Thursday 26 July 2007

Friday, August 12, 1949

W L PCT
Yakima ..... 81 41 .664 —
Vancouver .. 75 45 .625 5
Spokane .... 64 58 .525
Wenatchee .. 61 62 .495
Victoria ... 55 68 .447
Bremerton .. 51 70 .421
Salem ...... 51 71 .418
Tacoma ..... 50 73 .407


VANCOUVER, Aug. 12—Righthander Vern Kindsfather pitched a three hitter and Bud Sheely smashed two home runs as the Vancouver Capilanos defeated the Spokane Indians 5-1 on Friday night.
Sheely singled in the first run of the game in the first inning, the first of his five RBIs. he hit a solo homer in the fourth and a two-run shot in the sixth.
The Caps pulled off a remarkable double-play to help Kindsfather to his 15th win. In the fourth inning, and two runners on base, Jack Calvey powered a fast ball 400 feet into centre field. Dick Sinovic raced to the fence and caught the ball one-handed over his shoulder. A fast relay to Ray Tran and then to Bob McLean doubled Ken Richardson off first base.
Spokane ....... 000 000 001—1 3 3
Vancouver .... 010 112 00x—5 9 0
Bishop, Kimball (7) and Parks; Kindsfather and Sheely.

VICTORIA, Aug, 12—Merle Frick surrendered 12 bases on balls, hit a batter and uncorked three wild pitches, but still came out with a win as the Wenatchee Chiefs thumped the Victoria Athletics 10-2 Friday night.
He was reached for only three hits and two were of the fluky variety. Only Jim Propst's smash through the middle was well tagged.
Trailing 3-0 as they came to bat in the third, the A's tallied once on a hit batter, a walk and John Hack's bloop double to righ. Two strikeouts, the last one with the bags loadde, stopped the threat.
Jim Warner continued to pound Victoria pitching. He doubled off Propst and scored the first run of the game in the first inning, smashed a two-run homer in the third, connected for singles in the fifth and seventh, then smashed out homer No. 35 in the eighth. He scored four times and batted in four runs, but was also Propst's eighth strikeout victim in the ninth.
A's notes: Righthander Dick Mitchell has agreed to finish out the season with the A's.
Wenatchee ....... 102 000 223—10 11 0
Victoria ............. 001 001 000—2 3 4
Flick and Winter; Propst and Day.

Bremerton ....... 200 010 000—3 9 4
Yakima ............. 001 004 00x—5 5 2
Dahle, Pirack (6) and Ronning, Neal (5); Savarase and Orteig.

Salem ........... 000 002 021—5 12 5
Tacoma ........ 224 000 04x—12 15 1
Drilling, G. Peterson (4), Foster (8), Hedington (8) and Burgher; Fortier and Sheets.

No comments: