Word: koufax
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...looks like the Dodgers will win it in the fifth game -- Koufax's game. Maybe they'll invite me to spring training...
Kaat is a left-hander who relies on the kind of slow-balling "stuff" that can send the Dodgers into contortions. He's probably the best prospect the Twins have for a consistent winner against Los Angeles. But the luck of the draw has placed him opposite Sandy Koufax, a winner of still more consistent sort...
...question is, can Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Claude Osteen stifle the Twins' hitting? Sure, Osteen beat them five times in a row when he was (gasp!) a Washington Senator, but can he and the others stop the "new," scrambling, Dodger-style Twins attack...
...this the answer seems seems to be incontestably yes -- if the pitches are in form. Thinking back to the way Drysdale and Koufax whipped the Yankees when they really were the Yankees, and the way they've beaten the good National League teams in the last three weeks, there's no question that they can shut out the Twins if they're pitching well...
...they in form? Again, all the evidence seems to say they are. Koufax's recent perfect game and his two-hitter against the Reds seem to prove that he's never been better. Drysdale has won five...