MINNESOTA 5, KANSAS CITY 3 IN KANSAS CITY

Date:  Friday, May 14.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 1-for-4 with a three-run homer, his fourth.  Harmon Killebrew was 2-for-4 with a run.  Jerry Kindall was 2-for-4 with a run.

Pitching stars:  Jim Kaat pitched six innings, giving up one run on four hits and three walks with five strikeouts.  Jerry Fosnow pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout.  Bill Pleis pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Dick Green was 1-for-5 with a triple, scoring once and driving in one.  Bert Campaneris was 1-for-3 with a run, an RBI, and a stolen base.  John O'Donoghue pitched eight innings, allowing four runs on nine hits and three walks with three strikeouts.

The game:  Jim Landis singled in a run in the fourth to give the Athletics a 1-0 lead.  In the sixth, O'Donoghue got an infield single, Green hit an RBI triple, and Campaneris delivered a sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.  In the seventh, Killebrew and Jimmie Hall got two-out singles followed by Allison's three-run homer to tie it 3-3.  In the ninth, Kindall singled, Jerry Zimmerman reached on catcher's interference, Zoilo Versalles singled in the go-ahead run, and a wild pitch gave the Twins some insurance.

Of note:  Versalles was 2-for-5 with an RBI.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with a walk.  Earl Battey returned to the lineup, going 0-for-3 with a walk.

Record:  The win made the Twins 17-8 and kept them in second place, a half game behind Chicago.

Of note:  Rich Rollins apparently was shaken up on a play in the second inning on which he committed an error, as he was removed from the game.  He was replaced by Frank Kostro, but would be back in the starting lineup the next day.  The insurance run was scored by Dave Boswell, who was used as a pinch-runner (it was not uncommon to use pitchers as pinch-runners back then).  Kansas City's loss was their sixth in a row and dropped them to a record of 5-20.