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Ml Monday, Oct. 9, 72 DETROIT FREE PRESS Gzx Ofiifiil its imm 7DJ1HH OFF While Stock Lasts Reds Trip Bucs, To Even Playoff Series LQ7P nnininnl pmuinmmitl BY CHARLIE VINCENT Pree Press Sports Wrlltr PITTSBURGH Sparky Anderson has declared his Cincinnati Reds champions of all the National League. Bill Virdon isn't buying that. But the slender rookie manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates admits his Bucs have their work cut out for them after losing to Cincinnati, 5-3, Sunday afternoon. The best-of-five series resumes in Cincy's Riverfront Stadium Monday afternoon (2 p.m.

Detroit time) and Virdon wanted to take a two game lead there with him. "Sure, I think It was important for us to get a two game jump on them," he said in the Pirate dressing room after Sunday's loss. "But now that we're 1-1, I'm happy with that. We could be 0-2, you know. "But I'll tell you something if Cincinnati thinks they've got it wrapped up now, they've got another thing coming." ANDERSON predicted Sunday's game would be the turning point one way or another even before his Big Red Machine jumped on Pirate starter Bob Moose for five hits and four runs in the first inning.

"If we win today, we're gonna win this thing," Sparky had said. And he repeated it after the victory. "I'm not popping off or anything," he cautioned, "but I've seen this ball club when they've seemed dead and they always bounce back." Anderson, who was ejected from Saturday's series opener after a run-in with umpire Ken Burkha'rt, held a brief team meeting before Sunday's game. "I told them that just because I made a fool of myself yesterday, I didn't want anybody else to do today," he said. They didn't.

Instead they made a mess of Moose. He never retired a batter. Peter Rose led off the first inning with a singe, Joe Morgan singled him along, Bobby Tolan doubled them both home but failed to score on Johnny Bench's double to center. Tony Perez doubled both of them in with a slicing shot down the rightfield line. Virdon replaced Moose Before he could give up a triple.

Bob Johnson and Bruce Kison held the Reds in check while the Pirates began pecking away at Cincy starter. Jack Dillingham. A double by Oliver the warn Firestone Deluxe Champion Sup Belt LOWEST PRICE EVER! LUSWL.UK I ItlUL if I III WXC-. I Odom Puts hero of Saturday's Pirate win and a single by Milt May pushed across one Pittsburgh run in the fourth. r--iTW7 rWFJt.

LiB JL W-. lasMssWM a Joe Falls SsJZ '0iT-rT-i5 TWVv Vi i i ii 1 II1 -Jail Ti lsersm Hole, 5-0 GENE ALLEY made it 4-2 in the fifth, when he reached first after being hit by a pitch, took second on pinch-hitter Bill Mazeroski's single, went to third on a single by Oliver and scored on an infield out by Clemente. The Pirates pulled to within one run in the sixth. Manny Sanguillen, pinch hitting for May, doubled and Dave Cash singled him home. Then the littlest cog In the Big Red Machine Joe Morgangave Cincy a little breathing room, slapping his second homer in as many days over the rightfield fence.

After being told the ball hit the top of the fence before bounding over, the 5-foot, 7- i jl! Continued from First Sports but if the game ever needed a quick, firm decision, it was by the American League president after Sunday's game. It's always been my feeling that the pitchers have all the' best of it in these situations. They can throw a very hard object at a batter and throw it at some very vital parts of his body and the batter can't do much about it. He can go out to the mound and fight but that's a njan-to-man confrontation. He doesn't have the advantage of using an extra weapon on his This is not to say anyone should throw his bat.

But let's be fair about it. What is the difference really in throwing a baseball or a bat? Both can maim. Batters have been known to die when hit with baseballs. The problem is: Who can ever be sure when a pitcher is deliberately throwing at a batter? The line you always hear is: "How can I read his mind?" That's true. But pitchers do deliberately throw at batters again and, again and again.

It has become a part of the ritual of baseball. A pitcher gets angry and he takes it out by throwing at the batter. Is the batter supposed to stand there and take it? This is -one of the insoluable inequalities of this game of, baseball. There is no way anyone can justify a batter throwing his bat. It isn't part of the tradition of the game.

But I'll be honest I've always been surprised that more batters haven't hurled their bats. Numb Foot Idles Eddie Briiikman inch, 160-pound second base- Continued from First Sports really mattered when he singled to start the first inning. Campy stole second off Fryman then he swiped third and finally he scored on Joe Rudi's single. The As, who lost in three straight to Baltimore in last fall's playoff, erupted for four more runs in the fifth, finishing Fryman and Chris Zachary as well before Fred Scherman got out of the inning. George Hendrick started the inning with a pinch single, and Odom sacrificed him along.

Base hits by Campaneris and Matty Alou resulted in one run and left Oakland runners at first and second. And when Zachary let go of a pair of wild pitches while walking Rudi, the A's had a three-run lead. REGGIE JACKSON did the rest with a two-run double that was worth an extra base when Dick McAuliffe, starting at shortstop for the first time this season, botched the relay. But all that was overshadowed by the Campernis Incident. Somehow the whole ball-game seemed secondary.

Secondary but where It counts. Bat or no bat, the Tigers still have their backs squarely up against that proverbial wall. man said: "I don't know where I hit it but I was sure glad to see it go out. We hadn't scored since jthe first inning and they, were beginning to peck away at us. You can't let a team do that." WITH TH AT added cushion, reliever Tom Hall a lefthan-d incidently whipped through the final six Pirates, striking out Oliver who ate up southpaw Don Gullett Saturdayto end the game.

So they'll start all over again Monday in Cincinnati, where they're assured of even large crowds than they drew here. Sunday's overflow turnout of 50,584 gave the ma two-game total of 101,060. It'll be capacity at Riverfront, too, when the Reds' Nolan (15-5) attempts to put Cincy ahead for the first time. Nelson Briles (14-11) will be Pittsburgh's starter. iN nLiil E'err YOUR SIZE A -A T1 ViliiiVi- Pfll WTLTR k0 A7.13S.0O-13' F78-14 (7.75-14) E78-15 (7.35-15) 1 Ml 41 V-'J'v Ti, Vi rUUII.Ule.ll 0 G78 14 (8 25-14) F78 15 (7.7515) 1 JS.1 i ZS ijT C78-14 (6.95-14) H78-14 18)5-14).

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But Saturday, in the Tigers' 3-2 11-inning loss to the A's, the injury really made its presence felt. A couple of times at the plate, his left ankle turned, over when he swung the bat and he couldn't understand why. Then, in the eighth Inning, running out a double to right-center, he suddenly realized he didn't have complete control over his left foot. He has lost between 25 and 30 percent of the feeling in his foot. Brinkman saw a doctor Sunday morning and was told he could play, provided he felt up to it.

But when he tried to go to his left on a couple ground balls before the game, he discovered he couldn't do it. BRINKMAN WILL SEE more doctors at Ford Hospital in Detroit Monday but until he hears otherwise manage Billy Martin isn't counting on Eddie anymore this year. "It's bad very bad," admitted Martin, "But what choice do I have I've just got to go with what I've got." McAuliffe was an all-star shortstop in 1965 and 1966 before he moved back to his original position, second base, in 1967. But an Eddie Brinkman at shortstop, he's not Mac would be the first to admit it. HBP by Billingham (Alley).

B.Johnson. 2:43. A 50,584 BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Spor's Writer OAKLAND Eddie Brink-man, slumped over on his stool, his back to the rest of the room, his face buried in his hands. For the first time this season, somebody else started at shortstop for the Tigers Sunday and in their most important game yet this year, too. Brinkman without a doubt the most valuable, the most indispensible Tiger is apparently done for the year.

The skinny shortstop, who started every game this season, was sidelined with a strange numbness in his left foot, probably caused by a disc pinched against a nerve in hfs back. THE TIGERS immediately sought permission to remove Brinkman from their 25-man playoff squad and replace him with Frank ft a d. But American League president Joe Cronin rejected that request before Sunday's game with the Oakland A's because Howard is a first baseman, not a shortstop. Dick McAuliffe opened at short Sunday and probably will do so for the duration of the Tigers' post-season tour. Not playing Sunday the low-e moment in Brinkman's life.

He sat in front of his locker, studying the styrofoam cup half full of coffee in his hands, and tried to translate what he was feeling into words. "Eleven years I've played 11 years I finally get into the playoffs and something like this has to happen," said Brinkman softly. "It's the worst thing that could have possibly happened. I finally I Mr ijjf 1 Blsokwalle. All prices plus 37' to 67c per tils Fed.

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