IN THE NEWS: Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale lose as the Pirates sweep the Dodgers in a doubleheader, 3–2 and 2–1, at Pittsburgh. The Pirates are now in 5th place, just two 1/2 games out of first place.
Cincinnati sweeps the Braves 7–6 and 2–0 to regain first place, while the Giants and Phils are rained out. Jim Maloney strikes out 12 in tossing the shutout for the Reds.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs beat St. Louis 5–3 at Wrigley Field, as Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run, a three-run shot off Curt Simmons, in the 3rd. Simmons teed up the 400th home run of Willie Mays in 1963. Banks will end the season with 28 home runs and 106 RBI. Ron Santo and Billy Williams will also knock in over 100 runs, the only team with three such sluggers, but the Cubs will finish 8th.
The Dodgers Claude Osteen tops the Pirates, 7–1,beating 14-game winner Bob Veale. The Bucs will next lose a pair to the Braves to drop Pittsburgh from the race.
Mickey Mantle hits a 1st inning homer with two on as New York scores five runs on their way to an 8–1 win over the Angels. Whitey Ford is the winner.
The Twins beat the Red Sox, 8–7, but get little help from Bob Allison who strikes out five times.
IN THE NEWS: Preparing a move to Anaheim, the Angels change their name from Los Angeles to California.
The Mets top the Cards 6–3 behind the slugging of Jim Hickman, who cranks three home runs off Birds' pitcher Ray Sadecki. Hickman is the first Mets player to hit three home runs in a game.
IN THE NEWS: At Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox sweep two from the Yankees, winning 1–0 and 7–2. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 2nd game, off Dennis Bennett, is the only bright spot for New York.
The Reds score three runs in the 9th to edge the Phillies, 5–4. Deron Johnson drives in the last two runs with a single.
IN THE NEWS: The Reds edge the Phillies, 10–9, despite the slugging of Phils first sacker Dick Stuart. Stuart clouts a grand slam, the 9th of his career, in the 1st inning, then hits a 2-run homer in the 7th.
IN THE NEWS: At Los Angeles, Don Drysdale and the newly signed Warren Spahn face each other again, but both are gone by extra innings. Drysdale lasts eight innings, but Spahn exits after a 1+ inning ripping. The Giants win, 7–6, in 12 innings on Jim Davenport's hit, and move a game behind the first-place Dodgers. Juan Marichal, who hit John Roseboro over the head with a bat 15 days ago, is banned from the trip.
The Phils split with the Cards, taking the 2nd game 10-5 behind Chris Short. Curt Simmons, who had won 17 of 20 from the Phils since they released him, is the loser. Rookie Adolfo Phillips has three doubles and his first ML homer to pace the attack. In the opener, the Cards win, 10–3 behind the spark of Curt Flood, who singles home a run, steals his 56th base, and hits a 3-run homer. He adds a 2-run homer in the nitecap.
IN THE NEWS: Bert Campaneris plays all nine positions against the Angels in a promotion to hype poor attendance at Kansas City. When Campy takes the mound in the 8th inning, the first batter he faces is his cousin Jose Cardenal, who pops out. Campy allows one run, and leaves the game in the 9th after a collision with Angels C Ed Kirkpatrick at home plate when Campy is catching. Rene Lachemann replaces Campy as catcher. The Angels win it in the 13th inning 5–3, with the win going to Campy's batterymate Aurelio Monteagudo.
The Giants take over 1st place for the 1st time this season as reliever Masanori Murikami win 3–1 in Los Angeles, dropping the Dodgers to 2nd place by .002 percentage points. The Giants have now won four straight and will win their next 10.
IN THE NEWS: In LA, a duel between Dodger Sandy Koufax and Bob Hendley of the Cubs is perfect until Dodger LF Lou Johnson walks in the 5th. Following a sacrifice, Johnson steals 3B and scores on C Chris Krug's wild throw. Johnson later gets the game's only hit, a 7th-inning single. Koufax's 4th no-hitter in four years is a perfect game. One hit by two clubs in a completed 9-inning game is also a record, as is the one runner left on base. The two base runners in a game is a ML record. For Chicago pitchers, it is the 2nd one-hitter they've thrown against LA this year and lost.
The Angels waive Lu Clinton and both the Indians and the Athletics claimed him. Since the rule on waivers is that the team lowest in the standings gets first dibs, Clinton joins the Athletics (as noted by Merritt Clifton). He arrives in mid-game and appears as a pinch-hitter, striking out, as California beats the A's, 7–2. He and the Athletics then learned after the game that Clinton has been awarded to the Indians because the Athletics' claim was filed after the 24-hour claiming period had expired. Charlie Finley knew this before Clinton reported to the Athletics, but manager Haywood Sullivan, fed up with Finley's second-guessing, didn't answer the telephone during the game, and therefore didn't find out.
IN THE NEWS: Phils rookie Ferguson Jenkins debuts with four 1/3 innings of relief against the Cardinals and picks up his first victory. Philadelphia wins 5–4 in 12 innings. It is the Phillies 10,000th game decision since 1900.
The Orioles sweep a pair from Kansas City, 5–2 and 10–5. In game 2, the O's get consecutive home runs by in 8th from Brooks Robinson, Curt Blefary, and Adair.
IN THE NEWS: Tony Cloninger's one-hit, 9–0 win is Milwaukee's 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets, tying a ML mark set 48 years ago. Wade Blasingame, Billy O'Dell, and Phil Niekro combined the day before for a 3–1 win. In today's win, Aaron has two hits, a stolen base, RBI, and run scored before leaving for pinch hitter John Blanchard.
IN THE NEWS: Washington's Brant Alyea debuts with a pinch-hit home run on the first pitch from Rudy May in his first ML at bat. Yes, a major-league first. In Washington, 840 fans watch the Senators beat the Angels 7–1.
IN THE NEWS: Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart) and Juan Marichal's 22nd victory beat Houston 5–1. The win is the Giants 11th straight and gives them a two 1/2 game lead.
IN THE NEWS: Five days after pitching against each other, the Cubs Bob Hendley and LA's Sandy Koufax hook up again. No no-no this time as Hendley allows four hits and wins, 2–1.
IN THE NEWS: An eventful day in Boston includes the firing of GM Mike Higgins and a no-hitter by Dave Morehead. Boston beats Cleveland 2–0. Morehead lost a no-hitter against Cleveland in 1963 on Fred Whitfield's bad-hop single in the 8th.
Bob Bolin's 5–1 win at Houston gives the Giants 14 straight wins, the longest National League streak since 1951.
Claude Osteen launches a Dodgers' winning streak as he shuts out the Cubs 2–0. The Dodgers will win their next 3, all by shutouts, in St. Louis.
IN THE NEWS: The 1st place Giants lose for the first time in 15 games as Phil Niekro outpitches Juan Marichal. The Braves win 9–1. The Giants will then win their next three games to push their lead to four games over Los Angeles.
IN THE NEWS: On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, 50,180 fans see Mantle play his 2,000th game. Joe DiMaggio and Bobby Kennedy are on hand as Mantle is given a barbecue grill in the shape of a prairie schooner and a six-foot Kosher salami weighing 100 pounds. In Mantle's first at bat, Detroit's Joe Sparma comes off the mound to shake his hand. Mick then flies out. Detroit wins, 4–3, with reliever Denny McLain getting the win.
Larry Jackson of the Cubs beats the Mets, 4–3, for his 11th straight win over New York.
In Cleveland's 5–4 win, Pedro Gonzalez of the Indians swings a bat at P Larry Sherry of the Tigers following a Sherry brushback pitch. Gonzalez is fined $500 by American League President Joe Cronin the following day.
IN THE NEWS: Before 12,577 fans, the Braves end a 13-year stay in Milwaukee against the Dodgers. Despite a Frank Bolling grand slam off Sandy Koufax, the Braves lose 7–6 in 11 innings.
Willie Mays hits his 50th home run, as the first-place Giants beat the Reds 7–5. Mays joins Ralph Kiner as the only players in National League history with multiple 50-HR seasons.
IN THE NEWS: A 20-game winner in 1964, Larry Jackson loses his 20th game of 1965, as the Phillies sweep a twin bill from the Cubs, 11–5 and 7–4. Jackson is the first pitcher since Murry Dickson of the 1951-52 Pirates to follow a 20-win season with 20 losses.
IN THE NEWS: At Candlestick, Tony Cloninger throws a 4-hitter to give the Braves an 8–2 win over the Giants. In Southern California, The Dodgers win 4–3 over the Cards to reduce the Giants lead to one game.
IN THE NEWS: Sandy Koufax blanks the Cardinals 2–0. He fans 12 along the way, raising his record season total to 356. His 2–0 shutout of St. Louis keeps Los Angeles a game behind the Giants.
Another Kansas City publicity stunt makes the great Satchel Paige baseball's oldest performer. At 59, Paige hurls the first three innings, garners one strikeout, and allows just one hit, to Carl Yastrzemski in his first ML appearance since 1953. The Red Sox jump on reliever Don Mossi for a 5–2 win.
The Giants top the Braves 7–5, led by Willie Mays's 50th home run of the year.
The Twins Mudcat Grant one hits the Senators to win, 5–0. Don Blasingame's double in the 3rd is the only hit for Washington; it is the 4th time that Blasingame has collected the only hit for his team.
In Houston, the Reds Jim Maloney allows two hits in beating Houston, 1–0.
IN THE NEWS: Minnesota gains its first American League pennant by defeating Washington 2–1. Jim Kaat (17-11) wins the clincher.
The Braves overcome Juan Marichal to beat the Giants 3–2. Drysdale shuts out the Cards, 1–0, topping the 200 mark in strikeouts for a National League record 6th straight season. The Giants and Dodgers are now deadlocked with seven games to play.
IN THE NEWS: Former Giant Bill White has four hits to lead the Cards to a 9–1 beating of the Giants. The Dodgers edge the Reds 2–1 on Lou Johnson's 12th inning home run off Joey Jay to move into 1st place by a game over San Francisco.
The Giants lose to St. Louis 8–6, even though Willie Mays, in his 2,000th career game, hits his 51st home run of the year.
IN THE NEWS: Phillies C Pat Corrales sets a major-league record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and six times in one season. The Phils beat Chicago 7–6.
In a pitcher's duel between two future Hall of Famers, Bob Gibson aids his cause by smacking a grand slam off Gaylord Perry in the 8th inning to lift the Cards to a 8–6 win over the Giants. It is Gibson's 5th home run of the year and the 1st of two career slams he'll hit. The Giants scored all their runs in the 9th inning.
In Los Angeles, the Dodgers roll on, defeating the Reds 5–0 on Sandy Koufax's two hitter. The Dodgers now lead by two games.
California is not much of a draw at Fenway, attracting 409 fans. They see Boston win, 2–1.
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