Brooklyn sweeps Colorado

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Brooklyn 5 Colorado 4

10 Innings

Brooklyn improved to 5-1 in extra innings with two extra inning wins in this series. Colorado dropped to 0-3 with losses in game one and three, both in 10 innings.

Brooklyn's sweep avenged a sweep by Colorado, in Brooklyn, on August 2-3 and 4, to open the season. Colorado has lost six straight.

The Dodgers also improved to 3-3 head to head against Colorado.

The win, coupled with Atlanta's five game winning streak was broken by Pittsburgh with a 5-2 Pirates victory, meant that Brooklyn is now five games behind Atlanta..

New York kept pace with Brooklyn with a 20-6 dismantling of Philadelphia. New York ran up 20 runs in the game on 24 hits, none of them homeruns.

Five players in the NY line up had three hits and every player had at least one hit except starting pitcher Rick Twombley. Relief pitcher Mickey Lee, the winning pitcher, with five innings of relief went three for three with the bat driving in two runs and scoring once.

The finale in Colorado was a back and forth affair.

Brooklyn took a 4-0 lead in the second inning. Clint Elliott singled and Pat Carey hit a two run homerun, his4th of the season. Leo Fox singled, one of four hits he had in the game in five at bats to raise his batting average to .389, second in the National League.

Colorado tied it in the 3rd inning on one swing of the bat by Brian Holton, who connected with the bases loaded off Rafael Martinez, his second of the year.

Colorado tok a 5-4 lead in the bottom of the 6th inning off Rafael Martinez in his final inning of work. A one out single by Bob Gassaway that just sneaked by second baseman Clint Elliott. Martinez walked Everett Congalton, the number eight hitter in Colorado's lineup. Pitcher Bob Cantrell bunted both runners up to second and third base.

Ron Clinton's single to right field drove in Clinton with the go-ahead run but right fielder Jack Dorman threw out Congralton at the plate with a great throw to catcher Pat Carey.

Brooklyn came back to tie the game 5-5 in the top of the 8th inning. Pinch hitter Roy Johnson tripled off off Cantrell and Jack Dorman, who great throw kept it a one run game in the sixth, singled in the tying run.

The next scoring came in the 10th inning. The second extra inning game in the series also went to Booklyn.

Hot hitting Leo Fox singled and stole second base. Dorman's two out double to centerfield drove in the go ahead run. Kip Tomberlin earned his third straight save in the series and his seventh of the season with a scoreless nnth inning.