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Detroit's highly-touted Denny McLain finally won a game, but the Tigers' batters stole most of McLain's thunder. It was Northup's 380-foot blast into the right-field stands off reliever Larry Jaster which burst the game open in the third...
Mickey Stanley singled to left, and Kaline cracked a single to center, scoring McAuliffe. Washburn headed for the showers. Reliever Jaster pitched to only three men--Norm Cash, who singled in Stanley, Willie Horton, who walked, and Northrup, who did his thing...
...your sport story on the pennant race [Oct. 7] you say that the very fine and most deserving young man, Mr. Larry Jaster of St. Louis, "set a major league record" by shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers five times in a row. Seems to me you should do a little research when you make such statements. He only tied the record set by Grover Cleveland Alexander against the Cincinnati Reds in 1916. I believe Larry is a left-hander-Alex was, of course, a righthanded, sidearm pitcher...
...Alex were here he would not even allow me to make this complaint being perhaps a better sport than I. I would not take a thing away from Mr. Jaster, and at his age he has a very large chance to beat Alex's record many times over. He (Alex) has a few more records for someone to aim for and "beat...
...hits, 2-0-for his fourth straight victory and second straight shutout since suddenly coming to life after losing 16 of his first 25 decisions. Then the Dodgers really seemed to be pretending when they got blanked 2-0 themselves by a 22-year-old Cardinal rookie named Larry Jaster, whose only claim to fame is that he can't seem to lose to Los Angeles. He loses often enough to everybody else: so often, in fact, that the Cards shipped him to the minors for five weeks this spring. That shutout last week was Jaster's fifth...