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III lilllilIIIIIIIIMiniBMmiifir v:: :- : - 10,1968 THE BATTALION Thursday, October 10, 1968 College Station, Texas Page 7 McLain Went From Series Goat To Hero With Win ST. LOUIS OP) — When Denny McLain makes his pitch for a six-figure baseball contract in 1969, Jim Northrup would like to go along for the ride. McLain would be happy to have him aboard—along with all the rest of the Detroit Tigers. “I want To thank every guy on this club,” McLain said Wednes day after going from two-time World Series goat to just-in-time hero as the Tigers pummeled the St. Louis Cardinals 13-1 with the help of Northrup’s grand slam homer. “I wish I could take the whole gang into salary negotiations with me,” said the Tigers’ sore armed pitching ace, who scat tered nine hits while atoning for two Series beatings and setting up a seventh game showdown Thursday. McLain, working with two days rest on a cool, rain-marred after noon and bolstered by a cortisone injection that relieved the pain in his right shoulder, shut out the Cards until the ninth. Northrup, meanwhile, keyed a record-tying 10-run Detroit burst in the third with a bases-loaded blast into the upper deck in right field. “Do you know that this guy has hit five grand slam homers this year and four of them have come while I was pitching,” Mc Lain said. “It went through my mind while I was on deck that I might get another chance to hit one for Denny,” Northrup said. “But when I went up there I was just going for a sacrifice fly.” “I want to say something in Denny’s behalf,” the Tigers’ slug ging center fielder added. “I was playing behind him both times before in this Series and I could tell there was something wrong. He wasn’t throwing right. He told me in the locker room his arm was hurting. But he didn’t want to use it as an alibi.” Somebody told Northrup he sounded like McLain’s press agent. “No,” Northrup replied, “I’m going with him to get that salary raise.” McLain expects his 31 regular season victories will bring him a pay hike to $100,000 or more next year. “I told Northrup to sit down,” said Manager Mayo Smith. “I was afraid he was going to get stepped on the way everyone was jumping around down there.” “I knew it was gone when I hit it,” Northrup said. In all, the Tigers pounded sev en Cardinal pitchers for 12 hits. A1 Kaline, top Tiger hitter in the Series, knocked in four runs with a homer and two singles. “At least we haven’t embar rassed ourselves or the American League,” said Kaline. “We had to win the last two and we did, now we have to win. one more.” Manager Red Schoendienst of St. Louis was something of an exception. “Glad to see your smiling face, Red,” one newsman remarked. “What else can you do?" Schoendienst replied. “They beat the dickens out of us. Every time they moved a bat it was a hit.” What about McLain? Someone noted he got a 12-run lead early. “That DO make a difference,” Schoendienst said, but added: “He pitched good against us in his first start, but hisi control was better today.” he GI adline, .mem- espon- Wire- i.F. & AJ. ion at 7;# xaminatioi. W.M. lit! ice teachit; ontact Di 9-E) or Di. : 439) prioi in counciW lis semesle ines, radia anything 1 kinds s 6011(1 i AccomD, ations, Bt lubs, Ho» Honor S» Honor ports Oink rations, * iciit ■ offi nee Cents- ist of thii nee Cents 1 600111 bums! R» Country I & hundrii 'exas on M e Den, nal 600lli students o! re you needs. 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