Mickey Mantle breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Detroit’s Don Mossi and Bobby Shantz by belting an 8th-inning homer with one on. New York wins at home, 3 – 0.
The Senators lose 7 – 3, their 18th loss in a row, before Tex Clevenger shuts out the Indians in the nitecap, 9 – 0.
In the second All-Star Game played this summer, Yogi Berra’s two-run home run off Dodgers right-hander Don Drysdale in the third inning at the LA Memorial Coliseum proves to be the difference in the American League’s 5-3 victory over the Senior Circuit. The home run will be the last one hit by a Bronx Bomber in a Mid-Summer Classic game for 41 years until Derek Jeter goes deep in 2001.
Bill Bruton, in both the first and the sixth inning of the nightcap of a twin bill at County Stadium, hits a three-run triple. The Braves center fielder’s pair of three-baggers with the bases loaded contributes to the team’s 11-5 victory over St. Louis.
Giants 1B Willie McCovey hits the first of his 521 major league home runs, off Ron Kline, as San Francisco downs the Pirates, 5 – 3. Johnny Antonelli wins his 15th game.
In the ninth inning of a 5-4 loss to Boston at Detroit’s Briggs Stadium, Jim Bunning, tossing a frame in relief, strikes out three batters on nine pitches, sending Sammy White, Jim Mahoney, and Ike Delock back to the dugout with bats in their hands. The Tiger right-hander becomes only the tenth pitcher in major league history to accomplish the feat.
August 1, 1959 – Pittsburgh’s Don Hoak & the Giants Daryl Spencer, hatless on the ground, mix it up in the 2nd inn. at Candlestck. Spencer slid into Hoak going from first to third on Ed Bressoud’s single & both came up swinging. Willie Mays #24 appears ready to intervene, if necessary, while umpire Jocko…
1959 – P Bob Purkey of the Reds hits a grand slam off John Buzhardt of the Cubs and wins, 12 – 3. Purkey allows six hits. Glen Hobbie takes the loss.
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