Box Score of 500th Home Run by Willie Mays

Say Hey waited until the fourth inning to give the San Francisco Giants the spark they needed to take the lead. That spark he ignited was the forty-seventh of his season and five hundredth of his major league career.
"If he could cook, I'd marry him." - Manager Leo Durocher
Willie Mays

Willie Mays Portrait by Ron Lewis
500th Home Run Box Score
September 13, 1965
Astrodome

Name Pos AB R H RBI
Dick Schofield ss 4 0 1 1
Jesus Alou rf 4 0 0 0
Willie Mays cf 4 1 1 1
Ken Henderson cf 0 0 0 0
Willie McCovey 1b 3 1 1 0
Jim Ray Hart 3b 4 1 1 0
Len Gabrielson lf 3 1 0 0
Tom Haller c 4 1 2 1
Hal Lanier 2b 3 0 0 0
Juan Marichal p 4 0 2 2
Totals 33 5 8 5

Name Pos AB R H RBI
Lee Maye lf 4 0 2 0
Joe Morgan 2b 4 0 1 0
Jimmy Wynn cf 4 1 1 1
Walt Bond 1b 4 0 2 0
Bob Aspromonte 3b 4 0 0 0
Rusty Staub rf 4 0 2 0
Ron Brand c 4 0 0 0
Eddie Kasko ss 4 0 0 0
Don Nottebart p 1 0 0 0
Dave Giusti p 1 0 0 0
Norm Miller ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 8 1

Hitting & Fielding Notes

Double Plays: Houston 1, San Francisco 1.
Doubles: Hart, Morgan.
Error: Hart.
Home Runs: Mays, Wynn.
Left on Base: Houston 7, San Francisco 5.
Sacrifice Fly: Schofield.
Triple: Marichal.
Line Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 5 8 1
Houston 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0

Name IP H R ER BB SO
Juan Marichal (W) 9 8 1 1 0 3

Name IP H R ER BB SO
Don Nottebart (L) 3.1 5 4 4 3 1
Dave Giusti 3.2 3 1 1 0 3
Ron Taylor 2 0 0 0 0 0

Pitching Notes

Passed Ball: Brand.

Game Notes

Attendance: 19,827.
Length Of Game: 2:09.


Did you know that the day before this game the Giants took two from the Cubs in a doubleheader at home? Willie Mays played both ends of that doubleheader and had nine at-bats, scored two runs, drove in three runs, and hit the forty-sixth home run of his season!

Willie Mays still holds countless major league records, but did you know that he was the first player to ever hit more than three-hundred home runs and steal three-hundred bases!

Peter Magowan led the group that purchased the San Francisco Giants in 1992. When the deal was closed, Magowan hired Willie Mays as a coach with the club and his contract was "for life"!
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