Bobby Bolin’s 5 – 1 win at Houston gives the Giants 14 straight wins, the longest National League streak since 1951.
Bobby Bolin’s 5 – 1 win at Houston gives the Giants 14 straight wins, the longest National League streak since 1951.
Bobby Bolin’s 5 – 1 win at Houston gives the Giants 14 straight wins, the longest National League streak since 1951.
Claude Osteen launches a Dodgers winning streak as he shuts out the Cubs, 2 – 0. The Dodgers will win their next 3, all by shutouts, in St. Louis.
At Fenway Park in front of only 1,247 fans, Boston right-hander Dave Morehead, who will lead the league in losses with 18 this season, no-hits the visiting Indians, 2-1. On the same day, the ninth-place Red Sox who will lose 100 games, fire their general manager, Pinky Higgins.
Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning (17-4), starting on two days’ rest after pitching 10 innings in Houston, loses to the Colt .45s, 6 – 5. Bunning had won eight in a row. Manager Gene Mauch will be highly criticized for his overuse of his top pitchers down the stretch as Philadelphia blows its season-long lead.
1964 – The White Sox move into a first-place tie (88-61) with Baltimore by besting Detroit, 4 – 1, while the Orioles lose to Minnesota 2 – 1. The Yanks are one point behind.
1963 – The Dodgers and Cardinals begin a first-place showdown before 32,442 fans at Busch Stadium. Ron Perranoski saves a 3 – 1 win for Johnny Podres and the Dodgers.
1962 – Willie Mays celebrates his return to the lineup by cracking a three-run home run in the 8th inning, his 44th of the year, to tie the Pirates, 4 – 4. Pittsburgh tops the Giants in the 10th inning when Smoky Burgess hits a two-run home run.
At Detroit, Roger Maris connects for #57, off Frank Lary, to stay a game ahead of Babe Ruth’s 1927 home run pace. But Lary wins his 21st, 10 – 4, over Ralph Terry, with help from Norm Cash, who belts a homer, his 37th, and a triple. Al Kaline adds four hits and a sac fly.
The Senators acquire P Claude Osteen from the Reds for 1B Dave Sisler and cash.
With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a two-run homer, his 35th, off the O’s Chuck Estrada to give New York a 2 – 0 lead in the 1st. Yogi Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson’s hit off Estrada’s glove drives in two runs for a 5 – 3 New York win.
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