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Mantle walks over Twins, 5-4

NEW YORK, Apr 13(AP)-Mickey Mantle coaxed a bases-loaded walk from reliever Ray Moore in the bottom of the 9th as the Yankees completed a comeback from a 4-1 deficit to beat Minnesota, 5-4. The Yankees scored 3 times in the bottom of the 8th to force the tie, getting key hits on Moose Skowron's 2-run triple and subsequent single by Tony Kubek. The Twins built a 4-1 lead on the pitching of Camilio Pascual and a 3-run 6th inning highlighted by Bob Allison's lead-off homer, a sac fly by Pascual and RBI single by Lenny Green.

Richardson starts game-winning rally
After reliever Luis Arroyo led off the inning with a grounder to short, Bobby Richardson singled to begin the rally. Hector Lopez drew a walk, then Yogi Berra singled, holding Richardson at 3rd to set up Mantle's heroics. Mantle, who had walked his previous 2 times up, worked the count to 3-2 before Moore's pitch landed low into Hal Naragon's glove for the game-winning run. Arroyo pitched 3 perfect innings in relief of Bob Turley to get the win and series sweep for the Yankees.

Game notes
-Richardson has 6 hits in 2 games(10 at-bats).
-Skowron has driven in 4 runs
-Twins lost Jim Lemon(1 game), Earl Battey(3 games) to injury.

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