Raise the Jolly Roger! On this day in 1970, Roberto Clemente’s second consecutive five-hit game led the first-place Pirates to an 11-0 win at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Back in the lineup thirteen hours after culminating a five-hits-in-seven-at-bats performance by scoring the winning run in the sixteenth inning, the 36 year old set a major league record for his hits in back-to-back games. Clemente’s two singles and double led a relentless 23 hit Bucco attack that produced runs in seven of nine innings. He drove in three runs and scored four.

Bill Christine observed in the Press that Clemente “deserves to have his footprints added to the collection at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre”.