Aug. 3, 1964 - Milt Pappas (pictured) survived a heated feud with plate umpire Bill Valentine to deal Los Angeles a third shutout this season as the Orioles beat the Angels, 7-0, at Chavez Ravine tonight.
Pappas, winning his 10th decision against five defeats, allowed eight hits, including a ninth-inning double by Joe Adcock, as the Orioles moved to within one percentage point of the idle Yankees, the American league leaders. The third-place White Sox, also idle, now trail the Orioles by a full game.
The O’s gathered 13 hits as Los Angeles manager Bill Rigney employed five pitchers. The offensive outburst gave Baltimore 28 hits in their last 2 games.
Dick Brown, extending his consecutive-game hit streak to 11 games, paced the attack with three singles in four trips, hiking his average to .304. Brooks Robinson, Sam Bowens, and Jerry Adair each got two hits.
Registering his 19th lifetime shutout, Pappas, who needed 103 pitches to turn the trick, became the first pitcher in the Angels’ four-year history to shut them out three times over the distance, and he did it in one season.
But Milt came very close to being tossed in the sixth inning when a going battle of words with Valentine suddenly erupted, bringing manager Hank Bauer to the rescue.
Pappas was obviously irritated by a called third strike against him in the top of the sixth, and the feud waxed strong until the third out of the frame when it exploded.
Valentine later explained that Pappas “objected to the strike called upon him, then objected to my calls through the last of the sixth. I told him to shut up and mind his own business.”
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