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Jackson was the Yankee hitting hero of the second game as well, driving in all three Yankee runs. But Los Angeles Third Baseman Ron Cey, who came up to stay from Albuquerque in 1972, did him exactly one better. Cey is dubbed "the Penguin" by his teammates, and he runs as though he were wearing bedroom slippers. No matter; he could have walked the bases after crunching a Catfish Hunter pitch for a three-run homer. Counting an ear lier RBI, the final score was the Penguin 4, the Yankees...
Dent then came home on a Ron Cey error that was labeled a hit, putting the New Yorkers...
Jackson doubled home Roy White and Munson in the third to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead, which looked safe as New York starter Jim "Catfish" Hunter allowed just four hits in five innings, one of those, an RBI single by Ron Cey in the fourth...
...sixth, the Dodgers heated up, led by the Penguin, Cey. With Dave Lopes and Reggie Smith on base with singles, Cey jumped on a Hunter curve and drilled it into the left field seats for a 4-2 lead...
...Dodgers scored in the second when Ron Cey came home on a double by Bill Russell. They rallied in the third for three runs when Reggie Smith, Steve Garvey and Cey connected on back to back hits. Garvey scored once in the eighth, slugging his third homer of the playoffs...