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1969 BOSTON RED SOX ...
In 1969, to offset 1968's "Year of the Pitcher", major
league baseball initiated some drastic changes. The
pitcher's mound was lowered from 15 inches to 10 inches
and the upper and lower dimensions of the strike zone
changed from between the shoulders and the needs, to
between the armpits and the top of the knees. Baseball expanded into the cities Seattle, Kansas City,
Montréal and San Diego, and each league was now split into
an Eastern and Western division. Winners of each division
would play a best of five League Championship Series, to
decide the pennant, prior to play in the World Series. And
so each team's chances of reaching the World Series
doubled. The American League East Boston Red Sox started the
1969 season optimistically. Everyone appeared healthy,
including
Tony Conigliaro, whose vision had returned to
near normal. His 21-year-old brother Billy, joined him on
the roster. Carl Yastrzemski was still the cornerstone, and the
29-year-old
Yaz anchored left-field, getting 40 home runs,
with 111 RBIs.
Reggie Smith, the 24-year-old
centerfielder, with a package of power and speed, finished
with an on-base percentage of .368 along with a slugging
percentage of .527. Tony Conigliaro, although his numbers weren't
spectacular, a .321 on-base percentage and a .427 slugging
percentage played to a respectable level and was an
amazing testament to courage and persistence. Shortstop
Rico Petrocelli added to the production with
a breakout year. He hit a career-high 40 home runs,
finished with a .403 on-base percentage, had 97 RBIs and
scored 92 runs. He finished seventh in the MVP voting.
Petrocelli's infield partner,
Mike Andrews, continued
to be a solid presence with a .390 on-base percentage and
some surprising pop with 15 home runs.
George Scott had a
comeback year and continued to grow into an offense of
threat, hitting 16 home runs at third-base. In Baltimore on opening day, April 8th,
Tony C. started the game
in right field and provided one of the most stirring
moments in Red Sox history. In the 10th inning, he
launched a home run off Dave Leonhard and floated around
the bases with a walkoff game-winner. After the Red Sox beat the Indians in Cleveland in a 16
inning affair on April 11th, the next day the Sox won
again 5-3. Young Bill Landis took his third straight
win, having been the winning pitcher in all three Sox
victories. Ken Harrelson did most of the damage with a
double and a three run homer. Behind home runs from the
bats of Rico Petrocelli and
Reggie Smith, the Sox swept
the Indians in the third game on April 13th. When the Sox opened at Fenway Park, on
April 14th, against
Baltimore, the fans gave
Tony Conigliaro a two-minute
ovation when he came to bat, as an airplane soared
overhead trailing a large banner that read simply "Welcome
Back".
Tony C's infield hit in the fourth inning knocked
in the winning run of a 5-1, Sox victory. But the Sox
would lose three games of their four game series with the
Orioles. Against the Indians at Fenway on
April 18th, the Sox hit
five homers off Luis Tiant in a 10 to 7 win. Two homers
were hit by
Ken Harrelson, and one each by
Rico Petrocelli,
Carl Yastrzemski, and
Tony Conigliaro. It was
Tony's first Fenway homer since July 27, 1967.
Conigliaro's apparent return made
Harrelson
expendable. He was traded, along with
pitchers Dick Ellsworth and Juan Pizarro, to the Cleveland
Indians for pitchers Sonny Siebert and Vicente Romo, and
catcher Joe Azcue on April 19th. On April 20th, against the Indians, Ray Jarvis pitched
two-hit ball for 8 2/3 innings, giving up just one run.
Amidst chants of "We Want the
Hawk", Gerry Moses hit his
first big league grand slam home run and the Sox won, 9 to
4.
Harrelson balked at the trade and said he would rather
quit baseball than report to Cleveland. He had too much
going on in Boston, including a television production
company, a record publishing firm, a book deal, a sub
shop, and part interest in a nightclub called
Ken Harrelson's 1800 House. In the end, money talked and
Harrelson agreed to go to Cleveland when the Indians
doubled his salary. Against the Yankees on April 22nd, the Sox knocked out
four homers off Stan Bahnsen and grabbed an 8 to 3
victory. A three run shot by
Conigliaro and solo
homers by Mike Andrews,
Rico Petrocelli and
Carl Yastrzemski were the tally. Jim Lonborg, who hadn't pitched since opening day, took
the mound in Detroit on April 25th. He went 7 1/3
innings and threw 109 pitches in a 5 to 4 Sox win. The
next night, Ray Culp picked up his fourth win, defeating
the Tigers, 7 to 4. Since last June, Culp had won 16 of
his 18 starts with a 2.47 ERA.
Carl Yastrzemski socked out
two homers, one a grand slam, his first in five years. On April 29th, 21 year old rookie, Mike Nagy, defeated
Mel Stottlemyre, 2 to 1, in Yankee Stadium. Yaz knocked in all the runs with two homers in a game
at Fenway on May 2nd. Sonny Siebert picked up his
first win in a Red Sox uniform, beating the Tigers, 3 to
2. The next day,
Tony C. beat out a dinky bunt in the
eighth inning to score a runner from third base and break
a 5-5 tie. Another run came clattering across a moment
later on Reggie Smith's double and the Sox beat the Tigers
once again by a 7 to 5 score. On
May 4th,
Rico Petrocelli hit a two run homer in the 11th inning to give
the Red Sox a 4 to 2 walk-off victory over the Detroit
Tigers, and a three-game sweep from the World Champions. In their first meeting with the Seattle Pilots at Sicks
Stadium in Seattle, on May 6th, the Red Sox found the
Pilots perfect hosts, handing a 12-2 thrashing to the
expansion team.
Yaz had two singles, knocking in three
runs, and George Thomas had two hits and three RBIs. The
win gave Ray Culp his fifth win. George Thomas' double in
the seventh inning, the next night, broke a 4-4 deadlock,
sending home the winning run, and a 5 to 4 win over the
Pilots. In Anaheim,
Tony Conigliaro's bases loaded triple in
the 10th inning, powered the Sox to a 6 to 3 win on May
10th. It was in the same spot that
Mike Andrews hit a
dame-winning triple, the night before, in a 7-2 Sox win.
In the series finale,
Rico Petrocelli pounded a pair of
two-run homers to give the Angels a 7 to 3 headache and a
Sox sweep.
Yaz hit .500 in the series, going 6 for 12. It
was the Sox 8th straight win. The Sox bullpen in the last
23 2/3 innings had just given up one run and 12 hits. On May 14th Ray Culp won his sixth game, 2 to 1 over
the A's in Oakland,
throwing 11 strikeouts.
Conigliaro drove in both Sox runs
with a pair of singles. The Sox were 20-11, right on the
heels of the red-hot Baltimore Orioles, were only one game
behind, as they returned home. The Seattle Pilots visited Fenway on May 17th and were
defeated by rookie pitcher, Mike Nagy, 6-1.
Carl Yastrzemski,
Mike Andrews and Dalton Jones made his job
easier with home runs. In a doubleheader on May 21st, the Sox took two games
from the California Angels. In the first game,
Jim Lonborg beat the Angels, 5 to 2. He left the game
leading 3-1, and needed an outstanding relief job from
Sparky Lyle.
Rico Petrocelli knocked in two runs
with his 13th homer, and both
Mike Andrews and Joe Azcue
had three hits each, including clutch blows to put the
game away. In the second game Sonny Siebert came
away with an 8 to 3 win, with relief help from Vicente Romo.
Reggie Smith knocked in three runs, while
Tony Conigliaro and Dalton Jones knocked in two runs apiece. In the next game,
Reggie Smith singled home Syd
O'Brien, with the winning run, in the bottom of the ninth
inning against Hoyt Wilhelm, to give the Sox a 4 to 3 win,
earning rookie, Ray Jarvis his second win. On May 25th, the Sox were in Chicago.
Jim Lonborg threw
106 pitches en route to a 1-0 shutout of the White Sox.
George Scott's home run provided the difference. Rico Petrocelli broke
Vern Stephens' record for of 46
consecutive games without an error on May 28th in Kansas
City.
Rico also hit his 14th homer giving
Ray Culp
his eighth win beating the Royals, 4 to 3. Since last
July, Culp was 20-4 with 14 complete games. The next game saw
Tony Conigliaro smash a home run and
Reggie Smith knock out two homers, with four hits. in an 8
to 6 win over the Royals. Reggie had eight hits for
18 bases and seven RBIs in the three game series.
Meanwhile,
Carl Yastrzemski had three outfield assists. The Sox started June with
Ray Culp winning his ninth
game, 5 to 2 over the Twins at Fenway. The Sox bats stayed
hot with Tony C. rapping out four hits, two doubles, a
single and his 10th homer. On June 3rd,
Jim Lonborg (5-0) pitched his first
complete game of the season, defeating the White Sox, 8 to
2, throwing 142 pitches.
Carl Yastrzemski (3 for 4)
knocked out his 13th homer, while
Rico Petrocelli took the
league home run lead when he hit his 17th of the year. The
Sox bats slammed a season high 17 hits in the game. On June 6th, it was
raining heavily, and in the 10th inning the fans started
to head for the exits because it looked like the Red Sox
had lost to the Kansas City Royals, 2 to 1. And then, all
of a sudden the fans stopped in their tracks as
George Scott, with two outs, sent a wicked liner toward the
bleachers in center field. The ball struck halfway up the
wall behind the seats and the fans turned around and went
back to their seats, cheering. An inning later, Dalton
Jones slammed his second home run of the year, with Dick
Schofield on base, and the Red Sox were winners, 4 to 2. Mike Nagy pitched the first shutout of the year at
Fenway, the next game, beating the Royals, 4 to 0.
George Scott's hot bat produced another home run.
Jim Lonborg
(6-0) followed that game up with another complete game,
8-2 victory.
Rico Petrocelli continued the homer
barrage with two dingers. In Minnesota, on June 9th,
Rico became the first player
in the majors to reach 20 homers, while Vicente Romo
pitched out of two late inning jams to preserve a 5 to 3
victory over the Twins. Two nights later, Joe Lahoud
smashed three homers, while Dick Schofield knocked out
three doubles and three singles apiece, from the bats of
George Scott and
Reggie Smith, as the Sox pounded the
Twins, 13 to 5. The Sox were in second place, only three
games behind the Orioles. But in the next series in Oakland, the Athletics
batters pounded Sox pitchers for 38 runs in three lost
games. The Sox temporarily stopped their losing streak in
Cleveland. Ken Harrelson had a home run and a double
sending the Indians into a 5 to 4 lead. But
Reggie Smith's
three run homer trumped him in an 8 to 5 come back victory
on June 16th. In his fourth try, on June 19th,
Ray Culp finally
collected his 10th win, shutting out the Indians, 3-0,
with a two hit performance.
Carl Yastrzemski's 19th homer
was the big blow for the Sox. A June doubleheader against the Yankees at Fenway Park
epitomized the up and down nature of the season. On June
21st, against the Yankees at Fenway, George Thomas' bloop
single in the 11th inning, finished off a 6-5 four run
explosion. Down 5-2, and with Dalton Jones,
George Scott
and Tom Satriano on base, Joe Lahoud brought in two runs
with a double. Thomas' looper scored both Satriano and
Lahoud with the walk-off winning runs. In the second game
of this doubleheader, the Sox were one strike away from
a sweep but New York's Roy White hit a go-ahead, three run
triple, leading the Yanks to victory. Against the Indians on June 24th, Lee Stange recorded
his third win of the season, setting down Cleveland 6 to
1. Syd O'Brien and
Carl Yastrzemski each had three hits.
But the Sox had lost the first game, 6-3. In the first game of another doubleheader the next day,
with the Indians, Sonny Siebert, after giving up a run in
the first inning. retired 10 men in a row. He walked a man
in the fourth and then retired 12 straight. He fanned
eight in his first complete game of the season. To help
his cause he doubled and homered in his 3 to 1 win. But
the Sox lost the second game, 7 to 3. In the final game of the Indians' series, the Sox beat
the Tribe, 4 to 3 in 10 innings on June 26th.
Ken Harrelson, who went only 1 for 18 in the in the five
games, contributed to the Sox win. In the 5th
inning, with the Indians up 3-0 and the bases loaded,
Dalton Jones lifted a fly ball to right. The "Hawk"
thought the ball was gone and just turned to watch it.
But he was wrong and the ball bounced off the bullpen
wall, while Jones scampered to third and the game was
tied. In the 10th inning with Dick Schofield on
second base,
Reggie Smith's single drove him in and the
Sox had a 4 to 3 walk-off win. The Sox finished June playing games marred by their own
mistakes, losing 3 of the 4 games they played against
Ted
Williams' Washington Senators. In Detroit, the Sox
pitchers gave up 23 runs and lost another three games to
start off July. They still were in second place, but now
11 1/2 games behind Baltimore. After losing seven straight games, the Sox finally won
a game, the second game of a doubleheader with Washington,
at Fenway, on July 4th. The score was 7 to 4.
Carl Yastrzemski slammed his 23rd homer and
Reggie Smith hit
his 16th. The Sox split another doubleheader with the Nats the
next day. After losing the first game, 6 to 2, the
Sox coasted to an 11 to 4 victory in the second game. The Tigers followed to Fenway and were handcuffed by
Ray Culp, 7-2 on July 7th. He allowed six hits,
walked two and struck out five.
George Scott had two
triples and a single to pace the Sox. The next night,
rookie Mike Nagy beat the Tigers, 4 to 1. He helped
himself with a bases loaded single. The Red Sox would play Baltimore eight times in the
final week and a half before the All-Star break. In
Baltimore, in the first game of their series, on July
10th, the score
was tied 4-4 in the bottom ninth, but Vicente Romo
surrendered a walk, a stolen base and an opposite field
single by Frank Robinson that ended the game. In Friday's doubleheader, on July 11th, the opener was tied 3 to 3 in
the seventh inning, when
Yaz homered to get the lead and
Reggie Smith drilled a three run shot in the eighth, to
put the game away, 7 to 4.
Mike Andrews was the hero of
the nightcap, going 5 for 5 and the Sox coasted to a 12 to
3 rout. On Saturday against Mike Cuellar,
Tony Conigliaro got
three hits, but Cuellar shutout the rest of the team, 4 to
0. In the virtual must win game on Sunday,
Jim Lonborg
couldn't get out of the second inning and the Red Sox had
lost three of five in a series they needed to win. They
were 13 1/2 games behind. In a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium on July 15th,
Reggie Smith (.354 BA) went 5 for 5 with three singles and
two doubles, helping the Sox beat the Yankees, 7 to 6. On
the 16th, the next game,
Carl Yastrzemski ended an 0-16
drought with four straight hits, including his 28th home
run into the third deck in a 6 to 2 win. Both
Yaz and
Reggie Smith were named to the American League All Star
team along with
Rico Petrocelli and
Ray Culp. A three-game set with the Orioles at Fenway, to close the first half,
went better, as
Mike Andrews hit a first inning home run that
led to a 6-1 win on July 18th. The next day,
July 19th,
Yaz hit a
game-tying home run in the sixth to make the score 3 to 3
and then Dalton Jones hit a two-out, two-run double, in
the seventh, that stood up to win the game 5 to 3. In the Sunday finale, on July 20th, the Sox were leading 3 to 2 when
backup infielders Syd O'Brien ripped a two run triple.
Lonborg came in and hit a sacrifice fly. That run was
important because
Lonborg almost gave it all back in the
ninth, being charged with three runs. Sparky Lyle came out
of the bullpen and got Brooks Robinson to close out a 6 to
5 Red Sox win.
The Red Sox had won five of the eight games with
Baltimore, but because the margin was 12 1/2, it was too
little too late. In the All Star Game at RFK Stadium in Washington, the
National League beat the American League, 9 to 3.
Carl Yastrzemski's spectacular catch took a home run away
from Johnny Bench. In Seattle on July 25th, Russ Gibson's pinch-hit, three
run homer brought the Sox from behind with a 7 to 6 win
over the Pilots. Two days later, Joe Lahoud's two run
homer in the 20th inning was a winner for the Sox against
the Pilots, 5 to 3. Ray Culp picked up his 15th win in Anaheim against the
Angels, 9 to 1 on July 31st. Joe Laoud,
Rico Petrocelli
and Mike Andrews all homered in his support. But they lost
2 of 3 in Anaheim and 3 of 4 in Oakland, and fell to 16
games behind. They then returned home and lost 2 of 3 to the Pilots
and 2 of 3 to the Angels. Losing 2 of 3 in Chicago put
them 20 games out. The Sox did not win another series until the middle of
August. In Kansas City,
George Scott hit his 12th home run
and drove in four runs in the first game of a doubleheader
which the Sox won, 10-1 on August 16th. Two days
later Vicente Romo shutout the Royals, 1 to 0, giving the
Sox 2 out of the 3 games they played. It was the first
time they won a series since before the All Star break,
but the deficit was 21 games and the Orioles were off and
running to a 109 win season.
On August 18th against
the Twins, two years to the day after he was beaned,
Tony Conigliaro hit a three-run home run in the last of the
eighth inning to tie the game, 6-6.
George Scott lined a
drive off the centerfield wall with
Reggie Smith on second
base, that won the game for the Red Sox, 7 to 6.
Two days later, on August 20th, with
Mike Andrews on
second and Dalton Jones on first, and the score tied at 6
to 6, with two outs in the ninth inning, Minnesota's Dean
Chance faced
Tony Conigliaro.
Tony smashed a liner to left
center, bringing home Andrews with the winning run.
On August 23rd, Ray Culp won a career high 17th game, a
2-0 shutout of the White Sox.
On August 26th,
Carl Yastrzemski had three hits, including
his 33rd home run as the Sox beat the Royals, 4 to 1. The
next night, with the score tied in the bottom of the ninth
inning, Syd O'Brien hit a walk-off bases loaded single,
giving Vicente Romo his first complete game victory, a 4-3
decision over the Royals. And in the final game, it was
Tony Conigliaro's big bat once again. His three run eighth
inning homer meant the difference in a 9 to 8 Sox win and
a series sweep of Kansas City. It was the first time the
Red Sox had swept a series since they swept the Orioles,
just before the All Star break. But they were a distant 19
games behind, in third place.
Rookie Mike Nagy (11-2) pitched his seventh complete game,
beating the A's, 5-1, for his sixth straight win, in the
second game of a doubleheader on September 3rd.
Rico Petrocelli's bat helped the Sox win on September 5th.
He drove in four runs with a three run homer, his 35th, in
the fifth inning and a bases loaded walk in the ninth, as
the Red Sox came back, down 7-0, to beat the Senators,
9-8. The Sox won the game without getting a hit in the
ninth inning. In the next game,
Yaz slugged his 35th homer
and had a double and a single, moving his RBIs to 100,
beating Washington 9 to 5. Syd O'Brien also tripled,
homered and singled.
Rico slammed his 36th homer in Cleveland on September 8th,
to tie Yaz in their battle for the team's home run lead.
On September 13th, he hit his 38th against the
Yankees and his 39th on September 16th in Cleveland.
On September 20th,
Bill Lee
won his first major league game, beating the Tigers in
Detroit, 6 to 3.
Lee pitched
6 2/3 innings. He came in in the 3rd inning and pitched
well until the 9th inning, when he needed some help after
walking the first two batters.
It was all
Carl Yastrzemski
on September 23rd. During an 8 to 3 win over the Yankees,
Yaz
slugged two homers, his 38th and 39th, including his 200th
career HR, an RBI single and several diving stops at first
base. In the next game,
Mike Andrews'
double off the left field wall in the 14th inning, scored
George Scott,
for a 1 to 0 walk-off win. In the final game,
Scott's
15th homer of the year led to Sox in a series sweep of New
York, 4 to 3. There were problems in the clubhouse. Players started
the tune out
Dick Williams and his constant
harping. On August 1st, against Oakland, when
Yaz failed
to leave home plate on a two-out tapper back to the
pitcher,
Williams pulled him out of the game and yelled at
him in front of his teammates and fined him $500. The
tense relationship between the two meant that Williams'
days in Boston were numbered. There was no way Tom Yawkey
would side with anybody but
Carl Yastrzemski. On September
23rd, Yawkey instructed general manager Dick O'Connell to
fire Williams. O'Connell disagreed with the move and told
the media such. And so, the Sox played out the season
under caretaker manager Eddie Popowski. It didn't matter
that the Red Sox had won under
Dick Williams after losing
for a generation. To Tom Yawkey, being friends with the
players was more important than winning.
On September 29th,
Rico
hit slugged home run #40, tops among any shortstop in
American League history, beating
Vern
Stephens' mark of 39 homers in 1949. And in the Sox
final game, on October 1st,
Yaz
tied
Rico and hit his 40th homer. In spite of the fact that the Sox led the league with
197 home runs, the ineffectiveness of
Jim Lonborg and the other pitchers, led the club to an
87-75
third-place finish. Ray Culp was reliable, winning 17 games and
consistently taking his turn on the mound. But he wasn't
cut out to be the ace and without
Lonborg it showed. Sonny
Siebert didn't contribute anything more from the departed
Dick Ellsworth. Vicente Romo finished with a 3.18 ERA.
What it boiled down to, was Red Sox traded away one of
their most productive bats in
Ken Harrelson, for an above
average reliever, but no discernible difference in the
starting pitchers.
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| DATE | RECORD | PLACE | GB/GF | OPPONENT | SCORE | PITCHER | W/L | |||
| 04/08/1969 | 1-0 | 1st | - | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 5-4 | Bill Landis | 1-0 | ||
| 04/09/1969 | 1-0 | 1st | - | |||||||
| 04/10/1969 | 1-1 | 3rd | -1 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 2-1 | Juan Pizarro | 0-1 | ||
| 04/11/1969 | 2-1 | 2nd | -1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 2-1 | Bill Landis | 2-0 | ||
| 04/12/1969 | 3-1 | 1st | +1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 5-3 | Bill Landis | 3-0 | ||
| 04/13/1969 | 4-1 | 1st | +1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 3-1 | Lee Stange | 1-0 | ||
| 04/14/1969 | 5-1 | 1st | +1 1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 5-3 | Ray Culp | 1-0 | ||
| 04/15/1969 | 5-2 | 1st | +1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | L | 10-5 | Bill Landis | 3-1 | ||
| 04/16/1969 | 5-3 | 2nd | -1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | L | 11-8 | Ken Brett | 0-1 | ||
| 04/17/1969 | 5-4 | 3rd | -1 1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | L | 9-5 | Lee Stange | 1-1 | ||
| 04/18/1969 | 6-4 | 2nd | -1 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | W | 10-7 | Ray Culp | 2-0 | ||
| 04/19/1969 | 6-4 | 3rd | -1 | Cleveland Indians | pp | |||||
| 04/20/1969 | 7-4 | 2nd | -1/2 | Cleveland Indians | W | 9-4 | Ray Jarvis | 1-0 | ||
| 04/21/1969 | 7-5 | 3rd | -1 1/2 | New York Yankees | L | 6-4 | Lee Stange | 1-2 | ||
| 04/22/1969 | 8-5 | 3rd | -1 1/2 | New York Yankees | W | 8-3 | Ray Culp | 3-0 | ||
| 04/23/1969 | 8-6 | 3rd | -2 1/2 | Washington Senators | L | 9-3 | Sonny Siebert | 0-2 | ||
| 04/24/1969 | 8-6 | 2nd | -3 | Washington Senators | pp | |||||
| 04/25/1969 | 9-6 | 2nd | -2 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 5-4 | Jim Lonborg | 1-0 | ||
| 04/26/1969 | 10-6 | 2nd | -1 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 7-4 | Ray Culp | 4-0 | ||
| 04/27/1969 | 10-7 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 7-3 | Sonny Siebert | 0-3 | ||
| 04/28/1969 | 10-8 | 3rd | -3 | at New York Yankees | L | 1-0 | Ray Jarvis | 1-1 | ||
| 04/29/1969 | 11-8 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | at New York Yankees | W | 2-1 | Mike Nagy | 1-0 | ||
| 04/30/1969 | 11-9 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | at Washington Senators | L | 1-0 | Lee Stange | 1-3 | ||
| 05/01/1969 | 11-10 | 3rd | -3 1/2 | at Washington Senators | L | 7-6 | Ray Culp | 4-1 | ||
| 05/02/1969 | 12-10 | 3rd | -3 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | W | 3-2 | Sonny Siebert | 1-3 | ||
| 05/03/1969 | 13-10 | 3rd | -3 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | W | 7-5 | Fred Wenz | 1-0 | ||
| 05/04/1969 | 14-10 | 3rd | -4 | Detroit Tigers | W | 4-2 | Sparky Lyle | 1-0 | ||
| 05/05/1969 | 14-10 | 3rd | -4 | |||||||
| 05/06/1969 | 15-10 | 2nd | -3 | at Seattle Pilots | W | 12-2 | Ray Culp | 5-1 | ||
| 05/07/1969 | 16-10 | 2nd | -2 | at Seattle Pilots | W | 5-4 | Sonny Siebert | 2-3 | ||
| 05/08/1969 | 16-10 | 2nd | -2 | |||||||
| 05/09/1969 | 17-10 | 2nd | -1 | at California Angels | W | 7-2 | Sparky Lyle | 2-0 | ||
| 05/10/1969 | 18-10 | 2nd | -1 | at California Angels | W | 6-3 | Sparky Lyle | 3-0 | ||
| 05/11/1969 | 19-10 | 2nd | -1 | at California Angels | W | 7-3 | Sonny Siebert | 3-3 | ||
| 05/12/1969 | 19-10 | 2nd | -1 | |||||||
| 05/13/1969 | 19-11 | 2nd | -1 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 5-4 | Vicente Romo | 1-2 | ||
| 05/14/1969 | 20-11 | 2nd | -1 | at Oakland Athletics | W | 2-1 | Ray Culp | 6-1 | ||
| 05/15/1969 | 20-11 | 2nd | -1 1/2 | |||||||
| 05/16/1969 | 20-12 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | Seattle Pilots | L | 10-9 | Vicente Romo | 1-3 | ||
| 05/17/1969 | 21-12 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | Seattle Pilots | W | 6-1 | Mike Nagy | 2-0 | ||
| 05/18/1969 | 21-13 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | Seattle Pilots | L | 9-6 | Ray Culp | 6-2 | ||
| 05/19/1969 | 21-13 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | |||||||
| 05/20/1969 | 21-13 | 2nd | -3 | California Angels | pp | |||||
| 05/21/1969 | 22-13 | 2nd | -3 | California Angels | W | 5-2 | Jim Lonborg | 2-0 | ||
| 23-13 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | W | 8-3 | Sonny Siebert | 4-3 | ||||
| 05/22/1969 | 24-13 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | California Angels | W | 4-3 | Ray Jarvis | 2-1 | ||
| 05/23/1969 | 25-13 | 2nd | -2 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | W | 4-2 | Ray Culp | 7-2 | ||
| 05/24/1969 | 25-14 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 9-3 | Lee Stange | 1-4 | ||
| 05/25/1969 | 26-14 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | W | 1-0 | Jim Lonborg | 3-0 | ||
| 05/26/1969 | 26-14 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | |||||||
| 05/27/1969 | 26-15 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | at Kansas City Royals | L | 5-4 | Sonny Siebert | 4-4 | ||
| 05/28/1969 | 27-15 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | at Kansas City Royals | W | 4-3 | Ray Culp | 8-2 | ||
| 05/29/1969 | 28-15 | 2nd | -3 | at Kansas City Royals | W | 8-6 | Sparky Lyle | 4-0 | ||
| 05/30/1969 | 29-15 | 2nd | -3 | Minnesota Twins | W | 3-2 | Jim Lonborg | 4-0 | ||
| 05/31/1969 | 29-16 | 2nd | -3 | Minnesota Twins | L | 10-4 | Sonny Siebert | 4-5 | ||
| 06/01/1969 | 30-16 | 2nd | -3 | Minnesota Twins | W | 5-2 | Ray Culp | 9-2 | ||
| 06/02/1969 | 30-17 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | L | 6-4 | Vicente Romo | 1-4 | ||
| 06/03/1969 | 31-17 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | W | 8-2 | Jim Lonborg | 5-0 | ||
| 06/04/1969 | 31-18 | 2nd | -4 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | L | 7-2 | Sonny Siebert | 4-6 | ||
| 06/05/1969 | 31-18 | 2nd | -4 1/2 | |||||||
| 06/06/1969 | 32-18 | 2nd | -4 1/2 | Kansas City Royals | W | 4-2 | Sparky Lyle | 5-0 | ||
| 06/07/1969 | 33-18 | 2nd | -4 1/2 | Kansas City Royals | W | 4-0 | Mike Nagy | 3-0 | ||
| 06/08/1969 | 34-18 | 2nd | -3 1/2 | Kansas City Royals | W | 8-2 | Jim Lonborg | 6-0 | ||
| 06/09/1969 | 35-18 | 2nd | -3 | at Minnesota Twins | W | 5-3 | Ray Jarvis | 3-1 | ||
| 06/10/1969 | 35-19 | 2nd | -4 | at Minnesota Twins | L | 6-2 | Ray Culp | 9-3 | ||
| 06/11/1969 | 36-19 | 2nd | -3 | at Minnesota Twins | W | 13-5 | Sonny Siebert | 5-6 | ||
| 06/12/1969 | 36-19 | 2nd | -3 | |||||||
| 06/13/1969 | 36-20 | 2nd | -4 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 4-1 | Jim Lonborg | 6-1 | ||
| 06/14/1969 | 36-21 | 2nd | -5 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 21-7 | Ray Jarvis | 3-2 | ||
| 06/15/1969 | 36-22 | 2nd | -6 1/2 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 13-5 | Ray Culp | 9-4 | ||
| 06/16/1969 | 37-22 | 2nd | -6 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 8-5 | Lee Stange | 2-4 | ||
| 06/17/1969 | 37-23 | 2nd | -7 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 4-2 | Jim Lonborg | 6-2 | ||
| 06/18/1969 | 37-24 | 2nd | -8 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 2-1 | Ray Jarvis | 3-3 | ||
| 06/19/1969 | 38-24 | 2nd | -8 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 3-0 | Ray Culp | 10-4 | ||
| 06/20/1969 | 38-24 | 2nd | -8 | New York Yankees | pp | |||||
| 06/21/1969 | 39-24 | 2nd | -8 | New York Yankees | W | 6-5 | Vicente Romo | 2-4 | ||
| 39-25 | 2nd | -8 1/2 | L | 6-3 | Sparky Lyle | 5-1 | ||||
| 06/22/1969 | 39-26 | 2nd | -9 | New York Yankees | L | 5-3 | Garry Roggenburk | 0-1 | ||
| 06/23/1969 | 39-26 | 2nd | -9 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | pp | |||||
| 06/24/1969 | 39-27 | 2nd | -10 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | L | 6-3 | Ray Culp | 10-5 | ||
| 40-27 | 2nd | -10 | W | 6-1 | Lee Stange | 3-4 | ||||
| 06/25/1969 | 41-27 | 2nd | -9 | Cleveland Indians | W | 3-1 | Sonny Siebert | 6-6 | ||
| 41-28 | 2nd | -9 1/2 | L | 7-3 | Mike Nagy | 3-1 | ||||
| 06/26/1969 | 42-28 | 2nd | -9 | Cleveland Indians | W | 4-3 | Vicente Romo | 3-4 | ||
| 06/27/1969 | 43-28 | 2nd | -9 | at Washington Senators | W | 4-2 | Bill Landis | 4-1 | ||
| 06/28/1969 | 43-29 | 2nd | -10 | at Washington Senators | L | 4-3 | Vicente Romo | 3-5 | ||
| 06/29/1969 | 43-30 | 2nd | -11 | at Washington Senators | L | 5-4 | Bill Landis | 4-2 | ||
| 43-31 | 2nd | -11 | L | 11-4 | Sonny Siebert | 6-7 | ||||
| 07/01/1969 | 43-32 | 2nd | -11 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 12-4 | Ray Jarvis | 3-4 | ||
| 07/02/1969 | 43-33 | 2nd | -11 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 7-0 | Bill Landis | 4-3 | ||
| 07/03/1969 | 43-34 | 2nd | -11 1/2 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 4-3 | Ray Culp | 10-6 | ||
| 07/04/1969 | 43-35 | 2nd | -11 | Washington Senators | L | 5-1 | Lee Stange | 3-5 | ||
| 44-35 | 2nd | -11 | W | 7-4 | Mike Nagy | 4-1 | ||||
| 07/05/1969 | 44-36 | 2nd | -11 | Washington Senators | L | 6-2 | Ray Jarvis | 3-5 | ||
| 45-36 | 2nd | -11 1/2 | W | 11-4 | Sonny Siebert | 7-7 | ||||
| 07/06/1969 | 45-37 | 2nd | -11 1/2 | Washington Senators | L | 5-0 | Bill Landis | 4-4 | ||
| 07/07/1969 | 46-37 | 2nd | -11 | Detroit Tigers | W | 7-2 | Ray Culp | 11-6 | ||
| 07/08/1969 | 47-37 | 2nd | -11 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | W | 4-1 | Mike Nagy | 5-1 | ||
| 07/09/1969 | 47-38 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | L | 6-5 | Lee Stange | 3-6 | ||
| 07/10/1969 | 47-39 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 5-4 | Vicente Romo | 3-6 | ||
| 07/11/1969 | 48-39 | 2nd | -12 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 7-4 | Ray Culp | 12-6 | ||
| 49-39 | 2nd | -11 1/2 | W | 12-3 | Ray Jarvis | 4-5 | ||||
| 07/12/1969 | 49-40 | 2nd | -12 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 4-0 | Mike Nagy | 5-2 | ||
| 07/13/1969 | 49-41 | 2nd | -13 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 6-3 | Jim Lonborg | 6-3 | ||
| 07/14/1969 | 49-41 | 2nd | -13 1/2 | |||||||
| 07/15/1969 | 50-41 | 2nd | -14 1/2 | at New York Yankees | W | 7-6 | Ray Culp | 13-6 | ||
| 50-42 | 2nd | -14 | L | 4-1 | Sonny Siebert | 7-8 | ||||
| 07/16/1969 | 51-42 | 2nd | -13 1/2 | at New York Yankees | W | 6-2 | Mike Nagy | 6-2 | ||
| 07/17/1969 | 51-42 | 2nd | -14 | at New York Yankees | pp | |||||
| 07/18/1969 | 52-42 | 2nd | -13 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 6-1 | Ray Jarvis | 5-5 | ||
| 07/19/1969 | 53-42 | 2nd | -12 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 5-3 | Sonny Siebert | 8-8 | ||
| 07/20/1969 | 54-42 | 2nd | -11 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 6-5 | Ray Culp | 14-6 | ||
| 07/21/1969 | All Star Game Break | |||||||||
| 07/22/1969 | ||||||||||
| 07/23/1969 | ||||||||||
| 07/24/1969 | 54-43 | 3rd | -12 | at Seattle Pilots | L | 8-6 | Ray Jarvis | 5-6 | ||
| 07/25/1969 | 55-43 | 3rd | -12 | at Seattle Pilots | W | 7-6 | Bill Landis | 5-4 | ||
| 07/26/1969 | 55-44 | 3rd | -13 | at Seattle Pilots | L | 8-5 | Ron Kline | 1-6 | ||
| 07/27/1969 | 56-44 | 3rd | -13 | at Seattle Pilots | W | 5-3 | Jim Lonborg | 7-3 | ||
| 07/28/1969 | 56-44 | 2nd | -13 | |||||||
| 07/29/1969 | 56-45 | 2nd | -14 | at California Angels | L | 4-3 | Vicente Romo | 3-7 | ||
| 07/30/1969 | 56-46 | 2nd | -15 | at California Angels | L | 4-1 | Sonny Siebert | 8-9 | ||
| 07/31/1969 | 57-46 | 2nd | -15 | at California Angels | W | 9-1 | Ray Culp | 15-6 | ||
| 08/01/1969 | 57-47 | 3rd | -15 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 4-3 | Jim Lonborg | 7-4 | ||
| 08/02/1969 | 57-48 | 3rd | -16 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 5-4 | Bill Lee | 0-1 | ||
| 08/03/1969 | 57-49 | 3rd | -16 | at Oakland Athletics | L | 10-7 | Bill Landis | 5-5 | ||
| 58-49 | 3rd | -15 1/2 | W | 3-2 | Sonny Siebert | 9-9 | ||||
| 08/04/1969 | 58-49 | 3rd | -15 | |||||||
| 08/05/1969 | 58-50 | 3rd | -16 | Seattle Pilots | L | 9-2 | Ray Culp | 15-7 | ||
| 08/06/1969 | 58-51 | 3rd | -17 | Seattle Pilots | L | 6-5 | Vicente Romo | 3-8 | ||
| 08/07/1969 | 59-51 | 3rd | -17 | Seattle Pilots | W | 5-4 | Lee Stange | 4-7 | ||
| 08/08/1969 | 59-52 | 3rd | -18 | California Angels | L | 7-6 | Lee Stange | 4-8 | ||
| 08/09/1969 | 60-52 | 3rd | -18 | California Angels | W | 9-4 | Ray Culp | 16-7 | ||
| 08/10/1969 | 60-53 | 3rd | -19 | California Angels | L | 9-1 | Jim Lonborg | 7-5 | ||
| 08/11/1969 | 61-53 | 3rd | -18 | at Chicago White Sox | W | 5-2 | Mike Nagy | 7-2 | ||
| 08/12/1969 | 61-54 | 3rd | -19 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 10-5 | Sonny Siebert | 9-10 | ||
| 08/13/1969 | 61-55 | 3rd | -20 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 5-3 | Ray Culp | 16-8 | ||
| 08/14/1969 | 61-55 | 3rd | -20 | |||||||
| 08/15/1969 | 61-55 | 3rd | -20 1/2 | at Kansas City Royals | pp | |||||
| 08/16/1969 | 62-55 | 3rd | -20 1/2 | at Kansas City Royals | W | 10-1 | Mike Nagy | 8-2 | ||
| 62-56 | 3rd | -21 | L | 8-7 | Jim Lonborg | 7-6 | ||||
| 08/17/1969 | 63-56 | 3rd | -21 | at Kansas City Royals | W | 1-0 | Vicente Romo | 4-8 | ||
| 08/18/1969 | 64-56 | 3rd | -21 | Minnesota Twins | W | 7-6 | Sparky Lyle | 6-1 | ||
| 08/19/1969 | 64-57 | 3rd | -22 | Minnesota Twins | L | 8-6 | Sparky Lyle | 6-2 | ||
| 08/20/1969 | 65-57 | 3rd | -21 | Minnesota Twins | W | 7-6 | Sparky Lyle | 7-2 | ||
| 08/21/1969 | 65-57 | 3rd | -21 | |||||||
| 08/22/1969 | 65-58 | 3rd | -21 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | L | 4-1 | Vicente Romo | 4-9 | ||
| 08/23/1969 | 66-58 | 3rd | -20 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | W | 2-0 | Ray Culp | 17-8 | ||
| 08/24/1969 | 66-59 | 3rd | -20 | Chicago White Sox | L | 3-1 | Jim Lonborg | 7-7 | ||
| 08/25/1969 | 66-59 | 3rd | -20 | |||||||
| 08/26/1969 | 67-59 | 3rd | -19 | Kansas City Royals | W | 4-1 | Mike Nagy | 9-2 | ||
| 08/27/1969 | 68-59 | 3rd | -19 | Kansas City Royals | W | 4-3 | Vicente Romo | 5-9 | ||
| 08/28/1969 | 69-59 | 3rd | -19 | Kansas City Royals | W | 9-8 | Sparky Lyle | 8-2 | ||
| 08/29/1969 | 69-60 | 3rd | -18 1/2 | at Minnesota Twins | L | 10-4 | Jim Lonborg | 7-8 | ||
| 08/30/1969 | 70-60 | 3rd | -18 1/2 | at Minnesota Twins | W | 7-5 | Mike Nagy | 10-2 | ||
| 08/31/1969 | 70-61 | 3rd | -19 1/2 | at Minnesota Twins | L | 6-2 | Vicente Romo | 5-10 | ||
| 09/01/1969 | 71-61 | 3rd | -19 1/2 | Oakland Athletics | W | 6-2 | Lee Stange | 5-8 | ||
| 09/02/1969 | 71-61 | 3rd | -19 | Oakland Athletics | pp | |||||
| 09/03/1969 | 71-62 | 3rd | -20 | Oakland Athletics | L | 7-4 | Sonny Siebert | 9-11 | ||
| 72-62 | 3rd | -19 | W | 5-1 | Mike Nagy | 11-2 | ||||
| 09/04/1969 | 72-62 | 3rd | -19 1/2 | |||||||
| 09/05/1969 | 73-62 | 3rd | -19 1/2 | Washington Senators | W | 9-8 | Sonny Siebert | 10-11 | ||
| 09/06/1969 | 74-62 | 3rd | -18 1/2 | Washington Senators | W | 9-5 | Lee Stange | 6-8 | ||
| 09/07/1969 | 74-63 | 3rd | -19 1/2 | Washington Senators | L | 3-2 | Jim Lonborg | 7-9 | ||
| 09/08/1969 | 75-63 | 3rd | -19 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 5-4 | Sonny Siebert | 11-11 | ||
| 09/09/1969 | 76-63 | 3rd | -19 1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 3-1 | Vicente Romo | 6-10 | ||
| 09/10/1969 | 76-64 | 3rd | -20 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 8-7 | Gary Wagner | 0-4 | ||
| 09/11/1969 | 76-65 | 3rd | -21 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 4-2 | Lee Stange | 6-9 | ||
| 09/12/1969 | 76-66 | 3rd | -21 1/2 | at New York Yankees | L | 5-3 | Jim Lonborg | 7-10 | ||
| 77-66 | 3rd | -22 | W | 4-3 | Ken Brett | 1-1 | ||||
| 09/13/1969 | 78-66 | 3rd | -22 | at New York Yankees | W | 5-2 | Gary Wagner | 1-4 | ||
| 09/14/1969 | 78-67 | 3rd | -23 | at New York Yankees | L | 3-2 | Sparky Lyle | 8-3 | ||
| 09/15/1969 | 78-68 | 3rd | -23 | Cleveland Indians | L | 4-1 | Lee Stange | 6-10 | ||
| 09/16/1969 | 78-69 | 3rd | -24 | Cleveland Indians | L | 5-2 | Jim Lonborg | 7-11 | ||
| 09/17/1969 | 78-69 | 3rd | -24 | Baltimore Orioles | pp | |||||
| 09/18/1969 | 78-70 | 3rd | -23 | Baltimore Orioles | L | 6-4 | Gary Wagner | 1-5 | ||
| 79-70 | 3rd | -24 | W | 5-0 | Vicente Romo | 7-10 | ||||
| 09/19/1969 | 80-70 | 3rd | -24 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 3-1 | Ken Brett | 2-1 | ||
| 09/20/1969 | 81-70 | 3rd | -24 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 6-3 | Bill Lee | 1-1 | ||
| 09/21/1969 | 81-71 | 3rd | -24 1/2 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 9-0 | Gary Wagner | 1-6 | ||
| 09/22/1969 | 82-71 | 3rd | -24 | New York Yankees | W | 4-3 | Mike Garman | 1-0 | ||
| 09/23/1969 | 83-71 | 3rd | -23 | New York Yankees | W | 8-3 | Vicente Romo | 8-10 | ||
| 09/24/1969 | 84-71 | 3rd | -23 | New York Yankees | W | 1-0 | Sonny Siebert | 12-11 | ||
| 09/25/1969 | 85-71 | 3rd | -23 | New York Yankees | W | 4-3 | Mike Nagy | 12-2 | ||
| 09/26/1969 | 86-71 | 2nd | -22 | Detroit Tigers | W | 6-5 | Sonny Siebert | 13-11 | ||
| 09/27/1969 | 86-72 | 3rd | -22 | Detroit Tigers | L | 2-1 | Bill Lee | 1-2 | ||
| 09/28/1969 | 86-73 | 3rd | -22 | Detroit Tigers | L | 10-3 | Ken Brett | 2-2 | ||
| 09/29/1969 | 87-73 | 3rd | -21 | at Washington Senators | W | 8-5 | Sonny Siebert | 14-11 | ||
| 09/30/1969 | 87-74 | 3rd | -21 | at Washington Senators | L | 7-2 | Bill Lee | 1-3 | ||
| 10/01/1969 | 87-75 | 3rd | -22 | at Washington Senators | L | 3-2 | Ken Brett | 2-2 | ||
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