On July 7, 1963 the Pittsburgh Pirates win their 10th straight. The Pirates score 5 in the second and break open the game with 4 more in the 7th. The win delivered the 1oth straight loss to the Mets 11-5, Smokey Burgess and Bob Bailey homered in the second off Jay Hook. The Pirates nicked…
July 7, 1963 – Jim Ray Hart makes his ML debut at Candlestick Park as the Giants take on the Cardinals in a double-header. Hart recalls what happened the first time he faced Gibson: “Between games, (Willie) Mays came over to me and said, ‘Now, in the second game, you’re going up against Bob Gibson.’…
July 6, 1963 At Polo Grounds, the Pittsburgh Pirates scored seven runs in the eighth inning and pushed the New York Mets to their ninth consecutive loss tonight, 11 to 3. Bill Virdon’s three-run homer was the deciding hit against Loser Al Jackson and Rookie Larry Bearnarth. Nine Pirates batted before the first out was…
With 2 outs and 2 strikes, Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente lines a tie-breaking 2-run homer into the right field upper deck at the Polo Grounds, putting Pittsburgh ahead to stay, 3 – 1, against the New York Mets. While the shot is not a tape-measure one, it is remarkable that the pitch almost hit Clemente in the head. Maury Allen reports it thus: “‘I was trying to waste a pitch’, Tracy Stallard said. ‘I figured if maybe I could get him to swing again at a pitch around his head.’ So Stallard threw a real pitch to Clemente, the kind any human being hitter would duck away from and scream for the umpire. Naturally, Clemente hit it upstairs.”
On July 3, 1963 At Houston, the Reds’ John Tsitouris allows just two hits in beating Houston, 2 – 1. Cincy collects just two hits in the win, scoring the first run on Johnny Edwards’ homer and the second when Rusty Staub misses a pickoff throw from Hal Woodeshick and Pete Rose scores from first base. Source Baseball Reference July 3
On July 3, 1963 In a split with the Orioles, Minnesota SS Zoilo Versalles ties an American League mark by making five errors. The Twins win, 7 – 5, then lose, 4 – 3. Source Baseball Reference July 3
On July 2, 1963 Nipping Curt Simmons and St. Louis 1 – 0, Don Drysdale puts the Dodgers into first place for good. Source: Baseball Reference July 2
On July 2, 1963, Juan Marichal outlasts Warren Spahn in a 16-inning pitchers’ duel at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeat the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0, on Willie Mays’ home run. Marichal strikes out 10 batters in going the distance. (Image) Juan Marichal embraces Willie Mays after Mays hit a home run to win the…
1963 – Ernie Fazio scores on a single from Rusty Staub in the 11th inning for a 4-3 victory over St. Louis. It is Staub’s second RBI of the game. Hal Woodeshick wins his eighth, all in relief. Johnny Temple drives in the Colts’ other two runs with a single in the eighth inning.
The Reds send C Jesse Gonder and cash to the Mets for 3B Charlie Neal and C Sammy Taylor. Cincinnati also sells 2B Don Blasingame to Washington.
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