{"id":4218,"date":"2025-11-19T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:17:05","slug":"mclain-outlasts-mcnally-tigers-win-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4218","title":{"rendered":"McLain Outlasts McNally, Tigers Win Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/McLainDennyDET-191x300.png?resize=191%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/McLainDennyDET.png?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/McLainDennyDET.png?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/McLainDennyDET.png?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/McLainDennyDET.png?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There wasn&#8217;t anything flashy about it, but in the end Denny McLain outlasted Dave McNally as the 1968 Detroit Tigers scored late to top the 1969 Baltimore Orioles 5-4 to take Game 1 of their best-of-five series. The teams traded runs early, but the Tigers carried a 3-2 lead into the 5th. That&#8217;s when Frank Robinson hit a 2-run home run to give Baltimore a 4-3 lead. That lead held until the 8th, when Willie Horton led off with a double, and Bill Freehan tied it with a single. The Tigers pulled ahead later in the inning when Freehan scored on a Don Wert sacrifice fly. McLain pitched three hitless innings to close things out for the win. Robinson finished 3 for 4 with the homer and 2 RBI. Five different Tigers had two hits. It was a great start to the Tournament for Detroit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-08-2025_DET_BAL.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'68 Tigers @ '69 Orioles - 9\/8\/25\">&#8217;68 Tigers @ &#8217;69 Orioles &#8211; 9\/8\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There wasn&#8217;t anything flashy about it, but in the end Denny McLain outlasted Dave McNally as the 1968 Detroit Tigers scored late to top the 1969 Baltimore Orioles 5-4 to take Game 1 of their best-of-five series. The teams traded runs early, but the Tigers carried a 3-2 lead into the 5th. That&#8217;s when Frank [&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-4218","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\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}