Larussa Region Final: ‘75 Giants drop ‘64 Dodgers in 4

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Game 1 (9/22) Montefusco @ Koufax
 
3 consecutive singles by Darrel Thomas, Mike Sadek and B Miller plated the first run of the game and a 1-0 lead for the Giants. The lead was short lived as R Fairly lead off the Bottom of the 2nd with a 348' blast to tie things up. Things were quiet until the 5th when the Giants got to Koufax who was pitching on 3 days rest and might be feeling a little off.  Gary Matthews and Bobby Murcer lead things off with a walk and a single and after Joshua struck out Willie Montanez doubled hard off the wall to score Matthews. Chris Speier followed with an RBI single and a groundball knocked in Montanez to give the Giants a 4 - 1 lead and with The "Count" dealing blanks this could be a good start for the Giants.
The Giants would score 3 more in the 8th and win game 1 as John “The Count” Montefusco moves to 5 - 0 (1.21 ERA).
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Game 2 (9/23) J Barr @ J Purdin
 
The Giants score first again with 2 in the top of the 1st with the big hot coming from a V Joshua triple and the Dodgers answered with a run of their own. The 2 - 1 score would carry on to the 7th when Steve Ontiveros doubled with the bases loaded to plate 3 and the Giants are now up 5 - 1 and the pressure is on the Dodgers. On comes Mike Caldwell to face the row of LH batters and gets the first two but Roseboro keeps it alive with a base hit and it pays off as PH's Moon & Shirley both grab RBI singles. 5 - 3 Giants going into the bottom of the 9th and the Giants are thinking we got this and will be up 2 - 0 but Gary Lavelle was tiring and allowed Johnny Roseboro & Wes Parker to reach base so on comes closer Randy Moffitt and he could not close it out with the final dagger being a bobble by Ontiveros to allow the winning run to score and the Dodgers are now back in this but headed on the road to SF.
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Game 3 (9/25) D Drysdale @ E Halicki
Ed Halicki brought his best stuff today and hurled 6 shutout innings including 9 K's. He was not happy when he was PH for in the bottom of the 6th but when Glenn Adams launched a 383' HR to straight away CF even he had to smile! The Giants bullpen would struggle again in the 9th but only allowed 2 runs and now lead the series 2 - 1.
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Game 4 (9/26) P Ortega @ P Falcone
This game the Dodgers would draw first blood when Willie Davis singled and stole second to begin the 2nd. Frank Howard doubled and Ron Fairly singled for RBI's and a 2 - 0 lead. The Giants would strike back in the 4th when Gary Matthews doubled with the bases full to give the Giants the 3 - 2 lead. The Dodgers wasted no time when Willie Davis lined a 2 run 3B to score Tommie Davis and Junior Gilliam and put the Dodgers back on top 4 - 3. The Giants answer in their half of the 5th with 2 which was capped off by a Willie Montanez solo shot and a 5 - 4 lead for the Giants. Maury Wills would single and score in the 7th to tie this game up and we have us a ballgame. Jim Brewer on the mound in the 7th for the Dodgers and the Giants would hit him hard and score 3 runs with Dave Rader providing the key double to knock in the final 2. The Giants bullpen would get the job done and keep things quiet and the Giants are moving on to the Final 4. Thanks to Pete for the well played series. The game played flawless with sound effects unchecked.
--submitted by Larry Reeves--