WASHINGTON 4, MINNESOTA 2 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Tuesday, August 3 (Game 2 of doubleheader).

Batting stars:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his twelfth.  Jerry Zimmerman was 1-for-1 with a walk and a run.  Joe Nossek was 1-for-4 with a double.

Pitching star:  Johnny Klippstein pitched two perfect innings with one strikeout.

Opposition stars:  Mike McCormick pitched a complete game, allowing two runs on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts.  Frank Howard was 1-for-4 with a home run, his eighteenth.  Ken Hamlin was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.

The game:  Howard homered leading off the second and Hamlin had an RBI double in the third to put the Senators up 2-0.  Versalles tied it with a two-run homer in the bottom of the third.  In the fifth Don Zimmer delivered a two-out two-run double to give Washington a 4-2 lead.  And that was it for the scoring.  The Twins loaded the bases with two out in the fourth but did not get another hit until Rich Rollins doubled leading off the ninth.  The next three Twins went out to end the game.

Of note:  Frank Quilici was 1-for-4.  Tony Oliva was 0-for-3 with a walk.  Bob Allison was 0-for-4.  Starter Dwight Siebler pitched 2.1 innings, giving up two runs on three hits and three walks with two strikeouts.

Record:  The Twins were now 67-39 and led Baltimore by 5.5 games.

Notes:  The Twins used somewhat of a B lineup.  Jimmie Hall, Harmon Killebrew, and Earl Battey all did not start, although Battey pinch-hit for Zimmerman in the seventh and caught the rest of the game.  Siebler, normally a reliever, made his only start of the season...Ken Hamlin was a utility infielder for several clubs from 1957-66.  He was the regular shortstop for Kansas City in 1960, but hit only .224/.297/.271.  He was more-or-less the regular shortstop for Washington in 1965, sharing time with Ed Brinkman, and had his best year, hitting .273/.333/.370...Don Zimmer was in his last year as a major league player and would hit only .199...Mike McCormick had a fine career, pitching in the big leagues for sixteen years, most of them with the Giants.  He made the all-star team twice (1960, when he led the league in ERA, and 1961) and won the Cy Young Award in 1967, when he won twenty-two games with an ERA of 2.85.  For his career he was 134-128, 3.73, 1.29 WHIP.