Giants win fog delayed game on 11th inning Walk off by John Almafitano
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Giants win fog delayed game on 11th inning Walk off by John Almafitano

Sponsor this Page   May 17, 1963, at Candlestick Park swirling wins of up to 40 MPH and Fog delay the start of the Giants Mets game. Once it starts Willie Mays and Willie McCovey hit first-inning home runs. The game goes into extra innings and John Almafitano who goes 3-4, and collects half the…

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5/17/1963: A doubleheader between the Tigers and Senators in Washington was cancelled in the second inning of the first game after a 1 hour and 12 minute rain delay. In the first inning, the Senators’ Bobo Osborne hit a grand slam off Don Mossi over the right field fence. In the top of the second, Al Kaline hit a solo homer off Bennie Daniels into the Washington bullpen. Those two blasts accounted for all the runs in the game when the rains came to wash it all away. Like the one he lost on 6/1/58, this one could have given Kaline 400 for his career.

5/17/1963: A doubleheader between the Tigers and Senators in Washington was cancelled in the second inning of the first game after a 1 hour and 12 minute rain delay. In the first inning, the Senators’ Bobo Osborne hit a grand slam off Don Mossi over the right field fence. In the top of the second, Al Kaline hit a solo homer off Bennie Daniels into the Washington bullpen. Those two blasts accounted for all the runs in the game when the rains came to wash it all away. Like the one he lost on 6/1/58, this one could have given Kaline 400 for his career.