The Astros kept finding the same answer whenever the Giants put runners on base on May 4, 1969: another double play. By the end of a 3-1 Houston victory, records had been tied, records had been broken, and one of baseball's greatest pitchers had endured a moment he'd rather forget.
🕵️ Inside The Original Newspaper Coverage you’ll learn:
The record hidden inside the record
How an argument created an unexpected mistake for a future Hall of Famer
Why champagne flowed after a May victory
🕵️ Replay Today: June 9, 1971
Travel back 55 years ago to the day, and experience baseball as fans saw it that day with one original newspaper page featuring:
11 and a half scoreless innings and a box score that reveals the ending
a more complicated walk-off in Atlanta
a new leader in the AL East
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Step back into baseball's newspaper era through the exact pages fans unfolded over breakfast the next morning.
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