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...Yankees, accustomed to pyrotechnics themselves, had to play pecking baseball, although Jackson stretched his World Series home-run string to four straight games. His towering blast cleared the left-field fence, the Yankee bullpen, and nearly carried over the wall to the parking lot beyond-460 ft. to the last line of defense in Chavez Ravine. It was not enough. With Lopes driving in five runs, the Dodgers took the opener...
Dent--using a new, light bat that Mickey Rivers brought him during the middle of the at-bat--popgunned a fastball just over the short left-field fence for a 3-2 New York lead...
...Phillies took the lead in the second inning when Ted Sizemore singled with two on, scoring Mike Schmidt from second. Carlton followed with a three-run blast over the left-field wall...
...after Greg Luzinski's triple was turned into the game's first run with a Mike Schmidt sacrifice fly, Los Angeles popped for four runs in the top half of the third to lead the contest for keeps. Garvey's first blast, a three-run round-tripper down the left-field line, was the big blow in that frame...
...Royals notched RBIs, with the big blow coming on little Fred Patek's two-run homer into the left-field seats in the seventh off Dick Tidrow, who otherwise pitched fairly well in 52/3 innings of relief...