MINNESOTA 8, BOSTON 0 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Sunday, August 8.

Batting stars:  Tony Oliva was 4-for-5 with a double, scoring twice and driving in three.  Bob Allison was 1-for-2 with a triple and three walks, scoring twice and driving in one.  Don Mincher was 2-for-4 with a triple and three RBIs.

Pitching star:  Jim Perry pitched a complete game shutout, giving up two hits and three walks with two strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Felix Mantilla was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk.  Dave Morehead pitched five innings, giving up three runs on six hits and two walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  It was close for quite a while.  Mincher singled in a run in the first to put the Twins up 1-0.  It stayed 1-0 until the fifth, when Allison tripled in a run and scored on a balk.  Mincher delivered a two-run triple in the seventh to make it 5-0 and in the eighth, Oliva had a two-run double and Jimmie Hall an RBI single to round out the scoring.  The Red Sox did not have a hit until Mantilla's two-out double in the seventh, which was the only scoring threat they had.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-5 with a run.  Hall was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI.

Record:  The win made the Twins 72-39.  Baltimore split a doubleheader with Kansas City, meaning the Twins' lead was now eight games.

Notes:  Oliva and Hall both raised their averages to .307...Dave Morehead would lead the league in losses in 1965 with eighteen.  It is the only black ink on his baseball-reference page.