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Once again the bookies have forgotten the Red Sox: their pitching is too weak. Yesterday, Boston's heroes made the bookies look good. Chicago's hitless wonders knocked out 14 hits against three Boston pitchers...
...yesterday's clincher, junior righthander Bob Lincoln fired five and two-third innings of hitless ball before the weak Judges reached him. Senior Larry Melfa came in in the seventh and had an easy time, striking out four of the ten men he faced...
...started well enough. Senior southpaw Jim McCandlish held Penn hitless for the first three innings while his teammates were collecting two tallies off the Quaker hurler, Marc Schoenfield. The big blows for Harvard were two long triples by Dan Hootstein and Pete Karegeannes, each of which would have been inside-the-park home runs except for the muddy outfield grass...
...thing I hate about that s.o.b.," said ex-Philadelphia Phillies Catcher Gus Triandos two weeks ago, after watching Juan shut out the Phillies, 1-0, on six hits in 14 innings, "is that it all seems so easy for him. It's one thing to go hitless against a pitcher like Sandy Koufax or Don Drysdale or Jim Maloney; at least you can look out there and see the cords standing out on his neck. He looks like he's working, and he looks like he's worried. Marichal-he just stands there laughing...
...stands to reason that if a fellow pitches enough no-hit games, he is bound to win one sooner or later. Two months ago, against the New York Mets, Cincinnati's lim Maloney, 25, pitched ten innings of hitless ball−only to lose the game 1-0 when Johnny Lewis, a .245 hitter, homered in the eleventh inning. Last week in Chicago, Maloney tried and tried again...