MAYS RESCUES GIANTS WITH 9TH INNING HOMER
No-Hit Into 7th, SF Rallies Late
HOUSTON, Sept. 21 (AP) - Willie Mays hit his league-leading 51st home run to
give the San Francisco Giants a dramatic come-from-behind 3-1 win over Houston
at Colt Stadium. The victory moves the Giants to within a game of first
place in the hotly contested National League, pending the outcome of first place
Cincinnati's game at Philadelphia.
The Colt .45's took the lead off Giants starter Bob Bolin in the bottom of the
first inning. Al Spangler lined the first of his three hits on the day, a
single to left-center field, to open the frame and moved to second when Rusty
Staub walked two batters later. Walt Bond then singled to left, scoring
Spangler, and Houston held a 1-0 advantage.
Colt's starter Ken Johnson retired the first 11 batters he faced before walking
Mays with two outs in the fourth, then retired nine in a row before finally
surrendering his first hit of the game, a harmless two-out single off the bat of
Jim Ray Hart with two outs in the seventh.
Johnson nursed his one-hitter--and the 1-0 lead--into the ninth. Pinch
hitter Jose Cardenal struck out to open the inning, but Harvey Kuenn grounded a
single into left field to give the Giants hope. Matty Alou's sharp
grounder to the right side was smothered by second baseman Joe Morgan, but went
for an infield hit, putting runners at first and second. That brought Mays
to the plate and on the very first pitch he deposited a Johnson fastball over
the left field fence, giving San Francisco a 3-1 lead. Gordon Jones
replaced Johnson on the mound and retired Hart and Orlando Cepeda, but the
damage had already been done.
In the bottom of the ninth, Masanori Murakami allowed a lead-off single to
Aspromonte, but then retired Jimmy Wynn, Eddie Kasko and Johnny Bateman in order
to preserve Bolin's victory.
9/21/1964, SF64-Hou64, Colt Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1964 Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 0 2 1 1964 Colt .45's 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 7 0 Giants AB R H BI AVG Colt .45's AB R H BI AVG Kuenn lf 4 1 1 0 .259 Spangler lf 4 1 3 0 .237 Murakami p 0 0 0 0 .000 Morgan,JL 2b 4 0 0 0 .091 Alou,M rf 4 1 1 0 .219 Staub rf 2 0 0 0 .204 Mays cf 3 1 1 3 .296 Bond 1b 4 0 1 1 .204 Hart 3b 4 0 1 0 .288 Aspromonte 3b 4 0 2 0 .285 Cepeda 1b 4 0 0 0 .278 Wynn cf 4 0 0 0 .145 Haller c 3 0 0 0 .254 Kasko ss 4 0 1 0 .232 Lanier 2b 3 0 0 0 .260 Bateman c 4 0 0 0 .140 Davenport ss 3 0 0 0 .211 Johnson,K p 3 0 0 0 .189 Bolin p 2 0 0 0 .125 Jones,G p 0 0 0 0 .000 Snider ph 1 0 0 0 .179 33 1 7 1 Cardenal lf 0 0 0 0 .000 31 3 4 3 Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Bolin W 10-5 8.0 6 1 1 2 6 110 71 2.84 Murakami S 2 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 14 11 2.08 9.0 7 1 1 2 7 124 82 Colt .45's INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Johnson,K L 10-19 8.1 4 3 3 1 3 88 61 3.71 Jones,G 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 9 4 4.37 9.0 4 3 3 1 3 97 65 SF : Snider batted for Bolin in the 9th Cardenal inserted at lf in the 9th HR-Mays(51). RBI-Mays 3(118), Bond(75). K-Mays, Davenport, Snider, Bond, Aspromonte, Wynn 2, Bateman, Johnson,K 2. BB-Mays, Staub 2. GWRBI: Mays Temperature: 81, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 1 MPH. Attendance: 4,837 Game Time: 2:01