Friday – July 3

The Phillies moved to San Francisco to begin a three-game series that would lead into the All-Star break. The Giants led the Phillies by a game-and-a-half and had dominated the season series thus far five games to one.

Plus, the Giants were riding a three-game winning series.

On to the Action:

The Phillies took the lead in the top of the third:

• Tony Gonzalez led off with a walk.
• Two outs later, Richie Allen singled to send Gonzalez to third.
• Wes Covington singled to score Gonzalez – Allen stopping at second.
• Clay Dalrymple followed with a single. Allen scored easily – and when rightfielder Jesus Alou kicked the ball around in the outfield, Covington came all the way around from first to score and make it 3-0.

The Giants answered with a run in the bottom half:

• Cap Peterson – pinch-hitting for Ron Herbel – hit a ground ball that Ruben Amaro muffed for his first error of the year.
• Peterson moved to second on a tapper back to the mound.
• Hal Lanier singled to send Peterson to third.
• Willie Mays hit a ground ball to third. Richie Allen gloved it and went for two, but Mays beat the relay to first – Peterson scoring to cut the deficit to 3-1 Phillies.

Culp gave up just one unearned run on six hits through the first seven innings to keep the score at 3-1. Then the Phillies scored single runs in the eighth and ninth.

In the eighth:

• Clay Dalrymple and Tony Taylor
• Ruben Amaro doubled to score Dalrymple.

In the ninth:

• Richie Allen slugged a two-out homer (#16).

From there, Culp (5-6) closed out the Giants to wrap up the opener – with Ron Herbel (6-4) taking the loss.

Around the League: The Phillies win trimmed a full game off the Giants lead and cut the deficit to ½ game.

In addition to being the official Eagles Outsider for BlameMyFather.com – Barry Bowe is also the author of:

• Born to Be Wild
• 1964 – The Year the Phillies Blew the Pennant
• 12 Best Eagles QBs
• Birth of the Birds
• Soon-to-be-published sexy, police procedural Caribbean Queen
• Soon-to-be-published novel Stosh Wadzinski
• Soon-to-be-published novel Polish Widow
• Work-in-Progress A Fuckin All-American