Aug 3 – It was more like homerun derby than a baseball game, and the team that won the derby lost the game. St. Louis pounded Doug Drabek for 7 runs in 1.2 innings and went home with a 7-5 win. The Pirates took a 3-0 lead in the 1st with homers from Bobby Bonilla and Willie Stargell. That lasted...not long. The St. Louis first went like this: Lou Brock, single; Curt Flood, single; Stan Musial walk to load the bases; Ken Boyer 2-run single, runners on the corners; Bill White sacrifice fly to tie the game at 3-3, one out; Ted Simmons walk; Red Schoendienst ground out, 2 down; wild pitch, 4-3 Cardinals lead. Finally Ozzie Smith lined out to end the inning. Gee whiz! Then in the 2nd inning, Bob Gibson led off with a single. Here we go again. But Brock and Flood are retired...then Musial homers, 6-3. Boyer homers, 7-3. Drabek leaves. Bob Veale comes in and walks the first batter. Is this for real? But Simmons grounds out, the inning ends. Gibson, after a rough 1st inning, settled in, except for two long fly balls...Bonilla in the 3rd, and Ray in the 6th. That made the score 7-5. The Pirates got a runner on in the 8th and 9th, but couldn’t do anything. Todd Worrell worked the 9th to wrap up the St. Louis win, 7-5.
Pit 5 8 0
StL 7 10 0
Aug 4 – The Pirates’ hitting continued with 3 more homeruns, but the Cardinals’ didn’t, and the Bucs took game two, 11-4. Dave Parker belted two of the three longballs and drove in 5 runs and Ralph Kiner added a 3-run shot. The strange thing about this game was that Parker’s two homers came off Steve Carlton. And any Pirate fan who remembers Parker batting against Carlton remembers that they could have pre-printed the Ks in the scorebook for Parker...three breaking balls in the dirt, and Parker takes a seat. Anyway...John Candelaria got the win, 8 hits, 2 runs in 6 innings of work. Series tied 1-1.
Pit 11 12 2
StL 4 10 1
Aug 5 – A thriller, won by St. Louis in the bottom of the 9th, 2-1. The Pirates took a 1-0 lead in the 4th on a walk, single, and error by Garry Templeton. Where was Ozzie? He was injured the day before. So Larry Jackson trailed 1-0 until the 6th. Lou Brock singled with 1 out. He stole 2nd, then Curt Flood singled off Bob Friend to put runners on the corners. Stan Musial followed with a single to tie the game at 1. Boyer and White were retired with no further damage. The Pirates batted for Friend in the 7th and Dave Giusti came on to pitch. Jackson was lifted in the 8th, with Al Hrabosky working the 8th and Lindy McDaniel the 9th. Bottom of the 9th, Bill White singled to start the inning. Red S. bunted him to 2nd. And the 4th inning goat, Garry Templeton, became the hero as he singled, White scored, and the Birds had a 2-1 victory!
As always, a pleasure playing Mike. --submitted by Jesse Elicker (PIT)--
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