Phillies Top Dodgers as Stuart Drives in Four

Apr. 25, 1965 - Dick Stuart drove in four runs with a double and a home run today as the Philadelphia Phillies defeated Don Drysdale for the ninth straight time and snapped Los Angeles’ four-game win streak with a 6-4 decision before 25,766 fans at Dodger Stadium. (Pictured below are Johnny Callison and Maury Wills.)

Ray Herbert won his first National League game but needed ninth-inning help from Jack Baldschun after the Dodgers had rapped him for 15 hits in the game. 

“That must be some sort of record, 15 hits,” Herbert said afterward. “I don’t usually stay around that long if I give up that many. But that infield is so hard that anything hit on the ground is liable to be a hit.

“Everything I threw was up. The sinker was six to eight inches higher than it should have been. But this is a good park to pitch in, with no wind and no cheap home runs.”

Baldschun took over with two on and two out and got Wes Parker on a foul pop.

Drysdale was shelled for eight hits and six runs in five innings. He hasn’t beaten the Phils since June 1, 1962. Before the start of the losing streak, Drysdale had beaten the Phillies 13 times in a row.

Tony Gonzalez was aboard with a single when Stuart clouted his second homer of the season in the fourth. The score was tied, 2-2, when Herbert started Philadelphia’s winning four-run rally with a leadoff double in the fifth.

Singles by Tony Taylor and Richie Allen sent Herbert home with the go-ahead run. Wes Covington was intentionally walked, loading the bases, before Taylor scored on a force play. Stuart capped the rally with a two-run double.

Stuart can remember every big hit he ever got, but he couldn’t remember too many off Drysdale.

“The last one,” he recalled, “might have been in 1960, when I tripled off him with the bases loaded in the first inning in Pittsburgh.”

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