Week 7 Summary (05/22/1967 - 05/28/1967)
Week Seven of the 1967 BBW Replay is in the books, and it was a busy week. A lot of games played as several teams have reached or passed the forty-games played mark and the remainder will surely be there by the end of next week. This coming Tuesday is Memorial Day and there will be the usual Doubleheader extravaganza, so another busy week to come. Several big trades will occur this coming week as well. The fun continues.
The big news of this past week was a fourteen-inning no-hitter by Los Angeles hurler Claude
Osteen in San Francisco. Gaylord
Perry only allowed seven hits over the extended outing, before he finally
gave up a run.
The box score didn't specifically say when the game started, but let's assume it started at 1:00 PM California time. The box score does give the game time for the nine-inning game as 2:35, so assuming at least one full hour for the extra innings, the game would have ended around 4:30 PM California time. That means it would have ended around 7:30 PM New York time. There was no ESPN or the like in 1967, so likely the rest of the country didn't find out about it until the following morning. Maybe a local news channel got a thirty-second clip of an interview with Osteen or Perry, but it was a Sunday, and both teams needed to hit the road, the game had gone long anyway, so there was no doubt a push to get dressed and get to the airport. The Dodgers face the Mets tomorrow in Los Angeles and I am sure the members of the press will be all over Osteen, the day after it happened.
In the AL, Detroit managed to hold on to first place ahead of Boston, but Cleveland has now moved into third place, thanks to a six-game winning streak to end the week. The White Sox had a game where they smashed four two-run homeruns, but their scoring problems soon returned, and they ended the week in fourth place.
In the NL, Philadelphia struggled this past week and ended the week tied for third with Chicago. St. Louis has sole possession of first place, but seemingly from out of nowhere Atlanta, with a six-game winning streak of their own, has moved into a few percentage points of first place.
With both leagues having multiple teams still
involved in games in a serious pennant race, and with a holiday full of
doubleheaders upcoming, that can only mean one thing - let's go play some
games!
Note: I am old enough to remember when
Memorial Day, on a Tuesday in 1967, was not anchored to a Monday. The idea of
moving federal holidays such as this to a Monday (for the three-day weekend
benefit), didn’t come to fruition until next year (link).
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