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...leading 3-1 in games, the Birds will send 24-game winner Mike Cuellar to the mound to battle one of a trio of Cincinnati lefthanders, including Jim Merritt, Wayne Granger, and Milt Wilcox...
...Cincinnati Reds, behind 2-0 in games, will send aging right-hander Tony Cloninger to the mound for the third contest, as the World Series moves to Baltimore this afternoon...
...ahead of Washington's right-fielder, and one out later George Scott hit one over everybody and onto Jersey St. to give the Red Sox a seemingly safe 6-2 lead. The pitching collapse that followed simply added excitement to the game and further evidence that the sinking Boston mound staff must be salvaged or meet the fate of Harry Elkins Widener...
Larry Jansen, pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants, spends his leisure moments slicing up baseballs with a knife. He is convinced that there is a mysterious something inside the new balls that makes them take off like spaceships-especially when his pitchers are on the mound. In a recent exhibition game, Giant hurlers blew a five-run lead and suffered a shameful 8-7 loss to the University of Santa Clara. Two days later, the Giants wasted an eight-run advantage and lost 17-16 to the lowly San Diego Padres. Last week they even let a pitcher clobber...
Alive and Strong. Baseball men like to say that pitching is the name of the game. But now that the pitcher's mound has been lowered and the strike zone reduced, the name seems to be slugging. One day last month, National League hitters slammed a record total of 26 home runs; two days later the musclemen in both leagues hit a record 46 homers. And along with the rain of homers there has been a positive cloudburst of singles, doubles and triples. In the first six weeks of the season, A.L. batters hit at a .253 clip...