Friday 20 July 2007

Wednesday, June 29, 1949

STANDINGS
               W  L Pct. GB
Yakima ...... 50 21 .704 —
Vancouver ... 40 28 .588 9½
Spokane ..... 39 32 .549 11
Wenatchee ... 34 38 .472 16½
Salem ....... 31 39 .443 18½
Tacoma ...... 32 42 .432 19½
Bremerton ... 31 41 .431 19½
Victoria .... 27 43 .386 22½


TACOMA, June 29—The Victoria Athletics may be 27 and 43, but their interim manager is 2-0. The A's swept the Tacoma Tigers, 5-2 and 6-2, on the first day of Vic Buccola as the temporary manager.
They gave Jim Propst a 1-0 margin the first game of the opener and then won it with a four-run outburst in the fourth, as Russ Walseth doubled in a pair
Larry Ward held the Tigers to six hits in the night game and took 12 of them on strikes. One of the runs off his delivery was Ed Barr's fourth inning homer.
The A's took a quick lead when Frank Matoh hit one out of the park with a man aboard in the first, added a pair in the fourth and single runs in the eighth and ninth.
First game
Victoria ............ 100 400 0—5 7 0
Tacoma ............ 000 011 0—2 4 2
Propst and Day; Fortier, Clary (6) and Sheets.
Second game
Victoria ........... 200 200 011—6 7 0
Tacoma ........... 000 100 010—2 6 1
Ward and Day; Kerrigan, Clary (8) and Morgan.

SALEM, June 29—Spokane made a clean sweep of its four-game series with the slipping Salem Seantors, now only four games out of the Western International League basement. Bill Werbowski went the distance with a five-hitter as his mates took advantage of two errors to score three runs in the sixth.
Spokane ............ 000 003 010—4 8 1
Salem ................ 100 000 000—1 5 2
Werbowski and Parks; Fredericks and Beard.

YAKIMA, June 29—The Yakima Bears blanked the Wenatchee Chiefs, 3-0, and as might be expected, it was Dewey Soriano who hurled the shutout. The Yakima club president held the Chiefs to five hits and aided in the run-making with a double to make his season's record 12-1.
Wenatchee ........... 000 000 000—0 5 0
Yakima ................. 002 001 00x—3 6 1
McCollum and Pesut; Soriano and Orteig.

Bremerton at Vancouver, rained out.

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