Dem Bums drop first game then take next 2 over Redlegs

GAME 1 - Ebbets Field
Lawrence vs Newcombe
Reds 15, Dodgers 3

Big Newk took one for the team as the Redlegs lit him up for 11 runs (10 earned) in 6 2/3 innings on the hill.  Newk allowed 4 runs in both the 1st and the 5th, with the latter blowing the game wide open.  Ed Bailey (3-6) had a 7 RBI day and scored 4 runs.  Cincy's lefty hitting backstop hit his 5th and 6th homers of the season.  Lawrence (4-1, 5.24) went the distance and gave up just 2 earned runs.  Duke Snider had hit his 8th and 9th homers for the losers.

GAME 2
Klippstein vs Podres
Dodgers 9, Reds 3
Crafty lefty Johnny Podres gutted his way through 8 innings vs the fearsome Redleg lineup.  Podres had a huge lapse giving up 3 runs in the top of the 4th, but didn't falter the rest of the way before handing the ball off to Roger Craig.  Brooklyn scored runs in 5 of their 8 at bats.  Charley Neal, hitting out of the 3 hole had 4 RBI's.  Gino Cimoli knocked in 3.  Duke Snider was a perfect 2 for 2 with 3 walks and 2 runs scored and 1 RBI as Brooklyn's offense was firing on all 8 cylinders.

GAME 3 - Crosley Field
Drysdale vs Nuxhall
Dodgers 4, Reds 3
The rubber match of the series turned out to be the only close one.  Brooklyn broke the ice with 3 runs in the top of the 5th off Nuxie.  After got plunked to lead off the 5th, Zim walked.  Drysdale bunted them both up into scoring position, but Junior Gilliam failed to plate anyone as he grounded back to the box.  Charley Neal picked up his keystone combo mate by lining an opposite field single between Johnny Temple and Klu.  After the Duke walked good ole' Skoonj lined one to center to score Neal and make it 3-0.  Cincy answered back with 2 in the bottom of the frame on a 2 out knock from Gus Bell that scored Wally Post and Ray Jablonski.  Both runs were unearned thanks to an untimely error by Zim at short.  Brooklyn got a huge 2 out long ball from Duke Snider, his 10th, to make it 4-2.  Brooklyn would need that insurance run as the Reds answered back with a run of their own in the bottom of the inning.  The bottom of the 9th saw Ed Roebuck come on in relief for Don Drysdale (4-2, 2.69).  Roebuck quickly dispatched the first 2 batters but gave up a two out double to Jablonski before pinch hitter George Crowe ended the game with a weak fly to Cimoli in right.  Roebuck rang up his 4th save of the season as the Dodgers held on to beat the Reds.