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Angels stun Pale Hose, 3-1
DP's help Twins feed the "Kitty"
Baseball in 1961 staff
KANSAS CITY-Feed the kitty, they say. Tonight in KC, the Twins did just that, turning 5 double plays en route to a 6-4 win over the A's, making a winner of Jim "Kitty" Kaat, who needed a few of his 9 lives to escape a walk-filled 2nd.
The double plays certainly helped, coming in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th and 9th, not to mention the home run ball, with Earl Battey(2) in the 2nd and Bill Tuttle(1) in the 4th fueling the 12-hit Twin attack.
Jose Valdevielso made the most of his of his early entry, coming in for an injured Zolio Versalles in the 1st and going 3-4 with a double and 2 runs batted in.
But it was the lefty Kaat and the Twin defense that purred on this night, enabling the relocated ex-Senators to go over the .500 mark at 7-6, while the A's dropped to 3-8.

Angels 3, White Sox 1
It was a tale of two Kens at Comiskey Park on this night, Hunt hitting his league-leading 7th home run, McBride going the distance to silence the punchless White Sox, 3-1. It was the expansion Halos 3rd win in 12 games.

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