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April 20, 2007

Bill Freehan, Al Kaline Power Tigers to Win Over Angels

by @ 10:19 am. Filed under 1967 Angels, 1967 Angels Diary - April, 1967 Tigers, 1967 Tigers Diary - April

April 20, 1967 at Tiger Stadium
Tigers 4 (5-3), Angels 3 (3-5)

The Tigers made it two straight wins at home in a come from behind win over the Angels.  Down 3-2, the Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to take the lead. Gates Brown scored on a wild pitch and Jim Northrup scored on Jay Johnstone’s error.

The Angels scored all three of their runs on homeruns.  Jimmie Hall hit his second homerun in as many days and he drove in two in the fourth inning.  Then Tom Satriano hit a solo shot in the seventh to break a 2-2 tie.

Bill Freehan hit homerun number two and Al Kaline continued his hot hitting with his fourth homerun of the season.  Joe Sparma pitched seven solid innings but it was Fred Gladding who picked up the win with two shutout relief innings.  George Brunet took the loss for the Angels.  He gave up four runs (three earned) on seven hits and four walks with seven strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings.

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