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...were the result of eating possum as a kid. Star of the Twins' 8-2 first-game victory, Mudcat was knocked out of the box in the fourth game at Los 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...
...asked." Naturally , he got asked. It was supposed to be Don Drysdale's turn to pitch. Drysdale was a 23-game winner during the season; he had won a Series game, and he was rested. But when the game started, there was Koufax out on the mound. At the start, his curve was hanging, his fastball was erratic. He walked two men in the first inning, and Freon horns tooted triumphantly in Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium as Drysdale began warming up in the bullpen...
...Because "he's a better bet to hold the runners close to the bases than Pascual," according to Mele. In other words, the thought of Maury Wills on first base and a righthander like Pascual (who has a notoriously bad move to first) on the mound is too much for Mele. In other words, Mele is running scared...
...hitter going, he must have wondered why nobody talked to him in the dugout. He struck out the side in the eighth, again in the ninth, and when he fogged one last fast ball past Pinchhitter Harvey Kuenn, he danced a little jig on the mound. He had won his 22nd game, 1-0. His 14 strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just 16 shy of Bob Feller's alltime record. More important, he had become the eighth man in modern baseball history to pitch a perfect game, 27 men up, 27 men down...
...Cardenas finally hit a home run, to make it 1-0. Then the Cubs came to bat. Jim walked the first man he faced. Then he bore down. Billy Williams flied out, Ernie Banks bounced into a double play, and whooping, dancing Reds mobbed their hero on the mound. "Now that I've finally won one of these," said Maloney, "I'm confident I can do it again...