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Box Score of 500th Home Run by Eddie Mathews
Eddie Mathews became only the seventh player to hit five-hundred career home runs. Over his seventeen-year Major League career, Mathews hit five-hundred twelve home runs, played in three World Series, and drove in one-hundred or more runs five times.
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"I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record, but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there." - Eddie Mathews
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500th Home Run
Box Score
July 14, 1967
Candlestick Park |
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Name |
Pos |
AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
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Sonny Jackson |
ss |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Joe Morgan |
2b |
4 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Jimmy Wynn |
cf |
4 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
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Rusty Staub |
rf |
5 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
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Eddie Mathews |
1b |
4 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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Norm Miller |
lf |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
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Bob Aspromonte |
3b |
4 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
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Larry Sherry |
p |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Dave Adlesh |
c |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Dave Giusti |
p |
3 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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Bob Lillis |
3b |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Totals |
37 |
8 |
13 |
8 |
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Name |
Pos |
AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
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Ty Cline |
cf |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Gaylord Perry |
pr |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Willie
Mays |
cf |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Dick Dietz |
c |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Jim Davenport |
3b |
4 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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Willie McCovey |
1b |
5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Jim Ray Hart |
lf |
5 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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Tom Haller |
c |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Ollie Brown |
rf |
4 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
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Hal Lanier |
ss |
4 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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Tito Fuentes |
2b |
4 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
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Juan Marichal |
p |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Joe Gibbon |
p |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Norm Siebern |
ph |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Bobby Bolin |
p |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Bill Henry |
p |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Jack Hiatt |
ph |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Frank Linzy |
p |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Totals |
36 |
6 |
11 |
6 |
Hitting &
Fielding Notes
Double Plays: Houston 1, San Francisco 2.
Doubles: Cline, Staub.
Errors: Giusti, Morgan.
Home Runs: Miller, Davenport, Mathews, Hart.
Left on Base: Houston 5, San Francisco 7.
Sacrifice Hit: Davenport, Marichal.
Stolen Bases: Morgan, Fuentes.
Triples: Davenport, Giusti. |
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Line Score |
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Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
R |
H |
E |
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Houston |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
13 |
2 |
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San Francisco |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
11 |
0 |
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Name |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Dave Giusti |
7.0 |
9 |
5 |
5 |
1 |
4 |
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Larry Sherry |
2.0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
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Name |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Juan Marichal |
5.0 |
10 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
3 |
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Joe Gibbon |
1.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Bobby Bolin |
0.1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
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Bill Henry |
1.2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
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Frank Linzy |
1.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Pitching Notes
Marichal pitched
to five batters in the 6th inning.
Losing Pitcher: Marichal.
Save: Sherry.
Winning Pitcher: Giusti.
Wild Pitch: Henry. |
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Game Notes
Attendance: 14,194.
Length of Game: 2:50.
Umpires: HP: Shag Crawford, 1B: Chris Pelekoudas, 2B:
Doug Harvey, 3B: John Kibler. |
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