Word: cincinnatis
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...loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had already beaten the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. In 15 minutes, the Dodgers were due on the field to take on the tough Milwaukee Braves. And what were they doing? Sitting around...
...which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game, as Sandy Koufax shut out Cincinnati on two hits, 5-0, running his own season's record to 25-8 and recording his 369th strikeout-a major league record. Now it was Don Drysdale's turn, and Don quickly made it 13 in a row, throwing only 89 pitches, blanking the Milwaukee Braves on three...
...Cincinnati 11 San Francisco 2 (8 in.) Milwaukee 2 Los Angeles...
...Franks started Bob Shaw in the second game against the Reds. The Reds won, 7-4. Next day Marichal was so relaxed that he threw three gopher balls in two innings, and the Reds won again, 7-1. That cut the Giants' lead to 3½ games over Cincinnati, only two games over the incredible Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their sixth straight in typical Dodger fashion; trailing the Milwaukee Braves 6-1, they fought back to tie the score, won the game in the 11th inning when Shortstop Maury Wills beat out a bunt, stole his third base...
National League Los Angeles 4Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 5 Cincinnati 3 St. Louis 19 Houston 8 American League Minnesota 7 Baltimore...