CARDS OVERCOME 7-RUN DEFICIT, REBOUND TO DEFEAT PHILS
Boyer's 2-Run HR in 9th Caps Comeback
PHILADELPHIA, May 12 (AP) - The St. Louis Cardinals overcame a 7-0 shortfall in
the sixth inning and came back to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 9-8, in a wild
game at Connie Mack Stadium. Bobby Shantz (2-0) pitched two perfect
innings of relief and was awarded the win. Jack Baldschun (0-2) suffered
the defeat.
The Phillies surged to a big lead on the strength of a five-run second
inning. Gus Triandos belted his sixth home run of the year, a two-run shot
with one out, to get things started, scoring Danny Cater, who had singled.
Bobby Wine and pitcher Art Mahaffey followed the Triandos home run with
consecutive singles and, after Tony Taylor lined out to first, Johnny Callison
hit his fourth home run of the season, just clearing the high wall in right
field. The three-run shot capped the scoring in the frame and left the
Cardinals in a big hole.
That hole grew deeper when Philadelphia added two runs in the fifth. With
one out, Cardinals starter Curt Simmons clipped Callison with a pitch.
Richie Allen followed by lining a bullet halfway up the lower grandstand in left
field for a two-run homer and a 7-0 Phillies lead. Two batters later,
Simmons was replaced on the mound by Roger Craig, who avoided further damage.
St. Louis seemed all but out of the game when the Cardinals came to bat in the
top of the sixth. Jeoff Long, who had entered the game as part of a double
switch when Craig was summoned from the bullpen, led off with a walk and Curt
Flood followed with a free pass of his own. A passed ball moved the
runners to second and third and Doug Clemens followed with a single to
left. Long scored on the hit and when Cater overran the ball for an error,
Flood scored as well, with Clemens taking second base. Dick Groat drew
Mahaffey's third base on balls of the inning and Bill White came through with a
single through the hole on the left side of the infield, loading the
bases. At this point, five batters had come to the plate in the inning,
and all five had reached base safely, with two scoring. With the tying run
in the on deck circle, Mahaffey was replaced by Johnny Klippstein, and he struck
out Ken Boyer for the first out of the inning. But with Tim McCarver at
the plate, Triandos allowed his second passed ball of the inning, scoring
Clemens to make it 7-3 and leaving runners at second and third. To add
insult to injury, Klippstein uncorked a wild pitch, scoring Groat with the
inning's fourth run and advancing White to third. Two runs had scored
without McCarver so much as swinging the bat. But on a close 3-2 pitch,
McCarver drew ball four. Perhaps unnerved by the passed ball and wild
pitch, Klippstein began an argument with the home plate umpire that ended with
the reliever's ejection from the game. Rick Wise inherited what was now a
7-4 lead with runners on first and third and one out and promptly surrendered a
single to Phil Gagliano, which scored White to cut the Phillies' lead to 7-5 and
moved McCarver to second. Julian Javier flied to right for the second out,
but Long--who had started the inning five runs and two pitchers ago with a
walk--singled to left-center, scoring McCarver with the sixth run of the
frame. Flood popped to first to finally end the inning, but the Cardinals
were now firmly back in the game.
The Phillies got a run back in the bottom of the sixth when Callison's two-out
single brought home Wes Covington.
The score remained 8-6 until the eighth when the Cardinals cut the deficit back
to one. McCarver led off by reaching on reliever Baldschun's two-base
throwing error and Phil Gagliano doubled down the left field line, scoring
McCarver to make the score 8-7.
After Schantz retired the Phillies in order in the bottom of the eighth,
Baldschun tried to close out the Cardinals in the top of the ninth. It
wasn't to be. Groat grounded to third for the first out, but another
Philadelphia error was to prove fatal. White's grounder to defensive
replacement Ruben Amaro at third was kicked and the tying run was on base.
Ken Boyer then took a 3-2 Baldschun pitch into the left field stands for a
two-run homer, giving the Cardinals the lead for the first time all day.
Baldschun got McCarver on a ground ball but walked Gagliano and surrendered a
hit to Javier before being replaced by Ed Roebuck who retired Carl Warwick on a
fly ball to end the inning. The damage had already been done.
Schantz returned to the mound for the bottom of the ninth and set down Callison,
Amaro and Clay Dalrymple on a grand total of eight pitches to seal the win.
Amazingly, this was the second time this season that a team had overcome a
deficit of at least seven runs to win a game and the Cardinals accomplished the
feat both times. They overcame an eight-run fourth inning deficit to beat
the New York Mets, 10-9, on April 28. No other team has managed to
overcome a deficit of more than five runs and no other National League team has
won when trailing by more than four runs. A four-run deficit has been
overturned by an NL team three times this season and on two of those occasions
the victorious team was--you guessed it--the Cardinals.
5/12/1964, StL64-Phi64, Connie Mack Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1964 Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 9 9 1 9 1 1964 Phillies 0 5 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 8 9 3 5 0 Cardinals AB R H BI AVG Phillies AB R H BI AVG Flood cf 3 1 0 0 .364 Taylor,T 2b 5 0 0 0 .265 Clemens lf 5 1 1 1 .200 Callison rf 4 2 2 3 .284 Shantz p 0 0 0 0 .000 Allen,R 3b 3 1 1 2 .308 Groat ss 3 1 1 0 .357 Amaro 3b 1 0 0 0 .214 White,B 1b 5 2 2 0 .257 Sievers 1b 3 0 1 0 .196 Boyer,K 3b 5 1 1 2 .202 Baldschun p 0 0 0 0 .000 McCarver c 4 2 0 0 .310 Dalrymple c 1 0 0 0 .289 Lewis rf 2 0 0 0 .305 Gonzalez,T cf 4 0 0 0 .311 Craig,R p 0 0 0 0 .273 Cater lf 2 1 1 0 .361 Gagliano ph 2 0 2 2 .375 Wise p 0 0 0 0 .000 Javier 2b 5 0 1 0 .125 Herrnstein ph 1 0 0 0 .132 Simmons p 1 0 0 0 .000 Triandos c 4 1 1 2 .229 Long rf 1 1 1 1 .111 Roebuck p 0 0 0 0 .000 Washburn p 0 0 0 0 .500 Wine ss 4 1 1 0 .169 Warwick ph 2 0 0 0 .222 Mahaffey p 2 1 1 1 .091 38 9 9 6 Klippstein p 0 0 0 0 .000 Covington lf 1 1 1 0 .321 Rojas ph 1 0 0 0 .286 36 8 9 8 Cardinals INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Simmons 4.2 7 7 7 1 3 67 43 3.55 Craig,R 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 7 3 1.50 Washburn 2.0 2 1 1 1 0 30 17 3.18 Shantz W 2-0 2.0 0 0 0 0 1 19 12 3.00 9.0 9 8 8 3 4 123 75 Phillies INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Mahaffey 5.0 3 5 5 4 2 87 45 5.66 Klippstein H 1 0.1 0 1 1 1 1 11 5 6.75 Wise H 1 1.2 3 0 0 0 1 38 24 2.25 Baldschun BS 2, L 0-2 1.2 3 3 1 2 1 40 23 6.23 Roebuck 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6.75 9.0 9 9 7 7 5 177 98 StL: Long inserted at rf in the 5th Gagliano batted for Craig,R in the 6th Gagliano moved to rf in the 6th Warwick batted for Washburn in the 8th Warwick moved to lf in the 8th Phi: Covington inserted at lf in the 6th Herrnstein batted for Wise in the 7th Herrnstein moved to 1b in the 8th Rojas batted for Covington in the 8th Amaro inserted at 3b in the 9th Rojas moved to lf in the 9th Dalrymple inserted at c in the 9th E-Groat, Cater, Baldschun, Amaro. 2B-Gagliano(2), Wine(3), Covington(5). HR-Boyer,K(2), Callison(4), Allen,R(5), Triandos(6). RBI-Clemens(4), Boyer,K 2(19), Long(1), Gagliano 2(6), Callison 3(18), Allen,R 2(15), Triandos 2(10), Mahaffey(1). K-Clemens, White,B, Boyer,K, Javier, Simmons, Taylor,T, Callison, Mahaffey, Dalrymple. BB-Flood 2, Groat 2, McCarver, Long, Gagliano, Allen,R, Sievers, Cater. HBP-Callison. PB-Triandos 2. HB-Simmons. WP-Klippstein. GWRBI: Boyer,K Johnny Klippstein was ejected from this game Temperature: 74, Sky: clear, Wind: out to center at 12 MPH. Attendance: 13,496 Game Time: 2:56