Evening star., 1962-08-23
Berra Heroics
KnockAnge|s'
HaIoes AskeW
Yogi's 2-Run CIout
In Eighth Knocks
l. A. Into Sd Place


Yogi Berra, q roly- poly satan
dressed in impeccable pin
stripes. has showed his pitch
fork right into the Angels in
flated haloes.
The veteran catcher out
fielder drove in three runs last
night and applied the crusher
with o two-run eighth-inning
homer that gave the Yankees
a AS victory over the pennant-
hopeful Angels.
Berra drove in the first New
York run with q single in the
first inning. Then, in the
eighth, with the world cham
pions trailing by q run In the
second game Of the key three
game series. the 37-year-old
Yogi tagged a two-run homer
that knocked the Angels haloes
aSkew.
It was the second crushing
finish suffered by the Angels.
whose dreams were first pune
tured Tuesday night when the
Yankees struck for seven runs
in the 10th inning and an 11-4
triumph.
Angels DrOu Ia Third
The latest defeat dropped the
Angels down o step to third
place. six games behind the
league-leading Yankees and q
half game back Of Minnesota.
The Twins moved up q notch,
512 games to the rear. when
their game with Washington
was halted by rain after 10
innings with the score tied, S-8.
Elsewhere in the American
League, Dick Donovan posted
victory No. 16 as Cleveland
belted Detroit, 7-3; Mike Hersh-
berger's ninth-inning homer
gave the White Sox q 7-6 de-
cision over Baltimore and Moe
DrabowSky pitched Kansas City
to a Az triumph over Boston.
After Berra gave the Yankees
q 10 edge in the first, the
Angels came back In their half
for three runs against Whitley
Ford on q walk to Jim Fregosi,
a double by Billy Moran and
Leon Wagner's 30th homer.
The Yankees made 1t So in
the fourth on a walk to Mickey
Mantle and Dale Longs double.
Berra wrapped it up with his
homer off Reliever Dan Osinski
(3-0. Rollie Sheldon (7-0 got
credit for the victory. but Mar
shall Bridges finished up with
two innings of no-hit relief.
Donovan Starts Rally
Donovan (l6-D, q 34-year-
old veteran aiming for his first
20-victory season, started the
Indians game-winning rally in
the eighth inning with his third
single. Willie Tasby then
reached base on Dick McAu-
liffe's error on a double-play
grounder that could have ended
the inning. AL Luplow followed
with q triple that snapped a
3-3 tie and tagged Don MoSsi
(8-12) with the loss. Donovan,
who had given up a pinch-hit
homer to Vic Wertz that tied 1t
in the seventh. needed Gary
Bells relief help to subdue the
Tigers.
Hershberger decided the
White Sox-O Orioles struggle with
a two-out homer in the ninth
off Hoyt wilhelm (5-9 that
won for Chicago and Frank
Baumann (6-D. The Orioles
had pulled into a tie at 6-6 in
the seventh inning on a walk
to Whitley Herzog, singles by
Jim Gentle and Brooks Robin
son and an error by Jim Lands.
Camil0 Carreon also homered
for the White Sox while Jerry
Adair, who went 4-for-5, con-
nected for Baltimore.
Drabowsky DO gave up q
homer to Ed Bressoud in the
fourth, then was tagged for one
by Gary Geiger in the eighth
before John Wyatt came on to
finish up q seven-hitter. The
Athletics moved ahead to stay
in the fifth, breaking q IL
deadlock on Jerry Lumpe's two
run double. Gino Cimoli'S
sixth-inning homer wound 1t up
against Ike O'clock (4-3.