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After three games, the Yankees had managed 16 base hits, just three runs. And then, there on the mound for the fourth game stood Koufax again. Mickey Mantle finally hit a fast ball into the bleachers. It was the only Yankee run. Sandy Koufax's teammates got him two runs-and that was all he needed to make the Los Angeles Dodgers the first team in history to sweep the Yankees four straight in the World Series...
When the Cards looked out to the mound next day, there stood Sandy Koufax, No. 1 in the National League in won-lost record (23-5), strikeouts (284) and practically everything else.* The Dodgers' regular rotation called for Koufax to work the last game, but that fell on Rosh Hashana, and Sandy refuses to pitch on Jewish holidays. Alston also started hulking (6 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) Frank Howard despite the fact that Howard was 0-for-19 in St. Louis this season. So naturally Howard crashed a two-run homer, and Koufax needed only 87 pitches...
Then Cleveland Indian Pitcher Gary Bell grazed the middle of Yankee Joe Pepitone. Pepitone trotted down to first base, but a hot verbal exchange with Bell sent him running out to the mound, and the dugouts boiled over. The field jammed spectacularly, but like the American League race, it was all show and not much action. Push a bit, swing a bit, yell a bit and it was over: Bell was fined $50 for deliberately throwing at the batter, Pepitone was accused of incitement to riot and later fined $50, but the Yankees won as usual, and the runaway...
...does a lot of show-off stunts during every game. He pitches one inning on his knees, another while standing at second base, a third while wearing a blindfold. Sometimes he throws the ball between his legs or behind his back. When the ball is hit back toward the mound, he snares it and, instead of throwing to first, pretends to examine the seams; then, just in time, Feigner fires the ball behind his back and throws the runner...
Winnie is denied all ambulation, for in Act I she is embedded up to her bosom in a mound. She has in front of her only a parasol and a crowded shopping bag to supplement her own thoughts as time passes. She entertains herself (and us) with this bag of tricks...