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The Toronto Blue Jays announced their fifth trade in two seasons. Toronto sent seldom used but talented outfielder George Batchelor and minor league pitching prospect Eddie Landrum to Chicago for outfielder Mike Crim.
Batchelor hit .293 in 56 games for Toronto last season but had only one at bat for the Blue Jays so far this season. Batchelor started in right field and went one for three for Chicago.
Landrum, a 26 year old right hander was added to the Cubs bullpen.
Crim grounded out as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning for Toronto.
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Toronto 1 Chicago 0
Sunday, July 13, 1952.
Despite the trade for another big bat, the Blue Jays wound up once again relying on their talented pitching staff for the winning edge. Toronto pitching has produced an AL best 1.90 ERA trailing only Pittsburgh's phenomenal 1.40 ERA.
Toronto began a six game road trip, through Texas and Seattle, with a nail biter in Texas where the weather was unseasonably mild Sunday afternoon.
Vern Taylor, a 1951 All Star pitcher, made his third start this season for Toronto , lowered his ERA to 1.17 (three earned runs in 23 innings pitched). Taylor went eight innings allowed just three hits walked one and struck out five.
McClellan (Chief) Yellowhorse pitched the ninth for his third save in three opportunities.
The game was closer than it might have been because Alex Cutshaw gave up five hits and walked five over the eight innings he pitched and reliever Jesse Treechok gave up one hit in hos one inning of work.
Toronto scored only once and left ten men on base. They left two on in the first inning, left the bases loaded in the 3rd, one more in the 5th, and finally scored in the sixth when Johnny Swindell hit a looping singe to center field that scored Jim Hague with the one and only run in the game.
Toronto left two more on in the later inning which must be somewhat of a concern for Toronto.
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New York 1 Chicago 0
Now this is getting serious for Chicago. The Lamigo have opened their season with ten consecutive losses after the tense duel between the reigning CYA winner, Craig Escobar and ''Old Stubblebeard,'' Truck Marion.
Marion, now is a very un-Marion-like 0-3 and was not at all pleased when taken out with one out in the ninth following a little bloop down the right field line by Hughie Newman.
Marion was removed, something that was obviously not to his liking and reliever Fred Fuhrman who gave up the game winning hit, a single by Ross Doerr.
As the teams began walking off a glove flew out of the Chicago dugout followed by bats and a water cooler and finally the uniform shirt worn earlier by Marion.
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Other AL games;
Kansas City 4 Tampa 3
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National League scores;
Pittsburgh 6 Los Angeles 0
Can anybody beat these guys?????
The Gunslingers are like Matt Dillon, every week when he guns down the man in black, Blackie Storm, have been gunning down opponents.
Art Klugman's (3-0 1.33 ERA) complete game effort (five hits one base on balls, and nine strikeouts) left Pittsburgh with a 1.40 and a league best four shutouts.
Pittsburgh as it normally does, scored early and kept adding on until the dam burst off.
Rick Currence gave up a run in the second inning when Johnny hickey scored on a double play hit into by Cy Buddin. 1-0 Pittsburgh.
One inning later in the 3rd. A. J.Walsh singled in Chuck Chavez. 2-0 Pittsburgh.
In the 5th Tom Diaz who had replaced Currence walked Abe Smith, struck out Buddin, and a run when Tommy Krsnich singled to left. Smith went to third base.
Smith scored on an error by second baseman Gary Anderson and Chavez drove in two with a single.
6 runs was more than enough for Klugman to nail down another Gunslinger win.
Pittsburgh's win their tenth straight to start the season leaves them three games in front of Atlanta who lost to Houston 11-6.
The Cubs downed their hated rivals from St. Louis 3-1 and Arizona over came Cincinnati 4-3.