August 20 and August 22 are two schedule-adjacent days where both the Dodgers and the Giants lost; they'd done the same thing on June 20 and June 22. (The only time the two teams lost on two actual consecutive days in '62: June 14 and June 15.)
And in the tenth, the league's real MVP, Frank Robinson, came to the plate with the bases loaded and one out, facing Larry Sherry. After Robby had hit Sherry's first delivery for a very loud foul, the count proceeded to 1-and-2. Frank then hit the next pitch over the left field wall for a walk-off grand slam. Final score: Reds 7, Dodgers 3 (ten innings).
(The Reds began a six-game winning streak with this game, continuing an August hot streak that would get them to within three games of the Dodgers on the morning of August 26, when they'd drop a doubleheader to the Houston Colts and slide back in the standings. )
AT County Stadium (Milwaukee), the Monday "getaway" night game was a see-saw affair that continued some of the homer antics of the day before. Braves starter Warren Spahn allowed four solo homers in the game, the final two in the seventh inning coming back-to-back by Orlando Cepeda and Felipe Alou to tie the game, 4-4.
But Don Larsen proved to be as eminently hittable as he'd not been back in the '56 World Series, and coughed up a tie-breaking homer to Hank Aaron's younger brother Tommie--the fifth hit in a single inning's worth of work. Bobby Bolin came in and poured more gas on Larsen's bonfire; before the inning was over, the Braves had five runs and the Giants were burnt to a crisp. Final score: Braves 9, Giants 4.
SEASON RECORDS: LAD 82-44, SFG 78-47, CIN 76-49
