Start Time: 1:31 p.m. Local
Attendance: 35,368
Venue: Tiger Stadium
Game Duration: 7:00
Day Game, on grass
Yankees 9, Tigers 7 in 22 innings
This is the famous Jack Reed game. OK, it's famous to Yankee fans of that time. Jack Reed was Mickey Mantle's caddy. Reed would replace Mantle in the outfield late in games to give Mantle rest. In this game Mantle started in right and Roger Maris in center. Mantle had missed about a month with a severe muscle injury. Mantle was still voted 1962 AL MVP.
Mantle was injured May 18, 1962. He PH June 16, 1962 and in his next two games. He started in right field June 22, 1962 and this was only two days later.
1961-1963 Reed appeared in 222 games (only 18 as a starter) with only 144 PA and 129 AB. This is the only home run that Reed hit.
Jack Reed (1, off Phil Regan, 22nd inn, 1 on, 1 out to LF)
Yes, it won the seven hour, 22 inning game. And, yes, that's the 82 year old Phil Regan who became pitching coach of the Mets during the 2019 season.
Going to the bottom of the 7th, tied 7-7:
Joe Pepitone replaces Mickey Mantle playing RF batting 4th
Mantle: 1 for 3, one run scored, 2 RBI, BB.
Top 13th: Phil Linz pinch hits for Joe Pepitone (RF) batting 4th
Linz gets an intentional walk. Then:
Jack Reed replaces Phil Linz (PH) playing RF batting 4th
So Reed doesn't enter the game until the 13th and there are 8 Yankee batters coming up. And still Reed will bat four times.
OK, so what does all this have to do with Rocky Colavito? Colavito had tied Harmon Killebrew in 1959 for most home runs in the American League with 42 playing for Cleveland. Colavito hit his career high of 45 in 1961 in his second Detroit Tiger season. In this epic 22 inning game Colavito batted six times in extra innings. SIX. And Colavito had five hits in those six AB. FIVE hits.
According to my friend Cliff, that's a record for most hits in extra innings of a single game (not most hits in an extra-inning game).
The first of those six AB is the most interesting:
| Bottom of the 11th, Tigers Batting, Tied 7-7, Yankees' Tex Clevenger facing 4-5-6 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b11 | 7-7 | 0 | --- | DET | Rocky Colavito | Tex Clevenger | -29% | 7% | Triple to CF | ||
| b11 | 7-7 | 0 | --3 | DET | Norm Cash | Tex Clevenger | 0% | 6% | Intentional Walk | ||
| b11 | 7-7 | 0 | 1-3 | DET | Dick McAuliffe | Tex Clevenger | 0% | 6% | Intentional Walk; Cash to 2B | ||
| b11 | 7-7 | 0 | 123 | O | DET | Chico Fernandez | Tex Clevenger | 10% | 17% | Lineout: LF | |
| Inn | Score | Out | RoB | Pit(cnt) | R/O | @Bat | Batter | Pitcher | wWPA | wWE | Play Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b11 | 7-7 | 1 | 123 | OO | DET | Dick Brown | Tex Clevenger | 33% | 50% | Bunt Pop Fly Double Play: Bunt C-3B | |
| 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB. Yankees 7, Tigers 7. | |||||||||||
Colavito hit a long leadoff triple to dead center in old Tiger Stadium. Yankee manager Ralph Houk went to the mound and then something happened that was inexplicable to a young fan. The Yankee pitcher intentionally walked the next Tiger batter. Then he did it again. The bases were loaded with no outs. The Yankees got out of that jam, which let Colavito set his obscure record.
13th: Colavito single to SS
15th: Colavito single to 3B
18th: Colavito flyball CF
20th: Colavito single LF (ground ball)
22th: Colavito single to CF with two out, no base runners; Norm Cash ended the game with a fly out to LF
So including his 11th inning leadoff triple, Rocky Colavito went 5 for 6 in extra innings of a game. And that's a record.
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