{"id":4350,"date":"2026-01-17T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:57:55","slug":"gibsons-near-shutout-helps-cards-top-dodgers-4-2-to-take-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"Gibson&#8217;s Near Shutout Helps Cards Top Dodgers 4-2 to 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=\"191\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL-191x300.jpg?resize=191%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?resize=81%2C128&amp;ssl=1 81w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GibsonBobSTL.jpg?w=246&amp;ssl=1 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob Gibson took a 4-hit shutout into the 9th, as the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals topped the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 to take Game 1 of the Elimination Bracket series. Johnny Podres pitched well for the Dodgers, but a couple of timely hits in the 1st inning led to a 2-out 2-run double by Mike Shannon that gave the Cardinals an early lead that they would never lose. A passed ball led to another run in the 3rd, and Roger Maris added a solo home run in the 6th. Podres only allowed 6 hits over 8 innings. Gibson took his shutout into the 9th, when Juli\u00e1n Javier rushed and made a poor throw to 1st to lead off the inning. Frank Howard followed with a 2-run homer. Gibson allowed just 6 hits in the complete game. The 1st three of those hits came off the bat of Ron Fairly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-15-2025_LAD_STL.png\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-15-2025_LAD_STL.png\">&#8217;63 Dodgers @ &#8217;68 Cardinals &#8211; 9\/15\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Gibson took a 4-hit shutout into the 9th, as the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals topped the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 to take Game 1 of the Elimination Bracket series. Johnny Podres pitched well for the Dodgers, but a couple of timely hits in the 1st inning led to a 2-out 2-run double by [&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-4350","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\/4350","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=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}