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This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.

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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.

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This is the mutual radio broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.

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This is Red Barber with Mel Allen at Yankee Stadium in New York greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor Company

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as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees get set for the opening game of the 1949 World Series.

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The first question that you want to know is about the weather, and the weather is fine.

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It scared everybody in New York to death this morning when when dawn came,

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it came through gray clouds and it was raining, but the rain stopped about 830 to 9 o'clock.

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The outfield is going to be a little bit treacherous for any outfielder who has to cut sharply one way or the other.

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The infield, which of course was covered, is in perfect condition.

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Now the second question that you'd like to know, the starting pitcher for the Dodgers.

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Bert Schotten did not announce him until his pregame clubhouse meeting.

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He is Big Don Newcomb, 6'5, 230 pounds, finishing his rookie year.

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In fact, he was not even with the Dodgers the first month of the pennant campaign, came on to win 17 ballgames.

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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.

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In fact, on the pre-World Series broadcast from Commissioner Chandler Sweet last evening,

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he compared Ali Reynolds and he was speaking then of the fact that he knew he was going to be the starting pitcher,

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said he was going to sleep well, and that the butterflies wouldn't start until about noon today.

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And as far as butterflies, there are butterflies everywhere, as far as these athletes are concerned.

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This is it. And I think the tremendous tensions of the two pennant races,

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each coming down to the very last thing late Sunday afternoon, has added to the number of butterflies that will beset these ballplayers.

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But they are great. The Yankees won in a tremendous finish in the American League.

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The Dodgers won in a tremendous finish and one inning, you might say, in the National League.

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So adjectives can just be put in the attic. This is it.

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Now they are going to put their knucks on the line and it's going to be settled right here and now.

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In fact, in about 13 fateful moments, this ballgame will be on the way.

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So the two right-handers continue throwing. Reynolds, who won 17 and lost 6.

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It might be significant to point out he pitched 4 complete games.

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Newcomb has won 17 ballgames for Brooklyn in the pennant race, has lost 8.

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And as far as his complete games go, 19. He's big and strong.

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And I think that is one reason that Manager Schotton wished him to start.

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He wanted Newcomb to start so that he can do as much work as possible.

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Now you want the batting orders. For the visiting Dodgers, captain and shortstop Pee Wee Reese will lead off.

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And Johnny Jorgensen, the third baseman, is hitting number 2.

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Johnny Jorgensen. Duke Snyder is in center field and is batting third.

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Snyder, who drove in Brooklyn's pennant winning run in the 10th inning at Philadelphia Sunday.

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Jackie Robinson won the batting championship for the National League with 3 points.

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Robinson at second base. He was in the series in 47, you'll recall.

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Gene Harmanski is in left field. Harmanski in left for Brooklyn.

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Carl Forello, who is Brooklyn's casualty. Forello in right field.

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He has a groin injury. Right side of his groin. It's quite painful.

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But the Brooklyn trainer, Doc Wendler, put a whole roll of tape on him and an elastic bandage.

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And Forello is going to play. Hodges at first base.

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In other words, this is the regular Brooklyn batting order that goes against an opposing starting right hand pitcher.

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Campanella is catching and is hitting eighth. And the pitcher is rookie Don Newcomb.

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Now for Casey Stengel and his Yankees. And it's an odd fact that Stengel played in a World Series for the Dodgers.

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Several, in fact. And more than that, Stengel in 1934 and 35 managed at Brooklyn before he went to the Boston Braves.

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Now the announcement that Miss Lucy Monroe will sing the national anthem.

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Miss Lucy Monroe, accompanied by Garland Barter's orchestra, just performed the national anthem.

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Now we'll go down to batting orders for the Yankees.

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The Six Umpires, Reese, the Brooklyn team captain, manager Casey Stengel, who takes his own batting order up for the Yankees.

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Arkham, Forell, and Home Plate. The groundkeepers here at the stadium are still polishing off the infield.

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So it's just a quiet scene at the moment. The sun shining and the big crowd pouring in.

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For the Yankees, Phil Rizzuto, who's had a tremendous year at shortstop, leads off.

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Little Scooter, Rizzuto. Tommy Henrik, all reliable.

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He told us in the dugout an hour ago that his back feels fine. It is not taped. He is not wearing a corset.

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In other words, he said, that slender figure is all mine.

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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.

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Yogi Barra, whose left arm is still tender. He has to be very careful.

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He says sometimes if he hits a ball wrong off the bat, it stings his hand and hurts him very much.

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Yogi Barra is catching. The great Joe DiMaggio, 12 pounds lighter for that recent bout with a virus pneumonia.

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Joe DiMaggio, who returned to get an action just in time those two games with the Red Sox Saturday and Sunday.

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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.

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Lindell in left. Billy Johnson, who has been playing good ball lately, is at third base.

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Cliff Mapes, the rookie who's made the grade splendidly in right field. M-A-P-E-S Mapes.

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Jerry Coleman, another rookie who came through for Stengel with his multitudinous shifts.

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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.

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Mel, how many casualties did you count up this year with the Yankees in the front of the race?

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We stopped at 70, Ryan.

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All right, now we told you Coleman at second base, Ali Reynolds is the pitcher, and the umpires.

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Carol Hubbard, one of the great athletes on the American scene. Oh, what a football player he was.

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Big Carol Hubbard will be back at the plate. John Beanes-Ridden will be at first base for the National League.

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Art Passerella of the American League, Passerella at second base.

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Lou Georda of the National League will be at third.

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In the left field corner, as an alternate umpire, will be Ed Hurley of the American League.

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And in the right field corner, alternate umpire George Barr of the National League.

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Folks, now and then, something that doesn't happen is news.

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For instance, thanks to the cooperation of campers, hunters, tourists, and others who visit our Woodland areas,

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16,000 forest fires didn't happen in 1948.

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But before we start cheering, it's also true that forest fires devastated 30 million acres last year.

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That's an area as large as New York State.

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Remember, only you can prevent forest fires, so don't be careless.

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The umpires are going out to take their six positions,

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and I noticed that Hurley is going in the right field corner, Barr in the left field corner, to make that change for you.

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And now while we have the opportunity, we'll pause for station identification.

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This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.

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WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.

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The Yankees have started out to take their nine defensive posts here at Yankee Stadium.

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A little cloudishness has come, but there's still plenty of sunlight.

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Jake Pitler is going down to coach his first for the Dodgers.

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Milton Stocks to coach his third.

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And now coming over here to the Gillette microphone, one of the great broadcasters.

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It's a real privilege to be with him again.

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His broadcasting this year as the Yankees go up to their pennant was equally in tune with the success of the New York Club.

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Mel Allen.

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Hello there, everybody. Thank you very much, Red Barber.

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And it's always a privilege and a real pleasure to be able to associate with you on these World Series broadcasts.

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I shall never forget the 1947 when you and I went to those seven games and had so much fun and excitement.

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This program comes to you by authority of the Commissioner of Baseball.

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It's intended only for the private use of our audience.

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Any publication or reproduction of this program and commercial use of the program is prohibited.

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And so we're all set for the first game of the World Series.

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Allie Reynolds, who won 17 games and lost six for the Yankees in the regular season,

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and whose previous World Series experience consists of a victory over the Dodgers in 1947.

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He worked in two games, a total of 11 in the third innings,

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beating the Dodgers in the second game of the 47 World Series here at the stadium.

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And he's opening for New York today.

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Vic Rasci, generally considered the Yankees' ace, went Sunday against the Red Sox in that thrilling finale.

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And thus, of course, Casey Stengel decided to rest him a little longer

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and start instead Allie Reynolds.

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Allie has a good fastball, a good curve, and has been troubled on occasion by his control.

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When Allie's control is good, he's rough to hit.

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If his control is off, then of course he'll get into trouble.

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Now the first ball was tossed out by Bruce Howard, a nine-year-old youngster of Astoria, Long Island.

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He's the guest of baseball commissioner A.B. Chandler.

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He was chosen to represent thousands assisted during this year's record infantile paralysis epidemic.

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And now the first pitcher of the ball game, the Pee Wee Reese,

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right-hand batter is in there for a called strike, and we're underway in the 1949 World Series.

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Pee Wee, right-hand batter, who hit.277 in the regular season,

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captain of the Dodgers, good money player, Johnson in close at third in the vent of the bunt,

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The pitch is a curve over for called strike two.

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The outfield for Reese, slightly toward left and center left,

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I guess in general they're shading him toward left, although Cliff Mapes is looking for Pee Wee,

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maybe hit over toward right a bit.

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Tommy Henrik is deep wide of first.

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Jerry Coleman, three strikes to the right of second.

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Johnson is a little deeper now at third with two strikes on Reese.

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The pitch, just outside for a ball, it's an overhand delivery.

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Allie had come inside arm with his first two pitches.

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It's a one-two count now on Pee Wee Reese.

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Johnny Jorgensen on deck with Duke Snyder to follow.

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Reynolds getting a sign from Yogi Berra, taking a little time, and Reese steps out.

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A little overcast at the moment, Sun's playing hide and seek, a little muggy.

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Now Reynolds is ready, here's the one-two pitch to Reese, and it is swung on.

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A ground ball hit to Henrik, he's up with it, out runs, Reese to the bag, and there's one away.

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Pee Wee Reese grounding out, Henrik unassisted, and with one down, up comes Spider Jorgensen,

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a left-hand hitter, batted 269 on the regular season, and I believe, Red,

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had Billy Cox not been injured, he probably would have been the starting third baseman for the Dodgers, would he?

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He's been hurt, of course, since Labor Day.

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So Spider Jorgensen is in there, he's had previous World Series experience.

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Outfield, playing him to pull, toward right field, here's the pitch, strike one, it's called,

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a fast ball in there around the knees, on deck is Duke Snyder, top half of the first inning, one out, nobody on.

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Bill Rosuto is about one stride to the left of second base in a step, Johnson at third is in very close,

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about five feet off the bag.

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Now Reynolds delivery on its way, Jorgensen swings and lifts the drive to left center field,

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Lindell racing over into the gap, going back and it's over his head and moving by,

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The man just backing up and Jorgensen's racing his second, going to try for three,

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and then he holds up quickly as the free-lay comes into Rosuto, it's a double for Jorgensen in the left center.

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Johnny Jorgensen's drive in the left center was overcharged by Johnny Lindell,

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and then as he attempted to retrace his steps and backpedal, it was a little bit too late,

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and Joe DiMaggio backed up, kept the ball from going further, and it's a double for Spiner Jorgensen.

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That brings to the plate, Duke Snyder, long ball hitter for the Dodgers,

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Duke batting at 292 with 89 RBIs on the season, and 23 home runs.

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That's a two-base hit for Johnny Jorgensen.

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Reynolds looks in the getty side, outfield, playing him to pull toward right, here's the pitch.

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Curve is low inside, ball one.

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One ball, no strikes.

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Billy Johnson about six, eight feet off third baseline, a step away from the edge of the infield grass,

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Rosuto over near second to hold Jorgensen close.

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Jerry Coleman, the second baseman, back on the edge of the outfield grass,

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and at a point almost halfway between first and second with Henrik Diep on top of the first baseline.

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One out, one on, top of the first inning.

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Reynolds has a stretch, the pitch.

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Snyder takes inside the curve, ball two, two balls, no strikes.

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And you've got Jackie Robinson in the batter's circle.

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A 2-0 count.

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Milton Stock coaching at third for Brooklyn, Jake Fittler at first.

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Barragh gives Reynolds a sign, the right-hander with a stretch, checks his runner.

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Here's the pitch.

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Snyder takes strike call over the outside corner, knee high.

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The 2-1 count.

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Two balls, one strike, one out.

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And the fans beginning to warm to this first World Series game.

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They're still tingling over the sensational finishes in the two major leagues.

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Reynolds takes a little too much time for Snyder, and he steps out of the batter's box.

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Duke moves back into hitting position.

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Dodgers have something boiling in the top of the first inning.

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Two balls, one strike, count on Snyder, the stretch by Reynolds, Jorgensen off second.

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In comes the pitch, outside, ball three, the curve, slow curve, didn't break over.

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Three and one now to count.

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Big Cal Hubbard calling balls and strikes, beams ridden, umpiring at first.

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Art Passerelle at second.

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Hurley down the right fielder, bar down the left fielder.

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The 3-1 pitch.

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Swung on him, missed strike two, he cut hard.

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Man, he leveled.

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The right field stands here at Yankee Stadium are most inviting.

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296 feet down the right fielder into the corner with a barrier sloping off.

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It's a barrier I'd say approximately three and a half, four feet high.

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And at a point about 50 yards off the line, it's only 344 feet.

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So he got a full count now on Snyder.

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Three balls, two strikes, one out, Jorgensen on second.

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Reynolds takes the stretch.

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The Spiner has the lead.

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Here's the pitch.

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Snyder swings and he misses, cut three and he's out of there.

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Alley came in with a fastball.

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Got it in comparatively close to Duke.

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There's a case there I believe Red have either gone all the way or not at all.

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He really cut on that one.

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And now here's Jackie Robinson.

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Jackie won the National League Batting Championship, spark plug of the Dodger team, right hand

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hitter.

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Wound up the season hitting a.342 as did the American League Batting Champion.

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George Kell with Ted Williams also a.342 average, but Kell had just a bit of an edge

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on him when you carried it out to five figures.

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Now the pitch.

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Strike called sidearm fastball in there above the knees.

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One strike to count on Robinson.

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The outfield is shading him toward left and centered left.

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Cliff makes not too far over in the right center, but then quite a lot of room down

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The right field sector between him and the right field line.

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Johnson in halfway guarding third base line.

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Reynolds delivers.

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Robinson takes outside and low for a ball and the count is evened up at one and one.

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Phil Rizzuto is about three striers to the left of short.

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There's a good shot between Johnson and Rizzuto with Jerry Coleman the second baseman, two

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striers to the right of the bag and trying to hold Jorgensen as close as possible.

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Tommy Henrik about eight feet off the first base line and deep.

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Robinson out of the bat is boxed just for a moment.

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Gene Hermanski is on deck.

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Jorgensen on second, two down.

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Count of one and one on Jackie.

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Reynolds ready with a stretch.

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A look back.

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Here's the pitch.

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Slow curve, swung on, drilled out the right field.

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There's Mates digging over and back and he's got it for the out and the inning is over.

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Robinson lines out to Mates on right.

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No runs, one hit, no errors and one man left on base.

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And the score at the end of the first half of the first inning, nothing and nothing.

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This is the Red Letter Day we've been waiting for all season.

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The opening day of the series.

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Yes, and it's also a Red Letter Day for every man who shaves.

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Last half of the first inning, Big Don Newcomb, sensational right-hander for the Dodgers on

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The hill who won 17 games for Brooklyn after starting late in the year, being recalled

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from Montreal.

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And leading off for the Yankees is their candidate, one of their candidates for the most valuable

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player award in the American League this year, Phil Rizzuto.

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One of the few Yankees who did not come under the injury jinx.

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To any extent, he was out of two games.

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And actually, the one man on the entire ball club, they could have done least without.

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They could at least have done without.

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So Don Newcomb, the right-hander's first pitch to little Phil, is inside for ball one.

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Rizzuto is in his fourth World Series.

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He played in 1941, 42, and 47 with the 277 World Series batting average.

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Newcomb delivers, and the pitch is in there for a call strike.

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Fastball came in there just below the shoulders.

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Oddly enough, Phil's batting average for the 1949 season's 277.

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Tommy Henryk on deck.

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Jorgensen's in close at third. Phil's a good runner.

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Reached deep and short, about four strides, a five to the left of the bag, over toward the third base hole.

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Here's your pitch. It's bunted but up in the air.

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There's Gil Hodges digging over, foul territory makes the catch for the out.

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So Phil attempted to come up with his specialty, a bunt, only on this occasion,

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instead of dumping it down the third baseline, he tried to shove it by the mound.

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That was his intention, with Robinson deep at second.

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But instead he popped it into the air in foul territory, back of first, and Gil Hodges pranced over and grabbed it easily.

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So there's one out, and up comes Tommy Henryk.

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Tommy hitting a 287 on the season.

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Played in the 38, 41, and 47 World Series. Left hand hitter, the outfielder around toward right.

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Don Newcomb into the wind, up around comes the right arm, the pitch is fastball outside, ball one.

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Hermanski on left, Snyder in center, Ferullo on right.

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Jorgensen third, Reese short, Robinson second, Hodges first, Campanella catching.

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Newcomb pitching.

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Now the 1-0 delivery on its way, and Tommy Henryk takes outside for ball two.

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Two balls, no strikes.

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Frank Corsetti is coaching at third base for New York, and Bill Dickey at first.

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Gene Hermanski is way over in the left center, and Tommy Henryk is adept at placing balls in the left field.

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But of course they may figure that Newcomb is too fast for Tommy to do that on.

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In comes the pitch, Henryk swings and smacks it right out to short, Reese grabs it,

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blows on over to Hodges in time, and they're two away.

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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.

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Now the batter is Yogi Berra.

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Berra, left-hand hitter, played in the 1947 World Series, had a 1.58 batting average, had one home run.

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That was a pinch hit homer at Ebbets Field.

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In close to the plate, he stands deep in the batter's box, throws that bat down to the end of the handle.

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Don Newcomb throws, fastball golf foul on the ground down the first base line, strike one.

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No score, last half of the first inning.

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Two teams that came in a hurry to finish with sensational finishing drives,

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and today they're sort of feeling one another out in the early moments and getting the feel of the World Series.

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Now the one strike pitch on its way to Berra.

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It takes a change up its outside for ball one, one and one.

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Joe DiMaggio is on deck in the batter's circle, swinging a couple of bats around.

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Two men out, nobody on. No score, last half of the first inning.

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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,

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makes the catch and the inning is over.

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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.

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Red, I believe in 1947, the first game or two of the World Series started out comparatively slow,

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and then it really began to pick up in tempo, didn't it?

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Yes, it did, Mel. Once it got going, it just took everything with it.

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Almost took us with it, too.

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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,

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it could have been played as to an easy fly ball, would have had three up and three down.

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So I see Reynolds is out there getting all set. You'll hear you, Mel.

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And coming up for the Brooklyn Dodgers will be Gene Hermanski, Carl Ferrellow, and Gil Hodges.

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Gene, the left-hand hitter, hailing from over Jersey Way, a boy that resembles an appearance that is facially the late Lou Gehry.

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He's built somewhat along Lou's lines, Lou's a little stockier, I think, overall.

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Gene hits the long ball. On the season, Hermanski had a batting average with the Dodgers of 299.

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He appeared in 87 games as Bert Schotten alternated his outfielders to get the most out of them at the proper time.

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So Gene steps in, Allie Reynolds from Oklahoma City, all set to go.

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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.

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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,

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Hermanski takes just outside for a ball, one ball, no strikes.

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Big gap in the outfields and left center, Lindell looking for Hermanski to slice.

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DiMaggio's not too far off a straightaway center line, but a step or so toward right center.

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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.

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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.

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Now the one-one delivery, high and outside, ball two, two and one.

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Reynolds indicated a curve, but came in with a fastball, it was high and outside.

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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,

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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.

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So you've got a 2-2 count on Hermanski.

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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.

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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,

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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,

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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.

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It would be their job to watch balls that are hit into the stands and close to the foul poles.

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Now the payoff pitch to Hermanski is low, ball four, and he's on.

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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.

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And here's Carl Ferrello, who in the late stages of the Dodgers pennant fight was hitting that ball at a murderous clip.

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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?

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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,

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a look over it first, here's the pitch, and it's low outside, almost into the dirt.

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Yogi had to go to his knees and to his right to keep that from skipping by. One ball, no strikes.

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Been a lot of talk, of course, about the possibility of the Dodgers running on Barra, as they did in 1947.

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Bill Johnson's in close at third in the event of the bunt near the line.

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Rizzuto in halfway at short, two strides or three to the left of the bag.

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Here's your pitch, and it's low, ball two.

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Now Jerry Coleman trots in from second base, calls time to talk to Reynolds.

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Alley missing that plate now and getting himself in a little trouble.

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He worked hard on Hermanski and finally lost him.

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Now he's got a 2-0 count on Perillo, and you've got Gil Hodges on deck.

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Coleman is shading second, just a little bit more than first.

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Henrik holding it first against Hermanski, the stretch by Reynolds, the 2-0 pitch, strike called.

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Fast ball over there, just above the knees, it's a 2-1 count.

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The outfield for Perillo is toward right and center and right,

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with Lindell looking for Carl to hit the left but not to pull too sharply.

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All the room in the world in left center and just off the straightaway center line.

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Two balls, one strike, nobody out. Gene Hermanski on first base.

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Now Henrik's not holding against him, it's just in behind him a step.

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The stretch by Reynolds, here's your pitch, and it's low, ball three.

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3-1 count on Perillo.

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Always the bugaboo of any manager is the base on balls.

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3-1 count on Perillo.

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Reynolds checks with Barra, getting his sign.

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Now he's ready.

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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.

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So Hermanski has to come back to first.

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He stops Ira to exchange her word of two with Phil Rizzuto, their neighbors around Newark, around the Newark area.

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Baseball players are wonderful people, they battle one another tooth and nail, but in an idle moment of game they'll swap small talk.

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All right, you've got a full count on Perillo, three and two.

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Nobody out, top of the second inning, no scores yet.

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Carl digs in, backcocked up off his right shoulder, in close to the plate, slightly open stance, the stretch.

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There goes Hermanski, the pitch is taken high outside, ball four.

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He slowed up on Perillo, but didn't get the ball over.

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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.

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Gil Hodges, right-hand hitter, steps in.

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Hits 286 on the year, including 23 home runs and drove in 114 runs for the Dodgers.

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Reynolds ready, the runner's on first and second, the Yankees looking for the bunt, the pitch is inside for the ball.

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Yogi Barrett claims that the ball hit the bat of Hodges, but Cal Hubbard says no, it's a ball.

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Fred Sanford is starting to throw in the Yankee bullpen.

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Gil Hodges squared away to bunt, that pitch was way in on him, he had to jump to get away from it.

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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.

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Hermanski moves off second, Perillo off first, the stretch by Reynolds.

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Here comes Henrik, the pitch is bunnied and it's fouled off to the right of the plate.

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It's a beautiful bunt, but it's squirted foul, spun foul off to the right, and it's a 1-1 count.

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Tommy Henrik is charging the plate, Billy Johnson is trying to anchor, Reynolds attempting to protect the third baseline.

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And Barrett, of course, moving with the ball, with Coleman breaking toward first and Rizzuto second.

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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,

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so that you can anticipate the possibilities.

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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.

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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.

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It could happen now.

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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.

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Jerry Coleman two strides to the right of second.

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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.

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And the third on the play went Gene Hermanski.

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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.

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The batter now is Roy Campanella, Casey Stengel was just out the mound to talk to Allie Reynolds.

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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.

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No scores yet, top of the second inning.

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00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Allie checks with Barra, Hermanski on third.

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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.

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No runs, no hits, no errors, and one man left on.

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00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:36,000
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, anybody who grows whiskers like yours should know a thing or two about razor blades.

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00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
How do you rate Gillette blue blades?

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00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,000
They're tops with me. I never use any other kind.

412
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Easy shaving?

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00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
You said it, and long lasting too.

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00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
How about the Gillette dispenser, like it?

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It's a real convenience, saves a lot of fuss.

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00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Now men, see if Dom DiMaggio isn't right.

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Buy Gillette blue blades, 10 or 20, in the handy Gillette dispenser for the price of the blades alone.

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Remember, it zips them out unwrapped and makes blade changing a cinch.

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00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Dom, while you and I were chatting, a friend of yours just walked up to home plate and got a hand.

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00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
Yes, I see him down there.

422
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Who is he?

423
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
Big Joe, the jolder.

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He's a pretty good outfielder himself, isn't he, Dom?

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00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Yes, he is, Mel, one of the best of all time.

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Thanks a lot, Dom DiMaggio, and congratulations on a wonderful season.

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And now as we come into the last half of the second inning here at the Yankee Stadium, no score.

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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.

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00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Don Ucombe starts to work, the big right-hander, round comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it's outside, ball one.

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00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
One ball, no strikes.

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00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:19,000
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.

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00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Ucombe throws, DiMaggio takes right in there for a call strike.

433
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Ucombe, a great big fella, sort of untangles himself, and he goes into that windup, and he fires away.

434
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:39,000
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.

435
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:48,000
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.

436
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,000
Johnny Lindell is on deck with Billy Johnson to follow.

437
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,000
Nothing and nothing, last half of the second.

438
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Gene Hermanski has just put on his sunglasses, the sun begins to peep out again here at Yankee Stadium.

439
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:15,000
The wind is blowing in a mild fashion at the moment toward the left a bit, and also toward right just a bit.

440
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
It's a variable wind, but not too strong right now.

441
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Here's your pitch, and DiMaggio swings and misses, strike three, try to hold up, it couldn't.

442
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:33,000
It was a high inside fastball that DiMaggio started to go for, he tried to hold up, but he went around.

443
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Big Cal Hubbard went up with the right hand, and it's strike three.

444
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:47,000
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,

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00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:53,000
since it tied the Yankees with the Red Sox, broke a 4-4 tie in that particular ball game,

446
00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:01,000
and made it possible for the Yankees to go into Sunday with a chance to win the pennant, which they did.

447
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:08,000
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.

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00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Ucom looks sharp.

449
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
I feel playing Lindell to pull.

450
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Carl Frillo is looking for John to hit over toward the right center a bit.

451
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Frillo's over in front of the Yankee bullpen.

452
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Now the delivery. Change up his swing arm, lined out to left field for a base hit.

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00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:35,000
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.

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00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:46,000
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.

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00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Now Billy Johnson steps in.

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00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Lindell had been in two previous series, 43 and 47.

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00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Billy Johnson also in the 43 and 47 World Series.

458
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Johnson right hand batter.

459
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Billy hit 251 on the season.

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00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Below his par, the delivery, right in there for a call strike.

461
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Outfield well spread out for Johnson.

462
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:21,000
He can pull, he'll slice, and he can hit a long ball.

463
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Jorgensen halfway back at third, a couple feet off the line. Reese in a couple steps, it's short.

464
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Five strides to the left of second. Here's the pitch.

465
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Swung on, a ground ball hit foul down the third baseline. Frank Corsetti coaching third grand set.

466
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
And the two strike count on Billy.

467
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
Cliff Mapes is on deck.

468
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,000
Crowd sitting back rather quiet.

469
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Waiting for the big explosion that generally will take place in a tight ball game.

470
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:52,000
And of course they're ready to yell at the first opportunity either of these teams gives them.

471
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000
A two strike count on Billy.

472
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Lindell moves off first, one away. Here's your pitch.

473
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Swung on in this, strike three.

474
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000
Went down, swing on the fastball.

475
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,000
That Newcomb's got a quick one. He's really alive with it, isn't he Red?

476
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Well, Mel, he struck out 149 and only came up after the season was a month old. You can figure that for yourself.

477
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
Here's Cliff Mapes stepping in.

478
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Who on the season hit 243.

479
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Played great defensive ball for the Yankees. Got a tremendous arm.

480
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000
They play him to pull sharply in center and right.

481
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000
And now Berkshot is moving Gene Hermansky way over to left center.

482
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,000
Newcomb's delivery, he's swung on and foul back. Strike one.

483
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Mapes is another of the Yankee left hand hitters who on occasion will line that ball down the left field line.

484
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000
And they're giving him plenty of that sector at the moment.

485
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
Great deal, Ira, depends on the way a man is pitched as to where he's going to hit the ball.

486
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:59,000
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.

487
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Newcomb throws. Mapes takes inside around the knees. Ball one, one and one.

488
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Peabody's deep and short over towards second. About two strides to the left of second base.

489
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Spidey Jorgensen halfway back, ten feet off third baseline.

490
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Gil Hodges just in behind Lindell with two down.

491
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:18,000
And Jackie Robinson at a point about halfway between first and second bases.

492
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:24,000
No scores yet, two away. Here's your delivery. Swung on and missed. Strike two.

493
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Newcomb just overpowering Mapes as he did DiMaggio and Johnson.

494
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:34,000
And as a matter of fact, he might have done the same to Lindell. He's slowed up on John.

495
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:43,000
And John opportunity to capitalize on the change of pace from that line drive to left.

496
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,000
A one-two count on Mapes. Two down, no score. Last half of the second inning.

497
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:53,000
Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium. It's the World Series.

498
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,000
Newcomb throws. Mapes swings and misses. Strike three and he strikes out the side.

499
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:03,000
He blazes in there. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.

500
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,000
And a hand for Newcomb as he leaves the mound.

501
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:12,000
Check that. One man left on base. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left on.

502
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:17,000
Three strikeouts for Newcomb, all in the top half of the second inning.

503
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:25,000
Let me double-checking your totals. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on.

504
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000
And thus the score at the end of two innings, nothing and nothing.

505
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,000
The Dodgers, no runs, one hit, no errors, two left on.

506
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:40,000
The Yankees, no runs, one hit, no errors, and one man left on.

507
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,000
Now before we move into the top half of the third inning as the Dodgers come to bat,

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we pause for station identification. This is the mutual broadcasting system.

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WOR and WOR-FM, your World Series stations in New York.

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This is Mel Allen with Red Barber bringing you the 1949 World Series from Yankee Stadium,

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another in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports broadcast.

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The year-round they bring you the outstanding bowl games, fights, the World Series, the All-Star game,

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and we hope that you're going to enjoy to the hilt the 1949 Fall Classic.

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And now as we go to the top of the third inning, Don Newcomb steps in a hitting position.

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00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:31,000
He's a left-hand hitter and a good hitter for a pitcher.

516
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,000
We watched him hit one in that All-Star game.

517
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,000
Ted Williams made a sensational catch on a Robbie from an extra-base hit.

518
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:44,000
Reynolds throws in there for a called strike.

519
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,000
Outfield playing Newcomb to, well, they're playing him almost straight away.

520
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,000
DiMaggio straight away in center.

521
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,000
Lindell not too close to the left field line, and Napes not too close to the right field line.

522
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,000
The left field and right field are in toward DiMaggio straight away.

523
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000
The pitch is swung on. A boundary hit out toward short.

524
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000
Rizzuto charges it up with it, throws over to Henrik in time, and there's one away.

525
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,000
Newcomb grounds out. Rizzuto to Henrik.

526
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,000
One away for the Dodgers in the top of the third inning.

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00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:18,000
And now we go to the top of the order again for the brilliant shortstop and captain of the Dodgers, Peewee Reeves.

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00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:24,000
A nickname that, in a sense, is a misnomer, isn't it, Red? Because Reeves certainly is no Peewee.

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00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:30,000
Now, he got the name when he was a Marlboro shooting champion back at Louisville playing Peewees.

530
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,000
I used to shoot Marlboro.

531
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Went very good. I never won a championship, Ed.

532
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,000
Reeves grounded out to Henrik in the first inning. Right-hand hitter.

533
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,000
Reynolds throws. Fastball in there for a call strike.

534
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,000
Nothing and nothing.

535
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,000
Top half of the third. One out. Nobody on.

536
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:55,000
Bill Johnson in close at third in the event. Reeves drops a bunt down, which Peewee can do on occasion.

537
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000
Quick getting away from that plate.

538
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,000
Reynolds sidearms him. Pitch is bunted right down toward third. Johnson charges up with it.

539
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:14,000
Fires over to Henrik and it's in time for the out.

540
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:20,000
I don't think Peewee was reading our minds, but he did drop one down there beautifully.

541
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000
And Reynolds came very close to messing up the play. Johnson finally hollered him off.

542
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:31,000
Reynolds was moving away from the play at first toward the third baseline while Johnson was moving in.

543
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,000
And Billy with that rifle arm fired Peewee out.

544
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,000
Here's Spider Jorgensen swing. Sends a grass cutter out to second.

545
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,000
Coleman scoops it up, throws over to Henrik and the inning is over.

546
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:48,000
So the third baseman, second baseman shortstop each had an opportunity that inning.

547
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,000
No runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left on.

548
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:59,000
And the score at the end of two and a half innings remains the Dodgers nothing, the Yankees nothing.

549
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,000
As Dom DiMaggio, famous outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, told you,

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561
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Last half of the third inning at Yankee Stadium, no score.

562
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Jerry Coleman, the number eight hitter in the Yankee batting order,

563
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:14,000
who will lead off and will come Allie Reynolds and the top of the order, Bill Rizzuto.

564
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,000
Coleman, a right hand hitter, playing in his first World Series.

565
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:22,000
A Yankee rookie this year who played sensational second base defensively and pretty good clutch hitter.

566
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:28,000
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.

567
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,000
Newcomb throws, the pitcher swung on foul off to the right of the plate,

568
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:38,000
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.

569
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,000
One strike to count.

570
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,000
I could hear that ball hit that meat hand, couldn't you, Rizz?

571
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:52,000
One strike to count on Jerry Coleman.

572
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,000
Jerry hit 275 on the season.

573
00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:01,000
San Francisco boy, the pitch curve ball is just outside ball one, one and one.

574
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:12,000
Coleman acts exactly as his mannerisms are almost a faithful reproduction of Frank Crissetti's.

575
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,000
And yet, the one did not know the other.

576
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:22,000
At a time in the formative stage when you develop those little mannerisms, you do have playing ball.

577
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:27,000
The one and one delivery, swung on hit foul down the first base line, a liner, strike two.

578
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:35,000
One and two to count, the ball skipped up into the stands, into the boxes, and the usual scramble for a World Series souvenir.

579
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:45,000
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.

580
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,000
The way he'd move his shoulders, the way he handled the ball, the way he got it away in a hurry.

581
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:54,000
It turned out it was strictly coincidental.

582
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:59,000
One and two to count on Coleman, last to third inning, nothing and nothing.

583
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,000
Big Don Newcomb starts to work.

584
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:06,000
Around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it's over that outside corner for call, strike three.

585
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:13,000
Man, I mean he cut loose a fast ball. It looked like an aspirin tablet coming up there.

586
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:20,000
And that is the fourth strikeout for Newcomb, and four out of the last five batters.

587
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:25,000
Up comes Ali Reynolds.

588
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,000
Reynolds hitting a 221.

589
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:37,000
If Newcomb continues at this pace, we're going to those World Series record books, Red.

590
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:46,000
Newcomb's first pitch to the right hand batter. Reynolds swings and fouls it off behind the plate, strike one.

591
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,000
Newcomb must be pretty quick because they're not looking for Reynolds to pull him.

592
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:55,000
The outfield is shading toward right on Reynolds.

593
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,000
Ali can swing the bat pretty well for Fitcher.

594
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:05,000
Jorgensen's hanging around in close at third near the line, reese over towards second.

595
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:10,000
Here's Newcomb's delivery. Reynolds swings and sends a fly ball down the left field line, and he did pull him,

596
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,000
and Hermanski can't get it, and the ball is by him, and Reynolds is going to go for two.

597
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,000
Sometimes they'll throw a beautiful throw, but Reynolds goes in standing up for the double.

598
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:28,000
The ball gets by Robinson, but Gil Hodges is backing up.

599
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:35,000
Ali Reynolds caught him over-shifting for him, as they didn't figure Ali could pull Don, but he did.

600
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:41,000
It was an ordinary fly ball that Hermanski could have put in his hip pocket had he been playing Reynolds to pull,

601
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,000
but he was way over in the left center and couldn't catch up to it.

602
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,000
So that's the Yankees' second hit of the ball game.

603
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Three in the game. The Dodgers have had one, and up is Phil Rizzuto, who fouled out in the first inning to Campanella.

604
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,000
The pitch is swung on, fouled back to the screen, strike one.

605
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:07,000
Last half of the third inning. One out, and Reynolds on second base.

606
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:14,000
Outfield for Phil. Almost right away, Sniders has to step over into left center.

607
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:19,000
Spider Jorgensen hanging around in close at third. Now he backs up a step. Not too deep.

608
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:26,000
Don Ucomm stretches, pitches. Phil takes just off the outside corner, and the count is evened up at one and one.

609
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:33,000
And so the crowd now has begun to warm a little bit to the situation, with the runner in scoring position.

610
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,000
One ball, one strike, one out. Most score. Last of the third inning.

611
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,000
Ucomm has his sign from Campanella. He's ready to work. Here's his pitch.

612
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:45,000
And it is swung on. A little pop-up hit back to first. There's Robinson going out on the grass in short right.

613
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,000
Makes the catch, and Reynolds holds at second base.

614
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:52,000
Rizzuto lifts a pop-up back to first, which Jackie Robinson needs over to guess.

615
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,000
And now Tommy Henrik is coming to bat with two down.

616
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:03,000
Tommy was tossed out by Peewee Reese in the first inning.

617
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:09,000
Yogi Berra moving up into the batter's circle with his shin guard still on with two down.

618
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,000
He will not bat in this inning unless Henrik keeps the Yankee hopes alive.

619
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:18,000
It's a nothing-nothing ball game. Last of the third.

620
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:25,000
The Dodgers have had a runner as far as third. Hermanski in the second inning.

621
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:29,000
Reynolds is the furthest a Yankee has been. On second base.

622
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Lindell single, but didn't get any further than that in the second inning.

623
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:40,000
Ucomm with the stretch. Reynolds with a short lead. Here's your pitch. Henrik takes inside for the ball.

624
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:45,000
Roy Campanella, very agile back of that plate, moves his feet around beautifully.

625
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,000
As soon as he catches that ball, he's got that arm cocked and ready to fire.

626
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:52,000
In the event a throw is necessary to any base.

627
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:56,000
Nobody is darting around trying to hold Reynolds close because he hasn't had too big a lead.

628
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Two down. Stretch by Ucomm. Here's your pitch. Henrik swings and pops it up into the air.

629
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,000
Short third. Jorgensen getting out of the ball.

630
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:10,000
And then Reese takes him off and says he's got it and does, makes the catch for the out.

631
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:15,000
No runs for the Yankees. One hit. No errors for Brooklyn.

632
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,000
And one man left on for New York.

633
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:24,000
I might add that at this time of year at Yankee Stadium when the sun is out brightly,

634
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:30,000
particularly a little bit later on the ball game, the sun field, which is left field, is a murderous one.

635
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:38,000
And also those who might be playing in center, if they're not accustomed to the situation here at Yankee Stadium,

636
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,000
might find it difficult as Pete Reesor did in 1947.

637
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,000
The sun is in behind home plate and it's a triple deck stadium.

638
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:52,000
So a ball comes up out of home plate as it gets as high as the stadium, which is pretty high,

639
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000
and it has the stadium as a background.

640
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:59,000
Then suddenly as it gets higher than the stadium, it's right into that sun and in a hurry.

641
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:06,000
And so frequently it can give the outfielders trouble, even those who play against it all season long.

642
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:11,000
Now at the end of three innings, the score, nothing and nothing.

643
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:15,000
The Dodgers, no runs. One hit. No errors. Two left on.

644
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:21,000
The Yankees, no runs. Two hits. No errors. And two men left on base.

645
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:26,000
Don, while you and I were chatting, a friend of yours just walked up the home plate and got a hand.

646
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:32,000
Yes, I see him down there. Who is he? Big Joe, the joker.

647
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,000
He's a pretty good outfielder himself, isn't he, Don?

648
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,000
Yes, he is, Mel. One of the best of all time.

649
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:43,000
Thanks a lot, Don DeMaggio, and congratulations on a wonderful season.

650
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,000
And now as we come into the last half of the second inning here at the Yankee Stadium, no score.

651
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:51,000
Joe DeMaggio leads off. Right-hand hitter.

652
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:56,000
Hit.346 on the season and 76 games in which he appeared after missing the first 65

653
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,000
because of his now celebrated injured heel.

654
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,000
Don Ucom starts to work, the big right-hander.

655
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:06,000
Around comes the right arm. In comes the pitch, and it's outside. Ball one.

656
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,000
One ball, no strikes.

657
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:12,000
DeMaggio has been in seven World Series. This is his eighth.

658
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:19,000
And he has a lifetime World Series batting average of 290, 21 RBIs.

659
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:24,000
Ucom throws. DeMaggio takes right in there for a call strike.

660
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:33,000
Ucom, a great big fella, sort of untangles himself, and he goes into that windup and he fires away.

661
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,000
A one-on-one count on Joe. Spotted Jorgensen deep at third near the line.

662
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,000
Reached very deep, not too far over into the gap. Here's the pitch.

663
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Swung on, drill foul down the right fielder line, out of play.

664
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,000
The ball hitting the upper deck and bouncing downstairs, and it's a one-two count on Joe.

665
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Johnny Lindell is on deck with Billy Johnson to follow.

666
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,000
Nothing and nothing. Last half of the second.

667
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:03,000
Gene Hermanski has just put on his sunglasses.

668
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:06,000
The sun begins to peep out again here at Yankee Stadium.

669
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:15,000
The wind is blowing in a mild fashion at the moment toward the left a bit and also toward right just a bit.

670
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,000
The variable wind, but not too strong right now.

671
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:23,000
Here's your pitch. And DeMaggio swings and misses. Strike three. He tried to hold up, but couldn't.

672
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:32,000
It was a high inside fastball that DeMaggio started to go for.

673
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,000
He tried to hold up, but he went around.

674
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:38,000
Big Cal Hubbard went up for the right hand and it's strike three.

675
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:43,000
Here's Johnny Lindell, who with one mighty swipe of his bat on Saturday,

676
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:50,000
enabled the Yankees to stay alive in the American League pennant race since it tied the Yankees with the Red Sox,

677
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:56,000
broke a 4-4 tie in that particular ball game, and made it possible for the Yankees to go into Sunday

678
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:01,000
with a chance to win the pennant, which they did.

679
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,000
Don Newcomb goes to work on the right hand hitter.

680
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:09,000
And the pitch is right in there for a call strike right over the inside corner, belt high.

681
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:13,000
Newcomb looks sharp.

682
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,000
I feel playing Lindell to pull.

683
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,000
Carl Frillo is looking for John to hit over toward the right center a bit.

684
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:23,000
Frillo's over in front of the Yankee bullpen.

685
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:27,000
Now the delivery. Change up his swing arm, lined out the left field for a base hit.

686
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:32,000
The ball is taken by Hermanski on two or three hops, clips his leg into second, cut off by Reese,

687
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,000
and Lindell is on with a single to left field.

688
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:44,000
He changed up on Lindell, and Johnny immediately spiked the liner in the left for the single.

689
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,000
And the first Yankee hit of the game.

690
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,000
Now Billy Johnson steps in.

691
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,000
Lindell had been in two previous series, 43 and 47.

692
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,000
Billy Johnson also in the 43 and 47 World Series.

693
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,000
Johnson the right hand batter.

694
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Billy hits.251 on the season.

695
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:13,000
Below his par, the delivery, right in there for a call strike.

696
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,000
Outfield well spread out for Johnson.

697
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:21,000
He can pull, he can slice, and he can hit a long ball.

698
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,000
Jorgensen halfway back at third, a couple feet off the line.

699
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,000
Reese in a couple steps at short, five strides to the left of second.

700
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,000
Here's the pitch. Swung on, a ground ball hit foul down the third baseline.

701
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,000
Frank Crisetti coaching third grand set.

702
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,000
And the two strike count on Billy.

703
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,000
Cliff Mapes is on deck.

704
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,000
Crowd sitting back rather quiet.

705
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:45,000
Waiting for the big explosion that generally will take place in a tight ball game.

706
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:52,000
And of course they're ready to yell at the first opportunity either of these teams gives them.

707
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,000
A two strike count on Billy.

708
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,000
Lindell moves off first, one away.

709
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:00,000
Here's your pitch. Swung on and missed. Strike three.

710
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,000
Went down, swing on the fastball.

711
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:08,000
That Newcombe's got a quick one. He's really alive with it, isn't he Red?

712
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:15,000
Well, Mel, he struck out 149 and only came up after the season was a month old. You figure that for yourself.

713
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:20,000
Here's Cliff Mapes stepping in, who on the season hit 243.

714
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:26,000
Played great defensive ball for the Yankees. Got a tremendous arm.

715
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,000
They play him to pull sharply in center and right.

716
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,000
And now Berkshot is moving Gene Hermansky way over to left center.

717
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:36,000
Newcombe's delivery, swung on and foul back. Strike one.

718
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:43,000
Mapes is another of the Yankee left hand hitters who on occasion will line that ball down the left field line.

719
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:48,000
And they're giving him plenty of that sector at the moment.

720
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:52,000
Great deal, Howard, depends on the way a man is pitched as to where he's going to hit the ball.

721
01:01:52,000 --> 01:02:00,000
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.

722
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,000
Newcombe throws. Mapes takes inside around the knees. Ball one, one and one.

723
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:09,000
Peabody's deep at short, over towards second. He's about two strides to the left of second base.

724
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,000
By the Jorgensen, halfway back, ten feet off third baseline.

725
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:15,000
Gil Hodges just in behind Lindell with two down.

726
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:18,000
And Jackie Robinson at a point about halfway between first and second bases.

727
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:24,000
No scores yet, two away. Here's your delivery. Swung on and missed. Strike two.

728
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:29,000
Newcombe just overpowering, mates, as he did DiMaggio and Johnson.

729
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,000
And as a matter of fact, he might have done the same to Lindell.

730
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:44,000
He's slowed up on John. And John Tundey did capitalize on the change of pace with that line drive to left.

731
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:48,000
A one-two count on mates. Two down, no score. Last half of the second inning.

732
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:54,000
Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium. It's the World Series.

733
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:58,000
Newcombe throws. Mates swings and misses. Strike three and he strikes out the side.

734
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:03,000
He blazes in there. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.

735
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,000
And a hand for Newcombe as he leaves the mound.

736
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:12,000
Check that. One man left on base. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left on.

737
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:17,000
Three strikeouts for Newcombe, all in the top half of the second inning.

738
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:25,000
Let me double-checking your totals. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on.

739
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:30,000
And thus the score at the end of two innings, nothing and nothing.

740
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:35,000
The Dodgers, no runs, one hit, no errors, two left on.

741
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:40,000
The Yankees, no runs, one hit, no errors, and one man left on.

742
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:48,000
Now before we move into the top half of the third inning as the Dodgers come to bat, we pause for station identification.

743
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:51,000
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.

744
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:57,000
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.

745
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:06,000
This is Mel Allen with Red Barber, bringing you the 1949 World Series from Yankee Stadium,

746
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,000
another in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports broadcast.

747
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:17,000
The year-round, they bring you the outstanding bowl games, fights, the World Series, the All-Star game,

748
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:24,000
and we hope that you're going to enjoy to the hilt the 1949 ball classic.

749
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,000
And now as we go to the top of the third inning, Don Newcombe steps in a hitting position.

750
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:32,000
He's a left-hand hitter and a good hitter for a pitcher.

751
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:37,000
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.

752
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:45,000
Reynolds throws in there for a called strike.

753
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:49,000
Outfield playing Newcombe to, well, they're playing him almost straight away.

754
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:51,000
DiMaggio straight away in center.

755
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:56,000
Lindell not too close to the left fiel line, and Napes not too close to the right fiel line.

756
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,000
The left fiel and right fiel are in toward DiMaggio straight away.

757
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,000
The pitch is swung on. A boundary hit out toward short.

758
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:04,000
Rizzuto charges it up with it, throws over to Henrik in time, and there's one away.

759
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,000
Newcombe grounds out. Rizzuto to Henrik.

760
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,000
One away for the Dodgers in the top of the third inning.

761
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:18,000
And now we go to the top of the order again for the brilliant shortstop and captain of the Dodgers, Peewee Reeves.

762
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:24,000
A nickname that, in a sense, is a misnomer, isn't it, Red? Because Reeves certainly is no Peewee.

763
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:30,000
Now, he got the name when he was a Marlboro shooting champion back at Louisville playing Peewees.

764
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,000
I used to shoot Marlboro.

765
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:37,000
Went very good. I never won a championship, Ed.

766
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,000
Reeves grounded out to Henrik in the first inning. Right hand hitter.

767
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,000
Reynolds throws. Fastball in there for a call strike.

768
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,000
Nothing and nothing.

769
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,000
Top half of the third. One out. Nobody on.

770
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:55,000
Bill Johnson in close at third. In the event, Reeves drops a bunt down, which Peewee can do on occasion.

771
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,000
Quick getting away from that plate.

772
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:01,000
Reynolds sidearms him. Pitch is bunted right down toward third. Johnson charges up with it.

773
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:14,000
Fires over to Henrik and it's in time for the out.

774
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:21,000
I don't think Peewee was reading our minds, but he did drop one down there beautifully.

775
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:25,000
And Reynolds came very close to messing up the play. Johnson finally hollered him off.

776
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:31,000
Reynolds was moving away from the play, from the play at first toward the third baseline while Johnson was moving in.

777
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,000
And Billy with that rifle arm fired Peewee out.

778
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,000
Here's Spider Jorgensen swing. Sends a grass cutter out to second.

779
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:44,000
Coleman scoops it up, throws over to Henrik and the inning is over.

780
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:48,000
So the third baseman, second baseman shortstop each had an opportunity that inning.

781
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:52,000
No runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left on.

782
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:59,000
And the score at the end of two and a half innings remains the Dodgers nothing, the Yankees nothing.

783
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:03,000
As Dom DiMaggio, famous outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, told you,

784
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:08,000
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785
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:13,000
That's because they have the keenest, most beautifully finished edges ever produced.

786
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:19,000
Those edges also are hard nuts cut glass. So they shave and shave and shave.

787
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:24,000
Never break down prematurely like ordinary blades that scrape and pull.

788
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:30,000
Now I know you'll find the modern Gillette dispenser just as handy as Dom DiMaggio does.

789
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:36,000
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790
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,000
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791
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:44,000
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792
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:51,000
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793
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:56,000
Remember, look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp.

794
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:02,000
Use Gillette blue blades for the sharpest edges ever honed.

795
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:07,000
Last half of the third inning at Yankee Stadium, no score.

796
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,000
Jerry Coleman, the number eight hitter in the Yankee batting order,

797
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:14,000
who will lead off and will come Ali Reynolds and the top of the order, Phil Rizzuto.

798
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:18,000
Coleman, a right hand hitter, playing in his first World Series.

799
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:23,000
A Yankee rookie this year who played sensational second base defensively and pretty good clutch hitter.

800
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:29,000
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.

801
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,000
Newcomb throws, the pitcher swung on foul off to the right of the plate,

802
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:39,000
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.

803
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:44,000
One strike to count.

804
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:48,000
I could hear that ball hit that meat hand, couldn't you, Ria?

805
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:53,000
One strike to count on Jerry Coleman.

806
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,000
Jerry hit 275 on the season.

807
01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:02,000
San Francisco boy, the pitch curve ball is just outside, ball one, one and one.

808
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:12,000
Coleman acts exactly as his mannerisms are almost a faithful reproduction of Frank Crissetti's.

809
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:15,000
And yet, the one did not know the other.

810
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:22,000
At a time in the formative stage when you develop those little mannerisms, you do have playing ball.

811
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:27,000
The one-one delivery, slung on, hit foul down the first base line, a liner, strike two.

812
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:31,000
One and two to count, the ball skipped up into the stands, into the boxes.

813
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:35,000
And the usual scramble for a World Series souvenir.

814
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,000
Another thing, Crissetti and Coleman both come from San Francisco,

815
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:45,000
and for a long while even Jerry's own teammates thought that he'd patterned himself deliberately after Crissetti.

816
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:50,000
The way he'd move his shoulders, the way he handled the ball, the way he got it away in a hurry.

817
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:54,000
It turned out it was strictly coincidental.

818
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,000
One and two to count on Coleman.

819
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,000
Last of the third inning, nothing and nothing.

820
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,000
Big Don Newcomb starts to work.

821
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:07,000
Around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it's over that outside corner for Carl strike three.

822
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,000
Man, I mean he cut loose a fast ball.

823
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:13,000
It looked like an aspirin tablet coming up there.

824
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:21,000
And that is the fourth strikeout for Newcomb, and four out of the last five batters.

825
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:26,000
Up comes Allie Reynolds.

826
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:29,000
Allie Reynolds sitting at 221.

827
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:38,000
If Newcomb continues at this pace, we'll be going to those World Series record books read.

828
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,000
Newcomb's first pitch to the right hand batter.

829
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,000
Reynolds swings and piles it off behind the plate.

830
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:47,000
Strike one.

831
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:51,000
Newcomb must be pretty quick because they're not looking for Reynolds to pull him.

832
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:55,000
The outfield is shading toward right on Reynolds.

833
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:59,000
Allie can swing the bat pretty well for pitcher.

834
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:03,000
Jorgensen's hanging around in close at third near the line.

835
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,000
Reese over towards second.

836
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,000
Here's Newcomb's delivery.

837
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:10,000
Reynolds swings and sends a fly ball down the left field line, and he did pull him.

838
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:14,000
And Hermanski keeps getting it, and the ball is by him, and Reynolds is going to go for two.

839
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:17,000
Here comes a throw, a beautiful throw, but Reynolds goes in standing up for the double.

840
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:28,000
The ball gets by Robinson, but Gil Hodges is hanging up.

841
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:34,000
Allie Reynolds caught him over-shifting for him, as they didn't figure Allie could pull Don.

842
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,000
But he did.

843
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:41,000
It was an ordinary fly ball that Hermanski could have put in his hip pocket had he been playing Reynolds to pull,

844
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:45,000
but it was way over in the left center and couldn't catch up to it.

845
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,000
So that's the Yankees' second hit of the ball game.

846
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:50,000
Three in the game.

847
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:54,000
The Dodgers have had one, and up is Phil Rizzuto, who fouled out in the first inning to Campanella.

848
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:58,000
The pitch is swung on, fouled back to the screen, strike one.

849
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:00,000
Last half of the third inning.

850
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:07,000
One out, and Reynolds on second base.

851
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,000
Outfield for Phil.

852
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:14,000
Almost right away, Snyder just a step over into left center.

853
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,000
Spyder Jorgensen hanging around him close at third.

854
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,000
Now he backs up a step, not too deep.

855
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,000
Don Ucomm stretches, pitches.

856
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:26,000
Phil takes just off the outside corner, and the count is evened up at one and one.

857
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:31,000
And so the crowd now has begun to warm a little bit to the situation.

858
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,000
With the runner in scoring position.

859
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,000
One ball, one strike, one out.

860
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,000
No score. Last of the third inning.

861
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,000
Ucomm has his sign from Campanella.

862
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:40,000
He's ready to work.

863
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:41,000
Here's his pitch, and it is swung on.

864
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,000
A little pop-up hit back off first.

865
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,000
There's Robinson going out on the grass and short right makes the catch,

866
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,000
and Reynolds holds at second base.

867
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:52,000
The Zudolips say pop-up back to first, which Jackie Robinson needs over to guess.

868
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:58,000
And now Tommy Henrik is coming to bat with two down.

869
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:03,000
Tommy was tossed out by Peewee Reese in the first inning.

870
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:10,000
Yogi Berra moving up into the batter's circle with his shin guard still on with two down.

871
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:14,000
He will not bat in this inning unless Henrik keeps the Yankee hopes alive.

872
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:15,000
It's a nothing-nothing ball game.

873
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,000
Last of the third.

874
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,000
The Dodgers have had a runner as far as third.

875
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:25,000
Hermanski in the second inning.

876
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,000
Reynolds is the furthest the Yankee has been.

877
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:30,000
He's on second base.

878
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:34,000
Lindell single, but didn't get any further than that in the second inning.

879
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:35,000
Ucomm with the stretch.

880
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,000
Reynolds with the short lead.

881
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,000
Here's your pitch.

882
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,000
Takes inside for the ball.

883
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:45,000
Roy Campanella, very agile back of that plate, moves his feet around beautifully.

884
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:48,000
As soon as he catches that ball, he's got that arm cocked and ready to fire

885
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:52,000
in the event a throw is necessary at any base.

886
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:57,000
Nobody is darting around trying to hold Reynolds close because he hasn't had too big a lead.

887
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:58,000
Two down.

888
01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,000
Stretch by Ucomm.

889
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:00,000
Here's your pitch.

890
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,000
Henrik swings and pops it up into the air.

891
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:03,000
Toward third.

892
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:04,000
Jorgensen getting out of the ball.

893
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:11,000
And Henry sneaks him off and says he's got it and does, makes the catch for the out.

894
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:12,000
No runs for the Yankees.

895
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,000
One hit.

896
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:16,000
No errors for Brooklyn.

897
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,000
And one man left on for New York.

898
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:25,000
I might add that at this time of year at Yankee Stadium when the sun is out brightly,

899
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:30,000
particularly a little bit later on the ball game, the sun field, which is left field, is a murderous one.

900
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:37,000
And also those who might be playing in center, if they're not accustomed to the situation

901
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:41,000
here at Yankee Stadium, might find it difficult as Pete Reeser did in 1947.

902
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:47,000
The sun is in behind home plate and it's a triple deck stadium.

903
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:52,000
So a ball comes up out of home plate as it gets as high as the stadium, which is pretty high,

904
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,000
and it has the stadium as a background.

905
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:59,000
Then suddenly as it gets higher than the stadium, it's right into that sun and in a hurry.

906
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:06,000
And so frequently it can give the out feelers trouble, even those who play against it all season long.

907
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:11,000
Now at the end of three innings, the score, nothing and nothing.

908
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:13,000
The Dodgers, no runs, one hit.

909
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,000
No errors, two left on.

910
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:18,000
The Yankees, no runs, two hits.

911
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:30,000
No errors and two men left on base.

912
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:36,000
This is Mal Allen with Red Barber, bringing you the 1949 World Series from Yankee Stadium

913
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:40,000
with the best wishes and compliments of the makers of the Gillette Safety Racer Company.

914
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:45,000
And we're ready now to move into the top half of the fifth inning of a scoreless ball game.

915
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:49,000
It's Carl Ferrello leading off for the Dodgers.

916
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:51,000
Gil Hodges and Roy Campanello to follow.

917
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,000
Allie Reynolds pitching for New York.

918
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:55,000
Ferrello walked in the second inning.

919
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:56,000
Right hand batter.

920
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:57,000
Reynolds into the windup.

921
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:58,000
In comes the pitch.

922
01:15:58,000 --> 01:15:59,000
Swung on.

923
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:00,000
A ground ball hit out towards second.

924
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,000
Coleman gets it, goes through his legs and a right field for Nera.

925
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:13,000
And Ferrello is on.

926
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,000
Carl Ferrello hit a ground ball.

927
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:21,000
An easy chance that Jerry Coleman allowed to go right through his legs into right field.

928
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,000
Mapes backed up, fired to second.

929
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:24,000
Ferrello holds it first.

930
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:28,000
It's the first arrow of the ball game.

931
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:33,000
And in this type of game, where two teams are battling it out tooth and nail on even

932
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:37,000
terms, it takes the breaks to determine the ultimate winner.

933
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:39,000
Perhaps that's it.

934
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:40,000
Only time will tell.

935
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:44,000
Meantime, here's Gil Hodges who bounced into a double play in the second inning.

936
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:45,000
Right hand hitter.

937
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:46,000
Reynolds pitches.

938
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,000
Hodges swings and misses.

939
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:52,000
Strike one.

940
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:54,000
The Sun is playing hide and seek.

941
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:59,000
And right now, it is hiding.

942
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:01,000
They play Hodges full in center left.

943
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,000
Mapes looking for him to slash to right.

944
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:04,000
Johnson in close at third.

945
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,000
Rizzuto moves in halfway at short.

946
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:07,000
Three strikes to the left of the bag.

947
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:09,000
Coleman in halfway almost.

948
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:10,000
Three strikes to the right of the bag.

949
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,000
The pitch is bonnie down toward third.

950
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,000
There's Johnson up with the ball.

951
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:15,000
Fires to Henrik in time.

952
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:20,000
Rizzuto races over to cover third as Ferrello had taken his turn and third base was left uncovered.

953
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:23,000
But when Phil raced over, Ferrello held up.

954
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,000
So Hodges sacrifices.

955
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,000
Ferrello to second is out.

956
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:30,000
Johnson to Henrik.

957
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,000
And Bert Schotton is playing it very close to the vest.

958
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:43,000
Evidently feeling that as these two pitches thus far have performed, conceivably, one run could win it.

959
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:47,000
Roy Campanella, right-hand hitter, steps up.

960
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:50,000
And on the other hand, Bert might feel, well, here's the break.

961
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:55,000
I'd like to try and capitalize on it as quickly as I might possibly can.

962
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,000
Campanella applied to right field in the second inning.

963
01:17:57,000 --> 01:17:58,000
Right-hand hitter stockily built.

964
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,000
Fell in close to the plate.

965
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:04,000
Jack cocked off his right shoulder, the pitch right in there for a call strike.

966
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:07,000
One out, a runner in scoring position.

967
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,000
Nothing, nothing ball game.

968
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:13,000
Top of the fifth inning.

969
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:18,000
Outfield around toward left.

970
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:22,000
This is a big man for Reynolds.

971
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:23,000
Campanella bent at the knees, awaits the pitch.

972
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:24,000
Here it is.

973
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,000
Swung on, grounded foul.

974
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,000
Off to the left of the plate.

975
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:35,000
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,

976
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:40,000
which is located between third base and home plate.

977
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:45,000
The Yankee dugout, located, of course, between home plate and first base.

978
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:48,000
Two strike count on Roy.

979
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,000
Nothing, nothing.

980
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:57,000
Top half of the fifth inning.

981
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:03,000
Rennels gets his sign from Barah, has the stretch.

982
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,000
Brello moves off second.

983
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:06,000
Here's the pitch.

984
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,000
Campanella takes high and inside.

985
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:13,000
Ball one, one and two.

986
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,000
Clouds are creeping up overhead now.

987
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:19,000
Ominous looking one.

988
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,000
Bit of a haze over the field.

989
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,000
Just a slight one.

990
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,000
Rennels taking his time.

991
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:34,000
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.

992
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,000
All right, here's your pitch.

993
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:37,000
Curve is outside.

994
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:39,000
Ball two, two, two.

995
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,000
You've got Cal Hubbard calling balls and strikes of the American League.

996
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,000
Beans are ridden.

997
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:50,000
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.

998
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:55,000
Ed Hurley of the American League in right, and George Barlow of the National League in left.

999
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:57,000
Outfield toward left, four.

1000
01:19:57,000 --> 01:19:59,000
Campanella, Johnson deep at third near the line.

1001
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:00,000
Rizzuto over toward second.

1002
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,000
Lot of room between third and short.

1003
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:02,000
Here's your pitch.

1004
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Campanella takes high.

1005
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,000
Ball three, three and two.

1006
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:05,000
Very high.

1007
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:06,000
Full count now.

1008
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:08,000
Three and two.

1009
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:15,000
Jerry Coleman moves in from second base to the edge of the infield grass and hollers to Rennels.

1010
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:26,000
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.

1011
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:32,000
Three balls, two strikes, and now Rennels has either got to come in there with the pitch or put the runner on it first.

1012
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:33,000
Of course, he makes it too good.

1013
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:38,000
Mr. Campanella can blast it somewhere.

1014
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:45,000
Rennels shakes off the sign, then takes a little too much time, and Campanella steps out on him very quickly.

1015
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,000
Little pitching tricks.

1016
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:53,000
All of them used to try to get a batter a little bit on edge, a little more on edge than he already is.

1017
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:54,000
Full count.

1018
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:55,000
Three and two.

1019
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:56,000
The stretch.

1020
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:57,000
Perillo moves off second.

1021
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:58,000
In comes the pitch.

1022
01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:59,000
Campanella takes high and inside.

1023
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,000
He walks, and they're runners on first and second, one out.

1024
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:07,000
And Don Newcomb coming to bat.

1025
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:10,000
An error and a walk.

1026
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:13,000
With a sacrifice in between.

1027
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:17,000
Have put two Dodgers on, first and second, one away.

1028
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:24,000
Newcomb is tossed out by Rizzuto in the third inning.

1029
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:32,000
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.

1030
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:38,000
And the sacrifice that moved Perillo, who was safe on the air, to second because he had to work very carefully on Campanella

1031
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,000
for fear that he might get the base hit that would drive in the run and break the tie.

1032
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,000
Newcomb, powerful left-hand hitter, up, takes the pitch in there for a called strike.

1033
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,000
When I say he's powerful, he is that.

1034
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:57,000
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.

1035
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,000
Is that true?

1036
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:02,000
Well, I think he had managed a shot in both arms, Mel.

1037
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:08,000
Perillo moves off second. Campanella off first, the pitch. Newcomb takes high and outside, change up.

1038
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,000
And the count is one and one.

1039
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:13,000
And now here's Jake Pitler starting in toward the plate.

1040
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:17,000
I thought he was going to talk to Newcomb, but it was a glove.

1041
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:20,000
Newcomb's glove that he had dropped just outside the third baseline.

1042
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:23,000
Too close to the line in Milton Stock, I should have said.

1043
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:26,000
Just simply tossed a little further away.

1044
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:30,000
One ball, one strike, one out. Don Newcomb, the batter.

1045
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:34,000
Carl Perillo is on second base. Roy Campanella on first.

1046
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:40,000
And one away, scoreless ballgame, top of the fifth. On deck is Peewee Reese, the stretch by Reynolds.

1047
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:43,000
Here's the pitch. Newcomb takes a curve that's just outside.

1048
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,000
Ball two, two and one.

1049
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:54,000
Very close, but not there, says Cal Hubbard.

1050
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,000
Bill Johnson's in close at third, about five feet off third baseline.

1051
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,000
Rizzuto in three, four steps.

1052
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:03,000
And three strikes to the left of second. Jerry Coleman, four strikes to the right.

1053
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:08,000
Here's your pitch. Newcomb swings and he misses. Strike two. He tried to hold up at a fastball.

1054
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:14,000
It might or might not have been just above the shoulders.

1055
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:20,000
In other words, it might or might not have been called a ball. It was very close.

1056
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:25,000
It's a 2-2 count on Newcomb.

1057
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:31,000
Nothing, nothing to score. Top of the fifth inning.

1058
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:36,000
Reynolds getting ready. Perillo on second. Campanella on first lead. Here's the pitch.

1059
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:41,000
Fastball swung on him. Missed. Strike three. He fired a fast one by Newcomb.

1060
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,000
And there's two downs.

1061
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:53,000
Coming up to bat, one of your great ball players of the day and a great guy when the chips are down.

1062
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:57,000
Peewee Reese, grounded out through Henrik in the first inning.

1063
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:04,000
Bunny Dunn was tossed out by Billy Johnson in the third inning.

1064
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:14,000
That's only the second strikeout for Reynolds, who has walked three.

1065
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:20,000
And Peewee steps in. Bat's on right-handed. Perillo on second. Campanella on first. Two down.

1066
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:23,000
Fifth inning, no score. Reynolds ready.

1067
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,000
Here's the pitch. Reese swings and turns a boundary to Johnson.

1068
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:35,000
Grant's a two-hop. Steps on third for the force-out on Perillo and Reynolds pitches out of the jam.

1069
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:41,000
No runs, no hits. One error and two men left on.

1070
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:48,000
And the score at the end of four and a half innings, nothing and nothing.

1071
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:54,000
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1072
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1073
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1074
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1075
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1076
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1077
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1078
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:30,000
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1079
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1080
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:41,000
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1081
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:45,000
And now, ladies and gentlemen, with a great deal of pleasure,

1082
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:51,000
I introduce to you my coworker on this broadcast of the World Series,

1083
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:56,000
a fellow who has established a reputation in sports broadcasting second to none

1084
01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:03,000
and who has been broadcasting World Series since 1935, so he really knows what it's all about, the old redhead, Red Barber.

1085
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:07,000
Thank you, Mayor. Newcomb makes his first pitch last at the fifth inning, a curve ball over for a called strike

1086
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,000
to Billy Johnson, stocky right hand hitting third base into the anchors.

1087
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:14,000
Very kind words, Mayor, and I might say that there have been three fellows pitching so far.

1088
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,000
Newcomb, Reynolds and you. Nice to be with you.

1089
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:22,000
Nice to be back with Jimmy Britt, who's doing the television for Gillette.

1090
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:26,000
Here is Newcomb pitching a curve on the outside for a called second strike.

1091
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:31,000
He's quickly gone ahead of Johnson. He struck him out the second inning.

1092
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:36,000
Also for our Gillette broadcast, Rini Canazares is back on the job.

1093
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:40,000
Of course, I don't know what he's saying because he's doing it in Spanish.

1094
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:46,000
These broadcasts go all over the world. Hotfield deep, shaded toward left, Johnson,

1095
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:51,000
a powerful hitter when he hits one, crouches, swings and misses on the curve on the outside, a sharp curve,

1096
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:54,000
and on three pitches he's retired for the second time on strikes.

1097
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:57,000
Five strikeouts for Newcomb.

1098
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:03,000
The story so far today is simply power pitching. Newcomb and Reynolds,

1099
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:08,000
they are both hard ball pitchers with sharp curves. They throw their curve balls hard.

1100
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:13,000
They only let up once in a while. They don't monkey with such stuff as knuckle balls or screw balls.

1101
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:19,000
They are orthodox pitchers and both of them strong and both of them willing, and both of them ready.

1102
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:26,000
Now Cliff Maipes, the tall left-hand hitting rookie right fielder, leaning in, swings and nubs one foul,

1103
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:33,000
back of first base on the ground. Bill Dickey, familiar figure at Yankee Stadium, scoops up the ball, throws it out.

1104
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:39,000
For the Brooklyn Carbohydro, the game stands no score. Newcomb on the mound, Campanella,

1105
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:45,000
this is battery mate, back at the plate, Hodges at first, Robinson at second, Reese at short, and Johnny Jorgensen at third.

1106
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:49,000
The outfield is Hermanski on left, the inside of field is now to the right field, Ferrello.

1107
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:55,000
The defense is toward right, especially in the outfield. Maipes swings as a foul in the third base stands, not a play.

1108
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:58,000
No balls, two strikes.

1109
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:07,000
Quite a scramble as that ball comes out of the upper deck, down below in the lower boxes.

1110
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:11,000
I noticed something here at Yankee Stadium today I've never seen in the World Series before.

1111
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:15,000
The Yankees, who of course have the great championship record and the great World Series record,

1112
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:23,000
have gone back into their archives and have pulled out all their World Championship and their League Championship banners

1113
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:27,000
and they have them all around the stadium and it's an impressive scene.

1114
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:35,000
The next pitcher is a fastball low outside to Maipes, right-hand pitcher, Don Newcomb, who pitches with a very easy move.

1115
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:42,000
He's a big man. There are two big men right down there that played umpire Cal Hubbard, who is even bigger.

1116
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:49,000
And these are two big men who move very gracefully. They can move just as quickly as the smaller fellows.

1117
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:53,000
Newcomb ready to pitch one and two does. Maipes swings it and hits the foul down on the ground.

1118
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:57,000
It bounces up dead and Maipes himself grabs it, hands it to Campanella.

1119
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:03,000
It's examined routinely by umpire Hubbard and the ball left in play.

1120
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:08,000
One man out, nobody on, last of the fifth inning. The pitching has predominated.

1121
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:12,000
The Dodgers have had more scoring opportunities.

1122
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,000
The Yankees have had one man get off.

1123
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:18,000
Brookton had quite a few. One and two pitch, low inside the ball too.

1124
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:24,000
The Dodgers have had, the Yankees have had two men, two men on.

1125
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:31,000
The Dodgers have had five. One hit, three walks, and a narrow.

1126
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:36,000
The Yankees two, the Dodgers five. Brookton's had men twice reach second base with one out.

1127
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,000
One man reach second base, nobody out.

1128
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:40,000
Two-two pitch to Maipes, swung on and missed by three.

1129
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:45,000
Fastball on the knees when the outside strikes him out for the second time.

1130
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:48,000
Six strikeouts for Newcomb.

1131
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:55,000
And Jerry Coleman who looked at a called third strike in the third inning.

1132
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:57,000
He works well upon the handle of that bat.

1133
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:00,000
He chokes his bat far more than any other player in the series.

1134
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:03,000
He's a slender hitter.

1135
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:06,000
Likes to punch that ball and it's obvious by the way he swings.

1136
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:12,000
That favorite target of his is to take a shot at right field.

1137
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:16,000
He realizes he does not have the physical strength to overpower the ball,

1138
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:21,000
so he tries to play his game according to his own physique of timing the ball.

1139
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,000
Fastball through there, called strike.

1140
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:26,000
Big Hubbard throws that right ham of his high in the air.

1141
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:29,000
Strike one.

1142
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:35,000
Campanella, stocky, and a very steady target back at the plate.

1143
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,000
Settles down now to give the sign.

1144
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:40,000
When Roy comes up after giving the sign, he gives the pitcher four points.

1145
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:44,000
His two knees and his catcher's mitt, which is not held back at the plate,

1146
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:46,000
but to one side and his right hand to the other.

1147
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:49,000
Newcomb pitches a curve low outside, one and one.

1148
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:52,000
One ball, one strike.

1149
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:56,000
Neither Mel nor I have made very much conversation with you this afternoon

1150
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:00,000
about the crowd because just everybody's here at the stadium will hold.

1151
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,000
Everybody knew that.

1152
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:04,000
That was going to scramble for seats.

1153
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:11,000
It was rather quiet because there just weren't any.

1154
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:12,000
One ball, one strike.

1155
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:15,000
There's a foul ball off.

1156
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:21,000
See, at the stadium, season seat holders will hold boxes all season long.

1157
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:23,000
They have their boxes for the World Series,

1158
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:28,000
plus the option of purchasing the same number of seats again in the reserve role.

1159
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:32,000
And, of course, when you realize the baseball requirements that have to be met

1160
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:37,000
for all the major league teams and the two league offices and the commissioner's office,

1161
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:40,000
well, that means that seat situation,

1162
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:49,000
especially where you have the season ticket holders on it, moves pretty routinely.

1163
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:53,000
One ball, two strikes, two men out, no score, nobody on, last to the fifth.

1164
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:55,000
Newcomb's pitch low outside.

1165
01:31:55,000 --> 01:32:01,000
Coleman just did check himself in time.

1166
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:06,000
The crowd has not had occasion for a real good bellow outside of their salute to DiMaggio

1167
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:09,000
when he stepped in to be the first hitter in the last of the second inning.

1168
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,000
There is no background.

1169
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:14,000
In back of center field, as the rule, there's a canvas screen.

1170
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:16,000
And in the regular season, they have the screen up,

1171
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:20,000
and therefore there are no bleacher rights sitting out there in dead center field.

1172
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:24,000
But now for the World Series, the bleachers are completely jammed, no screen.

1173
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:29,000
Newcomb steps to the back of the mound, takes a hanker, mops his face.

1174
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:36,000
It's a shirt sleeve afternoon, especially out in the bleachers.

1175
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,000
After rain early this morning, the day became muggy,

1176
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:44,000
and right now it is hot and humid, especially for this time of the year.

1177
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:46,000
And the sun comes and the sun goes.

1178
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:49,000
Right now the sun is out brightly, especially for the left and center fielders.

1179
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:50,000
They're in sun.

1180
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:54,000
Newcomb pitches again due to strike three, swinging a sharp curve ball.

1181
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:59,000
Couldn't even set himself to swing hard at seven strikeouts for Big Newcomb.

1182
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:07,000
So he has struck out now Johnson twice, Maked twice, and Coleman twice at six.

1183
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:10,000
His seventh is an adieu.

1184
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:13,000
That's the second time he has struck out the side.

1185
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:16,000
So at the end of five innings, we'll check out totals.

1186
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:19,000
No runs, one hit, and no errors for the Dodgers.

1187
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:22,000
No runs, two hits, and one error for the Yankees.

1188
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:26,000
Reynolds, a strong arm right-hander, who has not been as,

1189
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:30,000
should we say, as brilliantly as impressive as far as strikeouts are concerned as Newcomb,

1190
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:34,000
but in the business that counts, he has been very impressive.

1191
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:40,000
He has seen to it that there has been no scoring.

1192
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:43,000
No scoring at all, and that's what the payoff on in this business,

1193
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:47,000
The matter of runs.

1194
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:51,000
Thirty cents.

1195
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:54,000
Reynolds has had to pitch out of three serious threats.

1196
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:59,000
In the first inning, there was a slight misjudgment on a ball drilled into left center field by Jorgensen,

1197
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:02,000
The misjudgment on the part of left fielder Lindell,

1198
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:06,000
and so there was Johnny Jorgensen here at the bell that went out at second base.

1199
01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:08,000
Reynolds pitched out of that.

1200
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:10,000
In the second inning, he walked the first two,

1201
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:13,000
which is always an unsettling thing for a pitcher at most any time,

1202
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:18,000
and then he saw that Hodges did not sacrifice the ball on him,

1203
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,000
got him to hit into a double floor, in which he himself started it.

1204
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:26,000
In the fifth inning, as Mel told you, the error by Coleman might have been unsettling,

1205
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:29,000
then came the sacrifice, they walked the Campanella,

1206
01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:32,000
but he struck out Newcomb, got Reese on the force.

1207
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:37,000
So, here we go, into the sixth inning, no score.

1208
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:40,000
Johnny Jorgensen has Brooklyn's one hit.

1209
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:43,000
Left hand batter, only weighs about 150 pounds.

1210
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:46,000
He'll weigh less than any player in the World Series.

1211
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:49,000
Right field toward right, right hand to Reynolds pitches,

1212
01:34:49,000 --> 01:34:52,000
an overhand curve that's good for a call strike.

1213
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,000
Reynolds on the mound and better with the two on back of the plate.

1214
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:58,000
Tammy Henrik at first base, Jerry Coleman at second.

1215
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:01,000
The shortstop is Phil Rizzuto on the third base in Billy Johnson.

1216
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:04,000
Lindell in left field, the great DiMaggio is in center.

1217
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:07,000
Right field, Clif Mates.

1218
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:10,000
Pitch, fastball swung on, driven to right field corner.

1219
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:15,000
It is just fouled, into the stand, just fouled.

1220
01:35:15,000 --> 01:35:18,000
No question about it, three umpires right on the line.

1221
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:20,000
That ball stands right at that point,

1222
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:24,000
I know the home plate in the other part of Yankee Stadium, 296 feet.

1223
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,000
That ball went foul by about a yard.

1224
01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:29,000
But it's a very tough angle for an umpire to have to rule,

1225
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:31,000
especially if he's back to the plate.

1226
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:33,000
Not quite as tough as he's at first,

1227
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:36,000
but it's no problem at all if an umpire is in the right field corner.

1228
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:40,000
And that is where umpire Hurley was.

1229
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:42,000
So you have right on the line all three of them,

1230
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:46,000
Hobbit back to the plate, Reardon at first, and Hurley in the right field corner.

1231
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:48,000
Our commissioner channel is innovation.

1232
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:51,000
Taking the older umpires and putting them in the foul corners

1233
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,000
is a wonderful efficiency asset.

1234
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:55,000
Jorgensen takes a high inside fastball.

1235
01:35:55,000 --> 01:36:01,000
The crowd roared simply because Berra had to reach up to pull it down.

1236
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:05,000
One ball, a few strikes.

1237
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:09,000
Jorgensen first up in the sixth inning, no score.

1238
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:14,000
Gillette, very privileged to bring you these broadcasts of these great events.

1239
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:17,000
This is the 11th straight World Series for Gillette.

1240
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:19,000
Fastball low outside.

1241
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:24,000
Ball two, two balls, two strikes.

1242
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:28,000
Jorgensen steps out, hits the soles of his shoes,

1243
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:34,000
to the heavy end of the bat, knocking a little play out.

1244
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:36,000
Jorgensen chokes that stick about an inch.

1245
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:38,000
An open stance, right hand to Reynolds pitches.

1246
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:40,000
Five, four, ball three.

1247
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:43,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1248
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:45,000
Meldon Start coaching in third.

1249
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:48,000
Jake Pitlett first.

1250
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,000
Jorgensen, who is hitting second on the batting card,

1251
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:52,000
is leading off here in the sixth inning.

1252
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:57,000
Snyder on deck, then Robinson.

1253
01:36:57,000 --> 01:36:58,000
Tough ball game.

1254
01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:00,000
Big crowd just waiting for something to break.

1255
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:01,000
Three, two, pitch.

1256
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:02,000
Ball four.

1257
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:05,000
Joe Jorgensen closes the bat away.

1258
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:08,000
And this is base on balls number four given up by Reynolds.

1259
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:10,000
Ducum has not walked any one.

1260
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:12,000
So Jorgensen opens up the inning.

1261
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:17,000
And the Dodgers have now begun their fourth scoring thrust.

1262
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:20,000
But the first three were negated by Reynolds,

1263
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:25,000
who has pitched very stoutly in the clutches.

1264
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:29,000
Duke Snyder, who is off for two, who had to count his way,

1265
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:33,000
three, one in the first inning, and then swung prodigiously at two fastballs,

1266
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:36,000
as Mel pointed out to you,

1267
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:39,000
sets to bump and takes a curve that is in under the shoulders on the outside.

1268
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,000
All strikes.

1269
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:43,000
Snyder drew back from that thinking that he wouldn't be in the strike zone,

1270
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:45,000
but the curve ball of Reynolds, which is a good one,

1271
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:50,000
ducked down and in there and got it.

1272
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:53,000
Nobody out, no score.

1273
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:55,000
Henrik holding first base tightly.

1274
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:58,000
Reynolds has to come to his set position now with a man on it first behind him.

1275
01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:01,000
He's a right-hand pitcher.

1276
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,000
Nobody throwing in the anky-both end.

1277
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:06,000
Fred Sanford was up in the second inning.

1278
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:11,000
Now they walk the first two men.

1279
01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:13,000
Night of crotchers, the pitch is swung on and missed.

1280
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:22,000
Strike two with a curve ball that seemed to be under the waistline and over.

1281
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:26,000
Nothing in two.

1282
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:37,000
Reynolds is a very solid fellow, big through the chest, shoulders, and hips.

1283
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:41,000
In field, upper step, outfield, over shifted into right.

1284
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:43,000
The pitch, Snyder, the left-hand hitter to pull, swings and misses.

1285
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:49,000
Strike three.

1286
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:53,000
That for Reynolds gives him three strikeouts, and we have 10 strikeouts so far.

1287
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,000
Newcomb has struck out seven.

1288
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:59,000
So it continues to be so far pitching, hand power pitching.

1289
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:01,000
In other words, these two fellows are not finessing anybody.

1290
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:03,000
They're just throwing it past him.

1291
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:07,000
Fast ball and curve.

1292
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:11,000
Newcomb hasn't fooled with a change of face since Lindell singled off of it in the second inning.

1293
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:16,000
And Reynolds has only thrown one real change of face, and that was high outside for a ball.

1294
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:22,000
Jackie Robinson to win the batting title, beating Stan Musial out by three points.

1295
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:25,000
0-2 today, right-hand hitter.

1296
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:30,000
Takes a curve that is low, too low, all-1.

1297
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:33,000
Robinson in the first inning, a fly ball to Mapes and Wrightfield.

1298
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:37,000
And in the fourth inning, he was thrown out, third baseman Johnson to first baseman Tommy Henry.

1299
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:40,000
Henry continues holding first base against Jorgensen.

1300
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:44,000
Jorgensen is not too much of a running threat as far as the steal is concerned.

1301
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:48,000
He only stole one base in the punter campaign, and that was the last day of the season.

1302
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,000
Throw to first, not in time.

1303
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:58,000
Jorgensen thought the throw would be closer than it was and dove back in with his hands.

1304
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:01,000
Robinson, holes that club down by the end.

1305
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:05,000
Real put on the back line of the box, slightly open stance, bend at the knees.

1306
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:09,000
The pitch, too low, and it is ball two.

1307
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:15,000
Reynolds has a lot up off of his fast ball, which has a tennis at his sink.

1308
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:20,000
And that is what he threw just now to Jack.

1309
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:25,000
A pitcher such as Reynolds, a pitcher such as Newcomb, is easy for a broadcaster to read.

1310
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:30,000
He is tough for a hitter, of course. The hitter is only 60 feet away.

1311
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:34,000
But now, when Eddie Lofat pitches, it is going to be something to see what he is throwing all the time.

1312
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:38,000
He throws everything. Now goes Jorgensen, Robinson swings and fouls it off on a hit-and-run play.

1313
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:42,000
Foul ball in the lost end behind first.

1314
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:46,000
And that was a fast ball that Reynolds had thrown in there on Jack's hands.

1315
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:50,000
Practically had it passed it. All right, two balls, one strike.

1316
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:55,000
The sun is now out steadily. The skies are clear. They are blue and white up above.

1317
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:59,000
Two innings ago, they were getting pretty leaden, pretty threatening.

1318
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:04,000
The weather forecast for the day as well as for tomorrow on the second.

1319
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:06,000
It is the best way we can read it.

1320
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:09,000
It is a lot of two-bit words, where as is, if as is.

1321
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,000
Throw to first, not in time.

1322
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:18,000
Henrik had to lean off the bag to a second base, pull it in.

1323
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:22,000
Two balls, one strike.

1324
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:24,000
Robbie waiting at the plate.

1325
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:27,000
The plate hit-and-run on the last pitch. We will see what they do now.

1326
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:30,000
Jorgensen holds. The pitch is thrown and foul back.

1327
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:32,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1328
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:36,000
The Dodgers are not running, but Robinson is up there hitting as he pleases.

1329
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:39,000
And of course, he is up there probably hitting as he pleases now.

1330
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:43,000
They should decide to play hit-and-run.

1331
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:46,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1332
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,000
One away.

1333
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:52,000
Reynolds decides to soon pitch another baseball, and that is agreeable.

1334
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:56,000
We will play it on Parkale Hubbard, who makes the exchange.

1335
01:41:56,000 --> 01:42:08,000
Now Alley turns his back on the plate, bends off the rubber, rubbing up the ball.

1336
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:11,000
Center fielder of the Magyar is bearded over toward left center.

1337
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:14,000
Left and right fielder straight away on Robinson.

1338
01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:17,000
In field is up a couple of steps hoping for the DP.

1339
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:19,000
The Yankees have their games only double fly.

1340
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:22,000
Got that in the second inning, it took Reynolds out of a hole.

1341
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:27,000
They're 2-2 pitch. Curve inside of the knees, and Jack took it. All three.

1342
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:31,000
Now the Dodgers may elect to run.

1343
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:41,000
3-2. Yogi Berra, I noticed in the papers, says that he's got a secret weapon now.

1344
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:45,000
He defies the Dodgers' run on him this year as they did two years ago.

1345
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:54,000
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.

1346
01:42:54,000 --> 01:43:01,000
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.

1347
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:04,000
He's going, and he makes the dab of it. And deep cuts on the field.

1348
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:20,000
Jorgensen, who at round the second, is on his way back. The first relay from Rizzuto is not in time.

1349
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:31,000
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,

1350
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:36,000
and the Magyar, one of the great outfielders of all time, very gracefully, just turned and went and got it.

1351
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:43,000
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.

1352
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:50,000
Jorgensen had already gotten on the third base out at second, and yet got back to first ahead of a good relay by Rizzuto.

1353
01:43:50,000 --> 01:43:55,000
That tells you how far the ball was hit to the left center. So DiMaggio comes up with the first real outfield catch.

1354
01:43:55,000 --> 01:44:04,000
It's the first time that an outfielder has been severely challenged. So Robinson hits one, and DiMaggio says, that's just another out.

1355
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:09,000
Okay, two go on, and the batter is Gene Hermanski. 0-1. Base one ball is in second inning.

1356
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:14,000
Fly ball to right field. In the fourth, takes a ball, strike at the knees, and it is nothing in one.

1357
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:20,000
No ball, one strike. The infield, with the exception of third base, is completely in shadow.

1358
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:28,000
Part of shortstop is in shadow. All the right field is in shadow. Center field and left field are in sun.

1359
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,000
Left field is the sun garden here at the stadium, not right field.

1360
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:43,000
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.

1361
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:55,000
Double-halls, two strikes. When Reynolds gets men on, then he shows you something. It's been the pattern so far today.

1362
01:44:55,000 --> 01:45:03,000
Jorgensen walks, open the sixth inning, and he's still layup. It was quite a catch by DiMaggio.

1363
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:11,000
Reynolds steps off first base.

1364
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:17,000
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.

1365
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:25,000
Throw, turner missed her ball. So, that was a thing that turned off. A fourth strike out.

1366
01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:36,000
And at the end of five and a half innings, the score is still Brooklyn nothing and New York nothing.

1367
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:42,000
If you asked Sid Gordon, the famous third baseman of the New York Giants, who by the way is right here with me,

1368
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:47,000
he'd tell you that the Gillette Super Speed Razor is a honey. Am I right, Sid?

1369
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:53,000
That's right, Red. It's the sweetest shaving razor I ever used and the most convenient.

1370
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:55,000
But Sid, what do you like best about it?

1371
01:45:55,000 --> 01:46:02,000
Everything. It never jams or clogs. You change blades quickly and it's no trouble to clean.

1372
01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:04,000
Ever used a Gillette Razor before?

1373
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:08,000
Yes, and every other kind too, but never one like this.

1374
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:14,000
Man, the Gillette Super Speed Razor is the easiest shaving and handiest razor you can imagine.

1375
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:21,000
Yes, and listen to this. You get it in a handsome, serviceable styrene travel case with a 10 blade Gillette dispenser.

1376
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:33,000
A big dollar, 75 value for only a dollar. Ask for the new Gillette Super Speed Razor set at any convenience store.

1377
01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:38,000
Well, Sid, while we've got you here, what about this pitching? Would you like to be hitting against it?

1378
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:45,000
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.

1379
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:50,000
Newcomen's as fast as I've ever seen them while I was hitting against them.

1380
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:55,000
Of course, I've never hit against Reynolds and he certainly looks like he's got real good stuff today.

1381
01:46:55,000 --> 01:47:00,000
Looks like it's going to be the team that gets the first break who's going to win this ball game.

1382
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:03,000
Thanks a lot, Sid. Now let's see about the last of the sixth inning.

1383
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:07,000
First up for the Yankees is pitcher Reynolds who has a two base hit to his credit, right hand batter.

1384
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:13,000
Months up to a third base and fouls it off. He was running to try and add another base hit to the kitty.

1385
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:20,000
So Reynolds, who is a dominant figure, he and Newcomen so far are completely overshadowing the rest of the story.

1386
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:26,000
Reynolds, who is Mel Allen, told you in the third inning, with the defense pulled or backed into right field,

1387
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:30,000
pulled one in the left field corner, a fly ball that was in there for two bases.

1388
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:33,000
And he is the only Yankee who has reached second base safely.

1389
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:38,000
And he is the last one to get on. Newcomen's retired everybody since that double with one out in the third inning.

1390
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:42,000
Right hand hitter, Don Rez back, fouls it, clung on, hits sharply.

1391
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:45,000
Two between third and fourth base hit to Rez.

1392
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:57,000
That's a five single through between third base and third base and a shortstop race.

1393
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:05,000
So three hits for the Yankees, out which pitcher Reynolds has gotten the last two.

1394
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:11,000
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,

1395
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:16,000
and now Reynolds a single opening up matters here in the last of the sixth inning.

1396
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:17,000
So a race comes over from short.

1397
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:19,000
The high just can go from first.

1398
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:21,000
They talk to Big Newcomen on the mound for the moment.

1399
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:27,000
Dodgers of course have to drink their defense now ready for the punt in one of the most powerful punters in the game.

1400
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:32,000
Phil Rizzuto, the little leadoff man, is now up.

1401
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:33,000
Going soon in close from third.

1402
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,000
Here's the pitch, and it's a pitch out.

1403
01:48:35,000 --> 01:48:37,000
Throw down the first base and Reynolds is back.

1404
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:41,000
Robinson, the second baseman, came in to take the throw.

1405
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:43,000
That's a play that the Dodgers use upon occasion.

1406
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:45,000
Reynolds just did get back dicky at the first base.

1407
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:51,000
Coach goes over and says, now listen, Ali, I'm going to put a rope on you.

1408
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:56,000
That's a play that has been used all through the years in which there's an obvious punt situation.

1409
01:48:56,000 --> 01:49:02,000
The pitcher pitches out to the right hand hitter, and the first baseman as the decoy runs up toward the plate.

1410
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,000
And the second baseman tries to sneak in first.

1411
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:09,000
Pitch in there for a call strike, one ball, one strike.

1412
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:12,000
One and one.

1413
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:14,000
I do this up close.

1414
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,000
There's something to Newcomb.

1415
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:20,000
We'll know in a moment what managed to case this thing.

1416
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:25,000
He's got up his sleeve.

1417
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:27,000
Throw, munted, foul.

1418
01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:35,000
And Rizzuto, who is not only an excellent punter, but he covers up until the last split second that he's going to punt.

1419
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:41,000
Because he doesn't run his right hand out along the bowl of the bat and then drop the bat on the ball.

1420
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:46,000
He punts with merely a flick of the wrist so he can wait until the pitcher's practically on top of him,

1421
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:51,000
which is not calculated to make third baseman sleep too soundly.

1422
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,000
Anyhow, he punted that one.

1423
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:58,000
So the infield now most double play depth, one ball, two strikes.

1424
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,000
The penalty is rather high for bunting foul with two strikes on you.

1425
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:02,000
Rizzuto struck out.

1426
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:05,000
Throw, curve on the outside, four ball, two.

1427
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:06,000
No score.

1428
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:17,000
And the Yankees hoping to exploit the second base hit of Randall's now into something here in the last half, the sixth inning.

1429
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:20,000
I just hold him first, shorten the lead of the runner.

1430
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:24,000
The 2-2 pitch, thrown on, hit down the third, jogs up with a throw to second to Robinson.

1431
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:28,000
The throw on the first base is not in time at first.

1432
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:37,000
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.

1433
01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:38,000
Randall's in that ball game there.

1434
01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:42,000
He goes back into the Yankee bench, which is on the first base side of things.

1435
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:44,000
He's all covered with dirt.

1436
01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:45,000
He stayed in there hard.

1437
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:49,000
He made Robinson get off second base, and Randall broke up the double play.

1438
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:54,000
In other words, he did not allow Robinson to set and pivot at second.

1439
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:57,000
He made him get off the bag and then throw.

1440
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,000
And Rizzuto, who's fast, beat the relay.

1441
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:03,000
Short to fourth play at second, on Randall.

1442
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:08,000
Third base from Johnson, second base from Robinson, and the batter now is Tommy Henry, who is off for two.

1443
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:12,000
The 10 hit on the dangerous one.

1444
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:14,000
Now big newcomer, ready?

1445
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:16,000
Henry swings a five-ball deep into the left center field.

1446
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:18,000
Slider's got a long way to go.

1447
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:19,000
He's under it.

1448
01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:21,000
He's got it.

1449
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:25,000
So we have two center fielders who can really go get him.

1450
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:31,000
DiMaggio and this young fellow, Smada, finishing out his first full year in the major.

1451
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:35,000
So Henry hit one, but it is out number two.

1452
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:37,000
So that sort of evened up things.

1453
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:45,000
Robinson belted one into DiMaggio, went and took it in the upper part of the sixth inning.

1454
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:50,000
Very dangerous batter, Yogi Berra.

1455
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:55,000
He really took his favorite ball player to heart when he was a kid down in St. Louis.

1456
01:51:55,000 --> 01:51:59,000
His heart went out to Joe Medwick back in that era.

1457
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:04,000
And Medwick, of course, admittedly and still is probably the best bad ball hitter baseball ever saw.

1458
01:52:04,000 --> 01:52:07,000
Well, Berra is heir apparent to that crowd.

1459
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:11,000
In other words, he's dangerous because he will hit a pitcher trying to waste on him even.

1460
01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:18,000
And pitchers say, well, how do you pitch to a fellow like that?

1461
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,000
Pursuit off first, left to go.

1462
01:52:20,000 --> 01:52:21,000
He's the Yankees leading base dealer.

1463
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:24,000
The pitch to Berra swung on and bowled back.

1464
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:28,000
Strike one.

1465
01:52:28,000 --> 01:52:29,000
Over all in one strike.

1466
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:30,000
No score.

1467
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:39,000
Two men out.

1468
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:45,000
Big Newcomb for the first time being duly deliberate.

1469
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:48,000
He'd been pitching steadily without wasting any time between deliveries.

1470
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:53,000
Works as a pitch out, but Rizzuto wasn't going.

1471
01:52:53,000 --> 01:53:00,000
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.

1472
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:03,000
But little Phil was staying home.

1473
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:05,000
Hodges holding first base against him.

1474
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:08,000
The umpire is beans ridden.

1475
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:10,000
One ball, one strike.

1476
01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:11,000
Two men on.

1477
01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:12,000
Throw.

1478
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:13,000
Pass ball high outside.

1479
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:14,000
Throw down to first.

1480
01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:19,000
Not in time again.

1481
01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:20,000
Two men on.

1482
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:26,000
What Campanello is doing, the lingo of the trade, he's trying to help his pitcher.

1483
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:27,000
He throws to first.

1484
01:53:27,000 --> 01:53:32,000
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.

1485
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:38,000
Give the pitcher a little bit more leeway out there on the mound.

1486
01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:41,000
Throw to first, not in time, Rizzuto back.

1487
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:49,000
Newcomb is not only young in years, but he's young in organized baseball, and he's finishing his rookie year.

1488
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:51,000
He's not the most polished pitcher in the world.

1489
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:56,000
Throws to first, and Rizzuto has to dive back.

1490
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:58,000
Two balls, one strike.

1491
01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:05,000
Our little Phil has got that home white Yankee uniform all must up, Ian Reynolds.

1492
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:10,000
The Dodgers are wearing slate gray, bluish-tinged road suits.

1493
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:12,000
In fact, Brooklyn's uniform is brand new.

1494
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:15,000
They never had them on until they put them on for the day.

1495
01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:17,000
And Mel tells me the Yankees have got brand new suits too.

1496
01:54:17,000 --> 01:54:19,000
Well, everything for the big day.

1497
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:25,000
The 2-1 pitchers, Udohol strike two swinging to the curve at the plate.

1498
01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:29,000
Those wrists of Verro's are really impressive.

1499
01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:34,000
He too waits until that pitch is practically on top of him, and then lets go.

1500
01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:41,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1501
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:43,000
Outfield very much toward right.

1502
01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:47,000
Yogi pulls in that direction, no score.

1503
01:54:47,000 --> 01:54:55,000
Two-two pitch, there's a high foul ball up and back right behind us.

1504
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:58,000
Still two and two.

1505
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:03,000
You survive baseball, as we can brought up the third and parcal Hubbard.

1506
01:55:03,000 --> 01:55:10,000
It was a very impressive and a thoughtful gesture that at the invitation of Commissioner A.B. Chandler,

1507
01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:15,000
that the nine-year-old kid Bruce Howard, who has gotten over infantile paralysis,

1508
01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:20,000
which hit him in July of this summer, was the guest of commission throughout the first ball.

1509
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:23,000
Throw the first, not in time.

1510
01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:28,000
And it was a thing which Mayor O'Dwyer, who usually throws out the first ball,

1511
01:55:28,000 --> 01:55:31,000
that is the mayor does, is very happy to step aside for the juncture to do.

1512
01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:36,000
Two-two pitch, swung and missed, great foul ball on the outside, ball strikes out.

1513
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:43,000
So Newcomb has to fidget a little bit, but he pitches right along, records his eighth strike out.

1514
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:47,000
And at the end of six innings, we'll check our totals.

1515
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:53,000
No runs, one hit. That was the first inning double by Jorgensen and no errors for the Dodgers.

1516
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:56,000
For the Yankees, no runs, three hits, two of them by Reynolds.

1517
01:55:56,000 --> 01:56:00,000
And for New York, one error.

1518
01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:03,000
Now we'll pause ten seconds for station identification.

1519
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:07,000
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1520
01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:15,000
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.

1521
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:22,000
Here we are at Yankee Stadium, moving into the seventh inning,

1522
01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:27,000
and everything is getting bigger and bigger and tenser and tenser and more and more important.

1523
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:34,000
Reynolds and Newcomb are the two key figures until somebody else moves in.

1524
01:56:34,000 --> 01:56:40,000
Mel, take this microphone over for a second, speaking about tension.

1525
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:45,000
How about it here Saturday and Sunday when the Yankees came through with a Red Sox?

1526
01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:48,000
Well, you had tension at the very highest peak, Red.

1527
01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:54,000
You spoke about that, and just as much, of course, as you may have had it with the Dodgers

1528
01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:56,000
and their magnificent drive to the pennant.

1529
01:56:56,000 --> 01:57:02,000
But here on last Saturday, the Yankees were faced with this tremendous obstacle,

1530
01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:09,000
one game behind of having to win the last two games of the year against their contender, the Red Sox,

1531
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:13,000
admittedly one of the greatest teams in baseball, in order to win it.

1532
01:57:13,000 --> 01:57:19,000
And then they did, and it carried on into Sunday and then, of course, on every pitch, the pennant rolled.

1533
01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:26,000
So you can imagine, well, the crowd, packed as they are here today, were roaring on every pitch.

1534
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:27,000
That explains it.

1535
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:29,000
Well, I know it was something.

1536
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:34,000
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.

1537
01:57:34,000 --> 01:57:38,000
Now we go on to the seventh inning, and Pirello first up for Brooklyn.

1538
01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:41,000
He's gotten on both times, a walk and an hour.

1539
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,000
He cannot run very fast because of the groin injury.

1540
01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:47,000
He swings, and there's a pop fly that second baseman Coleman is under.

1541
01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:50,000
No first baseman, Henry, goes over and makes the grab.

1542
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:55,000
Coleman signals he'd take it, but Henry, who has the bigger mitt, playing first base, moved in, took it.

1543
01:57:55,000 --> 01:57:58,000
So Pirello is now 0 for 2.

1544
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:02,000
First time, he has not been on.

1545
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:07,000
One up, one away, seventh inning, no score.

1546
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:12,000
Gil Hodges, 0 for 1, hit into the double play in the second inning and butted in the fifth.

1547
01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:15,000
Takes a curve on the outside, called strike.

1548
01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:18,000
Hodges, a big strapping right-hand batter.

1549
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:25,000
In case you folks are wondering about the strikeouts, Howard Emke, you remember,

1550
01:58:25,000 --> 01:58:30,000
in the World Series of 29, the Athletics against the Cubs struck out 13.

1551
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:33,000
Pitch outside, 4 ball 1.

1552
01:58:33,000 --> 01:58:40,000
So the pitcher who has turned in the most strikeouts in a World Series game was Emke with his 13.

1553
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:46,000
Don Newcomb struck out 8.

1554
01:58:46,000 --> 01:58:49,000
A little early to be going for such salient statistics,

1555
01:58:49,000 --> 01:58:55,000
but we thought it would answer a question if you happen to have it in your mind.

1556
01:58:55,000 --> 01:59:03,000
Hodges, who stepped out of the box, steps in again, no score, one gone, seventh inning, game one.

1557
01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:05,000
Hodges swings and misses at a hard-thrown curve ball.

1558
01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:09,000
He missed it off the end of the bat.

1559
01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:12,000
This curve renders when he really throws it hard.

1560
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:17,000
It doesn't break so wide as it breaks sharply.

1561
01:59:17,000 --> 01:59:20,000
Fittler cups his hands. He's the first base coach.

1562
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:22,000
Holler something up to Hodges.

1563
01:59:22,000 --> 01:59:27,000
Yankee outfield is at a very respectful depth,

1564
01:59:27,000 --> 01:59:31,000
pulls slightly into left.

1565
01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:38,000
Second baseman Coleman is a step over closer to second than from his normal straightaway spot.

1566
01:59:38,000 --> 01:59:40,000
Fersudder, a step over toward third. It's short.

1567
01:59:40,000 --> 01:59:41,000
Here's the pitch.

1568
01:59:41,000 --> 01:59:43,000
Side on fastball and goes back to the stands.

1569
01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:45,000
That was a lacrosse-fire attempt.

1570
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:48,000
It's the first time that Reynolds has stepped toward third and fired that ball

1571
01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:52,000
to the outside of the plate on the right hand hitter.

1572
01:59:52,000 --> 01:59:54,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1573
01:59:54,000 --> 02:00:04,000
The breeze has picked up somewhat and is blowing straight out to right field.

1574
02:00:04,000 --> 02:00:11,000
Not a strong wind, but it's a factor.

1575
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:14,000
Two-two pitch, fastball just missing outside.

1576
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:18,000
Reynolds not too pleased. He's really been counting on that one.

1577
02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:23,000
Now three and two.

1578
02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:25,000
Infield is Henrik at first.

1579
02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:27,000
Coleman at second.

1580
02:00:27,000 --> 02:00:29,000
A short risotto and a third, Johnson.

1581
02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:33,000
Casey Stengel has really had to make some quick changes all through the year.

1582
02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:36,000
Three-two pitch, strike three called, fastball on the outside.

1583
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:45,000
That's from the five-strike out for Reynolds who's coming along in that strike out department.

1584
02:00:45,000 --> 02:00:56,000
Well, Campanella, the strong, stocky right-hand hitting catcher, was a long ball threat.

1585
02:00:56,000 --> 02:01:02,000
Campanella, for one, drive ball to right field in the second inning based on balls in the fifth.

1586
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:05,000
They pitched him very carefully rather than give him anything too fat to hit at.

1587
02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:09,000
Finally wound up walking.

1588
02:01:09,000 --> 02:01:15,000
Curve ball, all over, too low. Ball what?

1589
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:19,000
One ball, no strikes.

1590
02:01:19,000 --> 02:01:24,000
These two pitches have just simply kept this crowd very quiet.

1591
02:01:24,000 --> 02:01:28,000
Throw, fastball low, ball two.

1592
02:01:28,000 --> 02:01:34,000
Campanella looking to third base coach Milton Stock to see how manager Bert Schotten wants this situation

1593
02:01:34,000 --> 02:01:41,000
taken care of or attempted, we might say.

1594
02:01:41,000 --> 02:01:45,000
Two and all.

1595
02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,000
Two-nothing pitches, swung on and missed.

1596
02:01:48,000 --> 02:01:50,000
That was that hard curve ball thrown right off the hands.

1597
02:01:50,000 --> 02:01:55,000
That's a beautiful pitch when it's placed just where it was then.

1598
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:58,000
Two balls, one strike.

1599
02:01:58,000 --> 02:02:04,000
Two gone. Bases clear here in the seventh.

1600
02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:13,000
Reynolds works, just misses outside and he now is in the hole three and one.

1601
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:21,000
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.

1602
02:02:21,000 --> 02:02:33,000
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.

1603
02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:37,000
Three-one pitch, swung on, curve ball, fouled off.

1604
02:02:37,000 --> 02:02:40,000
Full count, three and two.

1605
02:02:40,000 --> 02:02:42,000
Both pitches have worked very hard.

1606
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:48,000
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.

1607
02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:51,000
The bullpens have been quiet. There's only been one flurry of action.

1608
02:02:51,000 --> 02:02:54,000
Fred Sanford, his male, told you, was up from the second inning and on it through briefly.

1609
02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:59,000
Double play broke the back of that Brooklyn thread after two walks were given up by Reynolds.

1610
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:04,000
Joe Page, of course, who lives down there in the back of right center field, he hasn't gotten up yet.

1611
02:03:04,000 --> 02:03:09,000
They save him for the meat on the table in the late innings.

1612
02:03:09,000 --> 02:03:12,000
Brooklyn bullpens had three pitchers in it and they haven't stirred.

1613
02:03:12,000 --> 02:03:17,000
Three-two pitch, cost by three, a fastball on the outside.

1614
02:03:17,000 --> 02:03:23,000
And Campanella takes the classroom on the outside as does the same fake for Hodgley ahead of him.

1615
02:03:23,000 --> 02:03:26,000
And that's six strikeouts for Reynolds.

1616
02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:30,000
Joe, nothing, of course, in the top of the seventh inning.

1617
02:03:30,000 --> 02:03:34,000
And we're really having some pitching. This ballgames a squeaker.

1618
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:38,000
The score is Brooklyn nothing and New York nothing.

1619
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:46,000
Well, you just heard Sid Gordon, famous third baseman of the New York Giants, say that he's never used a shaving instrument that's a match for the modern Gillette superspeed racer.

1620
02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:51,000
Yes, and I'm sure that you'll put in with every word when you get yours.

1621
02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:58,000
The Gillette superspeed racer changes blades instantly, shaves like a feather, and rinses clean and agitated.

1622
02:03:58,000 --> 02:04:04,000
This racer can't jam, can't clog, and there's nothing to take apart or put together.

1623
02:04:04,000 --> 02:04:07,000
Twist, it opens. Zip, it's loaded.

1624
02:04:07,000 --> 02:04:12,000
Twist again, and you're ready to enjoy the slickest, most refreshing shaves ever.

1625
02:04:12,000 --> 02:04:19,000
For real shaving ease and convenience, buy the new Gillette superspeed racer set at any convenience store.

1626
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:22,000
Believe me, it's a beauty and a bargain.

1627
02:04:22,000 --> 02:04:35,000
You get the racer plus a 10 blade Gillette dispenser and the handsome serviceable styrene travel case, a whale of $1.75 value for only $1.

1628
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:48,000
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.

1629
02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:54,000
Came back after the heel injury, big surgery at Boston, and the Yankees swept three games.

1630
02:04:54,000 --> 02:05:04,000
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.

1631
02:05:04,000 --> 02:05:11,000
DiMaggio, right hand batter, big Newcomb, right hand to pitches, fastball high and side up against the hands for ball one.

1632
02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:16,000
DiMaggio was the first of Newcomb's eight strikeout victims, struck out the second inning.

1633
02:05:16,000 --> 02:05:20,000
Hopped up to second base of the fourth, so he's 0 for 2.

1634
02:05:20,000 --> 02:05:24,000
Outfield deep, round toward left, Newcomb's throw, swung on and fouled off.

1635
02:05:24,000 --> 02:05:30,000
There was a curve ball in there, one and one, one ball, one strike.

1636
02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:34,000
No score.

1637
02:05:34,000 --> 02:05:38,000
Apparently there is nothing in 1945 as far as the big sticks are concerned.

1638
02:05:38,000 --> 02:05:40,000
It's going to be easy.

1639
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:41,000
The attendance were tough.

1640
02:05:41,000 --> 02:05:43,000
This ball game is tough.

1641
02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:48,000
I guess this is the prevailing pattern of the year.

1642
02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:52,000
One and one pitch, curve ball high and inside for ball two.

1643
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:53,000
Two and one.

1644
02:05:53,000 --> 02:05:55,000
Two balls, one strike.

1645
02:05:55,000 --> 02:06:00,000
Very anxious to get the attendance figures whenever they are announced on the press box.

1646
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:07,000
We'll have them up here in the radio sector and we'll certainly pass them on to you.

1647
02:06:07,000 --> 02:06:10,000
Two balls, one strike.

1648
02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:14,000
Newcomb delivers, Joe swings, fouls with all.

1649
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:20,000
DiMaggio looks as slender as when he first began to play professional ball.

1650
02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:22,000
He wasn't too heavy.

1651
02:06:22,000 --> 02:06:30,000
In fact, he was drawn very fine when he had his recent sickness and he lost 11 or 12 pounds.

1652
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:33,000
In fact, it's very hard to get Joe to even admit that he lost any weight.

1653
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:36,000
He didn't like to talk that way, but he has.

1654
02:06:36,000 --> 02:06:39,000
His uniform is sort of draped on him a little bit.

1655
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:41,000
All right, two and two.

1656
02:06:41,000 --> 02:06:43,000
Big Newcomb.

1657
02:06:43,000 --> 02:06:44,000
Kick, throws.

1658
02:06:44,000 --> 02:06:47,000
There's a high, high putt fly right in the middle of the infield.

1659
02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:51,000
Robinson coming over, Reese coming over, and it's Robinson for the catch.

1660
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:52,000
Peeley was running in there.

1661
02:06:52,000 --> 02:06:56,000
Apparently, the captain and take charge guy of the infield had designated who was going to catch it.

1662
02:06:56,000 --> 02:06:58,000
That ball was right back at pitcher's mound.

1663
02:06:58,000 --> 02:07:01,000
That could have been a grand scramble, as it was.

1664
02:07:01,000 --> 02:07:05,000
It's a simple putt fly to second base from Robinson.

1665
02:07:05,000 --> 02:07:10,000
DiMaggio is off with three in that in itself as a story.

1666
02:07:10,000 --> 02:07:19,000
Johnny Lindell, who hit a change-up ball, second inning for the Yankees single.

1667
02:07:19,000 --> 02:07:21,000
Reynolds is taking care of the next two hits.

1668
02:07:21,000 --> 02:07:23,000
We only had four hits aggregate in the ball game.

1669
02:07:23,000 --> 02:07:31,000
Jorgensen got a double in the first inning when Lindell came in just a little when he should have been going back.

1670
02:07:31,000 --> 02:07:34,000
Some pitching.

1671
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:38,000
Played on fire Hubbard, wants to examine the baseball.

1672
02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:43,000
Finds it's all right, hands it back to catch it, camp with Ella, fires it out to the mound.

1673
02:07:43,000 --> 02:07:48,000
Big Lindell stepping in.

1674
02:07:48,000 --> 02:07:54,000
I feel around toward left.

1675
02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:56,000
Infield swung toward third.

1676
02:07:56,000 --> 02:08:00,000
Newcomb's pitch, sharp curve over.

1677
02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:05,000
It must have been a tough sight for Joe McArthur to see Lindell hit that home run Saturday afternoon,

1678
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:15,000
because it was McArthur during the Warriors who converted Lindell from just a so-so pitcher to an outfielder.

1679
02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:18,000
Newcomb delivers fastball on the outside.

1680
02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:28,000
One ball, one strike.

1681
02:08:28,000 --> 02:08:36,000
Campanella, who handled an unsaid in Brooklyn pitching staff all year, very well, sets down back of the plate.

1682
02:08:36,000 --> 02:08:39,000
There's a curveball low outside missing by just a tick.

1683
02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:44,000
Two balls, one strike.

1684
02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:49,000
Two and one, one gone, last to the seventh, no score.

1685
02:08:49,000 --> 02:08:58,000
A crowd watchfully waiting.

1686
02:08:58,000 --> 02:09:00,000
Two-one pitch, over.

1687
02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:04,000
There was a slider which Newcomb called a hard curveball.

1688
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:07,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1689
02:09:07,000 --> 02:09:12,000
Don has two types of curve, the one which does not break very much but explodes very quickly.

1690
02:09:12,000 --> 02:09:14,000
It's a hard curve.

1691
02:09:14,000 --> 02:09:15,000
A lot of pitches call it a slider.

1692
02:09:15,000 --> 02:09:23,000
And then the other one is just orthodox big sweeping curve.

1693
02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:26,000
To Indu.

1694
02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:29,000
Lindell, who swings from the heels.

1695
02:09:29,000 --> 02:09:34,000
The two-two pitch, curve on the outside for Paul Stake three.

1696
02:09:34,000 --> 02:09:36,000
That gives Newcomb nine.

1697
02:09:36,000 --> 02:09:40,000
Now check him out to be sure we haven't made a mistake on him,

1698
02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:48,000
because he's beginning to pick up a lot of strikeouts.

1699
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:52,000
Now we have Billy Johnson, who is 0 for 2 in both of them strikeouts.

1700
02:09:52,000 --> 02:10:01,000
And the consensus on the addition of Newcomb's K, that's the scoring symbol for a strikeout, nine.

1701
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:06,000
Two men gone, last half of the seventh.

1702
02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:10,000
This ball game is no place for small boys.

1703
02:10:10,000 --> 02:10:13,000
Don works, fastball strong on, hit down to deep third.

1704
02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:15,000
Jorgensen up to throw over to first.

1705
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:17,000
End time, and that's all for Johnson.

1706
02:10:17,000 --> 02:10:23,000
So for the Yankees, who got on one, two, three in the last half of the seventh inning.

1707
02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:26,000
So let's see.

1708
02:10:26,000 --> 02:10:30,000
The Yankees, in giving up 21 outs, have only had 24 batters.

1709
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:32,000
That shows you how tight that is.

1710
02:10:32,000 --> 02:10:37,000
The men that got on for the Yankees stayed on.

1711
02:10:37,000 --> 02:10:46,000
The Dodgers have only had one more man hit.

1712
02:10:46,000 --> 02:10:51,000
So things are really just as they stand when you say that it's no score.

1713
02:10:51,000 --> 02:10:52,000
That's what it is.

1714
02:10:52,000 --> 02:10:55,000
And you talk about pitching being dominant.

1715
02:10:55,000 --> 02:10:57,000
Well, the pitching has been dominant.

1716
02:10:57,000 --> 02:10:59,000
They haven't been hitting, they haven't been running.

1717
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:02,000
The fielders have not had too many difficult chances.

1718
02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:07,000
So Reynolds gets set now for the severe test to the eighth inning because the

1719
02:11:07,000 --> 02:11:12,000
screws set stronger and bite deeper as you come down to the eighth and end of the

1720
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:13,000
ninth.

1721
02:11:13,000 --> 02:11:18,000
And we'll take a 10-second pause for station identification.

1722
02:11:18,000 --> 02:11:22,000
This is the mutual broadcasting system.

1723
02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:30,000
WOR and WOR FM, your World Series stations in New York.

1724
02:11:30,000 --> 02:11:35,000
The applause that you hear here at Yankee Stadium greets pitcher Don Newcomb as he

1725
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:46,000
walks up to be the first batter for Brooklyn in the eighth inning.

1726
02:11:46,000 --> 02:11:50,000
Newcomb, left-hand hitter, 4'2, against Reynolds.

1727
02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:59,000
He grounded out short to first in the third inning and struck out in the fifth.

1728
02:11:59,000 --> 02:12:00,000
I feel the step toward right.

1729
02:12:00,000 --> 02:12:04,000
Newcomb leans in, Reynolds pitches, curve ball low inside.

1730
02:12:04,000 --> 02:12:07,000
Reynolds knew, I guess he knew from Sunday night on that he was going to be the

1731
02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:08,000
starting pitcher.

1732
02:12:08,000 --> 02:12:12,000
Newcomb did not know until the players meeting before batting practice today that he

1733
02:12:12,000 --> 02:12:14,000
was to be the pitcher.

1734
02:12:14,000 --> 02:12:20,000
He figured it could be he or it could be Preetu Rao.

1735
02:12:20,000 --> 02:12:30,000
Throw, swung on and missed, fastball and Don took a ruffle, one and one.

1736
02:12:30,000 --> 02:12:36,000
Jerry Coleman talking away down second base.

1737
02:12:36,000 --> 02:12:41,000
Jake Pippler that's out of hollow, coaching it first.

1738
02:12:41,000 --> 02:12:44,000
Start right-hander, Reynolds delivers, fastball over there.

1739
02:12:44,000 --> 02:12:47,000
Hand high on the outside, one and two.

1740
02:12:47,000 --> 02:12:52,000
Reynolds and Vara handling the battery assignment for New York.

1741
02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:56,000
Henrik was always picking play out of his spikes of his shoes down at first.

1742
02:12:56,000 --> 02:12:59,000
Coleman, the rookie at second, resumed all.

1743
02:12:59,000 --> 02:13:04,000
A veteran and still not too old at short and Willie Johnson, same category at third.

1744
02:13:04,000 --> 02:13:07,000
Pitch, curve ball over, cost strike to Newcomb Newcomb.

1745
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:11,000
He just turned and started walking away.

1746
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:19,000
Strikeout number seven for Reynolds.

1747
02:13:19,000 --> 02:13:22,000
This is the third straight Dodger to go down on strikes by Reynolds.

1748
02:13:22,000 --> 02:13:24,000
All call strike three.

1749
02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:26,000
Two right-hand hitters with curves on the outside.

1750
02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:32,000
Newcomb left-hand batter, curve breaking in on the outside.

1751
02:13:32,000 --> 02:13:35,000
So you can see that the pitches have had the hitters at their mercy so far.

1752
02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:37,000
The batter is Reese, here in the eighth getting one out.

1753
02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:41,000
Fastball through there, call strike, nothing in one.

1754
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:46,000
No balls, one strike, two veteran managers.

1755
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:51,000
Casey Stengel, Burt Schotten.

1756
02:13:51,000 --> 02:13:54,000
Pitch, TV takes low, there's a sinker.

1757
02:13:54,000 --> 02:14:02,000
One ball, one strike.

1758
02:14:02,000 --> 02:14:09,000
One and one, that's the ball and strikeout, no score.

1759
02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:12,000
Would you let safety raise the company?

1760
02:14:12,000 --> 02:14:14,000
Mighty pleased to be sending you the big broadcast.

1761
02:14:14,000 --> 02:14:16,000
There's a line drive back to the middle for a base hit.

1762
02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:21,000
So Kiwi comes up with a solid single, which is Brooklyn's second base hit.

1763
02:14:21,000 --> 02:14:25,000
This is the first hit since Jorgensen with one out got the double in the first inning.

1764
02:14:25,000 --> 02:14:30,000
So Reese singles right through the middle.

1765
02:14:30,000 --> 02:14:38,000
Two for Brooklyn and Jorgensen, who is one for two, stepping in.

1766
02:14:38,000 --> 02:14:44,000
Reese at first, Kripler, his first base coach, goes over and talks to them for the moment.

1767
02:14:44,000 --> 02:14:47,000
Now Henry comes on, takes the bag.

1768
02:14:47,000 --> 02:14:53,000
Infield, he's gone up in double play depth.

1769
02:14:53,000 --> 02:14:57,000
Johnson's in a little closer third.

1770
02:14:57,000 --> 02:15:01,000
Throw to first, not in time, Reese back.

1771
02:15:01,000 --> 02:15:05,000
Kiwi is a very alert, a very intelligent runner,

1772
02:15:05,000 --> 02:15:10,000
but he's been bothered with a groin injury and he cannot run at top speed.

1773
02:15:10,000 --> 02:15:13,000
The Dodgers did not have him trying to steal in September.

1774
02:15:13,000 --> 02:15:15,000
Throw to first, Reese gets back.

1775
02:15:15,000 --> 02:15:19,000
He goes out and takes a full lead.

1776
02:15:19,000 --> 02:15:25,000
Reese, Rizzuto, Robinson, they all go way off first base.

1777
02:15:25,000 --> 02:15:29,000
That's one reason the pitchers have to pick at them so much.

1778
02:15:29,000 --> 02:15:31,000
Reynolds, set, checks first.

1779
02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:33,000
Pitcher's a fastball outside.

1780
02:15:33,000 --> 02:15:35,000
Ball one, one ball, no strikes.

1781
02:15:35,000 --> 02:15:40,000
Jorgensen doubled the left center field when Lindell veered in instead of veering immediately back.

1782
02:15:40,000 --> 02:15:48,000
They say this is a tough ballpark here at the stadium, even when you play in it all year long.

1783
02:15:48,000 --> 02:15:53,000
Then Jorgensen grounded out second, first and third and walked in the sixth.

1784
02:15:53,000 --> 02:15:57,000
Outfield toward right, left hand hitter, Reese off first.

1785
02:15:57,000 --> 02:15:58,000
Reynolds works.

1786
02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:02,000
There's a foul ball back on the screen directly behind Hall.

1787
02:16:02,000 --> 02:16:05,000
It was a fastball coming in there.

1788
02:16:05,000 --> 02:16:07,000
Reynolds is not wishing to get behind two and all.

1789
02:16:07,000 --> 02:16:12,000
One ball, one strike.

1790
02:16:12,000 --> 02:16:16,000
Madden Distangle has perfect confidence in Reynolds.

1791
02:16:16,000 --> 02:16:22,000
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.

1792
02:16:22,000 --> 02:16:27,000
The paid attendance, 66,224.

1793
02:16:27,000 --> 02:16:29,000
66,124.

1794
02:16:29,000 --> 02:16:32,000
Why should I say paid? You can't get any unless you do pay.

1795
02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:35,000
The attendance is 66,224.

1796
02:16:35,000 --> 02:16:37,000
One ball, one strike.

1797
02:16:37,000 --> 02:16:38,000
Two Jorgensen, no score.

1798
02:16:38,000 --> 02:16:40,000
Reese at first, one out, eighth inning.

1799
02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:41,000
There goes Reese.

1800
02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:42,000
Jorgensen takes.

1801
02:16:42,000 --> 02:16:43,000
There's a throw from Baller down to second.

1802
02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:45,000
It's not in time and Reese flies in.

1803
02:16:45,000 --> 02:16:47,000
The throw was very high.

1804
02:16:47,000 --> 02:16:49,000
Guzzillo had to jump up to pull it out.

1805
02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:56,000
So there were the outstretched hands of Tonsurello of the American League and Peeley was in by a wide margin.

1806
02:16:56,000 --> 02:16:57,000
They did run him.

1807
02:16:57,000 --> 02:17:01,000
Reese is getting up a little slowly.

1808
02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:06,000
When ballplayers play with an injury and run like that for steel, that tells you all you want to know about it.

1809
02:17:06,000 --> 02:17:08,000
That's the sort of player that Reese is.

1810
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:13,000
DiMaggio has shown it this year.

1811
02:17:13,000 --> 02:17:20,000
Those are the telltale things that separate the men from the boys.

1812
02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:22,000
So Peeley steals.

1813
02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:23,000
Jorgensen cut.

1814
02:17:23,000 --> 02:17:24,000
That was a hit and run play.

1815
02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:27,000
But of course, anytime on a hit and run play, the run and all is at the bottom.

1816
02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:29,000
They swing and miss.

1817
02:17:29,000 --> 02:17:37,000
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.

1818
02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:38,000
He has.

1819
02:17:38,000 --> 02:17:41,000
So Jorgensen is up there one and two.

1820
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:44,000
Stengel moved Lindell Owen Moore into left center.

1821
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:45,000
Strike three swinging.

1822
02:17:45,000 --> 02:17:53,000
High curve ball to Reynolds takes care of Jorgensen.

1823
02:17:53,000 --> 02:17:55,000
So Jorgensen strikes out.

1824
02:17:55,000 --> 02:18:02,000
Reese, who has the series now, only steel, is at second.

1825
02:18:02,000 --> 02:18:06,000
That's seven, eight strikeouts for Reynolds.

1826
02:18:06,000 --> 02:18:14,000
And nine for Newcomb, 17 strikeouts.

1827
02:18:14,000 --> 02:18:18,000
Tomorrow's ball game will be here at the stadium, you know, just as this one is.

1828
02:18:18,000 --> 02:18:20,000
And game time will be the same as this one.

1829
02:18:20,000 --> 02:18:22,000
One o'clock Eastern Standard Time.

1830
02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:27,000
And Gillette ad time is 1245 Eastern Standard Time tomorrow.

1831
02:18:27,000 --> 02:18:28,000
Now here is Duke Snyder up.

1832
02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:29,000
Two gone.

1833
02:18:29,000 --> 02:18:30,000
Reese at second.

1834
02:18:30,000 --> 02:18:31,000
No score.

1835
02:18:31,000 --> 02:18:33,000
There's a ground foul outside first base.

1836
02:18:33,000 --> 02:18:36,000
The ball dies before it gets there.

1837
02:18:36,000 --> 02:18:40,000
Yankee bat boy retrieves it, throws it out.

1838
02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:42,000
No balls, one strike.

1839
02:18:42,000 --> 02:18:46,000
Two away.

1840
02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:50,000
This ball game is approaching the breaking point.

1841
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:55,000
Both pitches have been most heroic, most efficient.

1842
02:18:55,000 --> 02:18:58,000
Each has had the difference when he's had to have it.

1843
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:05,000
Reynolds has been in more trouble because of four bases on balls.

1844
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:08,000
Newcomb hasn't walked anybody.

1845
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:12,000
Snyder, 0 for 3 and two strikeouts, takes a high inside fastball, one and one.

1846
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:14,000
One ball, one strike.

1847
02:19:14,000 --> 02:19:19,000
You know, scouting of teams is not relegated just to football alone.

1848
02:19:19,000 --> 02:19:24,000
Both of these baseball teams have been very well scouted.

1849
02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:30,000
The Yankees by the Dodgers and the Dodgers by the Yankees.

1850
02:19:30,000 --> 02:19:37,000
And a lot of this effective pitching may be directly attributable to the sharp rise of the scouts in the last few weeks

1851
02:19:37,000 --> 02:19:49,000
and how they have instructed and managed to shorten and stangle to have various hitters' pits too.

1852
02:19:49,000 --> 02:19:53,000
One ball, one strike.

1853
02:19:53,000 --> 02:20:06,000
Reynolds delivers high outside for ball two.

1854
02:20:06,000 --> 02:20:10,000
Two on one, two gone.

1855
02:20:10,000 --> 02:20:16,000
Race leading down on second.

1856
02:20:16,000 --> 02:20:22,000
And a run doesn't look very big to either one of these teams, does it?

1857
02:20:22,000 --> 02:20:27,000
Two on pitches, a curve over the outside for a call of second strike.

1858
02:20:27,000 --> 02:20:29,000
Now you can get the suspense of the crowd.

1859
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:34,000
Here they are, roaring on each pitch.

1860
02:20:34,000 --> 02:20:44,000
There's a little curve ball over the outside, two and two.

1861
02:20:44,000 --> 02:20:49,000
Snyder, trim figure, slenderish.

1862
02:20:49,000 --> 02:20:51,000
Great body turn, hip pivot.

1863
02:20:51,000 --> 02:20:56,000
That's where he gets his power from.

1864
02:20:56,000 --> 02:20:58,000
Two to pitch, slow run in this.

1865
02:20:58,000 --> 02:20:59,000
Don't fall in there.

1866
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:01,000
That's three and Reynolds turned it loose.

1867
02:21:01,000 --> 02:21:03,000
And he's now a four-luck.

1868
02:21:03,000 --> 02:21:12,000
The Houston eights has nine strikeouts.

1869
02:21:12,000 --> 02:21:14,000
Stars have gone the last half of the eighth inning.

1870
02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:20,000
The score is, Brooklyn nothing and New York nothing.

1871
02:21:20,000 --> 02:21:25,000
But I tell you, he's hit three home runs per game five times in his career.

1872
02:21:25,000 --> 02:21:28,000
Well, you know his name is Johnny Myers of the Yankees.

1873
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:34,000
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1874
02:21:34,000 --> 02:21:41,000
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1875
02:21:41,000 --> 02:21:45,000
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1876
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:51,000
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1877
02:21:51,000 --> 02:21:59,000
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1878
02:21:59,000 --> 02:22:06,000
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1879
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:20,000
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1880
02:22:20,000 --> 02:22:22,000
Well, here we are.

1881
02:22:22,000 --> 02:22:27,000
Seven and a half innings disposed out. Eighteen struck out hitters.

1882
02:22:27,000 --> 02:22:29,000
And that tells you the big story.

1883
02:22:29,000 --> 02:22:32,000
So we move on to the last of the eighths. No score.

1884
02:22:32,000 --> 02:22:36,000
The first up for the Yankees is the rookie right fielder, Cliff Mapes.

1885
02:22:36,000 --> 02:22:41,000
Had a great year last year out of Kansas City. Left hand batter.

1886
02:22:41,000 --> 02:22:46,000
He struck out both times. He's been up against Newcomb. Now Newcomb, bending to his past, delivers.

1887
02:22:46,000 --> 02:22:51,000
Fast ball high outside, ball one. Mapes ran up on the ball as though he would try and pull a bunt.

1888
02:22:51,000 --> 02:22:56,000
Beat it out for a base hit. Outfield, he swung into right.

1889
02:22:56,000 --> 02:22:58,000
Play him to pull.

1890
02:22:58,000 --> 02:23:03,000
Campanella down to give the sign to big umpire, Cal Hubbard. Back of the cross position of the receiver.

1891
02:23:03,000 --> 02:23:09,000
Right hander throws. Curve in there for a call strike.

1892
02:23:09,000 --> 02:23:13,000
One and one.

1893
02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:20,000
Hubbard's so big when he calls a strike he looks like the Statue of Liberty holding that torch up there.

1894
02:23:20,000 --> 02:23:26,000
Of course, I would say he's dressed a little differently.

1895
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:31,000
One and one. Pitch. Bunted. Missed. Strike two.

1896
02:23:31,000 --> 02:23:38,000
Mapes tried to bunt. An inside slider. By the hands. One ball, two strikes.

1897
02:23:38,000 --> 02:23:43,000
Boy, this is really getting tough.

1898
02:23:43,000 --> 02:23:48,000
Of course, you never know until the ball game is over the answer to a tough game.

1899
02:23:48,000 --> 02:23:54,000
The answer to a tough problem. Tough whiskers. One word, Gillette. You know that all the time.

1900
02:23:54,000 --> 02:23:56,000
One ball, two strikes.

1901
02:23:56,000 --> 02:23:59,000
Throw. Throw in. Missed. Strike three. The ball was tipped.

1902
02:23:59,000 --> 02:24:01,000
And Campanella held it and made it.

1903
02:24:01,000 --> 02:24:06,000
Swirl around. Swished out bat. You could see that he was sore about it.

1904
02:24:06,000 --> 02:24:11,000
Ten strikeouts for Newport. Nineteen in the game and the Yankee bullpen is now going.

1905
02:24:11,000 --> 02:24:16,000
Right hander, Fred Sandford, and left hander, Joe Page, are throwing.

1906
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:23,000
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.

1907
02:24:23,000 --> 02:24:28,000
But let's let the results write the story as it takes place.

1908
02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:32,000
Jerick Coleman works well up on the handle of that bat.

1909
02:24:32,000 --> 02:24:37,000
Slendritch, rookies, second baseman, right hand hitter. Struck out twice. Takes a fast ball high inside.

1910
02:24:37,000 --> 02:24:42,000
One and one. One out. No score.

1911
02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:47,000
As dark as it is this afternoon, you realize the wisdom of starting these games at one o'clock.

1912
02:24:47,000 --> 02:24:52,000
Tomorrow's game will be at one just as though this one. That gives you all the time that you can get.

1913
02:24:52,000 --> 02:24:57,000
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.

1914
02:24:57,000 --> 02:25:01,000
And of course, air time. Best wishes you left fifteen minutes earlier.

1915
02:25:01,000 --> 02:25:07,000
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.

1916
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:12,000
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.

1917
02:25:12,000 --> 02:25:24,000
A solid line-side double. He hit an outside fast ball sharply.

1918
02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:30,000
Now the Yankees come up with a very solid pressure in the last of the eighth inning.

1919
02:25:30,000 --> 02:25:37,000
And Reynolds is coming on to hit for himself. So as one man's gone, Coleman lashes out

1920
02:25:37,000 --> 02:25:43,000
and lines one into the right field corner for a solid double. And there is Coach Clyde Soukforth, who goes out to the mound

1921
02:25:43,000 --> 02:25:47,000
for Manager Bert Schotton to talk to pitchers when they are embattled.

1922
02:25:47,000 --> 02:25:51,000
Souk is going out to the mound to talk to Big Newcomb right now.

1923
02:25:51,000 --> 02:25:57,000
Reynolds has a double and a single for the two times he's been up. One man gone. It is no score.

1924
02:25:57,000 --> 02:26:02,000
And the Yankees now have a real serious threat in the last of the eighth inning.

1925
02:26:02,000 --> 02:26:09,000
Soukforth going back into the bench. He's cared for whatever message Manager Schotton wanted sent out there.

1926
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:14,000
Manager Schotton, like Connie Mack of the Athletics, manages in street clothes.

1927
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:17,000
Therefore under baseball law, he cannot step out on the playing field in the game.

1928
02:26:17,000 --> 02:26:22,000
He can't go on that field unless you're in the baseball suit or the umpire's blues.

1929
02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:27,000
All right pitcher. Reynolds is up. Two for two. Right hander Newcomb delivers.

1930
02:26:27,000 --> 02:26:32,000
Curve ball on the outside for a called strike. Reynolds, the right hand hitter.

1931
02:26:32,000 --> 02:26:40,000
The Brooklyn bullpen is of course now sprung into activity.

1932
02:26:40,000 --> 02:26:46,000
Attender Joe Hatton is down. Neon right handers Banner and Erskine.

1933
02:26:46,000 --> 02:26:50,000
Yankee bullpen stops working. Reynolds up there hitting. Swings at a curve. Doesn't get it.

1934
02:26:50,000 --> 02:26:56,000
And the outside. It's fake too. No balls. Two strikes.

1935
02:26:56,000 --> 02:27:03,000
One man gone.

1936
02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:08,000
Every pitch. Heavily weighted.

1937
02:27:08,000 --> 02:27:12,000
They have big potentials out here riding now. No score.

1938
02:27:12,000 --> 02:27:17,000
Sun breaks out again. Plenty of light. Pitch fastball low outside.

1939
02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:21,000
Reynolds refused to chase it. He can't put another down to his right to hold it up one and two.

1940
02:27:21,000 --> 02:27:30,000
Coleman who can run. Leading down off second and is constantly repeating to Frankie Presetti the fact that one man is out.

1941
02:27:30,000 --> 02:27:35,000
That's very important. That means the ball's hit ahead of him. He stays at second base.

1942
02:27:35,000 --> 02:27:43,000
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.

1943
02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:52,000
So it's a great crowd of 66,224. And they're all looking off. Up there on the edge of their seats.

1944
02:27:52,000 --> 02:27:58,000
Like to see Commissioner Channels on the edge of his seat leaning on the rail in front of his box.

1945
02:27:58,000 --> 02:28:04,000
Boy this is something worth really looking at with both eyes.

1946
02:28:04,000 --> 02:28:10,000
So Newcomb getting ready to take dead aim. Reynolds leaning in. The two two pitch.

1947
02:28:10,000 --> 02:28:14,000
Sky Tree curve on the outside. That just got it.

1948
02:28:14,000 --> 02:28:18,000
So Reynolds turns and walks away. It's the first time that he's been turned back from the plate.

1949
02:28:18,000 --> 02:28:25,000
Eleven strikeouts for Don Newcomb. Twenty strikeouts in the ball game.

1950
02:28:25,000 --> 02:28:33,000
Why aren't there any runs? Twenty strikeouts. That's good enough.

1951
02:28:33,000 --> 02:28:43,000
And now a great little money player, Phil Rizzuto up there.

1952
02:28:43,000 --> 02:28:49,000
Coleman, second base. He's ready to go. He's repeating now. It's your third base coach, Crisetti.

1953
02:28:49,000 --> 02:28:53,000
That is with a wig wagging his fingers too high, which means you're on or anything.

1954
02:28:53,000 --> 02:28:57,000
No score. Newcomb throws. Curves for one. It's a high fly ball in the center.

1955
02:28:57,000 --> 02:29:11,000
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.

1956
02:29:11,000 --> 02:29:15,000
Well that is a very good threat that went past the boards in the eighth inning.

1957
02:29:15,000 --> 02:29:20,000
So here we come into the ninth inning. I'd say the ball game is even up.

1958
02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:25,000
Each team had a fine threat in the eighth inning. As Reese reached second base, if you'll recall,

1959
02:29:25,000 --> 02:29:30,000
with one out in the eighth, a single and a steal. Yankees had a man in the eighth inning.

1960
02:29:30,000 --> 02:29:34,000
Coleman got there with one out. He's two bagger and never got past it.

1961
02:29:34,000 --> 02:29:37,000
So it continues to be the two.

1962
02:29:37,000 --> 02:29:42,000
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1963
02:29:42,000 --> 02:29:49,000
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1964
02:29:49,000 --> 02:29:52,000
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1965
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1966
02:29:58,000 --> 02:30:05,000
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1967
02:30:05,000 --> 02:30:09,000
Well I notice you're digging down in that red book. I know you're looking for aggregate strikeouts.

1968
02:30:09,000 --> 02:30:14,000
That is most strikeouts by everybody in a World Series game. Is there anything noted on that?

1969
02:30:14,000 --> 02:30:17,000
We've been checking. As a matter of fact, our record book doesn't list it,

1970
02:30:17,000 --> 02:30:21,000
but we went checking with some of the veteran scribes and they went back into other records.

1971
02:30:21,000 --> 02:30:26,000
And in 1944, 22 strikeouts by the two teams in one ball game.

1972
02:30:26,000 --> 02:30:31,000
That was the Cardinals-Browns World Series. We'll give you the pictures a little bit later.

1973
02:30:31,000 --> 02:30:34,000
All right, we've got 20 strikeouts in this one at the end of eighth.

1974
02:30:34,000 --> 02:30:38,000
Now Robinson, his first step in the ninth inning. He's off the three.

1975
02:30:38,000 --> 02:30:42,000
Last time up, hit the ball hard and a maggio of me and a fine galloping catch in deep left center.

1976
02:30:42,000 --> 02:30:50,000
Jack takes a curve, over for a call strike.

1977
02:30:50,000 --> 02:30:58,000
No balls, one strike.

1978
02:30:58,000 --> 02:31:03,000
The strikeouts that Mel was referring to were 10 by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.

1979
02:31:03,000 --> 02:31:05,000
Now Robinson hits the ground ball down towards short.

1980
02:31:05,000 --> 02:31:09,000
Result of a charger, throws to first and Jack is out by a wide margin, about four steps.

1981
02:31:09,000 --> 02:31:12,000
So one up and one gone, top of sixth inning.

1982
02:31:12,000 --> 02:31:17,000
So 22 strikeouts back in the All-St. Louis World Series.

1983
02:31:17,000 --> 02:31:21,000
10 by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.

1984
02:31:21,000 --> 02:31:26,000
We've had 20 so far today.

1985
02:31:26,000 --> 02:31:28,000
One gone, top of the ninth.

1986
02:31:28,000 --> 02:31:31,000
But we're not citing that that is the record of aggregate strikeouts.

1987
02:31:31,000 --> 02:31:35,000
We just haven't been able to put our finger on anything any closer than that.

1988
02:31:35,000 --> 02:31:38,000
Gene Harmanski, 0 for 2, swings and there's a high pop fly.

1989
02:31:38,000 --> 02:31:42,000
Short step for Sudor, getting under it, under it, and makes the grab.

1990
02:31:42,000 --> 02:31:45,000
On the inside grass, it's on a short two-maner retired.

1991
02:31:45,000 --> 02:31:50,000
Top of the ninth, there's Randall's continuous pitching.

1992
02:31:50,000 --> 02:31:57,000
And Carl Forello, who is 0 for 2, face on ball, got on with an error, then popped it to first, stepping in.

1993
02:31:57,000 --> 02:32:00,000
Two gone, top of the ninth.

1994
02:32:00,000 --> 02:32:02,000
Barrow settles down to give the sign.

1995
02:32:02,000 --> 02:32:07,000
Short step into Forello and Forello grins.

1996
02:32:07,000 --> 02:32:11,000
I feel back in the right, they're not playing Carl to pull.

1997
02:32:11,000 --> 02:32:17,000
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.

1998
02:32:17,000 --> 02:32:19,000
There's a foul ball out of play.

1999
02:32:19,000 --> 02:32:30,000
Nothing in one, no balls, one strike.

2000
02:32:30,000 --> 02:32:37,000
Nothing in one, two down, no score, ninth inning.

2001
02:32:37,000 --> 02:32:44,000
Crowd is watching and waiting, something to watch and much to be waited for.

2002
02:32:44,000 --> 02:32:48,000
Right hander Randall's pitches, a curve low and away, one ball, one strike.

2003
02:32:48,000 --> 02:32:57,000
Barrow just batted the ball down, picks it up, throws it out to the mound.

2004
02:32:57,000 --> 02:33:00,000
One and one.

2005
02:33:00,000 --> 02:33:06,000
Forello chokes that stick just about half an inch.

2006
02:33:06,000 --> 02:33:13,000
Randall's pumped once, deals overhand, fastball good on the outside above the knees, first ball, second strike.

2007
02:33:13,000 --> 02:33:20,000
One and two.

2008
02:33:20,000 --> 02:33:30,000
This is the great game that Randall has pitched in his entire career.

2009
02:33:30,000 --> 02:33:35,000
Right hander pumping, dealing sidearm, curve ball, missing low outside.

2010
02:33:35,000 --> 02:33:37,000
Two and two, two balls, two strikes.

2011
02:33:37,000 --> 02:33:43,000
He leaned toward third when he cut that one loose.

2012
02:33:43,000 --> 02:33:46,000
Two and two, top of the ninth.

2013
02:33:46,000 --> 02:33:49,000
Brooklyn, the visiting ball club here at Yankee Stadium, had bats.

2014
02:33:49,000 --> 02:33:52,000
Nobody has a run.

2015
02:33:52,000 --> 02:33:54,000
Only one man has reached third base safely.

2016
02:33:54,000 --> 02:33:57,000
He reached it in the second inning for the Dodgers with two out.

2017
02:33:57,000 --> 02:34:04,000
Two to pitch, swung on foul into the stands, back of first base, top foul ball.

2018
02:34:04,000 --> 02:34:11,000
Two balls, two strikes.

2019
02:34:11,000 --> 02:34:21,000
Randall is very calmly rubbing up the new ball, standing at the back of the mound.

2020
02:34:21,000 --> 02:34:30,000
Big crowd is so quiet that you can hear the piping shrill voices of the infielders as they holler encouragement to the pitcher.

2021
02:34:30,000 --> 02:34:36,000
Two balls, two strikes.

2022
02:34:36,000 --> 02:34:41,000
Randall takes a sign, pumps once, delivers, curve ball, back on the screen.

2023
02:34:41,000 --> 02:34:43,000
It's still two and two.

2024
02:34:43,000 --> 02:34:47,000
Two balls, two strikes.

2025
02:34:47,000 --> 02:34:53,000
Two gone.

2026
02:34:53,000 --> 02:35:04,000
Anybody that was asking for a battle today really got it.

2027
02:35:04,000 --> 02:35:12,000
Apparently nothing is going to come easy to a winner this year in baseball.

2028
02:35:12,000 --> 02:35:16,000
Two to pitch, swung on as a high fly ball into short right center field.

2029
02:35:16,000 --> 02:35:19,000
Right fielder Maples coming in under it.

2030
02:35:19,000 --> 02:35:24,000
He has it, so that's all for Trello who just keeps right on,

2031
02:35:24,000 --> 02:35:32,000
lifting up short right field, picks up his glove, and we get ready to go into the last half of the ninth inning.

2032
02:35:32,000 --> 02:35:34,000
Last of the ninth inning.

2033
02:35:34,000 --> 02:35:36,000
Nobody has any runs.

2034
02:35:36,000 --> 02:35:40,000
That's Big Newcomb, groping out to the mound.

2035
02:35:40,000 --> 02:35:48,000
Well, Brother Allen, come over here now to the microphone and have you been seeing this thing?

2036
02:35:48,000 --> 02:35:53,000
I tell you, I've just been sitting here really amazed at two great pitchers,

2037
02:35:53,000 --> 02:35:58,000
given perhaps two of the best performances of their careers.

2038
02:35:58,000 --> 02:36:04,000
The one, comparatively brief, Don Newcomb, who has come like a meteor this year,

2039
02:36:04,000 --> 02:36:12,000
and Allie Reynolds, a veteran, who actually might have gone through the first nine innings with a one hitter,

2040
02:36:12,000 --> 02:36:18,000
who might have had a no hitter going through the eighth inning when Reese singled because, as you mentioned,

2041
02:36:18,000 --> 02:36:24,000
and as I mentioned earlier, Johnny Lindell overran Jorgensen's drive, which he might have caught.

2042
02:36:24,000 --> 02:36:30,000
And Big Don Newcomb, who has been almost as stingy with his base hit, certainly when he meant anything,

2043
02:36:30,000 --> 02:36:34,000
and who has been striking them out right and left and firing and firing and firing.

2044
02:36:34,000 --> 02:36:38,000
And it's just been a tremendous ball game all the way.

2045
02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:44,000
And this is what I call baseball as the people have loved it through the years.

2046
02:36:44,000 --> 02:36:48,000
Well, this is a very fit ball game for a World Series.

2047
02:36:48,000 --> 02:36:53,000
In other words, the two big teams, and here's the big game and the two big pitchers, and here we go.

2048
02:36:53,000 --> 02:36:55,000
All right, Tommy Henrik, first step last of the ninth.

2049
02:36:55,000 --> 02:36:57,000
We followed by Barra and then by DiMaggio.

2050
02:36:57,000 --> 02:37:00,000
So the Yankees have their big hitters now in the line.

2051
02:37:00,000 --> 02:37:03,000
Newcomb on the mound, the outfield deep toward right.

2052
02:37:03,000 --> 02:37:05,000
Henrik, 0 for 3, left hand batter.

2053
02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:12,000
Takes a curve that is outside for a ball one.

2054
02:37:12,000 --> 02:37:16,000
Henrik swings from the end.

2055
02:37:16,000 --> 02:37:18,000
Right side of the infield, it's full depth.

2056
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:20,000
Hodges the first base and steps over toward the line.

2057
02:37:20,000 --> 02:37:25,000
Newcomb's pitch has his curve down across the shins for ball two.

2058
02:37:25,000 --> 02:37:28,000
Two balls, no strikes.

2059
02:37:28,000 --> 02:37:34,000
Two and all.

2060
02:37:34,000 --> 02:37:37,000
Newcomb looking into the dirt.

2061
02:37:37,000 --> 02:37:42,000
He has a rather odd idiosyncrasy on the mound and he's pumping with 35 in a second.

2062
02:37:42,000 --> 02:37:44,000
Two-nothing pitchers, hung on.

2063
02:37:44,000 --> 02:37:46,000
Drilled out toward right field, going way back.

2064
02:37:46,000 --> 02:37:50,000
That's the ball game, a home run for Tommy Henrik.

2065
02:37:50,000 --> 02:37:52,000
There's Henrik now between first and second.

2066
02:37:52,000 --> 02:37:57,000
Bill Dickie, the first base, almost jumped on his back and realized that's a tender back and he better not.

2067
02:37:57,000 --> 02:37:58,000
Henrik's coming in the third.

2068
02:37:58,000 --> 02:38:01,000
He is cutting his home run home.

2069
02:38:01,000 --> 02:38:02,000
Look at him grin.

2070
02:38:02,000 --> 02:38:04,000
All he can think is a slice of watermelon.

2071
02:38:04,000 --> 02:38:06,000
Wow.

2072
02:38:06,000 --> 02:38:07,000
All reliable.

2073
02:38:07,000 --> 02:38:08,000
Hit one.

2074
02:38:08,000 --> 02:38:19,000
That's all.

2075
02:38:19,000 --> 02:38:22,000
Well, they call him all reliable and they're not joking.

2076
02:38:22,000 --> 02:38:25,000
He hit a two-nothing pitch.

2077
02:38:25,000 --> 02:38:26,000
Wow.

2078
02:38:26,000 --> 02:38:29,000
Way back up there in the straightaway right field stand.

2079
02:38:29,000 --> 02:38:38,000
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,

2080
02:38:38,000 --> 02:38:47,000
now gives the Yankees a one-game cushion with a very dramatic home run with the startling suddenness of a pistol shot.

2081
02:38:47,000 --> 02:38:51,000
The denouement, the climax, was reached.

2082
02:38:51,000 --> 02:38:58,000
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.

2083
02:38:58,000 --> 02:39:03,000
And Henrik, I don't believe he ever enjoyed running a home run any more than he ran now.

2084
02:39:03,000 --> 02:39:05,000
So that's that.

2085
02:39:05,000 --> 02:39:11,000
And now we're going to switch over to Mel and have him give you a recapitulation on the ball game.

2086
02:39:11,000 --> 02:39:13,000
Pitchers and that's Reynolds walking out to the mound.

2087
02:39:13,000 --> 02:39:15,000
Well, Mel, how about Henrik?

2088
02:39:15,000 --> 02:39:17,000
You've seen him do that many times, haven't you?

2089
02:39:17,000 --> 02:39:19,000
I've seen Henrik do that all this year.

2090
02:39:19,000 --> 02:39:27,000
As a matter of fact, he hit a home run opening day this year to win a ball game for the Yankees.

2091
02:39:27,000 --> 02:39:30,000
He hit a home run on the closing day to clinch it.

2092
02:39:30,000 --> 02:39:37,000
And he hits a home run on the opening day of the 1949 World Series to win the first game of it.

2093
02:39:37,000 --> 02:39:47,000
He is one of your old pros who's been around a long while, and that was his fourth World Series home run.

2094
02:39:47,000 --> 02:39:55,000
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.

2095
02:39:55,000 --> 02:40:03,000
Sixty-six thousand, two hundred and twenty-four people sitting there and with the suddenness of a bullet out of a cannon,

2096
02:40:03,000 --> 02:40:08,000
as Red described it so aptly and precisely for you, the ball game was over.

2097
02:40:08,000 --> 02:40:18,000
And here I think that the entire assemblage here, including Red, including myself, were expecting an extra inning ball game.

2098
02:40:18,000 --> 02:40:22,000
We just began to feel that perhaps it was going to go on and on and on.

2099
02:40:22,000 --> 02:40:26,000
You didn't know when the breaking point would come, and then it came just suddenly.

2100
02:40:26,000 --> 02:40:31,000
And that's the way it happens when you get down to that last inning or you get into that sudden death period,

2101
02:40:31,000 --> 02:40:36,000
and the home team, the last of the ninth, of course, is in that situation, and boom, there it was.

2102
02:40:36,000 --> 02:40:43,000
It was a tough break for a gallant guy, Don Newcomb, who came back with just two days' rest.

2103
02:40:43,000 --> 02:40:46,000
Red has seen him pitch many times this year.

2104
02:40:46,000 --> 02:40:50,000
I had the pleasure of watching him shut out the New York Giants on a night game,

2105
02:40:50,000 --> 02:40:52,000
and his fastball was blazing.

2106
02:40:52,000 --> 02:40:59,000
And to me, he pitched a tremendous game today, even a better one, as he struck out one Yankee after another

2107
02:40:59,000 --> 02:41:05,000
and wound up with a total of 11 strikeouts, two short, of Howard Emke's single game record of 13,

2108
02:41:05,000 --> 02:41:15,000
as we told you set back in 1928, 1929 on October the 8th when he pitched against the Cubs for the Philadelphia Athletics.

2109
02:41:15,000 --> 02:41:21,000
Allie Reynolds came along with nine strikeouts, and though Reynolds was in more frequent trouble than was Newcomb

2110
02:41:21,000 --> 02:41:28,000
because of more wildness, Reynolds, having walked some poor men while Don Newcomb did not walk a man

2111
02:41:28,000 --> 02:41:36,000
and has an opportunity, perhaps, if you like your statistics, to join Kyle Mays, a Yankee pitcher many years ago,

2112
02:41:36,000 --> 02:41:45,000
who in 1921 did not allow any bases on balls in a single-world series of 26 consecutive innings of pitching

2113
02:41:45,000 --> 02:41:50,000
that went through three ball games. So Newcomb went through one without allowing a base on balls.

2114
02:41:50,000 --> 02:41:57,000
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.

2115
02:41:57,000 --> 02:42:04,000
Newcomb rarely ever went to a 3-2 count comparatively, as he had his control down a real sharp.

2116
02:42:04,000 --> 02:42:13,000
An error by Jerry Coleman allowed Reynolds to be in trouble, and although this is, again, repetition,

2117
02:42:13,000 --> 02:42:20,000
it's merely from the standpoint of reporting, Johnny Jorgensen's first inning double was a ball that all observers will tell you

2118
02:42:20,000 --> 02:42:24,000
should have been caught in the normal course of events. That's part of the game that it wasn't,

2119
02:42:24,000 --> 02:42:29,000
but we're merely indicating the type of game that Reynolds pitched that as far as his pitching was concerned,

2120
02:42:29,000 --> 02:42:36,000
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.

2121
02:42:36,000 --> 02:42:43,000
A clean base at all the way, and Reynolds wound up pitching a two-hit ball game.

2122
02:42:43,000 --> 02:42:52,000
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.

2123
02:42:52,000 --> 02:42:55,000
You can do it that way, but of course that's not a good way of looking at it.

2124
02:42:55,000 --> 02:43:05,000
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.

2125
02:43:05,000 --> 02:43:10,000
One of those two teams had to lose, one had to win the pennant. Somebody had to win it.

2126
02:43:10,000 --> 02:43:13,000
It couldn't go on forever, and that's the way this game was today.

2127
02:43:13,000 --> 02:43:24,000
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.

2128
02:43:24,000 --> 02:43:41,000
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.

2129
02:43:41,000 --> 02:43:47,000
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.

2130
02:43:47,000 --> 02:43:54,000
Tuning time will be 12.45 Eastern Standard Time, the same as today.

2131
02:43:54,000 --> 02:44:05,000
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,

2132
02:44:05,000 --> 02:44:12,000
and with the help of Tommy Henrich, bested Don Newcomb and the Dodgers in an equally brilliantly pitched game, one to nothing.

2133
02:44:12,000 --> 02:44:23,000
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.

2134
02:44:23,000 --> 02:44:33,000
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2135
02:44:33,000 --> 02:44:36,000
Queen for a Day follows station identification.

2136
02:44:36,000 --> 02:44:45,000
We also wish to thank the makers of La Rosa Macaroni Spaghetti and Egg Noodles, sponsors of the La Rosa Hollywood Theatre of Stars, for relinquishing their broadcast time today.

2137
02:44:45,000 --> 02:44:48,000
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2138
02:44:48,000 --> 02:44:52,000
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2139
02:44:52,000 --> 02:44:56,000
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2140
02:44:56,000 --> 02:45:04,000
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2141
02:45:04,000 --> 02:45:09,000
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2142
02:45:09,000 --> 02:45:12,000
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2143
02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:18,000
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2144
02:45:18,000 --> 02:45:25,000
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2145
02:45:25,000 --> 02:45:28,000
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2146
02:45:28,000 --> 02:45:41,000
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2147
02:45:41,000 --> 02:45:53,000
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.

2148
02:45:53,000 --> 02:45:59,000
Came back after the heel injury, big series at Boston, and the Yankees swept three games.

2149
02:45:59,000 --> 02:46:09,000
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.

2150
02:46:09,000 --> 02:46:16,000
DiMaggio, right hand batter, big Newcomb, right-hander pitches, fastball high and side up against the hands from all one.

2151
02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:25,000
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.

2152
02:46:25,000 --> 02:46:29,000
Out to a deep round toward left, Newcomb's throw, swung on and fouled off.

2153
02:46:29,000 --> 02:46:35,000
There was a curveball in there, one and one, one ball, one strike.

2154
02:46:35,000 --> 02:46:39,000
No score.

2155
02:46:39,000 --> 02:46:43,000
Apparently there is nothing in 1945 as far as the big stakes are concerned.

2156
02:46:43,000 --> 02:46:45,000
It's going to be easy.

2157
02:46:45,000 --> 02:46:47,000
The defendants were tough.

2158
02:46:47,000 --> 02:46:49,000
This ball game is tough.

2159
02:46:49,000 --> 02:46:53,000
I guess this is the prevailing pattern of the year.

2160
02:46:53,000 --> 02:46:58,000
One and one pitch, curveball high and inside for a ball two, two and one.

2161
02:46:58,000 --> 02:47:00,000
Two balls, one strike.

2162
02:47:00,000 --> 02:47:04,000
They're very anxious to get the attendance figures whenever they are announced.

2163
02:47:04,000 --> 02:47:12,000
The press box will have them appear in the radio section, and we'll certainly pass them on to you.

2164
02:47:12,000 --> 02:47:15,000
Two balls, one strike.

2165
02:47:15,000 --> 02:47:19,000
Newcomb delivers, Joe swings, fouls with all.

2166
02:47:19,000 --> 02:47:25,000
DiMaggio looks as slender as when he first began to play professional ball.

2167
02:47:25,000 --> 02:47:27,000
He wasn't too heavy.

2168
02:47:27,000 --> 02:47:35,000
In fact, he was drawn very fine when he had his recent sickness, and he lost 11 to 12 pounds.

2169
02:47:35,000 --> 02:47:38,000
In fact, it's very hard to get Jody even to admit that he lost any weight.

2170
02:47:38,000 --> 02:47:40,000
He didn't like to talk that way.

2171
02:47:40,000 --> 02:47:44,000
But he has. His uniform is sort of draped on him a little bit.

2172
02:47:44,000 --> 02:47:46,000
All right, two and two.

2173
02:47:46,000 --> 02:47:48,000
Big Newcomb.

2174
02:47:48,000 --> 02:47:49,000
Kicks, throws.

2175
02:47:49,000 --> 02:47:52,000
There's a high, high pop fly right in the middle of the infield.

2176
02:47:52,000 --> 02:47:56,000
Robinson coming over, Reese coming over, and it's Robinson for the catch.

2177
02:47:56,000 --> 02:47:57,000
Peely was running in there.

2178
02:47:57,000 --> 02:48:01,000
Apparently, the captain then takes charge of the guy at the infield to designate who was going to catch it.

2179
02:48:01,000 --> 02:48:03,000
That ball was right back at pitcher's mound.

2180
02:48:03,000 --> 02:48:06,000
That could have been a grand scramble, as it was.

2181
02:48:06,000 --> 02:48:10,000
It's a simple pop fly to second place for Robinson.

2182
02:48:10,000 --> 02:48:15,000
But the Madjoes off with three in that in itself is a story.

2183
02:48:15,000 --> 02:48:24,000
Johnny Lindell, who hit a change-up ball, second inning for the Yankees single.

2184
02:48:24,000 --> 02:48:26,000
Reynolds has taken care of the next two hits.

2185
02:48:26,000 --> 02:48:28,000
He only had four hits to aggregate in the ball game.

2186
02:48:28,000 --> 02:48:35,000
Jorgensen got a double in the first inning when Lindell came in just a little when he should have been going back.

2187
02:48:35,000 --> 02:48:40,000
Some pitching.

2188
02:48:40,000 --> 02:48:44,000
Played on fire Hubbard wants to examine the baseball.

2189
02:48:44,000 --> 02:48:48,000
Finds it's all right, hands it back to catcher Campo Dello, fires it out to the mound.

2190
02:48:48,000 --> 02:48:53,000
Big Lindell stepping in.

2191
02:48:53,000 --> 02:48:59,000
I feel around toward left.

2192
02:48:59,000 --> 02:49:01,000
Infield swung toward third.

2193
02:49:01,000 --> 02:49:05,000
You can pitch sharp curve over.

2194
02:49:05,000 --> 02:49:10,000
It must have been a tough sight for Joe McArthur to see Lindell hit that home run Saturday afternoon,

2195
02:49:10,000 --> 02:49:20,000
because it was McArthur during the Warriors who converted Lindell from just a so-so pitcher to an outfielder.

2196
02:49:20,000 --> 02:49:33,000
Newcomb delivers fastball on the outside. One ball, one strike.

2197
02:49:33,000 --> 02:49:41,000
Campo Dello, who handled an uninsured in Brooklyn pitching staff all year, very well, sets down back of the plate.

2198
02:49:41,000 --> 02:49:49,000
There's a curve ball low outside missing by just a tick. Two balls, one strike.

2199
02:49:49,000 --> 02:49:54,000
Two and one, one gone, last to the seventh, no score.

2200
02:49:54,000 --> 02:50:03,000
A crowd watchfully waiting.

2201
02:50:03,000 --> 02:50:09,000
Two-one pitch over. There was a slider which Newcomb called a hard curve ball.

2202
02:50:09,000 --> 02:50:12,000
Two balls, two strikes.

2203
02:50:12,000 --> 02:50:19,000
One has two types of curve, the one which does not break very much but explodes very quickly. It's a hard curve.

2204
02:50:19,000 --> 02:50:28,000
A lot of pitches called the slider. And then the other one is just orthodox big sweeping curve.

2205
02:50:28,000 --> 02:50:32,000
Two and two.

2206
02:50:32,000 --> 02:50:36,000
Lindell, who swings from the heels. The two-two pitch.

2207
02:50:36,000 --> 02:50:39,000
Curve on the outside for four strikes three.

2208
02:50:39,000 --> 02:50:53,000
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.

2209
02:50:53,000 --> 02:50:57,000
Now we have Billy Johnson who is 0 for 2 on both of them strikeouts.

2210
02:50:57,000 --> 02:51:07,000
And the consensus on the addition of Newcomb's K's, that's the scoring symbol for a strikeout, nine.

2211
02:51:07,000 --> 02:51:12,000
Two men gone. Last half of the seventh.

2212
02:51:12,000 --> 02:51:16,000
This ball game is no place for small boys.

2213
02:51:16,000 --> 02:51:21,000
Don works. Fastball swung on, hit down to deep third. Jorgensen up to throw over to first.

2214
02:51:21,000 --> 02:51:23,000
End time and that's off to Johnson.

2215
02:51:23,000 --> 02:51:29,000
It's off to the Yankees who go down one, two, three in the last half of the seventh inning.

2216
02:51:29,000 --> 02:51:32,000
So let's see.

2217
02:51:32,000 --> 02:51:38,000
The Yankees in giving up 21 outs have only had 24 batters. That shows you how tight that is.

2218
02:51:38,000 --> 02:51:43,000
The men that got on for the Yankees stayed on.

2219
02:51:43,000 --> 02:51:51,000
The Dodgers have only had one more man hit.

2220
02:51:51,000 --> 02:51:56,000
So things are really just as they stand when you say that it's no score.

2221
02:51:56,000 --> 02:51:58,000
That's what it is.

2222
02:51:58,000 --> 02:52:01,000
And you talk about pitching being dominant.

2223
02:52:01,000 --> 02:52:05,000
The pitching has been dominant. They haven't been hitting, they haven't been running.

2224
02:52:05,000 --> 02:52:08,000
The fielders have not had too many difficult chances.

2225
02:52:08,000 --> 02:52:16,000
So Reynolds gets set now for the severe test to the eighth inning because the screws set stronger and bite deeper.

2226
02:52:16,000 --> 02:52:19,000
And you come down to the eighth and end of the ninth.

2227
02:52:19,000 --> 02:52:24,000
And we'll take a ten second pause for station identification.

2228
02:52:24,000 --> 02:52:28,000
This is the mutual broadcasting system.

2229
02:52:28,000 --> 02:52:36,000
WOR and WOR FM, your World Series stations in New York.

2230
02:52:36,000 --> 02:52:51,000
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.

2231
02:52:51,000 --> 02:52:54,000
Newcomb left hand hitter.

2232
02:52:54,000 --> 02:53:04,000
All for two against Reynolds. He grounded out short to first in the third inning and struck out in the fifth.

2233
02:53:04,000 --> 02:53:09,000
I feel the step toward right. Newcomb leans in. Reynolds pitches. Curveball low inside.

2234
02:53:09,000 --> 02:53:14,000
Reynolds knew, I guess he knew from Sunday night on that he was going to be the starting pitcher.

2235
02:53:14,000 --> 02:53:20,000
Newcomb did not know until the players meeting before batting practice today that he was to be the pitcher.

2236
02:53:20,000 --> 02:53:25,000
He figured it could be he or it could be Pooch or Rolfe.

2237
02:53:25,000 --> 02:53:35,000
Throw, throw on and miss. Fastball and Don took a ruffle. One and one.

2238
02:53:35,000 --> 02:53:41,000
Jerry Coleman talking away down second base.

2239
02:53:41,000 --> 02:53:46,000
Jake Kutler that side of hollow coaching it first.

2240
02:53:46,000 --> 02:53:52,000
Start right hand to Reynolds delivers. Fastball all over there. Hand high on the outside. One and two.

2241
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:57,000
Reynolds and Vara handling the battery assignment for New York.

2242
02:53:57,000 --> 02:54:02,000
Henrik was always picking play out of his spikes of his shoes down at first.

2243
02:54:02,000 --> 02:54:07,000
Coleman the rookie at second. Rizzuto veteran and still not too old at short.

2244
02:54:07,000 --> 02:54:13,000
And for the Johnsons same category at third. Pitch. Curveball over. Call strike three. Newcomb knew it.

2245
02:54:13,000 --> 02:54:17,000
Vara started walking away.

2246
02:54:17,000 --> 02:54:24,000
Strike out number seven for Reynolds.

2247
02:54:24,000 --> 02:54:30,000
This is the third strike Dodger to go down on strikes by Reynolds. All call strike three.

2248
02:54:30,000 --> 02:54:38,000
Two right hand hitters with curves on the outside. Newcomb left hand batter curve breaking in on the outside.

2249
02:54:38,000 --> 02:54:41,000
So you can see that the pitchers have had the hitters at their mercy so far.

2250
02:54:41,000 --> 02:54:46,000
So here in the eighth inning one out. Fastball through there. Call strike. Nothing in one.

2251
02:54:46,000 --> 02:54:51,000
No balls. One strike. Two veteran managers.

2252
02:54:51,000 --> 02:54:56,000
Casey Stengel, Bert Schotten.

2253
02:54:56,000 --> 02:55:07,000
Pitch. He takes low. Here's a sinker. One ball. One strike.

2254
02:55:07,000 --> 02:55:14,000
One and one. That's the ball and strike out. No score.

2255
02:55:14,000 --> 02:55:17,000
Would you let safety raise the company?

2256
02:55:17,000 --> 02:55:21,000
Might be pleased to be sending you the big broadcast. There's a line drive back to the middle for a base hit.

2257
02:55:21,000 --> 02:55:26,000
So Kiwi comes up with a solid single which is Brooklyn's second base hit.

2258
02:55:26,000 --> 02:55:31,000
This is the first hit since Jorgensen with one out got the double in the first inning.

2259
02:55:31,000 --> 02:55:35,000
So Rizz single's right through the middle.

2260
02:55:35,000 --> 02:55:43,000
Number two for Brooklyn and Jorgensen through is one for two stepping in.

2261
02:55:43,000 --> 02:55:45,000
Reese at first.

2262
02:55:45,000 --> 02:55:49,000
Klippler, the first base coach, goes over and talks to them for the moment.

2263
02:55:49,000 --> 02:55:52,000
Now Henry comes on, takes the bag.

2264
02:55:52,000 --> 02:55:58,000
Infield is going up in double play depth.

2265
02:55:58,000 --> 02:56:02,000
Johnson's in a little closer third.

2266
02:56:02,000 --> 02:56:06,000
Throw to first, not in time, Reese back.

2267
02:56:06,000 --> 02:56:10,000
Steele is a very alert, a very intelligent runner.

2268
02:56:10,000 --> 02:56:15,000
But he's been bothered with a groin injury and he cannot run at top speed.

2269
02:56:15,000 --> 02:56:18,000
The Dodgers did not have him trying to steal in September.

2270
02:56:18,000 --> 02:56:24,000
Throw to first, Reese gets back. He goes out and takes a full lead.

2271
02:56:24,000 --> 02:56:30,000
Reese, Rizzuto, Robinson, they all go way off first base.

2272
02:56:30,000 --> 02:56:34,000
That's one reason the pitchers have to pick at them so much.

2273
02:56:34,000 --> 02:56:36,000
Reynolds set, checks first.

2274
02:56:36,000 --> 02:56:40,000
Pitchers are fastball outside. All one, one ball, no strikes.

2275
02:56:40,000 --> 02:56:45,000
Jorgensen doubled the left center field when Lindell bearded in instead of during immediately back.

2276
02:56:45,000 --> 02:56:53,000
They say this is a tough ballpark here at the stadium even when you play in it all year long.

2277
02:56:53,000 --> 02:56:58,000
Then Jorgensen grounded that second, first and the third and walked in the sixth.

2278
02:56:58,000 --> 02:57:01,000
Outfield toward right, left hand hitter.

2279
02:57:01,000 --> 02:57:03,000
Reese off first. Reynolds works.

2280
02:57:03,000 --> 02:57:07,000
There's a foul ball back on the screen directly behind Hall.

2281
02:57:07,000 --> 02:57:12,000
With a fastball coming in there, Reynolds is not wishing to get behind two and all.

2282
02:57:12,000 --> 02:57:17,000
One ball, one strike.

2283
02:57:17,000 --> 02:57:21,000
Madden Distangle has perfect confidence in Reynolds.

2284
02:57:21,000 --> 02:57:27,000
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.

2285
02:57:27,000 --> 02:57:34,000
The paid attendance, 66,224.

2286
02:57:34,000 --> 02:57:37,000
I should say paid, you can't get any unless you do pay.

2287
02:57:37,000 --> 02:57:41,000
The attendance is 66,224.

2288
02:57:41,000 --> 02:57:45,000
One ball, one strike. Two Jorgensen, no score. Reese at first, one out. Eight inning.

2289
02:57:45,000 --> 02:57:48,000
There goes Reese, joins and takes. There's a throw from Bauer down to second.

2290
02:57:48,000 --> 02:57:51,000
It's not in time and Reese slides in.

2291
02:57:51,000 --> 02:57:55,000
The throw was very high. Grizillo had to jump up to pull it out.

2292
02:57:55,000 --> 02:58:02,000
Throw there with the outstretched hand of Mark Consarello of the American League and Peewee was in by a wide margin.

2293
02:58:02,000 --> 02:58:06,000
They did run him. Reese is getting up a little slowly.

2294
02:58:06,000 --> 02:58:12,000
When ballplayers play with an injury and run like that for steel, that tells you all you want to know about it.

2295
02:58:12,000 --> 02:58:18,000
That's the sort of player that Reese is. The Maggio has shown it this year.

2296
02:58:18,000 --> 02:58:25,000
Those are the telltale things that separate the men from the boys.

2297
02:58:25,000 --> 02:58:29,000
So Peewee steals. Jorgensen cut. That was a hit and run play.

2298
02:58:29,000 --> 02:58:32,000
But of course, any time on a hit and run play, the run and all is at the bottom.

2299
02:58:32,000 --> 02:58:34,000
They swing and miss.

2300
02:58:34,000 --> 02:58:42,000
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.

2301
02:58:42,000 --> 02:58:46,000
He has. So Jorgensen is up there one and two.

2302
02:58:46,000 --> 02:58:51,000
Stengel moved Lindell O'Neal more into left center. Strike three swinging.

2303
02:58:51,000 --> 02:58:58,000
High curve ball to Reynolds takes care of Jorgensen.

2304
02:58:58,000 --> 02:59:07,000
So Jorgensen strikes out. Reese, who has the series now only steel, is at second.

2305
02:59:07,000 --> 02:59:11,000
That's seven, eight strikeouts for Reynolds.

2306
02:59:11,000 --> 02:59:20,000
Eight for Reynolds and nine for Newcomb. Seventeen strikeouts.

2307
02:59:20,000 --> 02:59:24,000
Tomorrow's ball game will be here at the stadium, you know, just as this one is.

2308
02:59:24,000 --> 02:59:28,000
And game time will be the same as this one. One o'clock Eastern Standard Time.

2309
02:59:28,000 --> 02:59:33,000
And Gillette air time is 1245 Eastern Standard Time tomorrow.

2310
02:59:33,000 --> 02:59:36,000
Now here is Duke Snyder up. Two gone. Reese at second. No score.

2311
02:59:36,000 --> 02:59:41,000
There's a ground foul outside first base. The ball dies before it gets there.

2312
02:59:41,000 --> 02:59:45,000
Yankee bat boy retrieves it, throws it out.

2313
02:59:45,000 --> 02:59:51,000
No balls, one strike. Two away.

2314
02:59:51,000 --> 02:59:56,000
This ball game is approaching the breaking point.

2315
02:59:56,000 --> 03:00:01,000
Both pitches have been most heroic, most efficient.

2316
03:00:01,000 --> 03:00:04,000
Each has had the difference when he's had to have it.

2317
03:00:04,000 --> 03:00:11,000
The Yankees has been in more trouble because of four bases on balls.

2318
03:00:11,000 --> 03:00:14,000
Newcomb hasn't walked anybody.

2319
03:00:14,000 --> 03:00:18,000
Snyder, 0-3 and two strikeouts, takes a high and side fast ball, one and one.

2320
03:00:18,000 --> 03:00:20,000
One ball, one strike.

2321
03:00:20,000 --> 03:00:25,000
You know, scouting of teams is not relegated just to football alone.

2322
03:00:25,000 --> 03:00:29,000
Both of these baseball teams have been very well scouted.

2323
03:00:29,000 --> 03:00:35,000
The Yankees by the Dodgers and the Dodgers by the Yankees.

2324
03:00:35,000 --> 03:00:42,000
And a lot of this effective pitching may be directly attributable to the sharp eyes of the scouts in the last two weeks

2325
03:00:42,000 --> 03:00:54,000
and how they have constructed and managed to shut and then stangle to have various hitters pitch to.

2326
03:00:54,000 --> 03:00:58,000
One ball, one strike.

2327
03:00:58,000 --> 03:01:11,000
Reynolds delivers high outside for ball two.

2328
03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:15,000
Two and one, two gone.

2329
03:01:15,000 --> 03:01:21,000
Reese leading down on second.

2330
03:01:21,000 --> 03:01:27,000
Man, a run doesn't look very big to either one of these teams, does it?

2331
03:01:27,000 --> 03:01:32,000
Two on pitches, a curve over the outside for a call second strike.

2332
03:01:32,000 --> 03:01:34,000
Now you can get the suspense of the crowd.

2333
03:01:34,000 --> 03:01:39,000
Here they are, roaring on each pitch.

2334
03:01:39,000 --> 03:01:49,000
I was a little curve ball over the outside, two and two.

2335
03:01:49,000 --> 03:01:54,000
Snyder, trim figure, slenderish.

2336
03:01:54,000 --> 03:02:01,000
Great body turn, hip pivot, where he gets his power from.

2337
03:02:01,000 --> 03:02:06,000
Two to pitch, slow on in this, back ball in there for three and the run is turned it loose.

2338
03:02:06,000 --> 03:02:08,000
And he's now a four.

2339
03:02:08,000 --> 03:02:17,000
The Houston eights has nine strikeouts.

2340
03:02:17,000 --> 03:02:20,000
So as we go on to the last half of the eighth inning, the score is,

2341
03:02:20,000 --> 03:02:25,000
what for nothing and New York nothing.

2342
03:02:25,000 --> 03:02:30,000
But I tell you, he's hit three home runs per game five times in his career.

2343
03:02:30,000 --> 03:02:33,000
Well, you know his name is Johnny Myers of the Yankees.

2344
03:02:33,000 --> 03:02:39,000
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03:02:39,000 --> 03:02:44,000
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2346
03:02:44,000 --> 03:02:46,000
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2349
03:02:56,000 --> 03:02:59,000
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2350
03:02:59,000 --> 03:03:04,000
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2351
03:03:04,000 --> 03:03:11,000
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2352
03:03:11,000 --> 03:03:26,000
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2353
03:03:26,000 --> 03:03:28,000
Well, here we are.

2354
03:03:28,000 --> 03:03:32,000
Seven and a half innings disposed of. Eight teams struck out hitters.

2355
03:03:32,000 --> 03:03:34,000
And that tells you the big story.

2356
03:03:34,000 --> 03:03:37,000
So we move on to the last of the eighths. No score.

2357
03:03:37,000 --> 03:03:42,000
The first up to the Yankees is the rookie right fielder, Cliff Mapes.

2358
03:03:42,000 --> 03:03:44,000
Had a great year last year out of Kansas City.

2359
03:03:44,000 --> 03:03:46,000
That's hand batter.

2360
03:03:46,000 --> 03:03:49,000
He struck out both times. He's been up against Newcomb.

2361
03:03:49,000 --> 03:03:52,000
Now Newcomb bending to his past delivers.

2362
03:03:52,000 --> 03:03:54,000
Fast ball high outside, ball one.

2363
03:03:54,000 --> 03:03:56,000
Mapes ran up on the ball as though he would try and pull a bunt.

2364
03:03:56,000 --> 03:03:58,000
Beat it out for a base hit.

2365
03:03:58,000 --> 03:04:01,000
Outfield is swung into right.

2366
03:04:01,000 --> 03:04:03,000
Play him to call.

2367
03:04:03,000 --> 03:04:08,000
Cappinella down to give the sign to big umpire, Cal Hubbard, back of the cross position of the receiver.

2368
03:04:08,000 --> 03:04:10,000
The right hander throws.

2369
03:04:10,000 --> 03:04:14,000
Curve in there for a call strike.

2370
03:04:14,000 --> 03:04:18,000
One and one.

2371
03:04:18,000 --> 03:04:26,000
Hubbard so big when he called a strike he looked like the Statue of Liberty holding that torch up there.

2372
03:04:26,000 --> 03:04:32,000
Of course, I would say he's dressed a little differently.

2373
03:04:32,000 --> 03:04:36,000
One and one fits. Bunted. Missed. Strike two.

2374
03:04:36,000 --> 03:04:38,000
Mapes tried to bunt.

2375
03:04:38,000 --> 03:04:39,000
An inside slider.

2376
03:04:39,000 --> 03:04:43,000
By the hands, one ball, two strikes.

2377
03:04:43,000 --> 03:04:48,000
Boy, this is really getting tough.

2378
03:04:48,000 --> 03:04:53,000
Of course, you never know until the ball game is over the answer to a tough game.

2379
03:04:53,000 --> 03:04:56,000
The answer is to a tough problem, tough whiskers.

2380
03:04:56,000 --> 03:04:59,000
One word, Gillette. You know that all the time.

2381
03:04:59,000 --> 03:05:01,000
One ball, two strikes.

2382
03:05:01,000 --> 03:05:02,000
Throw.

2383
03:05:02,000 --> 03:05:03,000
Throw in.

2384
03:05:03,000 --> 03:05:08,000
In this strike three, the ball was tipped and Cappinella held it and it swirled around.

2385
03:05:08,000 --> 03:05:11,000
Swish that bat. You could see that he was strong about it.

2386
03:05:11,000 --> 03:05:13,000
Ten strikeouts for Newport.

2387
03:05:13,000 --> 03:05:16,000
Nineteen in the game and the Yankee ball friend is now going.

2388
03:05:16,000 --> 03:05:21,000
Right hander Fred Sanford and left hander Joe Page are throwing.

2389
03:05:21,000 --> 03:05:28,000
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.

2390
03:05:28,000 --> 03:05:33,000
But let's let results write the story as it takes place.

2391
03:05:33,000 --> 03:05:37,000
Jerick Coleman works well up on the handle of that bat.

2392
03:05:37,000 --> 03:05:40,000
Slendrish, rookies, second baseman right hand hitter struck out twice.

2393
03:05:40,000 --> 03:05:43,000
Takes a fast ball high inside.

2394
03:05:43,000 --> 03:05:44,000
One and one.

2395
03:05:44,000 --> 03:05:45,000
One out.

2396
03:05:45,000 --> 03:05:47,000
No score.

2397
03:05:47,000 --> 03:05:52,000
As dark as it is this afternoon, you realize the wisdom of starting these games at one o'clock.

2398
03:05:52,000 --> 03:05:54,000
Tomorrow's game will be at one just as though this one.

2399
03:05:54,000 --> 03:05:57,000
That gives you all the time that you can get.

2400
03:05:57,000 --> 03:06:00,000
Sunday's game of course according to the New York State law will be two o'clock.

2401
03:06:00,000 --> 03:06:02,000
All the others will be one o'clock.

2402
03:06:02,000 --> 03:06:04,000
And of course air time.

2403
03:06:04,000 --> 03:06:06,000
Best blistered Gillette fifteen minutes earlier.

2404
03:06:06,000 --> 03:06:08,000
Big Newcomb, plunked once, twice, throws.

2405
03:06:08,000 --> 03:06:09,000
Fast ball's swung on.

2406
03:06:09,000 --> 03:06:10,000
Drill down the right.

2407
03:06:10,000 --> 03:06:12,000
She's in there for a base hit.

2408
03:06:12,000 --> 03:06:14,000
Roller has to play the ball on the count.

2409
03:06:14,000 --> 03:06:15,000
And there is Coleman on his way to second.

2410
03:06:15,000 --> 03:06:17,000
He's in there for a double.

2411
03:06:17,000 --> 03:06:19,000
A solid line drive double.

2412
03:06:19,000 --> 03:06:29,000
He hit an outside fast ball sharply.

2413
03:06:29,000 --> 03:06:35,000
Now the Yankees come up with a very solid pressure in the last of the eighth inning.

2414
03:06:35,000 --> 03:06:38,000
And Reynolds is coming on to hit for himself.

2415
03:06:38,000 --> 03:06:45,000
So with one man gone, Coleman lashes out and lines one into the right field corner for a solid double.

2416
03:06:45,000 --> 03:06:52,000
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.

2417
03:06:52,000 --> 03:06:56,000
Souk is going out to the mound to talk to Big Newcomb right now.

2418
03:06:56,000 --> 03:07:00,000
Reynolds has a double and a single for the two times he's been up.

2419
03:07:00,000 --> 03:07:02,000
One man gone.

2420
03:07:02,000 --> 03:07:03,000
It is no score.

2421
03:07:03,000 --> 03:07:07,000
And the Yankees now have a real serious threat in the last of the eighth inning.

2422
03:07:07,000 --> 03:07:11,000
Soukforth going back into the bench.

2423
03:07:11,000 --> 03:07:14,000
He's carried whatever message Manager Scharton wanted sent out there.

2424
03:07:14,000 --> 03:07:19,000
Manager Scharton, like Connie Mack of the Athletics, manages in street clothes.

2425
03:07:19,000 --> 03:07:23,000
Therefore, under baseball law, he cannot step out on the playing field in the game.

2426
03:07:23,000 --> 03:07:27,000
He can't go on that field unless you're in the baseball suit or the umpire's blues.

2427
03:07:27,000 --> 03:07:30,000
All right pitcher, Reynolds is up.

2428
03:07:30,000 --> 03:07:31,000
Two for two.

2429
03:07:31,000 --> 03:07:33,000
Right hander Newcomb delivers.

2430
03:07:33,000 --> 03:07:35,000
Curve ball on the outside for a called strike.

2431
03:07:35,000 --> 03:07:38,000
Reynolds right hand hitter.

2432
03:07:38,000 --> 03:07:46,000
The Brooklyn bullpen is of course now sprung into activity.

2433
03:07:46,000 --> 03:07:52,000
Attender Joe Hatton is down there and right handers Banner and Erskine.

2434
03:07:52,000 --> 03:07:53,000
Yankee bullpen stops working.

2435
03:07:53,000 --> 03:07:54,000
Reynolds up there hitting.

2436
03:07:54,000 --> 03:07:56,000
Swings at a curve, doesn't get it.

2437
03:07:56,000 --> 03:07:59,000
And the outside, it's fake too.

2438
03:07:59,000 --> 03:08:01,000
No balls, two strikes.

2439
03:08:01,000 --> 03:08:08,000
One man gone.

2440
03:08:08,000 --> 03:08:13,000
Every pitch, heavily weighted.

2441
03:08:13,000 --> 03:08:15,000
There's big potentials out here riding now.

2442
03:08:15,000 --> 03:08:17,000
No score.

2443
03:08:17,000 --> 03:08:19,000
Sun breaks out again.

2444
03:08:19,000 --> 03:08:20,000
Plenty of light pitch.

2445
03:08:20,000 --> 03:08:22,000
Pass ball low outside.

2446
03:08:22,000 --> 03:08:23,000
Reynolds refused to chase it.

2447
03:08:23,000 --> 03:08:26,000
He had another down to his right to hold it up one and two.

2448
03:08:26,000 --> 03:08:28,000
Coleman who can run.

2449
03:08:28,000 --> 03:08:36,000
Leading down off second and is constantly repeating to Frankie Crissetti the fact that one man is out.

2450
03:08:36,000 --> 03:08:37,000
That's very important.

2451
03:08:37,000 --> 03:08:38,000
That means the ball is hit ahead of him.

2452
03:08:38,000 --> 03:08:40,000
He stays at second base.

2453
03:08:40,000 --> 03:08:41,000
One and two pitch.

2454
03:08:41,000 --> 03:08:43,000
Outside a curve ball for a ball two.

2455
03:08:43,000 --> 03:08:48,000
And Captain Miller had to really go down to his right to keep that ball from getting loose.

2456
03:08:48,000 --> 03:08:52,000
So it's a great crowd of 66,224.

2457
03:08:52,000 --> 03:08:57,000
And they're all looking on up there on the edge of their seats.

2458
03:08:57,000 --> 03:09:03,000
Like to see Commissioner Channels on the edge of his seat leaning on the rail in front of his box.

2459
03:09:03,000 --> 03:09:09,000
Boy, this is something worth really looking at with both eyes.

2460
03:09:09,000 --> 03:09:12,000
So Newcomb getting ready to take dead aim.

2461
03:09:12,000 --> 03:09:13,000
Reynolds leaning in.

2462
03:09:13,000 --> 03:09:15,000
The two-two pitch.

2463
03:09:15,000 --> 03:09:16,000
Strike three.

2464
03:09:16,000 --> 03:09:17,000
Curve on the outside.

2465
03:09:17,000 --> 03:09:19,000
That's just got it.

2466
03:09:19,000 --> 03:09:22,000
So Reynolds turns and walks away at the first time.

2467
03:09:22,000 --> 03:09:23,000
But he's been turned back from the plate.

2468
03:09:23,000 --> 03:09:26,000
Eleven strikeouts for Don Newcomb.

2469
03:09:26,000 --> 03:09:30,000
Twenty strikeouts in the ball game.

2470
03:09:30,000 --> 03:09:31,000
Why aren't there any runs?

2471
03:09:31,000 --> 03:09:33,000
Twenty strikeouts.

2472
03:09:33,000 --> 03:09:38,000
That's good enough.

2473
03:09:38,000 --> 03:09:48,000
And now a great little money player, Phil Rizzuto up there.

2474
03:09:48,000 --> 03:09:49,000
Coleman.

2475
03:09:49,000 --> 03:09:50,000
Second base.

2476
03:09:50,000 --> 03:09:51,000
He's ready to go.

2477
03:09:51,000 --> 03:09:52,000
He's repeating now.

2478
03:09:52,000 --> 03:09:54,000
It's a third base coach, Grazetti.

2479
03:09:54,000 --> 03:09:58,000
That is with the wig wagging his fingers too hard, which means you're on or anything.

2480
03:09:58,000 --> 03:09:59,000
No score.

2481
03:09:59,000 --> 03:10:00,000
Newcomb throws.

2482
03:10:00,000 --> 03:10:01,000
Curve swung on.

2483
03:10:01,000 --> 03:10:02,000
There's a high fly ball in the center.

2484
03:10:02,000 --> 03:10:03,000
Slatter comes in a step.

2485
03:10:03,000 --> 03:10:04,000
He's going back two steps.

2486
03:10:04,000 --> 03:10:05,000
He's under it.

2487
03:10:05,000 --> 03:10:06,000
He waits.

2488
03:10:06,000 --> 03:10:07,000
He has it.

2489
03:10:07,000 --> 03:10:16,000
That's all for the eighth inning threat.

2490
03:10:16,000 --> 03:10:20,000
Well, that is a very good threat that went past the boards in the eighth inning.

2491
03:10:20,000 --> 03:10:23,000
So here we come into the ninth inning.

2492
03:10:23,000 --> 03:10:26,000
I'd say the ball game is even up.

2493
03:10:26,000 --> 03:10:31,000
Each team had a fine threat in the eighth inning, as Rizz reached second base, if you'll recall,

2494
03:10:31,000 --> 03:10:33,000
with one out in the eighth, a single and a steal.

2495
03:10:33,000 --> 03:10:35,000
The Yankees had a man in the eighth inning.

2496
03:10:35,000 --> 03:10:37,000
Coleman got there with one out.

2497
03:10:37,000 --> 03:10:39,000
He's two bagger and never got passed.

2498
03:10:39,000 --> 03:10:43,000
So it continues to be the two.

2499
03:10:43,000 --> 03:10:48,000
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03:10:48,000 --> 03:10:54,000
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2501
03:10:54,000 --> 03:10:57,000
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2502
03:10:57,000 --> 03:11:00,000
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2503
03:11:00,000 --> 03:11:03,000
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2504
03:11:03,000 --> 03:11:10,000
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2505
03:11:10,000 --> 03:11:12,000
Well, I notice you're digging down in that red book.

2506
03:11:12,000 --> 03:11:14,000
I know you're looking for aggregate strikeouts.

2507
03:11:14,000 --> 03:11:17,000
That is, most strikeouts by everybody in a World Series game.

2508
03:11:17,000 --> 03:11:19,000
Is there anything noted on that?

2509
03:11:19,000 --> 03:11:22,000
We've been checking. As a matter of fact, our record book doesn't list it,

2510
03:11:22,000 --> 03:11:25,000
but we went checking with some of the veteran scribes,

2511
03:11:25,000 --> 03:11:27,000
and they went back into other records.

2512
03:11:27,000 --> 03:11:32,000
And in 1944, 22 strikeouts by the two teams in one ball game.

2513
03:11:32,000 --> 03:11:34,000
That was the Cardinals-Browns World Series.

2514
03:11:34,000 --> 03:11:36,000
We'll give you the pictures a little bit later.

2515
03:11:36,000 --> 03:11:39,000
All right, we've got 20 strikeouts missing at the end of eighth.

2516
03:11:39,000 --> 03:11:42,000
Now Robinson, his first step in the ninth inning.

2517
03:11:42,000 --> 03:11:44,000
He's off the three.

2518
03:11:44,000 --> 03:11:48,000
Last time up, hit the ball hard in the maggio, made a fine galloping catch in deep left center.

2519
03:11:48,000 --> 03:11:57,000
Jack ticks a curve, over for a called strike.

2520
03:11:57,000 --> 03:12:04,000
No balls, one strike.

2521
03:12:04,000 --> 03:12:08,000
The strikeouts that Mel was referring to were 10 by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.

2522
03:12:08,000 --> 03:12:10,000
Now Robinson hits the ground ball down towards short.

2523
03:12:10,000 --> 03:12:14,000
The Brazil charger throws to first, and Jack is out by a wide margin, about four steps.

2524
03:12:14,000 --> 03:12:18,000
So one up and one gone, top of sixth inning.

2525
03:12:18,000 --> 03:12:23,000
So 22 strikeouts back in the All-St. Louis World Series.

2526
03:12:23,000 --> 03:12:27,000
Ten by Galehouse and 12 by Mort Cooper.

2527
03:12:27,000 --> 03:12:32,000
We've had 20 so far today.

2528
03:12:32,000 --> 03:12:34,000
One gone, top of the ninth.

2529
03:12:34,000 --> 03:12:37,000
But we're not citing that that is the record of aggregate strikeouts.

2530
03:12:37,000 --> 03:12:40,000
We just haven't been able to put our finger on anything any closer than that.

2531
03:12:40,000 --> 03:12:44,000
Gene Hermanski, 0 for 2, swings and there's a high pop fly.

2532
03:12:44,000 --> 03:12:48,000
Short step resuto, getting under it, under it, and makes the grab.

2533
03:12:48,000 --> 03:12:51,000
On the inside grass, he's got a short two-man retired.

2534
03:12:51,000 --> 03:12:56,000
Top of the ninth, there's Randall's continuous pitching.

2535
03:12:56,000 --> 03:13:02,000
And Carl Forello, who is 0 for 2, face on ball, got on with an error, then popped it to first, stepping in.

2536
03:13:02,000 --> 03:13:06,000
Two gone, top of the ninth.

2537
03:13:06,000 --> 03:13:08,000
So he settles down to give the sign.

2538
03:13:08,000 --> 03:13:13,000
Says step into Forello and Forello grins.

2539
03:13:13,000 --> 03:13:16,000
I feel back at the right, they're not playing Carl to pull.

2540
03:13:16,000 --> 03:13:19,000
He doesn't pull too much toward left as the roll.

2541
03:13:19,000 --> 03:13:22,000
And with this scorn injury, which prevents his full pivot, they don't think to pull at all.

2542
03:13:22,000 --> 03:13:24,000
There's a foul ball out of play.

2543
03:13:24,000 --> 03:13:36,000
Nothing in one, no balls, one strike.

2544
03:13:36,000 --> 03:13:43,000
Nothing in one, two down, no score, ninth inning.

2545
03:13:43,000 --> 03:13:46,000
Crowd is watching and waiting.

2546
03:13:46,000 --> 03:13:49,000
Something to watch and much to be waited for.

2547
03:13:49,000 --> 03:13:52,000
Right hand there, Randall's pitches a curve low and away.

2548
03:13:52,000 --> 03:13:54,000
One ball, one strike.

2549
03:13:54,000 --> 03:14:02,000
Burr just batted the ball down, picks it up, throws it out to the mound.

2550
03:14:02,000 --> 03:14:06,000
One and one.

2551
03:14:06,000 --> 03:14:11,000
Forello, choke sets take just about half an inch.

2552
03:14:11,000 --> 03:14:18,000
Randall's pumped once, deals overhand, fastball good on the outside of over the knees for a call, second strike.

2553
03:14:18,000 --> 03:14:25,000
One and two.

2554
03:14:25,000 --> 03:14:35,000
This is the great game that Randall's has pitched in his entire career.

2555
03:14:35,000 --> 03:14:40,000
Right hander pumping, dealing sidearm curveball, missing low outside.

2556
03:14:40,000 --> 03:14:42,000
Two and two, two balls, two strikes.

2557
03:14:42,000 --> 03:14:48,000
He leaned toward third when he cut that one loose.

2558
03:14:48,000 --> 03:14:51,000
Two and two, top of the ninth.

2559
03:14:51,000 --> 03:14:54,000
Brooklyn, the visiting ball club here at Yankee Stadium, had bat.

2560
03:14:54,000 --> 03:14:57,000
Nobody has a run.

2561
03:14:57,000 --> 03:14:59,000
Only one man has reached third base safely.

2562
03:14:59,000 --> 03:15:02,000
He reached it in the second inning for the Dodgers with two out.

2563
03:15:02,000 --> 03:15:09,000
Two to pitch, swung on, fouled into the stands, back of first base, top foul ball.

2564
03:15:09,000 --> 03:15:16,000
Two balls, two strikes.

2565
03:15:16,000 --> 03:15:27,000
Randall's very calmly rubbing up the new ball, standing at the back of the mound.

2566
03:15:27,000 --> 03:15:35,000
Big crowd is so quiet that you can hear the piping, shrill voices of the infielders as they holler encouragement to the pitcher.

2567
03:15:35,000 --> 03:15:42,000
Randall's takes the ball, feet spread.

2568
03:15:42,000 --> 03:15:46,000
Randall's takes the sign, pumps once, delivers, curveball back on the screen.

2569
03:15:46,000 --> 03:15:48,000
It's still two and two.

2570
03:15:48,000 --> 03:15:52,000
Two balls, two strikes.

2571
03:15:52,000 --> 03:15:59,000
Two gone.

2572
03:15:59,000 --> 03:16:10,000
The guy that was asking for a battle today really got it.

2573
03:16:10,000 --> 03:16:17,000
Apparently nothing is going to come easier to a winner this year in baseball.

2574
03:16:17,000 --> 03:16:21,000
Two to pitch, swung on as a high fly ball into short right center field.

2575
03:16:21,000 --> 03:16:24,000
Right fielder Mape's coming in under it.

2576
03:16:24,000 --> 03:16:32,000
He has it, so that's all for Brello who just keeps right on limping out toward that field, picks up his guard.

2577
03:16:32,000 --> 03:16:37,000
And we get ready to go into the last half of the ninth inning.

2578
03:16:37,000 --> 03:16:39,000
Last of the ninth inning.

2579
03:16:39,000 --> 03:16:41,000
Nobody has any run.

2580
03:16:41,000 --> 03:16:45,000
Ed Bigmulcombe, sloping out to the mound.

2581
03:16:45,000 --> 03:16:53,000
Well, Brother Allen, come over here now to the microphone and have you been seeing this thing?

2582
03:16:53,000 --> 03:17:03,000
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.

2583
03:17:03,000 --> 03:17:11,000
The one, comparatively brief, Don Newcomb, who has come like a meteor this year, and Allie Reynolds, a veteran,

2584
03:17:11,000 --> 03:17:17,000
who actually might have gone through the first nine innings with a one hitter,

2585
03:17:17,000 --> 03:17:25,000
who might have had a no hitter going to the eighth inning when re-singled because, as you mentioned, and as I mentioned earlier,

2586
03:17:25,000 --> 03:17:29,000
Johnny Lindell overran Jorgensen's drive, which he might have caught.

2587
03:17:29,000 --> 03:17:35,000
And Big Don Newcomb, who has been almost as stingy with his base hit, certainly when he meant anything,

2588
03:17:35,000 --> 03:17:39,000
and who has been striking them out right and left and firing and firing and firing.

2589
03:17:39,000 --> 03:17:43,000
And it's just been a tremendous ball game all the way.

2590
03:17:43,000 --> 03:17:49,000
And this is what I call baseball as the people have loved it through the years.

2591
03:17:49,000 --> 03:17:53,000
Well, this is a very fit ball game for a World Series.

2592
03:17:53,000 --> 03:17:58,000
In other words, the two big teams, and here's the big game and the two big pitches, and here we go.

2593
03:17:58,000 --> 03:18:00,000
All right, Tommy Henrik, first step, last of the ninth.

2594
03:18:00,000 --> 03:18:02,000
We follow for Barra and then by DiMaggio.

2595
03:18:02,000 --> 03:18:05,000
So the Yankees have their big hitters now in the line.

2596
03:18:05,000 --> 03:18:08,000
Newcomb on the mound, the outfield deep toward right.

2597
03:18:08,000 --> 03:18:10,000
Henrik off for three, left hand batter.

2598
03:18:10,000 --> 03:18:17,000
Takes a curve that is outside for a ball one.

2599
03:18:17,000 --> 03:18:21,000
Henrik swings in the end.

2600
03:18:21,000 --> 03:18:23,000
Right side of the infield, it's full depth.

2601
03:18:23,000 --> 03:18:25,000
Hodges the first base and steps over toward the line.

2602
03:18:25,000 --> 03:18:30,000
Newcomb's pitch has this curve down across the shins for ball two.

2603
03:18:30,000 --> 03:18:33,000
Two balls, no strikes.

2604
03:18:33,000 --> 03:18:39,000
Two and all.

2605
03:18:39,000 --> 03:18:42,000
Newcomb looking into the dirt.

2606
03:18:42,000 --> 03:18:47,000
He has a rather odd idiosyncrasy on the mound and he's pumping with 35 in a second.

2607
03:18:47,000 --> 03:18:49,000
Two-nothing pitch is hung on.

2608
03:18:49,000 --> 03:18:51,000
Drilled out toward right field, going way back.

2609
03:18:51,000 --> 03:18:55,000
That's the ball game, a home run for Tommy Henrik.

2610
03:18:55,000 --> 03:18:57,000
There's Henrik now between first and second.

2611
03:18:57,000 --> 03:19:02,000
Bill Dickey, the first base, puts almost just on his back and then realized that's a tender back and he better not.

2612
03:19:02,000 --> 03:19:03,000
Henrik's coming in the third.

2613
03:19:03,000 --> 03:19:06,000
He is cutting his home run home.

2614
03:19:06,000 --> 03:19:07,000
Look at him grim.

2615
03:19:07,000 --> 03:19:09,000
Big as a slice of watermelon.

2616
03:19:09,000 --> 03:19:11,000
Wow.

2617
03:19:11,000 --> 03:19:12,000
All reliable.

2618
03:19:12,000 --> 03:19:13,000
Hit one.

2619
03:19:13,000 --> 03:19:24,000
That's all.

2620
03:19:24,000 --> 03:19:27,000
Well, they call him all reliable and they're not joking.

2621
03:19:27,000 --> 03:19:30,000
He hit a two-nothing pitch.

2622
03:19:30,000 --> 03:19:31,000
Wow.

2623
03:19:31,000 --> 03:19:34,000
Way back up there in the straightaway right field stand.

2624
03:19:34,000 --> 03:19:43,000
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,

2625
03:19:43,000 --> 03:19:52,000
now gives the Yankees a one-game cushion with a very dramatic home run with a startling suddenness of a pistol shot.

2626
03:19:52,000 --> 03:19:56,000
The denouement, the climax, was reached.

2627
03:19:56,000 --> 03:20:03,000
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.

2628
03:20:03,000 --> 03:20:08,000
And Henrik, I don't believe he ever enjoyed running a home run any more than he ran nothing.

2629
03:20:08,000 --> 03:20:11,000
So that's that.

2630
03:20:11,000 --> 03:20:16,000
And now we're going to switch over to Mel and have him give you a recapitulation on the ballgame.

2631
03:20:16,000 --> 03:20:19,000
Pitching as Reynolds walking out to the mound.

2632
03:20:19,000 --> 03:20:21,000
Well, Mel, how about Henrik?

2633
03:20:21,000 --> 03:20:23,000
You've seen him do that many times, haven't you?

2634
03:20:23,000 --> 03:20:25,000
I've seen Henrik do that all this year.

2635
03:20:25,000 --> 03:20:32,000
As a matter of fact, he hit a home run opening day this year to win a ballgame for the Yankees.

2636
03:20:32,000 --> 03:20:36,000
He hit a home run on the closing day to clinch it.

2637
03:20:36,000 --> 03:20:43,000
And he hits a home run on the opening day of the 1949 World Series to win the first game of it.

2638
03:20:43,000 --> 03:20:48,000
He is one of your old pros who's been around a long while.

2639
03:20:48,000 --> 03:20:53,000
And that was his fourth World Series home run.

2640
03:20:53,000 --> 03:21:01,000
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.

2641
03:21:01,000 --> 03:21:08,000
Sixty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-four people sitting there and with the suddenness of a bullet out of a cannon,

2642
03:21:08,000 --> 03:21:13,000
as Red described it so aptly, and precisely for you, the ballgame was over.

2643
03:21:13,000 --> 03:21:23,000
And here I think that the entire assemblage here, including Red, including myself, were expecting an extra inning ballgame.

2644
03:21:23,000 --> 03:21:27,000
You just began to feel that perhaps it was going to go on and on and on.

2645
03:21:27,000 --> 03:21:31,000
You didn't know when the breaking point would come, and then it came just suddenly.

2646
03:21:31,000 --> 03:21:37,000
And that's the way it happens when you get down to that last inning or you get into that sudden death period,

2647
03:21:37,000 --> 03:21:42,000
and the home team, the last of the night, of course, is in that situation, and boom, there it was.

2648
03:21:42,000 --> 03:21:49,000
It was a tough break for our gallant guy, Don Newcomb, who came back with just two days' rest.

2649
03:21:49,000 --> 03:21:51,000
Red has seen him pitch many times this year.

2650
03:21:51,000 --> 03:21:55,000
I had the pleasure of watching him shut out the New York Giants on a night game,

2651
03:21:55,000 --> 03:21:58,000
and his fastball was blazing.

2652
03:21:58,000 --> 03:22:04,000
But to me, he pitched a tremendous game today, even a better one, as he struck out one Yankee after another

2653
03:22:04,000 --> 03:22:11,000
and wound up with a total of 11 strikeouts, two short, of Howard Emke's single-game record of 13,

2654
03:22:11,000 --> 03:22:21,000
as we told you set back in 1928, 1929 on October the 8th, when he pitched against the Cubs for the Philadelphia Athletics.

2655
03:22:21,000 --> 03:22:27,000
Allie Reynolds came along with nine strikeouts, and though Reynolds was in more frequent trouble than was Newcomb

2656
03:22:27,000 --> 03:22:34,000
because of more wildness, Reynolds, having walked some four men while Don Newcomb did not walk a man,

2657
03:22:34,000 --> 03:22:42,000
and has an opportunity, perhaps, if you like your statistics, to join Kyle Mays, a Yankee pitcher many years ago,

2658
03:22:42,000 --> 03:22:51,000
who in 1921 did not allow any bases on balls in a single-world series of 26 consecutive innings of pitching

2659
03:22:51,000 --> 03:22:56,000
that went through three ball games. So Newcomb went through one without allowing a base on balls.

2660
03:22:56,000 --> 03:23:02,000
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.

2661
03:23:02,000 --> 03:23:10,000
Newcomb rarely ever went through a 3-2 count comparatively, as he had his control down a real sharp.

2662
03:23:10,000 --> 03:23:18,000
An arrow by Jerry Coleman allowed Reynolds to be in trouble, and although this is, again, repetition,

2663
03:23:18,000 --> 03:23:26,000
it's merely from the standpoint of reporting, Johnny Jorgensen's first-inning double was a ball that all observers will tell you

2664
03:23:26,000 --> 03:23:29,000
should have been caught in the normal course of event. That's part of the game that it wasn't,

2665
03:23:29,000 --> 03:23:35,000
but we're merely indicating the type of game that Reynolds pitched that as far as his pitching was concerned,

2666
03:23:35,000 --> 03:23:41,000
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.

2667
03:23:41,000 --> 03:23:48,000
A clean base hit all the way, and Reynolds wound up pitching a two-hit ball game.

2668
03:23:48,000 --> 03:23:58,000
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.

2669
03:23:58,000 --> 03:24:01,000
You can do it that way, but of course that's not a good way of looking at it.

2670
03:24:01,000 --> 03:24:11,000
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.

2671
03:24:11,000 --> 03:24:16,000
One of those two teams had to lose, one had to win the pennant. Somebody had to win it.

2672
03:24:16,000 --> 03:24:19,000
It couldn't go on forever, and that's the way this game was today.

2673
03:24:19,000 --> 03:24:30,000
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.

2674
03:24:30,000 --> 03:24:46,000
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.

2675
03:24:46,000 --> 03:24:52,000
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.

2676
03:24:52,000 --> 03:24:59,000
Tuning time will be 12.45 Eastern Standard Time, the same as today.

2677
03:24:59,000 --> 03:25:10,000
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,

2678
03:25:10,000 --> 03:25:17,000
and with the help of Tommy Henrich, bested Don Newcomb and the Dodgers in an equally brilliantly pitched game, one to nothing.

2679
03:25:17,000 --> 03:25:28,000
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.

2680
03:25:28,000 --> 03:25:38,000
We wish to thank the makers of Philip Morris Cigarettes and Alka Seltzer, co-sponsors of Queen for a Day, for delaying their broadcast time today, in order that we might bring you the World Series.

2681
03:25:38,000 --> 03:25:50,000
Queen for a Day follows station identification. We also wish to thank the makers of La Rosa Macaroni, Spaghetti, and Egg Noodles, sponsors of La Rosa Hollywood Theatre of Stars, for relinquishing their broadcast time today.

2682
03:25:50,000 --> 03:26:02,000
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