On June 5, 1964, the English rock-&-roll group Davie Jones and the King Bees released their first single “Liza Jane” with “Louie Louie Go Home” on the flip side. The group fashioned their music in the same style as the Rolling Stones.

“Liza Jane” was a rearrangement of a black spiritual and “Louie Louis Go Home” was a cover of an obscure song by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

The lead singer’s favorite artists were Little Richard, Bob Dylan, and John Lee Hooker.

The single bombed and Davie Jones soon left the King Bees. But he would eventually transform himself into David Bowie and the rest – as they say – is history.

After being no-hit by Sandy Koufax on Thursday night, the Phillies were drawing the winningest pitcher in the National League on Friday night.

The Phillies were beginning a three-game weekend series with the Giants. Yes, it was still early in the season, but this was a showdown for first place.

It was Art Mahaffey (4-2) versus Juan Marichal (8-1) in the series opener in front of 31,774 fans ─ some 2,000 more than the night before.

Juan Marichal suffered his only loss of the season to the Phillies some two weeks earlier on May 20th in San Francisco. He’d won his last two starts since then and was sporting a handsome 2.28 ERA.

Art Mahaffey was Marichal’s mound opponent in that first meeting, but he was not the pitcher of record. Jack Baldschun picked up the win in relief.

Art Mahaffey retired the Giants in the top of the first without damage.

In the bottom of the first, Cookie Rojas led off with a double, moved to third on a passed ball, and scored when Richie Allen hit a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0 Phillies.

Mahaffey kept the Giants off the scoreboard in the second and third.

In the bottom of the third, Cookie Rojas once again led off with a double. Richie Allen followed with a double and it was 2-0 Phillies.

The score remained 2-0 after four innings.

In the top of the fifth, with one out, Art Mahaffey issued back-to-back walks to Juan Marichal and Chuck Hiller. Willie McCovey then doubled off the scoreboard to tie the game 2-2 ─ they were RBIs #21 and #22 for McCovey.

The Phillies answered in the bottom of the fifth when Cookie Rojas reached base for the third straight time – this time on an error by Jim Davenport at third. One out later, Johnny Callison doubled and Rojas moved to third, but he couldn’t score.

With runners on second and third and one out, Juan Marichal walked Wes Covington intentionally to load the bases.

Tony Gonzalez hit a fly ball to the deepest part of centerfield. Rojas and Callison both tagged up after the catch. Rojas scored easily to put the Phillies back on top 3-2. The ball was hit so deep that Callison decided to test Mays’ arm by trying to score as well. But it was a mistake. Mays threw Callison out at the plate 8-1-2 for a unique double-play that ended the inning.

In the top of the seventh, Giants manager Al Dark pinch-hit for Juan Marichal and replaced him with Gaylord Perry (3-1) to begin the bottom of the seventh.

Perry retired the Phillies in the bottom of the seventh.

In the top of the eighth, Orlando Cepeda led off with his sixth homer of the year to tie the score 3-3 ─ giving him 19 RBIs.

Thinking that Mahaffey was out of gas, Gene Mauch replaced him with Ed Roebuck (1-0) ─ Roebuck’s 15th relief appearance since joining the Phillies. He’d yet to give up a run.

Roebuck pitched two more scoreless innings.

The score remained 3-3 at the end of nine innings and the game moved into extra innings.

In the top of the tenth, Jack Baldschun (3-1) came in to pitch for the Phillies. He picked up the win the night before versus the Dodgers. Tonight, he retired the Giants in the top of the tenth without a run.

In the bottom of the tenth, Bob Shaw (3-3) came in to pitch for the Giants. This was Shaw’s 21st relief appearance. He recorded three wins and six saves in his first nine outings. But since then, he’d lost three games without picking up another win or save.

Shaw kept the Phillies off the scoreboard in the tenth.

In the top of the eleventh, Tom Haller walked and moved into scoring position on a bunt by Jim Davenport.

Baldschun struck out Jim Ray Hart for the second out.

Al Dark sent Harvey Kuenn up to pinch-hit for Shaw. Kuenn was a former American League batting champion who hit .353 in 1959 with the Detroit Tigers. But this year he was hitting only .186 after his first 59 at-bats.

But Kuenn came through with a single and Tom Haller scored to make it 4-3 Giants.

That left a runner on first with two outs.

Chuck Hiller followed with a triple to drive in an insurance run ─ 5-3 Giants.

In the bottom of the eleventh, Al Dark brought Ron Herbel (3-1) in to pitch. The move was an odd one by today’s standards because Herbel pitched a four-hit, complete-game shutout two days earlier against the Pirates.

Bobby Wine and pinch-hitter Johnny Briggs hit back-to-back singles to put runners on first and second with nobody out.

Gus Triandos tried to move the runners along with a bunt, but he popped it up for the first out.

Herbel got Cookie Rojas to ground into a 4-6-3 double-play and the game was over.

Bob Shaw (4-3) picked up the win in relief and Ron Herbel earned his first save. Jack Baldschun (3-2) took the loss.

It was the second consecutive loss for the Phillies and the third win for the Giants in their last four games. The result was that the Giants pulled to within ½ game of the Phillies.

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