Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-31
GiantsStumble
As McCovey
Turns 10 Goat
Dodgers Make Bid
Tonight; HEROES by
Stuart Save Face
By the Associated Press

Sru0Tr SQVe FQCe
BY the Associated Press
The Dodgers-spared at the
18th hour yesterday when Willie
McCovey turned human - get
another chance tonight to con-
vert the National League race
into a menace for heart pa
tients.
The Dodgers could have been
trailing first-place San Fran
cisco by the almost hopeless
margin of four games going
into their final meeting Of the
season in Los Angeles. Instead,
1t will be two games, and Los
Angeles could cut that in half
with a victory tonight.
The Dodgers have committed
lefthander Sandy Koufax 7-4
to this critical contest and the
Giants have nominated right
handler Jack Sanford Q2-l0).
Anybody looking for a box or
reserve seat in the Coliseum can
forget it.
McCovey, the long-legged
first baseman who has played
with almost supernatural skill
since the Giants called him up
a month ago, was the goat of
the game on three counts as the
Dodgers came from behind in
the ninth inning and dropped
the Giants, 7-6, before $4,000
yesterday.
Face Gets No. IL
Elsewhere in the league. Roy
Face picked up his 7th victory
of the Seanson and his 22d in
a row as the Pirates defeated
the Phillies in a 10-inning
nightcap. 7-6, after taking the
opener, 81. That left Pitts
burgh, hottest club in the
league at the moment, only
four games of the pace with %
to play.
Once again the defending
champion Braves missed a
chance to gain on the leaders.
remaining three games behind
as they dropped 6-2 decision
to the Cubs. The Cardinals
four-game winning streak was
halted by Cincinnati, Ga.
Two Boots and BOner
In the Los Angeles game,
McCovey committed two errors
Letting in the winning run
with the second one - and
pulled a base-running boner
that cost the Giants a run.
The score was tied, "A, in
the seventh when McCovey
fielded Charlie Meals sacrifice
bunt and threw wildly to first.
Jim Gillian, who had singled.
got to third on the error and
later scored an unearned run.
In the eighth, McCovey sin
gled but subsequently missed
second base on his way to third
and was called out on appeal.
Had he touched second, Willie
would have scored later on a
fly ball.
Things got even worse for
McCovey in the ninth. The
Dodgers had tied it, 6-6. on an
error by Jackie Brandt and
Wally Moons triple. Sam Jones.
called in to relieve, walked two
pinch hitterS. Then, with two
out, Pinch-hitter Norm Larker
slapped a hard grounder to Nc
Covey. Willie picked it up.
dropped it, picked it up again
apd dropped it again. Moon
easily scored the winning run
from third.
The Dodgers got another
cheap run in the fifth, when
Willie Mays lost Meals fly in
the sun. 1t dropped in for
a double, scoring Gillian, who
had tripled. Willie said he
never got his eye on the ball
until it landed.
Mays earlier had hit a two
run homer, his oath. The
Giants third Willie-Kirkland
hit his 21St homer and Gil
Hodges got his 22d for Los
Angeles.
Stuart Saves Face
At Pittsburgh, a little bit
o. luck and a lot of base hits
helped Face pull within two
victories of RUDE Marquard'S
record of 19 in one season and
Carl Hubbell's mark of "a in
in two years.
Face was saved from his
first defeat of the year when
the Pirates scored twice in the
bottom of the 10th after Ed
Bouchee's homer off ElRoy
had given the Phils a tenn
porary 6-5 lead.
Dick Stuart, who had hit a
inth-inning home run as a
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