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...Series record. "I'm still no Maury Wills " insisted Centerfielder Willie Davis, who stole three bases in one game. "I had a hell of a good time," said Rightfielder Ron Fairly, only 5 ft. 10 in. but the top slugger in the Series, with three doubles, two homers, a .379 batting average and six RBI's. Twins' Leftfielder Bob Allison saved one game with a diving catch, won another with a two-run homer-and still insisted, "I was a bust," because he struck out nine times...
...Angeles. Two days later, with the Twins trailing 3-2 in the Series, he trudged to the mound again. Fortified by hot and cold showers ("to get the bad blood out"), he beat Los Angeles 5-1, supplying the clincher himself with a three-run, 395-ft. homer in the sixth inning...
...Dodgers against anyone else. I'll tell you one thing: Sandy Koufax is the greatest pitcher." After that, he lost me; he babbled on, and I just nodded my head. I finally dragged him off baseball, but we continued to watch the Series, and when Mudcat Grant hit a homer, Nixon almost chased the ball into the stands...
...instant replay. Minnesota Second Baseman Frank Quilici opened the third inning with a double, then Drysdale fell down trying to field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward. But so, for that matter, did the Twins' Mudcat Grant. Each team collected ten hits; the difference was that Los Angeles left nine men on the bases. Final score...
...will retrench and dig in and start to go again." Whereupon the Giants went out and lost their third game in a row, 8-2, to the Milwaukee Braves - while the Dodgers were winning their seventh straight over St. Louis, 4-3. Next day, Willie Mays crashed his 50th homer, arid the Giants finally snapped out of their losing streak with a 7-5 victory over the Braves. It was a good thing they did. In Los Angeles, Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax shut out the Cardinals 2-0 and recorded his 356th strikeout of the season, breaking Bob Feller...