CALIFORNIA 4, MINNESOTA 3 IN MINNESOTA (10 INNINGS)

Date:  Thursday, May 13.

Batting stars:  Jimmie Hall was 2-for-3 with a home run (his sixth) and a walk.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-5 with two doubles and a run.  Bob Allison was 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  Camilo Pascual struck out seven in 6.1 innings, giving up three runs on six hits and one walk.  Mel Nelson pitched two shutout innings, giving up a walk with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Fred Newman pitched eight innings, allowing three runs on five hits and one walk with five strikeouts.  Jose Cardenal was 2-for-5 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Costen Shockley was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer, his second.

The game:  The Twins put together a two-out rally in the first, with a Harmon Killebrew RBI single and Allison's run-scoring double giving them a 2-0 lead.  Cardenal doubled in a run in the third and it stayed 2-1 until the sixth, when Hall hit a homer to make it 3-1.  Shockley shocked the Twins with a two-run homer in the seventh, tying the score.  Each team threatened in the ninth, but neither scored.  In the tenth, Cardenal led off with a single, took second on a passed ball, went to third on a bunt, and scored on a Willie Smith single.  Bob Lee struck out the side (Zoilo Versalles, Joe Nossek, and Oliva) in the bottom of the tenth to preserve the victory for the Angels.

Of note:  Versalles was 0-for-5.  Jerry Kindall was 0-for-4, dropping his average to .153.  Killebrew was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI.

Record:  The loss made the Twins 16-8 and dropped them back into second place, a half game behind Chicago.

Notes:  Jerry Zimmerman again caught, with Earl Battey coming into the game in the eighth when Zimmerman came out for a pinch-hitter.  I had never heard of Fred Newman either, but he was a solid major league starter for the Angels in 1964 and 1965.  He threw 260.2 innings in 1965 at age 23 and did not have a good year again.