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...Mickey Lolich struck out 15 batters while Aurelio Rodriguez drove in three runs with a homer and a pair of singles as the Detroit Tigers trimmed the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Monday night in the opener of a three-game series that will determine baseball's American League East champion...
...Lolich, whose previous high this season was 11 strikcouts, allowed just six hits before a screaming Tiger Stadium crowd...
...Boston fans were concerned. The Yankees, riding three home runs, knocked off the second-place Tigers, 3-2, in 12 innings. Roy White's solo circuit in the top of the twelfth was the decisive blow, as the New Yorkers overcame some stout pitching by Mickey Lolich to push the Tigers one step closer to elimination, while keeping their own slim pennant hopes alive. Ex-Soxer Sparky Lyle...
...which has understandably nettled Lolich. On the eve of McLain's 30th victory in 1968, Mickey posted a sign in the Tiger clubhouse: ATTENTION WRITERS: THIS WAY TO MCLAIN'S LOCKER. As for the Cy Young Award, Lolich has gone so far as to devise a complex scoring system of his own based on the number of starts, victories, strikeouts, etc. As he points out: "The award, then, wouldn't be based on whim. Of course, the baseball writers aren't about to give up their right to be supreme judges...
Apart from his occasional feeling of neglect, Lolich is a convivial, freewheeling sort. To the dismay of his wife and Tiger Manager Billy Martin, he often rides a motorcycle 28 miles to work from his home in the Detroit suburb of Washington. Last year, when for the first time in his career he won his 20th game, Lolich sprung for six bottles of champagne for his teammates. This season, the honors that have long eluded him are in view. McLain is in the minors, and Blue, after a lengthy holdout, has yet to win a game. Meanwhile, Lolich is bewildering...