Baseball Historians

April 28, 1967 at Busch Stadium
Pirates 6, Cardinals 2  (9-5)
Ray Washburn gave up five runs in 7 2/3 innings as the Pirates scored four late runs to top the Cardinals.  Washburn gave up eleven hits and walk and he struck out three.
Lou Brock got another hit and he extended his hitting streak to twelve games.  Alex [...]

April 27, 1967 at the Astrodome
Astros 6, Cardinals 4  (9-4)
The Cardinals and Bob Gibson were cruising along in this one until the wheels fell of the wagon in the seventh.  Gibson shut out the Astros through six but he gave up three runs in the seventh before yielding to the Hal Woodeshick out of the [...]

April 26, 1967 at the Astrodome
Cardinals 7, Astros 2  (9-3)
Steve Carlton picked up a win in his first start of the season.  He threw a nice game and struck out nine in eight innings of work.  He gave up only two runs on five hits and two walks.  Dick Hughes pitched a perfect final frame and earned his [...]

April 25, 1967 at the Astrodome
Cardinals 4, Astros 0  (8-3)
Al Jackson threw a gem.  He had a no hitter going through seven innings until Bob Aspromonte broke it up with a lead off single in the eighth inning.  Jacskon did walk three and strikeout three, but that was the only hit of the game against [...]

April 24, 1967 at Dodger Stadium
Dodgers 6, Cardinals 5  (7-3)
It may have taken thirteen innings, but the Cardinals lost back to back games for the first time this season.  They came from behind from being down 4-2 to send the game into extra innings and they even took a 5-4 lead in the top of [...]

April 23, 1967 at Dodger Stadium
Dodgers 9, Cardinals 3  (7-2)
The Cardinals actually matched the Dodgers with ten hits but Cardinals’ pitchers gave up eight walks and some of those free passes came back to haunt the team.  Ray Washburn had another rough outing.  He gave up six runs (five earned) on six hits and three [...]

April 22, 1967 at Dodger Stadium
Cardinals 3, Dodgers 1  (7-1)
The Cardinals continued their west coast swing with a tight win over the Dodgers.  Bob Gibson was back in form and he improved to 3-0 on the season.  He gave up only a single run on five hits and two walks with six strikeouts. 
The top three [...]

April 20, 1967 at Candlestick Park
Giants 7, Cardinals 5  (6-1)
The Cardinals six game winning streak came to an end in pretty much one inning.  Starter Al Jacskon gave up five runs in the second inning and while the Cardinals pulled to within two runs, they couldn’t finish the comeback.
Jackson dropped to 1-1 on the year.  [...]

April 19, 1967 at Candlestick Park
Cardinals 7, Giants 5  (6-0)
Tim McCarver got the Cardinals going in their sixth straight win when he hit a three run shot in the first inning.  The Cardinals eventually took a 7-2 lead and while the Giants chipped away at, the closest they could get the 7-5 final.  Julian Javier [...]

April 18, 1967 at Candlestick Park
Cardinals 2, Giants 1  (5-0)
The Cardinals won their fifth straight game to open the 1967 season, but they needed eleven innings to win this one.  The Cardinals scored a run in the top of the fourth on Julian Javier’s solo homerun and the Giants answered in the bottom half of [...]

April 16, 1967 at Busch Stadium
Cardinals 11, Astros 8  (4-0)
It’s not too often that Bob Gibson gives up seven runs in a start and it’s even more rare to walk away from that start with a win, which is what Gibson did because Lou Brock once again went yard twice.  Brock went four for five [...]

April 15, 1967 at Busch Stadium
Cardinals 13, Dodgers 4 (3-0)
The Cardinals ran up the score on the Dodgers to win their third straight game to open up the season.  Lou Brock had a monster game.  He went four for six with two homeruns, five RBIs and three runs.  Orlando Cepeda and Tim McCarver both had [...]

April 14, 1967 at Busch Stadium
Cardinals 8, Dodgers 4  (2-0)
The Cardinals doubled up the Dodgers to win their second straight game to open up the season.  Orlando Cepeda and Roger Maris got it done at the plate in the Cardinals eight run attack.  Cepeda doubled twice, scored two runs and drove in three while Maris [...]

April 11, 1967 at Busch Stadium
Cardinals 6, Giants 0  (1-0)
The Cardinals cruised to an easy win behind a dominating home opening performance by Bob Gibson.  Gibson gave up only five hits and he struck out thirteen in nine shutout innings.
Lou Brock led the way for the Cardinals at the plate.  He went two for five [...]