Giants and Marichal Top Dodgers and Drysdale

June 28, 1965 - Juan Marichal scored his 10th consecutive victory over the Dodgers today at Candlestick Park, pitching his fifth shutout of the season, 5-0, to the delight of 36,702 Giant rooters. In doing so, Juan took a 2-1 lead in his personal duel with Don Drysdale. 

Despite the setback, L.A. clung to a one-game lead over second-place Cincinnati, but the third-place Giants climbed to within 2½ of the league leaders.

It was the first time this season the Dodgers lost three straight, Marichal’s masterpiece coming on the heels of two losses to Pittsburgh.

It was a galling defeat for Drysdale (11-7), who suffered his fourth straight setback although fanning a dozen Giants and holding them to five hits and one earned run.

Don, however, contributed to a batch of four unearned runs in the fifth which removed all the suspense from an otherwise classic mound duel.

In this fiasco, Drysdale made two errors, and his battery-mate, John Roseboro, was charged with a passed ball and committed a rare obstruction play which cost him an error as well.

“Mishandling those plays — I ought to be hanged,” Drysdale muttered afterward. “I can’t ever remember making two errors in an inning. It never happened before.

Ordinarily, I can help myself with the glove and bat. But I didn’t tonight.”

Drysdale first let Hal Lanier’s bounder roll off his bare hand, then picked it up and threw it away. After Randy Hundley’s sacrifice, he muffed up Marichal’s tapper. 

In the other clubhouse, San Francisco manager Herman Franks did very little talking, except to repeat over and over: “That was a dandy, that was a dandy.”

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