NL Scores/Sums 4/14/61

It started with a wild one at Wrigley: (Then again, they're always wild at Wrigley)

CHC 11-11-2 MIL 10-16-0 WP-Schultz(1-0) LP-Nottebart (0-1) HR-Heist (1,2, Grand Slam, 5 RBI) Santo (1, tied game in 9th) Billy Williams walk-off RBI single in 10th. 

A "high five" for Vada at Busch

CIN 9-15-0 STL 2-8-0 WP-Hook (1-0) LP-Simmons (0-1) SV-Henry (1) HR-Pinson (1,2, plus 2 doubles, a single and 6 RBI) Musial (1).

Koufax K's 14 as Dodgers provide fatal late-inning blow to the Buccos

LAD 5-8-0 PIT 4-7-0 WP-Koufax (1-0, 14 K's) LP-Face (0-1) Dodgers score 4 in the bottom of the 9th, including the winning run on Tommy Davis's RBI single scoring Maury Wills from 2nd on a very close throw at the plate by Pirate LF Bob Skinner. (D-20 roll of 19, right on Wills' number, the 20 would've been out)

McCovey, Cepeda Phlatten Phils with their red-hot bats

SFG 7-10-3 PHI 1-3-2 WP-McCormick (1-0) LP-Mahaffey (0-1) HR-McCovey (3) Cepeda (2) Herrera (2)


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