1966 – The Mets (5) and Giants (3) tie a major-league record by using eight pinch hitters in the 9th inning as the Mets win, 5 – 4. Willie McCovey hits a 500-foot home run, judged the longest ever at Candlestick Park.
Seven pitchers are used by Al Dark’s A’s in an 11-inning, 1 – 0 shutout of the Indians. Kansas City wins its 7th straight game.
Tom Phoebus of Baltimore begins his ML career with a 2 – 0 shutout of the Angels.
Los Angeles regains first place, winning 4 – 0 and 1 – 0 behind Sandy Koufax and Larry Miller while Houston suffers its 3rd and 4th consecutive shutouts against the Dodgers.
In his first major league at-bat, John Miller homers off Lee Stange in the second inning of the Yankees’ 4-2 victory over Boston at Fenway Park. The 22 year-old left fielder, whose total of 10 hits in his 32-game career will include just two round-trippers, will become the only player to hit home runs in his first and last major league plate appearance when he goes deep as a pinch-hitter for the Dodgers in his final turn at bat in 1966.
1966 – Cardinal P Dick Hughes tops the Pirates on Tim McCarver’s bases-loaded hit off the RF wall. Pittsburgh falls a game in back of the Dodgers.
1966 – The Red Sox fire manager Billy Herman (64-82) and Pete Runnels is named interim pilot. Herman will sign on as a scout for the California Angels.
Chris Short shuts out the Mets, 5 – 0, the 5th complete game win in a row for the Phillies’ pitchers.
1966 – Charlie Vaughan, 18-year-old Braves pitcher, beats the Astros, 12 – 2, for his first and only major league win. Vaughan will make one other major league appearance, in relief, in 1969.
Tim McCarver’s third-inning triple, his 13th and final one of the season, plates Orlando Cepeda in the Cardinals’ 7-4 victory over Atlanta at Busch Stadium. The 22 year-old Memphis, TN native will become the first backstop to ever lead the National or American League in three-baggers.
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