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Given all the support he needed by Lou Brock's record-tying four hit performance, Gibson, hero of the 1964 Series, fanned ten Sox during his masterful six hitter...
...burly right-hander made only one mistake. In the third inning, after getting two quick strikes on his opposite number. Red Sox starter Jose Santiago, Gibson grooved a high fastball. Santiago drilled it into the left field screen, a narrow foot over the Green Monster...
...Louis second baseman Julian Javier banged a single to center, the sixth of the Card's ten hits, and went to second on an infield out. After Gibson whiffed, the ever-present Brock slapped a grounder into left...
...charged in--"a million miles an hour," one bleacherite observed--and gunned a strike to catcher Russ Gibson to get the sliding Javier for the third...
Unfortunately, this was the last hometown cheer. Gibson cruised along serenely, yielding only a double to George Scott and three scattered singles after Santiago's homer. In the ninth, with two gone--including the King on a fly to deep left--Scott drew Gibson's only base on balls. But pinch hitter Mike Andrews skied to the old Yankee Roger Maris for the final...