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Otis9 two-ru- n homer breaks K.C 4sliimp From our wire services BALTIMORE 11, BOSTON 2 at Baltimore Lee Amos Otis, hitting only .157 against Seattle pitching, Forfeit upheld May knocked in four runs on a single, double and slammed a two-ru- n homer in the seventh inning sacrifice fly and rookie Eddie Murray drove in three 7--5 BALTIMORE (UPI) American League President ' Saturday night to lift the Kansas City Royals to a others with four hits to keep the Orioles in the heat of Lee MacPhail backed umpire Marty Springstead's victory over the Mariners in Kansas City. the American League East pennant race with a rout of 5--5, ruling and declared the Baltimore Orioles With the score tied Al Cowens opened the Kansas forfeit theRedSox. -- City seventh -- with a -- single. Losing reliever -- Diego losers .of Thursday night's game at Toronto for of i 0-- 6, two before Otis refusing to take the field in the bottom the fifth Segui, now got the next batters CINCINNATI 8, SAN FRANCISCO 6 at San Fran- connected his 16th of the year. inning, for cisco Mike Lum's three-ru- n homer with one out in 16-ga- me "In the judgement of this office, the circumstances Seattle, which Friday snapped the Royals' melOminningUftedtheRedsovertheGiants. 5--2 5-- 5 in the did not justify manager (Earl) Weaver's taking his winning streak, trailed but tied the score Lum, who was in the game because the Reds' Bill fifth. The Mariners loaded the bases on a walk to Craig team off the field and refusing to continue play," ' Plummer was ejected, connected off reliever Randy Reynolds and singles by Steve Braun and Julio Cruz. MacPhail said. 4-- Moffitt Dan Driessen and Dave Concepcion singled to Jones walked to force in one run and Dan With Toronto leading 0 and coming to bat in the Ruppert lead off the 10th. The victory went to Pedro Borbon, 10-- 4, other two. fifth. Weaver pulled his team from the' field after Meyer singled across the who pitched the final two innings, giving up two hits 3-- , went f or-4- in two of Kansas Springstead, the third base umpire, refused to remove Hal McRae, who drove and one run. City's first five runs with his Major League-leadin- g a tarp covering the pitching mound in the Blue Jay's 50th and 51st doubles of the season, making him the sideline bullpen. TORONTO 3,6, CLEVELAND 0,5 at Cleveland -- first American League player to exceed the 50-mar- k The Blue Jays set a club record by pounding out six since George Kell of the Detroit Tigers did it in 1950. the first time this season, raised his record to 1&6. doubles, including three by Doug Rader and two by Larry Gura, now 7--5, was the winning reliever. The Christenson, relieved by Ron Reed after six innings, Gary Woods, en route to a 6-- 5 victory and a lefthander shut out Seattle on two hits after taking has won 12 of his last 13 decisions. doubleheader split with the Indians. over with two out in the fifth. The loser was starter torn Underwood, 811, who left MILWAUKEE 8, OAKLAND 1 at Milwaukee Sixto PHILADELPHIA 8, ST. LOUIS 4 St. Louis Bob in the third. Outfielder Jim Dwyer, who signed a at - Lezcano slammed his 18th home run and rookie Lary Boone drove in Greg Luzinski three times to lead the conract with the Cards this week, had two of their four RBI. Sorensen won his sixth game in leading the brewers to Phillies over the Cardinals. victory over the A's. Larry Bowa singled in the first inning and after 'Lescano's round-tripp- er followed a leadoff single by Mike Schmidt and Luzinski had walked, Dave Johnson 4, CHICAGO 3 3-- CALIFORNIA at Chicago - Bobby Von Joshua and gave the Brewers a 0 lead in the fly and Garry Maddox singled. Boone run-scori- ng hit a sacrifice Bonds' single in the ninth inning broke a third inning. Milwaukee added another third-innin- g single. then drove in Luzinski with a tie and led the Angels over the White Sox. run on Robin Yount's RBI single. In the third, Schmidt and Luzinski again, drew walks and scored on a force play and Boone's NEW YORK 5,3, CHICAGO 4.4 at Chicago Ed NEW YORK 9, DETROIT 4 at Detroit - Two-ru-n groundout. In the fifth, Luzinski drew his third Kranepool pinch hit a bases-loade- d double with one out homers by Thurman Munson, Dave Kingman, Reggie straight walk, advanced on a double by Maddox and in the ninth inning to lift the Mets to a come-from-behi- nd Jackson and Graig Nettles powered the first place St. Louis' Garry Templeton puts tag on at third scored on Boone's single. win over the Cubs in the first game of a Yankees to a victory over the Tigers and kept their The Phillies' Garry Maddox becomes the back end of a double play Starter Larry Christenson, facing the Cardinals for doubleheader. American League East lead at 2h games..