Philadelphia Daily News from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 52

IPoundmg ion IPhnk' SpliS 52 PHILADELPHIA OAILY NEWS MONDAY, 21, 1971 1 1 1 urn mutiny i mil no 'I'Q'Hi inn nni hi i ii 1 mn i iiimni a an wmi in in, 'wjnfrn r.nojn1 1 1 mm mii'in mi im i i hi iwm i By BILL CONLIN The Pirates had just edged the Phillies 39-30 in a weekend war that shattered windows as far north as Trenton and Roberto Clemente was lecturing on architecture, meteorology and the art of playing baseball, 000 a year worth. All interested parties take note. stand at home plate in this ball park and you know how you line things up?" Cle-tnerite said after the Phillies won a wild first game 8-4 yesterday and the great rightfield-er carried the Pirates to a 10-9 second game win with a titanic pinch-homer in the eighth. Okay, Clemente is standing at home plate lining things up. "Like when I look at the outfield fence it is at eye level.

drives. "It's a $50 million bandbox," said reliever Darrell Brandon. "Wait'll the ball gets used to carrying here, when it really gets to know its way around," said Chris Short, who was bombed in Saturday's 11-9 cannonade." SOME AWESOME statistics spilled out of the longballing weekend. The Pirates scored 39 runs on 53 hits, 12 of them homers. The Phillies, associated with light-hitting, well-pitched I get the feeling I am looking downhill at the fences.

This is Phillies' llor Scores, Paye 44 the best home run park in the league. Better than Atlanta, which was the best by far. "ANY HITTER has got a chance to hit a home run here. Look at Hernandez. He's a singles hitter and he got it out of here three times so far and made it look easy." It is not good news for pitchers who had the feeling they-were pitching uphill during four games of screaming line WRONG WAY HOME for Larry Bowa was this slide that left him wide of the plate and out in seventh inning of opener.

Bowa tried to score from third on outfield fly, but Pirates' catcher Manny Sanguillen tagged him. Umpire is John Kibler. Photo by W. R. Everly 3d Phillies' Figures games so far this season, erupted for 30 runs and lost three out of four.

Hernandez and Jose Pagan, both Punch and Judy hitters, had two homer games during the set, Pagan driving in five runs with his pair in yesterday's nightcap. The Phillies hit the seventh and eighth ground-rule doubles to deprive them of a run this season in the opener. Willie Stargell, who hammered No. 28 in the opener, flew a shot through an exit tunnel in the upper deck Friday night. Willie Montanez reached the upper deck in the same game.

Clemente's game winner yesterday puts the upper deck in center field within reach for sluggers in the league who hit the ball for more distance than the great Pirate veteran. Clemente's shot off Joe Hoer-ner rattled off the backdrop just below Philadelphia Phil. "I'D BE interested to see where that would have gone in the old Polo Grounds or Yankee Stadium," said Frank Lucchesi, who looked like a BATTING AB HR RBI AV4. 38 12 0 3 .31 318 2 61 6 25 .280 266 36 71 13 46 .267 04 10 22 .256 I It 20 0 7 .247 264 2f 65 12 42 .246 172 10 42 2 16 .244 Pleil McCarvsr Montanf Gambia Marinwi John on ll, iw Frtei Lit Vulovtch MW19V Brawn Rvjn 291 33 64 0 12 .237 226 IS S3 3 22 .235 man emerging from two weeks in a London bomb shelter. "I'm no home run hitter," Clemente said after packing nine innings of excitement and effort into one time at bat and one inning in rightfield.

"I try to make contact. The distance of the home run is not important to me. I have hit the ball 500 feet before. I am more happy about helping win the game with a play in the field." Roger Freed, who is coming alive with the bat at last, drove center fielder Al Oliver to the warning track in center for his high drive in the ninth. Clemente, looking like a 10-yard dash man, was in center field when Oliver caught the ball.

"I am ready to play a ball off the fence," he said. ROBERTO GOT that chance when Byron Browne fired a two-out double to right center. Oliver had trouble playing the carom and there was Clemente flashing from nowhere, taking the ball away from Oliver barehanded and firing a long strike to hold Browne to a double. "That play to me was more important, gave me more pleasure, than the home run," he said. "The homer won the game, but the play in the field might have kept them from winning it." Clemente says that in addition to the modest dimensions of the boundaries and the low outfield fence, wind is an added factor.

"THE OTHER new parks you never feel wind at the field level. Here, even on a day when it is not very windy, you could feel a breeze blowing into the dugout. I never felt this much breeze in a new park." "That's it," said Joe Hoer-ner, "he never would have hit it that far if it wasn't for the wind. There figures to be an armistice in the home-run war tonight. The Mets come in and Gary Gentry will be going against Rick Wise.

Even in a $50 million bandbox there is a limit to what the hitters can accomplish. 03 6 10 0 .220 100 12 13 4 7 .213 61 4 13 9 2 .213 150 14 3: 5 15 .200 36 7 2 3 .104 60 7 12 3 4 .176 PITCHING IP ER BB SO ERA W-L 30.2 30 10 0 33 2.31 3 3 10.2 31 0 21 20 2.61 3-3 113 1 00 37 31 54 2.07 0 4 52 2 SS 21 24 36 3.S7 2-3 111.3 107 47 23 56 3.70 4-6 04 I 103 41 20 40 3.93 4-9 HMrntf Bf jndan Willi Frymin Lftrtch Short Rttynoldt 65.1 54 30 29 40 4.1S 12 Champion 36 34 II 10 13 4.50 0 1 9 4 6 6 4.91 0 1 Selma II Running 03.2 07 40 24 37 5.14 5 9 WiUnn 10.1 11 6 3 5.40 0 2 Palmer 15 13 10 13 4.00 0-0 I ft' 4- WHATS GOING ON HERE? Story on "Clean-U scramble at Veteran's Stadium is on page 44 Photos by W. R. Everly 3d.