1964 May 26 | BARRY BOWE

TUESDAY – MAY 26

The Pirates jumped on Chris Short and Dallas Green for five runs in the first inning – and for another five runs off Green in the second inning to take a 10-0 lead that spelled victory:

Bottom of the first:

With one out, Manny Mota hit a home run (#1) to make it 1-0.
Roberto Clemente doubled and moved to third on a ground out.
Bob Bailey hit a ground ball that should’ve ended the inning, but Bobby Wine muffed it. Clemente scored to make it 2-0 and Bailey was safe at first.
Donn Clendenon tripled to score Bailey and make it 3-0.

And that’s as far as Gene Mauch wanted to go with Short. Mauch replaced him with Dallas Green – but Green was no better:

Bill Mazeroski tripled to make it 4-0.
Jim Pagliaroni singled to make it 5-0.

More runs off Green in the bottom of the second:

With one out, Roberto Clemente tripled.
Gene Freese doubled to make it 6-0.
Dallas Green walked both Bob Bailey and Don Clendenon to load the bases.
After Mazeroski struck out for the second out, Jim Pagliaroni unloaded with a grand slam (#2) to put the game out of reach at 10-0 – and giving Pagliaroni five RBIs in the game.

Vernon Law (1-4) picked up the complete-game victory.

Chris Short (2-1) took the loss after pitching shutouts in his last two starts and giving up only one earned run in 32 innings. He gave up four runs in only two-thirds of an inning – but only one was earned so his ERA only moved up to 0.55.

Cookie Rojas went 4-for-5 with an inside-the-park home run (#1) in the fifth and Johnny Callison led off the ninth with a home run (#4) – but to no avail as the Phillies were clobbered 13-4 in the first game of the series.

Around the League – With the Giants rained out in St. Louis, the loss dropped the Phillies into a tie for first place with the idle Giants.

The Pirates and Cardinals moved into a third-place tie – one game off of the pace.

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