1960 Pittsburgh Pirates Replay

June 12. Gm#’s 51, 52. Busch Stadium St. Louis 4,2 Pittsburgh 3, 1

PIRATES LOSE BOTH GAMES OF DOUBLE HEADER IN BOTTOM OF THE NINTH

Pittsburgh suffered two crushing defeats against St. Louis and both games were near mirror images of each other.

The Cards won game one, 4-3, stunning the Bucs with three runs in the last of the ninth, then turned the trick again, beating the Pirates, 2-1, again in their last at bats, in the nightcap.

In both games, Pittsburgh’s starting pitchers, Bob Friend and Vinegar Bend Mizell, respectively, started strong and pitched the bulk of the game. However, each faltered late and the Bucs bullpen could not get the job done.

Jim Umbricht(1-3) relieved Friend with no out and two on in the ninth. He gave up an rbi single to Boyer. That made it 3-2 Pittsburgh. Umbricht struck out Daryll Spencer, but Bob Nieman hit a sacrifice fly to tie the game. Catcher, Carl Sawatski then laced a ball into the gap to win it for St. Louis.

In game two, Bob Friend took a 1-0 shutout into the eighth. But with one out, pinch hitter, Alex Grammas singled, as did Julian Javier. When Joe Cunningham walked, the plug was pulled on Friend.

Elroy Face entered and promptly issued a sacrifice fly, which tied the game at one. Face retired the dangerous Boyer, to end the eighth inning.

Face came out for the ninth. Spencer tagged him for a leadoff single. Bill White also got a basehit, putting men on first and second. Curt Flood reached on a fielder’s choice, White retired at second and Spencer advancing to third.

Hal Smith then stroked a clean single, giving St. Louis another dramatic win. They end up taking 3 of 4 from Pittsburgh.

Also in this game, Gino Cimoli tripled in the top of the third. Friend tried a suicide squeeze, but it was a poor bunt and Cimoli was a dead duck at the plate.

Pittsburgh and most of the N.L. are off tomorrow, only the Braves and Giants play. Then they will head west to take on the San Francisco Giants in a three game series.

Other National League scores: Chicago 8 Philadelphia 7; Los Angeles 3 Cincinnati 1; San Francisco 16 Milwaukee 7.

National League Standings

San Francisco/53/32/21/.604/—

Milwaukee/44/27/17/.614/.5

Pittsburgh/52/28/24/.538/3.5

St. Louis/52/27/25/.519/4.5

Cincinnati/53/27/26.509/4.5

Los Angeles/52/23/29/.442/8.5

Chicago/46/20/26/.435/8.5

Philadelphia/52/18/34/.346/13.5