Gameday #18 had it all — two massive routs, a walk-off extra-inning victory, a triple play and a shutout. The standings tightened up again as one of the lopsided games saw the 1969 Minnesota Twins beat the 1961 New York Yankees 14-1. The 1967 St. Louis Cardinals couldn’t take advantage, as they were the extra-innings loser at the hands of the 1969 New York Mets. The 1967 Boston Red Sox put up 16 runs in their win, and Jack Sanford pitched a shutout for the 1962 San Francisco Giants.
Jim Kaat of the Twins and Gary Bell of the Red Sox both won, putting both pitchers at 5-0 after five starts.
The last-place Mets are the only team to be 2-0 after the first two games of this week’s series.
New York Mets 4, St. Louis 3 (12 inn.)
The Cardinals (10-8) scored three times in the top of the fourth to go up 3-0, but they wouldn’t score again. Orlando Cepeda had an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch, and Mike Shannon drove in a run with a groundout. They threatened in the sixth, getting the first two batters on base, but New York turned a triple play. The Mets (7-11) got a solo homer from Tommie Agee in the fourth, an RBI double by Wayne Garrett in the fifth and a game-tying RBI single by Jerry Grote in the sixth. It stayed 3-3 until the bottom of the 12th. Agee led off with a single, went to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored on Cleon Jones’ walk-off single.
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDI AB R H BI 1969 NY METS AB R H BI
Lou Brock 5 0 1 0 Tommie Agee 6 2 3 1
Curt Flood 5 1 2 0 Ken Boswell 5 1 2 0
Roger Maris 5 1 1 0 Cleon Jones 6 0 1 1
Orlando Cepeda 5 1 2 1 Ed Kranepool 3 0 1 0
Tim McCarver 4 0 1 0 Art Shamsky 5 0 0 0
Mike Shannon 5 0 0 1 Jerry Grote 4 0 2 1
Julian Javier 5 0 1 0 Bud Harrelson 4 1 1 0
Dal Maxvill 5 0 2 0 Wayne Garrett 5 0 3 1
Dick Hughes XZ 3 0 0 0 Gary Gentry Y 3 0 0 0
Alex Johnson 1 0 0 0 Donn Clendenon 0 0 0 0
Ron Swoboda 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 43 3 10 2 TOTALS 42 4 13 4
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 000 300 000 000 -- 3
1969 NY METS 000 111 000 001 -- 4
LOB--1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 5, 1969 NY METS 10. 2B--Tim
McCarver, Jerry Grote, Wayne Garrett (2). 3B--Bud Harrelson.
HR--Tommie Agee. SACB--Bud Harrelson, Ken Boswell. SB--Lou
Brock, Orlando Cepeda, Tommie Agee.
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Dick Hughes XZ 8.00 10 3 3 1 8 1
Ron Willis 1.00 1 0 0 1 1 0
Joe Hoerner X [L] 2.33 2 1 1 2 0 0
1969 NY METS
Gary Gentry Y 8.00 7 3 3 1 4 0
Nolan Ryan XYW 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tug McGraw X 2.00 2 0 0 0 0 0
Ron Taylor Z [W] 1.00 1 0 0 0 1 0
Boston 16, Los Angeles 3
The Red Sox (9-9) scored three or four runs in four different innings. George Scott had a monster game, going 5-for-6 with a home run and six RBI. He had a three-run homer in the second inning, as did Tony Conigliaro in the eighth, while Rico Petrocelli had a two-run shot in the first inning (his team-best sixth) and Mike Ryan had a solo blast in the fifth. Gary Bell didn’t have his best stuff against the Dodgers (9-9), but the run support was more than enough to see Bell improve to 5-0 after five starts.
1967 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1962 LOS ANGELES DOD AB R H BI
Reggie Smith 4 3 1 0 Maury Wills 5 1 1 0
Joe Foy 5 4 4 0 Jim Gilliam 3 0 0 0
Carl Yastrzemski 5 4 3 3 Ron Fairly 5 0 2 1
George Scott 6 2 5 6 Tommy Davis 5 1 3 0
Tony Conigliaro 6 1 1 4 Willie Davis 5 1 2 2
Rico Petrocelli 5 1 3 2 Frank Howard 3 0 1 0
Mike Andrews 5 0 1 0 Johnny Roseboro 3 0 0 0
Mike Ryan 4 1 1 1 Daryl Spencer 4 0 0 0
Gary Bell Y 5 0 0 0 Stan Williams W 0 0 0 0
Lee Walls 1 0 1 0
Larry Burright 1 0 0 0
Duke Snider 1 0 0 0
Andy Carey 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 45 16 19 16 TOTALS 37 3 10 3
1967 BOSTON RED SOX 430 310 041 -- 16
1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 001 000 020 -- 3
LOB--1967 BOSTON RED SOX 7, 1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 11.
2B--Joe Foy (2), Rico Petrocelli, Tommy Davis. 3B--Carl
Yastrzemski. HR--George Scott, Tony Conigliaro, Rico
Petrocelli, Mike Ryan, Willie Davis. SB--George Scott,
Willie Davis.
1967 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Gary Bell Y [W] 8.00 9 3 3 3 4 1
Jose Santiago Y 1.00 1 0 0 1 0 0
1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Stan Williams W [L] 3.00 5 7 7 4 4 2
Pete Richert XW 1.00 4 3 3 0 0 0
Joe Moeller W 3.00 4 1 1 0 1 1
Ed Roebuck Y 1.00 4 4 4 1 2 1
Ron Perranoski YZ 1.00 2 1 1 0 0 0
Minnesota 14, New York Yankees 1
It was 1-1 after five innings, and then the Twins (10-8) put up six runs in the sixth inning and seven runs in the seventh inning. Jim Kaat pitched superbly to improve to 5-0 after five starts. Among the big hits were a two-run triple by Rich Reese and a two-run double by Cesar Tovar in the sixth, and a solo homer by Harmon Killebrew (tying the league high with eight) and two-run singles by Johnny Roseboro, Tovar and Tony Oliva in the seventh. The Yankees (11-7) only got a sacrifice fly by Roger Maris in the first inning as the Twins scored 14 unanswered.
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI 1961 NY YANKEES AB R H BI
Cesar Tovar 6 2 2 4 Bobby Richardson 4 0 0 0
Rod Carew 6 0 3 1 Tony Kubek 4 1 1 0
Tony Oliva 5 1 3 2 Roger Maris 3 0 1 1
Harmon Killebrew 3 3 1 1 Mickey Mantle 4 0 0 0
Rich Reese 6 2 4 2 Elston Howard 3 0 1 0
Leo Cardenas 5 1 0 0 Yogi Berra 4 0 2 0
Ted Uhlaender 4 2 1 1 Bill Skowron 4 0 0 0
Johnny Roseboro 5 1 3 2 Clete Boyer 2 0 1 0
Jim Kaat YZ 2 2 0 0 Rollie Sheldon Y 2 0 1 0
Billy Gardner 1 0 1 0
TOTALS 42 14 17 13 TOTALS 31 1 8 1
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS 000 106 700 -- 14
1961 NY YANKEES 100 000 000 -- 1
LOB--1969 MINNESOTA TWINS 10, 1961 NY YANKEES 6. ERR--Yogi
Berra. 2B--Rich Reese, Ted Uhlaender, Cesar Tovar, Tony
Oliva, Roger Maris. 3B--Rich Reese, Tony Kubek. HR--Harmon
Killebrew. SACF--Roger Maris. SACB--Jim Kaat YZ. SB--Johnny
Roseboro.
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Jim Kaat YZ [W] 9.00 8 1 1 2 3 0
1961 NY YANKEES
Rollie Sheldon Y [L] 6.00 9 7 6 4 4 0
Tex Clevenger W 0.00 3 6 6 3 0 1
Bud Daley Y 1.00 3 1 1 1 0 0
Hal Reniff W 2.00 2 0 0 0 1 0
San Francisco 4, Detroit 0
Jack Sanford tossed a shutout and Orlando Cepeda drove in all four Giant (8-10) runs. Sanford stranded three Tiger (8-10) baserunners on third base and retired the game’s final 12 hitters. Cepeda had a two-run homer in the first inning (his seventh of the season) and a two-run single in the fifth. Sanford hadn’t given up fewer than five runs in any of his previous four starts.
1961 DETROIT TIGERS AB R H BI 1962 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI
Steve Boros 3 0 0 0 Harvey Kuenn 3 1 0 0
Norm Cash 3 0 1 0 Jose Pagan 4 0 0 0
Al Kaline 4 0 1 0 Willie Mays 4 1 2 0
Rocky Colavito 3 0 1 0 Orlando Cepeda 4 1 2 4
Dick Brown 4 0 0 0 Felipe Alou 4 0 1 0
Bill Bruton 4 0 1 0 Jim Davenport 3 0 1 0
Jake Wood 4 0 0 0 Tom Haller 2 0 0 0
Chico Fernandez 3 0 0 0 Chuck Hiller 3 1 1 0
Frank Lary YZ 3 0 0 0 Jack Sanford YZ 2 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 0 4 0 TOTALS 29 4 7 4
1961 DETROIT TIGERS 000 000 000 -- 0
1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 200 020 00x -- 4
LOB--1961 DETROIT TIGERS 7, 1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 5.
2B--Al Kaline. HR--Orlando Cepeda. SACB--Jack Sanford YZ.
1961 DETROIT TIGERS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Frank Lary YZ [L] 8.00 7 4 4 3 9 1
1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
Jack Sanford YZ [W] 9.00 4 0 0 3 7 0
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