
The Giants and St. Louis take the field today at a rainy Sportsman’s Park (1934) for the final game of their three-game series…Juan Marichal faces off against John Smoltz and tries to lock down the sweep…Both sides are retired in order. No score after 1…A pair of lead off walks followed by a couple of groundouts see the Giants take a 1-0 lead in the top of the second…Score remains 1-0 Giants after St. Louis goes down 1-2-3 in their half of the second…A quartet of lead off singles results in three more runs for the Giants in the top of the third…They extend their lead to 4-0…An Ozzie Smith is all St. Louis gets in the bottom of the third…Cool Papa Bell is caught napping and gets doubled off first on a Rogers Hornsby line out to third!..Don’t see a double play like that every day!…St. Louis ends up stranding a Stan Musial single…Still 4-0 after four…Smoltz has settled down and retired the last six Giants he’s faced…St. Louis coming up now in the bottom of the fifth…Costly three-base error by Giants’ left fielder Willie McCovey on what should have been the third out results in a St. Louis run…Giants lead 4-1 after 5…Smoltz cruising now…He’s retired nine in a row…4-1 Giants after five-and-a-half…Cool Papa Bell makes up for his base running error with a lead off home run in the sixth…Giants lead 4-2…Marichal retires St. Louis in order in the seventh…Hornsby strikes out…Musial singles…Slaughter singles. Musial to third...Catcher Biz Mackey to the plate representing the winning run…Mackey hits the ball in the air to right…Mel Ott ranges back and brings it in…The runners tag…Ott throws towards the plate…Marichal cuts off the throw…Musial scores…Marichal throws to SS John Ward covering 2B…The tag…Slaughter is out!..The game ends on a 9-1-6 double play!