{"id":4213,"date":"2025-11-18T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2025-11-18T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:33:45","slug":"friend-shuts-down-cards-pirates-take-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Friend Shuts Down Cards, Pirates Take Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FriendBobPIT-192x300.png?resize=192%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FriendBobPIT.png?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FriendBobPIT.png?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FriendBobPIT.png?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FriendBobPIT.png?w=196&amp;ssl=1 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates got off to a great start in the matchup with the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals as Bob Friend outduelled Bob Gibson to a 4-1 win in Game 1 between the teams. Friend allowed just 5 hits and struck out 11 in a complete game to improve to 2-0 in the Tournament. Friend had left his prior start in the 3rd inning after getting hit in the face by a line drive, but seemed no worse for the wear today. Gibson struggled to find his rhythm, and it caught up to him in the 3rd inning, where the Pirates scored 3 runs on 4 hits and a walk. Gibson struck out 8, but allowed 4 runs on 10 hits. Dick Groat led the Pittsburgh offense, going 4 for 5 and driving in a run. Tim McCarver was 2 for 4 with a triple for the Cardinals. St. Louis entered the series as the top-seeded team in the National League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-08-2025_PIT_STL.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'60 Pirates @ '68 Cardinals - 9\/8\/25\">&#8217;60 Pirates @ &#8217;68 Cardinals &#8211; 9\/8\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates got off to a great start in the matchup with the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals as Bob Friend outduelled Bob Gibson to a 4-1 win in Game 1 between the teams. Friend allowed just 5 hits and struck out 11 in a complete game to improve to 2-0 in the Tournament. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-60s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}