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Washington now has won 18 of its last 22 games, 8 of the last ten and five straight.
The Senators Player of the Month was centerfielder Gene Hutton.
Hutton, a 1951 All Star reserve in the outfield, played in 26 games during the month, which tied him with nine others for the most in the league ..
Hutton hit a league best .371, with 4 homeruns (13th), 26 runs batted in (1st), scored 19 times (2nd), had 26 singles (2nd), six doubles (11th), three triples (9th), 1.021 OPS (2nd), .421 OBP (3rd), and .600 SLG (3rd).
Around the league the New York Yankees blasted Los Angeles 10-4 sending the slumping Intruders down for their fourth straight loss.
Anaheim edged Texas 5-4.
Boston downed Toronto to catch them at 13-13 one behind third place New York (14-12).
Washington and Detroit played game two of their three game series with Washington coming out on top 6-2.
Twenty five year old right hander Jim Ebright, made his first start for Washington since being picked up on waivers after Detroit released him on last October. Ebright became the third pitcher Washington has tried to fill their number five starter role. Wes Johnson and Johnny Brown had made the previous two starts and were unimpressive.
Ebright was not sensational, nor was he terrible. He picked up his first major league win going six inning allowing five hits and two runs, both earned, walked two and struck out three.
Conger has worked three full innings in the series allowed three hits, no runs two walks, three strikeout as and has a 3.52 ERA over 15.1 innings pitched.
Chris Bumbry came in to strikeout the final batter after Conger had struck out two and walked the third batter in the inning.
Wes Conger made his second appearance in the series working two and two third scoreless innings (three hits two walks, three strikeouts.
Detroit scored single runs in the first two innings to take a 2-0 lead off Ebright. Del Cote singled in the first run and Jim Stinnett walked to stat the second, stole second base, advanced to third on the first out of the inning and scored on another infield ground out to make it 2-0 Detroit.
Washington got things going against Detroit starter, Masami Saito, in their half of the 3rd inning.
Saito hit bobby Moreland with a pitch. Ebright failed twice to get a sacrifice bunt down then blooped a soft single to left sending Moreland to third base.
Johnny Deleon, getting more playing time at third base now and hitting .375 in order to keep doing so, singled to right field driving in Moreland to make it 2-1.
There was no scoring in the next three innings. Washington's starter left after the sixth inning for a pinch hitter.
In that inning Tom Ragland, heating up with the bat after a slow beginning, singled to right field, then stole second base (Ragland a two time All Star catcher, Gold Glove catcher in 1951, has 56 career stolen bases, so he has excellent speed.) Moreland drew a walk. Walt Lidle, pinch hitting for Ebright, the pitcher, beat out a slow roller to second to load up the bases with no one out.
Mert Copeland (.356 3 homeruns 11 RBI 13 SB) singled in Ragland and Moreland to put Washington ahead 3-2. Lidle stopped at third base.
Billy Watson took over for Saito (LP 2-1 2.81 ERA 6IP 9H 4R/4ER 4BB/3SO).
Copeland stole second on Watson. Lidle stayed at third base on that play but tagged and scored on a sacrifice fly by Johnny Deleon to build a 4-2 lead for Washington.
Washington added a run in the 8th on Ragland's 3rd homerun of the season , second of this series with no one on and two outs.
Detroit pitcher les Lucas gave up the final Washington run in the 9th to make the final score 6-2.
Lucas allowed a one out single Copeland who stole second (3rd stolen base in this game, 13th for the season giving him the league lead in stolen bases.) Moreland walked and Senators player of the month, Gene Hutton singled to left driving in his 26th run of the month.
[Edited on 9-20-2017 by cookielavagetto]
Americn League Baseball 7/31/52
September 20, 2017 at 09:50PM View BBCode
The first month of the season concluded with Washington of the American League and Atlanta of the National League finishing the first month tied at 19-7 for the beast record in the league.Washington now has won 18 of its last 22 games, 8 of the last ten and five straight.
The Senators Player of the Month was centerfielder Gene Hutton.
Hutton, a 1951 All Star reserve in the outfield, played in 26 games during the month, which tied him with nine others for the most in the league ..
Hutton hit a league best .371, with 4 homeruns (13th), 26 runs batted in (1st), scored 19 times (2nd), had 26 singles (2nd), six doubles (11th), three triples (9th), 1.021 OPS (2nd), .421 OBP (3rd), and .600 SLG (3rd).
Around the league the New York Yankees blasted Los Angeles 10-4 sending the slumping Intruders down for their fourth straight loss.
Anaheim edged Texas 5-4.
Boston downed Toronto to catch them at 13-13 one behind third place New York (14-12).
Washington and Detroit played game two of their three game series with Washington coming out on top 6-2.
Twenty five year old right hander Jim Ebright, made his first start for Washington since being picked up on waivers after Detroit released him on last October. Ebright became the third pitcher Washington has tried to fill their number five starter role. Wes Johnson and Johnny Brown had made the previous two starts and were unimpressive.
Ebright was not sensational, nor was he terrible. He picked up his first major league win going six inning allowing five hits and two runs, both earned, walked two and struck out three.
Conger has worked three full innings in the series allowed three hits, no runs two walks, three strikeout as and has a 3.52 ERA over 15.1 innings pitched.
Chris Bumbry came in to strikeout the final batter after Conger had struck out two and walked the third batter in the inning.
Wes Conger made his second appearance in the series working two and two third scoreless innings (three hits two walks, three strikeouts.
Detroit scored single runs in the first two innings to take a 2-0 lead off Ebright. Del Cote singled in the first run and Jim Stinnett walked to stat the second, stole second base, advanced to third on the first out of the inning and scored on another infield ground out to make it 2-0 Detroit.
Washington got things going against Detroit starter, Masami Saito, in their half of the 3rd inning.
Saito hit bobby Moreland with a pitch. Ebright failed twice to get a sacrifice bunt down then blooped a soft single to left sending Moreland to third base.
Johnny Deleon, getting more playing time at third base now and hitting .375 in order to keep doing so, singled to right field driving in Moreland to make it 2-1.
There was no scoring in the next three innings. Washington's starter left after the sixth inning for a pinch hitter.
In that inning Tom Ragland, heating up with the bat after a slow beginning, singled to right field, then stole second base (Ragland a two time All Star catcher, Gold Glove catcher in 1951, has 56 career stolen bases, so he has excellent speed.) Moreland drew a walk. Walt Lidle, pinch hitting for Ebright, the pitcher, beat out a slow roller to second to load up the bases with no one out.
Mert Copeland (.356 3 homeruns 11 RBI 13 SB) singled in Ragland and Moreland to put Washington ahead 3-2. Lidle stopped at third base.
Billy Watson took over for Saito (LP 2-1 2.81 ERA 6IP 9H 4R/4ER 4BB/3SO).
Copeland stole second on Watson. Lidle stayed at third base on that play but tagged and scored on a sacrifice fly by Johnny Deleon to build a 4-2 lead for Washington.
Washington added a run in the 8th on Ragland's 3rd homerun of the season , second of this series with no one on and two outs.
Detroit pitcher les Lucas gave up the final Washington run in the 9th to make the final score 6-2.
Lucas allowed a one out single Copeland who stole second (3rd stolen base in this game, 13th for the season giving him the league lead in stolen bases.) Moreland walked and Senators player of the month, Gene Hutton singled to left driving in his 26th run of the month.
[Edited on 9-20-2017 by cookielavagetto]
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