Category: The 1967 AL Pennant Race

According to ELIAS – Part 46 – Wait until next year!

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on October 1, 1967

The Twins and Dean Chance cruised along with a 2-0 lead at Fenway Park until the bottom of the sixth inning when the wheels came off the Twins bandwagon and the Boston Red Sox scored 5 times and held on for a 5-3 win behind Red Sox starter Jim Lonborg who won his 22nd game of the season. Dean Chance was the loser. The Detroit Tigers who still had a chance coming in ended up splitting with the California Angels and also came up a game short like the Twins and tied for second place. A pennant race for the history books but for everyone but the Boston Red Sox, it was “wait until next year”. 

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The 1967 Twins by Mark Armour

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 45 – Kaat hurts elbow as Twins lose to Red Sox 6-4

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on September 30, 1967

Jim Kaat hurts elbow in the third inning and the Red Sox go on to a 6-4 victory and tie Twins for first place with both teams at 91-70. Meanwhile the Tigers split a DH with the Angels and are half a game back with a DH scheduled for tomorrow. The Tigers won the first game by a 5-0 score and were ahead 6-2 after seven innings but the Angels came back with 6 runs in the 8th inning and held on to beat the Bengals 8-6 and claim a split. The White Sox were eliminated yesterday.

Red Sox-Twins- Boston: Jim Kaat (rubbing ball) Twins pitcher, talks to his manager Cal Ermer after complaining about a pain in his elbow in the third inning. Listening in is Zoilo Versalles and umpire Jim Honochick. Kaat pitched two more balls and then was forced to leave the game due to the pain in his elbow. CREDIT: Getty Images

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I know that I just told you how this game with the Boston Red Sox ended up but you can still enjoy this game in its entirety by watching this video of the entire game. I hope you enjoy it, it is supposedly the oldest telecast of a complete MLB game totally in color.

Telecast of September 30, 1967 Minnesota Twins versus Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park

1967 World Series program cover that could have been.

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What a pennant race!

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 44 – And now there are three left

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on September 29, 1967

The Washington Senators and Phil Ortega shutout the White Sox and Tommy John 1-0 and eliminated the Mighty Whitey’s from post season play. In Detroit it was too cold for the Tigers to play the Angels. After being rained out the day before, the two teams have double-headers scheduled for both days this week-end.  The Twins had a rare Thursday and Friday back-to-back days off before going to Boston to play the Red Sox over the week-end. 

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What a pennant race!

1967 Twins phantom World Series tickets. The Twins should have been there, damn Red Sox.

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 43 – No AL action today

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on September 28, 1967

The Tigers were rained out and the Twins, and the Red and White Sox were idle. 

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What a pennant race!

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – 42 – Twins & Red Sox lose, Wsox lose two

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on September 27, 1967

The Twins lose to the Angels 5-1 as Dean Chance gives up four runs in the top of the fourth inning. The Twins used 22 players and get 9 hits but could only score once. 

The Red Sox get shutout 6-0 and the White Sox lose a DH to the KC A’s 5-2 and 4-0. The Tigers were idle. The Twins are alone on top with a full game lead on the Tigers and the Sox and are up 1.5 games on the Mighty Whitey’s. What a pennant race!

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Mel Nelson

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 41 – Twins WIN! Up one game on the Sox

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on September 26, 1967

The Twins beat the Angels 7-3 at the Met as Jim Kaat goes the distance for win number 16 and Harmon Killebrew hits two home runs and Bob Allison one.

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The Tigers beat the Yankees 1-0 as the Red Sox lose to the Indians 6-3. The White Sox sat back and watched the action. The Twins are alone on top with a full game lead on the White Sox and the Red Sox, and are up 1.5 games on the Tigers. What a pennant race!

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 40 – Ermer’s thoughts on starters and Twins fan sure the Twins are in

Twins lose 9-2 to California and now share first place with the Bosox

Boxscores and standings 

The article below is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune September 26, 1967

 

 

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1967 Twins Topps team card

 

Standings and scores of the baseball wars on September 24, 1967

The Twins beat the Yankees as Dean Chance wins number 20. Both of the Sox teams win too but the Tigers lose. The Twins are alone on top with a half game lead on the Red Sox, a one game lead on the WSox and a game and a half on the Tigers. The Red Sox have just 4 games left, the Twins and White Sox each have 5 games left, and the Tigers have 6 left. What a pennant race!

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 39 – Kline, Boswell, Uhlaender and Oliva

A nice story about Twins reliever Ron Kline who was in his 14th season of big league action and had yet to savor the pleasure of pitching in the post season. Harmon Killebrew steals his first base in five years. Killebrew would go on to steal 8 bases in 1969…

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When I was a youngster I used to subscribe to the Sporting News and I can’t tell you how much I looked forward to getting that weekly baseball paper. Since we had no daily paper this was my only way to see the baseball box scores except when school was in session and I could stop in the school library and read the local paper. When I received the Sporting News the first article I always looked for was the Joe Falls column, he was my favorite baseball writer back then and his writing was always informative and fun. Here is one of his columns that you can enjoy about Twins outfielder Ted Uhlaender and Tigers outfielder Mickey Stanley.

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Pat Kelly in a Denver Bears uniform. Credit: Getty Images.

Dave Boswell was an interesting person and there is a nice story about him in this section of the Sporting News. There is also a story about manager Cal Ermer‘s wife Gloria that I think you will enjoy. A small blurb also mentions Fan Appreciation Day put on by Calvin Griffith and how the Minnesota Twins showed their appreciation back then and how todays Minnesota Twins show their appreciation to the fans that support them. Today’s Twins should be ashamed of themselves.

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Did you know that Twins outfielder Pat Kelly was a brother to Cleveland Browns running back LeRoy Kelly? Everybody wants to read more about a younger Tony Oliva. The Red Sox fans among you may enjoy a nice story by Larry Caflin about how “Beantown” is enjoying their Red Sox team of 1967.

 

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The 1967 AL Pennant Race – Part 38 – Chance pitches no-hitter in 2-1 win over Indians

The Twins swept a twin-bill from the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland Stadium in what turned out to be a very interesting day. The first game was tied at 4-4 after 9 innings and in the top of the tenth Tony Oliva singled and scored when Harmon Killebrew followed with his annual triple. Sandy Valdespino followed Harmon with a sac fly to score Killebrew and the Twins were up by 6-4. Ron Kline gave up a home run to Joe Azcue but kept Cleveland from scoring any more runs and the Twins won the game 6-5 in 10 innings.

The first game extra-innings victory was quickly put on the back burner when Twins starter Dean Chance pitched a no-hitter in the second game even though he allowed the Indians to score first in a no-hitter rarity. Chance threw 95 pitches and struck out 8 Indians but walked five and Cesar Tovar committed an error so it not like the Indians didn’t have their chances in the Twins 2-1 win. The Twins scored both of their runs without the benefit of a RBI, the first run scored on an error and the second scored on a balk. 

 

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