Week Eight

Sunday: Legends 10, 2009 Pirates 2
WP: Grove
LP: Maholm
HR: Ruth (23), Mays (13)

Babe Ruth homered, doubled, walked, scored two runs and drove in two. Joe Morgan hit a pair of doubles and scored twice. Lefty Grove allowed two unearned runs on five hits; he walked none and struck out five.

Monday: Legends 9, 1961 Athletics 0
WP: SJ Williams
LP: Bass
HR: Mays (14), Morgan (6), T Williams (12)

The Legends scored in five of the first six innings. Willie Mays homered and tripled to drive in three runs. Ted Williams homered, singled twice and walked; he drove in a pair and scored two runs. Joe Morgan homered, doubled and scored twice. Smokey Joe Williams scattered six hits, struck out four and didn't walk a man.

Tuesday: Legends 7, 1924 Phillies 1
WP: Jenkins
LP: Mitchell
HR: Mays (15), Holke (1)

Ted Williams drove in three runs with three singles, Willie Mays homered for the third straight game and Fergie Jenkins threw a three-hitter. Only Walter Holke's homer with two out in the ninth kept Jenkins from the shutout. Jenkins walked three and struck out seven. Johnny Bench and Mays each scored twice, and Stan Musial had a pair of RBIs.

Wednesday: Legends 9, 1969 Padres 0
WP: Bunning
LP: Santorini

Willie Mays' home run streak ended, but he drove in four runs on a triple, single and sac fly and also stole a base. Johnny Bench also had a two-run triple. Jim Bunning scattered six hits, five of them doubles, walked none and struck out nine.

Thursday: Legends 10, 1969 Pilots 3
WP: Plank
LP: Brunet
HR: Mays (16), Musial (11)

The Legends drove George Brunet from the mound in the second inning. Willie Mays homered, doubled twice and scored three runs. Stan Musial homered and tripled, drove in two runs and scored twice. Eddie Plank went 7.1 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits and five walks, for the win.

Friday: Legends 9, 1969 Phillies 2
WP: Nichols
LP: Fryman
HR: Allen (2), Mays (17)

Willie Mays homered again and drove in four runs, and eight different Legends scored to back up Kid Nichols. Nichols kept the Phillies off the board until Dick Allen's two-run homer with two outs in the ninth. Nichols allowed six hits and no walks while striking out nine.

Saturday: Legends 7, 2017 Giants 5
WP: Carlton
LP: Bumgarner
Save: Fingers (4)
HR: Aaron (15)

The Giants peppered Steve Carlton for five runs and nine hits in the first four innings, but Joe Morgan got two back with a double in the fourth inning before a four-run seventh capped by Henry Aaron's homer off Madison Bumgarner, working in relief of starter Ty Blach. Ted Williams had a two-run double earlier in the inning. Rollie Fingers got the final six outs for the save.