Before July 2 comes to a close, I thought I would inform you baseball fans out there of a very special anniversary.
On this day in 1963, future Hall of Fame pitchers Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn locked horns in perhaps the most epic pitching duel of all-time. The game went scoreless into the 16th inning, with both starting pitchers still on the hill!
Giants manager Alvin Dark tried several times to take Marichal out of the game, but "The Dominican Dandy" refused, saying that as long as the 42-year-old Spahn was still out there, he was staying in (Marichal was only 25).
Willie Mays would end the game with a walk-off homer off of Spahn in the bottom of the 16th, as the Giants won 1-0.
What a game!
Here is the boxscore from the game, courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.
It's easy to say that we will never see a game quite like this one ever again.
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