Show Reds Reds' Inide Baseball Stra Strategy egy Trims Gia Giants Dodgers Blow Sky High in Dropping Second Game of Season 2 18 By GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK May 8 UP UP Bill Bill McKechnie in recognizing that a delicate combination of pitching hitting and defense makes a champion champi n holds olds that a hitter who can save ball bal ballmes g games mes in the field is more valuable valuable than than a hitter who wh cannot cannot can can- not riot not run field and throw McKechnie h has put his theorIes theorIes' Into practice with the CIncInnati Reds Last year the Reds had heel a weak spot at third and Bill Werber was vas purchased to plug the gap This year Rookie Mike McCormick McCormick mick who may not hit over aver has added defensive strength to to the outfield Now the Reds are getting the pitching and superlative defense to back it up tip That is why they are only half a game out of first place today despite the thes s spurt spur of the Brooklyn Dodgers The Reds won their fifth straight yesterday esterday by forcing the Giants to crack under pressure It was the tenth game of 14 played In which the Reds have played errorless ball and their sixth straight without without without with with- out a fielding miscue With the Giants leading 6 5 after Harry Danning's second homer vitha with lith a mate o on th the Reds pulled awa away to win In 7 In the eighth with two out Eddie Joost and Lannie Lonnie Lonnie Lon Lan nie Frey attempted a double steal Joost smashed Into Banning Danning anc and scored when the New York catcher dropped Alban Glossop's return throw to the plate Then Frank McCormick's single scored Frey with the winning run Its It's either a feast or a famine with the Dodgers They blew sky skyhigh skyhigh high again to lose their second game in 13 starts an 2 18 thrashing thrashing thrash thrash- ing from the Cardinals The Cards smashed out seven homers and tied one 13 13 extra-base extra hits and broke one 29 total bases major league record Johnny Mize and Rookie Eddie Lake each hit two homers Pearson hurled the Phillies to toa a 1 0 shut-out shut over the Cubs with the v winning run scored when Catcher Al AI Todd let the third thin strike get away vay on what should have been the third out The Bees handed the Pirates their seventh straight defeat 9 11 dropping Fr Frankie Frisch's crew into the cellar Lou Finney continued his house afire hitting in the role of sub for Dom Dam DiMaggio and led the Red Sox Sax to a 6 4 victory over the Indians Finney hit two doubles and two singles driving in three runs and scoring another Detroit went into second place by plastering a 4 2 defeat on the Yanks It was the Yanks' Yanks fourth straight loss and dropped them into a tie with the White Sox for last las place Joe DiMaggio returned to action but t failed to aid the faltering faltering falter faltering ing Yankee attack Hal New New- houser Detroit high school bo boy who wont won't be 19 until May 20 baffled the Yanks until he was wa forced out of action in the ninth by a bleeding blister on his pitchIng pitching pitching pitch pitch- ing hand The senators snapped a five five- game losing streak with a 6 5 victory victory vic vic- tory over the Browns in 10 in in- in Four unearned runs helped the White Sox Sax beat the Athletics 6 3 Jack Knott and Pete Appleton Appleton Appleton Apple- Apple ton combined to hold the As A's to five hits |