The Yankee power factory produced three late-inning homers including a grand-slam by Joe Pepitone yesterday to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-3 and tie the World Series at three games apiece.
The seventh and deciding game will be played in St. Louis today, and will be broadcast by Channel 4 and WEZE radio (1260) at 1:45 p.m.
Jim Bouton pitched eight innings and got the win for the Yankees today. After the Cardinals scored in the first, Bouton singled in a run in the fifth to tie the score.
The Yanks broke it open in the sixth on back-to-back homers by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Two innings later Pepitone's grand slam helped the Yanks boost the score to 3-1.
Curt Simmons started for the Cardinals 3-1. Barney Schultz and Gordon Richard-and left after six innings with the score son suffered through the five-run eighth.
For the Yanks, Bouton was relieved in the ninth by Steve Hamilton, who got Curt Flood to hit into a double play that killed a Card rally.
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