Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Tuesday, June 22, 1948

W.I.L. STANDINGS
              W  L Pct. GB
Tacoma ..... 38 23 .623 --
Bremerton .. 39 25 .609 ½
Vancouver .. 32 29 .525 6
Spokane .... 31 29 .517 6½
Victoria ... 33 32 .508 7
Wenatchee .. 27 35 .435 11½
Salem ...... 28 37 .431 12
Yakima ..... 23 41 .359 16½


VICTORIA, June 22—Catcher Dick Morgan, making his first appearance in the Victoria line-up, batted in the tying run in the eighth and the winning run in the tenth to give the Athletics a 3-2 decision over the Yakima Packers tonight.
The A's handed the Packers both their runs. Jack Palmer tried to make a force play at the wrong time in the second inning. He got a bases-loaded grounder tossed to him at second by shorstop Lou Kubiak, but instead of throwing to first, he threw to third. But the force play was off and a run scored. Pitcher Del Owens' wild toss into right field on a bunt allowed another run to score in the sixth.
The Athletics fought back, starting in the seventh. Palmer singled Owens across, then tied it in the eighth when Babe Jensen singled, was bunted along by Sal Recca then Morgan smacked a hard drive through the infield.
Jensen singled to open the tenth and Vic Buccola walked, setting the stage for Morgan's game-winning hit.
Yakima ............ 010 001 000 0—2 10 0
Victoria ........... 000 000 110 1—3 9 1
Ford, Kittle (9) and Constantino; Owens and Recca.

VANCOUVER, June 22—Carl Gunnarson tossed a five-hitter in the opener and Bob Costello responded with an eight-hit game in the nightcap as the Vancouver Capilanos swept the Salem Senators, 4-2 and 7-2.
Charlie Mead started the Caps in both contests. He poked one over the right field fence in the second inning of the first game for the first score and topped off a rally in the second game with a ringing single to centre that put Vancouver ahead 3-0 in the third inning.
Gunnarson kept the Senators off the scoreboard in the first game until the sixth inning when former Cap Ralph Samhammer poked a single to centre field and Dick Sinovic slashed a homer over the right field wall.
In the second game, Joe Kaney started things with two out in the third. He singled, Frank Mullens walked and Warren scored them both with a double to right before Mead lashed out a single to drive in Warren.
First game
Salem ........... 000 002 0—2 5 1
Vancouver ..... 010 120 x—4 7 1
Lazor and Burgher; Gunnarson and Brenner.
Second game
Salem ........... 000 001 010—2 8 1
Vancouver ..... 003 001 12x—7 13 0
Stevenson and Burgher; Costello and Warren.

Wenatchee ...... 000 000 000—0 0 5
Bremerton ....... 001 001 00x—2 7 0
McCollum and Gardner; Conant and Volpi.

Spokane .......... 102 000 011—5 10 1
Tacoma ........... 000 101 010—3 8 2
Nelson and Sheely; Fortier, Gleason (9) and Rossi.

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