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♦ ♦ Senators Score Four in Tenth To Defeat White Sox, 9 to 6 t Grissoms Wildness, Error By Carrasquel Drop Pale Hose Into Second Division By the United Press Washington scored four runs in the 10th ! inning yesterday on three walks, an error t and one hit to beat the Chicago White Sox, 9 to 6, and vault into fourth place in the American League. The outcome put Washington .003 percentage . points ahead of the White Sox, who slipped from second place to the second division as they lost three straight t games to the Senators. Marv Grissoms wildness as he issued 1 passes to Eddie Yost and Gil Coan to open i the 10th put the winning runs on ba * . Both advanced on Jackie Jensens s crifice j and after Mickey Vernon was walked purposely to fill the bases, Pete Runnels hit k what might have been a double play ball 1 to Nellie Fox. Chico Carrasquel dropped the throw at second base, however, and Yost and Coan both scored. Jim Busby singled then to , drive home Vernon with the only hit of the ; inning. Clyde Kluttz and Tom Ferrick also J walked to force another run across. Carrasquel was removed from the game * and it was announced he was struck on the finger by the ball and had been taken to a hospital for x-rays. Senators Tally Four Times in Third Washington had held the lead until the i ninth inning, chiefly by virtue of four runs 3 tallied off starting pitcher Saul Rogovin * in the third inning when Floyd Baker doubled, Eddie Yost walked, Coan tripled j and Jensen hit his third home run. Another - run came in the fourth on singles j by Runnels and Busby and Kluttz outfield I fly. But Sherman Lollar hit his seventh i homer into the left filed lower deck in the ; ninth to tie the score and send the game into overtime. Eddie Robinson had belted a White Sox c four-bagger earlier after Tom Wright I walked in the first inning. Another run resulted - from doubles by Minnie Minoso and I Wright in the third, and the fourth from I a double by Ray Coleman and a single by Fox in the eighth. A Sox rally fell short in the tenth as Phil 1 Masi singled, took second without a play, and scored on Minosos single. Wright also 3 . singled, but Robinson grounded out to end I i the game. The victory was awarded to Ferrick, , i third Senator pitcher to enter the game. i. . It was his third triumph against two losses. . Lou Sleater started and was relieved by Sandalio Consuegra, while Don Johnson I finished the game for Ferrick. Grissom, fourth Sox pitcher following » t Rogovin, Harry Dorish and Chuck Stobbs, i, . was saddled with the loss, his fourth 1 [ against five wins, and Bill Kennedy had to 3 i relieve him. The Sox outhit their rivals, 15 to 9, but t left 13 men stranded while Washington i had only seven left on base. It was the . third loss for Chicago in eight overtime I games.
