Evening star., 1962-04-15
Home Runs
ByO'ConneII,
Long Wasted
BY MERRILL WHITTLESSEY
Star staff Writer


today, which should give you
a pretty definite idea that there
no longer is an unbeaten team
in the American League.
The six runs in the first, all
to Claude Osteen, stood
up for a GA victory before 2.1OO
well-padded fans in air-condi-
toned Municipal Stadium. The
temperature was supposed to
hit As degrees but never quite
made it.
The Senators, who wasted
seven solid singles off Gary
Bell in the first six innings.
closed in with a three-run
homer by Dale Long in the
seventh and a solo home run by
Danny O'Connell with two out
in the ninth.
18th Win Over Senators
But Bell staggered home with
his 18th victory over the old
and new Senators against only
two defeats, although he gave
up II hits and walked three.
OConnell punched out three
singles before his home run
over the 5-foot fence in left
field. The four hits gave him
7-for-l2 for the infant season.
But Danny nullified one of his
hits with some questionable
baSerunnlng in the third that
cut off a promising inning for
the Senators.
OSteen, counted on as the
Senator's second southpaw
starter, deserved a much bet
ter fate IN the first inning.
After a couple of cheap hits,
the Indians went in for the
solid variety and chased Osteen
after seven men had batted.
The Indians, who never were
retired III order, peCked away
at a hit-an-lnnlng pace after
the first. but Ray Rlppelmeyer
and Marty Kutyna held them
ScoreleSs the rest or the way.
Rippelmeyer pitched 523 in
nlngs, and Kutyna finished up.
Lineup Juggled
Mana ger Mel Meg a
benched Rookie Ty Cline. who
was 0-for-12 in three games,
inserted ex-senator Gene Green
as his cleanup hitter, and shook
up his batting order. The In
dians responded with 13 hits,
three by Bubba Phillips in his
new No. ? spot in the lineup.
After stranding eight run
nerS in the first six innings. the
Senators cut the Indians lead
in half in the seventh when
Long lined a home run into the
Indians bullpen. There was
momentary confusion in the
press box, but fortunately for
the Senators the Cleveland
player who caught the ball was
Grant, who was warm
ing up.
Willie Kirkland, the right
fielder, was hanging on the
fence, and for a second it ap-
peared that he had caught it.
But Longs homer made Bell
go for his second wind. and the
big righthander retired the
next six batterS before O'COn-
nell's home run in the ninth.
Indians Cash Breaks
The Indians were charmed to
have runners on first and
third with cheap singles in
stead of two out in the first.
Tito Francona was safe when
O'Connell cut in front of Bob
Johnson for Francona S simple
Danny knocked the
ball down and his throw was
late.
Phillips then topped a ball
down the third-base line and
O'Connell'S throw was late.
Chuck ESsegian hit one off of
his fists to left, scoring Fran
coma and sending Phillips to
third.
Green singled to right,
scoring Phillips and sending
Essegian to third. John Ro-
mano walked, loading the bases.
Woody Held lined to Chuck
Cottier. but Cottier's attempt
for double play at first base
was late as everybody scam
pered back.
Willie Kirkland, a Southpaw
hitter. sliced a drive Just inside
the leftfield foul line for a
scoring EsSegian and
Green. and that was all for
OSteen.
Jerry Kindall greeted Rip
pelmeyer with a single. scoring
Romano and Kirkland before
Rip ended the inning by fan
ming Bell and forcing Fran
coma to bounce to O'Connell on
his second time around.
NOTES-Bennie Daniels and
Joe McLain will pitch for the
Senators in tomorroWS double
header against Dick Donovan
and either rookie Southpaw
Sam Mcdowell or Jim Perry.
was in bed with the
flu today.
OSteen now has an earned
run average Of l62. He allowed
SIX runs in 3 of an inning.
which would be Is runs an
times nine. O'Con-
nell, who led the Senators in
the spring exhibitions with a
4lQ batting average is hittipo