby Shantz
was knocked out in the fifth
when Jim Lands two-run
homer tied the score.
LOwn Saves Pierce
The crowd of 39.S54 saw the
Sox climb on Larsen for four
runs in the third inning and
add three more off Mas in the
sixth inning Of the first game
Earl Torgeson's two-run single
was the big blow of Larsen. A
ltwo-run single by Billy Good
man and a scoring double by
Fox ruined Mas.
Billy Pierce received credit
for his ninth victory with the
help of some fine relief work
by Turk Lown, who put down
several Yankee threats. Lown