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...runs (438), home runs (101) and RBIs (402). Four Boston hitters ranked among the top dozen in the league: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski was batting .327 with 25 homers and 72 RBIs; Rightfielder Tony Conigliaro had 19 homers and a .305 average; First Baseman George Scott was hitting .290 and Shortstop Rico Petrocelli was at .280. On the mound, the Sox had Righthander Jim Lonborg, whose 14-4 record makes him the winningest pitcher in all of baseball. Last week, with 14 victories in 17 games, Boston was in second place, only a game behind the Chicago White...
...solid .302, contributed an eleventh-inning double that drove in a winning run against the Houston Astros and an eighth-inning homer that beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2. Two other Cards -Centerfielder Curt Flood and Leftfielder Lou Brock-were batting well over .300 last week, and even Shortstop Dal Maxvill, the worst hitter (at .224) among the St. Louis regulars, did his bit with a tie-breaking single against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Pitching? 90%? Tell it to the rest of the National League...
...infield, which accounted for nine double plays, was "one of the best we've ever had," according to Harris. Jim Reynolds, the shortstop and best hitter in the group at .291, worked well with second-baseman Bill Cherry at the pivot. Cherry, Harris said, didn't have too high an average but "he was walked and hit by the pitcher so often that he got on base only one less time than Thomas, and getting on is the important thing...
...bottom of the sixth Lord drilled a double to right-center to drive in shortstop Smith who had walked and gone to second on an error...
Lord's single to center drove Bob Cunningham in from second with the ice-breaker in the third. Cunningham, who started at shortstop in place of slumping Phil Smith, had singled to left following an Eli error and moved to second on a fielder's choice...