Frank Chance League

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MIAMI 1 San Francisco 0

In 11 innings.

Miami is 4-3 in extra inning and San Francisco fell to 2-2.

Both teams expected a close low scoring game with two good pitchers going for each side and Mike Jones and Teddy Figueroa and then the Miami bullpen did not disappoint on a hot humid night. Miami, the home team would lose two pitchers in the game, one to heat exhaustion and the other to an umpire's thumb.

Over the first two thirds of the game both starting pitchers dominated.

Figueroa gave up a one out double in the first inning to Ron Miller but stranded Miller at second base. Miller had the only hiut off Figuerooa over his five innings of pitching.

Jones got the BeachCombers out in order in the second. Figueroa gave up a walk, (one of three he issued) to Ebba Brumley who stole second before being stranded there by aglenn Pratt and Ken Owens, who grounded out to shortstop Steve Kashiwada.

Rookie catcher Lawyer Smith, just called up from AAA, got his first major league hit in the top of the third inning. Figueroa bunted him to second successfully, but Roberts grounded out to third base and Lipscomb grounded to shortstop Ron Miller to end the inning.

In the bottom of the third inning Figueroa began sweating profusly and showed signs of bing ill. He walked Miller and Stevens with two outs but escaped when John Luebbe grounded to Kashiwada on an excuse me swing to end the inning.

Hamner had a one out single for Miami in the top of the fourth inning but Chuck Koskie grounded into an inning ending double play (4-6-3).

When the BeachCombers came to bat in the top of the sixth inning with the game still scoreless Stan Drietrich batted for Figueroa and grounded out. Roberts and Lipscomb both went out quickly on routine fly balls to the outfield to end the inning and bring in a pitcher from ther bullpen for Miami.

It was announced that Figueroa was pulled due to heat exhaustion and would be day to day. His line; 5IP 1H 0R 3BB/4SO.

Right hander Fred Mancuso replaced him. Mancusco walked Ron Miller (one hit two walks in the game), the first batter he faced. Miller stole second ut the next three batters, Stevens (5-3), Luebbe (6-3) and Powell (f7) failed to advance him.

Jones departed in the 8th with one out and an error hastined his departure. Third baseman Ivan Owensby threw one over first baseman Joe Powell's head for a two base error with catcher Lawyer Smith still far down the baseline allowing Smith to each second base. Jones' line 7IP 4H 0R 0BB/4SO.

His replacement was Davis WSalston who got through the inning with the game still scporeless.

It was scorelss through nine and then ten asBud Packard worked the eight, ninth and two outs of the tenth before he became enrages at the plate umpire Jack Shropshire and was thrown out.

Tyson Jarvis took over and got the final out.

Miami broke the scoreless deadloack in the top of the 11th inning. San Francisco's second error of the game figuered prominantly in the final score. Paul Diehl reached second when right foielder Ross Barnoski, in for defensive reasons dropped Diehl's flyball. Yo-Yo Roberts singled in the go-ahead run.

Van Wagner took over in the bottom of the 11th and struck out Stevens, got Luebbe on a comebacker and struck out Powell for his second save.

A mewber of the San Francisco press corps asked Yo-You Roberts how he came by the name. Roberts, whose given name is John Frederik Roberts answered that a team mate called him that becasue he thought he was nuts, and it was because he usually spends the off season in jail or a mental institution, or both.