June 24, 1964 | BARRY BOWE

Mahaffey vs Broglio

The date was June 24, 1964.

After splitting the twi-nighter on Tuesday, the Phillies were ending the quick three-game series with the Cubs by sending Art Mahaffey (7-2) to the mound. His opponent was Ernie Broglio (3-6).

Broglio, who’d been traded from the Cardinals at the June 15th trading deadline, was making his second start in a Cubs uniform. He lost to the Pirates 2-0 in his first outing. He was trying, unsuccessfully so far, to regain the form that made him a 18-game winner the previous year and a 21-game winner in 1960.

Despite complaining of arm problems, Art Mahaffey won his last three starts ─ one against the Pirates and two over the Mets. That said, Gene Mauch had been giving him some extra time off between those last three starts to rest his arm somewhat.

In the top of the first, Jimmy Stewart led off with a single and Andre Rodgers followed by walking to put runners on first and second.

After Billy Williams struck out, Ron Santo singled, Stewart scored, and it was 1-0 Cubs.

The Phillies responded in the bottom of the first with one out.

John Herrnstein and Johnny Callison hit back-to-back singles to put runners on first and third.

Richie Allen followed with his 14th home run of the year and the Phillies took a 3-1 lead. The three RBIs upped Allen’s total to 40.

Wes Covington doubled and Tony Gonzalez walked to put runners on first and second with still just one out. Then Clay Dalrymple singled, Covington scored, and it was 4-1. Gonzalez moved to third.

In a surprise move, Gene Mauch called for the squeeze play.

Cookie Rojas then surprised the Cubs twice:

Rojas laid down a bunt that scored Gonzalez to make it 5-1.
Rojas beat out the bunt for a base hit.

Cubs manager Bob Kennedy then replaced Broglio with Lew Burdette (3-1).

The Cubs picked up the former Braves ace in a June 2nd trade with the Cardinals for pitcher Glen Hobbie. He’d won two games as starter since coming to the Cubs while losing another game in relief.

Burdette was a 15-year veteran, all but one of those years spent with the Braves in both Boston and Milwaukee. He was a 20-game winner twice, but his biggest claim to fame came during the 1957 World Series against the New York Yankees.

Burdette was voted the World Series MVP when he won three games within eight days:

Game Two – Burdette beat Bobby Shantz 4-2.
Game Five – Burdette beat Whitey Ford in a 1-0 pitcher’s duel.
Game Seven ─ Coming back on two days’ rest, Burdette tossed his second shutout in the Series, besting Don Larsen 5-0.

[On a personal note, I lied to my mother that day, telling her that I was sick so I could stay home from school and watch that game on TV. The World Series consisted of day games back then.

The header photo above is when the Braves surrounded Burdette to celebrate beating the Yankees in Game Seven.]

Burdette retired the Phillies without any further damage.

In the top of the second, Len Gabrielson led off with a double and moved to third when Jimmie Schaffer flew out to deep right.

Lew Burdette batted – and walked – to put runners on first and third with one out.

Jimmy Stewart singled and Gabrielson scored to trim the Phillies lead to 5-2.

With Art Mahaffey complaining of tenderness in his pitching arm, Gene Mauch replaced him with Ed Roebuck (1-2).

Roebuck stopped the Cubs right there.

In the bottom of the second, Burdette shut the Phillies down.

In the top of the third, Ron Santo led off with a walk, moved to third on a single by Ernie Banks, and scored on a ground out by Billy Cowan to trim the lead to 5-3 Phillies.

In the bottom of the third, Tony Gonzalez walked. Clay Dalrymple followed with a single that sent Gonzalez to third.

Cookie Rojas singled and Gonzalez scored to make it 6-3 Phillies.

Pinch-hitting for Roebuck, Johnny Briggs singled and the runners moved up a base to load the bases with nobody out.

Bob Kennedy then replaced Burdette with Bobby Shantz (1-3) – the second appearance for Shantz in this series. The Phillies has pounded Shantz for two runs on four hits the night before.

Tonight, Tony Taylor greeted Shantz with a two-run single that extended the Phillies lead to 7-3.

In the top of the fourth, Gene Mauch made a double-switch:

Johnny Briggs stayed in to play leftfield, batting ninth.
Dennis Bennett (8-4) came in to pitch, batting fifth.

Bennett was coming back on three days’ rest after a poor start against the Mets.

Bennett pitched a scoreless fourth inning – as did Bobby Shantz.

In the top of the fifth, Ernie Banks led off with his eighth home run to cut the Phillies lead to 7-4.

Billy Cowan and Len Gabrielson hit back-to-back singles with Cowan advancing to third to put runners on first and second with nobody out.

Mauch wasted no time lifting Bennett in favor of Jack Baldschun (3-3).

Baldschun walked Jimmie Schaffer to load the bases with nobody out.

But he then got three fly balls to end the inning – the first of which became a sacrifice fly by pinch-hitter Doug Clemens that scored Billy Cowan to narrow the deficit to 8-5.

Sterling Slaughter (2-2) came in to pitch the bottom of the fifth. Slaughter started the second game of yesterday’s doubleheader, but he only got through 1/3 of an inning, allowing three runs on three hits.

Slaughter and Baldschun then pitched two scoreless innings each, and the score remained 8-5 Phillies going into the bottom of the seventh.

With one out in the bottom of the seventh, John Herrnstein hit his third home run of the season to bump the lead to 9-5.

In the top of the eighth, Billy Ott walked and moved to third when Jimmy Stewart followed with a single.

Andre Rodgers then struck out for the first out.

But Billy Williams cleared the rightfield wall with his 18th home run of the year ─ giving him 42 RBIs ─ and trimming the Phillies lead to 9-8.

Ron Santo struck out for the second out.

Ernie Banks and Billy Cowan hit back-to-back singles to put the tying and winning runs on first and second with two outs.

Mauch replaced Baldschun with Dallas Green (1-1) ─ this was Green’s 16th relief appearance of the season.

Green ended the inning by getting Len Gabrielson to ground out.

Lindy McDaniel (1-3) came in to pitch the bottom of the eighth for the Cubs. In three appearances against the Phillies, McDaniel hadn’t allowed a run – and this outing would be no exception as he retired the Phillies 1-2-3.

In the top of the ninth, Dallas Green retired the Cubs in order.

The Official Scorer then awarded the win to Dallas Green (2-1) rather than Jack Baldschun because Green was perfect in relief while Baldschun allowed three runs on five hits.

Ernie Broglio (3-7) took the loss.

The win gave the Phillies an 8-to-4 edge in the season series with the Cubs.