Events of Monday, May 15, 1961 (original) (raw)

Events of Monday, May 15, 1961

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Events of Monday, May 15, 1961

5-14-1961 5-16-1961 5-15-1960 5-15-1962

DET A 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 - 10 15 0 BAL A 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 1 - 5 11 2

BOX+PBP WP: Foytack (2-2) LP: Hall (1-2) HR: Herzog (3)

CLE A 0 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 - 13 21 0 BOS A 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 3 1

BOX+PBP WP: Grant (2-0) LP: Wills (1-2) HR: Romano (3), Yastrzemski (3)

MIN A 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 - 5 8 0 CHI A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 1

BOX+PBP WP: Pascual (3-3) LP: McLish (2-3)

LA A 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 - 3 10 1 KC A 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 x - 5 8 0

BOX+PBP WP: Daley (4-4) LP: Bowsfield (0-1) HR: Bilko (2), Bauer (1)

MIL N 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 - 7 8 2 LA N 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 - 5 7 0

BOX+PBP WP: Burdette (3-1) LP: Podres (5-1) HR: Mathews 2 (6), Thomas (3), Burdette (1), Neal (4)

CHI N 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 1 8 1 SF N 5 0 0 0 3 0 5 1 x - 14 18 0

BOX+PBP WP: McCormick (4-1) LP: Ellsworth (0-3) HR: M. Alou (1), F. Alou (4), Cepeda 2 (9)

Standings At Close of Play of May 15, 1961

NL

Team Name G W L T PCT GB RS RA San Francisco Giants 27 18 9 0 .667 - 138 99 Los Angeles Dodgers 31 18 13 0 .581 2.0 161 143 Pittsburgh Pirates 25 14 11 0 .560 3.0 113 105 Cincinnati Reds 27 15 12 0 .556 3.0 105 93 Milwaukee Braves 24 12 12 0 .500 4.5 116 122 St. Louis Cardinals 24 11 13 0 .458 5.5 100 99 Chicago Cubs 27 10 17 0 .370 8.0 96 136 Philadelphia Phillies 27 8 19 0 .296 10.0 84 116

AL

Team Name G W L T PCT GB RS RA Detroit Tigers 30 21 9 0 .700 - 187 123 New York Yankees 27 16 10 1 .615 3.0 122 111 Minnesota Twins 28 16 12 0 .571 4.0 140 148 Cleveland Indians 28 15 13 0 .536 5.0 119 101 Baltimore Orioles 30 15 14 1 .517 5.5 141 131 Kansas City Athletics 24 11 13 0 .458 7.0 116 128 Washington Senators 30 13 17 0 .433 8.0 82 105 Chicago White Sox 27 11 16 0 .407 8.5 118 125 Boston Red Sox 26 10 16 0 .385 9.0 90 124 Los Angeles Angels 26 9 17 0 .346 10.0 106 125

ML League Leaders

Last Games on This Date

Team Player Name (Age) LA A Fritz Brickell (26)

Deaths on This Date

Transactions

Chicago White Sox released Joe Ginsberg.