O'S OUTLAST A'S IN BATTLE OF THE SOLO HR
Clubs Belt 7 Longballs Between Them
KANSAS CITY, June 1 (AP) - The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Athletics
combined for seven home runs--all of them of the solo variety--in Baltimore's
5-3 victory at Municipal Stadium. The roundtrippers were hit by seven
different players with the Orioles coming out on top in the home run hitting
contest, 4-3, as well as the game's final score.
The contest's only run that was not scored as a direct result of a home run was
its first. In the top of the second, facing A's starter Aurelio Monteagudo
(0-5), Brooks Robinson led off for Baltimore with a single to left and moved to
second when Boog Powell followed by grounding a base hit into right field.
Willie Kirkland's weak grounder to short advanced the runners 90 feet and Dick
Brown's ground ball to shorstop Wayne Causey scored Robinson to give the Orioles
a 1-0 lead.
Baltimore doubled its advantage in the third on the game's first home run.
Sam Bowens hit his fourth homer of the year just inside the left field foul pole
to put Baltimore on top, 2-0. Robinson's homer to left--his sixth longball
of the season--leading off the fourth gave the Orioles a 3-0 lead.
Kansas City got on the board against Baltimore starter Wally Bunker (3-1) in the
fifth when Ed Charles went deep for the second time this year.
The Orioles reclaimed their three-run lead in the sixth when Norm Siebern, just
back in the lineup after missing a week, deposited a Monteagudo pitch into the
right field seats for his third home run of the season. When Dick Brown
led off the seventh with a home run of his own off reliever Moe Drabowsky, the
Baltimore lead was 5-1 and the game seemed over.
But the A's weren't through. Rocky Colavito belted his 12th homer of the
year to lead off the seventh to cut the Orioles' lead back to three runs.
Kansas City reliever Ted Bowsfield kept the Orioles off the scoreboard in the
final two frames and the A's tried to rally in the ninth.
Bunker set down Causey on a grounder to Siebern at first to open the inning but
pinch hitter Billy Bryan hit a towering drive off the right field foul pole to
cut the deficit to two runs. Bunker retired the dangerous Colavito on a
fly to center and then secured what appeared to be the game's final out when he
induced Charlie Lau to ground to second. But the Orioles' normally
sure-handed second baseman, Jerry Adair, misfired on his throw to first base and
Bryan was safe on the error, bringing the tying run to the plate in the form of
Charles. Baltimore manager Hank Bauer had reliever Stu Miller ready in the
bullpen, but stuck with Bunker and was rewarded when Charles grounded out to
shortstop Luis Aparacio.
It was the third straight win for the Orioles, who increased their lead over
second place Detroit to 2 1/2 games. Kansas City fell for the third
consecutive time and remains in seventh place in the American League.
6/1/1964, Bal64-KC64, KC Municipal Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1964 Orioles 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 12 3 5 1 1964 Athletics 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 4 0 3 2 Orioles AB R H BI AVG Athletics AB R H BI AVG Adair 2b 5 0 1 0 .250 Tartabull cf 4 0 0 0 .190 Aparicio ss 4 0 0 0 .267 Causey ss 4 0 0 0 .249 Bowens rf 4 1 3 1 .291 Alusik lf 3 0 0 0 .127 Siebern 1b 4 1 2 1 .176 Bryan ph 1 1 1 1 .368 Robinson,B 3b 4 2 3 1 .281 Colavito rf 4 1 1 1 .338 Powell lf 4 0 1 0 .278 Lau c 4 0 0 0 .291 Cimoli lf 0 0 0 0 .267 Charles 3b 4 1 1 1 .233 Kirkland cf 4 0 0 0 .155 Edwards,D 1b 3 0 1 0 .222 Brown,D c 4 1 2 2 .278 Bowsfield p 0 0 0 0 .000 Bunker p 4 0 0 0 .067 Green,Di 2b 3 0 0 0 .308 37 5 12 5 Monteagudo p 2 0 0 0 .167 Drabowsky p 0 0 0 0 .059 Mathews,N cf 1 0 0 0 .270 33 3 4 3 Orioles INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Bunker W 3-1 9.0 4 3 3 0 1 100 67 1.69 9.0 4 3 3 0 1 100 67 Athletics INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Monteagudo L 0-5 5.1 7 4 4 0 5 73 46 7.39 Drabowsky 1.2 3 1 1 0 2 32 21 2.50 Bowsfield 2.0 2 0 0 0 1 21 16 3.38 9.0 12 5 5 0 8 126 83 Bal: Cimoli inserted at lf in the 8th KC : Tartabull moved to lf in the 8th Alusik moved to 1b in the 8th Mathews,N inserted at cf in the 8th Bryan batted for Alusik in the 9th E-Adair, Siebern, Robinson,B. 2B-Robinson,B(11). HR-Bowens(4), Siebern(3), Robinson,B(6), Brown,D(3), Colavito(12), Charles(2), Bryan(2). RBI-Bowens(14), Siebern(18), Robinson,B(24), Brown,D 2(6), Colavito(37), Charles(12), Bryan(5). K-Adair, Aparicio, Bowens, Siebern, Brown,D, Bunker 3, Monteagudo. GWRBI: Brown,D Temperature: 73, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 10 MPH. Attendance: 5,534 Game Time: 2:22