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GAME 1 - 9/8 - Ebbets Field
Gaylord Perry vs Sandy Koufax
Dodgers 9, Giants 4
Sandy Koufax went the distance fanning 11 and giving up just 4 hits.  Those 4 hits accounted for 4 runs as Willie Mays hit his league leading 14th homer and Matt Williams hit his 3rd.  The rest of the scoring was all Dodgers, who hit 4 round trippers themselves.  Duke Snider (6), Steve Garvey (7), Roy Campanella (4) and Gil Hodges (10) all went deep.  Maury Wills had 3 hits, but didn't need to pilfer any bases with the Dodgers going deep.  Koufax increased his record to 5-1 with a 2.69 ERA.  Perry, who didn't make it to the 5th gave up 7 runs even though he did fan 7.

GAME 2 - 9/9
Juan Marichal vs Don Drysdale
Dodgers 9, Giants 3
For the second day in a row fans were treated to a HOF pitching  matchup.  Marichal (1-3, 3.89) was not at his best despite fanning 5 in 6 2/3 innings.  During that same stretch he allowed 5 runs, while his counterpart, Don Drysdale, kept damage to a minimum (3 runs over 8 IP).  The Dodgers took the lead in the bottom of the second with a 2 run blast from Reggie Smith and a solo shot by Gil Hodges.  Alvin Dark's 2 run shot in the top of the 3rd cut the Dodger lead to 1.  Duke Snider's grand slam in the bottom of the 8th blew the game wide open.  The "Duke of Flatbush" 7th homer of the season was served up by reliever Bobby Bolin.  One the Dodgers broke it open, Drysdale was removed for a pinch hitter and Charlie Hough finished out an uneventful 9th.

GAME 3 - 9/10
Larry Jansen vs Orel Hershiser
Dodgers 3, Giants 2
Duke Snider's 3rd homer in successive games staked "the Bulldog", Orel Hershiser, to a 3 run lead that he would take to the bank.  Jansen and his understudy, Jim Barr were able to shut the famed Dodger offense down the rest of the way, but the Giant offense could only muster 2 runs of their own thanks to a 2 run blast by Jim Ray Hart in the top of the 4th.  The Giants next threat would come when Kevin Mitchell doubled with 2 outs, but Hershiser caught Hart looking at a called strike three to end the inning.  Pinch hitter Dick Dietz hit one to the warning track in the 9th, but Hershiser held on to ensure that his team completed the coveted 3 game sweep vs their bitter rivals.