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...Angeles, Atlanta--The Dodgers finished eighth last year; they don't figure to do as badly in 1968. Long suffering Don Drysdale will get pitching support from Claude Osteen and Tom Singer and it's possible that ex-Twin Mudcat Grant will help out both as a starter and a reliever. If another former Twin, Zoilo Versalles can fill the year-old short-stop gap, then the Dodgers may surprise...
...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 swept to the National League pennant. The Dodgers also had 17-game Winner Claude Osteen, and a bullpen staff headed by Phil ("The Vulture") Regan, whose 1966 performance was nothing short of fantastic: 14 victories, only one loss, and an earned-run average (1.62) even lower than Sandy Koufax...
...never occurred to the Dodgers to worry. They were too busy being happy about going back to their own carefully tailored ballpark, with its concrete infield, bunt-favoring baselines and hard-to-reach fences. To celebrate that (and Owner Walter O'Malley's 62nd birthday), Pitcher Claude Osteen-an American League castoff whose lifetime record against Minnesota is 6-0-shut out the Twins on five hits. The Dodgers pounded a succession of Minnesota pitchers for ten-including five doubles. Los Angeles won 4-0. Back home-sweet home, back in the Series...
...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...
...best pitching staff in baseball." Lefthander Sandy Koufax has painful arthritis in his throwing elbow, still leads the league with twelve wins (v. three losses) and 159 strikeouts. Righthander Drysdale, when he isn't thinking about base hits, pitches well enough to post another eleven victories. Lefthander Claude Osteen, picked up over the winter from the American League's Washington Senators, has accounted for six, and "should have won three more victories than he shows," according to Manager Alston. The combined earned-run average of all three: a measly...