Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-24
Dodgers Staff.
Nearing Club
Shutout Mark
BY the Associated Press


You can't beat the Dodgers
formula for winning: Just keep
the opposition from scoring.
The Dodgers turned in their
18th shutout of the season last
night as lefthander Johnny
Podres protected their six
game National League lead with
a 60 victory over the. Pirates
at Los Angeles.
Already ahead of their previ-
ous Los Angeles Shutout record
of IA, set In 1859, the Dodgers
need only five more runless vic
tories to equal their all-time
Brooklyn high Of % in 1906
and 1916.
Six of their shutouts have
been by 10 scores. Only once
since 1890 have the Dodgers
won more by the lowest of
shutout margins. That was in
1907, when the Dodger staff
fashioned seven 10 victories.
Cards Beat Braves
Podres was not particularly
overpowering in gaining his
fifth shutout of the campaign
and 10th victory in 16 deci-
sions. The 30-year-old south
paw permitted seven hits,
walked three and allowed the.
Pirates to put at least one
man on base in every inning
but one. However, three double
plays pulled him out Of as
many Jams. Podres famed six.
The second-place Cardinals
defeated the Braves, SCI, for
their fourth straight victory.
Jim Maloney pitched q one
hitter for the Reds, beating the
Cubs and Larry Jackson, 10.
Willie Mays cracked a pair of
homers in the Giants 81 rout
of the Nets, and the Colts
snapped a six game losing
streak, beating the Phils, 6-5,
in IS innings.
Bob Friend, PittSburgh's
hard-luck highlander, allowed
the Dodgers only five hits and
one run before bowling out for
a pinch-hitter in the seventh
inning, but absorbed his ninth
defeat, four of which have come
via shutoutS.
Rough Up Believers
The Dodgers cemented their
victory with a five-run assault
upon BELIEVERS AL Mclean and
Harvey Haddix in the eighth.
Tommy Davis drove In the first
two runs with a single and
rookie Ken McMullen the last
two with his third home run.
Dick Groat paced the Cards
attack against five Milwaukee
pitchers with four hits, raising
his league leading batting aver
age to .343. He scored after
the first of his four singles in
the opening inning and drove
across the final run in the
eighth. Southpaw Ray Sadecki,
with relief help from Ron Tay-
lor, squared his record at 6-6.
Maloney, a 23-year-old Gin
cinnati highlander who throws
as hard as anybody in the
league, famed Is Cubs and al
lowed only three base-runners.
all on walks, after yielding a
first-inning single TO Ellis Bur-
ton. 1t was his 18th victory
against only three losses.
The games only run was
scored in the eighth. Tommy
Harper singled and was forced
by Vada Pinson. Gordy Cole
man singed Pinson to third
and Frank Robinson scored
him with another single, Jack
son absorbed his eighth loss in
10 decisions.
18th For Marichal
Juan Marical registered his
10th victory with a four-hitter
for the Giants. who inflicted
the 18th straight loss upon
Roger Craig. The Giants
bombed the veteran righthand-
er for seven runs in the fist
two innings, Mays finishing
him off with a two-run homer,
his goth. Willie socked his 9th
off southpaw Ken Mackenzie
in the sixth.
Craig, who has a 2-l7 record,
won his last game April %
when he beat the Dodgers. Az.
AL Spangler and John Bate
man teamed up for Houston to
snap the Phillies' seven-game
winning streak, longest for
Philadelphia since 1855. Each
had three hits, scored a run
and drove in another.
Bateman, whose single had
tied the score in the eighth
inning, opened the 18th with a
triple. One out later, Spangler
came through with q single to
end the 4-hour -and-16-minute
marathon Dick Farrell, who
famed five batters in q two
inning relief stint, was credited
with the victory.
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