May 14, 1964

After Wednesday’s rain out, the Phillies were back in action with Jim Bunning (3-1) on the mound versus Ernie Broglio (2-1) for the Cardinals.

Broglio was coming off an 18-8 season in 1963. This season, Broglio had a win over the Giants and an 8-0 shutout over the Mets.

After three strong starts, Jim Bunning hadn’t gotten past the fifth inning in his last two starts.

The date was May 14, 1964.

Both pitchers threw four scoreless innings to start the game.

With one out in the top of the fifth, Bunning hit Curt Flood. Doug Clemens made Bunning pay with a triple that scored Flood to make it 1-0 Cards.

With Clemens on third and one out, Dick Groat popped to short for the second out. But Bill White singled and it was 2-0 Cardinals.

In the Phillies sixth, Tony Taylor and Richie Allen stroked back-to-back singles. Johnny Callison hit a ground ball to short. Dick Groat tried to get two, but Callison beat Julian Javier’s relay to first to put runners on first and third with one out.

Wes Covington hit a ground ball that handcuffed first-baseman Bill White. White recovered in time to get Covington at first, but Taylor scored to put the Phillies on the scoreboard at 2-1. Callison reached second with two outs. John Herrnstein singled and Callison scored to tie the game 2-2.

Bunning shut the Cards down in the top of the seventh.

In the bottom of the seventh, with two outs, Richie Allen hit his seventh home run to left-center to give the Phillies a 3-2 edge. It was Allen’s 15th RBI.

Bunning started the Cards eighth by walking Ken Boyer.

With left-handed hitter Tim McCarver coming up, Gene Mauch brought lefty Chris Short (0-1) in to face McCarver. It was Short’s eighth relief outing. Factoring in his lone start, his ERA was a snappy 0.63.

McCarver singled to put runners on first and second with nobody out.

With right-handers due up, Mauch replaced Short with Ed Roebuck (1-0).

Chris James came up first. With two strikes on James, Johnny Keane called for a double-steal. James struck out and Clay Dalrymple threw Boyer out at third for a 2-5 double-play. That left McCarver on second with two outs.

Roebuck struck out Javier to end the threat.

In the ninth, Roebuck shut down the Cards to pick up his fourth save. He’d yet to give up a run since being acquired from the Washington Senators on April 21st.

Jim Bunning (4-1) got the win and Ernie Broglio (2-2) took the loss.

Later that night in Houston, the Colts 45s Bob Bruce (3-2) and Hal Woodeshick combined to hold off the Giants 4-3. The Giants loss coupled with the Phillies win allowed the Phils to creep within one-half game of the first-place Giants.