1967 – Boston Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg, who was 22-9 with 246 strikeouts for the American League champions, is named the 1967 American League Cy Young Award winner.
1967 – The St. Louis Cardinals’ Roger Maris hits a home run in the 9th inning, but Jim Lonborg’s 3 – 1 victory sends the World Series back to Boston.
On October 5, 1967, Lonborg continued his superb pitching starting Game 2 for the Red Sox, and for seven and two-thirds innings, the Cardinals could only manage one baserunner, a seventh-inning walk by Curt Flood. After Tim McCarver and Mike Shannon led off the eighth with groundouts, Julián Javier turned a Lonborg fastball around,…
On June 21, 1967 In retaliation for Joe Foy getting struck in the helmet in the top of the frame, Red Sox starter Jim Lonborg promptly plunks opposing pitcher Thad Tillotson in the back, igniting a bench-clearing brawl in the second inning of the Yankees’ 8-1 loss to Boston at Yankee Stadium. The…
1967 – In one of the highest-scoring spring training games ever, the Boston Red Sox tally 10 earned runs in the 9th inning to upend the New York Mets, 23 – 18. Boston outhits the Mets 23 to 17 and Jim Lonborg is the eventual winner over Jack Hamilton.
Bob Allison of the Twins suffers a broken left hand when hit by a Jim Lonborg pitch during Minnesota’s 10 – 4 win over the Red Sox.
On Opening Day, Jim Lonborg’s 13th-inning balk plates Bob Johnson with the deciding run in Baltimore’s 5-4 victory. The Red Sox reliever miscue on the mound occurs with two outs and the bases loaded at Fenway Park.
At Fenway Park, the 9th-place Yankees lose again, 3 – 2, when Carl Yastrzemski outhits a hobbling Mickey Mantle. Yaz hits a pair of homers and a sacrifice fly, while Mantle is 3 for 4 with a homer. After Mantle doubles with two outs in the 9th, starter Jim Lonborg is lifted and Dick Radatz gets the final out. It is Lonborg’s first major league win.
Jim Lonborg Position: PitcherBats: Right • Throws: Right6-5, 200lb (196cm, 90kg)Born: April 16, 1942 in Santa Maria, CAHigh School: San Luis Obispo HS (San Luis Obispo, CA)School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)Debut: April 23, 1965 (12,365th in major league history)vs. BAL 6.0 IP, 2 H, 4 SO, 5 BB, 3 ER, LLast Game: June 10, 1979vs. ATL 3.0 IP, 5 H, 2 SO, 1 BB, 3 ERView Player Info from…
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