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(June 6) Edmonton Eskimos
announced the signing of six Canadians for the 1958 season.
The Esks, with several players to be delayed because of the
collegiate playoffs, bolstered the club by the acquisition of
pitchers Gerald Dale (Ike) Eikerman of Duhamel, Ron Babiuk
of the Campion Pipeliners and Ron Gates of WIldwood
and infielders Gene Kinasewich, Herb Sewers
and Ed .
(June 8) Jerry Adair
belted a grand slam homer on opening day to lead the Oilers to a
12-1 trouncing of Regina at Williston. Dick Pudina
also homered for the winners. Al Eisle pitched
a five-hitter to gain the victory.
Risinger, Jones (7) and Walling
Eisle and Williams
(June 8) Lloydminster-North Battleford
opened the 1958
season with a win as Paul Williams held the Eskimos
to seven hits and the Combines scored a 7-4 victory before nearly
2-thousand fans at Lloydminster. Williams fanned
eight and walked only one. John McLane and John
Ford each had two hits for the Combines with Ford
collecting four runs batted in. Wildness hurt Eskimo starter
Art Schirmer who allowed eleven walks and hit a
batter.
Schirmer, Babiuk (7) and Equals
Williams and Tanner
(June 10) A three-run homer by
Bob Bodine in the sixth inning and a two-run blast
by Dick Pudina in the seventh powered Williston to
their second straight win over Regina, 9-3. The game drew
just 116 shivering fans. Jerry Adair, who led
the Oiler offense the previous day, pitched a six-hitter to gain
the win. John Kellner had a homer for the
Braves.
Shirley and Walling
Adair and Williams
(June 10) Gene Kinasewich
drove in two runs with a single in the ninth as Edmonton shaded
the Combines 5-4 in Lloydminster. John McLane
knocked in three runs with a sixth inning homer for Lloydminster-North Battleford. Paul
Springer was a hard luck loser. He gave up only six
hits and fanned eleven but three errors accounted for four
unearned runs. Dale Eikerman picked up the win in
relief.
Gates, Eikerman (5) and Equals
Springer and Tanner
(June 10) 23-year-old Bill
Poole, from the University of Tulsa, held Saskatoon to four
hits as Moose Jaw whipped the Commodores 10-2 as the two teams
launched the new season at Saskatoon. Poole fanned eight and
walked eight. Left fielder Homer Garner belted
a three-run homer in the fourth to give the Mallards a lead they
never relinquished. 12-fans braved cool temperatures
to watch the opener.
Poole and Strother
Bowes and Jackson
(June 10) It was
reported that Ernie Nevers, star hurler with Moose Jaw in
1957, had signed a pro contract with Kansas City. Nevers,
with a 5-0 mark with the University of Missouri, won 15 games in
'57 pitching for Moose Jaw and with the Canadian entry in the
Global World Series.
(June 11) An outstanding
relief effort by Jim Robertson cooled off the Eskimos and
the Lloydminster-North Battleford Combines ruined the Edmonton home opener with a 12-9
victory. Robertson, brought into the game in the 8th inning,
after three Edmonton runs had narrowed the Combines' margin to
11-9, struck out five consecutive batters. Curly Williams
was the hitting star for the winners with three hits and three
runs batted in. Roger Tomlinson of Edmonton had the only
homer and added a triple. Combines had five steals in the game, two by Roberto
Zayas. More then 3-thousand fans sat in on the contest despite
cool weather.
Griggs, Robertson (8) and Tanner
Aldridge, Babiuk (5), Eikerman (6), Gates (8) and Equals
(June 11) Williston's Mark
Sanford gave up 10 hits and 11 walks but was an easy winner as the
Oilers pounded Regina pitching for 14 hits and took advantage of
nine errors on the way to a 13-5 victory. Dennis Healy had a
double and two singles for the Oilers.
Sanford and Williams
Bass, Riddell (4) and Walling
(June 11) Saskatoon swept a
double-header from Moose Jaw, 8-2 and 12-0. Gene Graves
pitched a six-hitter in the first game and Lew Hobson tossed a
two-hitter in the nightcap. Commodores got just three hits
in the opener but the Mallards' Jim Stevens walked nine and hit two
batters and the Moose Jaw defense committed four errors.
Saskatoon got 17 hits in the second game led by shortstop Dan
Adams who had four hits and knocked in four runs.
Stevens and Strother
Graves and Jackson
Riggs, Pemberton (6) and Strother
Hobson and Jackson
(June 12) Ed Tanner had four
hits and John McLane poked a homer and batted in five runs to lead
Lloydminster-North Battleford to a 16-11 win at Edmonton.
Combines scored seven in the seventh and four more in the eighth
to build up a 16-3 lead. Eskimos had nine errors.
Robertson, R Williams (8), Griggs
(9) and Tanner
Zacharuk, Eikerman (7), Babiuk (8) and Equals
(June 12) Regina notched its
first win as AC Miller had five hits to pace the Braves to a 10-7
win over Williston. Gerald Walling added three hits for the
winners. Jerry Adair had three hits for the
Oilers.
Eisele and Williams
Lange and Walling
(June 12) Shortstop Dan Adams'
bases-loaded triple in the seventh was the key hit as Saskatoon
scored a 4-3 win over Moose Jaw. The blast broke up a tight
pitching duel between Commodores' Buzz Bartylla and the Mallards'
Dave Kosteniuk. Art Shahzade drove in Adams with a sac fly
for what proved to be the winner.
Bartylla, Yates (9) and Jackson
Kosteniuk and Strother
(June 13) The Eskimos pounded out
13 hits to slip by Lloydminster-North Battleford 8-7 before 14-hundred fans
at Edmonton. Combines scored twice in ninth but John Aldridge
got pinch-hitter Bennie Griggs to ground out with the bases
loaded. John McLane of the Combines led the hitters with
three safeties including a triple.
P Williams, R Williams (8) and
Tanner
Schirmer, Zacharuk (9), Aldridge (9) and Dollar
(June 13) The Mallards shaded
Saskatoon 4-3 before a disappointing turnout of just 300 in Moose
Jaw. Eloyd Robinson of the Commodores had three hits.
Doepker and Jackson
Garner, Poole (9) and Strother
(June 13) Friday the 13th was
a lucky day for Regina. The Braves scored three runs in the
bottom of the ninth to top Williston 10-9. A two-run double
by pinch-hitter Higginio Alvarez and a run-scoring single by
Quinton Gray were the key blows for the Braves. Carl
Washburn had three hits for Regina. Al Leap had a double and
two singles for the Oilers. Steve Bach's grand slam homer was
the big hit for Williston. Roland Jones picked up the win in
a route-going performance.
Lund, Moore (2), Leap (7) and
Williams
Jones and Walling
(June 14) Jim Stevens and
Peter Riggs combined on a five-hitter as Moose Jaw beat Saskatoon
6-2.
Yates, Hobson (4) and Jackson
Stevens, Riggs (8) and Strother
(June 15) The Combines bashed
out 14 hits to trounce Moose Jaw 15-4 to move into first place, a
half game up on the idle Williston Oilers. Roberto Zayas had a
triple and three singles, Leon Wilson smashed a pair of triples
and a single and Curly Williams chipped in with two doubles.
Mallards got their runs on two, two-run homers from Fig Newton and
Jerry Coody. Combines rang up seven steals.
Bennie Griggs went the distance to pick up his second win holding the Mallards to five hits.
Poole, Riggs (4), Pemberton (7) and
Strother
Griggs and Tanner
(June 15) A three-run rally
in the eighth inning gave Edmonton an 8-7 victory over
Regina. Roger Tomlinson drove in two runs to tie then
scored the winner on Art Chapman's double. Second baseman Jimmy Johnson led the Esks with three
hits. Carl Washburn of the Braves had the only homer.
Wally Zacharuk was the winner in relief.
Riddell and Walling
Tatro, Zacharuk (6), Schrimer (9) and Dollar
(June 16) Paul Springer
scattered 10 hits as the Combines took a 7-2 decision from the
Mallards at Lloydminster. Moose Jaw's Dave Kosteniuk gave up
just seven hits but issued ten bases on balls.
Kosteniuk and Strother
Springer and Tanner
(June 16) Williston erupted
for 11 runs in the sixth inning and went on to whip Saskatoon
16-4. Jerry Adair pitched a six-hitter and was the key man
at the plate with three hits.
Bowes, Bartylla (5), Yates (5) and
Jackson
Adair and Williams
(June 16) Reliever Howard
Bass got the Braves out of a jam in the bottom of the ninth to
preserve a 7-5 win for Regina over the Eskimos before 28-hundred
fans at Edmonton. Bass came on in relief of starter Norwood
Lange with two on and two out in the final frame. Bass faced
Bob Williams who had belted a homer, double, single and a sacrifice
fly. He got Williams to ground out to end the threat. John
Kellner's 9th inning triple drove in the winning run. He added
an insurance marker by scoring on a suicide squeeze.
Roger Tomlinson knocked in a pair for the Eskimos with a
triple and double.
Lange, Bass (9) and Walling
Gates, Zacharuk (2), Aldridge (9) and Dollar
(June 17) Leon Wilson and
John
McLane belted two-run homers in the sixth inning to carry Lloydminster-North Battleford
to
a 9-8 win over Moose Jaw. It was the third straight win for
the Combines over the Mallards. Fig Newton had a homer for
Moose Jaw.
Garner, Riggs (4) and Strother
Robertson, R Williams (4), Ford (6) and Tanner
(June 17) Saskatoon scored
four in the top of the ninth then held off a rally by the Oilers
to beat Williston 9-8. Ike Jackson and Art
Shahzade each had
three hits for the Commodores as did Jerry Adair and
Al Leap for
the Oilers. Bob Bodine and Steve Bach had homers for
Williston.
Graves, Doepker (9) and Jackson
Eisele, Leap (9) and Williams
(June 17) Roland Jones tossed
a four-hitter to lead the Braves to a 3-1 win over the Eskimos in
Edmonton. It was the Esks' third straight loss. In winning
his second game of the season, Jones got home run support from John Kellner and
Quinton Gray.
Already
the Renfrew regulars are comparing Roger Tomlinson with
some of the great Eskimo shortstops of the past ... Tomlinson who
hails from Wayne Tucker's home state of Utah, is being mentioned
in the same breath as Bobby Lillis and Whitey Thomson ... He has
that good arm, goes well either to right or left, and since Lillis,
the Esks have never had such a fine-hitting shortstop except
possibly Len Farrell ... Roger has a good edge over Farrell afield,
or so the early returns would have it ... Tomlinson hits with
power, and had quite a rash or extra-basers during the Esks; first
home stand." (Edmonton
Journal, June 18, 1958)
Jones and Walling
Eikerman, Aldridge (7) and Dollar
(June 18) The Commodores, who
beat Williston with a four-run ninth inning on Tuesday, did it
again Wednesday. The four markers gave Saskatoon a 17-14 win
over the Oilers before 500 fans at Williston. Ron Boone and
Dave Albin paced the offensive. Boone had four hits and
Albin three. Dick Doepker picked up the win in relief.
Zoonie McLean, Dennis Healy and Jerry
Adair each had three hits
for the Oilers.
Hobson, Doepker (5) and Jackson
Sanford, Lund (7), Eisele (9) and Williams
( ) Dick
Pudina of Williston, with a .478 batting average, was the
leading hitter in the first release of league statistics.
Teammates Jerry Adair, .435, and Al Leap,
.421, grabbed the next two spots. Quinton Gray
of Regina was 4th at .391 and Ed Tanner of
Lloydminster-North Battleford followed at .381. John McLane
of the Combines was tied for the homer run lead with Pudina, each
with two, and topped the league in RBI with 11.
(June 19) Regina spotted the
Combines a 5-0 lead in the first inning then roared back to whip Lloydminster-North Battleford
18-6 before 700 fans in Regina. Pee Wee Miller
had four hits
to lead the Braves. John Kellner knocked in six runs with
three hits.
P Williams, Ford (1), R Williams
(6), Robertson (8) and Tanner
Riddell and Walling
(June 19) Buzz
Bartylla, a
20-year-old lefty from Arizona, fired a three-hitter as
Saskatoon crunched the Eskimos 13-0 at Cairns Field.
Bartylla fanned 12 and walked three. Pete
Estrada, who had a
pair of doubles, drove in five runs in extended his hitting streak to ten games. Art
Shahzade had three hits for the Commodores, including a
bases-clearing double.
Schrimer, Eikerman (5) and Dollar
Bartylla and Jackson
(June 19) Jim Stevens fanned 18 batters to tie a
Western Canada Baseball league record as Moose Jaw topped
Williston 8-7. The mark was set last season by another
Mallard, Larry Miller. Stevens allowed eight hits and showed
shaky control, walking eleven. He was replaced by Homer
Garner with two outs in the ninth. Garner got Al
Leap to fly
out to end a threat. Leap had earlier boomed a 420-foot
bases-loaded homer to bring the Oilers back into contention. Fig
Newton had a triple and double for the Mallards.
Moore and Williams
Stevens, Garner (9) and Strother
(June 20) Veteran
Bennie Griggs
went the distance for his third win of the young season as Lloydminster-North Battleford beat Regina
6-2 to stay atop the league standings. Leon Wilson paced
the Combines with three hits.
Griggs and Tanner
Arnold, Morciego (6) and Walling
(June 20) Frank Neri had a homer
two singles and three walks to lead Moose Jaw as the Mallards
clubbed the visiting Williston Oilers 14-4. Bob Foster added
a pair of triples for the winners. Jerry Adair had three
hits for the Oilers. Bill Poole held Williston to seven hits
while the Mallards had 13.
Leap and Williams
Poole and Strother
(June 20) Ike
Jackson slugged
a pair of homers to pace the Commodores to a 10-4 win over
Edmonton at Saskatoon. Playing-manager Wayne
Tucker homered
for Edmonton. Jackie Bowes scattered ten hits to pick
up the win.
Tatro, Schrimer (7) and Dollar
Bowes and Jackson
(June 21) Regina scored six runs
in the first three innings and coasted to a 9-3 win over Lloydminster-North Battleford. Roland Jones won for the third straight
time. Mike Dayne went the distance for the Combines.
Dayne and Tanner
Jones and Walling
(June 21) Morris
Yates, an 18-year-old high school student from
Visalia, California, tossed
a four-hitter to lead Saskatoon to a 5-1 win over Edmonton and top
spot in the league standings, a half game up on the
Lloydminster-North Battleford Combines who lost to Regina. Eloyd
Robinson's two-run homer was all the offense Yates required.
Aldridge and Zubak
Yates and Jackson
(June 21) Fig
Newton's
two-run homer in the seventh carried Moose Jaw to its third
straight win over Williston, 8-7. Jerry
Adair had a homer
for the Oilers.
Bach and Williams
Kosteniuk, Garner (9) and Strother
(June 22) Reinforced with five
players from the University of Southern California, the Williston
Oilers trounced the Combines 12-3 before more than 11-hundred fans
at Williston. One of the newcomers, Jim Barudoni,
scattered 11 hits in going all the
way for the win. Another new face in the lineup, catcher Bill
Heath, had three doubles. Jerry Adair
punched out a two-run homer to run hit hitting streak to 12
games. John McLane, a USC player with the Combines, had a
homer.
Springer, Arnold (2) and Tanner
Barudoni and Heath
(June 23) Jerry Adair of
Williston surged to the top of the batting race with a .475 mark
according to statistics covering games through June 23rd.
Adair increased his average 40 points since the last
release. Butch Dollar of Edmonton was second with a mark of
.440, followed by Lou Pryor of Regina with .414, John
McLane of Lloydminster-North Battleford with .408 and Ron Boone of Saskatoon with .395.
Bob
Bodine of Williston had the most homers, 5. The
free-swinging outfielder struck out 20 times in his first 40 at
bats. McLane had the most runs batted in, 24.
(June 23) Saskatoon handed
the Eskimos their sixth straight setback by beating Edmonton 6-1
before 21-hundred fans at Renfrew Park. Gene
Graves chalked
up his third win without a loss in pitching a five-hitter. Pete
Estrada of the
Commodores belted an inside-the-park homer in the eighth inning to run his
hitting streak to 13 games.
Graves and Jackson
Gardner and Dollar
Eskimos announced the signing of
pitcher Ralph Vold
who
started the season with Phoenix of the Pacific Coast League.
Edmonton also introduced a new third baseman, Don Biasotti
from USC.
(June 23) Catcher Bill
Heath
was a one-man wrecking crew as the Oilers whipped Lloydminster-North Battleford
15-4.
Heath, who had three doubles in Sunday's game, clouted a two-run
homer, a double and a pair of singles. Jerry
Adair helped
out with a triple and a pair of doubles. Leon
Wilson had
three hits for the Combines.
P Williams and Tanner
Blakeslee and Heath
(June 23) Moose Jaw scored
twice in the bottom of the eighth to salvage a 14-14 tie with
Regina. The error-filled contest was called after eight
innings because of darkness. Playing-manager Cliff
Pemberton
was the game's best hitter with a three-run homer, a double and
two singles. Gerald
Walling had a two-run homer for the
Braves.
Lange, Bass (4) and Walling
Riggs, Garner (2), Gregory (7), Kosteniuk (8) and Strother
(June 24) In his first start
for Edmonton, Ralph
Vold tossed a
five-hitter as the Eskimos broke a six-game losing streak with an 8-2
win over Saskatoon. Catcher Butch
Dollar paced the Eskimos
with a triple and two doubles. Pete
Estrada homered for the
Commodores.
Hobson and Jackson
Vold and Dollar
(June 24) Bill
Thom and Bennie Griggs hooked up in a
pitchers' duel in Williston as the
Oilers pulled out a 3-2 victory over the Combines, their third
straight win over Lloydminster-North Battleford. Steve
Bach's
two-run triple in the eighth was the key blow. Thom allowed
just three hits in gaining the win. Griggs gave up just
five. Curly Williams had a homer for
Lloydminster-North Battleford. Jerry
Adair
was held hitless for the first time in 14 games this season.
Griggs and Tanner
Thom and Heath
(June 24) Regina spotted
Moose Jaw a one-run lead in the first inning then roared back to demolish
the Mallards 22-9. AC
Miller drove in five runs for the
Braves. The only homer went to Moose Jaw's Cliff
Pemberton.
Poole, Pemberton (4) and Strother
Riddell and Walling
(June 25) Edmonton scored four
runs in the bottom of the ninth, with the tying and winning runs
crossing the plate on walks, to beat Saskatoon 5-4 before
42-hundred fans at Renfrew Park. Roger Tomlinson, who had
three hits, delivered a clutch two-run single. Bruce Gardner, in relief of starter
Pat Gillick, picked up the win. The pair blanked
the Commodores' Peter Estrada stopping his hitting streak
at 14 games.
Popkin and Jackson
Gillick, Gardner (6) and Dollar
(June 25) Roland
Jones
held Moose Jaw to six hits as Regina topped the Mallards 4-3
after having lost a 15-14 decision to Moose Jaw in the completion of an earlier
tie game. Jones struck out eight and walked two in winning
for the fourth time. Leroy
Gregory took the loss for the Braves. He allowed seven hits,
fanned 13 and walked five. The winning run scored in the
eighth inning on Quinton
Gray's single. In the completion
contest, Frank Neri drove in
Steve Strother with the winning run
in the 11th inning.
Lange, Bass (4), Jones (9) and
Walling
Riggs, Garner (2), Gregory (7), Kosteniuk (8) and Strother
Jones and Walling
Gregory and Strother
(June 26) Oh what a
homecoming. Cliff Pemberton returned to Saskatoon in a
Mallards' uniform and blasted two homers, a double and a single to
lead Moose Jaw to a 9-6 win over the Commodores. He scored
four times and batted in three. Dave Kosteniuk picked up the
win.
Kosteniuk and Strother
Doepker and Jackson
(June 27) Saskatoon bunted its
way to a 6-5 win over Moose Jaw. The Commodores used the bunt to
tie 4-4, go ahead 5-4 and score the winning run. In the
eighth inning, playing manager Roy Taylor laid one down the first
base line to score Ike Jackson and, with the bases loaded, Dan
Adams followed suit to score Dave Albin. In the bottom of the
ninth, Ron Boone's bunt scored Pete Estrada with the winner.
A dust storm held the crowd down to about 1-thousand.
Riggs, Garner (8) and Strother
Bartylla, Yates (4) and Jackson
(June 27) Edmonton slapped out 14
hits and got a solid pitching performance from Art Schrimer
to top
Regina 8-4 before a shirt-sleeve crowd of more than 1,000 at
Taylor Field. Playing manager Wayne Tucker knocked in three
runs to lead the Eskimos. Third sacker Don Biasotti went
3-3.
Schrimer and Dollar
Bass, Morciego (8) and Walling
(June 27) Jerry Adair had a grand
slam homer and Zoonie McLean poked a bases-loaded double to pace
the Oilers to a 9-4 win over Lloydminster-North Battleford.
It was the Oilers fourth win in four games with the Combines.
Lloydminster-North Battleford had homers from
Leon Wilson and Monte Bond. Tom
Bergeron and John McLane
each had three hits for the Combines.
Conroy and Heath, Bach (5)
Arnold and Tanner
(June 27) Mike Dayne, scheduled
to join the Lloydminster-North Battleford Combines, may have ended his pitching career
after breaking his ankle and "the major bone of the leg above
the knee" in a tournament game in Lacombe.
(June 28) Combines pulled out an
8-6 win over Williston on two big hits in the sixth inning. John
McLane belted a bases-loaded double and Monte Bond followed
with a triple to give Lloydminster-North Battleford four runs. The Oilers had grabbed
the lead in the top of the inning on Jerry Adair's three-run
homer. Johnny Ford had three hits for the Combines.
The victory moved the Combines into a tie with Williston for
second place, two games back of Saskatoon.
Eisele, Blakeslee (6) and Bach
Robertson and Tanner
(June 28) Pete Estrada and
Ron
Boone each had three hits to pace Saskatoon to an 8-6 win over
Moose Jaw. Estrada had a homer, double and single while
Boone had one extra-base blow, a triple. Gene Graves went
the distance to record his fourth win without a loss.
Poole, Garner (2), Gregory (7) and
Strother
Graves and Johnson
(June 28) Don Biasotti poked
a 9th inning homer to lead Edmonton to a 4-2 win over
Regina. Jim Johnson and
Art
Chapman each had three hits. Bruce Gardner went the distance for the win.
Higgie
Alvarez homered for Regina. Gardner was tagged for 12
hits in gaining his second win of the season.
Gardner and Dollar
Riddell and Walling
(June 29) Roland Jones won his
fifth decision as Regina had 13 hits in downing Edmonton
10-5. Carl Washburn had a two-run homer and single for the
Braves while Higgie Alvarez chipped in with a triple and
single. Braves set a league record with five double
plays.
Aldridge, Zacharuk (5), Schrimer
(6), Gillick (8) and Dollar, Zubak (9)
Jones and Walling
(June 29) Jerry Adair led a 14
hit attack with three safeties as Williston whipped the Combines
10-3. Bob Smith held Lloydminster-North Battleford
to seven hits to pick up the win.
Smith and Bach
Springer and Tanner
(June 30) Saskatoon scored
three runs in the 7th inning to beat the Combines 6-4. Ron
Boone poked a
homer and double for the Commodores. Johnny
Ford and Leon
Wilson each had three hits for Lloydminster-North Battleford.
Lew Hobson, with 9th
inning help from Morris
Yates, picked up the win.
Griggs and Tanner
Hobson, Yates (9) and Johnson
(June 30) Bob
Foster's
two-run single in the 8th inning sparked Moose Jaw to a 7-5 win
over Regina. Jim Stevens got the win with a six-hitter.
Morciego and Walling
Stevens and Strother
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