CLEVELAND 3, MINNESOTA 1 IN CLEVELAND

Date:  Friday, August 13.

Batting stars:  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4 with a home run, his sixteenth.  Earl Battey was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Jimmie Hall was 1-for-3 with a walk.

Pitching stars:  Jim Perry pitched five innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on six hits and one walk with one strikeout.  Garry Roggenburk pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit and three walks.  Johnny Klippstein pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.

Opposition stars:  Larry Brown was 2-for-3 with a hit-by-pitch and two runs.  Bobby Tiefenauer pitched three shutout innings, allowing one hit and two walks.  Max Alvis was 2-for-3 with a walk.

The game:  Rocky Colavito's RBI single put the Indians up 1-0 in the first.  It stayed 1-0 until the fifth, when three consecutive singles and a wild pitch produced two Cleveland runs for a 3-0 advantage.  The Twins did not get a man past first until the seventh, when Oliva led off with a home run.  The Twins never got the tying run on base.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 0-for-4.  Bob Allison was 0-for-4.

Record:  The loss made the Twins 74-41.  Baltimore lost 4-2 to Washington, so the Twins' lead remained 8.5 games.

Notes:  Battey raised his average to .314.  Oliva went up to .310...Cleveland starter Sonny Siebert pitched only one inning and was removed, presumably due to injury.  He would not start again until August 31, although he did make a couple of relief appearances...Siebert has been largely forgotten now, but he was a fine pitcher in his day.  He posted double digit wins every year from 1965-72, with an ERA under three from 1965-68 and again in 1971.  He pitched over two hundred innings four times in that span and never had fewer than 177.  He made the all-star team twice, with Cleveland in 1966 and with Boston in 1971.  For his career, he was 140-114, 3.21, 1.21 WHIP in twelve seasons.