GAME 1 - Dodgers Stadium
Greene vs Singer
Phillies 2, Dodgers 0
"No Hit" Tommy Greene was in actuality "5 hit" Tommy Greene today, as Philly's young star dominated the Dodgers and bested their ace Bill "the Throwing Machine" Singer. The Phightin's staked Greene to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first and that was all that was needed. Back to back doubles by "Inky" and "Dutch" accounted for all of the offense for both teams.
GAME 2
Schilling vs Osteen
Dodgers 15, Philies 1
After seeing their 8 game winning streak come to an end the boys from Chavez Ravine came back hard with a vengeance scoring 15 runs on 17 hits off of 5 Phillie pitchers. To be fair the Philly pen was stretched thin and called to duty way too early thanks to Curt Schilling rubbing up a blister and having to leave after 2 pedestrian innings of work. While "Ketchup man" wasn't having a stellar day (3 runs in 2 innings) he still would have been able to eat up at least 3-4 more frames before the pen had to be used. Dodger centerfielder Willie Davis had a monster day at the plate going 4-5 with 6 RBI's and 3 runs scored. For good measure "3-Dog" also had 2 homers and 2 stole bags, which completely overshadowed Claude Osten's (3-0, 1.33) 4 hit/1 run complete game performance.
GAME 3 - The Vet
Sutton vs D.Jackson
Dodgers 6, Phillies 4
For the second day in a row the Phightin's lost their starting pitcher early on due to injury. Today it was lefty Danny Jackson who after getting knocked around in the first (4 runs) managed to get two outs in the 2nd before coming down with a sore arm. LA scored all of their opening stanza runs off of 5 singles, 3 of which had RBI's attached to them. After Kosco and Parker knocked in runs, Ted Sizemore plated both of them with a 2 run knock. A two run shot by Bill Sudakis in the top of the 5th gave LA a 6-0 lead and catapulted "Suds" into the league lead for HR's with 6, which completely shocks this humble scribe and probably the batsman himself. In any case LA looked to be home free, but Philly answered back with 2 runs of their own on a single by Mickey Morandini. The status quo remained in place until the bottom of the 9th. After barely escaping a jam in the 8th Dodger hurler Don Sutton was lifted in favor of closer Jim Brewer, who decided to add some drama to the show. Brewer proceeded to allow the first 4 batters that he faced (Dutch/Inky/Eisenreich/Duncan) to reach base in a variety of ways (HBP/Hit/Walk). In a matter of minutes LA's safe 6-2 lead was now 6-3 with nobody out with pinch hitter Wes Chamberlain stepping to the plate. Chamberlain didn't put up much of a fight fanning on 3 pitches for the first out of the inning. Next up was Nails, who got himself a fastball on a 2-2 count which he ripped right back to Brewer, who gloved it to save not only the game, but his life. Duncan, who got caught in "no man's land" was easily doubled up off of first to end the game. By taking 2 of 3 in the series the Dodgers upped their record to 10-1, while the Phils fell below the .500 mark at 5-6.
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