Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-11
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Braves Power

~ Will DC y lOnk bAtllt DcAOIe
the seasons largest crowd at
Philadelphia's Connie Mack
Stadium will forget the Sunday
fireworks display staged by the
Braves.
Those 80 Milwaukee hits in
the 81 and 1913 double-header
sweep over the Phillies must
still be ringing in the ears Of
the 32.li7 spectators. as well
as the six Philadelphia pitchers
who tried in vain TO halt the
National League leaders. The
Braves now have a 6ia-game
lead over the Giants.
Oddly enough, there we're
only two Milwaukee home runs.
both by Catcher Del Crandall.
But Fred Haney's crew banged
out 5 triples and 10 doubles.
Hank Aaron, who had five hits
and scored five runs, had a
pair of triples and a double.
Eddie Mathews. with seven hits
and six runs, had a double and
triple. Frank Tore. who drove
in five runs, had a double and
triple.
Comedy Of Errors
Another top-season crowd of
$3.50, this one In Chicago's
wrigley Field. saw the Cubs
split a double-header with the
Cardinals in a comedy Of errors.
The Cubs won the opener, "a,
as the Redbirds committed four
errors. st. Louis scored five
unearned runs on as many
Chicago errors TO win the sec
ond game, 6-2.
A Los Angeles crowd Of TO-
83l watched seven home runs
hit in the Coliseum, five over
the chummy leftf1eld screen.
San Francisco batters raped
five of them as the Giants out
slugged the Dodgers, 1878. The
attendance swelled the three
game series total to ll2,l07.
Pirates Sweep Series
/ Pittsburgh's fast-moving Pr
rates completed a four-game
sweep over Cincinnati. winning
both ends of a double-header.
80 and 4-3, to remain within
seven games of the Braves. A
Forbe Field crowd Of 26.426 saw
the Pirates take the opener on
Dick Stuart's 10TH inning sac
riflce fly and win the second
game on an eighth-inning force
play.
Relief Pitcher Humberto
Robinson shared the spotlight
with Tore in Milwaukee's first
I1game victory. Robinson
hurled two-hit ball through the
last 62s innings after relieving
Gene Conley in the third.
Tore. who batted in four runs,
drove in Aaron with the win
ming run in the eighth. Aaron
had opened with a triple of
4 Jack Meyer.
Mathews had four-for-four
in the second game, including
his l.000th major league hit
Crandall's pair of homers &C
counted for four runs as the
Braves pounded Robin Roberts
and three believers for 10 hits,
including seven doubles, three
triples and two home runs.
Carlton Wiley won his seventh
against three defeats.
Richie Ashburn's IS game
hitting streak was snapped in
the nightcap and the Philadel-
phia outfielder fell behind Stan
Muslal in the batting title race,
$40 to .343.
4 Davenport Red-HOt
Jim Davenport smashed two
home runs. a double and two
singles in leading the Giants
to their 10th victory in Is meet
ings with the Dodgers. The
rookie third baseman now has
80 hits in So times at bat
against Dodger pitching tor a
SIT average. He is batting only
1873 against the rest of the
league.
Danny O'Connell. Daryl
Spencer and Pinch hitter Bob
Speake also homered for the
Giants as Gordon Jones gained
his first victory in relief. file
highlander recently was re-
called from Phoenix. Duke Sni-
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