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The Brooklyn Dodgers face the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the 1949 World Series on October 5th.
This is the mutual radio broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.
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The first question that you want to know is about the weather, and the weather is fine.
It scared everybody in New York to death this morning when when dawn came,
it came through gray clouds and it was raining, but the rain stopped about 830 to 9 o'clock.
The outfield is going to be a little bit treacherous for any outfielder who has to cut sharply one way or the other.
The infield, which of course was covered, is in perfect condition.
Now the second question that you'd like to know, the starting pitcher for the Dodgers.
Bert Schotten did not announce him until his pregame clubhouse meeting.
He is Big Don Newcomb, 6'5, 230 pounds, finishing his rookie year.
In fact, he was not even with the Dodgers the first month of the pennant campaign, came on to win 17 ballgames.
The starting pitcher for the Yankees is the stout-armed right-hander, Ali Reynolds, who has known for two days that he was going to be the starter.
In fact, on the pre-World Series broadcast from Commissioner Chandler Sweet last evening,
he compared Ali Reynolds and he was speaking then of the fact that he knew he was going to be the starting pitcher,
said he was going to sleep well, and that the butterflies wouldn't start until about noon today.
And as far as butterflies, there are butterflies everywhere, as far as these athletes are concerned.
This is it. And I think the tremendous tensions of the two pennant races,
each coming down to the very last thing late Sunday afternoon, has added to the number of butterflies that will beset these ballplayers.
But they are great. The Yankees won in a tremendous finish in the American League.
The Dodgers won in a tremendous finish and one inning, you might say, in the National League.
So adjectives can just be put in the attic. This is it.
Now they are going to put their knucks on the line and it's going to be settled right here and now.
In fact, in about 13 fateful moments, this ballgame will be on the way.
So the two right-handers continue throwing. Reynolds, who won 17 and lost 6.
It might be significant to point out he pitched 4 complete games.
Newcomb has won 17 ballgames for Brooklyn in the pennant race, has lost 8.
And as far as his complete games go, 19. He's big and strong.
And I think that is one reason that Manager Schotton wished him to start.
He wanted Newcomb to start so that he can do as much work as possible.
Now you want the batting orders. For the visiting Dodgers, captain and shortstop Pee Wee Reese will lead off.
And Johnny Jorgensen, the third baseman, is hitting number 2.
Johnny Jorgensen. Duke Snyder is in center field and is batting third.
Snyder, who drove in Brooklyn's pennant winning run in the 10th inning at Philadelphia Sunday.
Jackie Robinson won the batting championship for the National League with 3 points.
Robinson at second base. He was in the series in 47, you'll recall.
Gene Harmanski is in left field. Harmanski in left for Brooklyn.
Carl Forello, who is Brooklyn's casualty. Forello in right field.
He has a groin injury. Right side of his groin. It's quite painful.
But the Brooklyn trainer, Doc Wendler, put a whole roll of tape on him and an elastic bandage.
And Forello is going to play. Hodges at first base.
In other words, this is the regular Brooklyn batting order that goes against an opposing starting right hand pitcher.
Campanella is catching and is hitting eighth. And the pitcher is rookie Don Newcomb.
Now for Casey Stengel and his Yankees. And it's an odd fact that Stengel played in a World Series for the Dodgers.
Several, in fact. And more than that, Stengel in 1934 and 35 managed at Brooklyn before he went to the Boston Braves.
Now the announcement that Miss Lucy Monroe will sing the national anthem.
Miss Lucy Monroe, accompanied by Garland Barter's orchestra, just performed the national anthem.
Now we'll go down to batting orders for the Yankees.
The Six Umpires, Reese, the Brooklyn team captain, manager Casey Stengel, who takes his own batting order up for the Yankees.
Arkham, Forell, and Home Plate. The groundkeepers here at the stadium are still polishing off the infield.
So it's just a quiet scene at the moment. The sun shining and the big crowd pouring in.
For the Yankees, Phil Rizzuto, who's had a tremendous year at shortstop, leads off.
Little Scooter, Rizzuto. Tommy Henrik, all reliable.
He told us in the dugout an hour ago that his back feels fine. It is not taped. He is not wearing a corset.
In other words, he said, that slender figure is all mine.
Tommy Henrik, at first base. He's been a very valuable team player for the Yankees in the outfield or the infield, wherever they've needed him.
Yogi Barra, whose left arm is still tender. He has to be very careful.
He says sometimes if he hits a ball wrong off the bat, it stings his hand and hurts him very much.
Yogi Barra is catching. The great Joe DiMaggio, 12 pounds lighter for that recent bout with a virus pneumonia.
Joe DiMaggio, who returned to get an action just in time those two games with the Red Sox Saturday and Sunday.
DiMaggio in center field. Johnny Lindell in left. Lindell, who hit the winning run Saturday afternoon to break the 4-4 tie with the Red Sox.
Lindell in left. Billy Johnson, who has been playing good ball lately, is at third base.
Cliff Mapes, the rookie who's made the grade splendidly in right field. M-A-P-E-S Mapes.
Jerry Coleman, another rookie who came through for Stengel with his multitudinous shifts.
Demanded by, we'll check it with Mel in just a moment, I think there are about 80 real casualties that the Yankees had in the way of injuries.
Mel, how many casualties did you count up this year with the Yankees in the front of the race?
We stopped at 70, Ryan.
All right, now we told you Coleman at second base, Ali Reynolds is the pitcher, and the umpires.
Carol Hubbard, one of the great athletes on the American scene. Oh, what a football player he was.
Big Carol Hubbard will be back at the plate. John Beanes-Ridden will be at first base for the National League.
Art Passerella of the American League, Passerella at second base.
Lou Georda of the National League will be at third.
In the left field corner, as an alternate umpire, will be Ed Hurley of the American League.
And in the right field corner, alternate umpire George Barr of the National League.
Folks, now and then, something that doesn't happen is news.
For instance, thanks to the cooperation of campers, hunters, tourists, and others who visit our Woodland areas,
16,000 forest fires didn't happen in 1948.
But before we start cheering, it's also true that forest fires devastated 30 million acres last year.
That's an area as large as New York State.
Remember, only you can prevent forest fires, so don't be careless.
The umpires are going out to take their six positions,
and I noticed that Hurley is going in the right field corner, Barr in the left field corner, to make that change for you.
And now while we have the opportunity, we'll pause for station identification.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.
The Yankees have started out to take their nine defensive posts here at Yankee Stadium.
A little cloudishness has come, but there's still plenty of sunlight.
Jake Pitler is going down to coach his first for the Dodgers.
Milton Stocks to coach his third.
And now coming over here to the Gillette microphone, one of the great broadcasters.
It's a real privilege to be with him again.
His broadcasting this year as the Yankees go up to their pennant was equally in tune with the success of the New York Club.
Mel Allen.
Hello there, everybody. Thank you very much, Red Barber.
And it's always a privilege and a real pleasure to be able to associate with you on these World Series broadcasts.
I shall never forget the 1947 when you and I went to those seven games and had so much fun and excitement.
This program comes to you by authority of the Commissioner of Baseball.
It's intended only for the private use of our audience.
Any publication or reproduction of this program and commercial use of the program is prohibited.
And so we're all set for the first game of the World Series.
Allie Reynolds, who won 17 games and lost six for the Yankees in the regular season,
and whose previous World Series experience consists of a victory over the Dodgers in 1947.
He worked in two games, a total of 11 in the third innings,
beating the Dodgers in the second game of the 47 World Series here at the stadium.
And he's opening for New York today.
Vic Rasci, generally considered the Yankees' ace, went Sunday against the Red Sox in that thrilling finale.
And thus, of course, Casey Stengel decided to rest him a little longer
and start instead Allie Reynolds.
Allie has a good fastball, a good curve, and has been troubled on occasion by his control.
When Allie's control is good, he's rough to hit.
If his control is off, then of course he'll get into trouble.
Now the first ball was tossed out by Bruce Howard, a nine-year-old youngster of Astoria, Long Island.
He's the guest of baseball commissioner A.B. Chandler.
He was chosen to represent thousands assisted during this year's record infantile paralysis epidemic.
And now the first pitcher of the ball game, the Pee Wee Reese,
right-hand batter is in there for a called strike, and we're underway in the 1949 World Series.
Pee Wee, right-hand batter, who hit.277 in the regular season,
captain of the Dodgers, good money player, Johnson in close at third in the vent of the bunt,
The pitch is a curve over for called strike two.
The outfield for Reese, slightly toward left and center left,
I guess in general they're shading him toward left, although Cliff Mapes is looking for Pee Wee,
maybe hit over toward right a bit.
Tommy Henrik is deep wide of first.
Jerry Coleman, three strikes to the right of second.
Johnson is a little deeper now at third with two strikes on Reese.
The pitch, just outside for a ball, it's an overhand delivery.
Allie had come inside arm with his first two pitches.
It's a one-two count now on Pee Wee Reese.
Johnny Jorgensen on deck with Duke Snyder to follow.
Reynolds getting a sign from Yogi Berra, taking a little time, and Reese steps out.
A little overcast at the moment, Sun's playing hide and seek, a little muggy.
Now Reynolds is ready, here's the one-two pitch to Reese, and it is swung on.
A ground ball hit to Henrik, he's up with it, out runs, Reese to the bag, and there's one away.
Pee Wee Reese grounding out, Henrik unassisted, and with one down, up comes Spider Jorgensen,
a left-hand hitter, batted 269 on the regular season, and I believe, Red,
had Billy Cox not been injured, he probably would have been the starting third baseman for the Dodgers, would he?
He's been hurt, of course, since Labor Day.
So Spider Jorgensen is in there, he's had previous World Series experience.
Outfield, playing him to pull, toward right field, here's the pitch, strike one, it's called,
a fast ball in there around the knees, on deck is Duke Snyder, top half of the first inning, one out, nobody on.
Bill Rosuto is about one stride to the left of second base in a step, Johnson at third is in very close,
about five feet off the bag.
Now Reynolds delivery on its way, Jorgensen swings and lifts the drive to left center field,
Lindell racing over into the gap, going back and it's over his head and moving by,
The man just backing up and Jorgensen's racing his second, going to try for three,
and then he holds up quickly as the free-lay comes into Rosuto, it's a double for Jorgensen in the left center.
Johnny Jorgensen's drive in the left center was overcharged by Johnny Lindell,
and then as he attempted to retrace his steps and backpedal, it was a little bit too late,
and Joe DiMaggio backed up, kept the ball from going further, and it's a double for Spiner Jorgensen.
That brings to the plate, Duke Snyder, long ball hitter for the Dodgers,
Duke batting at 292 with 89 RBIs on the season, and 23 home runs.
That's a two-base hit for Johnny Jorgensen.
Reynolds looks in the getty side, outfield, playing him to pull toward right, here's the pitch.
Curve is low inside, ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
Billy Johnson about six, eight feet off third baseline, a step away from the edge of the infield grass,
Rosuto over near second to hold Jorgensen close.
Jerry Coleman, the second baseman, back on the edge of the outfield grass,
and at a point almost halfway between first and second with Henrik Diep on top of the first baseline.
One out, one on, top of the first inning.
Reynolds has a stretch, the pitch.
Snyder takes inside the curve, ball two, two balls, no strikes.
And you've got Jackie Robinson in the batter's circle.
A 2-0 count.
Milton Stock coaching at third for Brooklyn, Jake Fittler at first.
Barragh gives Reynolds a sign, the right-hander with a stretch, checks his runner.
Here's the pitch.
Snyder takes strike call over the outside corner, knee high.
The 2-1 count.
Two balls, one strike, one out.
And the fans beginning to warm to this first World Series game.
They're still tingling over the sensational finishes in the two major leagues.
Reynolds takes a little too much time for Snyder, and he steps out of the batter's box.
Duke moves back into hitting position.
Dodgers have something boiling in the top of the first inning.
Two balls, one strike, count on Snyder, the stretch by Reynolds, Jorgensen off second.
In comes the pitch, outside, ball three, the curve, slow curve, didn't break over.
Three and one now to count.
Big Cal Hubbard calling balls and strikes, beams ridden, umpiring at first.
Art Passerelle at second.
Lou Jordan at third.
Hurley down the right fielder, bar down the left fielder.
The 3-1 pitch.
Swung on him, missed strike two, he cut hard.
Man, he leveled.
The right field stands here at Yankee Stadium are most inviting.
296 feet down the right fielder into the corner with a barrier sloping off.
It's a barrier I'd say approximately three and a half, four feet high.
And at a point about 50 yards off the line, it's only 344 feet.
So he got a full count now on Snyder.
Three balls, two strikes, one out, Jorgensen on second.
Reynolds takes the stretch.
The Spiner has the lead.
Here's the pitch.
Snyder swings and he misses, cut three and he's out of there.
Alley came in with a fastball.
Got it in comparatively close to Duke.
There's a case there I believe Red have either gone all the way or not at all.
He really cut on that one.
And now here's Jackie Robinson.
Jackie won the National League Batting Championship, spark plug of the Dodger team, right hand
hitter.
Wound up the season hitting a.342 as did the American League Batting Champion.
George Kell with Ted Williams also a.342 average, but Kell had just a bit of an edge
on him when you carried it out to five figures.
Now the pitch.
Strike called sidearm fastball in there above the knees.
One strike to count on Robinson.
The outfield is shading him toward left and centered left.
Cliff makes not too far over in the right center, but then quite a lot of room down
The right field sector between him and the right field line.
Johnson in halfway guarding third base line.
Reynolds delivers.
Robinson takes outside and low for a ball and the count is evened up at one and one.
Phil Rizzuto is about three striers to the left of short.
There's a good shot between Johnson and Rizzuto with Jerry Coleman the second baseman, two
striers to the right of the bag and trying to hold Jorgensen as close as possible.
Tommy Henrik about eight feet off the first base line and deep.
Robinson out of the bat is boxed just for a moment.
Gene Hermanski is on deck.
Jorgensen on second, two down.
Count of one and one on Jackie.
Reynolds ready with a stretch.
A look back.
Here's the pitch.
Slow curve, swung on, drilled out the right field.
There's Mates digging over and back and he's got it for the out and the inning is over.
Robinson lines out to Mates on right.
No runs, one hit, no errors and one man left on base.
And the score at the end of the first half of the first inning, nothing and nothing.
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Last half of the first inning, Big Don Newcomb, sensational right-hander for the Dodgers on
The hill who won 17 games for Brooklyn after starting late in the year, being recalled
from Montreal.
And leading off for the Yankees is their candidate, one of their candidates for the most valuable
player award in the American League this year, Phil Rizzuto.
One of the few Yankees who did not come under the injury jinx.
To any extent, he was out of two games.
And actually, the one man on the entire ball club, they could have done least without.
They could at least have done without.
So Don Newcomb, the right-hander's first pitch to little Phil, is inside for ball one.
Rizzuto is in his fourth World Series.
He played in 1941, 42, and 47 with the 277 World Series batting average.
Newcomb delivers, and the pitch is in there for a call strike.
Fastball came in there just below the shoulders.
Oddly enough, Phil's batting average for the 1949 season's 277.
Tommy Henryk on deck.
Jorgensen's in close at third. Phil's a good runner.
Reached deep and short, about four strides, a five to the left of the bag, over toward the third base hole.
Here's your pitch. It's bunted but up in the air.
There's Gil Hodges digging over, foul territory makes the catch for the out.
So Phil attempted to come up with his specialty, a bunt, only on this occasion,
instead of dumping it down the third baseline, he tried to shove it by the mound.
That was his intention, with Robinson deep at second.
But instead he popped it into the air in foul territory, back of first, and Gil Hodges pranced over and grabbed it easily.
So there's one out, and up comes Tommy Henryk.
Tommy hitting a 287 on the season.
Played in the 38, 41, and 47 World Series. Left hand hitter, the outfielder around toward right.
Don Newcomb into the wind, up around comes the right arm, the pitch is fastball outside, ball one.
Hermanski on left, Snyder in center, Ferullo on right.
Jorgensen third, Reese short, Robinson second, Hodges first, Campanella catching.
Newcomb pitching.
Now the 1-0 delivery on its way, and Tommy Henryk takes outside for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Frank Corsetti is coaching at third base for New York, and Bill Dickey at first.
Gene Hermanski is way over in the left center, and Tommy Henryk is adept at placing balls in the left field.
But of course they may figure that Newcomb is too fast for Tommy to do that on.
In comes the pitch, Henryk swings and smacks it right out to short, Reese grabs it,
blows on over to Hodges in time, and they're two away.
It was a hard ground ball, a couple of swift hops to Peewee, took one step to his left, up with it easily, over to Hodges, two down.
Now the batter is Yogi Berra.
Berra, left-hand hitter, played in the 1947 World Series, had a 1.58 batting average, had one home run.
That was a pinch hit homer at Ebbets Field.
In close to the plate, he stands deep in the batter's box, throws that bat down to the end of the handle.
Don Newcomb throws, fastball golf foul on the ground down the first base line, strike one.
No score, last half of the first inning.
Two teams that came in a hurry to finish with sensational finishing drives,
and today they're sort of feeling one another out in the early moments and getting the feel of the World Series.
Now the one strike pitch on its way to Berra.
It takes a change up its outside for ball one, one and one.
Joe DiMaggio is on deck in the batter's circle, swinging a couple of bats around.
Two men out, nobody on. No score, last half of the first inning.
Don Newcomb's one-one pitch on its way. Swung on to high pop-up, out back of short, Reese dips on the grass and short left a couple of steps under the ball,
makes the catch and the inning is over.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on, and the score at the end of the first inning of the 1949 World Series is nothing and nothing.
Red, I believe in 1947, the first game or two of the World Series started out comparatively slow,
and then it really began to pick up in tempo, didn't it?
Yes, it did, Mel. Once it got going, it just took everything with it.
Almost took us with it, too.
The first inning showed the dominance of the pitches, but for the fact that Lindell came in when he should have been going back on Jorgensen's double,
it could have been played as to an easy fly ball, would have had three up and three down.
So I see Reynolds is out there getting all set. You'll hear you, Mel.
And coming up for the Brooklyn Dodgers will be Gene Hermanski, Carl Ferrellow, and Gil Hodges.
Gene, the left-hand hitter, hailing from over Jersey Way, a boy that resembles an appearance that is facially the late Lou Gehry.
He's built somewhat along Lou's lines, Lou's a little stockier, I think, overall.
Gene hits the long ball. On the season, Hermanski had a batting average with the Dodgers of 299.
He appeared in 87 games as Bert Schotten alternated his outfielders to get the most out of them at the proper time.
So Gene steps in, Allie Reynolds from Oklahoma City, all set to go.
You've got Lindell on left, DiMaggio in center, Mapeson right, Johnson third to Zudow short, Coleman second, Henrik first, Barry catching, and Reynolds pitching.
John Stock coaching at third, Jake Cutler at first for Brooklyn. Top of the second inning, no score, Reynolds into the windup, in comes the pitch,
Hermanski takes just outside for a ball, one ball, no strikes.
Big gap in the outfields and left center, Lindell looking for Hermanski to slice.
DiMaggio's not too far off a straightaway center line, but a step or so toward right center.
Now the pitch, Hermanski takes strike call fastball, pump through there above the knees, and the count now is evened up at one and one.
Generally speaking, in a World Series, it being the best four out of seven, they call it a short series, pitching is the big key.
Now the one-one delivery, high and outside, ball two, two and one.
Reynolds indicated a curve, but came in with a fastball, it was high and outside.
Two balls, one strike on Hermanski, Gene with a slightly open stance, bend slightly at the knees, deep in the batter's box, fairly close to the plate,
pitch swung on, Luke Fowle back to third, going to go out of play, and the ball goes into the upper deck along the left field line.
So you've got a 2-2 count on Hermanski.
Six umpires, we like to mention their names as frequently as possible because sometimes they are the forgotten men and they do a tremendous job.
Cal Hubbard at the plate, and the American League, Beans Riddle of the National League at first, Art Pastorello of the American League at second,
Lou Jordan of the National League at third. Now the 2-2 pitch on its way, Hermanski takes inside, almost went for a sweeping curve that broke in on him,
and it's a full count on Hermanski. George Bauer of the National League is umpiring down the left field line, and Ed Hurley of the American League down the right field line.
It would be their job to watch balls that are hit into the stands and close to the foul poles.
Now the payoff pitch to Hermanski is low, ball four, and he's on.
So the Dodgers get the lead man on in the top of the second inning, a base on balls, first given up by Reynolds to Gene Hermanski.
And here's Carl Ferrello, who in the late stages of the Dodgers pennant fight was hitting that ball at a murderous clip.
Carl wound up the season hitting at 322, and Red I imagine he was hitting pretty close to 450 down the stretch, wasn't he?
The last two months of the season. Carl Batson right-handed, playing his ball game with a groin injury, well taped up, right hand here to the stretch,
a look over it first, here's the pitch, and it's low outside, almost into the dirt.
Yogi had to go to his knees and to his right to keep that from skipping by. One ball, no strikes.
Been a lot of talk, of course, about the possibility of the Dodgers running on Barra, as they did in 1947.
Bill Johnson's in close at third in the event of the bunt near the line.
Rizzuto in halfway at short, two strides or three to the left of the bag.
Here's your pitch, and it's low, ball two.
Now Jerry Coleman trots in from second base, calls time to talk to Reynolds.
Alley missing that plate now and getting himself in a little trouble.
He worked hard on Hermanski and finally lost him.
Now he's got a 2-0 count on Perillo, and you've got Gil Hodges on deck.
Coleman is shading second, just a little bit more than first.
Henrik holding it first against Hermanski, the stretch by Reynolds, the 2-0 pitch, strike called.
Fast ball over there, just above the knees, it's a 2-1 count.
The outfield for Perillo is toward right and center and right,
with Lindell looking for Carl to hit the left but not to pull too sharply.
All the room in the world in left center and just off the straightaway center line.
Two balls, one strike, nobody out. Gene Hermanski on first base.
Now Henrik's not holding against him, it's just in behind him a step.
The stretch by Reynolds, here's your pitch, and it's low, ball three.
3-1 count on Perillo.
Always the bugaboo of any manager is the base on balls.
3-1 count on Perillo.
Reynolds checks with Barra, getting his sign.
Now he's ready.
Hermanski with the lead, the stretch, there he goes, the pitch swung on, hit foul down the right field line into the lower stands, strike two.
So Hermanski has to come back to first.
He stops Ira to exchange her word of two with Phil Rizzuto, their neighbors around Newark, around the Newark area.
Baseball players are wonderful people, they battle one another tooth and nail, but in an idle moment of game they'll swap small talk.
All right, you've got a full count on Perillo, three and two.
Nobody out, top of the second inning, no scores yet.
Carl digs in, backcocked up off his right shoulder, in close to the plate, slightly open stance, the stretch.
There goes Hermanski, the pitch is taken high outside, ball four.
He slowed up on Perillo, but didn't get the ball over.
Walks to Hermanski and Perillo, they've got the Dodgers in business in the top of the second inning, nobody out, and Billy Johnson goes over to talk to Reynolds, and there's a signal for action in the Yankee bullpen.
Gil Hodges, right-hand hitter, steps in.
Hits 286 on the year, including 23 home runs and drove in 114 runs for the Dodgers.
Reynolds ready, the runner's on first and second, the Yankees looking for the bunt, the pitch is inside for the ball.
Yogi Barrett claims that the ball hit the bat of Hodges, but Cal Hubbard says no, it's a ball.
Fred Sanford is starting to throw in the Yankee bullpen.
Gil Hodges squared away to bunt, that pitch was way in on him, he had to jump to get away from it.
Henrik's in close at first, Johnson in close at third, Johnson will try to anchor at third if he can, but if the ball is pushed that way, he'll have to leave the bag.
Hermanski moves off second, Perillo off first, the stretch by Reynolds.
Here comes Henrik, the pitch is bunnied and it's fouled off to the right of the plate.
It's a beautiful bunt, but it's squirted foul, spun foul off to the right, and it's a 1-1 count.
Tommy Henrik is charging the plate, Billy Johnson is trying to anchor, Reynolds attempting to protect the third baseline.
And Barrett, of course, moving with the ball, with Coleman breaking toward first and Rizzuto second.
One ball, one strike, you've got Roy Campanella on deck, and Newcomb to follow him, and incidentally Newcomb is a pretty good hitter for a pitcher,
so that you can anticipate the possibilities.
Top of the second inning, no scores yet, Hermanski off second, Perillo off first, here's the pitch, Hodges, bunt sanded is fouled off to the right for strike two, 1-2.
Now Gil Hodges will have to be swinging away unless Bert Schotton would order a third strike bunt, which isn't likely if you allow us to speculate for a moment, although it does happen.
It could happen now.
One ball, two strikes, Billy Johnson backs up at third, near the line, Rizzuto off to the left of second base about five strides in a couple of steps.
Jerry Coleman two strides to the right of second.
Reynolds ready, here's the pitch, and Hodges swings and hits one back to Reynolds, Reynolds fires to Coleman for one, Coleman back to Henrik, a double play.
And the third on the play went Gene Hermanski.
Gil Hodges hit to the box, Reynolds grabbed it through to Coleman, high, Coleman leap, grabbed it, came down on the bag and fired to Henrik to double up Hodges after they had gotten Perillo at second and Hermanski went to third on the play.
The batter now is Roy Campanella, Casey Stengel was just out the mound to talk to Allie Reynolds.
Roy Campanella hitting a 287, right hand hitter, squares away, the outfield plays him almost straight away, slightly toward left, here's the pitch, inside, around the letters, ball one, one ball, no strikes.
No scores yet, top of the second inning.
Allie checks with Barra, Hermanski on third.
Reynolds delivers, Campanella swings and hits a fly ball out into right field, Cliff Maipes is gathering himself under it, and he makes the catch for the out.
No runs, no hits, no errors, and one man left on.
Well, as Cliff Maipes gathered that ball in to end the inning, it reminds me that one of baseball's greatest outfielders is Dom DiMaggio of the Boston Red Sox, and he's parked at my elbow right at the moment.
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Dom, while you and I were chatting, a friend of yours just walked up to home plate and got a hand.
Yes, I see him down there.
Who is he?
Big Joe, the jolder.
He's a pretty good outfielder himself, isn't he, Dom?
Yes, he is, Mel, one of the best of all time.
Thanks a lot, Dom DiMaggio, and congratulations on a wonderful season.
And now as we come into the last half of the second inning here at the Yankee Stadium, no score.
Joe DiMaggio leads off, right hand hitter, hit.346 on the season in 76 games in which he appeared after missing the first 65 because of his now celebrated injured heel.
Don Ucombe starts to work, the big right-hander, round comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it's outside, ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
DiMaggio has been in seven World Series, this is his eighth, and he has a lifetime World Series batting average of 290, 21 RBI's.
Ucombe throws, DiMaggio takes right in there for a call strike.
Ucombe, a great big fella, sort of untangles himself, and he goes into that windup, and he fires away.
A one-on-one count on Joe, Spidey Jorgensen deep at third near the line, reached very deep, not too far over into the gap.
Here's the pitch, swung on, drill foul down the right field line, out of play, the ball hitting the upper deck and bouncing downstairs, and it's a one-two count on Joe.
Johnny Lindell is on deck with Billy Johnson to follow.
Nothing and nothing, last half of the second.
Gene Hermanski has just put on his sunglasses, the sun begins to peep out again here at Yankee Stadium.
The wind is blowing in a mild fashion at the moment toward the left a bit, and also toward right just a bit.
It's a variable wind, but not too strong right now.
Here's your pitch, and DiMaggio swings and misses, strike three, try to hold up, it couldn't.
It was a high inside fastball that DiMaggio started to go for, he tried to hold up, but he went around.
Big Cal Hubbard went up with the right hand, and it's strike three.
Here's Johnny Lindell, who with one mighty swipe of his bat on Saturday, enabled the Yankees to stay alive in the American League pennant race,
since it tied the Yankees with the Red Sox, broke a 4-4 tie in that particular ball game,
and made it possible for the Yankees to go into Sunday with a chance to win the pennant, which they did.
Don Ucom goes to work on the right hand hitter, and the pitch is right in there for a call strike, right over the inside corner, belt high.
Ucom looks sharp.
I feel playing Lindell to pull.
Carl Frillo is looking for John to hit over toward the right center a bit.
Frillo's over in front of the Yankee bullpen.
Now the delivery. Change up his swing arm, lined out to left field for a base hit.
The ball is taken by Hermanski on two or three hops, clips his leg in to second, cut off by Reese, and Lindell is on with a single to left field.
He changed up on Lindell, and Johnny immediately spiked the line in the left for the single, and the first Yankee hit of the game.
Now Billy Johnson steps in.
Lindell had been in two previous series, 43 and 47.
Billy Johnson also in the 43 and 47 World Series.
Johnson right hand batter.
Billy hit 251 on the season.
Below his par, the delivery, right in there for a call strike.
Outfield well spread out for Johnson.
He can pull, he'll slice, and he can hit a long ball.
Jorgensen halfway back at third, a couple feet off the line. Reese in a couple steps, it's short.
Five strides to the left of second. Here's the pitch.
Swung on, a ground ball hit foul down the third baseline. Frank Corsetti coaching third grand set.
And the two strike count on Billy.
Cliff Mapes is on deck.
Crowd sitting back rather quiet.
Waiting for the big explosion that generally will take place in a tight ball game.
And of course they're ready to yell at the first opportunity either of these teams gives them.
A two strike count on Billy.
Lindell moves off first, one away. Here's your pitch.
Swung on in this, strike three.
Went down, swing on the fastball.
That Newcomb's got a quick one. He's really alive with it, isn't he Red?
Well, Mel, he struck out 149 and only came up after the season was a month old. You can figure that for yourself.
Here's Cliff Mapes stepping in.
Who on the season hit 243.
Played great defensive ball for the Yankees. Got a tremendous arm.
They play him to pull sharply in center and right.
And now Berkshot is moving Gene Hermansky way over to left center.
Newcomb's delivery, he's swung on and foul back. Strike one.
Mapes is another of the Yankee left hand hitters who on occasion will line that ball down the left field line.
And they're giving him plenty of that sector at the moment.
Great deal, Ira, depends on the way a man is pitched as to where he's going to hit the ball.
And the boys in the field generally know everything being equal where he might hit it in the general direction if he hits the pitch.
Newcomb throws. Mapes takes inside around the knees. Ball one, one and one.
Peabody's deep and short over towards second. About two strides to the left of second base.
Spidey Jorgensen halfway back, ten feet off third baseline.
Gil Hodges just in behind Lindell with two down.
And Jackie Robinson at a point about halfway between first and second bases.
No scores yet, two away. Here's your delivery. Swung on and missed. Strike two.
Newcomb just overpowering Mapes as he did DiMaggio and Johnson.
And as a matter of fact, he might have done the same to Lindell. He's slowed up on John.
And John opportunity to capitalize on the change of pace from that line drive to left.
A one-two count on Mapes. Two down, no score. Last half of the second inning.
Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium. It's the World Series.
Newcomb throws. Mapes swings and misses. Strike three and he strikes out the side.
He blazes in there. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.
And a hand for Newcomb as he leaves the mound.
Check that. One man left on base. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left on.
Three strikeouts for Newcomb, all in the top half of the second inning.
Let me double-checking your totals. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on.
And thus the score at the end of two innings, nothing and nothing.
The Dodgers, no runs, one hit, no errors, two left on.
The Yankees, no runs, one hit, no errors, and one man left on.
Now before we move into the top half of the third inning as the Dodgers come to bat,
we pause for station identification. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
WOR and WOR-FM, your World Series stations in New York.
This is Mel Allen with Red Barber bringing you the 1949 World Series from Yankee Stadium,
another in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports broadcast.
The year-round they bring you the outstanding bowl games, fights, the World Series, the All-Star game,
and we hope that you're going to enjoy to the hilt the 1949 Fall Classic.
And now as we go to the top of the third inning, Don Newcomb steps in a hitting position.
He's a left-hand hitter and a good hitter for a pitcher.
We watched him hit one in that All-Star game.
Ted Williams made a sensational catch on a Robbie from an extra-base hit.
Reynolds throws in there for a called strike.
Outfield playing Newcomb to, well, they're playing him almost straight away.
DiMaggio straight away in center.
Lindell not too close to the left field line, and Napes not too close to the right field line.
The left field and right field are in toward DiMaggio straight away.
The pitch is swung on. A boundary hit out toward short.
Rizzuto charges it up with it, throws over to Henrik in time, and there's one away.
Newcomb grounds out. Rizzuto to Henrik.
One away for the Dodgers in the top of the third inning.
And now we go to the top of the order again for the brilliant shortstop and captain of the Dodgers, Peewee Reeves.
A nickname that, in a sense, is a misnomer, isn't it, Red? Because Reeves certainly is no Peewee.
Now, he got the name when he was a Marlboro shooting champion back at Louisville playing Peewees.
I used to shoot Marlboro.
Went very good. I never won a championship, Ed.
Reeves grounded out to Henrik in the first inning. Right-hand hitter.
Reynolds throws. Fastball in there for a call strike.
Nothing and nothing.
Top half of the third. One out. Nobody on.
Bill Johnson in close at third in the event. Reeves drops a bunt down, which Peewee can do on occasion.
Quick getting away from that plate.
Reynolds sidearms him. Pitch is bunted right down toward third. Johnson charges up with it.
Fires over to Henrik and it's in time for the out.
I don't think Peewee was reading our minds, but he did drop one down there beautifully.
And Reynolds came very close to messing up the play. Johnson finally hollered him off.
Reynolds was moving away from the play at first toward the third baseline while Johnson was moving in.
And Billy with that rifle arm fired Peewee out.
Here's Spider Jorgensen swing. Sends a grass cutter out to second.
Coleman scoops it up, throws over to Henrik and the inning is over.
So the third baseman, second baseman shortstop each had an opportunity that inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left on.
And the score at the end of two and a half innings remains the Dodgers nothing, the Yankees nothing.
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Gillette blue blades are tops for shaving yeas and the economy as well.
That's because they have the cleanest, most beautifully finished edges ever produced.
Those edges also are hard nut cut glass. So they shave and shave and shave.
They never break down prematurely like ordinary blades that scrape and pull.
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You see it zips the blades out on rep ready for use, saving you time, fuss and bother.
Ask for Gillette blue blades and the modern Gillette dispenser.
They come factory sharp and stay that way until used.
You get 20 blades, 40 shaving edges for 98 cents, 10 blades for 49 cents.
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Last half of the third inning at Yankee Stadium, no score.
Jerry Coleman, the number eight hitter in the Yankee batting order,
who will lead off and will come Allie Reynolds and the top of the order, Bill Rizzuto.
Coleman, a right hand hitter, playing in his first World Series.
A Yankee rookie this year who played sensational second base defensively and pretty good clutch hitter.
It was his hit in the eighth inning, but the bases loaded that iced the pennant for the Yankees against the Red Sox on Sunday.
Newcomb throws, the pitcher swung on foul off to the right of the plate,
into the upper deck and a World Series souvenir for someone who also will wind up with a swollen hand for a couple of days.
One strike to count.
I could hear that ball hit that meat hand, couldn't you, Rizz?
One strike to count on Jerry Coleman.
Jerry hit 275 on the season.
San Francisco boy, the pitch curve ball is just outside ball one, one and one.
Coleman acts exactly as his mannerisms are almost a faithful reproduction of Frank Crissetti's.
And yet, the one did not know the other.
At a time in the formative stage when you develop those little mannerisms, you do have playing ball.
The one and one delivery, swung on hit foul down the first base line, a liner, strike two.
One and two to count, the ball skipped up into the stands, into the boxes, and the usual scramble for a World Series souvenir.
Another thing, Crissetti and Coleman both come from San Francisco, and for a long while even Jerry's own teammates thought that he patterned himself deliberately after Crissetti.
The way he'd move his shoulders, the way he handled the ball, the way he got it away in a hurry.
It turned out it was strictly coincidental.
One and two to count on Coleman, last to third inning, nothing and nothing.
Big Don Newcomb starts to work.
Around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it's over that outside corner for call, strike three.
Man, I mean he cut loose a fast ball. It looked like an aspirin tablet coming up there.
And that is the fourth strikeout for Newcomb, and four out of the last five batters.
Up comes Ali Reynolds.
Reynolds hitting a 221.
If Newcomb continues at this pace, we're going to those World Series record books, Red.
Newcomb's first pitch to the right hand batter. Reynolds swings and fouls it off behind the plate, strike one.
Newcomb must be pretty quick because they're not looking for Reynolds to pull him.
The outfield is shading toward right on Reynolds.
Ali can swing the bat pretty well for Fitcher.
Jorgensen's hanging around in close at third near the line, reese over towards second.
Here's Newcomb's delivery. Reynolds swings and sends a fly ball down the left field line, and he did pull him,
and Hermanski can't get it, and the ball is by him, and Reynolds is going to go for two.
Sometimes they'll throw a beautiful throw, but Reynolds goes in standing up for the double.
The ball gets by Robinson, but Gil Hodges is backing up.
Ali Reynolds caught him over-shifting for him, as they didn't figure Ali could pull Don, but he did.
It was an ordinary fly ball that Hermanski could have put in his hip pocket had he been playing Reynolds to pull,
but he was way over in the left center and couldn't catch up to it.
So that's the Yankees' second hit of the ball game.
Three in the game. The Dodgers have had one, and up is Phil Rizzuto, who fouled out in the first inning to Campanella.
The pitch is swung on, fouled back to the screen, strike one.
Last half of the third inning. One out, and Reynolds on second base.
Outfield for Phil. Almost right away, Sniders has to step over into left center.
Spider Jorgensen hanging around in close at third. Now he backs up a step. Not too deep.
Don Ucomm stretches, pitches. Phil takes just off the outside corner, and the count is evened up at one and one.
And so the crowd now has begun to warm a little bit to the situation, with the runner in scoring position.
One ball, one strike, one out. Most score. Last of the third inning.
Ucomm has his sign from Campanella. He's ready to work. Here's his pitch.
And it is swung on. A little pop-up hit back to first. There's Robinson going out on the grass in short right.
Makes the catch, and Reynolds holds at second base.
Rizzuto lifts a pop-up back to first, which Jackie Robinson needs over to guess.
And now Tommy Henrik is coming to bat with two down.
Tommy was tossed out by Peewee Reese in the first inning.
Yogi Berra moving up into the batter's circle with his shin guard still on with two down.
He will not bat in this inning unless Henrik keeps the Yankee hopes alive.
It's a nothing-nothing ball game. Last of the third.
The Dodgers have had a runner as far as third. Hermanski in the second inning.
Reynolds is the furthest a Yankee has been. On second base.
Lindell single, but didn't get any further than that in the second inning.
Ucomm with the stretch. Reynolds with a short lead. Here's your pitch. Henrik takes inside for the ball.
Roy Campanella, very agile back of that plate, moves his feet around beautifully.
As soon as he catches that ball, he's got that arm cocked and ready to fire.
In the event a throw is necessary to any base.
Nobody is darting around trying to hold Reynolds close because he hasn't had too big a lead.
Two down. Stretch by Ucomm. Here's your pitch. Henrik swings and pops it up into the air.
Short third. Jorgensen getting out of the ball.
And then Reese takes him off and says he's got it and does, makes the catch for the out.
No runs for the Yankees. One hit. No errors for Brooklyn.
And one man left on for New York.
I might add that at this time of year at Yankee Stadium when the sun is out brightly,
particularly a little bit later on the ball game, the sun field, which is left field, is a murderous one.
And also those who might be playing in center, if they're not accustomed to the situation here at Yankee Stadium,
might find it difficult as Pete Reesor did in 1947.
The sun is in behind home plate and it's a triple deck stadium.
So a ball comes up out of home plate as it gets as high as the stadium, which is pretty high,
and it has the stadium as a background.
Then suddenly as it gets higher than the stadium, it's right into that sun and in a hurry.
And so frequently it can give the outfielders trouble, even those who play against it all season long.
Now at the end of three innings, the score, nothing and nothing.
The Dodgers, no runs. One hit. No errors. Two left on.
The Yankees, no runs. Two hits. No errors. And two men left on base.
Don, while you and I were chatting, a friend of yours just walked up the home plate and got a hand.
Yes, I see him down there. Who is he? Big Joe, the joker.
He's a pretty good outfielder himself, isn't he, Don?
Yes, he is, Mel. One of the best of all time.
Thanks a lot, Don DeMaggio, and congratulations on a wonderful season.
And now as we come into the last half of the second inning here at the Yankee Stadium, no score.
Joe DeMaggio leads off. Right-hand hitter.
Hit.346 on the season and 76 games in which he appeared after missing the first 65
because of his now celebrated injured heel.
Don Ucom starts to work, the big right-hander.
Around comes the right arm. In comes the pitch, and it's outside. Ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
DeMaggio has been in seven World Series. This is his eighth.
And he has a lifetime World Series batting average of 290, 21 RBIs.
Ucom throws. DeMaggio takes right in there for a call strike.
Ucom, a great big fella, sort of untangles himself, and he goes into that windup and he fires away.
A one-on-one count on Joe. Spotted Jorgensen deep at third near the line.
Reached very deep, not too far over into the gap. Here's the pitch.
Swung on, drill foul down the right fielder line, out of play.
The ball hitting the upper deck and bouncing downstairs, and it's a one-two count on Joe.
Johnny Lindell is on deck with Billy Johnson to follow.
Nothing and nothing. Last half of the second.
Gene Hermanski has just put on his sunglasses.
The sun begins to peep out again here at Yankee Stadium.
The wind is blowing in a mild fashion at the moment toward the left a bit and also toward right just a bit.
The variable wind, but not too strong right now.
Here's your pitch. And DeMaggio swings and misses. Strike three. He tried to hold up, but couldn't.
It was a high inside fastball that DeMaggio started to go for.
He tried to hold up, but he went around.
Big Cal Hubbard went up for the right hand and it's strike three.
Here's Johnny Lindell, who with one mighty swipe of his bat on Saturday,
enabled the Yankees to stay alive in the American League pennant race since it tied the Yankees with the Red Sox,
broke a 4-4 tie in that particular ball game, and made it possible for the Yankees to go into Sunday
with a chance to win the pennant, which they did.
Don Newcomb goes to work on the right hand hitter.
And the pitch is right in there for a call strike right over the inside corner, belt high.
Newcomb looks sharp.
I feel playing Lindell to pull.
Carl Frillo is looking for John to hit over toward the right center a bit.
Frillo's over in front of the Yankee bullpen.
Now the delivery. Change up his swing arm, lined out the left field for a base hit.
The ball is taken by Hermanski on two or three hops, clips his leg into second, cut off by Reese,
and Lindell is on with a single to left field.
He changed up on Lindell, and Johnny immediately spiked the liner in the left for the single.
And the first Yankee hit of the game.
Now Billy Johnson steps in.
Lindell had been in two previous series, 43 and 47.
Billy Johnson also in the 43 and 47 World Series.
Johnson the right hand batter.
Billy hits.251 on the season.
Below his par, the delivery, right in there for a call strike.
Outfield well spread out for Johnson.
He can pull, he can slice, and he can hit a long ball.
Jorgensen halfway back at third, a couple feet off the line.
Reese in a couple steps at short, five strides to the left of second.
Here's the pitch. Swung on, a ground ball hit foul down the third baseline.
Frank Crisetti coaching third grand set.
And the two strike count on Billy.
Cliff Mapes is on deck.
Crowd sitting back rather quiet.
Waiting for the big explosion that generally will take place in a tight ball game.
And of course they're ready to yell at the first opportunity either of these teams gives them.
A two strike count on Billy.
Lindell moves off first, one away.
Here's your pitch. Swung on and missed. Strike three.
Went down, swing on the fastball.
That Newcombe's got a quick one. He's really alive with it, isn't he Red?
Well, Mel, he struck out 149 and only came up after the season was a month old. You figure that for yourself.
Here's Cliff Mapes stepping in, who on the season hit 243.
Played great defensive ball for the Yankees. Got a tremendous arm.
They play him to pull sharply in center and right.
And now Berkshot is moving Gene Hermansky way over to left center.
Newcombe's delivery, swung on and foul back. Strike one.
Mapes is another of the Yankee left hand hitters who on occasion will line that ball down the left field line.
And they're giving him plenty of that sector at the moment.
Great deal, Howard, depends on the way a man is pitched as to where he's going to hit the ball.
And the boys in the field generally know everything being equal where he might hit it in the general direction if he hits the pitch.
Newcombe throws. Mapes takes inside around the knees. Ball one, one and one.
Peabody's deep at short, over towards second. He's about two strides to the left of second base.
By the Jorgensen, halfway back, ten feet off third baseline.
Gil Hodges just in behind Lindell with two down.
And Jackie Robinson at a point about halfway between first and second bases.
No scores yet, two away. Here's your delivery. Swung on and missed. Strike two.
Newcombe just overpowering, mates, as he did DiMaggio and Johnson.
And as a matter of fact, he might have done the same to Lindell.
He's slowed up on John. And John Tundey did capitalize on the change of pace with that line drive to left.
A one-two count on mates. Two down, no score. Last half of the second inning.
Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium. It's the World Series.
Newcombe throws. Mates swings and misses. Strike three and he strikes out the side.
He blazes in there. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.
And a hand for Newcombe as he leaves the mound.
Check that. One man left on base. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left on.
Three strikeouts for Newcombe, all in the top half of the second inning.
Let me double-checking your totals. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on.
And thus the score at the end of two innings, nothing and nothing.
The Dodgers, no runs, one hit, no errors, two left on.
The Yankees, no runs, one hit, no errors, and one man left on.
Now before we move into the top half of the third inning as the Dodgers come to bat, we pause for station identification.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.
This is Mel Allen with Red Barber, bringing you the 1949 World Series from Yankee Stadium,
another in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports broadcast.
The year-round, they bring you the outstanding bowl games, fights, the World Series, the All-Star game,
and we hope that you're going to enjoy to the hilt the 1949 ball classic.
And now as we go to the top of the third inning, Don Newcombe steps in a hitting position.
He's a left-hand hitter and a good hitter for a pitcher.
We watched him hit one on that All-Star game, but Ted Williams made a sensational catch on the Robbie from an extra-base hit.
Reynolds throws in there for a called strike.
Outfield playing Newcombe to, well, they're playing him almost straight away.
DiMaggio straight away in center.
Lindell not too close to the left fiel line, and Napes not too close to the right fiel line.
The left fiel and right fiel are in toward DiMaggio straight away.
The pitch is swung on. A boundary hit out toward short.
Rizzuto charges it up with it, throws over to Henrik in time, and there's one away.
Newcombe grounds out. Rizzuto to Henrik.
One away for the Dodgers in the top of the third inning.
And now we go to the top of the order again for the brilliant shortstop and captain of the Dodgers, Peewee Reeves.
A nickname that, in a sense, is a misnomer, isn't it, Red? Because Reeves certainly is no Peewee.
Now, he got the name when he was a Marlboro shooting champion back at Louisville playing Peewees.
I used to shoot Marlboro.
Went very good. I never won a championship, Ed.
Reeves grounded out to Henrik in the first inning. Right hand hitter.
Reynolds throws. Fastball in there for a call strike.
Nothing and nothing.
Top half of the third. One out. Nobody on.
Bill Johnson in close at third. In the event, Reeves drops a bunt down, which Peewee can do on occasion.
Quick getting away from that plate.
Reynolds sidearms him. Pitch is bunted right down toward third. Johnson charges up with it.
Fires over to Henrik and it's in time for the out.
I don't think Peewee was reading our minds, but he did drop one down there beautifully.
And Reynolds came very close to messing up the play. Johnson finally hollered him off.
Reynolds was moving away from the play, from the play at first toward the third baseline while Johnson was moving in.
And Billy with that rifle arm fired Peewee out.
Here's Spider Jorgensen swing. Sends a grass cutter out to second.
Coleman scoops it up, throws over to Henrik and the inning is over.
So the third baseman, second baseman shortstop each had an opportunity that inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left on.
And the score at the end of two and a half innings remains the Dodgers nothing, the Yankees nothing.
As Dom DiMaggio, famous outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, told you,
Gillette blue blades are tops for shaving ease and economy as well.
That's because they have the keenest, most beautifully finished edges ever produced.
Those edges also are hard nuts cut glass. So they shave and shave and shave.
Never break down prematurely like ordinary blades that scrape and pull.
Now I know you'll find the modern Gillette dispenser just as handy as Dom DiMaggio does.
You see it zips the blades out unwrapped, ready for use, saving you time, fuss and bother.
Ask for Gillette blue blades and the modern Gillette dispenser.
They come factory sharp and stay that way until used.
You get 20 blades, 40 shaving edges for 98 cents, 10 blades for 49 cents.
Remember, look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp.
Use Gillette blue blades for the sharpest edges ever honed.
Last half of the third inning at Yankee Stadium, no score.
Jerry Coleman, the number eight hitter in the Yankee batting order,
who will lead off and will come Ali Reynolds and the top of the order, Phil Rizzuto.
Coleman, a right hand hitter, playing in his first World Series.
A Yankee rookie this year who played sensational second base defensively and pretty good clutch hitter.
It was his hit and he ate thinning, but the bases loaded that iced the pennant for the Yankees against the Red Sox on Sunday.
Newcomb throws, the pitcher swung on foul off to the right of the plate,
into the upper deck and a World Series souvenir for someone who also will wind up with a swollen hand for a couple of days.
One strike to count.
I could hear that ball hit that meat hand, couldn't you, Ria?
One strike to count on Jerry Coleman.
Jerry hit 275 on the season.
San Francisco boy, the pitch curve ball is just outside, ball one, one and one.
Coleman acts exactly as his mannerisms are almost a faithful reproduction of Frank Crissetti's.
And yet, the one did not know the other.
At a time in the formative stage when you develop those little mannerisms, you do have playing ball.
The one-one delivery, slung on, hit foul down the first base line, a liner, strike two.
One and two to count, the ball skipped up into the stands, into the boxes.
And the usual scramble for a World Series souvenir.
Another thing, Crissetti and Coleman both come from San Francisco,
and for a long while even Jerry's own teammates thought that he'd patterned himself deliberately after Crissetti.
The way he'd move his shoulders, the way he handled the ball, the way he got it away in a hurry.
It turned out it was strictly coincidental.
One and two to count on Coleman.
Last of the third inning, nothing and nothing.
Big Don Newcomb starts to work.
Around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it's over that outside corner for Carl strike three.
Man, I mean he cut loose a fast ball.
It looked like an aspirin tablet coming up there.
And that is the fourth strikeout for Newcomb, and four out of the last five batters.
Up comes Allie Reynolds.
Allie Reynolds sitting at 221.
If Newcomb continues at this pace, we'll be going to those World Series record books read.
Newcomb's first pitch to the right hand batter.
Reynolds swings and piles it off behind the plate.
Strike one.
Newcomb must be pretty quick because they're not looking for Reynolds to pull him.
The outfield is shading toward right on Reynolds.
Allie can swing the bat pretty well for pitcher.
Jorgensen's hanging around in close at third near the line.
Reese over towards second.
Here's Newcomb's delivery.
Reynolds swings and sends a fly ball down the left field line, and he did pull him.
And Hermanski keeps getting it, and the ball is by him, and Reynolds is going to go for two.
Here comes a throw, a beautiful throw, but Reynolds goes in standing up for the double.
The ball gets by Robinson, but Gil Hodges is hanging up.
Allie Reynolds caught him over-shifting for him, as they didn't figure Allie could pull Don.
But he did.
It was an ordinary fly ball that Hermanski could have put in his hip pocket had he been playing Reynolds to pull,
but it was way over in the left center and couldn't catch up to it.
So that's the Yankees' second hit of the ball game.
Three in the game.
The Dodgers have had one, and up is Phil Rizzuto, who fouled out in the first inning to Campanella.
The pitch is swung on, fouled back to the screen, strike one.
Last half of the third inning.
One out, and Reynolds on second base.
Outfield for Phil.
Almost right away, Snyder just a step over into left center.
Spyder Jorgensen hanging around him close at third.
Now he backs up a step, not too deep.
Don Ucomm stretches, pitches.
Phil takes just off the outside corner, and the count is evened up at one and one.
And so the crowd now has begun to warm a little bit to the situation.
With the runner in scoring position.
One ball, one strike, one out.
No score. Last of the third inning.
Ucomm has his sign from Campanella.
He's ready to work.
Here's his pitch, and it is swung on.
A little pop-up hit back off first.
There's Robinson going out on the grass and short right makes the catch,
and Reynolds holds at second base.
The Zudolips say pop-up back to first, which Jackie Robinson needs over to guess.
And now Tommy Henrik is coming to bat with two down.
Tommy was tossed out by Peewee Reese in the first inning.
Yogi Berra moving up into the batter's circle with his shin guard still on with two down.
He will not bat in this inning unless Henrik keeps the Yankee hopes alive.
It's a nothing-nothing ball game.
Last of the third.
The Dodgers have had a runner as far as third.
Hermanski in the second inning.
Reynolds is the furthest the Yankee has been.
He's on second base.
Lindell single, but didn't get any further than that in the second inning.
Ucomm with the stretch.
Reynolds with the short lead.
Here's your pitch.
Takes inside for the ball.
Roy Campanella, very agile back of that plate, moves his feet around beautifully.
As soon as he catches that ball, he's got that arm cocked and ready to fire
in the event a throw is necessary at any base.
Nobody is darting around trying to hold Reynolds close because he hasn't had too big a lead.
Two down.
Stretch by Ucomm.
Here's your pitch.
Henrik swings and pops it up into the air.
Toward third.
Jorgensen getting out of the ball.
And Henry sneaks him off and says he's got it and does, makes the catch for the out.
No runs for the Yankees.
One hit.
No errors for Brooklyn.
And one man left on for New York.
I might add that at this time of year at Yankee Stadium when the sun is out brightly,
particularly a little bit later on the ball game, the sun field, which is left field, is a murderous one.
And also those who might be playing in center, if they're not accustomed to the situation
here at Yankee Stadium, might find it difficult as Pete Reeser did in 1947.
The sun is in behind home plate and it's a triple deck stadium.
So a ball comes up out of home plate as it gets as high as the stadium, which is pretty high,
and it has the stadium as a background.
Then suddenly as it gets higher than the stadium, it's right into that sun and in a hurry.
And so frequently it can give the out feelers trouble, even those who play against it all season long.
Now at the end of three innings, the score, nothing and nothing.
The Dodgers, no runs, one hit.
No errors, two left on.
The Yankees, no runs, two hits.
No errors and two men left on base.
This is Mal Allen with Red Barber, bringing you the 1949 World Series from Yankee Stadium
with the best wishes and compliments of the makers of the Gillette Safety Racer Company.
And we're ready now to move into the top half of the fifth inning of a scoreless ball game.
It's Carl Ferrello leading off for the Dodgers.
Gil Hodges and Roy Campanello to follow.
Allie Reynolds pitching for New York.
Ferrello walked in the second inning.
Right hand batter.
Reynolds into the windup.
In comes the pitch.
Swung on.
A ground ball hit out towards second.
Coleman gets it, goes through his legs and a right field for Nera.
And Ferrello is on.
Carl Ferrello hit a ground ball.
An easy chance that Jerry Coleman allowed to go right through his legs into right field.
Mapes backed up, fired to second.
Ferrello holds it first.
It's the first arrow of the ball game.
And in this type of game, where two teams are battling it out tooth and nail on even
terms, it takes the breaks to determine the ultimate winner.
Perhaps that's it.
Only time will tell.
Meantime, here's Gil Hodges who bounced into a double play in the second inning.
Right hand hitter.
Reynolds pitches.
Hodges swings and misses.
Strike one.
The Sun is playing hide and seek.
And right now, it is hiding.
They play Hodges full in center left.
Mapes looking for him to slash to right.
Johnson in close at third.
Rizzuto moves in halfway at short.
Three strikes to the left of the bag.
Coleman in halfway almost.
Three strikes to the right of the bag.
The pitch is bonnie down toward third.
There's Johnson up with the ball.
Fires to Henrik in time.
Rizzuto races over to cover third as Ferrello had taken his turn and third base was left uncovered.
But when Phil raced over, Ferrello held up.
So Hodges sacrifices.
Ferrello to second is out.
Johnson to Henrik.
And Bert Schotton is playing it very close to the vest.
Evidently feeling that as these two pitches thus far have performed, conceivably, one run could win it.
Roy Campanella, right-hand hitter, steps up.
And on the other hand, Bert might feel, well, here's the break.
I'd like to try and capitalize on it as quickly as I might possibly can.
Campanella applied to right field in the second inning.
Right-hand hitter stockily built.
Fell in close to the plate.
Jack cocked off his right shoulder, the pitch right in there for a call strike.
One out, a runner in scoring position.
Nothing, nothing ball game.
Top of the fifth inning.
Outfield around toward left.
This is a big man for Reynolds.
Campanella bent at the knees, awaits the pitch.
Here it is.
Swung on, grounded foul.
Off to the left of the plate.
An inside pitch that Roy went for, hoping to pull sharply inside the bag, but he pulled it too much and he went foul off of the left of the Dodger dugout,
which is located between third base and home plate.
The Yankee dugout, located, of course, between home plate and first base.
Two strike count on Roy.
Nothing, nothing.
Top half of the fifth inning.
Rennels gets his sign from Barah, has the stretch.
Brello moves off second.
Here's the pitch.
Campanella takes high and inside.
Ball one, one and two.
Clouds are creeping up overhead now.
Ominous looking one.
Bit of a haze over the field.
Just a slight one.
Rennels taking his time.
Campanella, who stands deep in the batter's box, in close to the plate, with his right foot as his left foot, or forward foot, pulled slightly away.
All right, here's your pitch.
Curve is outside.
Ball two, two, two.
You've got Cal Hubbard calling balls and strikes of the American League.
Beans are ridden.
Of the National League umpiring at first base, Art Pastralla of the American League at second, and Lou Jordan of the National League at third, with your foul-line umpires.
Ed Hurley of the American League in right, and George Barlow of the National League in left.
Outfield toward left, four.
Campanella, Johnson deep at third near the line.
Rizzuto over toward second.
Lot of room between third and short.
Here's your pitch.
Campanella takes high.
Ball three, three and two.
Very high.
Full count now.
Three and two.
Jerry Coleman moves in from second base to the edge of the infield grass and hollers to Rennels.
It was Jerry, of course, who got Rennels into this situation by allowing Perillo's routine bounder to go through his legs into right field for the first air of the ball game.
Three balls, two strikes, and now Rennels has either got to come in there with the pitch or put the runner on it first.
Of course, he makes it too good.
Mr. Campanella can blast it somewhere.
Rennels shakes off the sign, then takes a little too much time, and Campanella steps out on him very quickly.
Little pitching tricks.
All of them used to try to get a batter a little bit on edge, a little more on edge than he already is.
Full count.
Three and two.
The stretch.
Perillo moves off second.
In comes the pitch.
Campanella takes high and inside.
He walks, and they're runners on first and second, one out.
And Don Newcomb coming to bat.
An error and a walk.
With a sacrifice in between.
Have put two Dodgers on, first and second, one away.
Newcomb is tossed out by Rizzuto in the third inning.
If those of you like to figure baseball close, configure that Campanella's walk was, of course, the direct result of the error made by Coleman.
And the sacrifice that moved Perillo, who was safe on the air, to second because he had to work very carefully on Campanella
for fear that he might get the base hit that would drive in the run and break the tie.
Newcomb, powerful left-hand hitter, up, takes the pitch in there for a called strike.
When I say he's powerful, he is that.
Red, they tell me in the celebration at the, in the clubhouse in Philadelphia on Sunday that he picked up a couple of the Dodgers and held them at arm's length.
Is that true?
Well, I think he had managed a shot in both arms, Mel.
Perillo moves off second. Campanella off first, the pitch. Newcomb takes high and outside, change up.
And the count is one and one.
And now here's Jake Pitler starting in toward the plate.
I thought he was going to talk to Newcomb, but it was a glove.
Newcomb's glove that he had dropped just outside the third baseline.
Too close to the line in Milton Stock, I should have said.
Just simply tossed a little further away.
One ball, one strike, one out. Don Newcomb, the batter.
Carl Perillo is on second base. Roy Campanella on first.
And one away, scoreless ballgame, top of the fifth. On deck is Peewee Reese, the stretch by Reynolds.
Here's the pitch. Newcomb takes a curve that's just outside.
Ball two, two and one.
Very close, but not there, says Cal Hubbard.
Bill Johnson's in close at third, about five feet off third baseline.
Rizzuto in three, four steps.
And three strikes to the left of second. Jerry Coleman, four strikes to the right.
Here's your pitch. Newcomb swings and he misses. Strike two. He tried to hold up at a fastball.
It might or might not have been just above the shoulders.
In other words, it might or might not have been called a ball. It was very close.
It's a 2-2 count on Newcomb.
Nothing, nothing to score. Top of the fifth inning.
Reynolds getting ready. Perillo on second. Campanella on first lead. Here's the pitch.
Fastball swung on him. Missed. Strike three. He fired a fast one by Newcomb.
And there's two downs.
Coming up to bat, one of your great ball players of the day and a great guy when the chips are down.
Peewee Reese, grounded out through Henrik in the first inning.
Bunny Dunn was tossed out by Billy Johnson in the third inning.
That's only the second strikeout for Reynolds, who has walked three.
And Peewee steps in. Bat's on right-handed. Perillo on second. Campanella on first. Two down.
Fifth inning, no score. Reynolds ready.
Here's the pitch. Reese swings and turns a boundary to Johnson.
Grant's a two-hop. Steps on third for the force-out on Perillo and Reynolds pitches out of the jam.
No runs, no hits. One error and two men left on.
And the score at the end of four and a half innings, nothing and nothing.
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, with a great deal of pleasure,
I introduce to you my coworker on this broadcast of the World Series,
a fellow who has established a reputation in sports broadcasting second to none
and who has been broadcasting World Series since 1935, so he really knows what it's all about, the old redhead, Red Barber.
Thank you, Mayor. Newcomb makes his first pitch last at the fifth inning, a curve ball over for a called strike
to Billy Johnson, stocky right hand hitting third base into the anchors.
Very kind words, Mayor, and I might say that there have been three fellows pitching so far.
Newcomb, Reynolds and you. Nice to be with you.
Nice to be back with Jimmy Britt, who's doing the television for Gillette.
Here is Newcomb pitching a curve on the outside for a called second strike.
He's quickly gone ahead of Johnson. He struck him out the second inning.
Also for our Gillette broadcast, Rini Canazares is back on the job.
Of course, I don't know what he's saying because he's doing it in Spanish.
These broadcasts go all over the world. Hotfield deep, shaded toward left, Johnson,
a powerful hitter when he hits one, crouches, swings and misses on the curve on the outside, a sharp curve,
and on three pitches he's retired for the second time on strikes.
Five strikeouts for Newcomb.
The story so far today is simply power pitching. Newcomb and Reynolds,
they are both hard ball pitchers with sharp curves. They throw their curve balls hard.
They only let up once in a while. They don't monkey with such stuff as knuckle balls or screw balls.
They are orthodox pitchers and both of them strong and both of them willing, and both of them ready.
Now Cliff Maipes, the tall left-hand hitting rookie right fielder, leaning in, swings and nubs one foul,
back of first base on the ground. Bill Dickey, familiar figure at Yankee Stadium, scoops up the ball, throws it out.
For the Brooklyn Carbohydro, the game stands no score. Newcomb on the mound, Campanella,
this is battery mate, back at the plate, Hodges at first, Robinson at second, Reese at short, and Johnny Jorgensen at third.
The outfield is Hermanski on left, the inside of field is now to the right field, Ferrello.
The defense is toward right, especially in the outfield. Maipes swings as a foul in the third base stands, not a play.
No balls, two strikes.
Quite a scramble as that ball comes out of the upper deck, down below in the lower boxes.
I noticed something here at Yankee Stadium today I've never seen in the World Series before.
The Yankees, who of course have the great championship record and the great World Series record,
have gone back into their archives and have pulled out all their World Championship and their League Championship banners
and they have them all around the stadium and it's an impressive scene.
The next pitcher is a fastball low outside to Maipes, right-hand pitcher, Don Newcomb, who pitches with a very easy move.
He's a big man. There are two big men right down there that played umpire Cal Hubbard, who is even bigger.
And these are two big men who move very gracefully. They can move just as quickly as the smaller fellows.
Newcomb ready to pitch one and two does. Maipes swings it and hits the foul down on the ground.
It bounces up dead and Maipes himself grabs it, hands it to Campanella.
It's examined routinely by umpire Hubbard and the ball left in play.
One man out, nobody on, last of the fifth inning. The pitching has predominated.
The Dodgers have had more scoring opportunities.
The Yankees have had one man get off.
Brookton had quite a few. One and two pitch, low inside the ball too.
The Dodgers have had, the Yankees have had two men, two men on.
The Dodgers have had five. One hit, three walks, and a narrow.
The Yankees two, the Dodgers five. Brookton's had men twice reach second base with one out.
One man reach second base, nobody out.
Two-two pitch to Maipes, swung on and missed by three.
Fastball on the knees when the outside strikes him out for the second time.
Six strikeouts for Newcomb.
And Jerry Coleman who looked at a called third strike in the third inning.
He works well upon the handle of that bat.
He chokes his bat far more than any other player in the series.
He's a slender hitter.
Likes to punch that ball and it's obvious by the way he swings.
That favorite target of his is to take a shot at right field.
He realizes he does not have the physical strength to overpower the ball,
so he tries to play his game according to his own physique of timing the ball.
Fastball through there, called strike.
Big Hubbard throws that right ham of his high in the air.
Strike one.
Campanella, stocky, and a very steady target back at the plate.
Settles down now to give the sign.
When Roy comes up after giving the sign, he gives the pitcher four points.
His two knees and his catcher's mitt, which is not held back at the plate,
but to one side and his right hand to the other.
Newcomb pitches a curve low outside, one and one.
One ball, one strike.
Neither Mel nor I have made very much conversation with you this afternoon
about the crowd because just everybody's here at the stadium will hold.
Everybody knew that.
That was going to scramble for seats.
It was rather quiet because there just weren't any.
One ball, one strike.
There's a foul ball off.
See, at the stadium, season seat holders will hold boxes all season long.
They have their boxes for the World Series,
plus the option of purchasing the same number of seats again in the reserve role.
And, of course, when you realize the baseball requirements that have to be met
for all the major league teams and the two league offices and the commissioner's office,
well, that means that seat situation,
especially where you have the season ticket holders on it, moves pretty routinely.
One ball, two strikes, two men out, no score, nobody on, last to the fifth.
Newcomb's pitch low outside.
Coleman just did check himself in time.
The crowd has not had occasion for a real good bellow outside of their salute to DiMaggio
when he stepped in to be the first hitter in the last of the second inning.
There is no background.
In back of center field, as the rule, there's a canvas screen.
And in the regular season, they have the screen up,
and therefore there are no bleacher rights sitting out there in dead center field.
But now for the World Series, the bleachers are completely jammed, no screen.
Newcomb steps to the back of the mound, takes a hanker, mops his face.
It's a shirt sleeve afternoon, especially out in the bleachers.
After rain early this morning, the day became muggy,
and right now it is hot and humid, especially for this time of the year.
And the sun comes and the sun goes.
Right now the sun is out brightly, especially for the left and center fielders.
They're in sun.
Newcomb pitches again due to strike three, swinging a sharp curve ball.
Couldn't even set himself to swing hard at seven strikeouts for Big Newcomb.
So he has struck out now Johnson twice, Maked twice, and Coleman twice at six.
His seventh is an adieu.
That's the second time he has struck out the side.
So at the end of five innings, we'll check out totals.
No runs, one hit, and no errors for the Dodgers.
No runs, two hits, and one error for the Yankees.
Reynolds, a strong arm right-hander, who has not been as,
should we say, as brilliantly as impressive as far as strikeouts are concerned as Newcomb,
but in the business that counts, he has been very impressive.
He has seen to it that there has been no scoring.
No scoring at all, and that's what the payoff on in this business,
The matter of runs.
Thirty cents.
Reynolds has had to pitch out of three serious threats.
In the first inning, there was a slight misjudgment on a ball drilled into left center field by Jorgensen,
The misjudgment on the part of left fielder Lindell,
and so there was Johnny Jorgensen here at the bell that went out at second base.
Reynolds pitched out of that.
In the second inning, he walked the first two,
which is always an unsettling thing for a pitcher at most any time,
and then he saw that Hodges did not sacrifice the ball on him,
got him to hit into a double floor, in which he himself started it.
In the fifth inning, as Mel told you, the error by Coleman might have been unsettling,
then came the sacrifice, they walked the Campanella,
but he struck out Newcomb, got Reese on the force.
So, here we go, into the sixth inning, no score.
Johnny Jorgensen has Brooklyn's one hit.
Left hand batter, only weighs about 150 pounds.
He'll weigh less than any player in the World Series.
Right field toward right, right hand to Reynolds pitches,
an overhand curve that's good for a call strike.
Reynolds on the mound and better with the two on back of the plate.
Tammy Henrik at first base, Jerry Coleman at second.
The shortstop is Phil Rizzuto on the third base in Billy Johnson.
Lindell in left field, the great DiMaggio is in center.
Right field, Clif Mates.
Pitch, fastball swung on, driven to right field corner.
It is just fouled, into the stand, just fouled.
No question about it, three umpires right on the line.
That ball stands right at that point,
I know the home plate in the other part of Yankee Stadium, 296 feet.
That ball went foul by about a yard.
But it's a very tough angle for an umpire to have to rule,
especially if he's back to the plate.
Not quite as tough as he's at first,
but it's no problem at all if an umpire is in the right field corner.
And that is where umpire Hurley was.
So you have right on the line all three of them,
Hobbit back to the plate, Reardon at first, and Hurley in the right field corner.
Our commissioner channel is innovation.
Taking the older umpires and putting them in the foul corners
is a wonderful efficiency asset.
Jorgensen takes a high inside fastball.
The crowd roared simply because Berra had to reach up to pull it down.
One ball, a few strikes.
Jorgensen first up in the sixth inning, no score.
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Fastball low outside.
Ball two, two balls, two strikes.
Jorgensen steps out, hits the soles of his shoes,
to the heavy end of the bat, knocking a little play out.
Jorgensen chokes that stick about an inch.
An open stance, right hand to Reynolds pitches.
Five, four, ball three.
Two balls, two strikes.
Meldon Start coaching in third.
Jake Pitlett first.
Jorgensen, who is hitting second on the batting card,
is leading off here in the sixth inning.
Snyder on deck, then Robinson.
Tough ball game.
Big crowd just waiting for something to break.
Three, two, pitch.
Ball four.
Joe Jorgensen closes the bat away.
And this is base on balls number four given up by Reynolds.
Ducum has not walked any one.
So Jorgensen opens up the inning.
And the Dodgers have now begun their fourth scoring thrust.
But the first three were negated by Reynolds,
who has pitched very stoutly in the clutches.
Duke Snyder, who is off for two, who had to count his way,
three, one in the first inning, and then swung prodigiously at two fastballs,
as Mel pointed out to you,
sets to bump and takes a curve that is in under the shoulders on the outside.
All strikes.
Snyder drew back from that thinking that he wouldn't be in the strike zone,
but the curve ball of Reynolds, which is a good one,
ducked down and in there and got it.
Nobody out, no score.
Henrik holding first base tightly.
Reynolds has to come to his set position now with a man on it first behind him.
He's a right-hand pitcher.
Nobody throwing in the anky-both end.
Fred Sanford was up in the second inning.
Now they walk the first two men.
Night of crotchers, the pitch is swung on and missed.
Strike two with a curve ball that seemed to be under the waistline and over.
Nothing in two.
Reynolds is a very solid fellow, big through the chest, shoulders, and hips.
In field, upper step, outfield, over shifted into right.
The pitch, Snyder, the left-hand hitter to pull, swings and misses.
Strike three.
That for Reynolds gives him three strikeouts, and we have 10 strikeouts so far.
Newcomb has struck out seven.
So it continues to be so far pitching, hand power pitching.
In other words, these two fellows are not finessing anybody.
They're just throwing it past him.
Fast ball and curve.
Newcomb hasn't fooled with a change of face since Lindell singled off of it in the second inning.
And Reynolds has only thrown one real change of face, and that was high outside for a ball.
Jackie Robinson to win the batting title, beating Stan Musial out by three points.
0-2 today, right-hand hitter.
Takes a curve that is low, too low, all-1.
Robinson in the first inning, a fly ball to Mapes and Wrightfield.
And in the fourth inning, he was thrown out, third baseman Johnson to first baseman Tommy Henry.
Henry continues holding first base against Jorgensen.
Jorgensen is not too much of a running threat as far as the steal is concerned.
He only stole one base in the punter campaign, and that was the last day of the season.
Throw to first, not in time.
Jorgensen thought the throw would be closer than it was and dove back in with his hands.
Robinson, holes that club down by the end.
Real put on the back line of the box, slightly open stance, bend at the knees.
The pitch, too low, and it is ball two.
Reynolds has a lot up off of his fast ball, which has a tennis at his sink.
And that is what he threw just now to Jack.
A pitcher such as Reynolds, a pitcher such as Newcomb, is easy for a broadcaster to read.
He is tough for a hitter, of course. The hitter is only 60 feet away.
But now, when Eddie Lofat pitches, it is going to be something to see what he is throwing all the time.
He throws everything. Now goes Jorgensen, Robinson swings and fouls it off on a hit-and-run play.
Foul ball in the lost end behind first.
And that was a fast ball that Reynolds had thrown in there on Jack's hands.
Practically had it passed it. All right, two balls, one strike.
The sun is now out steadily. The skies are clear. They are blue and white up above.
Two innings ago, they were getting pretty leaden, pretty threatening.
The weather forecast for the day as well as for tomorrow on the second.
It is the best way we can read it.
It is a lot of two-bit words, where as is, if as is.
Throw to first, not in time.
Henrik had to lean off the bag to a second base, pull it in.
Two balls, one strike.
Robbie waiting at the plate.
The plate hit-and-run on the last pitch. We will see what they do now.
Jorgensen holds. The pitch is thrown and foul back.
Two balls, two strikes.
The Dodgers are not running, but Robinson is up there hitting as he pleases.
And of course, he is up there probably hitting as he pleases now.
They should decide to play hit-and-run.
Two balls, two strikes.
One away.
Reynolds decides to soon pitch another baseball, and that is agreeable.
We will play it on Parkale Hubbard, who makes the exchange.
Now Alley turns his back on the plate, bends off the rubber, rubbing up the ball.
Center fielder of the Magyar is bearded over toward left center.
Left and right fielder straight away on Robinson.
In field is up a couple of steps hoping for the DP.
The Yankees have their games only double fly.
Got that in the second inning, it took Reynolds out of a hole.
They're 2-2 pitch. Curve inside of the knees, and Jack took it. All three.
Now the Dodgers may elect to run.
3-2. Yogi Berra, I noticed in the papers, says that he's got a secret weapon now.
He defies the Dodgers' run on him this year as they did two years ago.
Of course, one thing, Berra has had two more years experience, and this year he's had a chance to have some very fine catching points given to him by Bill Dickey.
Now let's see. The 3-2 pitch, Jorgensen goes. Robinson swings, goes above the left center. The Magyar's got to go a long way.
He's going, and he makes the dab of it. And deep cuts on the field.
Jorgensen, who at round the second, is on his way back. The first relay from Rizzuto is not in time.
That is the one hard-hipped ball that has performed the game. Robinson drove on a long way to that set of field, but it's 457 feet to the barrier out there,
and the Magyar, one of the great outfielders of all time, very gracefully, just turned and went and got it.
It was hit a long way, but Joe can go a long way, and one of the reasons for his greatness is he makes it look easy.
Jorgensen had already gotten on the third base out at second, and yet got back to first ahead of a good relay by Rizzuto.
That tells you how far the ball was hit to the left center. So DiMaggio comes up with the first real outfield catch.
It's the first time that an outfielder has been severely challenged. So Robinson hits one, and DiMaggio says, that's just another out.
Okay, two go on, and the batter is Gene Hermanski. 0-1. Base one ball is in second inning.
Fly ball to right field. In the fourth, takes a ball, strike at the knees, and it is nothing in one.
No ball, one strike. The infield, with the exception of third base, is completely in shadow.
Part of shortstop is in shadow. All the right field is in shadow. Center field and left field are in sun.
Left field is the sun garden here at the stadium, not right field.
Hermanski swings and doesn't get it. Went up to, sort of like a slider or a hard curve, maybe a lead-up curve in by the hands.
Double-halls, two strikes. When Reynolds gets men on, then he shows you something. It's been the pattern so far today.
Jorgensen walks, open the sixth inning, and he's still layup. It was quite a catch by DiMaggio.
Reynolds steps off first base.
Show you the tension that's in this game on every pitch. When Reynolds stepped off the mound, DiMaggio made a complete circle in center.
Throw, turner missed her ball. So, that was a thing that turned off. A fourth strike out.
And at the end of five and a half innings, the score is still Brooklyn nothing and New York nothing.
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Well, Sid, while we've got you here, what about this pitching? Would you like to be hitting against it?
Well, I'd certainly like to be playing in this ball game, but I'll say one thing, for both pitchers, they've really got it today.
Newcomen's as fast as I've ever seen them while I was hitting against them.
Of course, I've never hit against Reynolds and he certainly looks like he's got real good stuff today.
Looks like it's going to be the team that gets the first break who's going to win this ball game.
Thanks a lot, Sid. Now let's see about the last of the sixth inning.
First up for the Yankees is pitcher Reynolds who has a two base hit to his credit, right hand batter.
Months up to a third base and fouls it off. He was running to try and add another base hit to the kitty.
So Reynolds, who is a dominant figure, he and Newcomen so far are completely overshadowing the rest of the story.
Reynolds, who is Mel Allen, told you in the third inning, with the defense pulled or backed into right field,
pulled one in the left field corner, a fly ball that was in there for two bases.
And he is the only Yankee who has reached second base safely.
And he is the last one to get on. Newcomen's retired everybody since that double with one out in the third inning.
Right hand hitter, Don Rez back, fouls it, clung on, hits sharply.
Two between third and fourth base hit to Rez.
That's a five single through between third base and third base and a shortstop race.
So three hits for the Yankees, out which pitcher Reynolds has gotten the last two.
So the Yankee offense has been Lindell with a single with one out in the second inning, Reynolds a double with one out in the third,
and now Reynolds a single opening up matters here in the last of the sixth inning.
So a race comes over from short.
The high just can go from first.
They talk to Big Newcomen on the mound for the moment.
Dodgers of course have to drink their defense now ready for the punt in one of the most powerful punters in the game.
Phil Rizzuto, the little leadoff man, is now up.
Going soon in close from third.
Here's the pitch, and it's a pitch out.
Throw down the first base and Reynolds is back.
Robinson, the second baseman, came in to take the throw.
That's a play that the Dodgers use upon occasion.
Reynolds just did get back dicky at the first base.
Coach goes over and says, now listen, Ali, I'm going to put a rope on you.
That's a play that has been used all through the years in which there's an obvious punt situation.
The pitcher pitches out to the right hand hitter, and the first baseman as the decoy runs up toward the plate.
And the second baseman tries to sneak in first.
Pitch in there for a call strike, one ball, one strike.
One and one.
I do this up close.
There's something to Newcomb.
We'll know in a moment what managed to case this thing.
He's got up his sleeve.
Throw, munted, foul.
And Rizzuto, who is not only an excellent punter, but he covers up until the last split second that he's going to punt.
Because he doesn't run his right hand out along the bowl of the bat and then drop the bat on the ball.
He punts with merely a flick of the wrist so he can wait until the pitcher's practically on top of him,
which is not calculated to make third baseman sleep too soundly.
Anyhow, he punted that one.
So the infield now most double play depth, one ball, two strikes.
The penalty is rather high for bunting foul with two strikes on you.
Rizzuto struck out.
Throw, curve on the outside, four ball, two.
No score.
And the Yankees hoping to exploit the second base hit of Randall's now into something here in the last half, the sixth inning.
I just hold him first, shorten the lead of the runner.
The 2-2 pitch, thrown on, hit down the third, jogs up with a throw to second to Robinson.
The throw on the first base is not in time at first.
First play at second, and Randall really went in there with a rolling slide that would do credit to any ball player or any football player.
Randall's in that ball game there.
He goes back into the Yankee bench, which is on the first base side of things.
He's all covered with dirt.
He stayed in there hard.
He made Robinson get off second base, and Randall broke up the double play.
In other words, he did not allow Robinson to set and pivot at second.
He made him get off the bag and then throw.
And Rizzuto, who's fast, beat the relay.
Short to fourth play at second, on Randall.
Third base from Johnson, second base from Robinson, and the batter now is Tommy Henry, who is off for two.
The 10 hit on the dangerous one.
Now big newcomer, ready?
Henry swings a five-ball deep into the left center field.
Slider's got a long way to go.
He's under it.
He's got it.
So we have two center fielders who can really go get him.
DiMaggio and this young fellow, Smada, finishing out his first full year in the major.
So Henry hit one, but it is out number two.
So that sort of evened up things.
Robinson belted one into DiMaggio, went and took it in the upper part of the sixth inning.
Very dangerous batter, Yogi Berra.
He really took his favorite ball player to heart when he was a kid down in St. Louis.
His heart went out to Joe Medwick back in that era.
And Medwick, of course, admittedly and still is probably the best bad ball hitter baseball ever saw.
Well, Berra is heir apparent to that crowd.
In other words, he's dangerous because he will hit a pitcher trying to waste on him even.
And pitchers say, well, how do you pitch to a fellow like that?
Pursuit off first, left to go.
He's the Yankees leading base dealer.
The pitch to Berra swung on and bowled back.
Strike one.
Over all in one strike.
No score.
Two men out.
Big Newcomb for the first time being duly deliberate.
He'd been pitching steadily without wasting any time between deliveries.
Works as a pitch out, but Rizzuto wasn't going.
Campanello back at the plate had called for a pitch out, and with Berra, that meant the ball to be delivered on the third base side.
But little Phil was staying home.
Hodges holding first base against him.
The umpire is beans ridden.
One ball, one strike.
Two men on.
Throw.
Pass ball high outside.
Throw down to first.
Not in time again.
Two men on.
What Campanello is doing, the lingo of the trade, he's trying to help his pitcher.
He throws to first.
Not only is when the catcher does everything, he's trying to pick a man off, but he's trying to cut down his lead.
Give the pitcher a little bit more leeway out there on the mound.
Throw to first, not in time, Rizzuto back.
Newcomb is not only young in years, but he's young in organized baseball, and he's finishing his rookie year.
He's not the most polished pitcher in the world.
Throws to first, and Rizzuto has to dive back.
Two balls, one strike.
Our little Phil has got that home white Yankee uniform all must up, Ian Reynolds.
The Dodgers are wearing slate gray, bluish-tinged road suits.
In fact, Brooklyn's uniform is brand new.
They never had them on until they put them on for the day.
And Mel tells me the Yankees have got brand new suits too.
Well, everything for the big day.
The 2-1 pitchers, Udohol strike two swinging to the curve at the plate.
Those wrists of Verro's are really impressive.
He too waits until that pitch is practically on top of him, and then lets go.
Two balls, two strikes.
Outfield very much toward right.
Yogi pulls in that direction, no score.
Two-two pitch, there's a high foul ball up and back right behind us.
Still two and two.
You survive baseball, as we can brought up the third and parcal Hubbard.
It was a very impressive and a thoughtful gesture that at the invitation of Commissioner A.B. Chandler,
that the nine-year-old kid Bruce Howard, who has gotten over infantile paralysis,
which hit him in July of this summer, was the guest of commission throughout the first ball.
Throw the first, not in time.
And it was a thing which Mayor O'Dwyer, who usually throws out the first ball,
that is the mayor does, is very happy to step aside for the juncture to do.
Two-two pitch, swung and missed, great foul ball on the outside, ball strikes out.
So Newcomb has to fidget a little bit, but he pitches right along, records his eighth strike out.
And at the end of six innings, we'll check our totals.
No runs, one hit. That was the first inning double by Jorgensen and no errors for the Dodgers.
For the Yankees, no runs, three hits, two of them by Reynolds.
And for New York, one error.
Now we'll pause ten seconds for station identification.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.
Here we are at Yankee Stadium, moving into the seventh inning,
and everything is getting bigger and bigger and tenser and tenser and more and more important.
Reynolds and Newcomb are the two key figures until somebody else moves in.
Mel, take this microphone over for a second, speaking about tension.
How about it here Saturday and Sunday when the Yankees came through with a Red Sox?
Well, you had tension at the very highest peak, Red.
You spoke about that, and just as much, of course, as you may have had it with the Dodgers
and their magnificent drive to the pennant.
But here on last Saturday, the Yankees were faced with this tremendous obstacle,
one game behind of having to win the last two games of the year against their contender, the Red Sox,
admittedly one of the greatest teams in baseball, in order to win it.
And then they did, and it carried on into Sunday and then, of course, on every pitch, the pennant rolled.
So you can imagine, well, the crowd, packed as they are here today, were roaring on every pitch.
That explains it.
Well, I know it was something.
It seems that the mad joke gets out of a sick bed just in time to play the Red Sox, and it hurts them the most.
Now we go on to the seventh inning, and Pirello first up for Brooklyn.
He's gotten on both times, a walk and an hour.
He cannot run very fast because of the groin injury.
He swings, and there's a pop fly that second baseman Coleman is under.
No first baseman, Henry, goes over and makes the grab.
Coleman signals he'd take it, but Henry, who has the bigger mitt, playing first base, moved in, took it.
So Pirello is now 0 for 2.
First time, he has not been on.
One up, one away, seventh inning, no score.
Gil Hodges, 0 for 1, hit into the double play in the second inning and butted in the fifth.
Takes a curve on the outside, called strike.
Hodges, a big strapping right-hand batter.
In case you folks are wondering about the strikeouts, Howard Emke, you remember,
in the World Series of 29, the Athletics against the Cubs struck out 13.
Pitch outside, 4 ball 1.
So the pitcher who has turned in the most strikeouts in a World Series game was Emke with his 13.
Don Newcomb struck out 8.
A little early to be going for such salient statistics,
but we thought it would answer a question if you happen to have it in your mind.
Hodges, who stepped out of the box, steps in again, no score, one gone, seventh inning, game one.
Hodges swings and misses at a hard-thrown curve ball.
He missed it off the end of the bat.
This curve renders when he really throws it hard.
It doesn't break so wide as it breaks sharply.
Fittler cups his hands. He's the first base coach.
Holler something up to Hodges.
Yankee outfield is at a very respectful depth,
pulls slightly into left.
Second baseman Coleman is a step over closer to second than from his normal straightaway spot.
Fersudder, a step over toward third. It's short.
Here's the pitch.
Side on fastball and goes back to the stands.
That was a lacrosse-fire attempt.
It's the first time that Reynolds has stepped toward third and fired that ball
to the outside of the plate on the right hand hitter.
Two balls, two strikes.
The breeze has picked up somewhat and is blowing straight out to right field.
Not a strong wind, but it's a factor.
Two-two pitch, fastball just missing outside.
Reynolds not too pleased. He's really been counting on that one.
Now three and two.
Infield is Henrik at first.
Coleman at second.
A short risotto and a third, Johnson.
Casey Stengel has really had to make some quick changes all through the year.
Three-two pitch, strike three called, fastball on the outside.
That's from the five-strike out for Reynolds who's coming along in that strike out department.
Well, Campanella, the strong, stocky right-hand hitting catcher, was a long ball threat.
Campanella, for one, drive ball to right field in the second inning based on balls in the fifth.
They pitched him very carefully rather than give him anything too fat to hit at.
Finally wound up walking.
Curve ball, all over, too low. Ball what?
One ball, no strikes.
These two pitches have just simply kept this crowd very quiet.
Throw, fastball low, ball two.
Campanella looking to third base coach Milton Stock to see how manager Bert Schotten wants this situation
taken care of or attempted, we might say.
Two and all.
Two-nothing pitches, swung on and missed.
That was that hard curve ball thrown right off the hands.
That's a beautiful pitch when it's placed just where it was then.
Two balls, one strike.
Two gone. Bases clear here in the seventh.
Reynolds works, just misses outside and he now is in the hole three and one.
No matter how good a hitter a pitcher is, the opposing pitcher always likes to have the opposing pitcher first up for the next inning.
So nationally, Reynolds is going to be pitching in here trying to snuff out Campanella so the new goal will be first up in the eighth.
Three-one pitch, swung on, curve ball, fouled off.
Full count, three and two.
Both pitches have worked very hard.
Both of them are strong and both of them are capable of doing a lot of work in a series if it should go six or seven games.
The bullpens have been quiet. There's only been one flurry of action.
Fred Sanford, his male, told you, was up from the second inning and on it through briefly.
Double play broke the back of that Brooklyn thread after two walks were given up by Reynolds.
Joe Page, of course, who lives down there in the back of right center field, he hasn't gotten up yet.
They save him for the meat on the table in the late innings.
Brooklyn bullpens had three pitchers in it and they haven't stirred.
Three-two pitch, cost by three, a fastball on the outside.
And Campanella takes the classroom on the outside as does the same fake for Hodgley ahead of him.
And that's six strikeouts for Reynolds.
Joe, nothing, of course, in the top of the seventh inning.
And we're really having some pitching. This ballgames a squeaker.
The score is Brooklyn nothing and New York nothing.
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Well, here's the big fella that actually came out of the hospital just 52 times in the year when the Yankees had to have it, each time facing the Red Soxers for it.
Came back after the heel injury, big surgery at Boston, and the Yankees swept three games.
Then he came back after being vetted with pneumonia, a virus infection, just in time for the Yankees to sweep the two that got them where they are today at the stadium for the Dodgers.
DiMaggio, right hand batter, big Newcomb, right hand to pitches, fastball high and side up against the hands for ball one.
DiMaggio was the first of Newcomb's eight strikeout victims, struck out the second inning.
Hopped up to second base of the fourth, so he's 0 for 2.
Outfield deep, round toward left, Newcomb's throw, swung on and fouled off.
There was a curve ball in there, one and one, one ball, one strike.
No score.
Apparently there is nothing in 1945 as far as the big sticks are concerned.
It's going to be easy.
The attendance were tough.
This ball game is tough.
I guess this is the prevailing pattern of the year.
One and one pitch, curve ball high and inside for ball two.
Two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
Very anxious to get the attendance figures whenever they are announced on the press box.
We'll have them up here in the radio sector and we'll certainly pass them on to you.
Two balls, one strike.
Newcomb delivers, Joe swings, fouls with all.
DiMaggio looks as slender as when he first began to play professional ball.
He wasn't too heavy.
In fact, he was drawn very fine when he had his recent sickness and he lost 11 or 12 pounds.
In fact, it's very hard to get Joe to even admit that he lost any weight.
He didn't like to talk that way, but he has.
His uniform is sort of draped on him a little bit.
All right, two and two.
Big Newcomb.
Kick, throws.
There's a high, high putt fly right in the middle of the infield.
Robinson coming over, Reese coming over, and it's Robinson for the catch.
Peeley was running in there.
Apparently, the captain and take charge guy of the infield had designated who was going to catch it.
That ball was right back at pitcher's mound.
That could have been a grand scramble, as it was.
It's a simple putt fly to second base from Robinson.
DiMaggio is off with three in that in itself as a story.
Johnny Lindell, who hit a change-up ball, second inning for the Yankees single.
Reynolds is taking care of the next two hits.
We only had four hits aggregate in the ball game.
Jorgensen got a double in the first inning when Lindell came in just a little when he should have been going back.
Some pitching.
Played on fire Hubbard, wants to examine the baseball.
Finds it's all right, hands it back to catch it, camp with Ella, fires it out to the mound.
Big Lindell stepping in.
I feel around toward left.
Infield swung toward third.
Newcomb's pitch, sharp curve over.
It must have been a tough sight for Joe McArthur to see Lindell hit that home run Saturday afternoon,
because it was McArthur during the Warriors who converted Lindell from just a so-so pitcher to an outfielder.
Newcomb delivers fastball on the outside.
One ball, one strike.
Campanella, who handled an unsaid in Brooklyn pitching staff all year, very well, sets down back of the plate.
There's a curveball low outside missing by just a tick.
Two balls, one strike.
Two and one, one gone, last to the seventh, no score.
A crowd watchfully waiting.
Two-one pitch, over.
There was a slider which Newcomb called a hard curveball.
Two balls, two strikes.
Don has two types of curve, the one which does not break very much but explodes very quickly.
It's a hard curve.
A lot of pitches call it a slider.
And then the other one is just orthodox big sweeping curve.
To Indu.
Lindell, who swings from the heels.
The two-two pitch, curve on the outside for Paul Stake three.
That gives Newcomb nine.
Now check him out to be sure we haven't made a mistake on him,
because he's beginning to pick up a lot of strikeouts.
Now we have Billy Johnson, who is 0 for 2 in both of them strikeouts.
And the consensus on the addition of Newcomb's K, that's the scoring symbol for a strikeout, nine.
Two men gone, last half of the seventh.
This ball game is no place for small boys.
Don works, fastball strong on, hit down to deep third.
Jorgensen up to throw over to first.
End time, and that's all for Johnson.
So for the Yankees, who got on one, two, three in the last half of the seventh inning.
So let's see.
The Yankees, in giving up 21 outs, have only had 24 batters.
That shows you how tight that is.
The men that got on for the Yankees stayed on.
The Dodgers have only had one more man hit.
So things are really just as they stand when you say that it's no score.
That's what it is.
And you talk about pitching being dominant.
Well, the pitching has been dominant.
They haven't been hitting, they haven't been running.
The fielders have not had too many difficult chances.
So Reynolds gets set now for the severe test to the eighth inning because the
screws set stronger and bite deeper as you come down to the eighth and end of the
ninth.
And we'll take a 10-second pause for station identification.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
WOR and WOR FM, your World Series stations in New York.
The applause that you hear here at Yankee Stadium greets pitcher Don Newcomb as he
walks up to be the first batter for Brooklyn in the eighth inning.
Newcomb, left-hand hitter, 4'2, against Reynolds.
He grounded out short to first in the third inning and struck out in the fifth.
I feel the step toward right.
Newcomb leans in, Reynolds pitches, curve ball low inside.
Reynolds knew, I guess he knew from Sunday night on that he was going to be the
starting pitcher.
Newcomb did not know until the players meeting before batting practice today that he
was to be the pitcher.
He figured it could be he or it could be Preetu Rao.
Throw, swung on and missed, fastball and Don took a ruffle, one and one.
Jerry Coleman talking away down second base.
Jake Pippler that's out of hollow, coaching it first.
Start right-hander, Reynolds delivers, fastball over there.
Hand high on the outside, one and two.
Reynolds and Vara handling the battery assignment for New York.
Henrik was always picking play out of his spikes of his shoes down at first.
Coleman, the rookie at second, resumed all.
A veteran and still not too old at short and Willie Johnson, same category at third.
Pitch, curve ball over, cost strike to Newcomb Newcomb.
He just turned and started walking away.
Strikeout number seven for Reynolds.
This is the third straight Dodger to go down on strikes by Reynolds.
All call strike three.
Two right-hand hitters with curves on the outside.
Newcomb left-hand batter, curve breaking in on the outside.
So you can see that the pitches have had the hitters at their mercy so far.
The batter is Reese, here in the eighth getting one out.
Fastball through there, call strike, nothing in one.
No balls, one strike, two veteran managers.
Casey Stengel, Burt Schotten.
Pitch, TV takes low, there's a sinker.
One ball, one strike.
One and one, that's the ball and strikeout, no score.
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There's a line drive back to the middle for a base hit.
So Kiwi comes up with a solid single, which is Brooklyn's second base hit.
This is the first hit since Jorgensen with one out got the double in the first inning.
So Reese singles right through the middle.
Two for Brooklyn and Jorgensen, who is one for two, stepping in.
Reese at first, Kripler, his first base coach, goes over and talks to them for the moment.
Now Henry comes on, takes the bag.
Infield, he's gone up in double play depth.
Johnson's in a little closer third.
Throw to first, not in time, Reese back.
Kiwi is a very alert, a very intelligent runner,
but he's been bothered with a groin injury and he cannot run at top speed.
The Dodgers did not have him trying to steal in September.
Throw to first, Reese gets back.
He goes out and takes a full lead.
Reese, Rizzuto, Robinson, they all go way off first base.
That's one reason the pitchers have to pick at them so much.
Reynolds, set, checks first.
Pitcher's a fastball outside.
Ball one, one ball, no strikes.
Jorgensen doubled the left center field when Lindell veered in instead of veering immediately back.
They say this is a tough ballpark here at the stadium, even when you play in it all year long.
Then Jorgensen grounded out second, first and third and walked in the sixth.
Outfield toward right, left hand hitter, Reese off first.
Reynolds works.
There's a foul ball back on the screen directly behind Hall.
It was a fastball coming in there.
Reynolds is not wishing to get behind two and all.
One ball, one strike.
Madden Distangle has perfect confidence in Reynolds.
He has not fallen to his bullpen and the Yankee bullpen contingent is sitting there at the rail fence out there in right center field.
The paid attendance, 66,224.
66,124.
Why should I say paid? You can't get any unless you do pay.
The attendance is 66,224.
One ball, one strike.
Two Jorgensen, no score.
Reese at first, one out, eighth inning.
There goes Reese.
Jorgensen takes.
There's a throw from Baller down to second.
It's not in time and Reese flies in.
The throw was very high.
Guzzillo had to jump up to pull it out.
So there were the outstretched hands of Tonsurello of the American League and Peeley was in by a wide margin.
They did run him.
Reese is getting up a little slowly.
When ballplayers play with an injury and run like that for steel, that tells you all you want to know about it.
That's the sort of player that Reese is.
DiMaggio has shown it this year.
Those are the telltale things that separate the men from the boys.
So Peeley steals.
Jorgensen cut.
That was a hit and run play.
But of course, anytime on a hit and run play, the run and all is at the bottom.
They swing and miss.
And now Casey Stengel steps to the front of his dugout and he's trying to get his defense set now the way he wants it.
He has.
So Jorgensen is up there one and two.
Stengel moved Lindell Owen Moore into left center.
Strike three swinging.
High curve ball to Reynolds takes care of Jorgensen.
So Jorgensen strikes out.
Reese, who has the series now, only steel, is at second.
That's seven, eight strikeouts for Reynolds.
And nine for Newcomb, 17 strikeouts.
Tomorrow's ball game will be here at the stadium, you know, just as this one is.
And game time will be the same as this one.
One o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
And Gillette ad time is 1245 Eastern Standard Time tomorrow.
Now here is Duke Snyder up.
Two gone.
Reese at second.
No score.
There's a ground foul outside first base.
The ball dies before it gets there.
Yankee bat boy retrieves it, throws it out.
No balls, one strike.
Two away.
This ball game is approaching the breaking point.
Both pitches have been most heroic, most efficient.
Each has had the difference when he's had to have it.
Reynolds has been in more trouble because of four bases on balls.
Newcomb hasn't walked anybody.
Snyder, 0 for 3 and two strikeouts, takes a high inside fastball, one and one.
One ball, one strike.
You know, scouting of teams is not relegated just to football alone.
Both of these baseball teams have been very well scouted.
The Yankees by the Dodgers and the Dodgers by the Yankees.
And a lot of this effective pitching may be directly attributable to the sharp rise of the scouts in the last few weeks
and how they have instructed and managed to shorten and stangle to have various hitters' pits too.
One ball, one strike.
Reynolds delivers high outside for ball two.
Two on one, two gone.
Race leading down on second.
And a run doesn't look very big to either one of these teams, does it?
Two on pitches, a curve over the outside for a call of second strike.
Now you can get the suspense of the crowd.
Here they are, roaring on each pitch.
There's a little curve ball over the outside, two and two.
Snyder, trim figure, slenderish.
Great body turn, hip pivot.
That's where he gets his power from.
Two to pitch, slow run in this.
Don't fall in there.
That's three and Reynolds turned it loose.
And he's now a four-luck.
The Houston eights has nine strikeouts.
Stars have gone the last half of the eighth inning.
The score is, Brooklyn nothing and New York nothing.
But I tell you, he's hit three home runs per game five times in his career.
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Well, here we are.
Seven and a half innings disposed out. Eighteen struck out hitters.
And that tells you the big story.
So we move on to the last of the eighths. No score.
The first up for the Yankees is the rookie right fielder, Cliff Mapes.
Had a great year last year out of Kansas City. Left hand batter.
He struck out both times. He's been up against Newcomb. Now Newcomb, bending to his past, delivers.
Fast ball high outside, ball one. Mapes ran up on the ball as though he would try and pull a bunt.
Beat it out for a base hit. Outfield, he swung into right.
Play him to pull.
Campanella down to give the sign to big umpire, Cal Hubbard. Back of the cross position of the receiver.
Right hander throws. Curve in there for a call strike.
One and one.
Hubbard's so big when he calls a strike he looks like the Statue of Liberty holding that torch up there.
Of course, I would say he's dressed a little differently.
One and one. Pitch. Bunted. Missed. Strike two.
Mapes tried to bunt. An inside slider. By the hands. One ball, two strikes.
Boy, this is really getting tough.
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One ball, two strikes.
Throw. Throw in. Missed. Strike three. The ball was tipped.
And Campanella held it and made it.
Swirl around. Swished out bat. You could see that he was sore about it.
Ten strikeouts for Newport. Nineteen in the game and the Yankee bullpen is now going.
Right hander, Fred Sandford, and left hander, Joe Page, are throwing.
Which indicates that manager Stingold might want to pitch it for Reynolds if he saw he had reason to do so during the last of the eighth.
But let's let the results write the story as it takes place.
Jerick Coleman works well up on the handle of that bat.
Slendritch, rookies, second baseman, right hand hitter. Struck out twice. Takes a fast ball high inside.
One and one. One out. No score.
As dark as it is this afternoon, you realize the wisdom of starting these games at one o'clock.
Tomorrow's game will be at one just as though this one. That gives you all the time that you can get.
Today's game, of course, according to the New York State law, will be two o'clock. All the others will be one o'clock.
And of course, air time. Best wishes you left fifteen minutes earlier.
Big Newcomb, frumped once, twice, throws. Fast ball's one on zero down the next little corner. She's in there for a base hit.
Roller has to play the ball on the count. And there is Coleman on his way to second. He's in there for a double.
A solid line-side double. He hit an outside fast ball sharply.
Now the Yankees come up with a very solid pressure in the last of the eighth inning.
And Reynolds is coming on to hit for himself. So as one man's gone, Coleman lashes out
and lines one into the right field corner for a solid double. And there is Coach Clyde Soukforth, who goes out to the mound
for Manager Bert Schotton to talk to pitchers when they are embattled.
Souk is going out to the mound to talk to Big Newcomb right now.
Reynolds has a double and a single for the two times he's been up. One man gone. It is no score.
And the Yankees now have a real serious threat in the last of the eighth inning.
Soukforth going back into the bench. He's cared for whatever message Manager Schotton wanted sent out there.
Manager Schotton, like Connie Mack of the Athletics, manages in street clothes.
Therefore under baseball law, he cannot step out on the playing field in the game.
He can't go on that field unless you're in the baseball suit or the umpire's blues.
All right pitcher. Reynolds is up. Two for two. Right hander Newcomb delivers.
Curve ball on the outside for a called strike. Reynolds, the right hand hitter.
The Brooklyn bullpen is of course now sprung into activity.
Attender Joe Hatton is down. Neon right handers Banner and Erskine.
Yankee bullpen stops working. Reynolds up there hitting. Swings at a curve. Doesn't get it.
And the outside. It's fake too. No balls. Two strikes.
One man gone.
Every pitch. Heavily weighted.
They have big potentials out here riding now. No score.
Sun breaks out again. Plenty of light. Pitch fastball low outside.
Reynolds refused to chase it. He can't put another down to his right to hold it up one and two.
Coleman who can run. Leading down off second and is constantly repeating to Frankie Presetti the fact that one man is out.
That's very important. That means the ball's hit ahead of him. He stays at second base.
One and two pitch. Outside a curve ball for a ball two. And Caffinola had to really go down to his right to keep that ball from getting loose.
So it's a great crowd of 66,224. And they're all looking off. Up there on the edge of their seats.
Like to see Commissioner Channels on the edge of his seat leaning on the rail in front of his box.
Boy this is something worth really looking at with both eyes.
So Newcomb getting ready to take dead aim. Reynolds leaning in. The two two pitch.
Sky Tree curve on the outside. That just got it.
So Reynolds turns and walks away. It's the first time that he's been turned back from the plate.
Eleven strikeouts for Don Newcomb. Twenty strikeouts in the ball game.
Why aren't there any runs? Twenty strikeouts. That's good enough.
And now a great little money player, Phil Rizzuto up there.
Coleman, second base. He's ready to go. He's repeating now. It's your third base coach, Crisetti.
That is with a wig wagging his fingers too high, which means you're on or anything.
No score. Newcomb throws. Curves for one. It's a high fly ball in the center.
Newcomb's in a step. He's going back two steps. He's under it. He waits. He has it. That's all for the eighth inning threat.
Well that is a very good threat that went past the boards in the eighth inning.
So here we come into the ninth inning. I'd say the ball game is even up.
Each team had a fine threat in the eighth inning. As Reese reached second base, if you'll recall,
with one out in the eighth, a single and a steal. Yankees had a man in the eighth inning.
Coleman got there with one out. He's two bagger and never got past it.
So it continues to be the two.
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Well I notice you're digging down in that red book. I know you're looking for aggregate strikeouts.
That is most strikeouts by everybody in a World Series game. Is there anything noted on that?
We've been checking. As a matter of fact, our record book doesn't list it,
but we went checking with some of the veteran scribes and they went back into other records.
And in 1944, 22 strikeouts by the two teams in one ball game.
That was the Cardinals-Browns World Series. We'll give you the pictures a little bit later.
All right, we've got 20 strikeouts in this one at the end of eighth.
Now Robinson, his first step in the ninth inning. He's off the three.
Last time up, hit the ball hard and a maggio of me and a fine galloping catch in deep left center.
Jack takes a curve, over for a call strike.
No balls, one strike.
The strikeouts that Mel was referring to were 10 by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.
Now Robinson hits the ground ball down towards short.
Result of a charger, throws to first and Jack is out by a wide margin, about four steps.
So one up and one gone, top of sixth inning.
So 22 strikeouts back in the All-St. Louis World Series.
10 by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.
We've had 20 so far today.
One gone, top of the ninth.
But we're not citing that that is the record of aggregate strikeouts.
We just haven't been able to put our finger on anything any closer than that.
Gene Harmanski, 0 for 2, swings and there's a high pop fly.
Short step for Sudor, getting under it, under it, and makes the grab.
On the inside grass, it's on a short two-maner retired.
Top of the ninth, there's Randall's continuous pitching.
And Carl Forello, who is 0 for 2, face on ball, got on with an error, then popped it to first, stepping in.
Two gone, top of the ninth.
Barrow settles down to give the sign.
Short step into Forello and Forello grins.
I feel back in the right, they're not playing Carl to pull.
He doesn't pull too much to the left of the roll and with this one injury, which prevents his full pivot, they don't think to pull at all.
There's a foul ball out of play.
Nothing in one, no balls, one strike.
Nothing in one, two down, no score, ninth inning.
Crowd is watching and waiting, something to watch and much to be waited for.
Right hander Randall's pitches, a curve low and away, one ball, one strike.
Barrow just batted the ball down, picks it up, throws it out to the mound.
One and one.
Forello chokes that stick just about half an inch.
Randall's pumped once, deals overhand, fastball good on the outside above the knees, first ball, second strike.
One and two.
This is the great game that Randall has pitched in his entire career.
Right hander pumping, dealing sidearm, curve ball, missing low outside.
Two and two, two balls, two strikes.
He leaned toward third when he cut that one loose.
Two and two, top of the ninth.
Brooklyn, the visiting ball club here at Yankee Stadium, had bats.
Nobody has a run.
Only one man has reached third base safely.
He reached it in the second inning for the Dodgers with two out.
Two to pitch, swung on foul into the stands, back of first base, top foul ball.
Two balls, two strikes.
Randall is very calmly rubbing up the new ball, standing at the back of the mound.
Big crowd is so quiet that you can hear the piping shrill voices of the infielders as they holler encouragement to the pitcher.
Two balls, two strikes.
Randall takes a sign, pumps once, delivers, curve ball, back on the screen.
It's still two and two.
Two balls, two strikes.
Two gone.
Anybody that was asking for a battle today really got it.
Apparently nothing is going to come easy to a winner this year in baseball.
Two to pitch, swung on as a high fly ball into short right center field.
Right fielder Maples coming in under it.
He has it, so that's all for Trello who just keeps right on,
lifting up short right field, picks up his glove, and we get ready to go into the last half of the ninth inning.
Last of the ninth inning.
Nobody has any runs.
That's Big Newcomb, groping out to the mound.
Well, Brother Allen, come over here now to the microphone and have you been seeing this thing?
I tell you, I've just been sitting here really amazed at two great pitchers,
given perhaps two of the best performances of their careers.
The one, comparatively brief, Don Newcomb, who has come like a meteor this year,
and Allie Reynolds, a veteran, who actually might have gone through the first nine innings with a one hitter,
who might have had a no hitter going through the eighth inning when Reese singled because, as you mentioned,
and as I mentioned earlier, Johnny Lindell overran Jorgensen's drive, which he might have caught.
And Big Don Newcomb, who has been almost as stingy with his base hit, certainly when he meant anything,
and who has been striking them out right and left and firing and firing and firing.
And it's just been a tremendous ball game all the way.
And this is what I call baseball as the people have loved it through the years.
Well, this is a very fit ball game for a World Series.
In other words, the two big teams, and here's the big game and the two big pitchers, and here we go.
All right, Tommy Henrik, first step last of the ninth.
We followed by Barra and then by DiMaggio.
So the Yankees have their big hitters now in the line.
Newcomb on the mound, the outfield deep toward right.
Henrik, 0 for 3, left hand batter.
Takes a curve that is outside for a ball one.
Henrik swings from the end.
Right side of the infield, it's full depth.
Hodges the first base and steps over toward the line.
Newcomb's pitch has his curve down across the shins for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Two and all.
Newcomb looking into the dirt.
He has a rather odd idiosyncrasy on the mound and he's pumping with 35 in a second.
Two-nothing pitchers, hung on.
Drilled out toward right field, going way back.
That's the ball game, a home run for Tommy Henrik.
There's Henrik now between first and second.
Bill Dickie, the first base, almost jumped on his back and realized that's a tender back and he better not.
Henrik's coming in the third.
He is cutting his home run home.
Look at him grin.
All he can think is a slice of watermelon.
Wow.
All reliable.
Hit one.
That's all.
Well, they call him all reliable and they're not joking.
He hit a two-nothing pitch.
Wow.
Way back up there in the straightaway right field stand.
So Henrik, who hit a home run in the eighth inning Sunday to guarantee the Yankees a cushion to work on against the Red Sox to get into the World Series,
now gives the Yankees a one-game cushion with a very dramatic home run with the startling suddenness of a pistol shot.
The denouement, the climax, was reached.
So the Dodgers walk off the field, expected to start for the exits, and the Yankees did a wild war dance as they went off.
And Henrik, I don't believe he ever enjoyed running a home run any more than he ran now.
So that's that.
And now we're going to switch over to Mel and have him give you a recapitulation on the ball game.
Pitchers and that's Reynolds walking out to the mound.
Well, Mel, how about Henrik?
You've seen him do that many times, haven't you?
I've seen Henrik do that all this year.
As a matter of fact, he hit a home run opening day this year to win a ball game for the Yankees.
He hit a home run on the closing day to clinch it.
And he hits a home run on the opening day of the 1949 World Series to win the first game of it.
He is one of your old pros who's been around a long while, and that was his fourth World Series home run.
And I don't think that there's ever been a home run in his entire life that he has ever enjoyed more than that one.
Sixty-six thousand, two hundred and twenty-four people sitting there and with the suddenness of a bullet out of a cannon,
as Red described it so aptly and precisely for you, the ball game was over.
And here I think that the entire assemblage here, including Red, including myself, were expecting an extra inning ball game.
We just began to feel that perhaps it was going to go on and on and on.
You didn't know when the breaking point would come, and then it came just suddenly.
And that's the way it happens when you get down to that last inning or you get into that sudden death period,
and the home team, the last of the ninth, of course, is in that situation, and boom, there it was.
It was a tough break for a gallant guy, Don Newcomb, who came back with just two days' rest.
Red has seen him pitch many times this year.
I had the pleasure of watching him shut out the New York Giants on a night game,
and his fastball was blazing.
And to me, he pitched a tremendous game today, even a better one, as he struck out one Yankee after another
and wound up with a total of 11 strikeouts, two short, of Howard Emke's single game record of 13,
as we told you set back in 1928, 1929 on October the 8th when he pitched against the Cubs for the Philadelphia Athletics.
Allie Reynolds came along with nine strikeouts, and though Reynolds was in more frequent trouble than was Newcomb
because of more wildness, Reynolds, having walked some poor men while Don Newcomb did not walk a man
and has an opportunity, perhaps, if you like your statistics, to join Kyle Mays, a Yankee pitcher many years ago,
who in 1921 did not allow any bases on balls in a single-world series of 26 consecutive innings of pitching
that went through three ball games. So Newcomb went through one without allowing a base on balls.
Reynolds, on the other hand, allowed four, and as a result was in frequent trouble here and there, and went to many 3-2 counts.
Newcomb rarely ever went to a 3-2 count comparatively, as he had his control down a real sharp.
An error by Jerry Coleman allowed Reynolds to be in trouble, and although this is, again, repetition,
it's merely from the standpoint of reporting, Johnny Jorgensen's first inning double was a ball that all observers will tell you
should have been caught in the normal course of events. That's part of the game that it wasn't,
but we're merely indicating the type of game that Reynolds pitched that as far as his pitching was concerned,
he should have had a no-hitter going into the eighth inning. P. Ree Reese's single was one that there was no question about at all.
A clean base at all the way, and Reynolds wound up pitching a two-hit ball game.
And if you want to decide on the basis of hits, the Yankees had five, the Dodgers two, and therefore the Yankees deserved to win.
You can do it that way, but of course that's not a good way of looking at it.
You had two tremendous pitching performances today, and when you go on like that, it was just as the game Sunday between the Yankees and the Red Sox.
One of those two teams had to lose, one had to win the pennant. Somebody had to win it.
It couldn't go on forever, and that's the way this game was today.
It was a brilliantly played game all the way through, and it was just one of the finest World Series games that I can ever recall seeing in many a year.
So your total showed the Yankees one run, five hits, one error, and four men left on base, while the Brooklyn Dodgers were blank with two hits, did not make an error, and had six men left on base.
And now fans make a date to be with us by way of radio tomorrow for the second game of the series, and we'll have fun.
Tuning time will be 12.45 Eastern Standard Time, the same as today.
So our hats are off to the Brooklyn Dodgers, to the New York Yankees, and to Allie Reynolds of Oklahoma City, who pitched a brilliant two-hitter,
and with the help of Tommy Henrich, bested Don Newcomb and the Dodgers in an equally brilliantly pitched game, one to nothing.
So until tomorrow, smooth sailing, smooth shaving, and good afternoon from your host, the Gillette Safety Racer Company, Red Barber, and yours truly, Mel Allen.
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Well, here's the big fella that actually came out of the hospital just 52 times in the year when the Yankees had to have it, each time facing the Red Sox's foot.
Came back after the heel injury, big series at Boston, and the Yankees swept three games.
Then he came back after being bedded with pneumonia, a virus infection, just in time for the Yankees to sweep the two that got them where they are today at the stadium for the Dodgers.
DiMaggio, right hand batter, big Newcomb, right-hander pitches, fastball high and side up against the hands from all one.
DiMaggio was the first of Newcomb's eight strikeout victims, struck out the second inning, upped up to second base of the fourth, so he's 0-2.
Out to a deep round toward left, Newcomb's throw, swung on and fouled off.
There was a curveball in there, one and one, one ball, one strike.
No score.
Apparently there is nothing in 1945 as far as the big stakes are concerned.
It's going to be easy.
The defendants were tough.
This ball game is tough.
I guess this is the prevailing pattern of the year.
One and one pitch, curveball high and inside for a ball two, two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
They're very anxious to get the attendance figures whenever they are announced.
The press box will have them appear in the radio section, and we'll certainly pass them on to you.
Two balls, one strike.
Newcomb delivers, Joe swings, fouls with all.
DiMaggio looks as slender as when he first began to play professional ball.
He wasn't too heavy.
In fact, he was drawn very fine when he had his recent sickness, and he lost 11 to 12 pounds.
In fact, it's very hard to get Jody even to admit that he lost any weight.
He didn't like to talk that way.
But he has. His uniform is sort of draped on him a little bit.
All right, two and two.
Big Newcomb.
Kicks, throws.
There's a high, high pop fly right in the middle of the infield.
Robinson coming over, Reese coming over, and it's Robinson for the catch.
Peely was running in there.
Apparently, the captain then takes charge of the guy at the infield to designate who was going to catch it.
That ball was right back at pitcher's mound.
That could have been a grand scramble, as it was.
It's a simple pop fly to second place for Robinson.
But the Madjoes off with three in that in itself is a story.
Johnny Lindell, who hit a change-up ball, second inning for the Yankees single.
Reynolds has taken care of the next two hits.
He only had four hits to aggregate in the ball game.
Jorgensen got a double in the first inning when Lindell came in just a little when he should have been going back.
Some pitching.
Played on fire Hubbard wants to examine the baseball.
Finds it's all right, hands it back to catcher Campo Dello, fires it out to the mound.
Big Lindell stepping in.
I feel around toward left.
Infield swung toward third.
You can pitch sharp curve over.
It must have been a tough sight for Joe McArthur to see Lindell hit that home run Saturday afternoon,
because it was McArthur during the Warriors who converted Lindell from just a so-so pitcher to an outfielder.
Newcomb delivers fastball on the outside. One ball, one strike.
Campo Dello, who handled an uninsured in Brooklyn pitching staff all year, very well, sets down back of the plate.
There's a curve ball low outside missing by just a tick. Two balls, one strike.
Two and one, one gone, last to the seventh, no score.
A crowd watchfully waiting.
Two-one pitch over. There was a slider which Newcomb called a hard curve ball.
Two balls, two strikes.
One has two types of curve, the one which does not break very much but explodes very quickly. It's a hard curve.
A lot of pitches called the slider. And then the other one is just orthodox big sweeping curve.
Two and two.
Lindell, who swings from the heels. The two-two pitch.
Curve on the outside for four strikes three.
That gives Newcomb nine. Now check him out to be sure we haven't made a mistake on him because he's beginning to pick up a lot of strikeouts.
Now we have Billy Johnson who is 0 for 2 on both of them strikeouts.
And the consensus on the addition of Newcomb's K's, that's the scoring symbol for a strikeout, nine.
Two men gone. Last half of the seventh.
This ball game is no place for small boys.
Don works. Fastball swung on, hit down to deep third. Jorgensen up to throw over to first.
End time and that's off to Johnson.
It's off to the Yankees who go down one, two, three in the last half of the seventh inning.
So let's see.
The Yankees in giving up 21 outs have only had 24 batters. That shows you how tight that is.
The men that got on for the Yankees stayed on.
The Dodgers have only had one more man hit.
So things are really just as they stand when you say that it's no score.
That's what it is.
And you talk about pitching being dominant.
The pitching has been dominant. They haven't been hitting, they haven't been running.
The fielders have not had too many difficult chances.
So Reynolds gets set now for the severe test to the eighth inning because the screws set stronger and bite deeper.
And you come down to the eighth and end of the ninth.
And we'll take a ten second pause for station identification.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
WOR and WOR FM, your World Series stations in New York.
The applause that you hear here at Yankee Stadium greets pitcher Don Newcomb as he walks up to be the first batter for Brooklyn in the eighth inning.
Newcomb left hand hitter.
All for two against Reynolds. He grounded out short to first in the third inning and struck out in the fifth.
I feel the step toward right. Newcomb leans in. Reynolds pitches. Curveball low inside.
Reynolds knew, I guess he knew from Sunday night on that he was going to be the starting pitcher.
Newcomb did not know until the players meeting before batting practice today that he was to be the pitcher.
He figured it could be he or it could be Pooch or Rolfe.
Throw, throw on and miss. Fastball and Don took a ruffle. One and one.
Jerry Coleman talking away down second base.
Jake Kutler that side of hollow coaching it first.
Start right hand to Reynolds delivers. Fastball all over there. Hand high on the outside. One and two.
Reynolds and Vara handling the battery assignment for New York.
Henrik was always picking play out of his spikes of his shoes down at first.
Coleman the rookie at second. Rizzuto veteran and still not too old at short.
And for the Johnsons same category at third. Pitch. Curveball over. Call strike three. Newcomb knew it.
Vara started walking away.
Strike out number seven for Reynolds.
This is the third strike Dodger to go down on strikes by Reynolds. All call strike three.
Two right hand hitters with curves on the outside. Newcomb left hand batter curve breaking in on the outside.
So you can see that the pitchers have had the hitters at their mercy so far.
So here in the eighth inning one out. Fastball through there. Call strike. Nothing in one.
No balls. One strike. Two veteran managers.
Casey Stengel, Bert Schotten.
Pitch. He takes low. Here's a sinker. One ball. One strike.
One and one. That's the ball and strike out. No score.
Would you let safety raise the company?
Might be pleased to be sending you the big broadcast. There's a line drive back to the middle for a base hit.
So Kiwi comes up with a solid single which is Brooklyn's second base hit.
This is the first hit since Jorgensen with one out got the double in the first inning.
So Rizz single's right through the middle.
Number two for Brooklyn and Jorgensen through is one for two stepping in.
Reese at first.
Klippler, the first base coach, goes over and talks to them for the moment.
Now Henry comes on, takes the bag.
Infield is going up in double play depth.
Johnson's in a little closer third.
Throw to first, not in time, Reese back.
Steele is a very alert, a very intelligent runner.
But he's been bothered with a groin injury and he cannot run at top speed.
The Dodgers did not have him trying to steal in September.
Throw to first, Reese gets back. He goes out and takes a full lead.
Reese, Rizzuto, Robinson, they all go way off first base.
That's one reason the pitchers have to pick at them so much.
Reynolds set, checks first.
Pitchers are fastball outside. All one, one ball, no strikes.
Jorgensen doubled the left center field when Lindell bearded in instead of during immediately back.
They say this is a tough ballpark here at the stadium even when you play in it all year long.
Then Jorgensen grounded that second, first and the third and walked in the sixth.
Outfield toward right, left hand hitter.
Reese off first. Reynolds works.
There's a foul ball back on the screen directly behind Hall.
With a fastball coming in there, Reynolds is not wishing to get behind two and all.
One ball, one strike.
Madden Distangle has perfect confidence in Reynolds.
He has not fallen to his bullpen and the Yankee bullpen contingent is sitting there at the rail fence out there in right center field.
The paid attendance, 66,224.
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The attendance is 66,224.
One ball, one strike. Two Jorgensen, no score. Reese at first, one out. Eight inning.
There goes Reese, joins and takes. There's a throw from Bauer down to second.
It's not in time and Reese slides in.
The throw was very high. Grizillo had to jump up to pull it out.
Throw there with the outstretched hand of Mark Consarello of the American League and Peewee was in by a wide margin.
They did run him. Reese is getting up a little slowly.
When ballplayers play with an injury and run like that for steel, that tells you all you want to know about it.
That's the sort of player that Reese is. The Maggio has shown it this year.
Those are the telltale things that separate the men from the boys.
So Peewee steals. Jorgensen cut. That was a hit and run play.
But of course, any time on a hit and run play, the run and all is at the bottom.
They swing and miss.
And now Casey Stengel steps to the front of his dugout and he's trying to get his defense set now the way he wants it.
He has. So Jorgensen is up there one and two.
Stengel moved Lindell O'Neal more into left center. Strike three swinging.
High curve ball to Reynolds takes care of Jorgensen.
So Jorgensen strikes out. Reese, who has the series now only steel, is at second.
That's seven, eight strikeouts for Reynolds.
Eight for Reynolds and nine for Newcomb. Seventeen strikeouts.
Tomorrow's ball game will be here at the stadium, you know, just as this one is.
And game time will be the same as this one. One o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
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Now here is Duke Snyder up. Two gone. Reese at second. No score.
There's a ground foul outside first base. The ball dies before it gets there.
Yankee bat boy retrieves it, throws it out.
No balls, one strike. Two away.
This ball game is approaching the breaking point.
Both pitches have been most heroic, most efficient.
Each has had the difference when he's had to have it.
The Yankees has been in more trouble because of four bases on balls.
Newcomb hasn't walked anybody.
Snyder, 0-3 and two strikeouts, takes a high and side fast ball, one and one.
One ball, one strike.
You know, scouting of teams is not relegated just to football alone.
Both of these baseball teams have been very well scouted.
The Yankees by the Dodgers and the Dodgers by the Yankees.
And a lot of this effective pitching may be directly attributable to the sharp eyes of the scouts in the last two weeks
and how they have constructed and managed to shut and then stangle to have various hitters pitch to.
One ball, one strike.
Reynolds delivers high outside for ball two.
Two and one, two gone.
Reese leading down on second.
Man, a run doesn't look very big to either one of these teams, does it?
Two on pitches, a curve over the outside for a call second strike.
Now you can get the suspense of the crowd.
Here they are, roaring on each pitch.
I was a little curve ball over the outside, two and two.
Snyder, trim figure, slenderish.
Great body turn, hip pivot, where he gets his power from.
Two to pitch, slow on in this, back ball in there for three and the run is turned it loose.
And he's now a four.
The Houston eights has nine strikeouts.
So as we go on to the last half of the eighth inning, the score is,
what for nothing and New York nothing.
But I tell you, he's hit three home runs per game five times in his career.
Well, you know his name is Johnny Myers of the Yankees.
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Well, here we are.
Seven and a half innings disposed of. Eight teams struck out hitters.
And that tells you the big story.
So we move on to the last of the eighths. No score.
The first up to the Yankees is the rookie right fielder, Cliff Mapes.
Had a great year last year out of Kansas City.
That's hand batter.
He struck out both times. He's been up against Newcomb.
Now Newcomb bending to his past delivers.
Fast ball high outside, ball one.
Mapes ran up on the ball as though he would try and pull a bunt.
Beat it out for a base hit.
Outfield is swung into right.
Play him to call.
Cappinella down to give the sign to big umpire, Cal Hubbard, back of the cross position of the receiver.
The right hander throws.
Curve in there for a call strike.
One and one.
Hubbard so big when he called a strike he looked like the Statue of Liberty holding that torch up there.
Of course, I would say he's dressed a little differently.
One and one fits. Bunted. Missed. Strike two.
Mapes tried to bunt.
An inside slider.
By the hands, one ball, two strikes.
Boy, this is really getting tough.
Of course, you never know until the ball game is over the answer to a tough game.
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One ball, two strikes.
Throw.
Throw in.
In this strike three, the ball was tipped and Cappinella held it and it swirled around.
Swish that bat. You could see that he was strong about it.
Ten strikeouts for Newport.
Nineteen in the game and the Yankee ball friend is now going.
Right hander Fred Sanford and left hander Joe Page are throwing.
Which indicates that manager Stingle might want to pitch it for Reynolds if he saw he had reason to do so during the last of the eighth.
But let's let results write the story as it takes place.
Jerick Coleman works well up on the handle of that bat.
Slendrish, rookies, second baseman right hand hitter struck out twice.
Takes a fast ball high inside.
One and one.
One out.
No score.
As dark as it is this afternoon, you realize the wisdom of starting these games at one o'clock.
Tomorrow's game will be at one just as though this one.
That gives you all the time that you can get.
Sunday's game of course according to the New York State law will be two o'clock.
All the others will be one o'clock.
And of course air time.
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Big Newcomb, plunked once, twice, throws.
Fast ball's swung on.
Drill down the right.
She's in there for a base hit.
Roller has to play the ball on the count.
And there is Coleman on his way to second.
He's in there for a double.
A solid line drive double.
He hit an outside fast ball sharply.
Now the Yankees come up with a very solid pressure in the last of the eighth inning.
And Reynolds is coming on to hit for himself.
So with one man gone, Coleman lashes out and lines one into the right field corner for a solid double.
And there is Coach Clyde Soukforth who goes out to the mound for Manager Bert Scharton to talk to pitchers when they are in battle.
Souk is going out to the mound to talk to Big Newcomb right now.
Reynolds has a double and a single for the two times he's been up.
One man gone.
It is no score.
And the Yankees now have a real serious threat in the last of the eighth inning.
Soukforth going back into the bench.
He's carried whatever message Manager Scharton wanted sent out there.
Manager Scharton, like Connie Mack of the Athletics, manages in street clothes.
Therefore, under baseball law, he cannot step out on the playing field in the game.
He can't go on that field unless you're in the baseball suit or the umpire's blues.
All right pitcher, Reynolds is up.
Two for two.
Right hander Newcomb delivers.
Curve ball on the outside for a called strike.
Reynolds right hand hitter.
The Brooklyn bullpen is of course now sprung into activity.
Attender Joe Hatton is down there and right handers Banner and Erskine.
Yankee bullpen stops working.
Reynolds up there hitting.
Swings at a curve, doesn't get it.
And the outside, it's fake too.
No balls, two strikes.
One man gone.
Every pitch, heavily weighted.
There's big potentials out here riding now.
No score.
Sun breaks out again.
Plenty of light pitch.
Pass ball low outside.
Reynolds refused to chase it.
He had another down to his right to hold it up one and two.
Coleman who can run.
Leading down off second and is constantly repeating to Frankie Crissetti the fact that one man is out.
That's very important.
That means the ball is hit ahead of him.
He stays at second base.
One and two pitch.
Outside a curve ball for a ball two.
And Captain Miller had to really go down to his right to keep that ball from getting loose.
So it's a great crowd of 66,224.
And they're all looking on up there on the edge of their seats.
Like to see Commissioner Channels on the edge of his seat leaning on the rail in front of his box.
Boy, this is something worth really looking at with both eyes.
So Newcomb getting ready to take dead aim.
Reynolds leaning in.
The two-two pitch.
Strike three.
Curve on the outside.
That's just got it.
So Reynolds turns and walks away at the first time.
But he's been turned back from the plate.
Eleven strikeouts for Don Newcomb.
Twenty strikeouts in the ball game.
Why aren't there any runs?
Twenty strikeouts.
That's good enough.
And now a great little money player, Phil Rizzuto up there.
Coleman.
Second base.
He's ready to go.
He's repeating now.
It's a third base coach, Grazetti.
That is with the wig wagging his fingers too hard, which means you're on or anything.
No score.
Newcomb throws.
Curve swung on.
There's a high fly ball in the center.
Slatter comes in a step.
He's going back two steps.
He's under it.
He waits.
He has it.
That's all for the eighth inning threat.
Well, that is a very good threat that went past the boards in the eighth inning.
So here we come into the ninth inning.
I'd say the ball game is even up.
Each team had a fine threat in the eighth inning, as Rizz reached second base, if you'll recall,
with one out in the eighth, a single and a steal.
The Yankees had a man in the eighth inning.
Coleman got there with one out.
He's two bagger and never got passed.
So it continues to be the two.
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Well, I notice you're digging down in that red book.
I know you're looking for aggregate strikeouts.
That is, most strikeouts by everybody in a World Series game.
Is there anything noted on that?
We've been checking. As a matter of fact, our record book doesn't list it,
but we went checking with some of the veteran scribes,
and they went back into other records.
And in 1944, 22 strikeouts by the two teams in one ball game.
That was the Cardinals-Browns World Series.
We'll give you the pictures a little bit later.
All right, we've got 20 strikeouts missing at the end of eighth.
Now Robinson, his first step in the ninth inning.
He's off the three.
Last time up, hit the ball hard in the maggio, made a fine galloping catch in deep left center.
Jack ticks a curve, over for a called strike.
No balls, one strike.
The strikeouts that Mel was referring to were 10 by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.
Now Robinson hits the ground ball down towards short.
The Brazil charger throws to first, and Jack is out by a wide margin, about four steps.
So one up and one gone, top of sixth inning.
So 22 strikeouts back in the All-St. Louis World Series.
Ten by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.
We've had 20 so far today.
One gone, top of the ninth.
But we're not citing that that is the record of aggregate strikeouts.
We just haven't been able to put our finger on anything any closer than that.
Gene Hermanski, 0 for 2, swings and there's a high pop fly.
Short step resuto, getting under it, under it, and makes the grab.
On the inside grass, he's got a short two-man retired.
Top of the ninth, there's Randall's continuous pitching.
And Carl Forello, who is 0 for 2, face on ball, got on with an error, then popped it to first, stepping in.
Two gone, top of the ninth.
So he settles down to give the sign.
Says step into Forello and Forello grins.
I feel back at the right, they're not playing Carl to pull.
He doesn't pull too much toward left as the roll.
And with this scorn injury, which prevents his full pivot, they don't think to pull at all.
There's a foul ball out of play.
Nothing in one, no balls, one strike.
Nothing in one, two down, no score, ninth inning.
Crowd is watching and waiting.
Something to watch and much to be waited for.
Right hand there, Randall's pitches a curve low and away.
One ball, one strike.
Burr just batted the ball down, picks it up, throws it out to the mound.
One and one.
Forello, choke sets take just about half an inch.
Randall's pumped once, deals overhand, fastball good on the outside of over the knees for a call, second strike.
One and two.
This is the great game that Randall's has pitched in his entire career.
Right hander pumping, dealing sidearm curveball, missing low outside.
Two and two, two balls, two strikes.
He leaned toward third when he cut that one loose.
Two and two, top of the ninth.
Brooklyn, the visiting ball club here at Yankee Stadium, had bat.
Nobody has a run.
Only one man has reached third base safely.
He reached it in the second inning for the Dodgers with two out.
Two to pitch, swung on, fouled into the stands, back of first base, top foul ball.
Two balls, two strikes.
Randall's very calmly rubbing up the new ball, standing at the back of the mound.
Big crowd is so quiet that you can hear the piping, shrill voices of the infielders as they holler encouragement to the pitcher.
Randall's takes the ball, feet spread.
Randall's takes the sign, pumps once, delivers, curveball back on the screen.
It's still two and two.
Two balls, two strikes.
Two gone.
The guy that was asking for a battle today really got it.
Apparently nothing is going to come easier to a winner this year in baseball.
Two to pitch, swung on as a high fly ball into short right center field.
Right fielder Mape's coming in under it.
He has it, so that's all for Brello who just keeps right on limping out toward that field, picks up his guard.
And we get ready to go into the last half of the ninth inning.
Last of the ninth inning.
Nobody has any run.
Ed Bigmulcombe, sloping out to the mound.
Well, Brother Allen, come over here now to the microphone and have you been seeing this thing?
I tell you, I've just been sitting here real amazed at two great pitchers, given perhaps two of the best performances of their careers.
The one, comparatively brief, Don Newcomb, who has come like a meteor this year, and Allie Reynolds, a veteran,
who actually might have gone through the first nine innings with a one hitter,
who might have had a no hitter going to the eighth inning when re-singled because, as you mentioned, and as I mentioned earlier,
Johnny Lindell overran Jorgensen's drive, which he might have caught.
And Big Don Newcomb, who has been almost as stingy with his base hit, certainly when he meant anything,
and who has been striking them out right and left and firing and firing and firing.
And it's just been a tremendous ball game all the way.
And this is what I call baseball as the people have loved it through the years.
Well, this is a very fit ball game for a World Series.
In other words, the two big teams, and here's the big game and the two big pitches, and here we go.
All right, Tommy Henrik, first step, last of the ninth.
We follow for Barra and then by DiMaggio.
So the Yankees have their big hitters now in the line.
Newcomb on the mound, the outfield deep toward right.
Henrik off for three, left hand batter.
Takes a curve that is outside for a ball one.
Henrik swings in the end.
Right side of the infield, it's full depth.
Hodges the first base and steps over toward the line.
Newcomb's pitch has this curve down across the shins for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Two and all.
Newcomb looking into the dirt.
He has a rather odd idiosyncrasy on the mound and he's pumping with 35 in a second.
Two-nothing pitch is hung on.
Drilled out toward right field, going way back.
That's the ball game, a home run for Tommy Henrik.
There's Henrik now between first and second.
Bill Dickey, the first base, puts almost just on his back and then realized that's a tender back and he better not.
Henrik's coming in the third.
He is cutting his home run home.
Look at him grim.
Big as a slice of watermelon.
Wow.
All reliable.
Hit one.
That's all.
Well, they call him all reliable and they're not joking.
He hit a two-nothing pitch.
Wow.
Way back up there in the straightaway right field stand.
So Henrik, who hit a home run in the eighth inning Sunday to guarantee the Yankees a cushion to work on against the Red Sox to get into the World Series,
now gives the Yankees a one-game cushion with a very dramatic home run with a startling suddenness of a pistol shot.
The denouement, the climax, was reached.
So the Dodgers walk off the field, expected to start for the exits, and the Yankees did a wild war dance as they went off.
And Henrik, I don't believe he ever enjoyed running a home run any more than he ran nothing.
So that's that.
And now we're going to switch over to Mel and have him give you a recapitulation on the ballgame.
Pitching as Reynolds walking out to the mound.
Well, Mel, how about Henrik?
You've seen him do that many times, haven't you?
I've seen Henrik do that all this year.
As a matter of fact, he hit a home run opening day this year to win a ballgame for the Yankees.
He hit a home run on the closing day to clinch it.
And he hits a home run on the opening day of the 1949 World Series to win the first game of it.
He is one of your old pros who's been around a long while.
And that was his fourth World Series home run.
And I don't think that there's ever been a home run of his entire life that he has ever enjoyed more than that one.
Sixty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-four people sitting there and with the suddenness of a bullet out of a cannon,
as Red described it so aptly, and precisely for you, the ballgame was over.
And here I think that the entire assemblage here, including Red, including myself, were expecting an extra inning ballgame.
You just began to feel that perhaps it was going to go on and on and on.
You didn't know when the breaking point would come, and then it came just suddenly.
And that's the way it happens when you get down to that last inning or you get into that sudden death period,
and the home team, the last of the night, of course, is in that situation, and boom, there it was.
It was a tough break for our gallant guy, Don Newcomb, who came back with just two days' rest.
Red has seen him pitch many times this year.
I had the pleasure of watching him shut out the New York Giants on a night game,
and his fastball was blazing.
But to me, he pitched a tremendous game today, even a better one, as he struck out one Yankee after another
and wound up with a total of 11 strikeouts, two short, of Howard Emke's single-game record of 13,
as we told you set back in 1928, 1929 on October the 8th, when he pitched against the Cubs for the Philadelphia Athletics.
Allie Reynolds came along with nine strikeouts, and though Reynolds was in more frequent trouble than was Newcomb
because of more wildness, Reynolds, having walked some four men while Don Newcomb did not walk a man,
and has an opportunity, perhaps, if you like your statistics, to join Kyle Mays, a Yankee pitcher many years ago,
who in 1921 did not allow any bases on balls in a single-world series of 26 consecutive innings of pitching
that went through three ball games. So Newcomb went through one without allowing a base on balls.
Reynolds, on the other hand, allowed four, and as a result was in frequent trouble here and there, and went to many 3-2 counts.
Newcomb rarely ever went through a 3-2 count comparatively, as he had his control down a real sharp.
An arrow by Jerry Coleman allowed Reynolds to be in trouble, and although this is, again, repetition,
it's merely from the standpoint of reporting, Johnny Jorgensen's first-inning double was a ball that all observers will tell you
should have been caught in the normal course of event. That's part of the game that it wasn't,
but we're merely indicating the type of game that Reynolds pitched that as far as his pitching was concerned,
he should have had an 0-hitter going into the eighth inning. P. Ree Reese's single was one that there was no question about at all.
A clean base hit all the way, and Reynolds wound up pitching a two-hit ball game.
And if you want to decide on the basis of hits, the Yankees had five, the Dodgers two, and therefore the Yankees deserved to win.
You can do it that way, but of course that's not a good way of looking at it.
You had two tremendous pitching performances today, and when you go on like that, it was just as the game Sunday between the Yanks and the Red Sox.
One of those two teams had to lose, one had to win the pennant. Somebody had to win it.
It couldn't go on forever, and that's the way this game was today.
It was a brilliantly played game all the way through, and it was just one of the finest World Series games that I can ever recall seeing in many a year.
So your total showed the Yankees one run, five hits, one error, and four men left on base, while the Brooklyn Dodgers were blanked with two hits, did not make an error, and had six men left on base.
And now fans make a date to be with us by way of radio tomorrow for the second game of the series, and we'll have fun.
Tuning time will be 12.45 Eastern Standard Time, the same as today.
So our hats are off to the Brooklyn Dodgers, to the New York Yankees, and to Allie Reynolds of Oklahoma City, who pitched a brilliant two-hitter,
and with the help of Tommy Henrich, bested Don Newcomb and the Dodgers in an equally brilliantly pitched game, one to nothing.
So until tomorrow, smooth sailing, smooth shaving, and good afternoon from your host, the Gillette Safety Racer Company, Red Barber, and yours truly, Mel Allen.
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