GAME 3: “Tito makes em go”

Game MVP: Fuentes

Candlestick Park

64 degrees, clear (I know, hard to believe) J

Marichal vs Boddicker

San Francisco 6 Boston 3

Down two game to none, San Francisco called on NLCS hero Juan Marichal to turn the series around. Once again Boston got off to an early lead as Marty Barrett singled to start the game and Wade Boggs drove him in with a sac fly. Boddicker would struggle a bit more in the bottom of the 1^st. Two lead off singles and a walk to Willie Mays brought Willie McCovey up with the bases loaded and none out. He would walk to drive in a run and Boddicker would limit the damage by getting Ken Henderson to ground into a double play to drive in a second run. After one, San Francisco 2 Boston 1.

Giants add another run in the third on a Tito Fuentes triple and Willie Mays sac fly. In the 4^th Boston would get one back on an Benzinger RBI double.

In the 5th Fuentes would line his second consecutive triple down the first base line and again Mays drives him in with a sac fly. After 5 the score was Giants 4, Sox 2. In the 6^th Dewey Evans decided to get into the act with a right field triple of his own followed by a Gedman ground out to make the score 4-3.

In the bottom of the 6^th Boddicker tired and Gardner came in to hold the orange and black. Unfortunately for him a Spike Owen error and a Jim Ray Hart home run would plate two and allow the Giants to open up the lead to 6-3. After 7 Don McMahon would come on to relief Marichal and throw two scoreless innings to lock up the win for the home team.