Three's a crowd at the top of the AL

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basilrathbonejr
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Three's a crowd at the top of the AL

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Oakland has put itself in the midst of the American League pennant race by winning eight of its last ten games in a streak that actually goes back firther than that. Washington and Seattle have helped them out by slumping over the same period barely playing .500 baseball.

Let's get to the games.

Washington 7 Los Angeles 4

Washington picked up a win on the road in Los Angeles and thus stayed in first place by one game.

Edwin Umbarger led off the game with his first homerun of the season coming off Los Angeles Jeff Williams. Washington added three runs in the inning one coming on a bases loaded walk to Robinson Rodriquez and two more coming in on a single by hot hitting catcher Aubrey Smith.

Rodriguez drove in Tom Simmons, on with a double, in the 3rd, and Umbarger connected on his second of both the game and season in the 6th inning putting Washington ahead 6-1.

Texas got two in the 4th and another in the 7th when starting pitcher Colby Baines faltered bringing in Joe Baker, with one out. Baker allowed the one inherited run to score but nothing else getting Washington out of the inning with the lead.

Washington backup catcher Aubrey Smith hit a solo homerun in the 8th to provide the final score of 7-3. Bill Bullinger got the final out getting Catfish Carlson to fly out to center fielder Jayhawk Wiley to pick up his 19th save.

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Oakland 2 Los Angeles 1

Bob Peters, 7-4, went eight innings for the win; 8 innings 4 hits 1 run (earned) 2 walks 6 strikeouts.

Wally Partee earned his 6th save. Dasher Martin took the loss falling to 4-4.

Oakland tied the game in the 4th and took the lead they never relinguished in the 5th on a singe by Emil Barron.

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Detroit 8 Seattle 4

Dixie Walker homered for Seattle in the first and 9th innings but the Pilots were handily outscpored in the interim.

Detroit scored three in the 6th to take a 3-1 lead. Ben Gumbert had a run scoring single and Steve Donovan drove in two with another single.

Kirt Krug drove in another run and Ramon Thomson hot a three run homerun in in the 4 run 8th that gave the winners a 7-2 advantage in route to the 8-4 final.

Phil Gibson went 8.1 innings for the win.
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