Evening star., 1960-08-15
Pirates Widen
Lead by Taking
2From Cards
Law Wins His 18th;
Braves Pressing
Other Contenders
By the Associated Press

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bounce back into shape every
time they begin to bend a bit.
There was the long, five
game week end with the
second-place st. Louis Card
inals, for instance. The Pirates
went into the showdown with
a f1ve-game lead over the Cards
and a seven-game bulge over
Los Angeles and Milwaukee.
The Cards took the first two
games of the set, and it looked
like this might be it.
But the Pirates rebounded
and packed away the last three,
sweeping Sunday double
header. ga, as Vern Law won
his 18th, and 80 in II innings.
That gave them a six-game
lead, largest of the year in the
National League, over the
Cards, and padded their bulge
to eight games over the
Dodgers.
Braves Now Third
The Braves, who whipped the
San Francisco Giants, 80, on
Ed Mathews three-run homer
in the first inning and Lew
Burdette'S five-hit pitching,
alone Of the so-called con-
tenders gained any ground on
the Pirates over the long week
end. Milwaukee took over
third place and now trails by
612 games.
Los Angeles stayed in fourth
place, splitting a twinbill at Gin
cinnau. The Reds won, 20, as
Cal McLish pitched his second
shutout in the majors-firSt
since 1951-but the Dodgers
then raped out a 9-5 nightcap
victory. Chicago's Cubs escaped
the celler and dropped Phila-
delphia in, sweeping the Phils,
81 and 7-3.
Law, now within one of
matching his all-time one-year
victory high, gave up a dozen
hits, but the Pirates backed him
with l3 against Larry jackson
13-l0 and two relievers. Rocky
Nelson drove in three runs, two
with a double as the Pirates
scored four runs in the third
inning. Bill White, who became
the first 1860 National Lacquer
to hit for the cycle Csingle
double, triple. home rum, and
Hal Smith homered for the
Cards.
Blow Early Lead
The Pirates blew a 20 lead in
the nightcap, but finally put it
away against Reliever Lindy
Mcdaniel 10-4 with a walk
and singles by Bob Skinner and
Don Hoax. The Cards. who COM
mitted three errors in the OPEN
er, booted four in this one. Fred
Green go won it in relief.
! Mathews 26th home run.
following a walk and a single
by Del Crandall. was one of
only four Milwaukee hits off
the Jones boy-Loser, Sam
Jones 13-13) and Reliever
Sherm Jones. Burdette l3-7
gained his second shutout of
the year by not allowing the
Giants more than one hit in
any one inning. Orlando Ce-
peda and Don Blasingame each
had two of the five he gave up.
McLish (4-0. pitching his
first complete game since May
4, allowed nine hits, but walked
only one to win a duel with
Stan Williams 12-5), Roger
Craig and Ed Roebuck. The
Reds got their runs in the first
on a two-out single by Gus
Bell and doubles by Frank Rob-
inson and Gordie Coleman. the
rookie first baseman from
Rockville, Md.
Robinson, hit by a Craig
pitch in repeat of the
Dodger-Reds squabble, belted
his 2lst and 22nd homers in
the second game. But the
Dodgers, who had ii hits,
finally beat Reliever Joe Nux-
hall Q-6 on Maury Wills
two-run single in the sixth
after they had trailed, Al.
A four-hit pitching job by
Dick Ellsworth (6-8 won the
opener for the Cubs. Ron
Santos second home run of
the day. a sixth-inning grand
slam, won the second game
after Ernie Banks 33rd homer
had given the Cubs a 20 lead
in the first inning. Moe Dra-
bowsky (3-D won it with re-
lief help. Gene Conley C7-9l
and Dallas Green (3-6D were
the losers for the PhllS.