IN THE NEWS: Yankees CF Tom Tresh joins teammate Mickey Mantle among four American League and five National League players to hit home runs left- and righthanded in one game. The Yanks beat Baltimore 5–4. A tired Mantle, who had partied the night before, adds a pinch homer in the 8th, jumping on the first pitch from Mike McCormick.
P Curt Simmons of the Cardinals drives in a run with a triple in the second and then steals home on an aborted squeeze play. He also knocks in another run and beats the Phils 7–3. Simmons, who in his 20-year career will steal just two bases, is on 3rd base when a squeeze play goes awry, and beats a wide throw to home from P Chris Short. It is the last steal of home by a pitcher until 1983, and just the 4th in the NL in the last 40 years. Harry Dorish in 1950 stole home, the last time an AL pitcher did pull off a theft.
IN THE NEWS: With the Senators ahead 5–3 on 4th-inning homers by Don Zimmer and Ed Brinkman, Nats starter Ed Hobaugh hits his only career home run in the same frame off Cleveland's Jerry Walker. The Tribe knocks out Hobaugh but the Senators hold on to win, 8–7. Hobaugh's homer comes on his last official at bat: in his one more plate appearance, he draws a walk. Hobaugh joins Buster Narum this year as the first pitchers to have more homers than wins in a year. It'll be matched this century by Dave Eiland in 1992.
At the Polo Grounds, Pete Rose hits the first pitch of the game from Jay Hook for a homer. It's the only score as the Reds win, 1–0. Jim Maloney strikes out 13 Mets in the win.
IN THE NEWS: Baseball historian Lee Allen says the Indians-Senators game is the 100,000th in ML history. Bennie Daniels celebrates by beating the Tribe 7–2.
IN THE NEWS: Braves P Warren Spahn (20-5) ties Christy Mathewson's National League record with his 13th 20-win season by notching a 3–2 victory in Philadelphia. Gene Oliver's 2-run home run in the 8th, off Dallas Green, is the deciding blow. At 42, Spahn becomes the oldest 20-game winner.
IN THE NEWS: Stan Musial hits a HR in his first at bat as a grandfather, and Bob Gibson (17-8) blanks the Cubs 8–0.
At New York, the Giants trail 3–0 after 7 innings when manager Alvin Dark sends up consecutive Alous to bat in the 8th. Pinch hitter Jesus Alou grounds out, pinch hitter Matty Alou strikes out, and leadoff hitter Felipe Alou bounces back to P Carlton Willey. The Giants lose, 4–2. Willie McCovey's 38th homer and Orlando Cepeda's 29th account for the SF scoring.
IN THE NEWS: Angel's pitcher Aubrey Gatewood beats the Red Sox 4–1 for his first ML win. Gatewood was drafted by the Angel in the 1960 American League expansion draft, then drafted by the Mets a year later in the National League draft.
Whitey Ford tops the host A's, 8–2, as Mickey Mantle's homer in the first provides all the scoring Whitey needs. Mantle is 3-for-4 with four RBIs.
At Crosley Field, the Reds score nine runs in the 4th enroute to a 14–3 thrashing of the Braves.
IN THE NEWS: The Dodgers split in Philadelphia and lead the Cards by two 1/2 games. Chris Short tops Sandy Koufax, 3–2, in the opener, before Ron Perranoski wins the nitecap, 2–1.
Jim Bouton's 20th win, 2–0 at Minnesota, clinches the Yankees 28th pennant.
IN THE NEWS: The Dodgers and Cardinals begin a first-place showdown before 32,442 fans at Busch Stadium. Ron Perranoski saves a 3–1 win for Johnny Podres and the Dodgers.
IN THE NEWS: Sandy Koufax gets his 11th shutout, a modern ML season record for a lefty. His eight strikeouts give him 306, an National League record, as the Dodgers top the Cards 4–0.
IN THE NEWS: Rookie Dick Nen crushes St. Louis's pennant hopes with a 9th-inning game-tying home run off reliever Ron Taylor. Ron Perranoski wins 6–5 in 13 innings for a 3-game sweep of the threatening Cards. Nen's home run is his only hit in eight at bats with the Dodgers.
The last ML game at the Polo Grounds draws 1,752 fans to see Philadelphia beat New York 5–1. Jim Hickman hits the final New York home run in the historic park, and Chris Short beats Craig Anderson.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees edge the Athletics, 5–4 in 13 innings. Rookie 2B Pedro Gonzalez helps the win by pulling the hidden ball trick in the 11th frame and tagging out A's OF Ken Harrelson, who had advanced to 2B after a single and a sac bunt. As noted by Bill Deane, Gonzalez plays only seven games in the field this year.
IN THE NEWS: Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew ties an American League record with four home runs in a doubleheader, a split with the Red Sox. Minnesota loses 11–2 after winning the opener 13–4. The Killer has three homers in the lid lifter.
Kansas City beats New York, 5–3, despite homers by Berra and Mickey Mantle. For Yogi, it is his 358th and last home run.
IN THE NEWS: For the first time, all three Alou brothers share the outfield. In the seventh inning, Matty Alou is in LF, Felipe Alou replaces Willie Mays in CF, and Jesus Alou is in RF. In the 8th, the three are retired, 1, 2, 3. But the offense comes from Willie McCovey who hits three homers as the Giants whip the Mets, 13–4.
IN THE NEWS: Using a lineup of nine rookies the Colt 45s lose 10–3 to the Mets. The lineup includes P Jay Dahl, 17 (debut); C Jerry Grote, 20; 1B Rusty Staub, 19; 2B Joe Morgan, 20; 3B Glenn Vaughan, 19; SS Sonny Jackson, 19 (debut); and outfielders Brock Davis, 19, Aaron Pointer, 21, and Jim Wynn, 21. Dahl loses his only ML game at 17 and will die in an auto accident at 19. Houston 2B Joe Morgan will play 22 years, and 1B Rusty Staub, 23. Aaron Pointer singles for his only hit this year: his sisters will do better with a top-10 hit of "Fire," by Bruce Springsteen. Joe Hoerner and Danny Coombs follow Dahl to the mound in their ML debuts. 20-year-old P Larry Yellen debuted yesterday and 18-year-old OF Ivan Murrell debuts tomorrow.
At St. Louis, the Reds John Tsitouris pitches a 2-hit, 3–0 shut out over the Cardinals. In his last three starts, Tsitouris has pitched three shutouts and allowed eight hits.
IN THE NEWS: On Stan Musial Day in St. Louis, The Man has two hits, giving him an National League career total of 3,630. His 1st hit is a 4th inning single past 2B Pete Rose. After his 2nd hit off Jim Maloney, driving in his 1,951st run, Musial retires for a pinch runner as 27,576 roar their approval. Rose has three hits in the game but the Cards beat the Reds in 14 innings 3–2.
Dave Nicholson suffers his 174th and 175th strikeouts, a ML record, as Washington beats Chicago 9–2.
Houston's run of successful debuts by young rookies is capped by OF John Paciorek, 18, who goes 3-for-3 in his only ML appearance, driving in three runs and scoring 4. Brother Tom Paciorek will do much better (1970-87) with 1162 hits and his brother Jim will collect 23. The Colt 45's beat the Mets, 13–4.
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