Friday – June 19 – First Game
From Chicago, the Phillies traveled to New York for a rare five-game weekend series with the Mets – with doubleheaders on Friday night and Sunday afternoon wrapped around a single game on Saturday.
The Phillies had taken three-of-four from the Mets the previous weekend in Philadelphia and the Mets were now solidly in last place – already 18 games behind the Phils.
Back to the Action – Starters Carlton Willey and Art Mahaffey threw shutout ball thru the first five innings – before the Phillies hit the scoreboard in the sixth:
- Johnny Briggs led off with a single and Johnny Callison homered (#8) to take a 2-0 lead.
That’s all the Phillies would score.
Meanwhile, Mahaffey tossed a seven-hit shutout thru eight innings. But then he ran into trouble and needed help finishing:
- Charley Smith led off with a single and Rod Kanehl walked.
- After Amado Samuel bunted the tying runners to second and third, Casey Stengel sent George Altman up to pinch-hit for the pitcher.
- Altman grounded out for the second out – but the runners moved up a base with Charley Smith scoring to cut the deficit to 2-1 – Kanehl moving to third.
With the tying run on third and two outs, Gene Mauch replaced Mahaffey with Ed Roebuck – and Roebuck proceeded to get Jim Hickman on a routine fly to center to end the game.
Art Mahaffey (7-2) picked up the win and Ed Roebuck the save (#10).
Larry Bearnarth (4-4) took the loss.
The win made it two in a row for the Phillies – and six wins in seven games against the Mets.
Friday – June 19 – Second Game
The Mets took the lead against Ray Culp in bottom of the third inning of the nightcap:
- Jim Hickman led off with a double and Ed Kranepool homered (#3) to give Mets a 2-0 lead.
But the Phillies responded immediately with four runs in the top of the fourth:
- Tony Taylor led off with a home run (#2).
- Johnny Briggs followed with a single.
- One out later, Richie Allen singled to send Briggs to third.
- John Herrnstein hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game 2-2.
- With Allen on first and two outs, Roy Sievers – struggling with a .146 batting average – unloaded a two-run shot (#3) to give the Phillies a 4-2 lead.
From there, the Phillies put the game out of reach with two more runs in the sixth and one in the seventh.
Phillies Sixth:
- Johnny Callison and Richie Allen led off with back-to-back singles.
- After John Herrnstein flew out, Roy Sievers drove Callison home with a double to center to make it 5-2 Phillies – Richie Allen stopping at third.
- With runners on second and third and one out, Bill Wakefield walked Clay Dalrymple intentionally to load the bases.
- The runners moved up a base when Wakefield uncorked a wild pitch – allowing Allen to score and up the lead to 6-2.
Phillies Seventh:
- Tony Taylor doubled, moved to third when Johnny Briggs flew out to deep right, and scored on Johnny Callison’s single to end the scoring at 7-2.
After giving up those two runs back in the third inning, Ray Culp shut out the Mets the rest of the way – giving up just two more hits.
The win made it:
- Five straight wins.
- Five straight wins over the Mets.
- Seven-of-eight on the season from the Mets.
Ray Culp (3-5) got the win and Galen Cisco (3-8) took the loss.
Around the League – The sweep of the doubleheader from the Mets – combined with the Giants 3-1 loss to the Cardinals – enabled the Phils to move 2½ games in front of the Giants.
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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