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Sandy Koufax's curve ball was low and inside. Juan Marichal, 27, ace pitcher (record: 19-9) of the San Francisco Giants, stood in the batter's box and watched it go by. Behind him, Los Angeles Dodger Catcher John Roseboro wound up, took aim and rifled the return throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung...
Instantly, the infield at Candlestick Park was jammed with milling, jostling players trying to separate the combatants-or get in a lick or two of their own. By the time everybody got back to the ball game, 15 minutes later, policemen were guarding the dressing rooms, and both Roseboro and Marichal had been escorted from the park...
...Dodgers can play defense this year. John Kennedy, a third baseman acquired from the Washington Senators, is a good enough fielder to take some of the pressure off Maury Wills, who has had his troubles at short. John Roseboro, Ron Fairly, Wes Parker, and Tommy and Willie Davis will have to provide what punch the team will have...
...Koufax is still the slickest pitcher around, and Don Drysdale may be the runner-up; between them, they have already won 27 games this year. Shortstop Maury Wills is the same electrifying base runner who stole a record 104 bases in 1962 (he has 31 so far).Catcher John Roseboro, whose lifetime average is .240, was batting .310before he cut a finger on a foul tip. But still the Dodgers lose: twostraight to the sixth-place Chicago Cubs last week, two out of four tothe ninth-place Houston Colts. Then those hated San Francisco Giants inflicted an 11-3 thrashing...
Injuries have hurt, of course. Roseboro will be out of action for a week, and Pitcher Johnny Podres has been idle since May because of a bone chip in his elbow. Outfielder Tommy Davis was hampered early in the season by a shoulder injury-but that scarcely explains how a man who led the National League in batting for two years in a row can be hitting .272 now. Moans Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "There were at least nine ball games we would have won if Davis could just have hit a long...