{"id":4341,"date":"2026-01-14T15:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:16:24","slug":"giants-offense-keeps-rolling-tops-pirates-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4341","title":{"rendered":"Giants Offense Keeps Rolling, Tops Pirates 9-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/McCoveyWillie.png?resize=185%2C285\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/McCoveyWillie.png?w=185&amp;ssl=1 185w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/McCoveyWillie.png?resize=83%2C128&amp;ssl=1 83w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/McCoveyWillie.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a day that Willie Mays went 0-5, the rest of the 1962 San Francisco Giants picked up the slack, scoring 9 runs against the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates to take Game 1 of the Winner&#8217;s Bracket series. After Dick Stuart and Willie McCovey traded solo home runs early, the Giants broke out against Bob Friend, taking advantage of Dick Groat&#8217;s error in the 5th inning to score 4 runs, thanks to a 2-run single by Orlando Cepeda and a 2-run double by Felipe Alou. Fred Green came in with two men on and walked the 1st two batters he faced in the 8th. McCovey added a 2-run single to put the Giants up 9-2. Jack Sanford scattered 9 hits in his complete game win, retiring the last 12 batters he faced. McCovey&#8217;s home run was his 5th of the Tournament, putting him in the lead. He finished the game 4 for 5. The Giants have now won 4 straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-15-2025_PIT_SFG.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'60 Pirates @ '62 Giants - 9\/15\/25\">&#8217;60 Pirates @ &#8217;62 Giants &#8211; 9\/15\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a day that Willie Mays went 0-5, the rest of the 1962 San Francisco Giants picked up the slack, scoring 9 runs against the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates to take Game 1 of the Winner&#8217;s Bracket series. After Dick Stuart and Willie McCovey traded solo home runs early, the Giants broke out against Bob Friend, [&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-4341","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\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}