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...Angeles Dodgers 10-4 bludgeoning of the New York Yankees yesterday at Chavez Ravine was everything a 1977 Dodgers' win was meant to be: brutally powerful and totally one-sided. Under manager Tommy LaSorda, the Dodgers are no longer the speed-and-fineesse team we came to know and love in the '60s. Now they prefer to hammer their way into our hearts...
Paced by Don Sutton's complete game and Steve Yeager's second home run of the Series, the Southern Californians sent baseball's Octoberfest back to New York for at least one more game. Trailing in the Series three games to two, LaSorda's charges face the unenviable task of trying to capture both remaining games in Yankee Stadium...
...more weaknesses than Philadelphia, most notably at shortstop, center field and the bullpen. But they will be stronger on the mound for at least the beginning of games two and three, with Sutton and probably Burt Hooton (11-7, 2.66) starting. As for the bullpen, cheerleading manager Tommy Lasorda will probably shore up that Achilles heel with reserve started Doug Rau (3.43) and Rick Rhoden...
...team has responded brilliantly to Lasorda's gusty enthusiasm. They are leading the league in hitting, home runs and runs batted in. Of the starting rotation - Don Sutton, Rick Rhoden, Doug Rau, Tommy John and Burt Hooton - John and Hooton are the only ones to have lost games in the first five weeks of the season. Sutton, the ace of the staff, like a former Dodger righthander, Carl Erskine, catches the corners of the plate with his curve - and batters looking at third strikes. On the infrequent occasions when the Big Five falter, in motors Charlie Hough from...
...earned run average is 1.85, and Lasorda calls him "the Hope diamond...