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35-22, First Place, 1 game ahead of Detroit. Mickey Mantle is hitting .302,.397,.558. He's third in the AL with 15 home runs and has driven in 35 runs. Maris continues to struggle in the average department, .218, but he's walked a team high 37 times. Maris has 34 rbi on the season and 10 home runs. At this time 61 looks impossible. Moose Skowrun has 9 home runs and 34 rbi, but his average has fallen to .244.
Whitey Ford is now 9-5, 2.08, 115 strikeouts. Ralph Terry is now 6-5, 1.92 over 11 starts. Bill Stafford is starting to get regular starts and is thriving in the roll, 5-1. 2.80. Stafford has thrown 2 consecutive complete game shutouts.
We just ran off 8 straight wins. We then met up with Gary Bell and once again we were helpless against him, scoring only 1. Bell has now tossed 18 innings against us, allowing only a Mickey Mantle solo shot. The Yankees are 11-6 so far in the month of June.
In other news, Norm Cash is not anywhere close to being 1961 Norm Cash, .262, 12, 31.
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