Dodgers would throw Kofax for the 1st game of a series. His 100 + mph fast ball along with his incredible curve along with a touch of wildness set the stage foe Drysdale.
Hitters came up the 2nd game rattled. Don would throw inside.he felt he owned that part of the plate.
He didn’t mind plunking you. Quite enjoyed it.
I always thought Drysdale was the real guy Bob Uecker described in Major League when he said, "He threw at his own son in a Father-Son game."
I was in my early teens the first time I ever experienced a woman showing raging hormones over a guy. When the Twins played the Dodgers in the World Series (1965), a close friend of my aunt's said to my aunt after watching Drysdale on TV pitch one game, "That is such a good looking man!"
I think that was the opener and because Koufax would not pitch on Yom Kippur. I suspect my aunt's friend, my aunt and Drysdale were all in their primes in those days.