{"id":4514,"date":"2026-03-31T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:31:45","slug":"yanks-win-game-1-on-howards-bat-fords-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"Yanks Win Game 1 on Howard&#8217;s Bat, Ford&#8217;s Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HowardElston61-197x300.png?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HowardElston61.png?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HowardElston61.png?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HowardElston61.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HowardElston61.png?w=201&amp;ssl=1 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yankees ace Whitey Ford shut out the 1964 Chicago White Sox, allowing just 6 hits and striking out 5 as the Yankees won it 5-0. With Mickey Mantle going 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts, it was Elston Howard who stepped up in a big way. Howard singled and scored on a wild pitch in the 2nd inning for the 1st Yankees run. Howard hit a massive solo home run in the 4th inning to deep centerfield to give New York a 2-0 lead. Then, in the 8th, with two on and one out, Howard connected for another homer, a 3-run shot that put the Yankees up 5-0. Howard finished 4 for 4 with a double, two homers, and 4 RBI, all against Gary Peters. Peters managed to strike out 9, but fell to 2-2 in the Tournament. The Yankees made the most of their 7 hits to take the 1st game in the American League Championship Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/09-29-2025_CHW_NYY.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'64 White Sox @ '61 Yankees - 9\/29\/25\">&#8217;64 White Sox @ &#8217;61 Yankees &#8211; 9\/29\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankees ace Whitey Ford shut out the 1964 Chicago White Sox, allowing just 6 hits and striking out 5 as the Yankees won it 5-0. With Mickey Mantle going 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts, it was Elston Howard who stepped up in a big way. Howard singled and scored on a wild pitch in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4514","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\/4514","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=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}