DETROIT 8, MINNESOTA 5 IN DETROIT

Date:  Saturday, June 12.

Batting stars:  Jimmie Hall was 2-for-4 with a home run (his eleventh) and a double, driving in four.  Harmon Killebrew was 1-for-2 with a double and two walks, scoring twice.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4 with two runs.

Pitching star:  Johnny Klippstein pitched two shutout innings, giving up a hit and a walk with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Don Wert was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring three times and driving in one.  Jerry Lumpe was 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch, scoring twice and driving in one.  Willie Horton was 1-for-4 with a home run (his twelfth) and four RBIs.

The game:  Hall hit a two-run double-plus-error in the top of the first, but the Tigers got the runs right back in the bottom half, aided by three walks and an error.  In the second, Horton hit a three-run homer to give the Tigers a 5-2 lead.  The Twins got those runs back in the third on Hall's three-run homer.  It stayed 5-5 until the sixth.  The Tigers put two on with a single and an error, Wert had an RBI single, Lumpe drove in one with a double, and a sacrifice fly plated a third.  The runs came off reliever Jerry Fosnow, who was in his fourth inning of relief.  The Twins got only two hits after Hall's homer in the third.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-5.  Frank Kostro, filling in at third for Rich Rollins, was 0-for-5.  Camilo Pascual lasted only 1.2 innings, giving up five runs on three hits, three walks, and a hit batsman, striking out two.

Record:  The loss made the Twins 34-19, but they remained in first  place by 1.5 games over Chicago.

Notes:  Rollins was simply being rested and was used as a pinch-hitter.  Hall raised his average to .328.