RASCHI, YANKS SHUT DOWN TRIBE
N.Y. Reclaims Share of AL Lead
CLEVELAND, Aug. 23 (AP) - The largest Cleveland home crowd of the season since
opening day went home disappointed. Vic Raschi fired a four-hit shutout
and the New York Yankees regained a share of first place in the American League,
defeating the Cleveland Indians by a score of 4-0 at Municipal Stadium.
Raschi now leads the league in wins and strikeouts.
The Yankees jumped on top in the very first inning. Phil Rizzuto started
off the game with a single to center and advanced to second when Joe Collins
drew a walk off Cleveland starter Bob Lemon. Bobby Brown sacrificed the
runners to second and third and the bases filled when Joe DiMaggio took a free
pass. Yogi Berra followed with a fly ball to the warning track in right to
score Rizzuto with what would prove to be the game's winning run.
The Indians threatened in the bottom half of the first when Dale Mitchesll led
off with a single and Bobby Avila advanced him to second with a base on
balls. But Larry Doby rolled into a double play and Harry Simpson bounced
out to second to extinguish the threat. It would prove to be Cleveland's
best scoring opportunity of the game.
The game remained 1-0 until the fifth when the Yankees began a string of three
straight one-run frames. Phil Rizzuto tripled with one out and, after
Collins popped up, Brown came through with a single to right to make it
2-0.
In the sixth, New York pushed across an unearned run. Gil McDougald
reached on an error charged to shortstop Ray Boone and moved to second on Hank
Bauer's single. Raschi then helped his own cause with a run-scoring single
to left.
The Yankees capped the scoring in the seventh when Brown drove a Lemon fastball
into the right field seats, putting New York on top, 4-0.
Raschi, meanwhile, was cruising. The Indians didn't advance a runner past
second base after the first inning and the only extra base hit they managed was
a harmless two-out double off Al Rosen's bat in the seventh. The Yankees
right-hander walked only two while fanning seven.
The two teams will meet again tomorrow with sole possession of first place on
the line. A crowd of better than 50,000 is anticipated.
8/23/1951, NYA51-Cle51, Cleveland Municipal Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1951 Yankees 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 9 0 7 3 1951 Indians 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 3 0 Yankees AB R H BI AVG Indians AB R H BI AVG Rizzuto ss 5 2 3 0 .298 Mitchell lf 4 0 1 0 .356 Collins 1b 4 0 0 0 .281 Avila 2b 3 0 1 0 .283 Brown,B 3b 3 1 2 2 .266 Doby cf 4 0 0 0 .283 DiMaggio,J cf 3 0 0 0 .271 Simpson 1b 3 0 0 0 .273 Berra c 4 0 0 1 .284 Rosen 3b 2 0 1 0 .251 Woodling lf 4 0 1 0 .309 Kennedy,Bo rf 3 0 0 0 .240 McDougald 2b 4 1 1 0 .251 Brissie p 0 0 0 0 .296 Bauer rf 4 0 1 0 .366 Boone ss 3 0 1 0 .238 Raschi p 4 0 1 1 .224 Hegan c 3 0 0 0 .238 35 4 9 4 Lemon p 2 0 0 0 .295 Chapman rf 1 0 0 0 .163 28 0 4 0 Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Raschi W 16-7 9.0 4 0 0 2 7 128 83 3.73 9.0 4 0 0 2 7 128 83 Indians INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Lemon L 15-9 7.0 8 4 3 2 4 119 71 3.13 Brissie 2.0 1 0 0 0 2 23 17 4.18 9.0 9 4 3 2 6 142 88 Cle: Chapman inserted at rf in the 8th E-Boone. 2B-Rosen(29). 3B-Rizzuto(5). HR-Brown,B(7). RBI-Brown,B 2(35), Berra(81), Raschi(9). K-Collins 2, Berra, Woodling, Bauer, Raschi, Mitchell, Doby, Rosen, Kennedy,Bo, Hegan 2, Lemon. BB-Collins, DiMaggio,J, Avila, Rosen. SH-Brown,B. GWRBI: Berra Temperature: 62, Sky: clear, Wind: in from left at 6 MPH. Attendance: 47,447 Game Time: 2:12