{"id":4298,"date":"2025-12-29T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:42:13","slug":"tigers-overcome-4-hr-even-series-with-walk-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Overcome 4 HR, Even Series with Walk-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CashNorm1968DET.png?resize=264%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CashNorm1968DET.png?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CashNorm1968DET.png?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CashNorm1968DET.png?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CashNorm1968DET.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1968 Detroit Tigers overcame 4 Baltimore Orioles home runs, winning the game 6-4 on a Norm Cash walk-off homerun in the 9th to even the series at two games a piece. In a back-and-forth game, Denny McLain scattered 10 hits, allowing 4 solo homers while striking out 7 to pick up his 2nd win of the Tournament. Orioles slugger Paul Blair hit two of those homers &#8211; one in the 1st, and another in the 8th to tie the game 4-4. Ellie Hendricks and Boog Powell hit the other home runs. Dave McNally carried a 3-2 lead into the 6th, but Bill Freehan hit a 2-run homer to put the Tigers on top. With the score tied in the 9th, Freehan reached on a Brooks Robinson error. Al Kaline struck out, bringing up Cash. Cash took a 2-2 pitch over the fence to send the series back to Baltimore for Game 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-12-2025_BAL_DET.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'69 Orioles @ '68 Tigers - 9\/12\/25\">&#8217;69 Orioles @ &#8217;68 Tigers &#8211; 9\/12\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1968 Detroit Tigers overcame 4 Baltimore Orioles home runs, winning the game 6-4 on a Norm Cash walk-off homerun in the 9th to even the series at two games a piece. In a back-and-forth game, Denny McLain scattered 10 hits, allowing 4 solo homers while striking out 7 to pick up his 2nd win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4298","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\/4298","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=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}