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...Giant strength is the team's balance. It leads the league in no major category, but has good first-line pitching (Johnny Antonelli. 14-5; Sam Jones, 14-10), streak-hitting Centerfielder Willie ("Say Hey") Mays (.301), who can still ignite eight ordinary men with his extraordinary play, and First Baseman Orlando Cepeda (.321), who can slug the ball out of sight (19 home runs). Shortstop Ed Bressoud plugs a leaky infield, and stubby Catcher Hobie Landrith gives the Giants a holler guy who seems to carry a mitt on one hand and a gavel in the other...
...aging (33) Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, a hard-throwing curve-bailer who led the league last year in strike-outs (225), was second in earned-run average (2.88), managed a 14-13 record for a St. Louis team that scored fewest runs in the league. With Lefthanders Johnny Antonelli (16-13 last year) and Mike McCormick (11-8), and slow-balling Righthander Stu Miller (whose 2.47 earned-run average was the league's best last year), the Giants have the best group of pitchers in years...
Manager Bill Rigney's pitching, thanks to the acquisition of Sad Sam Jones and Jack Sanford, seems set. Johnny Antonelli won 16 last year and should improve on that figure, Mike McCormack is ready for stardom, and Stu Miller and Al Worthington should prove helpful. The Giants are stronger than last year, but they are still a little young...
...result is that the Giants lead the league in scoring runs. But their problem is pitching. Behind Veteran Lefthander Johnny Antonelli (10-7) there is an undistinguished troupe: in-and-out Al Worthington (8-5), flashy but unsteady Mike McCormick (7-1), and Junkballer Stu Miller, whose slow stuff is so slow that Announcer Russ Hodges once cracked: "There's one that almost turned around and went back." A pennant-contender club needs three solid starters, and the missing man is Righthander Ruben Gomez, a 15-game winner last year who has been blasted consistently in recent starts...
...Antonelli and Spahn were among the hurlers who yesterday derided the proximity of the Coliseum's left field barrier. Bob Friend of Pittsburgh also joined in as did other stars, past and present, who said the game was turning into a "Hitters' paradise and pitchers' nightmare...