{"id":4555,"date":"2026-04-13T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:03:11","slug":"giants-top-pirates-in-13-8-slugfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4555","title":{"rendered":"Giants Top Pirates in 13-8 Slugfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1962-218x300.png?resize=218%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1962.png?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1962.png?resize=93%2C128&amp;ssl=1 93w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1962.png?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CepedaOrlando1962.png?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One loss away from being swept by the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates in their initial best-of-five series, the 1962 San Francisco Giants offense exploded. After just 3 innings, the Giants had scored 11 runs on 14 hits against Pittsburgh ace Bob Friend. Orlando Cepeda alone was 3 for 3 with a double, a home run, and 6 RBI. The Pirates chipped away, scoring runs in the 4th, 5th, and 6th against Juan Marichal, to cut the lead to 11-6, but no closer. Willie Mays hit a 2-run homer off reliever Joe Gibbon in the 7th to expand the lead. Meanwhile, Dick Stuart and Roberto Clemente hit solo homers in the 9th to finish the game 13-8. Mays and Willie McCovey each finished 4 for 6. Stuart was 3 for 5, with his 12th homer of the Tournament. Marichal allowed his 8 runs on 11 hits, but went the distance. San Francisco&#8217;s Jim Davenport pulled his hamstring running to 1st base in the 6th inning. The Pirates are 0-3 against the Giants at home at Forbes Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB60s\/Scoresheets\/10-02-2025_SFG_PIT.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'62 Giants @ '60 Pirates - 10\/2\/25\">&#8217;62 Giants @ &#8217;60 Pirates &#8211; 10\/2\/25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One loss away from being swept by the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates in their initial best-of-five series, the 1962 San Francisco Giants offense exploded. After just 3 innings, the Giants had scored 11 runs on 14 hits against Pittsburgh ace Bob Friend. Orlando Cepeda alone was 3 for 3 with a double, a home run, and [&hellip;]<\/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-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-60s"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","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=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}