MINNESOTA 7, BALTIMORE 3 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Tuesday, May 4.

Batting stars:  Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-5 with a triple and a double, scoring once and driving in two.  Earl Battey was 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.  Jerry Kindall was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs.

Pitching star:  Mudcat Grant pitched a complete game, giving up three runs on four hits and no walks with three strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Norm Siebern was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer, his second.  Curt Blefary was 1-for-3 with a home run, his sixth.  Ken Rowe pitched two perfect innings of relief with one strikeout.

The game:  A five-run third inning off Orioles starter Wally Bunker pretty much took care of the game.  Battey started the rally with a home run.  Kindall singled and scored on a Versalles triple.  Rich Rollins singled him home and Tony Oliva followed with a two-run homer, making the score 5-0.  It was 6-0 before the Orioles scored and Baltimore never got closer than four runs.

Of note:  Rollins was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  Oliva was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-2 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch, scoring once.  Bob Allison was 0-for-4.

Record:  The win made the Twins 10-5 and put them in second place, a half game behind the White Sox.

Note:  Pitching in long relief for the Orioles, going 2.2 innings, was Don Larsen, who still has the only perfect game in the World Series.  The Orioles' mopup man for the ninth inning was a rookie named Jim Palmer.