Evening star., 1961-05-19
Duren's Record-Tying Four Strikeouts in Inning
Fail to Avert Sd Loss; Con|ey Throneberry Hot
BY the Associated Press

From the very start this has
been a strange season in the
American League. what with
its expansion to 10 teams. But
how about these for a trio of
added oddities:
l. Reliever Ryne Duren tied
a major league record and be-
came the first AL pitcher in
As years to strike out four
D batters in one inning-but be-
cause of it, he was charged
with his third defeat as the
Chicago White Sox beat the
Los Angeles Angels, Ga, last
night.
2. The slugging Detroit
Tigers, after practically ripping
apart sprawling M e orial
Stadium in Baltimore, managed
just four hits in cozy Fenway
& Park at Boston and suffered
, their first shutout of the sea-
q son in a 10 defeat by the
Red Sox.
3. Lefty hitter Marv Throne
berry, dropped to eighth in the
batting order against south
paw starter Jim Kaat, drove in
all Of Kansas City's runs, three
with a homer off Kaat, in a
4-3 victory over the Minnesota
Twins.
AS in First Division
Those were the only games
= played in the majors yesterday,
but they shifted the AL stand
ings a bit. The Tigers loss
shaved their lead over second
place New York to Az games.
And the Athletics, winning four
in a row for the first time.
moved into the first division
at 500 while dropping the
Twins into a third-place tie
with Cleveland. Washington at
Baltimore was postponed be-
cause Of cold weather.
No games we're scheduled in
the National League.
Duren. the ex-Yankee fire,
baller. hit the record book and
took the loss in the seventh
inning at Los Angeles when the
White Sox broke a A tie and
scored a pair of unearned runs.
That handed the Angels their
seventh loss in a row.
The big Highlander struck
out Minnie Minoso leading off
the seventh, then famed Roy
Sievers y who reached first
when the third strike got past
Catcher Del Rice for a passed
ball. Jim Lands followed with
a triple that broke the tie, and s
after J. C. Martin struck out, '
Lands came in on a single by l
Sherm Lollar before Duren
whitfield Sammy Esposito. !.
Misses Second Homer n
Four National League pitch @
ers had struck out four men in b
one inning previously. but
Duren was only the third to h
do it in the AL. Walter john t,
son, the old Washington Sen p
ators' immortal. did it in 1911
and Guy Morton of Cleveland fl
did it in 1916. F
Rice had given the Angels a 81
% tie in the second with Il
two-run homer off Billy Pierce. II
And he came close to betting a "
second homer, off Reliever
Frank Baumann (2-2). when r
his sixth inning drive hit the II
top rail of the rightfield fence
and dropped back for a double.
The Tigers, after walloping a.
q hits for 20 runs in three ii
games at Baltimore, managed I
but singles off Gene d
Conley (2-3). The ex-Phillies ii
righthander, who had lost three
in a row, walked just two and Fl
struck out six in his first COM OF
plete game in the AL. He re- n
tired Rocky Colavito on a pop W
fly for the final out with the a.
tying run on first. oi
Boston scored in the fifth off h
Jim Burning 90 on single a.
by Pete Runnels and a double CT
by Don Buddin.
Throneberry blasted his fifth P
home run of the season in the O.
second inning off Kaat Q-3. 81
Then he brought in the clinch- fl
er in the eighth with a single
off Reliever Ed Palmquist, a =
highlander, following a walk
and single by Andy Carey. Ray
Herbert (3-2) won it with his
first complete game of the year.
The AS righthander allowed -
seven hits, one a home run by
Bob Allison.