{"id":4369,"date":"2026-01-27T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:31:53","slug":"koufax-shuts-out-cardinals-evens-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"Koufax Shuts Out Cardinals, Evens Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KoufaxSandyLAN23-210x300.jpg?resize=210%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KoufaxSandyLAN23.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KoufaxSandyLAN23.jpg?resize=90%2C128&amp;ssl=1 90w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KoufaxSandyLAN23.jpg?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/KoufaxSandyLAN23.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandy Koufax took the ball and gave one of the best pitching performances of the Tournament. The Los Angeles Dodgers ace held the St. Louis Cardinals to 4 hits, striking out 7 in his 1st shutout. Koufax allowed 3 hits in the 1st two innings before retiring 21 straight batters. Lou Brock broke the streak with a leadoff double in the 9th. He then retired the final three hitters of the game. Only 4 of the 27 outs even left the infield. Nelson Briles scattered 5 hits, holding the Dodgers scoreless in the 1st five innings. Dal Maxvill bobbled a grounder to lead off the 6th, and LA followed with back-to-back singles for their 1st run. A pair of singles in the 7th scored when Maury Wills tripled. Jim Gilliam followed with an RBI single to put the Dodgers up 4-0. With the victory, the Dodgers even the series as it heads back to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-16-2025_LAD_STL.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'63 Dodgers @ '68 Cardinals - 9\/16\/25\">&#8217;63 Dodgers @ &#8217;68 Cardinals &#8211; 9\/16\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy Koufax took the ball and gave one of the best pitching performances of the Tournament. The Los Angeles Dodgers ace held the St. Louis Cardinals to 4 hits, striking out 7 in his 1st shutout. Koufax allowed 3 hits in the 1st two innings before retiring 21 straight batters. Lou Brock broke the streak [&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-4369","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\/4369","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=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}