On August 9, 1963 — One loss shy of tying the major league record of 19 consecutive defeats, (broken by teammate Craig Anderson) Roger Craig switches his uniform number to 13 in an attempt to change his luck.
The move appears to work when Jim Hickman lofts a short fly ball in the ninth inning off Lindy McDaniel with two outs and the bases-full in a tie game, that just ticks the upper-deck overhang in left field at the Polo Grounds for a walk-off grand slam, giving the Mets an improbable 7-3 victory over the Cubs. McDaniel becomes the second pitcher in major league history to give up a pair of game-ending grand slams in the same season, the other game was when Houston’s Bob Aspromonte to end a game with a bases full walk-off round-tripper in June, joins Satchel Paige (1952) in accomplishing the infamous deed.
Craig will be on the wrong end of a shutout nine times this year; only Bugs Raymond (11 in 1908) and Walter Johnson (10 in 1909) have had more shutouts thrown at them in a year.
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