Today's Dodger win over Cleveland featured a rarity for this year's offensively challenged team, namely a home run. Russell Martin's two run first inning homer helped the Dodgers end a two game losing skid, but homers weren't always so hard to come by for the men in Dodger blue.
1974 was a special season for the Dodgers as they won 102 games, hit a league leading 139 homers and won the National League Championship. There were many thrilling moments in the 1974 season, but few compared to what happened on Saturday night June 22nd at Dodger Stadium.
Facing the hated San Francisco Giants, the Dodgers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a blast from the Toy Cannon, Jimmy Wynn. Wynn's homer gave the Dodgers a short-lived lead, as San Francisco scratched out a run off of Don Sutton in the top of the second to tie the score. The game stayed tied until the top of the sixth, when an Ed Goodson double gave the Giants a 2-1.
With San Francisco's starter Jim Barr cruising through the game's middle innings, it looked as though the Dodgers would be going down to defeat but Wynn came through with a ninth inning solo homer to tie the score at 2-2. The multi-homer game was one of three on the season for Wynn (he had three homers at San Diego on May 11th and hit two at home against Cincinnati at Dodger Stadium nine days later).
Wynn's heroics gave the Dodgers a chance to win, but it was up to someone else to get the job done. Dodger catcher Joe Ferguson did just that in the bottom of the tenth, hitting a leadoff solo home run off of Elias Sosa to give the Dodgers a thrilling 3-2 win. The win was one of 12 in 18 games against the Giants in 1974, and Ferguson's homer was one of 16 he'd hit on the year.
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