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Pitching is supposed to be 75% of the game. So naturally the odds makers installed the Los Angeles Dodgers as 8-to-5 favorites to whip the Baltimore Orioles in last week's World Series. The Dodgers had the two highest-paid starting pitchers in baseball: Sandy Koufax (salary: $130,000), who set a National League record by winning 27 games during the regular season-the most by any lefthander since 1900, and Don Drysdale (salary: $115,000), the burly righthander who recovered from a dismal start to win four out of his last five starts as the Dodgers...
...disabled list with a sore arm and was ineligible for the series. Their top winner, Jim Palmer (record: 15-10), gave up so many home runs (20) that his teammates nicknamed him "Boom-Boom." Baltimore's starters managed to complete only 23 games all season-four fewer than Koufax alone. That provided a lot of work for the Birds' bullpen-which was just fine with Myron Walter Drabowsky, 31, who has been shopping for a steady job ever since he broke into the big leagues...
...Sandy Koufax got the Dodgers back on the track by beating the Cards 2-1 for his 26th victory of the year. But meanwhile the Pirates were doing their best to prove that reports of their death were exaggerated. "Take the nails out of the coffin!" Manager Harry Walker shouted after Pittsburgh swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phils and cut the Dodgers' lead to 1½ games...
...Orioles pulled two games up on the Dodgers by whipping 27-game winner Sandy Koufax 6-0 yesterday behind the shutout pitching of 20-year-old Jim Palmer (15-10). Palmer became the youngest winner ever of a Series game...
Robert J. Samuelson: Orioles-- I don't like the Dodgers and have a personal gut reaction against Sandy Koufax--in four...