{"id":4431,"date":"2026-02-22T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:50:18","slug":"miller-shines-in-1st-tourney-start-eliminates-1-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"Miller Shines in 1st Tourney Start, Eliminates #1 Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Sandy Koufax waiting in the wings for a potential Game 5, the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers turned to Bob Miller for their Game 4 starter against the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis took advantage of Miller’s nerves to jump out to an early lead when Roger Maris doubled in the 1st and Orlando Cepeda singled him home. But Miller allowed just 4 hits the rest of the way. LA struck back in the 3rd against Ray Washburn when Maury Wills tripled in Willie Davis and scored on Jim Gilliam’s single. Washburn would balk later in the inning to allow another run. A sacrifice fly in the 6th extended the Dodger lead to 4-1. Lou Brock tripled with 2 outs in the 7th, and scored when Tommy Davis misplayed a flyball, but Davis made up for it with a key RBI single to get the run back in the bottom of the inning. Things did get interesting in the 9th when Ron Perranoski walked Dick Schofield with 2 outs. Brock doubled, and Curt Flood singled to put runners on the corners with Maris up in a 5-3 game. But Maris popped out to end the game, sending the #1 seed Cardinals home with an embarrassing 2-6 record. Miller picked up the win, allowing just one earned run on 6 hits in 8 innings. The Dodgers face the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates in the next Elimination series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Sandy Koufax waiting in the wings for a potential Game 5, the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers turned to Bob Miller for their Game 4 starter against the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis took advantage of Miller’s nerves to jump out to an early lead when Roger Maris doubled in the 1st and Orlando […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-4431","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\/4431","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=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}