Thursday – June 4
With the Phillies trying to sweep the series from the Dodgers, the largest home crowd of the year – 29,709 – showed up at Connie Mack Stadium to see two of the best left-handers in the league:
- Chris Short (3-2).
- Sandy Koufax (5-4).
Short – who’d won three of his last four starts – was sporting an incredible 0.64 ERA.
Gene Mauch loaded the lineup with right-handers to face Koufax – Johnny Callison being the lone left-hander.
Back to the Action – The lefties threw goose eggs over the first six innings:
- Short giving up three hits.
- Koufax holding the Phillies without a hit.
The Dodgers ended the scoring drought in the seventh:
- Jim Gilliam and Tommy Davis hit back-to-back singles.
- Frank Howard slugged a home run (#4) into the upper deck in left to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead.
Trailing 3-0 going into the bottom of the seventh, the Phillies still didn’t have a hit – and Sandy Koufax kept it that way by retiring the Phillies in order in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings to complete the third no-hitter of his brilliant career.
Despite missing a perfect game, he faced the minimum 27 batters. The lone blemish was a two-out walk to Richie Allen in the bottom of the fourth. But with Danny Cater at the plate, Allen was thrown out trying to steal – hence Koufax retired the Phillies 27 up and 27 down.
Koufax (6-4) struck out 12 of the 27 batters he faced to earn the win and Chris Short (3-3) took the loss.
The loss ended the Phillies winning streak at five.
Around the League – With the Giants losing 4-2 to the Pirates, the Phillies maintained their 1½ game lead.
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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