A's BOSTON (AP) Pinchhitter Mike Hegan's sacrifice fly triggered a three-run seventh inning that carried the Oakland A's to a 6-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox Sunday. A walk to Sal Bando, a wild pitch by Boston starter Lynn McGlothen, 3-3, a walk to Ted Kubiak and another wild pitch put runners on second and third. That brought up Hegan, batting for winning reliever Ken Holtzman, 13-8, and he lofted a fly ball to center field, snapping a 2-2 tie. When Bert Campaneris followed with a run-scoring single, Marty Pattin replaced McGlothen. He.
gave up a single to Joe Rudi, then was replaced by Bill Lee, who yielded Reggie Jackson's run-scoring single. Terry Williams finally came in to put down the uprising. The A's, leaders of baseball's American League West, took a 2-0 lead in the Major Leagues Sunday's Results AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 6, Boston 3 Calif. 6, New York 3 Minnesota 3, Milw. 0 (1st) Minnesota 6, Milw.
5 (2nd) Chicago 2, Cleveland (Ist), Chicago 4, Cleveland 3 (2nd) Baltimore 8, Kansas City 4. Texas 3, Detroit 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 3, Cincin. 2 Atlanta 3, St. Louis 2 Houston 6, Chicago 5 San Fran 5, New York 2 Montreal 3, San Diego 1 A (1st) Philadelphia 2, Los A Angeles 9, San Diego (2d) Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East Pet. GB Detroit 51 37 .580 Baltimore 50 38 .568 Boston 45 41 .523 5 New York 42 43 .494 Cleveland 36 51 .414 Milwaukee 35 52 .402 West Oakland 56 35 .615 Chicago 49 41 .544 Minnesota 45 42 .517 Kansas City 44 45 .494 11 California 40 52 .435 Texas 36 53 .404 19 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Pet.
GB Pittsburgh 55 33 .625 New York 49 38 .563 St. Louis 45 43 .511 10 Chicago 46 44 .511 10 Montreal 40 47 .460 Philadelphia 31 57 .352 24 West Cincinnati 55 33 .625 Houston 51 41 .554 6 Los Angeles 47 42 .528 Atlanta 42 49 .462 San Francisco 41 52 .441 San Diego 33 56 .371 Game Today No games scheduled Yanks Option Rusty Torres NEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees optioned outfielder Rusty Torres to their Syracuse farm club in the International League The 23-year-old switch hitter was batting only .217 with three home runs and 13 runs batted in and struck out 40 times. The Yankees did not immediately announce who would fill Torres' spot on their roster. Jimmy Gets $400 Boost EAST LONGMEADOW Country Corners of East Longmeadow smashed Goodie Spirit of Longmeadow, 20-3 and Ottani Tree Service of Longmeadow cut down American Saw of East Longmeadow, 11-5, In a softball benefit for the Jimmy Fund Sunday at Veterans Field. The twin tilts raised $400 for the childrens cancer fund.
Prizes, including Red Sox tickets, radios, baseballs, and dinners for two, were awarded to fans in attendance. Stall Red Sox, 6-3 THE SPRINGFIELD SPORTS Springfield, Monday, first inning on doubles by Rudi and Jackson and Angel Mangual's single. The Red Sox, held to just three hits through the first five innings by John "Blue Moon" Odom, knocked out the Oakland starter as they tied it in the sixth. McGlothen singled, Tommy Harper walked, both runners moved up on a wild pickoff throw and Doug Griffin singled for one run. Holtzman then came on to quell the rally and yield the tying run' on Carl.
Yastrzemski's double- play grounder. Carlton Fisk's single off UNION July 24, 1972 9 Roland Fingers gave Boston a seventh-inning run but the A's added one of their own in the eighth on Bando's? single. Odom pitched five innings, giving up five hits and only one earned run. It was his 15th start of the year and the 14th time he has failed to go the "Of course we were aware that Odom has been having trouble going the distance," Oakland manager Dick Williams said. "That's why we pulled him out in the sixth when he ran into a little trouble." McGlothen, who lost his third game in six decisions, gave up five runs and six hits in 6 2-3 innings.
"He tried to get a little too Red Sox Averages fine in spots," said Red Sox BATTING manager Eddie Kasko. "His ave, ab rbi's performance was basically Fisk, ,310 242 We just had a little Harper, Goaliano, cf Inf-of 286 alright. Yastrzemski, .281 trouble getting to Odom early Kennedy. Inf 100 Aparicio, s5 Smith. rt Oglivie, of Griffin, 2b .261 303 Oakland Boston Beniquer, Josephson, $5 1b 258 .253 Camonrs ab bi Montgomery, .239 Rudi If Griffin Harper 2b cf Petrocelll, 36 Voss Tenace ph ph Smith Petrocelll rt 36 4000 Peters.
.200 Jackson Mincher Beniquez stramsk ss -0000. 000 McGlothen, 217 Cater, lb .228 Miler, of .213 Fingers Manguai rf Fisk Cater 1b Pottin .156 45 2 Burda, .176 68 4 Bando Duncan 3b Kennedy McGlothn 2b 300 Krausse, 125 16 Curtis, ,133 30 Odom Pottin Culp, Tiant, .061 12 33 7 2 2 .083 1 Holtzman Lee Williams Lee, .000 7 Hegan 1b Oolivie ph Tatum, Newhauser, .000 .000 2 35 6 11 6 Totals Krousse 32 37 Totals .254 2939 374 751 332 Totals Boston Oakland 200 000 100- 310- PITCHING E-Odom. Jackson. DP-Oakland 3, Boston 2. LOB-Oakland 6.
Boston 4. era ip er 5 bb 2B-Rudi, Jackson, Manqual. SF-Hegan. Tatum 2.50 17.2 at, ip er bb so McGlothlen 2.60 541.1 16 Odom 5 Siebert 5 2.78 135.2 42 13 38 Fingers Holtzman 13-0 Tiant 3.05 59.0 20 30 Newhauser 2.81 15.2 McGlothen L. 3-3 2-3 5 5 3 Lee 3.60 3.40 45.0 50.0 17 16 Lee 00 00 Pattin 3.76 127.1 Pottin 0 00004 Peters 1-3 Curtis 3.91 76.0 Krausse 1 Culp 5.00 105.0 Odom pitched to three batters in Krausse 54.0 sixth.
seventh, Pattin. Lee pitched pitched to one batter in the seventh. Save-Fingers (13). WP-McGlothen 2. (United Press International Telephoto) Boston's Doug Griffin is upended by Sal Bando of Oakland in play at second base.
ORIOLES FLY HIGH Rangers Cool Tigers Grich's triple, Boog Powell's single and Baylor's eighth homer. The Royals scored their four runs in the eighth on a walk, doubles by Ed Kirkpatrick, Bobby Knoop and Paul Schaal and Steve Hovley's sacrifice fly before Grant Jackson, the fourth Baltimore pitcher of the inning, ended the rally. Twins Take Two MILWAUKEE (UPI) Dave Goltz won his first major league start and drove in a run to help the Minnesota Twins to a 6-5 victory in the second game and a sweep of the doubleheader with the Milwauke Brewers. In the first game, Jim Perry needed ninthinning help from Jim Strickland to shut out the Brewers, 3-0, on four hits and Harmon Killebrew's sixth inning homer accounted for the winning run. Goltz, called up from Tacoma in the Pacific Coast League where he was 8-8 on July 14, held the Brewers to five hits until Ron Clark doubled to open the seventh and Ellie Rodriguez followed with his second homer of the season for the Brewers' first two runs.
homer in the ninth accounted for the Brewers' other runs. George Scott's three-run ab bi ab MINNESOTFIRST GAME MILWAUKEE bi Tovar rf 4110 Heise Auerbach 2b ss 3 0 1 0 Thompsn SS 2110 ,26 0 0 1 Scott BDavis 1b ph Brye If Killebrew 1b 4 01 2 1 Briggs If Monzon 2b 0000 TRevnids ph 1 0 0 Reese Darwin If cf 00 DMay OLBrown cf rf 300 Soderhim 3b 3000 Ferraro 3b 4000 Theobald 26 4010 Felske Strickind 0 Clark Lonbora ph 0 Sanders 0 Total 31 3 8 3 Total 29 0 04 1 Minnesota Milwaukee 000 0 E--Ferraro, Soderholm. DP-Minnesota 3. Milwaukee 2. LOB -Minnesota 6.
Milwaukee 4. 2B-Auerbach. HR-Killebrew (14). SB-Auerbach. IP ER BB SO Perry (W.8-9) 8 1-3 Strickland Lonbora (L.8-5) Save--Strickland (2).
HBP-by Sanders SECOND GAME MINNESOTA MILWAUKEE ab bi ab bi Tovar Thompsn rf SS 0 BDavis Theobald cf 2b 5 0 Braun 26 Scott 1b 5123 1b 2 1 1 Brigas If Darwin Strickind cf 4 0 2 3 Lahoud TReynids rf If 3 0 0 Soderhim 3b 3 OLBrown rf 00 0 Brye If 1 0 Clark 3b Roof 4 0 1 0 ERodraez Goltz Auerbach ss Grander 00 Stephnsn Reese 1b 1000 Heise ARevnids ph Ratliff ph Linzy Ferraro ph Total 34 6 12 6 Total 36 5 11 Minnesota 200 110 Milwaukee E- Clark, Strickland. DP-Minnesota Milwaukee 4. LOB 9, Milwaukee 8. 2B-Clark. Auerbach.
ebrew (15). E. Rodriquez (2), Scott (10). SFGoltz (W.1-0) IP RER BB SO Strickland 2-3 A Revnolds 4 1-3 Everso Save (3). HBP- Linzy (Brye).
REPLACES OTIS Reggie Gets All- Star Spot ATLANTA (UPI)-The underdog American League had to make a couple of last-minute changes Sunday for Tuesday's All-Star baseball game when Amos Otis of Kansas City and Toby Harrah of Texas were injured. American League Manager Earl Weaver of Baltimore named his own rookie shortstop Bobby Grich to fill in for Harrah who has a shoulder ailment and picked Reggie Smith of Boston. to replace Otis who was hurt Sunday when he ran into a fence at a game in Kansas City. Smith, who played on the 1969 American League All-Star team, is batting only .267 but has 11 home runs and has driven in 40 runs. Grich is hitting .291 with seven homers and 24 RBI.
Weaver and National League Manager Danny Murtaugh, the former Pittsburgh manager, will hold a news conference here at 11 a.m. EST today to announce their starting lineups, including the pitchers. Those lineups will include the top vote-getters at their positions in the recently completed fan balloting. Spree by Collins Boosts Toledo's Pennant Hopes A batting spree by Springfield's Kevin Collins has helped boost Toledo to within four games of first-place Charleston in the International League pennant race. Toledo won five of six from the Charlies in successive doubleheaders at Charleston on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Mud Hens' only loss in the series was a 2-1 job Saturday night. Collins rapped two home runs, a double and four singles in the six games. He drove in six runs and boosted his home run total to seven. He hammered a solo home runs Friday night and a two-run homer Sunday in the second game to aid in a 8-5 victory. He drove across three runs in aturday's nightcap.
Baseball on Her Birthday From Yaz, With Love ARLINGTON (AP) Ted Ford drove in two of Texas' three first-inning runs with a double and Rich Hand and Horacio Pina teamed for a four-hitter as the Rangers cooled off the Detroit Tigers 3-1 Sunday night. The defeat chopped Detroit's lead in baseball's American League East to one game over Baltimore, which beat. Kansas City. The Rangers grabbed a quick 3-0 lead in the first inning off Tom Timmerman, 7-8. Timmerman hit leadoff man Dave Nelson with a pitch, Larry Biittner walked and Ford doubled them home with two out.
Joe Lovitto then singled Ford across. Hand shut the Tigers out on two hits until the seventh when Jim Northrup walked and one out singles by Norm -Cash and Gates Brown produced a run. Hand, 8-6, gave way to Pina, who Mickey Stanley and Brinkman on fly balls. Detroit Texas ab bi ab bi McAuliffe 2b 4010 Nelson 3b 3100 Rodriquez If 4 0 Jones 2b 3000 Northrup 3000 Howard ph 0 Freehan Randle 2b 0000 Cash 16 Biittner 16 If 3 0 1 1 Billings Stanley Brinkman cf SS 0 0 Ford Lovitto rf cf Timmrmn 0 0 00 0 0 Maddox If Haller ph 0 Hand 1 Harris SS 388 Seelbach Pina Kaline Totals 30141 Totals 28 3 5 3 Detroit 000 000 100-1 Texas 300 000 00x-3 Texas LOB-Detroit 4, Texas 5. 2B-Ford.
Bifttner. SB-Nelson 2. ip er bb Pina Hand 86 2 6 1-3 2-30 0 0 Stayback 4 1-3 Seelbach Scherman Timmerman L. 7-8 2-3 4 0 0 POONNO Save-Pina (11). A HBP-by Timmermon (Nelson).
0's Down Royals KANSAS CITY (AP) Crowley belted the grand slam home run of his major league baseball and Don Baylor added a two-run blast to lead the Baltimore Orioles to an 8-4 League victory over the Kansas City Royals Sunday. Crowley's 400-foot shot into right field bleachers, his home run of the season, came in the seventh inning 'off Roger Nelson, padding 'the Orioles' lead to 8-0 and enabling Baltimore to chalk 'up its ninth victory in the 11 games. It followed a double by Johnson, a walk to Hendricks and a bunt 'single by pitcher Mike who needed eighthinning relief help to raise his record to 9-8. Baltimore jumped on Dick 7-11, for four runs in first on a walk, Bobby 'BALTIMORE. KANSAS CITY ob ab bi Buford If 4000 Patek 3000 Crowley 01 Keough ph 1000 Blair ct 0 0 Cantn 0000 Grich Taylor ph 0 JPowell 1b Otis ct Baylor ct 0 Hovley ct BRobinan 1 0 Schnblum ri Hendrcks Rolas 3b DJohnson 038 Piniella If Cuelior Floyd 3b Watt 0 Hopkins 3b Alexandr 0 0 Mayberry 1b Glockson 6 0 Kirknotrk Knoon 7b Drago MaY Nelson ph -000 Schoal Total 35 8 9 8 Total Baltimore 000 Kansas City 000 -Baltimore 3, Kansas City 1.
LOBbaltimore Kansas City 6. 78-Kirk. patrick D. Johnson, J. Powell, Knoop, School.
3B-Grich. HR- -Baylor (8), Crowlev (6). SF -Hovley. RER BB SO Curliar (W.9-8) Wott 2.3 Alexander G. Jackson 1-3 Drago (L.7-11) R.
Nelson Del Canton Save- G. Jackson (4). A CHILMARK, Martha's Vineyard "Miss Ruby Martyn of Spring Street in Vineyard Haven was 90 years old on Friday," the Vineyard Gazette reports, "and birthday greetings came to her not only from President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon but from Carl Yastrzemski, left fielder for the Boston Red Sox.
The Yastrzemski autograph, which came to her on his photograph, was the most exciting part of the day, she said, "For I'm a Red Sox fan from way back." By expressing her preference thus candidly, Miss Martyn may have put herself away as an effete snob in Spiro Agnew's book, but it seems here that a fan who has been viewing the scene for 90 years is entitled to set her own standards. Yastrzemski has been warming New England co*ckles for 12 long years, whereas Dick Nixon has had only three full seasons as a regular in the majors and must be regarded as a raw rookie by a fan who remembers not only Boo Ferriss but also Hobe Ferris, who may have known Patsy Donovan personally and could have been present when Big Bill Dinneen pitched his no hitter against Chicago in 1905. To be sure, Dick Nixon was up once before but only in a utility role; in 1960 he was optioned to the Pacific Coast League and two years later released outright. Moreover, Yaz is a triple crown winner, only the seventh in history to top the American League in batting, home runs and runs batted in. Among presidents, Nixon is away down, 36th in line, 37th if you count Grover Cleveiand twice.
Comparisons are odious, however. Miss Martyn's quiet birthday celebration there was no cake with candles but she dined on fish chowder which she made herself reminds us once again that sports are indeed a real part of our culture, woven inextricably into the fabric of our lives. It is to consider Ron Blomberg's batting average equal in statistical importance to the mean income of ghetto families, but it is not proof of retarded development to see beauty in a Willie Mays basket catch. i New York Times Service By RED SMITH Special to The Union Miss Martyn's unabashed admiration for the Red Sox recalls a couple of incidents involving others with an ear for the music of baseball. One was a lady who as a little girl in St.
Louis had been taken often by her father to games in Sportsman's Park and who remembered the evening in her early, impressionable teens when bedlam ruled the streets because Rogers Hornsby had led the Cardinals to their first pennant. With that background, it is not surprising that in later life she found the same pleasure in watching Stan Musial uncoil at the plate that she derived from John Gielgud, Beethoven or Syeth. One evening she sat near the Cardinals' dugout in the Polo Grounds, close enough to read the lips of a player facing the stands. It was a soft summer night with a big yellow moon hanging over the right field stands. Musial hit two up into that moon and the Cardinals won, 2-1.
"I am the luckiest girl in the world!" the lady said. The other fan was English, the wife of an American employed in London. On vacation in the United States one summer she applied for naturalization by the quick process provided for the foreign born spouse of an American stationed abroad. They were visiting the husband's parents in Seattle at the time, and when he had to go back to work she stayed on to finish the deal. Left on her own, she took to attending Coast League ballgames to fill the evenings.
Being a lady of discriminating taste, she was hooked by the time her final papers came through. A year later the couple was back in the states. "You may not be aware," the lady told a friend, "that I was made a citizen last summer. Probably you don't know, because I didn't tell anyone about it. "When I went back home I didn't mention it to my friends.
Not that it was anything to be ashamed of, but there I was back in England feeling as English as ever and the naturalization thing seemed far away and, well, irrelevant. I didn't feel that it was finished, sort of thing." "Then this afternoon, the lady said, and her voice took on a note of triumph, "this afternoon I was in Yankee Stadium and I saw Joe DiMaggio hit a home run and now now I am an American citizen!" Angels Turn Back Yankees, 6-3 NEW YORK (AP) Ken McMullen crashed a threerun homer in the first inning as the California Angels, held to two runs in their previous five games in New York, trounced the Yankees 6-3 Sunday behind Clyde Wright. McMullen lofted his sixth home run of the American League baseball season into the left field seats off Mike Kekich, 9-9, with two out in the first inning and Sandy Alomar and Andy Kosco aboard via singles. Kosco cracked his fifth home run off reliever Fred Beene in the fifth inning after the Angels picked up a run in the second on Art Kusnyer's infield hit, a sacrifice and Kekich's twobase wild pitch and another in the third on a walk to Kusnyer and singles by Wright and Alomar. California New York ab bi bi Oliver 16 Murcer ct Kosco If White If Cardenas Alomor ss 20 Munson Clarke 26 5 1 Berry cr Swoboda Stanton Michael ss Kusnver Lanier 36 McMulln 3b 3 Alou 1b Stephensn 000 Kekich Fisher 0001 Ellis Beene ph 8 0 0 Wright 8 Sanchez ch Lyle 0000 Biombra ph Totals 24 6 11 Totals California 310 110 000.
3 New York 020 000 001-3 DP-California 2, New York LOB. Callfornia New York 9. (6), Kosco (5), Kosco. Alomar. 5-Kekich, Wright.
1p bb so Wright 11 2-3 Fisher Kekich 9-9 Beene WP. Kekich. A 10.756. Chisox Sweep CHICAGO (AP) Carlos May's second home run of the baseball game, a leadoff blast in the bottom of the ninth inning, powered the Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians for a sweep of their doubleheader Sunday. The White Sox won the opener 2-1 as Dick Allen belted a game-tying, seventhinning homer, then scored with winning run in the ninth on Jay Johnstone's two out, FIRST GAME CLEVELAND CHICAGO ab rh bi ab bi Unser cf 4000 WWllams Brohamr 26 0 Andrews 2 Bell 3b 0 0 000 CMay If Fosse DAllen 16 Chmbliss 1b 3 0 0 Spezio Johnson Lyttle Lolich PKelly ph Duffy Bahnsen pr GPerry Hrrmann Morales pr Alvarado Wood Johnstone ph 3 8 Total 28 1 3 1 Total 32 2 0 2 Two out when winning run scored.
Chicago Cleveland 0 A. Johnson (6). D. Allen (22). re S-Spezio.
DP-Cleveland 1, Chicago 2. LOB -Chicogo 7. 28-Andrews, W. Willioms. HRIP RER BB SO Wood G.Perry ..8 23 SECOND GAME CLEVELAND CHICAGO ab bi ob Duffy Leon Andrews Bell rf DAllen 1b 30 Muser Johnson Forster McCraw CMaY Chmbliss 1b 0 0 0 Johnstone Moses Spezto 30 Unser ct Hrrmonn Dunning Morales 59 Lemonds Farmer 0 0 Acosta Kealey PKeily ph Gossane Lyttle ph Alvarado 2b Total 32 3 6 3 Total 28 4 None out when winning run scored, Chicago Cleveland 010 000 010 0 E-Muser, Acosta.
Spezio. land 2, Chicago LOB- 7, Chicoon HR Mov (10), Bell (3). Her. rmonn (4). S-Dunnina.
Lottie, Dunning IP ER BB so Lamb Former (L: 13) Acosta Lemonds 23 Kealey Forster 1 (United Press international Telephoto) Cleveland pitcher Gaylord Perry, who lost his hid Sunday for his 17th victory. also had another problem. Here he's checked for "foreign substance" by plate umpire Merlyn Anthony. Chuck Tanner asked Anthony three times to check out Perry for something which the White Sox claimed he was applying to the ball..
