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While L.A. took batting practice off the Three point Five Million Dollar Man, Hooton gave up only five hits, none coming after the fifth inning. No Yankee had more than one hit and the quartet of Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Chris Chambliss and Graig Nettles only managed two safeties between them. Some Murderers...
...Dodgers breezed past the listless Yankees, 6-1, on a barrage of home runs and the finest pitching Burt Hooton has ever unleashed on anybody. The boys in blue hit homers in each of the first three innings off Hunter as they powered their way to an insurmountable 5-0 lead...
...Yanks and Dodgers continue their "Red-Eye" Series tonight at eight o'clock. Burt Hooton will chuck for the Bums while Catfish Hunter will take the bill for the Bombers...
...more weaknesses than Philadelphia, most notably at shortstop, center field and the bullpen. But they will be stronger on the mound for at least the beginning of games two and three, with Sutton and probably Burt Hooton (11-7, 2.66) starting. As for the bullpen, cheerleading manager Tommy Lasorda will probably shore up that Achilles heel with reserve started Doug Rau (3.43) and Rick Rhoden...
...team has responded brilliantly to Lasorda's gusty enthusiasm. They are leading the league in hitting, home runs and runs batted in. Of the starting rotation - Don Sutton, Rick Rhoden, Doug Rau, Tommy John and Burt Hooton - John and Hooton are the only ones to have lost games in the first five weeks of the season. Sutton, the ace of the staff, like a former Dodger righthander, Carl Erskine, catches the corners of the plate with his curve - and batters looking at third strikes. On the infrequent occasions when the Big Five falter, in motors Charlie Hough from...