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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 30, 1975
Page 18
Dodgers rout Braves, 8-0
By JIM COUR
UPI Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — For
a team that is supposed to be
limping, the Los Angeles
Dodgers are showing surprising
early speed in the National
Grandma’s Pig,
Garment win
Grandma’s Pig beat Jim and
Joe’s 13-11 and Griffin Garment
stopped Bank of Griffin 21-8
yesterday in the CL of the
Griffin Little League.
Randy Peters was the win
ning pitcher. Rusty Jones and
Joe Maddox pitched for Jim and
Joe’s.
Peter doubled for Grandma’s
Pig and Wade Tarleton singled.
Parrish Morgan hit two
doubles and a single for Jim and
Joe’s Marty Bradford had two
singles, Marshall Woodall and
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League West.
Beset by a series of first
month injuries that would ruin
most big league teams, the
Dodgers have won six in a row
and 14 out of 22 in April for a
lead of 2 V 4 games in their
Joe Maddox doubled.
Rodney Harris was Griffin
Garment’s winning pitcher.
Steve Jones and Russ Green
way pitched for Bank of Griffin.
Donnie Gresham hit a double
and two singles for Griffin
Garment. Otis Morris had a
double and single, Charlie
Horton and Reginald Lindsey
doubled and Mike Windam, Ray
Young and Danny Pryor
singled.
Gene Rivers doubled for Bank
of Griffin.
division race.
“I like our ball club very
much,” said Andy Messers
mith. “We’ve handled our
adversity very, very effec
tively.” ’
With regulars Bill Russell
and Bill Buckner still on the
shelf, the Dodgers collected 14
hits, including National League
MVP Steve Garvey’s first home
run of the season, to beat the
Atlanta Braves 8-0 Tuesday
night.
Messersmith pitched a seven
hitter for his 18th major league
shutout.
“I think we have an excellent
pitching staff,” added the 29-
year-old righthander. “We have
the veterans like Don Sutton
and myself. We have Doug
Rau, who is a semi-veteran who
will get better as the season
goes along.
“And we have a youngster
like Rick Rhoden, who really
has no pressure on him because
no one expects him to be
perfect game in and game
out.”
Messersmith singled in the
Dodgers’ first two runs in the
second and fourth innings,
giving him seven hits for the
season, and was brilliant on the
mound after giving up three
hits in the first two innings.
He struck out seven and
didn’t walk a batter in notching
his eighth straight National
League triumph and his fourth
this year.
“I felt good from the second
inning on,” Messersmith asses
sed. “I didn’t make any
mistakes and I stayed ahead of
the hitters. The big thing was
that I didn’t walk anybody.”
Os his hitting, he remarked,
“I don’t like to embarrass
myself. I always manage to
take extra batting practice on
the days when I’m not
pitching.”
Willie Crawford homered with
a one on off Braves’ starter
Buzz Capra in the fifth inning
and Garvey capped a four-run
Los Angeles sixth with a three
run blast off reliever Max
Leon.
Garvey now has hit safely in
all but two of the Dodgers’ 22
games and his 37 hits and 17
RBIs are tops in the league.
In the series finale tonight,
Los Angeles will go with Doug
Rau, 2-1, against righthander
Carl Morton, 5-0, the ace of the
Braves’ staff.
CONTRACT AGREEMENT
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
The Philadelphia Eagles an
nounced Tuesday a contract
agreement with former All-
America defensive lineman
Rich Glover.
Eagles General Manager Jim
Murray said Glover will report
to the Eagles veteran camp at
Veteran’s Stadium Wednesday.
Glover, 6-1, 240 pounds, was
released by the Giants late in
the 1974 training season and
finished that season with
Houston-Shreveport of the
World Football League.
Sports Briefs
By United Press International
DEAL COMPLETED
CHICAGO (UPI) — The
Chicago Cubs completed an
April 6 deal sending pitcher
Jim Todd to the Oakland A’s
today with the acquisition of
outfielder-first baseman John
Summers from the A’s Tucson
farm team.
Cubs Manager Jim Marshall
said Summers was obtained for
left-handed hitting bench
strength. Outfielder Gene Hiser
was optioned to Wichita to
make room for Summers.
DH LEADER
NEW YORK (UPI) — Jim
Rice, the Boston Red Sox’ 23-
year-old rookie who was Minor
League Player of the Year in
1974, leads all American
League designated hitters with
a .286 average through Mon
day’s games, the AL office
announced Tuesday.
Rice hit .337 with 25 home
runs and 93 RBIs with
Pawtucket of the International
League last season.
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The eastern division baseball title in the Southeastern
Conference remains up in the air today.
Tennessee and Georgia the two contenders split a
1 double header at Knoxville, Tenn., yesterday with
§ Georgia blanking the Vols 2-0 in the first game. Tennessee
I took the nightcap with a score of 7-3 after two overtime
innings.
Georgia’s Mickey Register gave up only two hits in
| picking up the first win.
Georgia is now 10-4 in the League while Tennessee is 7-5.
Georgia
Georgia’s Ted Deiter is the top hitter in Southeastern
| Conference baseball. Deiter has a .418 average for the
1975 season according totheS.E.C. Commissioner’s office
| in Birmingham. Deiter has been used primarily as a
| designated hitter. He has made 67 trips to the plate,
scored 17 runs on 28 hits and accounted for 13 other runs on
R-B-IS.
He is followed closely by Tennessee players Condredge
Holloway, Rick Honeycutt and Tom West.
The league’s top pitcher is Pat Moock of LSU. Moock is
unbeaten in eight appearances and has an earned run
average of 1.93.
i Shorter
Shorter College has closed its 1975 baseball season with
a 26-3 shellacking of Berry at Rome.
Adding to the offensive fireworks was Shorter’s Vaughn
Robbins who hit a three-run homer. Robbins played only
five innings at first base. He was relieved by freshman
Blaine Biddle who came through with a double and a triple
to score four runs.
Shorter’s season mark is 33-3 and will begin District 25
NAIA playoffs next Sunday at Rome.
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Here are the results of Southern League games played
last night: Montgomery 6 Orlando 3, Birmingham 8
Jacksonville 1.
j Braves
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Despite a string of injuries, the Los Angeles Dodgers
have now won their last six ball games and 14 of the 22
they have played so far this year.
Hie latest victim was the Atlanta Braves who fell in an
shutout at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last night.
The series concludes tonight with the Dodgers ahead 2- §|
0. Doug Rau will go to the mound for Los Angeles and Carl
Morton will pitch for Atlanta.
Dodgers winning
despite injuries
By United Press International
“When I go to the plate,”
said Los Angeles hurler Andy
Messersmith, “I don’t like to
embarrass myself.”
Well Andy, don’t worry.
The only people embarrassed
Tuesday night were the Atlanta
Braves when Messersmith
pitched a seven-hit shutout and
knocked in the first two Los
Angeles runs to pace the
Dodgers to an 8-0 rout.
He ran his record to 4-0 with
his 18th major league shutout.
Messersmith gave himself the
lead with a single in the second
inning that scored batterymate
Steve Yeager, then made the
score 2-0 with a single in the
fourth after Rick Auerbach’s
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double.
Willie Crawford and National
League MVP Steve Garvey
then combined to make the
game a runaway.
Crawford slammed his second
homer of the season with
Garvey aboard after a single in
the fifth inning. Garvey, who
has hit safely in 20 of the
Dodgers’ 22 games and is
fourth in the league in hitting
with a .374 average, rapped his
first homer of the year with
Dave Lopes and Lee Lacy on
base in the sixth inning.
“This is really a good team
effort,” Messersmith said, after
the Dodgers’ sixth straight win
put them 2% games ahead of
Atlanta in the NL West.