KANSAS CITY 7, MINNESOTA 4 IN KANSAS CITY (10 INNINGS--GAME 1 OF DOUBLEHEADER)

Date:  Sunday, May 16.

Batting stars:  Jimmie Hall was 3-for-5 with a home run (his seventh) and two runs.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-5 with a two-run homer, his sixth.  Earl Battey was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI.

Pitching stars:  Mudcat Grant struck out five in 5.2 innings, giving up two runs on seven hits and no walks.  Johnny Klippstein pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Dick Green was 4-for-5 with two home runs (his third and fourth) and three RBIs.  Ed Charles was 2-for-5 with a three-run homer (his third) and a triple, scoring twice.  Jim Gentile was 2-for-5 with a home run (his eighth) and a double.

The game:  Green homered in the second to put the Athletics on the board 1-0.  Hall homered in the fourth to tie it and Oliva hit a two-run homer in the fifth to put the Twins ahead 3-1.  Gentile homered in the sixth to cut the lead to 3-2, but the Twins got the run back on Battey's RBI double.  It was still 4-2 Twins in the ninth, but Green led off the ninth with his second home run and Charles tripled and scored on a single by Rene Lachemann to tie it 4-4 and send the game to extra innings.  With one out in the tenth, Johnny Blanchard and Green singled and Charles hit a three-run homer off Mel Nelson to end the game.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-5 with a triple.  Rich Rollins was 0-for-3 with a walk, a hit-by-pitch, a run, and a stolen base.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-5.  Bob Allison was 0-for-5.

Record:  The loss dropped the Twins to 18-9, still in second place, a game and a half behind Chicago.