Had Gibson not allowed that run (he won the game5-1), he would theoretically have gone on to establish records for shutout and scoreless innings, for he blanked the Giant in his next outing and was not score upon during the 23 innings following his unfortunate wild pitch. Record major league marks were set in both categories however, by Don Drysdale of Los Angeles Dodgers who pitched 58 2/3 run less innings and six shutout in a row.
 
Drysdale began his streaks on May 14, shutting out the Cubs, (1-0). He then blanked the Astros (1-0), the Cardinal (2-0), the Astros again (5-0), the Giants (3-0), and the Padres (5-0). It was not until June 8 that Drysdale was score upon.  The run came on a sacrifice fly by Howie Bedell of the Phillies, Drysdale’s remarkable pitching lifted the Dodgers from 7th place to 2nd, but thereafter team collapsed. As it turned out, the pennant race was not much of a race at all.
 
 The Cardinals took over 1st place for keeps on June 2, built up at a 15 game lead within 60 days, and then coasted home with a nine-game budge. It was their second pennant in a row. There were nevertheless, several significant individual achievents during the season. Two of them came on July14. on that day Hank Aaron of Atlanta became the eight man in mayor league to hit 500 career home runs. Aaron, who finished the season with 29 homers and a total of 510, hit his historic drive some 400 feet with two men on base, as the Braves beats Mike McCornic and the Giant 4-2.
 
On that same day right-hander Don Wilsom, 23, of Houston fastballed his way into the record book by tying two marks. Wilson, who ended the game by slipping a called 3rd strike past Johnny Bench of Cincinati, wound up with 18 strike outs and fanned eight in a row. Pete rose of the Reds led the major league in hitting with an average of 335 but had to hold off a strong finish by Matty Alou of Pittsburgh to do so. On July 5, when he was second in a league, Rose broke his right thumb. Shortly after he returned to the line up three later, he went on a hitting binge and soon took over the head.
 
Alou dropped back, then spurted, and was in a virtual tie with Rose at 332 with two games remaining. On the next to last day Rose went 5 for 5 against the Giant, Alou 4 for 4 against the Cubs. That gave Rose a 2 point edge, a margin that he increase by another point on the final day when he got hit in three time up while Alou was hitless in four trips to the plate. There were only three 300 batter in the league: Felipe Alou of the Braves (317), Alex Johnson of Cincinati (312), and Curt Flood of the Cardinal (301). That was just one man more than the league record for the fewest number of 300 hitter in a season, which was set 61 years earliest.
 
Richie Allen of  Philadelphia homered in each of his last three times up at the end of the season to finished 2nd in home runs with 33, three behind leader Willie McCovey of the Giants. In 3rd place with 32 homers was 37 years old Ernie Banks of Chicago, who joked that he, was in his second childhood. For Banks, all but relegated to being nothing more than a coach when Leo Durocher took over the club in 1966, it was his highest home run output in six seasons and left him with a career total of 474. “I’ve retired Ernie three years in a row, but I guess he gets tired of seeing those young kids I keep putting in his place,” said Durocher, admitting that Banks still carries a big stick-especially at a time when so few others hitter of any age do.