Series Quotes
He did it! Sandy Koufax gets his tenth strikeout, his second consecutive shutout of the Twins; on Monday on a four-hitter, today on a three-hitter. Every pitcher, of course, likes to finish a game with a strikeout. This was, of course, not *a* game. This was the seventh game of the World Series. —Ray Scott, calling the final out of Game 7 for NBC television. I bet you wish Drysdale was Jewish too. —Unknown reporter to Dodger manager Walter Alston, after Drysdale, pitching in place of Sandy Koufax who would not pitch on Yom Kippur, got shelled in Game 1. Sandy, in Los Angeles when you pitched your 7–0 shutout, you were quoted after the game as saying, 'I feel 100 years old.' So today, how do you feel?A hundred and one. —Dodger announcer Vin Scully asked Sandy Koufax after the Game 7 win and Koufax replied chuckling.
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