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Dodgers Sweep Reds at Crosley Field

May 6, 1965 - Ron Fairly has been eating lefthanded pitchers alive this season, and he feasted on another southpaw tonight as the Dodgers beat Cincinnati, 4-3, to sweep the three-game series to the dismay of 7,821 Reds rooters at Crosley Field.

It was the first time Los Angeles took three in a row from Cincinnati since Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, and Ron Perranoski turned the trick in Cincinnati June 24-26, 1963.

Moreover, it widened Los Angeles’ lead over the runner-up Reds to two full games.

Fairly who pasted a modest single off loser John Tsitouris in the second inning, zeroed in on lefty Joe Nuxhall in the fifth with his second homer of the series, and it proved to be the winning run. 

Last season, Fairly couldn’t handle southpaws for peanuts, batting .204 against them while homering twice.

It’s a different story in 1965. Ron has hit them 13 times in 32 at-bats for a .413 average, and three of his found homers have come against lefties: Joe Gibbon, Jim O’Toole, and Nuxhall. Gaylord Perry was the other victim.

Dodger starter Johnny Podres’ arm began to stiffen in the sixth, when he gave up two hits. With the score 4-2, Bob Miller relieved in the seventh after Vada Pinson got a cheap double when his pop fly fell between Jim Lefebvre and Willie Davis. Jim waved Willie off and then failed to make the catch.

In recording his third save, Miller left Pinson stranded but gave up a run in the eighth on Tony Perez’s triple and John Edwards’ slow roller which Lefebvre fumbled. Tony would have scored anyway, so it was judged an earned run.

Before tonight’s game, Sandy Koufax, who hit Frank Robinson in the leg with the bases loaded last night en route to a 4-2 victory, had a friendly chat with Frank at the batting cage. Robinson already has been plugged five times in 19 games this year, and during his 10-year career, he’s been hit 105 times.

Said Reds manager Dick Sisler of Koufax: “They rub hot stuff on his elbow before the game, and afterward they dunk it in ice water, but I can’t see anything wrong with it during the game. Sandy simply overpowered us.”

Dodger manager Walter Alston expressed no opinion as to what club or clubs his team will have to beat to win the pennant.“It’s far too early to try and predict what’s going to happen in a pennant race that has at least six clubs that figure to be in contention,” Alston remarked.



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