IN THE NEWS: At West Palm Beach (Florida State League) West Palm's Wenty Ford hurls a 1-0 perfect game against Fort Lauderdale. Ford makes just 84 pitches and no batter receives a 3-ball count. The attendance is 194 fans.
IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox pick up infield help when they get 2B Jerry Adair from the White Sox for reliever Don McMahon and a minor leaguer. Adair, hitting .204, will hit .291 after changing Sox. The White Sox are a game out of 1st place, three 1/2 games ahead of Boston.
IN THE NEWS: The longest game in modern Orioles history -- 19 innings -- features 21 Washington strikeouts, as the Birds win 7–5. Washington is the 3rd American League club to strike out 21 times in an extra-inning game.
Curt Flood's record string of 568 straight chances without an error ends when he drops a fly ball during a 4–3 win over the Cubs at St. Louis. The Cardinals CF had played a National League-record 227 straight games without an error beginning September 3, 1965.
Cleveland sends Gary Bell to Boston for OF Don Demeter and 1B Tony Horton. Bell, a 16-game winner last year, is 1–5 in 1967, but he'll win 12 games for Boston during their pennant drive.
IN THE NEWS: Playing his first game for the Senators, Mike Epstein hits a 200 foot drive down the LF line for an inside the park homer, off New York rookie Thad Tillotson. Mickey Mantle breaks a 2–2 tie in the 8th with a homer of Darold Knowles, and New York wins, 4–2.
IN THE NEWS: Baltimore blasts California 16–4 in the opener of a doubleheader. Curt Blefary leads the charge with three homers, including a grand slam.
IN THE NEWS: At Crosley Field, Reds P Gary Nolan strikes out 15 Giants, including Willie Mays four times. But her still loses, 4–3. Willie McCovey belts a 3-run homer in the 8th to tie the game, and reliever Bob Lee allows the last run to score to pin the loss on Nolan.
The last-place Yankees have the first pick in the free-agent draft and use it to take Ron Blomberg. With the next pick, the Cubs tap SS Terry Hughes, who will have just 86 ML at bats. All 20 first-round picks are high school players, and only 11 will eventually reach the major leagues, including John Mayberry (#6, Astros), Jon Matlack (Mets), Wayne Simpson (#8, Reds), Ted Simmons (#10, Cards), and Bobby Grich (#20, Orioles). The O's take Don Baylor with their 2nd pick, then in the secondary phase, select P Mike Adamson. Adamson will leap directly to the O's, debuting July 1, the first player in draft history to bypass the minors. Other selections today include Dusty Baker (26th round, Braves), Matlack (1st round, Mets), Steve Yeager (3rd round, Dodgers) and Richie Zisk (3rd round, Pirates), The Phils strike out as none of their picks will reach the majors.
The Phils and Braves swap catchers, with Bob Uecker going to Atlanta for Gene Oliver.
IN THE NEWS: Gary Bell wins his Red Sox debut, 7–3 to give Boston a doubleheader split with the White Sox. Carl Yastrzemski had six hits for the day. Yaz, of whom Chicago manager Eddie Stanky said two days earlier, "he made be an All-Star, I suppose, but only from the neck down," hit his 12th home run. As he rounded the bases, Yaz tipped his cap to Stanky.
IN THE NEWS: Adolfo Phillips blasts four home runs in a doubleheader, three of them in consecutive at-bats in the 2nd game, as the Cubs sweep the Mets at Wrigley Field 5–3 and 18–10. The total of eleven home runs in the 2nd game sets a National League record for two clubs in nine innings and the two teams tie a NL mark when they total 40 extra bases on long hits (Chi-26, NY-14). The mark was set on July 31, 1954. Adolpho has six hits and eight RBIs on the day.
Before the largest American League crowd of 1967, 62,582 at Yankee Stadium for Bat Day, the White Sox regain first place from the Tigers by sweeping a twin bill from New York 2–1 and 3–2. They will stay in first until August 12.
At Crosley Field, Don Pavletich belts a pinch grand slam in the bottom of the 9th to give the Reds an 8–4 win over Houston.
The Twins Dean Chance one hits the Royals in winning, 8–0. The only hit is Danny Cater's single in the 4th.
IN THE NEWS: The Senators and White Sox match up in the longest night game (22 innings, six hours, and 38 minutes) in ML history. Washington wins 6–5 when Paul Casanova, who has caught the entire game, singles in the winning run in the bottom of the 22nd.
Mickey Mantle breaks a scoreless tie with a long drive off Washington's Frank Bertaina in the 6th, and visiting New York wins, 2–0.
IN THE NEWS: Willie Mays, the all-time leader in extra inning homers, belts a grand slam off Astros P Barry Latman in the 10th to power the Giants to a win. For Willie, it is his 19th in extra frames, and his first grand slam.
IN THE NEWS: In a 3–2 Reds' win over the Dodgers, Cincinnati SS Leo Cardenas suffers a broken finger when hit with a pitch by Dodgers P Bill Singer. Cardenas is out until August 15th.
IN THE NEWS: A 9-hour and 5-minute doubleheader between the Tigers and Athletics is the longest ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the 2nd goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run wins it 6–5 for the A's. Detroit takes the opener 7–6.
IN THE NEWS: Steve Hargan of the Indians and the A's Chuck Dobson lock up in a scoreless duel until, with two outs in the 9th inning, Hargan hits his only career home run for the 1–0 win.
In the Cardinals 5–4 win over Houston, St. Louis CF Curt Flood pulls off an unassisted DP. It is the 1st by a National League CF since Danny Taylor in 1933.
IN THE NEWS: Ernie Banks slams two 2-run homers to back rookie Joe Niekro's 3-hitter, and the Cubs win 80 over the Astros to sweep. Bill Hands hurls a 5-hitter in the opener to win, 4–1. Banks' 1st blast breaks up a pitching duel with Bo Belinsky and his 2nd caps a 5-run 7th.
Heavyweight contender Joe Frazier wants to hold a clinic to teach baseball players how to fight. "All they do is hurt themselves instead of the other guy," he said from his training camp. "Look at Joe Pepitone. He banged up his hands without getting a punch across. Baseball players should know about combinations as well as double plays." Frazier said he would hold a clinic on a day when the Yankees are off.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit RF Al Kaline breaks his hand jamming his bat into the bat rack after striking out against Sam McDowell, as the 2nd-place Tigers lose to Cleveland 8–1. Kaline will miss 28 games.
Baltimore RF Frank Robinson is hurt in a 2B collision with Al Weis, as the White Sox beat the Orioles 5–0. Robinson suffers double vision and will miss 28 games.
IN THE NEWS: Relief ace Hoyt Wilhelm of the White Sox extends his major-league record for consecutive errorless games to 247. The White Sox win 3–2 at Baltimore.
IN THE NEWS: Losing 12–3 in the 2nd game against the Giants, the Phils send in utility man Cookie Rojas to pitch the 9th. Rojas throws a scoreless inning and has now played all nine positions since arriving in the big leagues in 1963.
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