Word: dodgerism
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...Phillies got reasonably serious in their half of the fifth, knocking out L.A. starter Burt Hooton and stringing together five singles for three runs and a 7-4 ball game. Steve Yeager, the Dodger catcher, then answered back in the sixth when he took Philadelphia reliever Rawly Eastwick deep for the Dodgers eighth tally...
...original Dodger-Giant rivalry goes back a lifetime, to New York City, the shadow of Coogan's Bluff and the baseball shades that still haunt Flatbush Avenue. But the reborn Giants seem to be rekindling their old rivalry with the Dodgers. They are a hungry, young team with a scrambling, come-from-behind style that disarms fans and ages managers unmercifully. So far this year the Giants have gone into extra innings 16 times and have won 34 of their 70 victories by a single...
Last week's Shootout showed them at their scrappy worst and best. In the first game the fat-bat Dodgers (with a team average of .261, second in the league) simply blew Blue out of the box and finished with 16 hits. In the second the Giants lost by only one run when Billie Jean King's kid brother, Randy Moffitt, relieving with the bases loaded, walked Los Angeles Centerfielder Bill North to give the Dodgers the league lead for the first time since May. Then the Giants fought back, winning a one-run game with a home...
...Jock Armstrong of baseball, has had that regular Garvey year: M.V.P. in the All-Star game, hitting .289, with 84 runs batted in. Rightfielder Reggie Smith, who has been alternately brooding or brilliant in the past for Boston and St. Louis, is now a happily artful Dodger. He has a tremendous arm, a pulverizing bat and looks like the best rightfielder in the league. Hot Reggie has been at least one reason why the Dodgers have drawn so well. This year they are almost assured of being the first team in baseball to top the 3 million mark...
...Cincinnati lately has been Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak, one of the major reasons why the Reds have clung so close to the lead. If Seaver should get back to form and Morgan and Bench revive, the Reds could roll right past everyone again. After the Dodger-Giant free-for-all was over, Cincinnati was only 1½ games off the pace...