Word: mccarver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven-game hitting streak? Or that Rightfielder Maris, who was considered all washed up by the New York Yankees after he hit .239 in 1965 and .233 in 1966, would be batting .289 and personally have won a dozen games with timely base hits? Or that Catcher Tim McCarver's batting average (.318) would be up almost 50 points over 1966? Or that Second Baseman Julian Javier would already have driven in more runs (43) and hit more homers (11) than he did all last year...
Nearly everyone in the line-up had a hand in the St. Louis assault and battery. Catcher Tim McCarver, whose lifetime average is only .278, banged out 16 hits in 36 trips to the plate to raise his 1967 average to over .330. There he found himself battling for third place in the standings with Cardinal First Baseman Orlando Cepeda, who won one game with a two-run homer-and clinched another with a three-run blast. Rightfielder Roger Maris, batting a solid .302, contributed an eleventh-inning double that drove in a winning run against the Houston Astros...
...liberties they took. In the fifth game, the Yankees got nothing from Cardinal Speedballer Bob Gibson but Ks (12) and goose eggs (8) until Tom Tresh tied the score with a two-run homer in the ninth inning. Now! cried Yankee fans. Sorry, said Cardinal Catcher Tim McCarver, powdering a three-run homer that put it away 5-2 in the tenth. "I was just trying to hit a sacrifice fly," he explained...
...Cards broke a 0-0 tie with three runs off rookie Mel Stottlemyre in the fourth. Ken Boyer opened with a single and Dick Groat walked. Tim McCarver grounded to Joe Pepitone, who forced Groat at second, but Phil Lins's return throw was wild and Boyer scored...
Mike Shannon singled and Shannon and McCarver worked a double steal, McCarver scoring. Del Maxvill then singled in Shannon...