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NEW TRIVIA QUESTION: Name the four switch-hitters who played for the 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers? TOTAL 10 POINTS.
August 8th, 1965 is a day every ballplayer dreams of and every ballplayer dreads. It's when one team so blasted the other they could only hope to go home early. The game started harmlessly enough with the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers going 1-2-3 against Jim Maloney and the Cincinnati Reds. When the Reds came to bat it was obviously going to be a rough day for Don Drysdale.
Tommy Harper started it off with a bunt single and rode home on a Pete Rose double. Before the inning was over, Drysdale walked a batter, followed by an error, a flyball and an error. It was 4-0 Reds. After another perfect inning the Reds went up 6-0 after Drysdale hit Tommy Harper and Vada Pinson and Gordy Coleman got hits to drive in more.
Los Angeles finally got a man on based and wasted a triple by Wes Parker in the third but the Reds continued to pound out the hits with another run. This time it was Jim Brewer. Drysdale was long gone. Before the contest was over Pinson, Rose and Harper had homered and Maloney was masterful. He allowed just four hits, four walks and pitched a 12-0 shutout. It should be noted this was a Dodger club which won the pennant and went on to beat the Twins in the World Series.
It was not because of their hitting however, with the likes of Drysdale, Sandy Koufax and Claude Osteen on the hill. On this day however, they were the inferior team.
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