Bill
"Spaceman" Lee
Yasuo Fujitsu - 1967 MSG Winning Pitcher
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1967 Midnight
Sun Game
Japan Whips Panners 10-3 Before 5,000 Fans
The Kumagai-Gumi team from Japan took the final game of a four-game home
series with the Goldpanners 10 to 3 before a record 5,000 fans in Growden
Field last night.
The Japanese had nine Hits, including three doubles and a triple. Goldpanner
pitchers Bill Lee and Brent Strom aided the. Japan case by issuing 10 walks,
and the usually reliable Goldpanner defense chipped in with seven errors
allowing the Japanese team to score seven unearned runs.
Japan drew first blood by scoring a run in the first without the aid of a
hit After Teruyasu Jinno was thrown out on a hopper to second, Lee walked
Hironori Kato and Masayuki Furuta. Tomoyuki Ito hit sharply too short to
force Kato at second but Alvin Strane's throw to first was wide of the mark
for an error allowing Kato to score from second.
The Goldpanners were held scoreless until the fourth when they scored all of
their runs.
Marvin Galliher opened the inning with a single to center and promptly
scored as Bill Seinsoth hit his second home run in two nights. Yasuo Fujitsu
replaced starter Toshihisa Okabe and got Steve Klausen on a grounder to
third. Jim Nettles then tripled to right and scored as Gary Sanserino lined
a one baser to left.
The Kumagai jumped on Lee for four big runs to take 'the lead in the top of
the fifth on three hits and two Fanner errors. Kato led off with a
double to left and) after Furuta lined out sharply to Nettles in right, came
riding home on Ito's single. When Klausen hobbled the ball Ito took
second, then Konishi drove Ito in with a single to center and later scored
on Sunao Kawano's booming double.
The Kumagai added to their lead in ,the sixth, scoring three runs on three
bases on balls, Kazuo Yamamoto's single and another Goldpanner error. The
Panners could do little off Fujitsu the rest of the game as the little
hurler gave up but five hits while striking out eight in the six innings
that he worked.
The Panners and the Kumagai-Gumi team will journey to Anchorage Friday for
four games Saturday through Tuesday ending the eight-game series. The next
Goldpanner home series begins June 30 with Sam Suplizio's Grand Junction
Eagles.
Box Scores
Goldpanners
Strane, Alv., 2B
Wilson (8), 2B
Strane, Alb., SS
Galliher, CF
Gallagher (8), CF
Seinsoth, IB
Klau'sen, LF
Griffin (8), LF
Nettles, RF
Sanserino, 3B
Nitschke, C
Lee, P
Boone (5), PH
Strom (6), P
Hannah (9), PH
TOTALS |
AB R H E RBI
4 0 2 1 0
1 0 0 0 0
4 0 2 1 0
3 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
3 1 1 0 2
3 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
4 1 1 1 0
4 0 1 0 1
4 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 1 0
1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 0 0
35 3 10 7 3 |
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Kumagai-Gumi AB
Jih'no, SS
H. Kato, LF
Kawasaki (8), LF
Furuta, 2B
Ito, CF
Konishi, 3B
Yamamoto, IB
Kawano, C
Tamamori, RF
Ushiro (9), RF
Okabe, P
Fujitsu (4), P
Nishida (9), PH
TOTALS |
R H E RBI
6 1 1 0 1
3 3 1 0 0
1 0 1 0 2
5 0 0 0 0
6 2 2 0 1
3 2 2 0 1
4 0 1 0 1
2 1 1 0 1
2 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
3 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
38 10 9 0 7 |
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Kumagi 100 033 003-40 9 0
Panners 000300000—3107
Okabe, Fujitsu (4), and Kawano
Lee, Strom (7) and Nitschke
HR: Seinsoth, in 4th, one one
(2nd)
WP-Fujitsu (1-1)
LP-Lee (0-1) |
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June 22, 1967 - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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