BALTIMORE 7, MINNESOTA 6 IN MINNESOTA

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 1-for-2 with a home run (his sixteenth) and a walk, scoring twice and driving in two.  Zoilo Versalles was 2-for-4 with two doubles and a walk, scoring once.  Earl Battey was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.

Pitching star:  Garry Roggenburk pitched 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up a walk.

Opposition stars:  Boog Powell was 2-for-5 with a three-run homer, his ninth.  Luis Aparicio was 1-for-4 with a triple and a walk, scoring twice and driving in one.  Dick Brown was 2-for-4 with a double and a run.

The game:  Versalles doubled and scored on a pair of ground outs to give the Twins a 1-0 lead in the first.  Each team scored once in the second, with the Twins run coming on an Allison homer, to make it 2-1.  It was 3-1 Twins after four, but a double, a triple, an error, a single, and two walks produced the Oriole runs and a 4-3 Baltimore lead.  The Twins tied it 4-4 in the fifth and it stayed tied until the eighth, when Battey's two-run double gave the Twins a 6-4 lead going into the ninth.  Al Worthington, who had gotten the last two outs in the eighth, retired the first man in the ninth but then issued a pair of walks.  Dick Stigman came in to face Powell, who hit a three-run homer to put the Orioles ahead 7-6.  The Twins got a one-out walk in the bottom of the ninth but did not advance the runner past first base.

Of note:  Tony Oliva was 0-for-5.  Jimmie Hall was 0-for-3 with two walks.  Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-2 with two walks and two runs.   Jim Kaat pitched 4.2 innings, giving up four runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks with two strikeouts.

Record:  The Twins record dropped to 65-38 but they remained in first place.  Cleveland split a doubleheader with the Yankees, so Baltimore moved back into sole possession of second place, five games back.

Notes:  Battey took over the team batting lead at .308.  Oliva fell to .303 and Hall to .302...As we've chronicled before, Kaat was clearly suffering from overuse.  He had made eight starts in July, two of them on two days' rest and one on one day of rest.  He pitched well in this game for four innings, giving up only two hits, before allowing the three runs in the fifth.