The Week (june 4-10)

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Dismayed by the White Sox' abysmal pitching, a Chicago fan placed a classified ad in the Tribune for "Baseball Pitchers, Lefties or Righties. Excellent career opportunities.... Mail your r�sum� in confidence." Among the more than 100 respondents were "Leftee Go Mezz," who wrote, "U can have my servicezz for nuthingg.... I'd hurl for your team for the gloree and the t.v. commurshils I'd surelee gett." Perhaps spurred on by club president Bill Veeck's promise to give all applicants a tryout, the White Sox (5-2) suddenly got outstanding pitching. Steve Stone's three-hitter and two RBIs by Bill Nahorodny took care of Cleveland 2-0. Francisco Barrios defeated the Indians 3-0, and Ken Kravec struck out 12 as he beat the Twins 8-3. Climbing to fifth, the Sox extended their victory string to five games—and to 12 of 13—with Wilbur Wood and Jim Willoughby holding off Minnesota 2-1. Nahorodny and Garr doubled in the two runs. And Ron Schueler allowed only one run in six innings of relief as he beat Texas 4-3.

Oakland (4-4) proved it could slug it out with the best. The A's hit two homers as they beat the Yankees 6-4, cracked six doubles as they outlasted the Red Sox 9-7, and decked Boston again 7-1. Oakland also finessed California 1-0 behind the pitching of Matt Keough. Bob Lacey and Elias Sosa. Keough, 22, whose father Marty and uncle Joe were major-leaguers, squared his record at 4-4 and trimmed his ERA to 2.04, third best in the league for a starter. For Jose Ynocencio Sosa, 25, who is a first cousin of the Alou brothers, the save was his third of the week and ninth of the season for the division-leading A's.

Texas (5-1) leaped from fourth place to second as Dock Ellis won twice, Ferguson Jenkins beat Kansas City 2-1, and Bobby Bonds homered twice. After being obtained last fall from the Mets, where he had received little offensive support, Pitcher Jon Matlack was guaranteed by Ranger owner Brad Corbett that he would get five runs a game. "I should have gotten it in writing," said Mat-lack (5-6), who has been backed with three or fewer runs in nine of his first 12 starts.

After battering Chicago 13-2, Kansas City's hitters also provided its pitchers with scant support as the Royals (2-4) dropped four straight one-run games. Darrell Porter heeded the advice of Manager Whitey Herzog, who said that he found a smaller bat effective when he had faced knuckleballers during his playing days. Using a club two ounces lighter and 2� inches shorter than he normally swings, Porter had five hits against Chicago's Wood during the 13-2 romp.

Two more one-run setbacks left Minnesota (0-5) with a 4-12 record in close encounters.

Ron Jackson of California (4-3) was second in the majors in batting—to Rod Carew's .358—with a .356 average. His most important hit of the week was a 12th-inning single that knocked off New York 4-3. Jackson was also one of four Angels to homer during a 10-7 win in Oakland, his three-run blast in the eighth tying the score at 7-7. Don Baylor, who is second in the league in home runs with 15, settled that contest with a three-run drive in the ninth. Frank Tanana's streak of scoreless innings against Boston in Anaheim was ended at 42?, but Dave LaRoche notched his seventh save and preserved Tanana's ninth victory. Lyman Bostock, batting .344 in his last 33 games, lifted his average to .271. As recently as May 2, it had been . 152.

Shortstop Craig Reynolds of Seattle (2-4) set a club record by extending his hitting streak to 16 games.

OAK 32-25 TEX 29-25 KC 28-25 CAL 29-27 CHI 24-30 MINN 21-34 SEA 19-40

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