MINNESOTA 3, CALIFORNIA 1 IN CALIFORNIA (12 INNINGS)

Date:  Wednesday, May 19 (Game 1 of doubleheader)

Batting stars:  Sandy Valdespino was 3-for-6 with a double and a run.  Tony Oliva was 1-for-4 with two walks and two RBIs.  Earl Battey was 1-for-4 with a walk and a run.

Pitching stars:  Dave Boswell pitched six innings, giving up one run on two hits and no walks with four strikeouts.  Jerry Fosnow pitched three perfect innings.  Al Worthington pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk.

Opposition stars:  Dean Chance pitched nine innings, allowing one run on seven hits and three walks with four strikeouts.  Albie Pearson was 1-for-4 with a home run (his second) and a hit-by-pitch.  Bob Lee struck out two in two shutout innings, allowing two hits and a walk.

The game:  Pearson led off the fourth with a home run to give the Angels a 1-0 lead.  In the eighth, Harmon Killebrew delivered a pinch-hit RBI double to tie it 1-1.  The Angels loaded the bases in the eleventh but left them loaded.  In the twelfth, singles by Zoilo Versalles and Valdespino put men on first and second with one out.  They were still there with two down, but Oliva delivered a two-run single (with Valdespino scoring from first base) to give the Twins a 3-1 lead.  Dick Stigman came in to throw a perfect twelfth to preserve the victory.

Of note:  Versalles was 1-for-6 with a run.  Rich Rollins was 1-for-6.

Record:  The win snapped a four-game losing streak and left the Twins in second place, four games behind Chicago.

Notes:  Killebrew and Bob Allison were both rested in this game, though both were used as pinch-hitters.  At this point, Pearson had two home runs, both against the Twins.  He would end the season with four.