Loss: Lancaster(0-2)BS(1)
MaGee 8.0 IP, 4 HA, 1 ER(POG)
Flanagan, MaGee, Tucker, and Zimmerman each with 2 hits
Loss: Cipolla(8-2)
Cipolla 8.0 IP, 8 HA, 2 ER
Zimmerman 2 hits
Win: Osbourne(6-4)
Osbourne 8.2 IP, 2 ER
Tucker 4 hits
Osbourne, Padgett, Rader, and Zimmerman 3 hits
We entered this series tied for second place with Pittsburgh but after losing two of three we left it tied with Detroit for third, a game behind
the Minors. The starters were very good in this series. Reliever Joe Lancaster gave up four runs in the bottom of the ninth of game one while
the three starters gave up just six runs in a combined 24.2 innings. With the starters giving up just two runs per game I feel we should have
swept the series so it's really disappointing to lose two of three.
Player of the Series
31-year-old Doc Zimmerman slapped seven hits in the series in 14 at-bats for a hefty .500 batting average.
He had multiple hits in each of the three games and he knocked in a team-best five runs.
Zimmerman came to the Chiefs in a 1956 trade with the crosstown Cougars as a 26-year-old
entering his second full season. He's been a rock in the Chiefs' lineup since the day he arrived.