MINNESOTA 3, CHICAGO 2 IN CHICAGO (10 INNINGS)

Date:  Sunday, May 2 (Game 1 of doubleheader)

Batting stars:  Harmon Killebrew was 3-for-4 with a home run, a double, and a walk, driving in three.  Earl Battey was 2-for-4 with a double.  Rich Rollins was 2-for-4 with a run.

Pitching stars:  Jim Kaat pitched six innings, giving up one run on three hits and a walk with three strikeouts.  Mel Nelson pitched a scoreless inning, giving up a hit and a walk.  Bill Pleis pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Tommy John pitched seven shutout innings, allowing seven hits and a walk with four strikeouts.  John Romano was 1-for-3 with a home run, his second.  Ron Hansen was 1-for-4 with a home run.

The game:  Romano homered with two out in the first inning to put the White Sox up 1-0.  Hansen homered with one out in the seventh to make it 2-0.  The Twins threatened in the first, sixth, and seventh, but did not score.  Finally, in the eighth, Killebrew hit a two-run homer to tie the score 2-2.  The White Sox put two on in the eighth and again in the ninth, but failed to score.  Zoilo Versalles led off the tenth with a single, went to second on a bunt, and scored on Killebrew's two-out double to put the Twins in front for the first time.  The White Sox got a two-out single in the bottom of the tenth, but no more.

Of note:  Versalles was 1-for-5 with a run.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-5.  Bob Allison was 0-for-4.

Record:  The win made the Twins 9-4, in first place, a half game ahead of Chicago and Detroit.