MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1962
SPORTS
PARADE
Sport Writer Unltrd Preis
Los Anceles-d'PP - Johnny
Podres managed a laugh when
he saw it but there was a
thinly-veiled bitterness in his
tone.
The carefully knotted hang
man's noose dangled limply
in his locker and he knew
what it meant.
. He had been racked up
badly in his first nine starts.
His record of no victories
against four defeats was a
burlesque of his long-proven
abilities.
"Some clown on the club."
muttered the husky man with
the blonde hair, "was suggest
ing that maybe I should go
hang myself."
That was in May.
But this is October and, in
the months between, the 30-year-old
southpaw from With
erbee, N.Y., once again has
become the bread(and butter
man of the Los Angeles Dodg
ers. Carries Dodger's Hopes
The man who carried all
their hopes of World Series
lame and fortune on his
shoulders when he stalked to
(he mound in the Disneyland
splendor of Dodger Stadium
today for the absolutely last
game of the National league
pennant race.
"Podres pitching" long has
been a symbol of success for
I he Dodgers, ever since he
was a rookie who helped them
to the 1053 pennant, won two
games as they captured their
first world championship in
3955, and scored another tri
umph when they beat the
White Sox in 1959.
He is, this 190-pound six
foater, a man who likes the
bright lights. And yet he is
a man of courage who for
years has ignored the knife
like pain of congenital back
trouble to wind and twist his
body as a winning pitcher.
Podres proved his class this
season when he came back
to compile a record of 15
wins against 13 losses. And
he raged like a tiger in the
Los Angeles dressing room
Sunday, in the final game of
the regular season, when he
was beaten, 1-0, by the St.
Louis Cardinals to drop the
Jiennant race into a tie with
the San Francisco Giants.
"Five hits I give up," he
roared. "Five lousy hits and
one lousy run -and we can't
win."
Break Streak
Then Tuesday the Dodgers
broke a fantastically miser
rble strrak of 35 scoreless innings-which
is just one
f'endcr inning short of being
shut out for four straight
games - and came blazing
buck to tie up their best-of-three
playoff with the ancient
arch-rivals knowns as the Gi
ants. They whooped it up in the
dressing room.
Podres perched on a stool
In front of his locker watch
ing them with a whimsical
expression. The slate - blue
eyes could have been asking
what were their reasons for
celebrating. Sure, they still
wore alive. But they still had
(he big one to win.-
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odgers, Giants Contend In Sudden Death
attle For National League Championship
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DOUBLE PUTS DODGERS AHEAD Los Angeles Dodgers'
Lee Walls doubles in the sixth inning at Los Angeles to
score three runs in National league baseball playoff game
and put LA ahead 6-5. At top, Walls swings as Giant catcher
Tom Haller waits for ball. At center, Matty Alou, left, and
Willie Mays gor for ball which got away from both momen
tarily. At bottom, Walls goes into '.bird on Mays attempt to
catch Larry Burright at the plate. Playing third on the play
is Chuck Hiller. The umpire is Jocko Conlon. (UPI)
Final Game
Of Playoff
On LA Field
By LEO H. PETERSEN
Los Angeles - illPU - The
Dodgers and Hie Giants, after
six months and 164 games of
battling for the National
league pennant, package all
that time and effort into one
perilous playoff game today.
To the winner goes World
Scries gold. To the loser-six
months and 165 games of mis
ery. This was it, and for the em
battled Dodgers the issue was
strictly up to hard-nosed John
ny Podres, the 30-year-old
southpaw who did it for them
in 1955.
And for the Giants, who
hope to duplicate their feat of
1951 when Bobby Thomson's
historic home run beat the
Dodgers in the first of the
four playoffs there have been
for the National league flag,
it was Juan Marichal, the
right-hander from the Domin
ican Republic.
Neither manager - Walt Al
ston of the Dodgers nor Alvin
Dark of the Giants - had any
other choice.
Used Most
They used most of their
pitchers Tuesday in a wild
battle which saw all kinds of
records broken, as the Dod
gers pulled it out, 8-7, in the
Los Angeles Captures Second
Game of Titular Runoff 8-7
On Sacrifice Fly By Fairly
NATIONAL I.F.AnUK STANDINGS
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x-Los Angeles .ao2 2
Cincinnati Bn B4
Pittsburgh fl.1 fiR
Milwaukee R6 7fi
St. Louis R4 7R
Philadelphia .... Bl R0
Houston 64 06
ChicaRO SO 103
New York 40 120
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Tuesday's Playoff Result
Los Angeles 8, San Francisco 7
BY NORMAN MILLER
Los Angeles-IUi'll-You might
call it perserverance, hustle
or just plain luck, but what
ever it was, the Los Angeles
Dodgers felt they had it com
ing to them.
They had gone 35 frustrat
ing innings without scoring a
run and it looked like their
fondest dreams of a World
Series shot at the New York
Yankees was dissipating in
the sunshine and light haze
that shrouded their second
playoff game with the San
Francisco Giants.
Then a few breaks finally
came their way Tuesday, aS
they erupted with seven runs
in the sixth inning, refused to
lose heart when the Giants
tied the score at 7-7 in the
eighth, and finally won in the
ninth, 8-7, when Ron Fairly
hit a sacrifice fly that brought
home fleet Maury Wills.
Of curse, there were some
"clutch" performances by the
Dodgers, in addition to the
breaks, in this 4-hour and 18
minute game that was the
longest nine innings ever
played in baseball history.
Hits Pinch Double
There was the pinch three
run double by Lee Walls
which highlighted the seven
run explosion, and the im
portant pinch single by
young Doug Camilli which
kept the rally alive earlier in
that innings.
There was the hitless 1 23
innings of relief pitching by
big Stan Williams, who
snuffed out the G i a n Is1
eighth-inning uprising and
held them off in the ninth be
fore the Dodgers won the
game. Williams was credited
ninth inning, coming up offjeept (hat they pledged they
the ground to keep alive their
hopes for the pennant they
seemed to have won until just
last Sunday.
Now that Sunday could be
come the day of infamy for
cither the Dodgers or Giants,
those old, ancient and hon
ored rivals who used to be
inter - borough rivals in New
York and now are intra - stale
rivals in California's baseball
gold mine.
They've battled down to the
wire while the American
league champions, the New
York Yankees, wait impa
tiently on the side-lines to
see whom they will meet in
the World Series starting
Thursday.
"This is it," said Alston,
who doesn't talk very much
cither.
They had no secret plans ex-
would go all out.
'We'll play them all if nec
essary," said Alston, who used
19 players Tuesday, includ
ing five arm-weary members
Dodgers Choice Of Oddsmakers
Las Vegas, Nev. - illPtl
Oddsmakers have picked the
Los Angeles Dodgers as slight
favorites in today's decisive
playoff game against the San
Francisco Giants if Johnny
Podres pitches.
But the smart money oper
ators figure tbe New York
Yankees will be the only ones
to benefit from the key game,
since both the Giants and
Dodgers will have used almost
every pitcher for the three
games.
The Yankees were raised
from 8-5 to 9-5 favorites to win
the World Series regardless of
who wins the National league
pennant.
If Podres pitched against
Juan Marichal todav. the nod
gers were 11-10 favorites. If; stealing thief,
of his pitching staff.
'I'll do the same," said
Dark, who used 23 players,
including eight pitchers
four of them in the ninth In
ning. It was in that frame
baseball's all - time base-
Maury Wills,
Pete Richcrt is used against
Marichal, then the Giants
were 5-4 favorites
HORD TRADED
Los Angeles llirn The Los
Angeles Rams traded guard
Roy Hord to the Philadelphia
Eagles Tuesday to make room
for Larry Hayes as offensive
center. The Rams will get a
player who has not been
named from the Eagles. How
ever, the immediate effect
will permit the Rams to acti
vate Hayes to replace the in
jured Art Hunter.
scored the winning run on a
sacrifice fly by Ron Fairly,
whom the Dodgers picked up
from the University of South
ern California campus for a
fancy $80,000 bonus.
Alston would not say def
initely he would start Podres
who hurled the Dodgers to
their first world champion
ship back in 1955 against the
Yankees.
"But I think so," he declar
ed. "Otherwise it will be Lar
ry Sherry."
Sherry, like Podres, is a
Dodger World Series hero.
His relief pitching carried
them to the world champion
ship in 1959 against the Chi
cago White Sox after they had
beaten the Milwaukee Braves
in a playoff for the National
league pennant.
Sherry, used strictly in re
lief, has won seven games this
season while losing but three.
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MOTORS
with his 14lh victory against
12 defeats.
There was Wills, who stole
his 101st base earlier in the
game to no avail and then
did some much more impor
tant foot-racing when he
scored the winning run.
And there was Fairly, who
managed to get enough wood
on that final pilch from
southpaw Mike McCormick
for the sacrifice fly that de
livered Wills from third base.
But there were many
among the 25,321 in Dodger
Stadium who felt the Dodgers
benefitted from a kiss by
Lady Luck in beating the
Giants.
Tires Self Out
The Dodgers biggest break
came when Giants starter
Jack Sanford tired himself
out while running the bases
during San Francisco's four
run rally in the sixth. San
ford a 24-game winner, had
held the Dodgers to two hits
during the first five innings.
But he has had difficulty
breathing this week because
of a cold, and he had exerted
himself ducking back to sec
ond base after over-running
the bag. And then he scur
ried all the way home on Jim
Davenport's single, making it
with a hard slide for the third
of the four tallies which gave
the Giants a 5-0 bulge.
When he walked Jim Gil
liam to open the sixth, man
ager Al Dark of the Giants Giants
felt that it would be safer to
call in a rested reliever. Be
fore the inning ended. Dark
had used four pitchers to
quell that seven-run uprising.
There was another Dodger
break in the eighth when
Willie Mays was thrown out
at third base in a sprint .from
first on pinch-hitter Ed Bai
ley's run-producing single.
It was a close play and the
Giants beefed that umpire
Jocko Conlan first had made
the "safe" sign before calling
Mays out. It was costly, too,
for Ihe Giants continued their
rally and tied the score al 7-7
on John Orsino's sacrifice fly.
Biggest Break
But the biggest break of all
actually was a "rock" by
Gaylord Perry, the Giants 24-year-olri
relief pitcher, dur
ing the ninth inning when the
Dodgers won the game
National LeaRtie playnff dories lip
tween the Giants and the Dodders:
San Francisco
Hiller. ah
f Nicman
Bowman. 2h ....
Davenport, 3h ..
Mays, cf
McCovev, If ....
Miller, p
O'Dell. p
Larscn. p
K Bailey
h Boles
Bolin. p
LeMay. p
Perry, p
McCormick, p
Cepeda. In
F. Alou. rt
Haller. c
Orsino, e
PaKan. ss
SHnford. p
M. Alou. If
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WINNING RUN Maury Wills slides across the plate in the
ninth mning with the winning run for Los Angeles Dodgers,
easily avoiding the attempted tag by catcher Johnny Orsino.
The run gave LA an 8-7 nod over the San Francisco Giants
to tie the playoff for the National league baseball flag at
one game each. (UPI)
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Gilliam, 2b-3b 3
Snider, Jf .1
j Spencer 0
T. Davis, 3b-c( 3
Moon, lb 2
Fairly, lb 1
Howard, rf 3
nofteboro. c 2
A Camilli. c 2
W. Davis, cf 2
h Carey 0
c Burright, 2b fl
Dr.VBdale, p 2
Roebuck, p fl
d Walls t
Perrantwki, p 0
Smith, p 0
Williams, p 1
Total 23
n Sinsled for Rosehoro in fiih;
b Hit by pitched ball for W. Davis
In fith; c Ran for CHrey in Hth;
d Doubled for Roebuck in filh;
e Hit into force out for M. Almi
in 7th; f Flied out for Hiller in
7th; R Sinsled for Larscn in Rth;
h Boles ran for Bailey in nth;
J Sacraficed lor Snider In flth.
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two hntters In Rth; Smith pitched
lo two hatters in 8th. Bolin pitched
to one hatter In 9th; l,eMav
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Perry, Dark specifically told
him lo anticipate a bunt and
look for a force play at third
base.
Spencer bunted, Perry
fielded the ball, look one
frenzied look at Wills streak
ing for third base, and decid
ed to throw to first Instead.
Tnat forced Mike McCor
mick. who followed Perry
and became the eighth San
Francisco pitcher, to walk
Tommy Davis intentionally,
loading the bases for Fairly's
climactic sacrifice fly.
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halfback Leroy Whittle and
end Paul Scale for the best
performances.
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