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Los Angeles Losers 6 Minnesota Panthers 3

The seventh place Los Angeles losers (-13) and the eighth place Minnesota Panthers (-18) got together for acseries in Minnapolis before a sparce crowd of 4,181 unhappy fans. What's left of the one rampant Minnesota fandom are up in arms at they see what to them as very poor management of a potentially talented team and have loudly voiced their displeasure, many by disguising themselves as empty seats.

Starting pitcher Sam Betzel started for Minnesota and went 5.1 innings gave up five hits and six runs walked three and struck out four. He fell to an unfair 0-9 on the season with a 6.21 ERA over 14 starts (82.2 innings pitched). As he departed with one out in the 5th and one runner on base those in attendance rose to their feet and gave him a standing ovation. Betzel, obviously taken by complete surprised, stopped in his tracks and tipped his cap to the fans.

Minnesota had 3 runs on 9 hits and committed 2 errors.

Los Angeles scored 6 runs on 7 hits and committed 1 error.

Scott Hoffman hit a three run homerun for Los Angeles off Betzel in the 3rd inning 6th allowed by Betzel, first of the season for Hoffman. Los Angerles added two more in the fourth inning on a walk, an error and a run scoring single by Ralph McClain.

Russ Kellert struck out nine over eight innings giving up three runbs on eight hits for the win. Kellert is now 4-6 with 87 strikeouts, 7th in the league.

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Boston Red Hawks 7 Tampa Bay Tanks 1

Boston returned to Boston and thier beloved Fenway Parkon a three game drought. and now four games out of first place. They turned to their twenty-three year old right hander, Chuck Hottmann to stop the bleeding. Hottman went the distance scattering four hits and surrendering just one run. He walked five and struck out six.

Some fine defensive play by shortstop Ted Schrepner in the 1st, 5th and 6th inning helped Hottmann out considerably.

After Ken Cooke singled and Art Washburn walked with one out in the first inning, Schrepner started a 6-4-3 double play that bailed Hottman out of an early jam. In the 5th inning Schrepner robbed Mile Samuel of a possible lead off hit and was back at it again in the 6th turning Cooke's bid for a second hit in the game into a force play on Tito Wilson who had bagged the Tanks second hit off the young right hander.

Cy Welch, the Tampa starter, shutout Boston on just one hit through six innings before the Red Hawks broke through in the seventh with three runs on three hits.

Schrepner had one putout and five assists in the game but also contributed with his bat as well with a two run go ahead single in that three run seventh inning when Boston came back to take a 2-1 lead in the game. John Freed tied the game with a single off Welch in thast inning.

Boston broke it open in the eighth, Gumpert walked, Ducey singled. Jack Wilson replaced Welch for Tampa. Cotton Dorsett singled in Gumpert. Freed singled to center field scoring Ducey.

Boston went on to score two more runs in the inning to build their lead to 7-1, the final score.

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Oakland Athletics 3 Baltimore Birds 2

Glenn Frey struck out ten over nine innings limiting the Baltimore Birds to two runs on five hits amd walking one. Frey is now 7-4.

Ed Santana (4-4) took the loss for Baltimore who fell two games behind first place Detroit with the loss.

Baltimore too a 1-0 lead in the top of the 5th on a solo homerun by Kelvin Dowell. It was Dowell's second of the seaosn and the 10th hit off Frey this season.

Baltimore quickly surrendered the lead in the bottom of the inning, Eric Clapton's RBI single tied the game and Doc Watson hit his second this season and the 12th off Santana to give Oakland a 2-1 lead.

Oakland increased the lead to 3-1 in the 6tgh inning on RBI single by Clapton.

That run proved to be all importants when Baltimore socred a run in the 7th inning on three singles, by Ivery Thoams, Dee Wagner and Bud Zamloch.

Angus Young picked up his league best 18th save with a scoreless 9th inning.

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Detroit Tigers 3 New York Maulers 2

Kenny Rianwater outpitcher Bobby Martinez to give Detroit its fifth straight win and ninth in its last ten games. The win also increased their American League lead to two games over Baltimore.

Rainwater went eight inningsd to put his record for the season at 6-3. He gave up two runs on six hits walked one and struck out six.

Martinez, the loser, went the distance giving up seven hits and three runs, 2 earned he walked four and struck out a season and career high 12 batters.

Detroit scored two in the first inning when thrid baseman Paddy Hujkuk booted a grounder by lead-off batter Davey Santiago and Mike Harris hit Martinez first pitch to him out of the park. It was the fourth homerun for Harris and the tenth surrendered by Martinez.

2-0 Detroit.

New York got one run back in the bottom of the first off Rainwater on three of the six hits he allowed in the game. Singles by Orlando Hinton, Luis Quintan, and Xavier Covington cut Detroit's lead to 2-1.

New York left two men on base in the second inning.A single by Reggie Cabrera and a walk to Dana Hotchett put Rainwater in a jam but a great play by third baeman Bill Stackhouse bailed him out.

In the 5th inning Orlando Chambliss walked, stole second and scored on a double by Davey Santiago to increase Detroit's advantage to 3-1.

Rainwater took complete control retiring seventeen straight batters from second through the seventh innings. That streak was broken up by Dana Hochett's 5th homerun cutting the lead to 3-1 with one out in the seventh. Rainwater recorded five strikeouts over that span.
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