San Francisco Giants Reveal Their Surprising Top Star Trek Episodes—You Won’t Believe Their Picks!
Is it actually good? One of the best of season three, for sure, and would definitely be one of the upper echelon episodes for The Original Series. A wonderful performance from Joanne Linville as the Romulan Commander.
What about the Giants game? A real hero/goat situation in this 15-inning affair. Pete Rose went 1-for-7 for the Reds, Johnny Bench went 1-for-6 and hit into two critical double plays (bottom of the 9th, bottom of the 11th), and all of the Reds’ came off of Lee May’s 2-run homer in the 6th (he’d go 2-for-7 for the game). The game was decided by Willie Mays’ final home run of the 1968 season, his 587th overall, hit in the top of the 15th. Mike McCormick pitched 4 innings in relief for the win.
But the Giants were good, right? Finishing at 88-74, they were once again runner-up to the Cardinals (97-65). But just as they’d done the previous season, they went on a run at the end of the season, going 36-22 from August 1st on. Juan Marichal pitched a shutout to raise his record to a league-leading 26-8. Willie McCovey went 2-for-3. Jim Ray Hart homered, which by WPA was the biggest play of the game.
9. “The Practical Joker” (9/21/74) | Giants 8, Reds 6 (+2) (10)
Summary: The Enterprise computer is turned into joke machine after the ship passes through a strange energy cloud.



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