July 4, 1964

Jim Bunning (8-2) took the mound at Candlestick Park to face Jack Sanford (5-7) in front of 30,529 fans in the second game of the series.

Sanford was making his 16th start of the season and his second start against the Phillies. He beat the Phillies both times:

Throwing a 3-0 shutout on May 19th at Candlestick.

Winning 4-2 on June 6th at Connie Mack.

Jim Bunning, making his 17th start, already recorded six complete games, three shutouts, and one save along the way. He was involved in a no-decision against the Giants on June 7th ─ his only outing against the Giants ─ giving up three runs on seven hits in 7 1/3 innings.

Johnny Callison walked with two outs in the top of the first and scored when Richie Allen doubled to make it 1-0 Phillies ─ Allen’s 46th RBI.

In the bottom of the first, Jim Ray Hart led off with a single and Duke Snider followed with his fourth home run of the season to put the Giants on top 2-1.

From there, Sanford and Bunning tossed four scoreless innings.

But Sanford felt something in his arm pop at the end of the fifth and had to leave the game. So manager Alvin Dark replaced Sanford with Billy Pierce (1-0) in the top of the sixth. Pierce already made three relief appearances against the Phillies, giving up one run on four hits in 4 1/3 innings. But Pierce ran into some two-out trouble right off the bat.

With two outs in the top of the sixth, Richie Allen walked. When Wes Covington lined a single to right, Allen tried to go first to third. Duke Snider came up throwing, but his throw was wild and allowed Allen to score to tie the score 2-2.

With a runner on first and two outs, Clay Dalrymple singled and sent Covington to third.

With right-hand hitter Tony Taylor coming up, Al Dark summoned Gaylord Perry (6-3) from the bullpen. Perry was making his 23rd appearance, all but two in relief. However, Perry’s last outing was a three-hit shutout over the Mets four days earlier. Against the Phillies, Perry picked up a win in relief on May 21st and pitched seven scoreless innings in two other relief outings.

Perry got the third out.

From there, with the score still deadlocked at 2-2, Bunning and Perry traded zeroes through the end of the ninth inning. So the game went into extra innings.

Perry and Bunning threw a scoreless tenth inning.

In the top of the eleventh, John Herrnstein led off with a single. One out later, Richie Allen tripled to right-center to and Herrnstein scored to put the Phillies in the lead 3-2 ─ 47 RBIs for Allen.

Wes Covington spread icing on the cake with his eighth home run to make it 5-2 Phillies.

In the bottom of the eleventh, Gene Mauch brought in Jack Baldschun (3-3) to pitch.

Baldschun struck out Jim Ray Hart and Duke Snider, and got Willie Mays on a routine fly to center to end the game and pick up his sixth save.

Jim Bunning (9-2) went 10 innings to pick up with the win and Gaylord Perry (6-4) took the loss.

The win made it three straight for the Phillies, two straight over the Giants in this series, and flip-flopped the Phillies into a ½-game lead over the Giants.

Sanford Done

Five days later, Jack Sanford would test his arm in a start against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Despite being staked to a 3-0 lead at the top of the second, he couldn’t make it through the bottom of the second inning before his arm gave out. He was then shut down for the rest of the season.

(Excerpted from 1964 – The Year the Phillies Blew the Pennant by Barry Bowe.)