Wednesday, April 26, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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University Daily Kansan SPORTS KC Athletics Break Recordin20-2Win
Live it up you long-suffering Kansas City fans!
No one is more entitled.
This is one time you can really rave about a fearsome powerhouse like those record-busting Athletics and who's going to give you any back talk?
START THE CONVERSATION mildly, maybe even by discussing how greatly improved the Minnesota Twins look this year. Everyone is sure to agree.
It marked the most runs ever scored in Kansas City's Major League history, topping the previous club high of 17 runs registered against the Boston Red Sox on June 15, 1958 and against the Cleveland Indians on April 24, 1957.
Then drop the bomb by casually mentioning last night's score—Kansas City 20. Minnesota 2.
sas City lineup who failed to connect safely in last night's 16-hit onslaught was rookie pitcher Norm Bass, making his first Major League start. Understandably, Bass wasn't too upset, though, because he limited the Twins to seven hits and gained his first victory even though he issued nine walks.
For all the heavy slugging, there wasn't a single home run hit in the game, played before a meager but delighted crowd of 4,664 at Kansas City.
THE ONLY PLAYER in the Kan-
BILL TUTTLE, the only player left on the club who participated in the 17-6 shellacking of Boston three years ago, drove in four runs with a triple and two singles. The A's routed loser Ted Sadowski during a six-run rally in the third inning and then rubbed the Twins' noses in the dirt with an eight-run outburst in the sixth.
San Francisco Wins; Moves Into NL Lead
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Willie McCovey came out of a slump with a home run and a single against the Los Angeles Dodgers that led the San Francisco Giants to a 3-1 victory Tuesday night and enabled them to take over first place in the National League.
ROOOKIE SECOND BASEMAN Chuck Hiller doubled and then scored the Giants' first run in the opening frame on McCovey's single. McCovey then produced what proved to be the winning run when he led off the fourth with a homer over the left field screen at Los Angeles Coliseum.
McCovey drove in two of the Giants' runs off loser Don Drysdale while Jack Sanford and Stu Miller combined to stifle the Dodgers on four hits.
Sanford, the winner, had a two-hit shutout until running into trouble in the sixth. He gave up two more hits in that frame before Miller took over and held the Dodgers hitless the rest of the way.
LEW BURDETTE HELD the St. Louis Cardinals to six hits and earned his first victory of the season in pitching the Milwaukee Braves to a 4-3 triumph.
The Braves trailed 2-1 until the eighth when they knocked out loser Curt Simmons during a three-run
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rally. After Hank Aaron singled home the tying run off reliever Lindy McDaniel, Milwaukee loaded the bases and Lee Maye grounded to Red Schoendienst. One run crossed on the grounder and another one tallied when Schoendienst threw wild.
The Cedar Rapids-Fox Cities and Burlington-Des Moines first game encounters were both postponed when the mercury dipped well below baseball-playing weather.
Topkea's Harvey Alex, who walked 10 men and needed help in the 9th inning to shut off a Lincoln rally, became the first hurler to enter the league's win column. For Lincoln, starter Fritz Ackley lasted only three innings and suffered the loss.
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RAIN CAUSED postponement of the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh game and the Cincinnati-Chicago contest.
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Baltimore beat Cleveland, 5-2, and Boston defeated Washington, 6-1, in American League games. Wet grounds caused postponement of the Los Angeles Angels-Chicago White Sox game, and rain washed out the game between the first place Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees.
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