GAME 1 - WAS 8, CAL 2
Young Pete Broberg (4-6, 4.60) looks to be rounding into form for the Nats as he went 8 innings and gave up only 2 en route to the victory. Denny Riddleberger came on board for the final frame. The normally light hitting backstop, Paul Casanova had 2 key hits. Jeff Burroughs (2) and Frank Howard (21) clouted homers off of Angel starter Clyde Wright (12-9, 2.94), who did not have one of his better outings. Mickey Rivers had 3 hits in a losing effort.GAME 2 - CAL 11, WAS 4
Denny McLain's outing only lasted 1/3 of an inning as the Angels batted around and scored 6 runs. Roger Repoz slammed a 3 run shot the ended McLain's day right where it started...in the first inning. Washington's pen was just as awful as the Halos cruised to an easy 11-4 victory
GAME 3 - WAS 6, CAL 4
Dick Bosman (6-18, 4.66) was cruising until the Angels exploded for 4 runs in the 7th and seemingly left the Nats for dead. Typically bad teams like this Senator outfit usually find ways to lose these types of games, and in this contest they were well on the way to doing so until the top of the 9th. Down 4-2 Paul Casanova led off with a single and advanced to third on Toby Harrah's single. Pinch hitter Larry Biittner lifted a sac fly to Mickey Rivers in center to make it 4-3 Halos. Del Unser singled of of a tiring Tom Murphy as did Dave Nelson, who knocked in the tying run. A call to the bullpen brought on Dave 
LaRoche to give the Halos the coveted lefty/lefty matchup vs Don Mincher, who grounded out weakly to Ken McMullen at 3rd for the second out of the inning. The Capital Punisher, Frank Howard punished LaRoche with a 2 out frozen rope single to left to score both Unser and Nelson and give the Sens a 2 run lead. Paul Lindblad came on to notch the save by tossing an uneventful 9th. Washington actually won a series.
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