7/5 From the 1960’s Through the 1980’s: Family Bonds; Team Mtg; Gems; Game Stories

• 1960 - The Bucs and Milwaukee Braves played a dramatic, see-saw game at County Stadium with the Pirates hanging on for a 5-4, 10-inning win. Down 2-0 in the top of the ninth, Rocky Nelson and Don Hoak homered to give the Bucs a 3-2 lead. The Braves Del Crandall’s two-out, bases loaded single off Paul Giel tied the game, with Bob Skinner cutting down the winning run at the plate to extend the match. With two gone in the 10th, an infield knock by Skinner was followed by Nelson’s second homer to make it 5-3. Bob Friend, a starter by trade, got the call to relieve Giel and gave up a run, but closed it out for his only save of the campaign. 

The Great One - 1963 Fleer

• 1963 - Roberto Clemente, always touchy about guys throwing at him, clobbered a pitch that Met’s pitcher Tracy Stallard tossed under his chin with two strikes and two outs in the eighth inning, lining it into the upper deck to break a 1-1 tie and give the Bucs a 3-1 win at the Polo Grounds. Stallard told Maury Allen of the New York Post that "'I was trying to waste a pitch. I figured maybe I could get him to swing again at a pitch around his head.” He did. Don Cardwell got the win, with Alvin McBean picking up the save. For the Metropolitans, it was their eighth straight loss. 
• 1966 - Woodie Fryman tossed his third straight shutout, a 6-0 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The rookie lefty surrendered just seven hits combined in the three complete game wins. Donn Clendenon smacked a two-run bomb and Jose Pagan added a pair of RBI. They were his only three whitewashes of the campaign as he finished the year with a line of 12-9/3.81. 
• 1968 - The Bucs rode one big inning and a gem by Bob Veale to a 4-0 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Pirates plated all their runs in the fifth when six of their first seven runners reached base, with the key blow being Bill Mazeroski’s two-run double. Veale gave up just two hits, both infield singles, with a walk and five strikeouts to tame the Cubbies. The Windy City nine never had a runner each second against the lefty in his complete game win. Big Bob only won 13 games that year out of 33 starts, but his ERA in the Year of the Pitcher was 2.05 when the season ended. 
• 1982 - Pittsburgh's first two hitters of the game, Omar Moreno and Johnny Ray‚ homered off Houston's Joe Niekro at TRS, the second time in Pirate history that feat had been done. Niekro ended up with the last laugh, though, in a 6-4 Astro win. 

AVS - 1988 Parker Brothers Starting Lineup

• 1988 - Andy Van Slyke, Sid Bream, Jim Gott, Spanky LaValliere and Bobby Bonilla held a players-only meeting before playing San Diego at Jack Murphy Stadium after losing three in a row and falling 7-½ games off the lead. They preached doing it as a team instead of players trying to do it all themselves and won that night 3-2 as AVS backed his talk when he homered and stole a base. The big play came with an out in the ninth when C Junior Ortiz withstood a runaway John Kruk collision at home to keep the tying run from scoring. Bob Walk got the win with Barry Jones earning the save. The meeting didn’t help long term; the Mets waltzed away with the crown by winning 100 games to the Bucs’ 85 victories.
• 1989 - Barry Bonds homered in Pittsburgh's 6-4 loss to the Giants at TRS‚ giving him and father Bobby the MLB father-and-son home run record with 408. The Bells (Gus and Buddy) and the Berras (Yogi and Dale) had shared the record of 407; Gus and Dale both played for Pittsburgh so the Pirates had a claim on all three families.