PETERS, WHITE SOX LOSE NO-HITTER IN 9TH BUT ESCAPE WITH WIN
Bases Loaded DP Grounder Sinks Nats
CHICAGO, Sept. 20 (AP) - Gary Peters took a no-hitter into the ninth inning but
had to sweat out the end of the game--on the bench--as the White Sox hung on for
a 3-2 victory over the Washington Senators at Comiskey Park. The win,
coupled with a doubleheader split for the league-leading Baltimore Orioles,
moves the White Sox to within five games of first place with two weeks remaining
in the regular season.
Despite holding the Senators hitless for eight innings, Peters actually trailed
1-0 until the bottom of the fifth inning. Washington scored an unearned
run in the top of the fourth. Ed Brinkman reached on an error by third
baseman Pete Ward leading off the inning and advanced to second on a ground ball
out. Chuck Hinton flied to left and the White Sox elected to intentionally
walk Don Lock, the Senators' most dangerous hitter. But Peters then missed
with a 3-2 pitch to light-hitting Roy Sievers to fill the bases and, on the very
first pitch to Fred Valentine, catcher J.C. Martin botched it. The passed
ball allowed Brinkman to score the game's first run.
The White Sox rallied to take the lead in the fifth. With one out, Mike
Hershberger grounded a single to center field off Senators starter Bernie Narum
and Ron Hansen followed by looping a single to right, with Hershberger advancing
to second. Narum then did himself in. First, he uncorked a wild
pitch, allowing the runners to advance to second and third and, before another
pitch was thrown, Narum was cited for a balk, scoring Hershberger with the tying
run and moving Hansen to third. Martin then flipped a single into shallow
left and Hansen trotted home to give Chicago a 2-1 lead.
In the bottom of the sixth, Don Buford led off with a single but was erased by a
double play grounder off the bat of Floyd Robinson. Ward, however, belted
his 34th home run of the season, a line drive into the lower seats in right
field, to up the advantage to 3-1.
Peters, meanwhile, was mowing down the Senators, and fanned five consecutive
batters at one point--the final two Washington hitters of the seventh inning and
all three in the eighth--giving him 10 strikeouts for the game.
Reliever Jim Hannan set the White Sox down in order in the bottom of the eighth
and Peters returned to the mound, his no-hitter intact, with a two-run
lead. The bottom of the ninth did not begin auspiciously; Peters walked
Brinkman on four pitches to open the frame. Dick Phillips pinch hit for
Chuck Cottier and promptly ended the no-hit bid by lining a single to center
field, with Brinkman stopping at second. Not only was the no-hitter a
thing of the past, the Senators now had the tying runs on base with no
outs. Hinton flied to deep center field for the first out, with Brinkman
advancing to third. The long fly, which drove center fielder Jim Landis to
the edge of the warning track, was enough for White Sox manager Al Lopez who
summoned Hoyt Wilhelm from the bullpen to relieve Peters. Wilhelm got
ahead of Lock 0-2 but then offered up a hanging knuckler that was lined into
left field for Washington's second hit, scoring Brinkman, to cut the Chicago
lead to 3-2, and advancing Phillips to second. When Earl Cunningham drew a
four-pitch walk, the bases were loaded and the tying and lead runs were in
scoring position, still with only one out recorded. Fred Valentine came to
the plate and Wilhelm induced a ground ball to short which Hansen, Al Weis and
Tom McCraw turned into a game-ending double play.
The White Sox have tomorrow off before opening up a two-game series with the
Angels in Los Angeles on the 22nd.
9/20/1964, Was64-ChA64, Comiskey Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1964 Senators 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 4 1 1964 White Sox 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 x 3 9 1 5 1 Senators AB R H BI AVG White Sox AB R H BI AVG Brinkman ss 3 2 0 0 .230 Landis cf 4 0 1 0 .202 Cottier 2b 3 0 0 0 .171 Buford 2b 4 0 1 0 .265 Phillips,D ph 1 0 1 0 .230 Weis 2b 0 0 0 0 .248 Hinton lf 4 0 0 0 .215 Robinson,Fl lf 3 0 0 0 .277 Lock cf 3 0 1 1 .264 Ward,P 3b 4 1 1 1 .262 Sievers 1b 1 0 0 0 .186 McCraw 1b 4 0 1 0 .277 Zimmer ph 1 0 0 0 .256 Hershberger rf 3 1 2 0 .196 Cunningham 1b 0 0 0 0 .216 Hansen ss 3 1 1 0 .257 Valentine rf 4 0 0 0 .267 Martin c 3 0 2 1 .239 Kennedy 3b 3 0 0 0 .204 Peters p 3 0 0 0 .180 Brumley c 3 0 0 0 .195 Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0 .154 Narum p 2 0 0 0 .035 31 3 9 2 Ridzik p 0 0 0 0 .222 King ph 1 0 0 0 .206 Hannan p 0 0 0 0 .067 29 2 2 1 Senators INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Narum L 6-19 5.2 6 3 3 1 2 82 57 4.57 Ridzik 1.1 3 0 0 0 1 30 19 3.91 Hannan 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11 7 3.51 8.0 9 3 3 1 4 123 83 White Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Peters W 16-12 8.1 1 2 1 3 10 119 75 2.93 Wilhelm S 19 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 12 7 1.92 9.0 2 2 1 4 10 131 82 Was: Zimmer batted for Sievers in the 7th Cunningham inserted at 1b in the 7th King batted for Ridzik in the 8th Phillips,D batted for Cottier in the 9th ChA: Weis inserted at 2b in the 8th E-Ward,P. HR-Ward,P(34). RBI-Lock(67), Ward,P(107), Martin(24). SB-Landis(5). CS-Robinson,Fl. K-Lock 2, Valentine, Kennedy 2, Brumley 2, Narum 2, Zimmer, Buford, McCraw 2, Hershberger. BB-Brinkman, Lock, Sievers, Cunningham, Robinson,Fl. PB-Martin. WP-Narum. BALK-Narum. GWRBI: Martin Temperature: 72, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: left to right at 8 MPH. Attendance: 26,331 Game Time: 2:17