The rest of the league was on pins and needles watching the series finale between the 1961 New York Yankees and the 1962 San Francisco Giants. And while the Giants made a nice comeback that got the game to extra innings, the Yankees pulled off another walk-off victory to give them a two-game lead in the standings with four to play.
The Giants and Yankees split their series. No one else could take advantage, as their closest competitors all went 2-2 this week too. The 1967 St. Louis Cardinals and 1969 Minnesota Twins will be two games back going into week 8. The only team to win a series in week 7 was the 1969 New York Mets, though they couldn’t pull off a sweep as the 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers won the finale.
Minnesota 7, Boston 6
The Twins (15-13) scored five times in the second inning to go up 5-0, but Boston eventually tied the game at six in the eighth inning. Leo Cardenas and Ted Uhlaender had solo homers for Minnesota, and Cesar Tovar had a two-run triple. The Red Sox (14-14) tied it on George Scott’s two-out RBI single in the top of the eighth. Minnesota went back in front in the bottom of the eighth. WIth two outs, Rich Reese doubled, and Cardenas singled him home. Ron Perranoski pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his seventh save.
1967 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1969 MINNESOTA TWINS AB R H BI
Reggie Smith 4 1 2 1 Cesar Tovar 4 1 1 2
Joe Foy 4 0 0 0 Rod Carew 4 0 1 0
Carl Yastrzemski 4 2 0 0 Tony Oliva 4 0 2 1
George Scott 5 2 3 2 Harmon Killebrew 4 0 0 0
Tony Conigliaro 4 0 0 1 Rich Reese 4 1 2 0
Rico Petrocelli 3 0 2 1 Leo Cardenas 4 1 2 2
Mike Andrews 4 1 2 1 Ted Uhlaender 4 2 2 1
Mike Ryan 4 0 1 0 Johnny Roseboro 3 1 1 0
Lee Stange Z 2 0 0 0 Jim Perry YZ 2 1 1 1
Jerry Adair 1 0 0 0 Graig Nettles 1 0 0 0
Ken Harrelson 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 36 6 10 6 TOTALS 34 7 12 7
1967 BOSTON RED SOX 000 202 110 -- 6
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS 050 001 01x -- 7
LOB--1967 BOSTON RED SOX 8, 1969 MINNESOTA TWINS 3. 2B--Rico
Petrocelli, Rich Reese. 3B--George Scott, Cesar Tovar.
HR--Leo Cardenas, Ted Uhlaender. SACF--Tony Conigliaro.
1967 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Lee Stange Z 5.00 9 5 5 0 1 1
Jose Santiago Y 2.00 1 1 1 0 2 1
Dan Osinski Z [L] 1.00 2 1 1 0 0 0
1969 MINNESOTA TWINS
Jim Perry YZ 7.00 7 5 5 4 5 0
Bob Miller Z [W] 1.00 3 1 1 0 0 0
Ron Perranoski [S] 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
Los Angeles 5, New York Mets 4
Cleon Jones hit a two-run homer in the top of the first for the Mets, but Tommy Davis did the same for the Dodgers in the bottom of the first. LA then hit back-to-back homers in the fifth inning, with Ron Fairly’s scoring two runs, then Davis following with a solo shot for his second homer of the game. The Mets (13-15) made it 5-4 in the sixth when one run scored on a Jones RBI single, and the other came home via an error. But Sandy Koufax and Ron Perranoski then retired the final 10 Met batters of the game, and Los Angeles (11-17) avoided a series sweep.
1969 NY METS AB R H BI 1962 LOS ANGELES DOD AB R H BI
Tommie Agee 4 2 2 0 Maury Wills 4 2 2 0
Al Weis 4 0 0 0 Jim Gilliam 4 0 0 0
Cleon Jones 4 2 2 3 Ron Fairly 4 1 3 2
Donn Clendenon 3 0 0 0 Tommy Davis 4 2 3 3
Ron Swoboda 4 0 0 0 Willie Davis 4 0 0 0
Jerry Grote 4 0 0 0 Frank Howard 4 0 1 0
Bud Harrelson 3 0 0 0 Johnny Roseboro 4 0 1 0
Wayne Garrett 3 0 0 0 Daryl Spencer 3 0 1 0
Don Cardwell Z 2 0 0 0 Sandy Koufax K 2 0 0 0
Bobby Pfeil 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 32 4 4 3 TOTALS 33 5 11 5
1969 NY METS 200 002 000 -- 4
1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 200 030 00x -- 5
LOB--1969 NY METS 2, 1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 6. ERR--Tommy
Davis. 2B--Tommie Agee, Maury Wills. HR--Cleon Jones, Tommy
Davis (2), Ron Fairly. SACB--Sandy Koufax K. SB--Cleon
Jones, Maury Wills.
1969 NY METS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Don Cardwell Z [L] 6.00 9 5 5 1 6 3
Ron Taylor Z 2.00 2 0 0 0 1 0
1962 LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Sandy Koufax K [W] 8.00 4 4 3 1 6 1
Ron Perranoski YZ [S] 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
St. Louis 3, Detroit 0
Dick Hughes pitched his second shutout of the season, scattering six hits and three walks. The Tigers (14-14) put runners into scoring position in four different innings, but Hughes stranded them there. The Cardinals (15-13) got an RBI double by Curt Flood in the first, an RBI single by Julian Javier in the sixth and a solo homer by Lou Brock in the seventh.
1961 DETROIT TIGERS AB R H BI 1967 ST. LOUIS CARDI AB R H BI
Steve Boros 4 0 1 0 Lou Brock 4 2 2 1
Norm Cash 4 0 2 0 Curt Flood 4 0 1 1
Al Kaline 3 0 0 0 Roger Maris 4 0 0 0
Rocky Colavito 3 0 1 0 Orlando Cepeda 3 0 1 0
Dick Brown 4 0 0 0 Tim McCarver 4 1 1 0
Bill Bruton 4 0 1 0 Mike Shannon 3 0 0 0
Jake Wood 4 0 1 0 Julian Javier 4 0 2 1
Chico Fernandez 4 0 0 0 Dal Maxvill 2 0 0 0
Jim Bunning XZ 2 0 0 0 Dick Hughes XZ 1 0 0 0
Vic Wertz 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 33 0 6 0 TOTALS 29 3 7 3
1961 DETROIT TIGERS 000 000 000 -- 0
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 100 001 10x -- 3
LOB--1961 DETROIT TIGERS 9, 1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 7.
ERR--Julian Javier. 2B--Norm Cash, Jake Wood, Tim McCarver,
Julian Javier, Curt Flood. HR--Lou Brock. SACB--Mike
Shannon, Dick Hughes XZ. SB--Norm Cash, Bill Bruton.
1961 DETROIT TIGERS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Jim Bunning XZ [L] 7.00 7 3 3 3 5 1
Terry Fox YZ 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
1967 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
Dick Hughes XZ [W] 9.00 6 0 0 3 7 0
New York Yankees 7, San Francisco 6 (10 inn.)
The Yankees led 3-0 after the first inning and 6-2 after four innings, but the Giants came back to send the game to extra innings. Elston Howard hit a solo homer in the third inning and Roger Maris hit his league-leading 15th home run, a two-run shot, in the fourth inning. The Giants scored three times in the sixth on a Tom Haller sacrifice fly, and back-to-back RBI doubles by Jack Sanford and Harvey Kuenn. Willie Mays tied it at six in the seventh inning with his eighth home run of the season. The Giants (13-15) put runners into scoring position with no one out in the eighth and ninth innings but couldn’t bring anyone home. In the bottom of the 10th, the Yankees (17-11) put two runners on with two out and then Bill Skowron ended it with a walk-off hit.
1962 SAN FRANCISCO G AB R H BI 1961 NY YANKEES AB R H BI
Harvey Kuenn 6 0 1 1 Bobby Richardson 5 1 1 0
Jose Pagan 6 1 1 1 Tony Kubek 5 2 3 0
Willie Mays 5 1 3 1 Roger Maris 5 1 1 2
Orlando Cepeda 4 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle 4 2 1 1
Felipe Alou 4 1 1 0 Elston Howard 5 1 2 1
Jim Davenport 5 0 0 0 Yogi Berra 4 0 2 1
Tom Haller 1 1 0 1 Bill Skowron 5 0 2 2
Chuck Hiller 4 1 2 0 Clete Boyer 3 0 0 0
Jack Sanford YZ 3 1 2 2 Bill Stafford YZ 2 0 0 0
Willie McCovey 1 0 0 0 Johnny Blanchard 1 0 1 0
TOTALS 39 6 11 6 TOTALS 39 7 13 7
1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 011 003 100 0 -- 6
1961 NY YANKEES 301 200 000 1 -- 7
LOB--1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 11, 1961 NY YANKEES 7.
ERR--Bobby Richardson, Yogi Berra. 2B--Chuck Hiller, Harvey
Kuenn, Jack Sanford YZ, Willie Mays. 3B--Felipe Alou.
HR--Willie Mays, Jose Pagan, Roger Maris, Elston Howard.
SACF--Tom Haller. SACB--Jack Sanford YZ, Bill Stafford YZ.
1962 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Jack Sanford YZ 9.00 11 6 6 2 5 2
Bobby Bolin XZ [L] 0.67 2 1 1 1 1 0
1961 NY YANKEES
Bill Stafford YZ 7.00 10 6 6 2 2 2
Hal Reniff W 2.00 1 0 0 4 0 0
Luis Arroyo X [W] 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
ROGER SPORTS & GAMES 