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October 3, 1963 B-l ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL V. fry. I I -( ijl rAV a iLa a i 1 1 Dandy Sandy Vinds Up It's A Fast Hall Ready To Fire Following Through (UPI Telephotos) oufax Sets Strikeout Mark in Dodger Win, 5-2 end. He certainly wasn't weak was the first one to Tresh and it disappeared into the sun over in the left field lower stands. Sandy Stops Yanks in Series Starte Tony Kubek had beaten out a single to Maury Wills just before Richardson struck out.

Jim Gilliam had to shift to third to fill in for injured Ken McMullen, followed with a single to center. Roseboro then ruined Ford with a high fly ball, fair by about 10 feet, that glanced off the facade in right and dropped into the lower stands for a three-run homer. Skowron helped boost that lead to 5-0 in the third. Gilliam opened with a single to renter but was forced at making it 25 for the two clubs. That broke the old record of 22 set by the St.

Louis Cards Mort Cooper and the St. Louis Browns Denny Galehouse in 1944 in the fifth game of the only all-St. Louis Series. Frank Howard, the 6-foot-7 From the moment that Ford struck out Wills, the lead-off Dodger, it was obvious that this was going to be a big strikeout game. In the fifth Koufax seemed to have tired or lost his stuff for a moment.

Pepitone singled to right and Boyer beat out an infield single. That blow could have produced a run but for a fine stop by Tracewski behind second base second by Willie Davis. Tommy Davis came through with NEW YORK Sandy Koufax broke Carl Erskine's World Series strikeout record just 10 years later and apol-opized to the ex Dodger Wednesday after fanning 15 New York Yankees in a 5-2 opening game victory for Los Angeles. Erksine, now a 3fi-year-old insurance man in Anderson, was waiting in the Dodger clubhouse to congratulate the 27-year-old lefty after pinch hitter Harry i t's last-out strikeout had erased the old record. Erskine set it Oct.

2, 1903, against another Yankee club at Ebbets Field. "Sandy sort of apologized to me," Erskine said. "He told me that when we had 14 he thought maybe he had enough. I told him he deserved the record, as long as he kept it in the family." Koufax ronredrd he was "a little weak" in the middle of the game and again at the at the beginning when he struck out the first five Yankees, tying a record set by the old St. Louis Cardinal Mort Cooper against Yanks in 1913.

Nobody got a hit or even a loud foul until Elston Howard singled with two out in the fifth. The Yanks were shut out until Tom Tresh hit a two-run homer in the eighth. The Dodgers hopped on Whitey Ford for four runs in the second, three on a home run by Johnny Roseboro, his first off a left-handed pitcher. Moose Skowron, an old-Yankee, drove in the other two with a pair of singles. Skowron knocked in the first in the second and the last in third.

After that early outburst against Ford, the drama of the day was reserved for the dying moments. Especially after any chance of a Don his first of three straight hits pitch for Los Angeles. Podres, now 31, had a 14-12 regular season. The Yanks were impressed by Koufax, but not depressed. Manager Ralph Houk agreed that Roseboro's homer was the big blow.

It was extra embarrassing to Ford -cause it was the first the left-handed hitting catcher has hit off a left-handed pitcher all season. Koufax's total of 15 Included Bobby Richardson three times and Tony Kubek, Tom Tresh, Mickey Mantle twice each. He also whiffed Roger Maris, Elston Howard, Joe Pepitone and pinch hitters Hector Lopez, Phil Linz and Bright. Ford struck out four, Stan Williams five and Steve Hamilton one for a total of 10 Pepitone playfully cuffed Bright and said, "He got you buddy, he didn't get me." Bright said all he was thinking about was trying to get the tying run to the plate and wasn't even thinking about any record. So the Dodgers have drawn first blood in this best-of-7 series by beating Ford, the Yankee ace.

When the Series resu today at Yankee Stad i it will be another battle of lefthanders. Al Downing, a 22-year-old farmhand moved up from Richmond in June, will work for the Yank s. Downing had a 13-5 record during the regular season. Johnny Podres, a two-time winner in 1955 when the Dodgers (Brooklyn vers i n) captured their only Series, will on a hit-and-run play, and Larsen type perfect game vanished in the fifth. The crowd of 69,000 knew that Koufax had tied Erskine's record going into the ninth.

Elston Howard was a quick out on a line drive. Joe Pepi-tone, who had fanned in the third, had a 2-2 count on him. "I backed out and looked at that guy and said to myself, 'You aren't going to go setting any record with me up there," said Pepitone. "I made up my mind I was going to get a piece of it no matter where it was." Pepitone singled but Clete Boyer flied out. It came down to Bright, batting for reliever Steve Hamilton.

Harry went 2-2 before he succumbed for the record-breaker on a humming fast ball. In the Yankees' clubhouse, Gilliam moved to third. Skow ron lined a single to left, scor ing Willie Davis with the fifth and final Dodger run of the that kept Howard on third. inch Dodger giant, started Ford to his downfall in the second with a tremendous double that bounced once and hit the wall in left center' about 460 feet from the plate. Skowron, who hit only .203 after being shipped to the Dodgers last winter after 10 years at Yankee Stadium, singled sharply up the middle.

In came Howard with the first run. Dick Tracewski, a hitter playing second because With three on and two out, the 5-0 lead didn't look as big as it had one-half inning earlier. But Koufax was up to the challenge. Lopez, batting for Ford, went to 2-2 and finally struck out on a fast ball with jet speed. day.

Koufax lost his shutout with one swing of the bat. He had just made Richardson his 14th strikeout victim and the crowd still was cheering the news on the big scoreboard in center field. The next pitch I.OS AMiKl.f INI AH Hill CO A Wills 5 0 0 0 2 (I Oilliam 3b 4 0 10 11 W. Uvls cf 3 10 0 10 T. Davis If 4 0 .1 0 0 F.

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"I finally contributed something." Bill batted only .203 this season and drove in only 19 runs. "I didn't even think I was going to play in the Series until I read it in the papers," he said. "The thrill wasn't beating the Yankees. It was getting a couple of hits. Helping out a little." The Dodgers were naturally jubilant over the victory, but there was no evidence of cockiness in the clubhouse.

"I thought before we could beat them," said Ron Fairly, "and I still do. I think we've got a helluva club and a better pitching staff. But they've got a helluva club too." I kL '-i lit faint smile. "Then in the second I was pitching high." That's when Frank Howard hit a tremendous double to center field and scored on Bill Skowron's single. Dick Tracewski followed with a single and then Roseboro hit his big homer to the right field stands.

"He hit a high curve," said Whitey. "I don't know what causes a fellow to change from pitching low to pitching high," he went on. "You usually don't get hurt that bad before you can correct it. But I've been hurt all year by guys who don't hit many homers, like Albie Pearson, and now by Roseboro." Equals Strikeout a Series record of 15 for the Los Angeles Dodgers in their 5-2 victory over the Yankees in the World Series opener. Koufax, who didn't allow a hit until there were two out in the fifth, was asked whether he had thought about a no-hitter earlier.

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The Dodgers won, 5-2. (UPI Telephoto) CRUCIAL HIT: This diagrammed general view traces the flight of the three-run homer hit into the right field stands by Johnny Roseboro of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the sec the Dodgers in the second, said he thought the drive might go foul. "It was going right down the line," he said, "and then third base, venzon ini leu neia. Kice (Al rlKhl field 2.09. A W.DOO.

14 Records I have ever seen," said Tom Tresh, who accounted for both Yankee runs with his homer in the eighth of the opening World Series game. "When you hit his fast ball, it seems easy. When you don't it seems hard." "I thought he pitched real well the whole game," said Manager Ralph Houk, smoking a big cigar reflectively after his Yankees were beaten by the Dodgers 5-2. "No, I didn't give my batters any advice. I give them credit for knowing what to do.

No, they don't make comments when they come back to the dugout after striking out. That's Little League stuff. No, they didn't describe what Koufax was throwi g. They didn't need to do it. You could see for yourself.

No, he doesn't pitch like anyone in our league." In short, there was agreement that Koufax was superb. Houk wouldn't even acknowledge that the Yankees had Koufax on the hook in the fifth when they loaded the bases on three hits. "You don't get as good a pitcher as him on the hook that quick," said Houk. then struck out Hector Lopez for the third out. Houk said the defeat i not change his plans Al Downing goes today as expected.

"John Roseboro's homer was the big hit," said Houk. "That put us too far behind too early." Whitey Ford, who started out well but landed in a mess of trouble in the second in K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-oufax! the wind seemed to catch it and pull it in a little." Roseboro said the home run pitch, delivered by left-hander Whitey B'ord, "was a curve or a slider, about belt high." Broken NEW YORK Fourteen Johnny, a left-hander swinger, hadn't hit a homer off a southpaw all season. Bill Skowron, whom the World Series records were broken unci four were tied Wednesday in the opening 1963iDodgers acquired from the Series game between the Losi Angeles Dodgers and the New Wyoming head football York Yankees. icoach Lloyd Eaton is in his kkcordh broken: 1 10th season as a head coach NEW YORK Wi "I almost thought it might just be better to tie the record. But I had to end the game." So Sandy Koufax struck out pinch hitter Harry Bright, nailing down the opening game victory and breaking his old friend Carl Erskine's World Series strikeout record.

Bright was No. 15 for Sandy, and it came exactly 10 years to the day after old Dodger Erskine had struck out 14 against the Yankees. Koufax drew first blood in the celebrated battle of lefthanders as he out()itchcd Whi- Most Mrlkeouts. pitcher, ttamf 13. "To tell the truth, I didn't think I had really exceptional stuff.

I had real good control. But I didn't feel as good as I would have liked." Of Tom Tresh's two-run homer in the eighth, he said: "The ball Tresh hit was a good fast ball. After all, this team is going to get some runs. That is a tough lineup." Sandy mopped his brow, and smiled: "Honestly, it was a good fast ball. I thought my fast ball was even better at the end of the game." So did Harry Bright.

three-run homer settled the issue. "I didn't think about the strikeout record," Koufax said "Or a no-hitter. Oh, I knew I had a no-hitter until the fifth, but you know this team is going to get hits, and score, too. "But when I came off after the eighth, I saw they had flashed on the score board that I had tied Carl's record. I came out for the ninth and I thought it just might be better if I just tied the record, and didn't break it.

Carl is a good friend of mine and such a nice guy. "But then, with Bright up, I had to get him out. He stood in the Dodger dressing room afterwards, leaning hack against his locker, beads of sweat running down from his curly black hair, across his forehead and onto his eye lashes, as long and wavy as those of the pretty boy movie idols. "Hold up all 10 fingers, Sandy," shouted the photographers. "And Roseboro hold up five.

That'll give us all 15 for the picture." Koufax held up his hands, discovered that he had a bottle of beer in one hand, grinned and put the beer down. Then he posed with fingers extended, alongside catcher Johnny Roseboro, whose Sandv Koufax. Dorlgers (old mark. 14 imS iail. in niS nine previous a s- tne Belle Fourche, Moit putouts.

catcher. ame johnjgrj native has won 52 Roseboro, DrxlKers lokl mark. 14 bv Mickey Cochrane, Philadelphia AL. Oct games, lost 25 and tied three 8 and Oct 9. I9J9 and Roy Campanula, for a .650 percentage.

Brooklyn NL. Oct. 2. DM). Most names lost, Ditcher, total Series 6, Whitey Kord.

Yankeea (shared with five others! WED. OCT. 16 Most strikeouts, total genes 43, Mick-, ey Mantle, Yankeea (extended own rec-l ord I Most bases on balls, total 8er1es Mickey Mantle, Yankees (extended on record). Most Series played, first basemen itcy Ford and got the Dodg -8 P.M, ers off in front, 5-2. Bill Skowron.

Dodneri (shared record fun with sparkling Champale! with Lou Gehrig and Joa Collins. New York AL). Most Henes played, outfielder Mickey Manlle. Yankees uhared record UNITED STATES AUTO CLUB U5AC with Joe DiMavmo. New York Al.) Yankees Favored In Game Today NEW YORK After Sandy Koufax set down New York 5-2 In the first game of the Most Series played, pitcher-10.

Whitey Ford, Yankees (extended own record! Most Barnes pitched, total Series 30. Sanctioned Whitey Ford. Yankeea (extended own record). Most flames started, pitcner. total se ries -20, Whitey Ford.

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N. M. Broadway odds-makers established the Yankees as 7-5 favorites to win today's second jrame from the Lo Angeles Dodgers. The Series became a pick 'em affair with the bettor giving 11-10 odds no m.itter which team rhosp. The odds-makers also quoted 10-1 odds against the possibility that Los Angeles would win the next three games and close out the Series and also 10-1 against New York winning the next four games in a ruw.

Most strikewta. By pitcner. total i Whitey Ford, Yankees (extended own record). Most strikeouts, game, one club 15. i Yankees (old mark 14 by Yankees vs.

i Brooklyn NL. Oct. 2. 1953 1. M't strlkecils.

ame, both clubs 25 Yankees 15. Dodkers 10 (old record bv St. Lout AL 12 and St. Louis NL 10. Oct I K1COKDS TIKD: Must consecutive strikeouta, by pitchers, start of narne-5.

Sandy Koufax. i Dodgers (also held by Mort Cooper, Bl I Lou.s NL. Oct. 11. 1) Most bae on balls, total Series 32.

Whitey Kord. Yanncei ialso h'id by i Art Nehf. New York NL and ChicaKo NL and Allie Reynolds. New York ALi. Most games p.ayed.

total Series, out-, fleld'r-W. Mickev Mantle. Yankees (also held bv Hank Bauer. New York ALi. Most strikeouts, inning, both cluba Yai kee 3.

1 (sam total IB threw other gamer). A uJ I A jL v. jl PARK i i Fro. hy Knt. Curp of Arr Los Angeles left-hander are, left to right, Joe Pepitone, Mickey Mantle and Hector Lopez.

(UPI Telephotos) NO LUCK AGAINST KOUFAX: New York Yankee batters didn't have much luck acainst Sandy Koufax. Going back to the bench after striking out against the.