A former Dodger who found a home and built a love affair with Washington fans, the gentle giant wanted nothing more than to give them one more home run to remember. He comes out again. A week earlier, Shirley Povich , the grand old man of Washington sportswriting, summed up the self-imposed dilemma of Senators owner Bob Short that cost the city major-league baseball at last:. They paid scant heed to the fact that Short foolishly overborrowed to buy the team and then pleaded poverty, and to the stubborn refusal of this novice club owner to hire a general manager, and his record of wrecking the club with absurd deals.
They showed utterly no concern for the Washington fans, who were asked to support last-place teams by paying the highest prices in the league, a little matter Short arranged by trading away his infield and boosting the ticket prices far beyond those of the Baltimore Orioles, who were playing the best baseball in the league only forty miles away. Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley abstained in the first vote on the Senators move, but demanded that Daly decide quickly to buy the team.
Autry was in a New England hospital for surgery. The continuing commotion from there may have knocked the Yankees a little further off their own game, too: They committed three of their five errors between the sixth and the eighth.
Senators right fielder Del Unser grounded back to the box, and Burroughs scored as Aker made his only available play, to first. Aker struck out Ragland, put pinch-hitter Don Mincher aboard with an intentional walk, and surrendered a game-tying RBI double to Elliott Maddox that turned into a side-retiring out when Mincher was thrown out trying to score behind Nelson.
Paul Lindblad pitched two shutout innings for the Senators in the seventh and the eighth. Fans began jumping onto and off the field in the top of the eighth. Maddox sent Ragland home with the second on a sacrifice fly. Fans stormed the field with two outs remaining in the ninth inning and began vandalizing the field. The umpires declared a forfeit to the Yankees. The Senators were leading at the time of forfeiture.
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