June 3, 1969...GAME 47 (SEA 10, CLE 1)

The Pilots scored 9 runs off of El Tiante', who is having a down year (1-7, 4.52). Marty Pattin again got pulled early, even though he was tossing a shutout. Looks like Joe and Sal saw Marty laboring and didn't want to risk that 9 run lead. The recipient of the "gimme" win was Bouton, who did throw 4 innings of 1 run / 1 hit ball. Of course that run turned out to be a homer by Lee Maye. Bouton notched his 4th win of the season against 1 defeat. Steve Whitaker had 3 hits and 2 RBI's and Mincher had 4 RBI's. Both homered. Gosger got in again as a pinch hitter and walked which did not help his .063 average. Gut feeling here is that he is not going to be around much longer with numbers like those. Oyler finally got a hit to boost his average to .164. Good thing he's got a great glove.