Mel Maricic sends me an update on his 1967 replay.
Hi Tom,
Baseballs are flying out of the park in my ’67 replay. For the weekend series of 7/21-7/23 69 homeruns were hit in 35 games. Harmon Killebrew had his second 3-homerun game of the season, he singled in the first, hit a two-run homer in the fourth, a solo shot in the sixth and another two-run blast in the eighth. Killebrew was on deck in the ninth when Rod Carew made the final out of the inning. Killebrew drove in all five runs in the 5-0 victory in the Friday night game against the California Angels.
Boston was in Cleveland and in the second game of the Sunday double header Joe Foy led off the third inning with a homerun against Sam McDowell. The Red Sox already scored seven runs in the inning when Foy came to the plate against reliever John O’Donoghue and hit his second homerun of the inning. I can’t recall any two homers in one inning by a player in any of my games.
I didn’t realize what a rare feat this was in baseball. At least until the 90’s and 2000’s.
7/23/67
In the NL, the Phillies’ Billy Cowan entered the Sunday game against the Reds in the third inning after Doug Clemens was ejected. Cowan hit a solo homer in the fourth and then led of the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off homer.
The Mets Bob Johnson led off the bottom of the tenth with his first homerun off the year to walk it off Against the Dodgers.
Willie McCovey got the best of Ferguson Jenkins in game one of a Sunday DH. McCovey blasted a grand slam and a two run homer in the Giants
win.
The Tigers still lead the Red Sox by 2 1/2 games in the AL.
In the NL the Cardinals hold a one game lead over the Giants.
Mel M
Thanks for the update, Mel!
I forgot to say that Killebrew has hit 35 homers in 93 games played, on pace for 61.
Heh, Harmon’s all like, “Roger who?”
Wow! Harmon just hit his 37th for me, in mid-September!
two dingers in one game for Cowan, who only hit 3 in 1967, thats awesome.
It’s Cowan’s second two homer game of the year, he has 5.
Mel
I have that going on in my ’66 NL replay (which btw, I am about ready to get back to). Julian Javier hit 7 HR in real life for the whole season.
In my replay through April, he already has five and is tied for second in the league.
Red Schoendienst must be feeding him the special kind of Wheaties or something. :)
Javier has already hit 15 homers in the ’67 replay, he had 14 in real life. (as of 7/23/67). He must have a big supply of those Wheaties.