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write ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SECTION MONDAY, JULY 9, 1973 Willie 's Sutrodcay Putrich Sends ledboras 'mm By Ned Rosso CM the Post-Dispatch Staff LOS ANGELES, July 8 That was an unusual turning point for a baseball game a batter being hit by a pitch in a scoreless third inning that left his team with a 2-0 deficit. The turning point developed because Garry Maddox, who was hit by the pitch, was replaced by Willie McCovey. And McCovey, though benched because of a .236 batting average, proved he could still be mighty by leading the San Francisco Giants past the Cardinals, 5-4, yesterday at Candlestick Park. McCovey didn't hit any home runs this time, but he had three successive singles and figured strongly in four of the Giants' five runs as they averted a three-game sweep by the Redbjrds.

In the fifth inning, McCovey singled with twb out and came around on singles by Ed Goodson and Gary Matthews. Then, in the Sixth, after the Giants had filled the bases on two walks and an infield hit, McCovey singled two runs home. The third San 'Francisco run in the sixth, which gave the Giants a 4-2 lead, also came through the efforts of Big Willie. He blocked out shortstop Mike Tyson, who tried to complete a double play on a Goodson grounder to second baseman Ted Sizemore, as a run scored. The Cardinals tied the score at 4-4 in the seventh, but the Giants came back with the deciding run in the same inning.

Gary Thomasson greeted reliever Wayne Granger with a double" and stopped at third on a single by Chris Speier. Chris Arnold, a pinch-hitter, got a reprieve when first baseman Tim McCarver dropped his pop foul, and then he hit a sacrifice fly. But that made only two out, and Bobby Bonds took some heat off McCarver with a single. Rich Folkers had relieved Granger after Speier's hit, and Granger wound up with the defeat. After McCovey had helped keep the second-place Cardinals 4V2 games behind the Chicago Cubs in the National League Eastern Division, he was asked whether he felt he had something to prove to Giants manager Charlie Fox in the game.

"After 13 years in the game, I don't think I have to prove anything to anybody," McCovey said. "If they (the Giants) don't think I can do it, go ask the opposition See what they say." Said opposition manager Red Schoendienst of the 35-yar-old McCovey, "Any time that guys has a bat in his hands, he's dangerous. I had said he might come out of it before we got out of town." Cardinals coach Vern Benson also feels that MoCbvey is far from being finished. Benson said McCovey could be a big factor in future pennant races if the National League joins the Americans with a designated-hitter rule. McCovey's two-run single finished Rick Wise, but the righthander had been well on his way out.

Besides allowing 10 hits, he walked three batters and hit one. Wise, much wilder than usual, postponed his fate by throwing a called third strike past Goodson with the bases loaded and two out in third inning, and doing the same with Speier in the fifth. "It was inevitable," Wise said, "You can't keep putting too many men on base inning after inning. I rushed myself on too many pitches, and you hate to come inside too much on left-handed batters in this park (Candlestick)." The Cardinals, who had won six of seven and 10 of their last 13, stranded 11 runners to 14 for the Giants. And the Redbirds did not die easily.

Sizemore led off the ninth with a single off Elias Sosa. Then McCarver, who hit the ball hard five times but wound up with just two hits, lined hard to left. Joe Torre followed with a probable double-play grounder to Speier, but the overanxious shortstop fumbled and dropped the ball, then threw poorly to first base. He could have been charged with two errors instead of one on the play, because Sizemore made it to third base. With Ted Simmons at bat and only one out, the Cardinals' hopes of sweeping the series brightened.

But Simmons lasted just three pitches, striking out on a very low pitch, and Jose Cruz, after battling Sosa, flied out. The Cardinals could not have had a much better situation runners on first and third, and the dangerous Simmons, TURN TO PAGE 3, COL. 1 Sunday Slump angers Catch Bernie CARDINALS BROKEN JAW. Montreal's Tim Foli holds his jaw, which was broken in a collision yesterday with Houston's Bob Watson at second base during a game at Montreal. (4) RRI PO Trying to help out after the collision were umpire Andy Olsen and Expos second baseman Ron Hunt.

The collision came in the fourth inning. (AP Wirephoto) AR 1 1 0 In Undercover Role Foil's Fall Brings Soft-Drink Shower 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Brock If Sizemore 2b McCarver It) Torre 3t Simmons Cruz cf Carbo rf Tyson 88 Wise Hrabosky rwyer ph Granger Folkers Melendez ph Sgul Totals From I'ost-Dlspatrh News Services MONTREAL, July 9 The ground rules at Montreal's Jar- 36 4 10 4 24 7 on a y. He gave up eight hits in 3 1-3 innings five in the third, including White's two-run homer. Stottlemyre, who has won four of his last five decisions and is 11-7 overall, walked four and struck out two in beating Minnesota for the third time this season. cials said his job was to watch for home runs so he knows when to release the balloons.

Herzog wasn't buying. He charged onto the field in the third inning of the second game of the doubleheader and play was stopped for five minutes while the umpires made like detectives. Bill Haller, the head GIANTS (Si AB RHI PO 4 1 Bonds rf Fuentes 2b Maddox cf Carrlthers pr McCovey lb Phillips pr-3b Goodson 3t Howarth pr-cf Matthews If Thorriasson lb-cf Speier ss Rader Bradley Arnold ph Sosa umpire, finally ordered every- i one out of the tower but Bernie. AngelS oweep Haller said he would file a re Richie Scheinblum drilled a reer mark of 714 home runs before the end of the current season. Did Aaron feel that Stone, a former teammate on the Braves for five seasons, grooved the ball to make it easy for his old friend? "I don't even get balls down the middle to hit in batting practice any more," said Aaron, who hit a change-up for a homer in the fourth inning and belted a fast ball in the sixth.

In the eighth, facing reliever Jim MoAndrew, Aaron walked on four pitches. Padres Squeeze Cubs If Dwain Anderson thought he was surprised, imagine how the Chicago Cubs must have felt. With Anderson, a .136 hitter, at the plate and the score tied 2-2 in the bottom of the eighth, San Diego Padres manager Don Zimmer 1 a the squeeze bunt sign, even though there were two strikes. "When I looked over at Zimmer and saw the bunt sign, I did a double-take," said From Post-Dispatch Pttw Serrlces MILWAUKEE, July 9 -Manager Whitey Herzog felt a little "bugged" yesterday and not just because his Texas Rangers had 1 a doubleheader, 6-4 and 7-3, to the i 1 a Brewers. Herzog said he suspected the Brewers, who have scored a team-record total of 30 runs in their last three games, were aided by a couple of varmints stealing Rangers signs from a small chalet high in the center-field bleachers.

"I suspected something yesterday when they got those 17 runs," Herzog said. "Hell, this, is the same team as last year and they didn't hit like that then. That Bob Cohltcio looked like Joe DiMaggio. "Now, I couldn't figure out why that guy had no white gloves on when we bat but put them on when they come to bat. Then he'd clap like hell every time we called for a breaking pitch.

He called the right pitch six times in a row." The chalet, a promotional gimmick, is manned by a young employe nicknamed "Bernie Brewer," who skids down a 40- Anderson then put down a perfect bunt, driving in the go-ahead run and the Padres went on to a 4-2 victory over the Eastern Division-leading Cubs, who didn't lose any ground because all six Eastern teams lost yesterday. Pirates' Giusti Loses Pittsburgh relief ace Dave Giusti suffered his first defeat in more than a year when he served up a home run to Willie Davis in the twelfth inning at Los Angeles, giving the Dodgers a 3-2 victory over the Pirates. Giusti, now 5-1 this season, had not lost since May 27, 1972, when he was beaten by the Philadelphia Phillies. Whitewash For Reds Jack Billingham fired his fifth shutout of the season high in the National League as he pitched the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-0 victory over the Phillies at Philadelphia. Johnny Bench's two-run single in the second supplied all the offense Billingham needed as he stretched his record to 12-5, allowing only four hits.

Mets Reactivate Bud Harrelson NEW YORK, July 9 (AP) The New York Mets reactivated shortstop Bud Harrelson yesterday and placed outfielder George Theodore on the disabled list for the rest of the baseball season. Harrelson had been sidelined since June 4, when he suffered a broken bone in his left hand in a game in Cincinnati. Theodore suffered a dislocated right hep Saturday in an outfield collision with 'Don Hahn and will in traction for several weeks. ry no one was hurt. Pitcher George Stone had his pride damaged, however, when he dished up a pair of home runs to Atlanta's Hank Aaron as the Braves the Mets their seventh loss in eight games, 4-2.

Aaron's homers boosted his totals to 23 for the season and 696 for his career, putting him at a pace that would result in his breaking Babe Ruth's ca Totals 37 5 15 5 27 8 CARDINALS 200 OOO 200 4 SAX IIUXCBfO 000 013 101 5 McCarver, Goodson, Bradley, Speier. DP San Francisco 1. Left Cardinals 11, San Francisco 14. 2B Torre, Simmons. Thomasson.

3B Dwyer. Wise, Sizemore, ry Park were amended yesterday to include "Ball striking -d i can is automatic out." National League umpire Shag Crawford added that to the rules after angry Montreal Expos fans showered Houston Astros left fielder Bob Watson with abarrageof soft-drink cans. The fans were upset because Montreal shortstop Tim Foli had suffered a broken jaw in a collision with Watson. "There was nothing I could do about it," said Watson, who crashed into Foli in an attempt to break up a fourth-inning double play. "I was protecting my--self.

I was running hard and suddeniy he was right in front of me. I hit him with my forearm when I saw we were going to hit. I'm sorry he was injured on the play. "Some of the guys (on the bench) said he was trying to flip me. I don't know.

I was just going for the bag. But I was told he ran over (New York's John) Milner in a run Bradley. H-' Simmons, Arnold. IP BR BB SO 5 Mi 0 1 1 Wise H-abosky Granger IL, 2-3) Folkers iSegui Bradley (W, 8-7) port on the affair with American League president Joe Cron-in. "Can you i a i a team that has to cheat to beat us?" Herzog said.

"But I don't blame them. I'd do it 'myself if I could, but we have no place to put a guy like that at our park. Maybe we should put a Texas Ranger or something out there in our park and have him shoot a gun or something when a curveball is coming." George Scott collected three hits, including a home run, and drove in two runs in the nightcap for Milwaukee. The Brewers took the opener on a three-run homer by John Briggs in the first inning and a two-run blast by Dave May, who also homered in the second game. 7 8 4 2 2 0 sosa 4 2 4 0 12 batters In KBP By Granger pitched to two 7th.

Save Sosa (7). Wise (Maddox). PB 2:53, A 19,212. two-run homer over the center-field fence in the tenth inning to give the California Angels a 5-3 victory and a doubleheader sweep over the Indians in Cleveland. Bob Oliver belted a three-run homer and Bill Singer scattered eight hits in i i up his fourteenth victory of the season as the Angels took the opener, KM.

The victories moved California within two games of the first-place Oakland A's in the American League Western Division. Goat To Hero Making up for grounding into a triple play Saturday, Gene Tenace stroked a leadoff homer in the tenth inning yesterday to give Oakland a comeback, 6-5 victory over the Orioles in Baltimore. The homer was Te-nace's fourteenth of the season. And he also singled to end a Jong batting slump. Tigers Triumph In Kansas City, Mike Strahler and relief ace John Hiller combined for a nine-hit shutout and Aurelio Rodriguez, Willie Morton and Mickey Stanley delivered run-scoring hits as the De down and (Pittsburgh's Manny) Sanguillen, too.

Foli was carried from the Twins Zeroed field on a stretcher and will be VINCEL'S BIG out of action for at least a month. By the end of the gam Houston's Tommy Helms had Indians Agree To Peace Treaty CLEVELAND, July 9 (AP) Cleveland Indians manager Ken Aspromonte says that he has 1 1 1 his differences with center fielder George Aspromonte fined Hendrick (reportedly $300) and benched him' Saturday after accusing Hendrick of loafing during a ninth-inning rally by the California Angels on Friday night that put their game into extra innings. The Indians won, 8-7. "As far as I'm concerned the issue is settled, since George and I talked things out," Aspromonte said. He said that he met with Hendrick and that the center fielder apologized.

foot slide into a large imitation beer stein after a Milwaukee home run. Another young employe stays in the stein and maintains a supply of balloons, which he sends out of the top after Milwaukee homers and victories. Herzog claimed that the one usually in the stein had climbed into the chalet to watch the Texas catcher with binoculars. Bernie Brewer, wearing easy-to-see white gloves, then flashed the Texas pitching signs to the Milwaukee hitters. The Brewers didn't deny there was someone out there with spyglasses.

But team offi In Bloomington, Roy White and Thurman Munson homered, Matty Alou drove in three runs and Mel Stottlemyre checked the Minnesota Twins on four hits to lead the New York Yankees to a 7-0 victory over the Twins and bonus rookie Eddie Bane. Bane, a lefthander drafted out of Arizona State University last month, was making his second major league start after hurling seven strong innings to no decision against Kansas City replaced Watson as the Expos' No. 1 enemy. Helms's bases-loaded singk in the top of the ninth drove ir the winning runs as the Astro triumphed, 9-7, with Jerrj Reuss, in a rare relief role picking up his eleventh victor) of the season. Aaron 'Hurts' Mets At New York, the injury-riddled Mets scored a moral victc- troit Tigers defeated the Royals, 3-0.

Strahler raised his record to 3-2 while Hiller oicked up his Sale! mo DON'T ORDER OR BUY A NEW 1974 CAR Until You Check Our Money Saving AUTO-LEASE PLAN! twentieth save of the season. Boston Tea Party Bob Montgomery's grand-slam home run in the top of the tenth inning highlighted a nine-run uprising by the Boston Red Sox as they defeated the White Sox, 11-2, in the second game of a drAibleheader after dropping the opener to Steve Stone, 6-1, in, Chicago. Apollos Win, 7-4, On Child's Play ATLANTA, Jury 9 (AP) -Paul Child kicked in four goals yesterday in leading the Atlanta 37 AVAILABLE 73 LESABRE CUSTOM 4-dr. Colonial yellow, dark brown vinyl top, power and factory air conditioning. Stock 38.

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