MINNESOTA 5, LOS ANGELES 1 IN MINNESOTA

Date:  Wednesday, October 13.

Batting stars:  Bob Allison was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer, a walk, and a stolen base, scoring twice.  Mudcat Grant was 1-for-3 with a three-run homer.  Earl Battey was 1-for-4 with a triple and a run.

Pitching star:  Grant pitched a complete game, giving up one run on six hits and no walks with five strikeouts.

Opposition stars:  Ron Fairly was 2-for-4 with a home run.  Claude Osteen pitched five innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits and three walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  It was scoreless through three, with the Twins wasting a leadoff triple by Battey in the second.  Allison hit a two-run homer in the fourth to put the Twins on the board.  In the sixth, Allison stole second with two out.  The Dodgers then intentionally walked Frank Quilici to face Grant, who hit a three-run homer that put the Twins ahead 5-0.  The lone Dodger run came on Fairly's home run leading off the seventh.  They put only one other man on second base and did not get a hit until the fifth inning.

Of note:  Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-3 with a walk.  Joe Nossek was 0-for-4.  Tony Oliva was 2-for-4.  Harmon Killebrew was 0-for-4.

Record:  The win tied the series at three games apiece.

Notes:  Nossek once again started in center field in place of Jimmie Hall...Grant did not hit a home run in the regular season in 1965.  The last home run he had hit came on May 17, 1964...For all the talk of Sandy Koufax pitching on two days' rest in game seven, it somehow has gotten lost that Grant came back on two days' rest in this game...Another thing that's been lost is the great series Ron Fairly had.  After six games, he was hitting .400 with two home runs and an OPS of 1.120.  In two prior World Series, 1959 and 1963, Fairly had been a reserve and gone 0-for-4 with three walks.