MINNESOTA 2, KANSAS CITY 0 IN KANSAS CITY

Date:  Saturday, May 15.

Batting stars:  Jerry Kindall was 2-for-3 with a home run (his third) and two RBIs.  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4 with a double.  Bob Allison was 1-for-4 with a run.

Pitching stars:  Dave Boswell pitched 7.1 scoreless innings, giving up four hits and four walks with six strikeouts.  Mel Nelson pitched 1.2 perfect innings.

Opposition stars:  Don Buschhorn pitched five innings, allowing two runs on four hits and no walks with four strikeouts.  Wes Stock struck out three in three shutout innings, allowing a hit and a walk.  Dick Green was 2-for-4 with a double.

The game:  Kindall homered in the third to put the Twins up 1-0.  In the fifth, consecutive one-out singles by Allison, Earl Battey, and Kindall produced a second run.  That was all the Twins would get, but it was all they would need.  The Athletics did not get two men on base until the eighth, when a walk and a one-out single put men on first and second.  Nelson came in to get a double play and then retired the side in order in the ninth.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-4.  Rich Rollins was 0-for-4.  Tony Oliva was 0-for-4.  Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-3 with a walk.

Record:  The win gave the Twins a record of 18-8, but they remained in second place, a half game behind Chicago.

Notes:  The loss was the seventh straight for the Athletics, dropping their record to 5-21.  They were, of course, in last place, four and a half games behind ninth-place Washington.