Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-16
Sieyers Plans
RefurnfO1 Team
Despite Bruise
Power Is Needed
AS Senators Lose
Five Of Last Six
BY BURTON HAWKINS
Star stan Writer

0y 0OhlON lAWAAN6
star stan Writer
Slugging Roy Sievers, absent
from the Senators starting
lineup in Is Of their 81 games
due to a pair Of injuries, hopes
to return to duty today against
Kansas City at Griffith Sta
dunn at a time when his team
mates sorely need his booming
bat.
There's still an ugly bruise
decorating Roy's right arm just
below the shoulder, the result
of banging q barrier at De-
troit, then getting off a hur-
ried throw to aggravate an old
injury. but the Senator'S home
run leader for the last five
years feels he's ready to re-
sumo.
Roy's arm was sore yester-
day after he tested it with d
Commute throwing session
Thursday night. but he rated
it as no more painful than 1t
would be after the first couple
Of days Of spring training.
Whether he'll face the AS to-
day will depend on how the
arm reacts after a pre-game
warmup.
Lost Five Of Six
Sievers has missed the Sena-
tors last IL games as a starter.
pinch-hitting in three. He
previously had been forced to
miss six games because of an
ailing back. The Senators
astonished the baseball world
by hanging close to the leaders
without him, but now they've
lost five Of six, have dipped
below 500 and will drop into
the second division If they lose
today.
It's possible that Sewers
future play will be restricted
to first base. He has been
playing on borrowed time since
the Senators acquired him. A
delicate shoulder operation re-
stored him to baseball ranks
after it appeared his career
was doomed and it's unlikely
his bosses viii jeopardize fur
ther injury to the shoulder.
Sievers faces the constant
possibility Of a collision at first
base, Of course. but the throws
there are less demanding than
in leftf1eld.
Lopez Hurts Senators
With a Az loss to Kansas
City last night before a gather
ing of 4,875 chilled fans, the
Senators dropped AZ games
back of league-leading Cleve-
land. Ray Herbert held them
to five hits after the Tigers
Jim Burning stopped them on
four hits by the same score
Thursday night.
To achieve success against
Kansas City, the Senators SEEM
ingly need only to halt Hector
Lopez. but they haven't been
able to do it. His three-run
homer last night OF Russ Kem-
merer was the payoff poke and
the script is getting repetitious
Lopez is a 500 hitter against
the Senators this year with Z
hits in IA attempts. Two Of his
four homers and eight of his
IA runs batted in, have been
achieved against Washington,
and it's nothing new. Last
year he batted .248 against the
six other clubs in the American
League, but against Washing
ton he was a 1888 hitter, slam
ming eight of his II homers
against the Senators.
Walks Two Batters
Kemmerer owned a 20 lead
entering the seventh inning, but
walked Hal Smith. With two
out he also walked Whitley Her.
zog and at that juncture Lopez
pounded his homer halfway UP
into the left-centerfleld bleach
ers. The AS added a run in
the eighth when Roger Maris
tripled and scored on a wild
pitch.
The Senators scored in the
second inning after Jim Lemon
looped a double to right and
took third on Julio Becquer's
single to left. Jim scored when
Herbert, trying to pick Becquer
of first, threw low and wide,
the ball glancing of Preston
Wards mitt. The Senators OBJ
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