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Wednesday, June 11, 1969 Griffin Daily News
Mets’ Mobile Unit
Spreading Flag Fever
By United Press International
The Mets’ “Mobile Unit" is
spreading pennant fever in New
York.
Tommie Agee and Cleon
Jones, the Mets’ flashy, young
outfielders from Mobile, Ala.,
smashed three home runs and
drove in six runs between them
Tuesday night to lead New
York to a 9-4 triumph over the
San Francisco Giants.
The victory was the Mets’
11th in a row, the longest
streak in the majors this
season, and kept the second
place Mets seven games behind
Chicago in the National
League’s Eastern Division. The
Cubs held on to their lead by
downing Atlanta 3-1.
Elsewhere St. Louis edged
Cincinnati 5-4, Houston beat
Pittsburgh 7-4, Los Angeles
shaded Philadelphia 2-1 and
Montreal whipped San Diego 7-
Standings
By United Press International
National League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Chicago 37 17 .685 ....
New York 29 23 .558 7
Pittsburgh 26 29 .473 ll’/z
St. Louis 26 29 .473 11'/ 2 :
Philadelphia 18 32 .360 17
Montreal 13 37 .279 22
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Atlanta 32 21 .604 ...
Los Angeles 31 22 .585 1
Cincinnati 27 22 553 3
San Francisco 29 24 .547 3
Houston 28 30 .483 6 ! / 2
San Diego 24 34 .414 10>/ 2
Tuesday’s Results
Chicago 3 Atlanta 1, night
St. Louis 5 Cincinnati 4, night
Houston 7 Pittsburgh 4, night
New York 9 San Francisco 4,
night
Los Angeles 2 Philadelphia 1,
night
Montreal 7 San Diego 4, night
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Chicago (Hands 5-5) at
Atlanta (Niekro 9-4), 8:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Torrez 1-3) at
Cincinnati (Merritt 6-2), 8:05
p.m.
Pittsburgh (Blass 5-2) at
Houston (Wilson 5-5), 8:30 p.m.
Montreal (Stoneman 3-8) at
San Diego (Kelly 3-4), 11 p.m.
Philadelphia (Jackson 4-6 or
Johnson 2-6) at Los Angeles
(Osteen 8-4), 11 p.m.
New York (Gentry 5-4) at San
Francisco (Perry 8-5), 4 p.m.
Thursday’s Gaines
Chicago at Atlanta, night
St. Louis at Cincinnati, night
Pittsburgh at Houston, night
Montreal at San Diego, night
Philadelphia at Los Angeles,
night
Leaders
Major League Leaders
By United Press International
National League
G. AB R. H. Pct.
Alou, Pitt 55 242 37 86 .355
Jones, NY 52 194 42 68 .351
McCvy, SF 49 164 42 57 .348
H.Aaron, Atl 53 194 34 67 .345
Johnson, Cin 50 210 36 72 .343
Strgll, Pitt 50 190 32 65 .342
Perez, Cin 50 202 40 68 .337
Menke, Hou 56 195 27 65 .333
Allen, Phil 42 159 36 52 .327
Four tied with .320
American League
G. AB R. H. Pct
Carew, Minn 4 163 33 63 .387
Petrcli, Bos 54 181 35 60 .331
F.Rbnsn, Balt
56 211 46 69 .327
Hwrd, Wash 59 227 40 72 .317
Smith, Bos 44 166 25 52 .313
Oliva, Minn 52 205 27 63 .307
Pwll, Balt 54 189 27 57 .302
Blair, Balt 55 236 45 71 .301
Murcer, NY 55 206 35 62 .301
Began, Sea 43 147 23 44 .299
Home Runs
National League: McCovey,
SF 20; H. Aaron, Atl, May, Cin
and Allen, Phil 15; Wynn, Hou
14.
American League: Petrocelli,
Bos 20; Howard, Wash 18;
Pepitone, NY and Jackson, Oak
17; Yastrzemski, Bos 15.
Runs Batted In
National League: Banks, Chi
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In American League action,
Minnesota downed Boston 6-2,
Chicago stopped Cleveland 9-5,
Detroit blonked Seattle 5-0,
Baltimore walloped California
11-4, Oakland defeated Washing
ton 6-4 and Kansas City
outlasted New York 7-6.
Agee hit a pair of solo
homers, his eighth and ninth of
the season, and Jones slaipmed
a three-run shot in the four-run
seventh inning to spark the
Mets. Agee tied the score at 1-1
with his fourth inning homer
and added another in the ninth
to help Don Cardwell record his
second victory in eight deci
sions.
"It’s been quite a while since
I hit one out of the park,” said
Agee. "It sure feels good.”
"Pitching, defense, base hits,
breaks...that’s what’s doing it
American League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 40 16 .714 ...
Boston 35 19 .648 4
Detroit 28 23 .549 9>/ 2
Washington 29 30 .492 12 l / 2
New York 28 30 .483 13
Cleveland 18 33 .353 19H
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Minnesota 30 23 .566 ...
Oakland 26 24 .520 2>/ 2
Seattle 24 29 .453 6
Chicago 22 28 .440 6>/ 2
Kansas City 24 31 .436 7
California 17 35 .327 12’/ 2
Tuesday’s Results
Minnesota 6 Boston 2 night
Chicago 9 Cleveland 5, night
Detroit 5 Seattle 0, night
Baltimore 11 California 4, night
Oakland 6 Washington 4, night
Kansas City 7 New York 6,
night
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Boston (Nagy 3-0) at Minne
sota (Boswell 7-6), 9 p.m.
Cleveland (Tiant 3-7) vs.
Chicago (Horlen 4-5) at Mil
waukee, 8:30 p.m.
Seattle (Marshall 3-7) at
Detroit (McLain 9-5), 9 p.m.
California (McGlothlin 5-4) at
Baltimore McNally 8-0), 8 p.m.
Oakland (Dobson 5-5) at
Washington (Moore 5-1), 7:30
p.m.
Kansas City (Bunker 2-3) at
New York (Peterson 8-6), 8
p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Oakland at Washington, night
(Only game scheduled)
—
50; McCovey, SF 47; Santo, Chi
42; Allen, Phil 41; Tolan, Cin
39.
American League: Powell,
' Balt and Killebrew, Minn 47;
t Howard, Wash 44; Yastrzemski,
Bos, Horton, Cle and Murcer
J NY 43.
Pitching
National League: Holtzman,
Chi 10-1; Seaver, NY 9-3;
Niekro, Atl and Sutton, LA 9-4;
Four tied with 8.
American League: Culp, Bos
9-3; Stottlemyre, NY 9-4;
McLain, Det 9-5; McNally, Balt
8-0; Peterson, NY 8-6.
Sports Briefs
Sign Portman
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SAN FRANCISCO (UPD—
The San Francisco Warriors
signed forward Bob Portman of
Creighton, their top draft
choice, for the 1969-70 National
Basketball Association season.
' Portman averaged 26.2 points a
game in his senior year and
grabbed 308 rebounds.
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Angotti to Blues
ST. LOUIS (UPD—The St.
Louis Blues acquired center
Lou Angotti from the Pit
tsburgh Penguins Tuesday In a
trade for center Ron Schock
and right wing Craig Cameron.
Angotti scored 17 goals last
season in the National Hockey
League, Schock tallied 12 times
and Cameron netted 11 goals.
Rodgers Called Up
ANAHEIM, Calif. (UPD—The
California Angels called up
catcher Bob Rodgers from their
Hawaii club Tuesday as a two
week replacement for service
bound Tom Egan. Rodgers was
batting .366 for the Pacific
Coast League team when he
was brought up for a series
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Hodges. “We’re finally getting
some runs for our pitchers.
Cardwell signaled to me in the
ninth that he was tired and
after I saw the Giants belt
those two long home runs, I
agreed with him.”
Cardwell, who had three hits,
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scored a run and drove In
another, gave up ninth Inning
homers to Willie McCovey (No.
20) and Jack Hiatt. Ron Taylor
relieved and shut off the
Giants’ rally.
Willie Smith and Ron Santo
hit eighth inning homers to give
the Cubs their victory over the
Braves and hand Ken Holtzman
his 10th triumph in 11 decisions.
Smith, inch-hitting for Holtz
man, tied the score at 1-1 when
he became the first player to
hit a home run into the Atlanta
Stadium upper deck. Al Span
gler was safe on Orlando
Cepeda’s effor and Santo hit his
10th homer with two out. The
victory left the Cubs with a 4-0
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FATHER'S DAY, JUNE 15th,
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record this season against the
Braves, the Western Division
leaders.
Lou Brock led off the game
with a homer to ignite a four-run
rally that carried the Cardinals
past the Reds. Bob Gibson
pitched an eight-hitter and
struck out 11 batters in
boosting his record to 8-3.
Brock’s homer, one of his
three hits, Curt Flood’s triple,
Vada Pinson’s single, a walk
and Julian Javier’s two-run
single scored the four runs in
the first. Pinson doubled home
Brock in the eighth with what
proved to be the deciding run.
Bobby Tolan homered for the
Reds in the eighth to cut the
margin to 5-4, but Gibson
blanked the Reds in the ninth.
Marty Martinez singled in
three runs, including the tie
breaker in the seventh inning,
to lead the Astros over the
Pirates. The victory may have
been a costly one for Houston,
however, since the Astros lost
outfielder Jesus Alou and
Infielder Hector Torres after a
head-on collision in left field in
the third inning.
Alou suffered a severe
concussion and Torres was held
overnight for observation. Both
players were removed from the
field on stretchers,
Martinez, playing for the
slumping Doug Rader, snapped
a 4-4 tie with a two-out single in
the seventh. He earlier had run
producing hits in the third and
fifth innings to score Tom
Griffin, who went all the way to
even his record at 3-3. Al
Oliver, who hit the pop fly on
which the Astro players collid
ed, had a three-run inside-the
park homer on the play.
Ted Sizemore singled in Jeff
Torborg with two out in the
ninth Inning to lift the Dodgers
over the Phillies and hand
Philadelphia its ninth straight
loss.
Sizemore’s bases loaded hit
came after loser Woody Fry
man gave up a double to John
Miller, and walked Torborg and
Ken Boyer. Miller was forced
at the plate before Sizemore’s
game-winning hit.
Don Suttnn went all the way
to record his ninth victory
against four losses. The Phils
scored their lone run in the
fourth on Don Money’s sacrifice
fly.
Don Bosch’s two-run double
highlighted a three-run ninth
inning rally that boosted the
Expos to their victory over the
Padres. Maury Wills singled in
Bosch with the third run. Mack
Jones drove in three for
Montreal, two with his 11th
homers and Nate Colbert hit his
omers and Nate Colbert It Is
12th for the Padres.