Cardinals Rally in 9th to Win : Young Is Victim as Dodgers Lose Strange Game, 9--6

There weren’t many players left unscathed in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 9-6 see-saw win Thursday night before a Dodger Stadium crowd of 33,565. Not the Dodger starting shortstop, Mariano Duncan, not their starting pitcher, Orel Hershiser, and not their hoped-for stopper out of the bullpen, Matt Young.

Not even Cardinal starter Joe Magrane, the impressiverookie who came in with a 6-2 record and left after allowing 5 runs and 8 hits in 5 innings.

“When Whitey (Herzog) came out to take me out, I’m surprised he didn’t sprint out there,” Magrane said. “I was really throwing ugly tonight.”

His counterpart, Hershiser, was more of a survivor. In eight innings, he allowed six runs, four unearned, and was the victim of three errors by Duncan in one inning.

In the end, the Cardinals wrapped up their their most successful season series against the Dodgers since 1969, posting a 9-3 record, by scoring three times in the ninth inning off Young to break a 6-6 tie, the big hit a two-run double by Ozzie Smith.

Todd Worrell finished off the Dodgers in the ninth, getting the first two batters and then, with Pedro Guerrero on first with his third hit, getting Mike Marshall to fly out to center field. Worrell’s 21st save, third-best in the National League, gave Ken Dayley the win and a 5-1 record.

Young (5-6) took the loss.

The Dodgers had scored a run in the bottom of the eighth to tie the score, 6-6, when Mickey Hatcher singled, was moved to second on a sacrifice by Alex Trevino, reached third on a wild pitch by Dayley and scored on an infield single by Dave Anderson.

A one-run lead with three outs to go? That wasn’t worth anything on this night, especially for the Dodgers.

Duncan, who began the night with 14 errors, had 17 by the end of the second inning. And the Dodgers and Actually, he hadthree (ital) in (endital) the second inning, and the Dodgers andHershiser had a 2-0 deficit.

The inning began with an infield single by Willie McGee, and then it got complicated. Terry Pendleton grounded to second baseman Steve Sax, who flipped to Duncan to get McGee, only to have Duncan drop the ball.

Next, Tony Pena hit one at Duncan. He bobbled it, allowing McGee to score. Duncan Hepicked it up and threw it away, allowing Pendleton to score, picking up two errors on the same play.

Duncan was He gotbooed, and when the Dodgers left the field after Hershiser struck out Magrane to end the inning, Duncan ihewas booed again. About the only thing Duncan didn’t get was a record--seven major leaguers have made four errors in an inning.

Duncan, 8 for 38 at the plate on top of it all, left the game before the sixth inning with a migraine headache. No wonder.

“I don’t want people thinking I went out of the game because I made the errors,” Duncan said later. “I went out because I had a migraine.”

But just as quickly as the Dodgers got in trouble, they went ahead.

In the third inning, they scored three runs, two of which were unearned. Guerrero and Marshall each had RBI singles.

The Dodgers made it 4-2 in the fourth in a more conventional manner. Trevino walked and was sacrificed to second by Franklin Stubbs. Duncan, in his final at-bat before being replaced lievedby Anderson, grounded to Magrane to advance Trevino to third, and Hershiser got him home with a bunt single.

Next, it was the Cardinals’ turn, as they scored twice in the top of the fifth to tie it, 4-4. The runs came with one swing--Pendleton’s home run into the left-field bleachers with McGee on board.

“Sometimes, I try to do too much and show my family and friends what I’m capable of doing,” said Pendleton, who graduated from Channel Islands High School in Oxnard. “This was one of those nights when I said I’m just going to go out and swing the bat. Hershiser got a pitch up and I hammered it.”

Dodger Notes Dodger Stadium flags were at half-staff in memory of special-assignment scout Don McMahon, who died Wednesday. . . . Add Strange Game: St. Louis pitcher Joe Magrane was set to throw to first trying to pick off Dave Anderson in the sixth inning, only to notice that first baseman Jack Clark had already started toward the plate in anticipation of a bunt by Orel Hershiser. All Magrane could do was throw a one-hopper to Clark, halfway down the line by then, and was charged with a balk. . . . The wife of Dodger pitcher Brad Havens gave birth to a daughter Thursday evening. Chelsey Havens, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, was born at Pomona Valley Community Hospital.