Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-06

14th home run, and run-scorinl
singles by Don thinner and Ec
Brinkman.
Dave Stenhouse, the only ont
Of the three Senator's pitchers
still with the club who tool
extra practice after last Sun
days game, will go after No.
tonight at the new Saturday
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Major Box Scores. Puge AL
starting time Of 6 o'clock. Ker
Mcbride, the Angels All Stal
pitcher, who has won nine, viii
oppose him.
Jim Bronstad and Jim Coate,
also put in some extra tint
after Sundays game. They arr
no longer with the team.
Hodges happily has detected
momentum on the Senators
The gamble for the extra base
the key defensive play in thu
clutch, improved pitching, anC
more baseball talk on the bench
are the little things that have
impressed him in the infant
streak.
Combination Of Things
Gil wouldn't single out ar
individual last night as the
leader in the upsurge, and hi
didn't think it was because thu
three new faces the club ha,
acquired in the last 10 day.
have threatened anybody'S job
He likes to think it is a com.
bination Of little things.
And while Rudolph had ;
bunch that his place in tn
starting rotation was at stak,
because he hadn't won sine
May 8, Hodges said that wa
not so.
Don had not won a gam
since I've been with the club
but it wasn't his fault" Gi
said. After all, he lost, 10, hi
last time out. There are a cou
pie of clubs that / might no
use him against, but he ha
shown me he knows how tt
pitch"
Rudy beat the Angels TO
the fourth time in the last tw,
seasons, and he has lost a cou
pie of heartbreakers to them
He has pitched 80 inning
against the Angels this yea
and has an earned-run aver
age of 2.25 against them.
Couldn't Go Home
Don claims he can't afforI
to pitch a poor game agains
the AngelS-he couldn't g
home. When he lost, 10, il
Los Angeles on the Senators
last trip, % of his wife's rela
tiveS were in the stands. "Ant
I know all of them were listen
ing in Los Angeles tonight" h
said.
Rudolph and his wife, Patti
have a home near Los Angeles
but Don is from Baltimore. H
had a quorum of his family il
D. c. Stadium last night.
Don leads the Senators
pitchers in gopher balls, bu
the only extra-base hit off hin
last night was a fluke double
by Bob Perry in the second. 4
righthanded hitter, PER-!
bounced an opposite-fielt
double over the fence in right
Rudolph checked Leon Wag
ner's pursuit Of the triple crow
by retiring him four straigh
times without a hard-hit ball
Don didn't walk a batter.
Hits Thomas in Ninth
The baserunner who irket
Rudy the most last night wa
Lee Thomas, who was hit by
pitched ball in the ninth. "Witl
a SCI lead in the ninth inninI
there's no excuse for hitting al
eighth-place hitter" Rudolph
said disgustedly. THE pitch jus
got away from me-"
II like to pitch, I like Il
work." Don said. II didn't real
lie I had not won a game sine
May 8, but I knew I had no
won lately, and I don't want b
be forgotten as a starter. II
gladly work In the bullpen be,
tween starts, but I want to start
too"
Rudolph's most trying inninI
was the fifth, when Brinkmal
and Marv Breeding messed VI
double plays and the Angels hat
the bases loaded with one out
But thinner threw out a rune
at the plate and DO Osbornl
flipped to Rudy to retirl
Wagner.
With runners on first an,
second and one out in the fifth
Albie Pearson hit a soft line
to second. Breeding droppet
back in an attempt to trap tn