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Fredi Gonzalez League Recap

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Standing in the league have Boston on top by a slim one game over Detroit. Boston is 14-6, Detroit is 13-7. Two clubs, Anaheim and Minnesota are at the break even point, 10-10 four games back. Minnesota has won seven of its last ten.

Kansas City (9-11) has lost three straight games.

Baltimore in sixth place is 8-12 six back tied with Seattle. Seattle has lost seven of ten and Baltimore has won four in a row.

The leading homerun hitters in the league are Ernest Young (Minn) with 6, Ty Cobb and Al Kaline of Detroit both have six as do four others.

Cobb lead in RBI with 20, and teammate Hank Greenberg is tied with Joe Curtright of Boston with 19.

Batting average leaders are Minnesota's Scott Easler .394, Al Kaline (Detroit) .392, Danny Krawczyk (Arizona) .387 and Curtright of Boston is next hitting .381.

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Boston 13 Kansas City 3

Frank Rice won his third straight to start the season going six and a third innings allowing six hits and three runs, walked three and struck out four. The Boston bullpen stood strong the rest of the way with Amos Alcala, Hilton Bell and Lyle Clay pitching two and a third hitless inning (one walk) to preserve the blowout win.

Boston exploded for five runs in the bottom of the second inning. Joe Curtright singled and came around to score on Andy Finnvold's fifth homerun.

(2-0 Boston).

Kansas City stating pitcher Mike Dishman walked Jim Burke and Larry Kling, reserve catcher Mike Gebhardt doubled in both of those runners. (4-0 Boston). itcher Frank Rice's bunt advanced Gebhardt to third base where he scored on a slow bouncing ball hit to third baseman Bob Benton by Scott Bowman.

5-0 Boston.

Rice surrendered two runs on two hits in the top of the second inning. Rice allowed singled by Johnny Gordon and Ed Wilks sandwiched around two walks to Roger Redmond and Mike Raridan. Gordon and Redmond scored on Wilks single.

5-2 Boston.

An error by Redmond at second allowing Crompton to reached in the third inning. Crompton scored on Finnvold second run scoring hit of the gam, a single. Finnvold has been a big surprise in the early going from a spot player to a major contributor.

6-2 Boston.

Boston's defense let them down in the fourth inning. Shortstop Jim Burke made an superb play to rob Carlos Irwin of a hit. Monahan singled and Burke booted a ball hit by Kelleher for and error. Dishman, the pitcher, failed to get a sacrifice bunt down, then blooped a single softly to right field with two strikes scoring Monahan on the play.

6-3 Boston.

Boston extended the lead out to 10-3 in the seventh highlighted by Finnvold's two run homerun (5th) in a five run outburst and another error by Kansas City that let in an unearned run and three more in the eight made the final 13-3 Boston.

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Detroit 7 Minnesota 4

Johnny Moreno (2-0) went six and one-third innings (3 hits 3 runs two earned) for the win that kept Detroit one game behind Boston.

Shortstop Alan Trammel had four hits, scored three runs with two doubles and a stolen base. Second baseman Charlie Gehringer went two for five with a run scored and two runs batted in.

Catcher Bill Freehan had a ninth inning RBI single.
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