Giants Top Cards in Extra Innings

May 6, 1965 - Jimmy Davenport and the Giant bullpen led San Francisco to an important 10-5 victory over the Cardinals last night in a sensational 10-inning game at Busch Stadium.

Willie Mays, Chuck Hiller, Willie McCovey, and Ed Bailey also played big roles at the plate. 

Bill White of the Cardinals knocked Bob Hendley out of the box with a pair of home runs in the first three innings, giving St. Louis a 4-3 lead.

The Cards got only two hits the rest of the night off Gaylord Perry, Bob Bolin, Frank Linzy, and Bill Henry.

Yesterday was José Pagan’s 30th birthday. He observed it by watching Davenport take his job away.

Jimmy, starting for the second straight night, went 4-for-4, including three doubles, and a sacrifice bunt besides. His third double touched off San Francisco’s five-run salvo in the 10th off Ray Washburn.

Hiller contributed a pinch homer that brought the Giants to within a run at 5-4, and Mays’ eighth homer of the year off Barney Schultz in the eighth tied the score.

Mays had four hits altogether, boosting his average from .321 to .345 for his birthday tomorrow. Willie will be 34, but he sure doesn’t look it.

The actual winning run scored on a pinch bouncer by Bailey. Phil Gagliano, whose sensational stop on McCovey in the ninth prevented San Francisco from winning in regulation, booted Bailey’s tap for one error, then threw to an unguarded plate for another, enabling Davenport to score the big go-ahead run.

“I just booted it,” said a downcast Gagliano. “I wasn’t thinking of a double play. I was going home with the throw, I had my mind made up. When I booted it, I came up throwing. I didn’t even look for Uecker.”

Uecker, filling in at catcher for the ailing Tim McCarver, explained that he thought Gagliano would try for a double play, but added: “I goofed it up. I never should have left home.”

St. Louis manager Red Schoendienst agreed. “We should have had the double play, that’s why we walked the one guy. Uecker never should have left the plate, but every instinct was telling him to back up first.”

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