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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThe Syracuse Chiefs have taken over first place in the International League race with four straight victories over the erstwhile league-leading Rochester Red Wings — and they did it the hard way.In three of the victories, theSyracuse pitching staff stopped the hard-hitting Red Wings two runs in 29 innings. In the other one, the Chiefs outslugged the Red Wings for an 11*10 decision A 4-1 triumph Sunday sent the Chiefs to the top of the pack, 10. percentage points in front of the Tidewater Tides, who dropped a 3-2 decision to the LouisvilleColonels.Rochester Is half a game back and tied with Tidewater in percentage, and the Richmond I Braves arc one game behind de-’ j spite a 6-2 defeat Sunday by the 1 Columbus Jets. The Buffalo-Tol-• edo game was rained out.Len Boehmer’s two - run double keyed a three-run first inning that gave Syracuse a sweep of its four-game series with Rochester. The Chiefs packed three of their seven hits and a walk into the inning.1 The Chiefs open a home ser-• ies at 7:30 tonight against the Columbus Jets.Thad Tillotson and Rob Gard-B ner combined to check the Red c Wings on eight hits. Gardner came on in the eighth after Ro-r Chester put together three of its ’ hits for its only run in the sev-'* enth.“ Key hits by Al Lehrer in the ’ third and fourth innings and “ doubles by Don Link and Don *' Fazio in the fourth staked Louisville to a 3-0 lead over . Tidewater. The Tides rallied fortwo runs in the eighth, but relief pitcher Ray Jarvis held thes' lead.[f A four-hit, two-RBI perform-' ance by Angel Mangual and one-hit relief pitching over the last s' three innings by Dick Colpaert 3n were keys to the Columbus vie-tory over Richmond. Mangual• had a double and three singles.
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Oswego Palladium Times
Oswego, New York, US
Mon, Jun 01, 1970
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