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

Fowler's first pitch, and as it
was obvious that Lee Thomas
was not going to catch up with
the ball, Hinton was tearing
around the bases. Thomas
threw to the plate, but Chuck
came in standing up.
The Senators lost a chance
to win in the ninth when Dick
Phillips lined into a double
play with the bases loaded and
nobody out.
King Walks to Set Stage
Jim King walked to open the
tenth, and was forced by Hin
ton. Leppert then supplied the
heroics.
Ron Kline was the winner,
but Steve Ridzik, making a
major league comeback at the
age of "a, turned in a seven
inning job that stirred the
GAIL fans and the $3.50 mem
bers of The Stars Knot-Hole
Club.
Ridzik took over in the
second inning when Dave STEM
house came up with sore
elbow. Ridzik pitched three-hit
ball for seven innings, and
turned over a % tie to Claude
Osteen in the ninth after
firing.
Ridzik famed seven, walked
only one, and one Of the hits
off him that led to a run was
a double by Lee Thomas off
the end of his bat. But Leon
Wagner's goth homer a blast
high off the scoreboard in right
in the sixth inning, was
authentic.
1t was a big night for the
Senators who were semi-stran-
gers to the fans. Don Blasin-
game made his debut at second
base and singled in the fifth
and scored the go-ahead run
that Wagner nullified.
Phillips Hits First Homer
Dick Phillips, playing first
base because Of 30 Osborne's
batting slump, lined his first
| major league home run over
the fence in right in the first
inning.
The defeat was the sixth in
a row for the Angels, who a
year ago on July 4 swept a
double header in DC. Stadium
to take over the league lead.
The Senators ninth was a
tense inning in which they al
most stole the ball game with
out a hit.
j Ken Mcbride, an All-Star
game pitcher for the Angels,
hit Don thinner, the leadoff
hitter on a 80 pitch. Ed Brink
man sacrificed thinner to Sec
ond and DO Osborne batted for
Osteen.
After Mcbride threw three
wide pitches to Osborne. He
walked 30 Intentionally.
Mcbride Is Axed
Mcbride then ran the count
to 81 on Blasingame, and on
the third ball Manager Bill
Rigney made his second ap-
pearance and Jack Spring was
the new pitcher.
Blasingame fouled Springs
first pitch to make it 80, and
Don then grounded to short.
thinner may have screened the
ball from Jim Fregosi at short,
because Fregosi fumbled it.,
loading the bases with one out.
Phillips, a lefthanded hitter,
tried to punch one to the OPP
posite field but lined to Joe
Hoppe at third. Jack Kennedy,
running for Osborne, had too
much Of a lead and was
doubled off second.
! Osteen had pitched a perfect
ninth, and Kline took over in
: the tenth. Felix Torres lined a
single to center. the Angels
; fourth hit, but Ed Brinkman
scooped up Charley Dees' hop
per, stepped on second and fired
TO Phillips for a double-play.
Purchased From Toronto
Ridzik. purchased condition.
ally from Toronto by the Sem
ators earlier this week, was a
stranger to the Senator's fans.
, Although Steve was in the ma
jors in 1850, he has not pitched
in the big leagues since 1858.
Thomas greeted him with a
single, but Brinkman started a
double-play on Torres bounder.
and Ridzik retired the next
seven in a row.
Thomas Fluke double, a
wild pitch and Koppe's foul
sacrifice fly gave L. A. a run In
the fifth, and Wagner's homer
another in the sixth.
The Senators scored their
second run in the fifth on con-
secutive singles by Blasingame,
Phillips and King,