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The Giants’ team was powerful. Five of its members—Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Duke Snider, Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal—would one day end up in baseball’s Hall of Fame, the museum that honors the best baseball players in the game’s history. By the time Bakenhaster took the mound in the eighth inning, the Giants were already leading 10–1.

The first batter he faced hit a double, but Bakenhaster got the next two men to ground out. The fourth hitter was Willie Mays, one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game. Bakenhaster threw a pitch that Mays hit on the ground to the shortstop. That should have been the last out of the inning, but the shortstop made an error and Mays was safe. The other runner scored. The Giants followed with two more singles, tallying two more runs, before Bakenaster finally retired them. He allowed one more run in the ninth inning.

A month later against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Bakenhaster appeared in his second game. He pitched an inning in another lop-sided loss and allowed two runs and three hits.