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Lasorda created a mild surprise when he turned to veteran left-hander Tommy john as the starting pitcher, instead of right-handed Burt Hooton...
...Phillies got reasonably serious in their half of the fifth, knocking out L.A. starter Burt Hooton and stringing together five singles for three runs and a 7-4 ball game. Steve Yeager, the Dodger catcher, then answered back in the sixth when he took Philadelphia reliever Rawly Eastwick deep for the Dodgers eighth tally...
Sutton, on the other hand, was Sutton. Fashioning a game much like the one Burt Hooton threw against the Yanks two games earlier, the curly blond was never in trouble even though he yielded four runs, two of them in the eighth inning on back-to-back homers by Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson...
...After Hooton retired the first three Yankees in record time, the Dodgers made it 3-0 on a Yeager four-bagger to left. Hunter, obviously unperturbed, stayed around long enough to serve up a pizza to Smith in the third. Reggie's blast, hit well over 400 feet to deadaway center, came with Bill Russell on base and put the Dodgers safely in front...
...Hooton was simply too tough. Mixing up the famous "knuckle-curve" with a very effective fastball, the ex-Cubbie showed a great deal of control (remember that word, Catfish?) as he struck out eight while issuing only one free pass. He pitched five perfect innings and gave up nothing more than a single to anyone...