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Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their second consecutive National League pennant Sunday by beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-3, in the second game of a doubleheader.
Rain washed out last night's scheduled Pirate-Giant game, and Chris Short washed out the Dodgers, 5-3.
Short, of the Phillies, held the Dodgers to one run for eight innings, weakening for two more in the ninth when the game was well out of reach. Bill White's three-run homer in the seventh helped put it that way.
And so the backward race for the National League pennant will move to the next to the last day. The Giants will play a double-header in Pittsburgh with Juan Marichal scheduled to pitch one, and the Dodgers will serve up the "new" Don Drysdale against the Phillies.
Of course, all these teams had something going for them too. San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal (23-6) kept the Giants' fading hopes alive by beating the Pirates 6-5-winning his own game with a ninth-inning home run. The Pirates got acrobatic fielding from Roberto Clemente and...