Saturday – June 13
Back to the Action – The Mets took the lead in the top of the first:
- With one out, Ron Hunt homered (#2) to make it 1-0.
From there, the Phillies took over little by little.
Phillies Second:
- With one out, Clay Dalrymple doubled and Bobby Wine walked to put runners on first and second.
- Jim Bunning helped his own cause with a run-scoring single to tie the game 1-1 – Dalrymple scoring and Wine going to third.
- Cookie Rojas hit a sacrifice fly to take a 2-1 lead.
Phillies Third:
- Johnny Callison hit a lead-off homer (#5) to up the lead to 3-1.
Phillies Fifth:
- John Herrnstein and Johnny Callison started with back-to-back singles.
- After Richie Allen struck out, Tony Gonzalez doubled. Herrnstein scored to make it 4-1 – but Callison was thrown out at the plate 9-6-2.
The Mets scored a single run in the sixth:
- Jim Hickman homered (#5) with two outs.
Then the Phillies sealed the victory with four runs on five singles in the bottom of the seventh:
- With one out, reliever Tom Sturdivant gave up back-to-back-to-back singles to John Herrnstein, Johnny Callison, and Richie Allen to load the bases.
- Tony Gonzalez hit a fly to deep left and everybody moved up a base to make it 5-2 and put runners on second and third.
- Tony Taylor ripped a two-run single to make it 7-2.
- Taylor stole second and scored on Clay Dalrymple’s single to bump the lead to 8-2.
Jim Bunning (6-2) finished the game strong to pick up the win. Other than the two home runs, he allowed just three other hits.
Frank Lary (0-1) got his first loss in the National League.
Around the League – The Giants beat the Braves 6-5 to remain deadlocked with the Phillies for first place.
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
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