As the second half of the season got underway, Whitey Ford of the 1961 New York Yankees and Don Cardwell of the 1969 New York Mets pitched shutouts in games that had major implications for the top of the standings
Ford’s victory kept the Yankees in first place with an 11-6 record and dropped the 1969 Minnesota Twins to two games back in the standings. Cardwell’s win meant that the last-place team knocked the 1967 St. Louis Cardinals out of first place.
Dick Brown of the 1961 Detroit Tigers hit his league-leading eighth home run in a victory.
New York Mets 3, St. Louis 0
The Mets’ Don Cardwell scattered six hits and pitched a shutout to knock the Cardinals (10-7) out of first place. St. Louis baserunners reached second base in four different innings, but no further. The Mets (6-11) got a solo home run from Cleon Jones in the first inning and a two-run triple by Jerry Grote in the eighth. Cardwell earned his first win in his fifth start.
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDI AB R H BI 1969 NY METS AB R H BI
Lou Brock 4 0 1 0 Tommie Agee 4 0 0 0
Curt Flood 3 0 1 0 Ken Boswell 4 1 2 0
Bobby Tolan 1 0 0 0 Cleon Jones 4 2 2 1
Roger Maris 3 0 0 0 Ed Kranepool 4 0 2 0
Orlando Cepeda 4 0 0 0 Art Shamsky 3 0 0 0
Tim McCarver 4 0 2 0 Jerry Grote 4 0 1 2
Mike Shannon 4 0 0 0 Bud Harrelson 4 0 1 0
Julian Javier 4 0 0 0 Wayne Garrett 3 0 1 0
Dal Maxvill 4 0 1 0 Don Cardwell Z 3 0 0 0
Bob Gibson X 2 0 0 0
Dave Ricketts 1 0 1 0
TOTALS 34 0 6 0 TOTALS 33 3 9 3
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 000 000 000 -- 0
1969 NY METS 100 000 02x -- 3
LOB--1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 8, 1969 NY METS 7. ERR--Mike
Shannon, Wayne Garrett. 2B--Dave Ricketts, Lou Brock, Ed
Kranepool. 3B--Jerry Grote. HR--Cleon Jones.
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Bob Gibson X [L] 7.00 6 1 1 1 5 1
Jack Lamabe YZ 1.00 3 2 2 0 2 0
1969 NY METS
Don Cardwell Z [W] 9.00 6 0 0 1 4 0
Los Angeles 3, Boston 1
The Dodgers (9-8) scored first on second-inning doubles by Tommy Davis and Johnny Roseboro. Boston (8-9) tied it on the fourth on Rico Petrocelli’s solo home run, his fifth of the season. The Dodgers retook the lead in the sixth. Maury Wills tripled and Jim Gilliam walked. The two executed a double-steal that saw Wills score. Ron Fairly followed with an RBI single. Don Drysdale pitched well to improve to 3-2, but after the Red Sox put the tying run on base in the top of the ninth. Larry Sherry came in and got the final out.
1967 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1962 LOS ANGELES DOD AB R H BI
Reggie Smith 5 0 0 0 Maury Wills 4 1 1 0
Joe Foy 3 0 2 0 Jim Gilliam 2 1 0 0
Carl Yastrzemski 4 0 1 0 Ron Fairly 3 0 1 1
George Scott 4 0 0 0 Tommy Davis 3 1 1 0
Tony Conigliaro 4 0 1 0 Willie Davis 3 0 0 0
Rico Petrocelli 4 1 2 1 Frank Howard 3 0 0 0
Mike Andrews 4 0 0 0 Johnny Roseboro 3 0 1 1
Mike Ryan 4 0 1 0 Daryl Spencer 3 0 1 0
Lee Stange Z 1 0 0 0 Don Drysdale XZ 3 0 0 0
Jose Tartabull 1 0 1 0
Ken Harrelson 1 0 1 0
TOTALS 35 1 9 1 TOTALS 27 3 5 2
1967 BOSTON RED SOX 000 100 000 -- 1
1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 010 002 00x -- 3
LOB--1967 BOSTON RED SOX 9, 1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 1.
ERR--Don Drysdale XZ. 2B--Joe Foy, Tony Conigliaro, Johnny
Roseboro, Tommy Davis. 3B--Maury Wills. HR--Rico Petrocelli.
SACB--Lee Stange Z. SB--Ken Harrelson, Jim Gilliam, Maury
Wills.
1967 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Lee Stange Z (L) 6.00 5 3 3 1 3 0
Dan Osinski Z 2.00 0 0 0 0 3 0
1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Don Drysdale XZ8.67 9 1 1 1 7 1
Larry Sherry XW (S) 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0
New York Yankees 5, Minnesota 0
Whitey Ford pitched a four-hit shutout and struck out 10 to lead the Yankees (11-6) to the victory. Only one Minnesota (9-8) runner made it to third base. Elston Howard doubled and Yogi Berra singled him home to start the scoring in the fourth inning. In the fifth, Howard had an RBI triple, and Berra followed with a two-run homer, his sixth of the season. Mickey Mantle finished the scoring with an RBI single in the seventh. Ford improved to 4-1 on the season.
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI 1961 NY YANKEES AB R H BI
Cesar Tovar 4 0 0 0 Bobby Richardson 4 0 0 0
Rod Carew 4 0 0 0 Tony Kubek 4 0 1 0
Tony Oliva 4 0 1 0 Roger Maris 4 2 2 0
Harmon Killebrew 3 0 0 0 Mickey Mantle 4 0 1 1
Rich Reese 4 0 2 0 Elston Howard 4 2 2 1
Leo Cardenas 4 0 1 0 Yogi Berra 3 1 2 3
Ted Uhlaender 2 0 0 0 Bill Skowron 3 0 0 0
Johnny Roseboro 3 0 0 0 Clete Boyer 3 0 0 0
Dave Boswell X 2 0 0 0 Whitey Ford X 3 0 0 0
Bob Allison 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 0 4 0 TOTALS 32 5 8 5
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 000 000 -- 0
1961 NY YANKEES 000 103 10x -- 5
LOB--1969 MINNESOTA TWINS 6, 1961 NY YANKEES 6. 2B--Rich
Reese, Tony Oliva, Roger Maris, Tony Kubek, Elston Howard.
3B--Elston Howard. HR--Yogi Berra. HBP--Ted Uhlaender.
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Dave Boswell X (L) 7.00 8 5 5 3 5 1
Dick Woodson Y 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
1961 NY YANKEES
Whitey Ford X
Detroit 5, San Francisco 3
The Tigers (8-9) outhomered the Giants (7-10) three to two. Harvey Kuenn led off the bottom of the first with one to put San Francisco ahead. Al Kaline hit one in the top of the third to give Detroit a 2-1 lead. Willie Mays hit a solo shot in the third inning (his seventh of the season), and Jim Davenport later added an RBI single to put the Giants up 3-2. In the fourth, Detroit tied it when Jake Wood tripled, then scored on a groundout. Rocky Colavito and Dick Brown hit solo homers in the fifth and seventh innings — their seventh and eighth of the season, respectively — to complete the scoring for Detroit.
1961 DETROIT TIGERS AB R H BI 1962 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI
Steve Boros 5 1 2 0 Harvey Kuenn 5 1 1 1
Norm Cash 4 0 0 0 Jose Pagan 5 0 1 0
Al Kaline 5 1 1 2 Willie Mays 5 1 1 1
Rocky Colavito 4 1 2 1 Orlando Cepeda 4 1 2 0
Dick Brown 5 1 2 1 Felipe Alou 4 0 3 0
Bill Bruton 4 0 0 0 Jim Davenport 4 0 1 1
Jake Wood 4 1 3 0 Tom Haller 4 0 0 0
Chico Fernandez 4 0 0 1 Chuck Hiller 4 0 2 0
Don Mossi YZ 3 0 1 0 Billy ODell YZ 2 0 1 0
Reno Bertoia 1 0 0 0 Willie McCovey 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 39 5 11 5 TOTALS 38 3 12 3
1961 DETROIT TIGERS 002 110 100 -- 5
1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 102 000 000 -- 3
LOB--1961 DETROIT TIGERS 9, 1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 9.
ERR--Al Kaline, Jose Pagan. 2B--Rocky Colavito, Don Mossi
YZ, Jose Pagan. 3B--Jake Wood. HR--Al Kaline, Rocky
Colavito, Dick Brown, Harvey Kuenn, Willie Mays. SACB--Billy
ODell YZ. SB--Jake Wood (2).
1961 DETROIT TIGERS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Don Mossi YZ [W] 7.00 11 3 3 0 7 2
Hank Aguirre YW 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
Terry Fox YZ [S] 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
Billy ODell YZ [L] 8.00 11 5 5 1 7 3
Bobby Bolin XZ 1.00 0 0 0 1 2 0
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