Saturday, June 28, 1952

W L Pct GB
Victoria ..... 42 22 .656 —
Vancouver .... 34 24 .586 5
Spokane ...... 40 30 .571 5
Lewiston ..... 33 33 .500 10
Wenatchee .... 31 37 .456 12½
Salem ........ 30 36 .455 12½
Tri-City ..... 29 40 .420 15½
Yakima ....... 26 43 .377 18½

KENNEWICK [Victoria Colonist, June 29]—Once again getting excellent, rout-going pitching, Victoria Tyees showed signs of snapping out of their slump at Tri-City last night although forced to accept a split in a doubleheader with the Braves.
Starting for the first time in weeks, rookie righthander Bill Wisneski came up with his first complete game but ran into a tartar in Tri-City manager Charlie Gassaway and lost a 2-1 heartbreaker.
BEN GETS 12TH
Hard throwing Ben Lorino squared the count in the nine-inning finale, hurling his fifth shutout of the season and scoring his 12th victory in 16 decisions as he held the Braves to six hits while his teammates made 11 hits good for six runs.
The series concludes today with another doubleheader and the Tyees return home tomorrow for a four-game series with Wenatchee, starting with a holiday doubleheader Tuesday. Cal McIrvin and Jehosie Heard are almost certain mound choices for today’s game.
Wisneski, who is indicating strongly that he will be of more help in the katter part of the season, just failed to hold a 1-0 lead and it took some fine clutch defensive play by the Braves to keep him from earning his sixth win instead of being tagged with his second loss.
Don Pries, returning to the line-up, batted in Victoria’s run in the third and John Kovenz squared it with a four-inning home run. The winning run was fashioned after two were out as Wisneski momentarily lost control. Nick Pesut singled and went to third on a single by Joe Scalise. Wisneski hit Bob Rittenberg to load the bags and forced in Pesut by walking Lopes.
Granny Gladstone led the Tyee attack on Ralph Romero, one of the Tri-City aces, in the second game. He had two singles and a double and drove in three runs—his 56th, 57th and 58th of the season.
Manager Cec Garriott shook up his batting order. Jim Clarke led off with pries hitting second and Bob Moniz hitting third in Garriott’s old spot. The slumping Garriott relegated himself to eighth spot, just ahead of the pitcher.
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KENNEWICK [Tri-City Herald, June 29]—The Tri-City Braves split a Western International League double header at Sanders Field last night.
Tri-City won the first 2-1 behind the four-hit pitching of Manager Charlie Gassaway. However, the Tyees snapped back strong in the nightcap for a 6-0 shutout.
The two teams will play another doubleheader tonight starting at 7 p.m.
A bases-loaded walk issued by Victoria's pitcher Phil Wisneski in the sixth inning gave Tri-City the winning run in last night's seven inning opener.
Manager Charlie Gassaway hung up his first season's victory by handcuffing the Tyees on four hits. Victoria jumped out in front on the scoreboard when they picked up their first and only run in the third inning.
Center fielder John Kovenz made it a 1-1 ball game when he hammered the ball over the right field fence.
In the bottom of the sixth, with two out, Nick Pesut slammed a single into center; Joe Scalise followed with another to right and Pesut to the delight of the fans made it two third.
Bob Rittenberg was hit in the left shoulder to load the bases. That brought up the shortstop, Don Lopes, who worked Wisneski the full count, when Lopes drew the fourth ball he forced in Pesut with what proved to be the winning run.
Gassaway struck out three and walked two. Victoria got their lone run on three singles in the third. They got their only other hit of the game, a single, in the second.
Ben Lorino rung up his twelfth victory of the season when he blanked the Braves in a six-hit effort in the second game. Ralph Romero, now the victim of a defeat in his last three starts, was charged with the loss. The righthanded ace has nine victories.
Victoria won the game earlier as the first inning when they scored three runs on five hits. They picked up one more in the third and two in tie fourth.
Fritz Brenner was honored in ceremonies between the doubleheader when he was named as the most loyal fan of the Tri-City Braves. Brenner received a watch. The design carried out the baseball idea. Other gifts were also presented to the fans.
First Game
Victoria …. 001 000 0—1 4 0
Tri-City …. 000 102 x—2 6 1
Wisneski and Marcucci; Gassaway and Pesut.
Second Game
Victoria …… 301 200 000—6 11 0
Tri-City …… 000 000 000—0 6 2
Lorino and Marcucci; Romero and Pesut.

SPOKANE, June 28— Spokane and Yakima split a Western International League doubleheader Saturday, Spokane taking the first game 7-0 and Yakima winning the second, seven - inning contest, 4-3.
John Conant won his ninth game of the season, hurling a seven-hit win for Spokane in the first game. Tom Del Sarto pitched the Yakima victory, his fourth against four losses.
First Game
Yakima …….. 000 000 000—0 7 3
Spokane …… 000 111 40x—7 11 1
Thompson, Savage (7), Garrett (8) and Donahue; Conant and Sheets.
Second Game
Yakima …... 003 001 0—4 8 1
Spokane …. 110 010 0—3 9 5
Del Sarto and Albini; Roberts, Spring (3), Chase (7) and Sheets, Hinz (3).

LEWISTON, Idaho, June 28—Jake Helmuth's home run in the seventh inning with none on base provided the margin of victory for Lewiston's 3-2 Western International League win over Wenatchee Saturday.
It gave Lewiston a 2-0 lead in the four-game series.
It was the third loss against eight wins for Wenatchee hurler Charlie Oubre.
The two teams will finish their series with a Sunday doubleheader.
Wenatchee …. 100 000 001—2 6 1
Lewiston …….. 100 001 10x—3 8 0
Oubre and Robinett; Thomason and Helmuth.

Vancouver at Salem, postponed, rain.

TEAM BATTING
    g  ab   r   or  h   tb  2b 3b hr sh sb  bb  so pct
Victoria
   58 2005 353 261 572 762 117 11 17 36 51 327 260 285
Lewiston
   61 2126 348 350 592 829 101 23 30 32 37 304 250 278
Vancouver
   53 1800 258 217 482 629  68 26  9 30 30 256 186 268
Spokane
   65 2162 306 286 578 724  73 23  9 48 52 302 295 267
Salem
   62 2083 274 280 520 665  87 23  4 31 34 296 307 250
Yakima
   84 2173 320 388 549 740  89 27 16 45 55 341 324 249
Wenatchee
   63 2071 286 329 513 664  88 15 11 42 29 250 292 248
Tri-City
   64 2081 317 349 499 666  74 21 17 42 45 374 374 240

TEAM FIELDING
                w  l t dp tp pb  po   a    e pct
Salem ........ 28 34 0 74  0  4 1611 761  66 973
Tri-City ..... 27 37 0 46  0 10 1682 687  90 963
Vancouver .... 30 23 0 64  0  2 1402 638  80 962
Wenatchee .... 30 33 0 53  0  9 1629 564  98 959
Victoria ..... 40 18 0 54  0  9 1554 645  94 959
Spokane ...... 37 28 0 66  0  2 1697 707 125 951
Lewiston ..... 30 31 0 47  0 17 1591 676 116 951
Yakima ....... 28 41 0 72  0 11 1658 740 110 956
Figures include games of Sunday, June 22.