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The Brooklyn Dodgers faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 2 of the 1949 World Series on October 6th.
The Yankees led the best of seven series, one game to none.
And this is the mutual radio broadcast of Game 2 featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.
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Well, of course, this big town and the nation and even around the world as they heard they broadcast yesterday as they saw it here,
they're all buzzing over the dramatic suddenness with which yesterday's series opener ended a breathtaking pitching battle
between the Dodgers dazzling Don Newcomb and the Yankees' amazing Allie Reynolds.
They were swinging and missing yesterday. Newcomb mowed down 11 Yankees, two short of the record set by Howard Emke.
Reynolds struck out nine Dodgers, 20 in all, two short of the combined record set by Denny Galehouse and Morton Cooper in the 1944 series.
Yes, sir, they were swinging and missing until the last of the ninth inning when, as Walter Winchel so aptly put it in his sum up,
a great duel that ended with one pistol shot and it was fired by one of the most remarkable marksmen in recent baseball history,
Massillon, Ohio's gift to the baseball world, currently a resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Tommy Henrik.
Let's just look at the record. Tommy Henrik on opening day hit a home run off Sid Hudson of the Washington Senators that won the ball game.
It was in the ninth inning, the last half of the ninth inning, that won the game for the Yankees.
The next day, in the fourth inning, he hit a home run off Calvert of the Senators that got the Yankees off to a 1-0 lead and Rasche won the ball game by a shutout.
Ten days later, against Tex Houston of the Boston Red Sox in the ninth inning again with one on, Henrik hit a home run to win that ball game, 4-3.
Approximately two weeks later off Cleveland's Gene Bearden, he hit a home run in the seventh inning with nobody on.
That was the winning run as the Yankees won that one 4-3.
Later on, on May the 27th of this year, he hit a home run in the first inning with one on off Joe Coleman of the Athletics giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead and Lopet won that ball game by a shutout.
And then, just a few days later, four days later, as a matter of fact, off Howie Judson of the White Sox, he hit a home run in the seventh inning with nobody on to break up a scoreless tie and give Rasche another shutout victory.
The very next day, he hit a home run in the first inning with two on against Randy Gumpert to give the Yankees a 3-0 lead and they went on to win that ball game.
And that's the way Tommy Henrik has been hitting his home runs.
On August the 6th and the last of the ninth inning, the St. Louis Browns leading 8-7, Henrik had a home run to tie it up.
Joe DiMaggio followed on the next pitch with a homer to win it.
And on the final game of the year, the one that won the pennant in the eighth inning of a tight 1-0 struggle and with the Red Sox power coming up in the top of the ninth, Henrik hit one of Mel Parnell's curve balls into the right field seats to practically sew it up.
And yesterday, in the opening game of the World Series, once again, it was old reliable.
So it's amazing as that as you check back over his record how many home runs he hit during the course of the regular season that had the impact that the one did yesterday in the opening game of this World Series.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, Gallim, Bardo and his orchestra, Miss Lucy Monroe and our national anthem.
You know, there are many on the Brooklyn roster experiencing their first World Series, Campanella, Bata, Erskine, Minner, Newcomb, Palika, Almo, Cox, Radcliffe, Snyder, Whitman and today's Dodger pitching choice, Elvin Rowe, better known as Preacher Rowe from Hardy, Arkansas.
This six foot one control artist is lean and left handed, 31 years of age.
And some 28 years ago, he remarked to his father when he was approximately three and a half.
He did not like the name Elvin. His father said, well, son, what do you want us to call you?
He just called me Preacher and it's been Preacher Rowe ever since.
Has nothing to do with his profession, which we understand is a school teacher.
He has won 15 games and lost six this year and Bert Schotton has always said to Rowe, whenever you feel like pitching, that's your turn.
Recently, he has taken a lot of rest between turns and has proved to be most effective as a result.
For the New York Yankees, it's going to be Victor John Rasche, a 30 year old right hander born in Springfield, Massachusetts, sometimes called the Springfield rifle, who won 21 games and lost 10 for the Yankees.
A sandy haired husky of Italian ancestry, he pitched the Yankees to the pennant Sunday and one of the finest performances of his career.
Now for the remainder of the lineups, ladies and gentlemen, for the Brooklyn Dodgers, as Pee Wee Reese trots out the home plate to exchange batting orders with manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees and the Umpires.
Pee Wee Reese will lead off and play shortstop.
Johnny Jorgensen will hit second and play third base.
Duke Snyder batting third center field.
Jackie Robinson hitting fourth second base.
Is Gene Hermanski right field change in the Dodger lineup because of a groin injury suffered by Carl Farillo before the end of the regular season and which bothered him and hampered him considerably yesterday. Marv Brackley will follow Hermanski in the order, hit sixth and will play left field.
Hermanski who played left yesterday will shift over to right.
Batting seventh, Gil Hodges first base.
Hitting eight, Roy Campanella catching in the ninth spot in the order.
Preacher Rowe pitching.
For the New York Yankees, Phil Rizzuto leading off shortstop.
Hitting second, Tommy Henrik first base.
And a change for the Yankees as Casey Stengel goes with as many right handed hitters as he can today against the left handed pitching of Rowe.
Hank Bauer will bat third and play right field.
Joe DiMaggio hitting fourth center field.
Johnny Lindell batting fifth left field.
Billy Johnson hitting sixth third base.
Hitting seventh, Jerry Coleman second base.
Hitting eight, during the catching for the Yankees today, Charlie Silvera.
And on the ninth spot in the order and pitching, Vic Rasci.
R-A-S-C-H-I.
So there are your lineups and we'll just zip over them again very quickly.
For the Dodgers, and this is the order in which they hit, Reese Jorgensen, Snyder, Robinson, Hermanski, Radclay, Hodges, Campanella, Rowe.
New York, Rizzuto, Henrik, Bauer, DiMaggio, Lindell, Johnson, Coleman, Silvera, Rasci.
The umpires will be back to the plate, Art Passarella.
Check that. Beans Riddle will be back to the plate, Art Passarella at first base, Lou Georda at second, Cal Hubbard at third.
Ed Hurley will be down the right field line and George Barr down the left field line.
So those are your umpires. Your lineups and your batteries for the Yankees, Rasci and Silvera.
For the Dodgers, Rowe and Campanella.
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just point out to your neighbors that enrollments in our elementary schools are increasing at the rate of one million children a year.
And that by 1956, there will be some seven million more children in elementary schools than there are now.
This means that hundreds of thousands more classrooms and qualified teachers will be needed if our entire school system is to avoid a serious crisis.
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Rowe and Rasci are still warming up. Peewee Reese and Casey Stengel still chatting to the umpires at home plate, the ground crew ironing out the skin part of the infield,
putting on the finishing touches, and momentarily the second game of the World Series will be underway.
And while we wait, the time is ripe, and we pause ten seconds for station identification.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.
The crowd is buzzing. People are filing to their seats. There's no danger of rain as of this moment. It's rather cool.
The wind is blowing in at the moment from left field toward home plate and is quartering across toward right a bit.
It would not seem as of this moment that the wind would be a factor. However, it is a variable wind.
And here at Yankee Stadium frequently, at the start of a ballgame, the winds will shift and become a definite factor on long balls that sometimes are either caught by the wind or helped along on their flight into home run territory.
The umpires are beginning to move to their positions. Everybody is beginning to settle back now and await the start of the ballgame.
Preacher Rowe just delivered his last warm-up pitch and is moving over toward the Dodger dugout. Rashie has already gone into the Yankee dugout to rest just for a moment, get a breath, drink a water,
and the Yankees are awaiting the signal to dash out onto the field for the playing of the second game of the World Series.
And the fellow who is anxiously awaiting the start of it, very eager to bring you his inimitable description of the first four and a half innings of the game today,
your friend and mine, there go the Yankees, and here comes Red Barber.
Thank you, Mel. Happy and everybody. And the Yankees go out to pick the field and receive a thunderous ovation.
And before we go into the play-by-play, we'd like to tell you that this program comes to you by authority of the Commissioner of Baseball. It is intended only for the private use of our audience.
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The Dodger bullpen contingent is on its way out to the bullpen, which is in an alleyway in left center field.
Sam Nairn is the bullpen boss, and he's taking four pitches with him. Right-hand is Carl Erskine, Jack Banner, Rex Barney, and left-hand is Joel Hackney.
And Barney's going down is somewhat of a story. Of course, as you know, when one ball club has lost the first game, they can't begin to save up too much. They've got to try and get even if they can.
Manager Schotten, in his pregame thinking, said that it would be either Barney or Brankett as the starting pitcher for Brooklyn tomorrow over at Ebbets Field.
But with Barney going down with a bullpen contingent right now, you have to figure that manager Schotten feels if he gets in the scrape, he'll probably come with Barney today.
So it remains to be seen whether Barney works in the bullpen or whether he gets in the ball game.
The Yankee bullpen crew will be the same as yesterday. Stengel said he was quite satisfied. He had the veteran Buxton and Samford, right-handers, and of course the great left-hander Joe Page, who saved countless games in the league 60 different times in a ton of race.
So you've got the location of the bullpens, the Yankees in right center field, the Dodgers in left center. Out on the mound is Vic Ratchie.
D.W. Reese, who got Brooklyn's second hit and final one yesterday, is first up as we move into the ball game today. Fastball is over for a called strike.
Ratchie is primarily a fastball pitcher, uses a curve and a change as they speak in the trade. He does not fool with knuckleball, screwball, that sort of stuff.
He's a power pitcher, a control pitcher, delivers fastball high inside. One ball, one strike. This is the game's first batter and absolutely no score.
Reese up to be followed by Jorgensen, then by Snyder. As Mel pointed out to you, the wind is different from yesterday.
Yesterday it was blowing out to right, today it is blowing in from left. Reese hits a foul ball back.
That was the change up off the fastball thrown by big 6 foot 1 inch Vic Ratchie, who came up, if you'll recall, from the Coast League the last couple of months of 47
and practically pitched the Yankees in the World Series then. And in the series he only relieved once and worked an inning in two thirds, so we didn't see much of him then.
Last year he just missed winning 20 games and this year was the one for the series, Sunday.
Big guy pitches, big curveball high, so he's now 2-2 with Reese.
Melvin Stark is Brooklyn's third base coach, Jake Pitwood firstThe Yankees are going with the same infield.
That's Tommy Hendrick, the hero of yesterday's ball game, well, co-hero along with Ali Rebels.
2-2 pitch to Reese, swung on, there's a high fly ball into left field. Johnny Lindell is under it easily. Not a tough chance, a high fly.
Makes the catch and straightaway left and is one up and one gone. So that's the start of game two of the 1949 World Series.
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The Yankee battery, Rashie and back of the plate is Charlie Silvera.
We not only had a talk with Yogi Berra who caught yesterday but we saw that left arm and that fastball of Reynolds really bruised it up.
Left hand is very puppet. Johnny Jorgensen takes a fastball high outside, ball one.
No score, one man out, nobody on. Game has begun quietly enough. Outfield for the Yankees, Lindell on left just made the put out.
Joe DiMaggio is in center field and then right field is Hank Bauer. Fastball through there, one ball, one strike.
Rashie relies a great deal on control and one of his strongest assets is that everything that he throws, he throws with the same identical motion.
He's a big man who moves easily. In fact, when you watch him pitch, you wonder just exactly what he's doing.
His change is a big help to him.
Spins, pitches one and one, Jorgensen hits a ground ball wide at first base.
Henrik is up but it runs over to the bag and makes the unassisted put out by a step and a half.
So Tommy Henrik hands the first play and the two Dodgers up are retired routinely and stepping in is center fielder Duke Snyder.
The Brooklyn batting order had to be changed at the last minute because of the groin injury to Carl Forello.
He goes out of right field, left field, and Lomanski moves over to right and Marvin Rackley goes into left.
Rashie delivers, the fastball swing on hit Sharpie down to short. Up with it is Rizzuto, throws over to first fire step and that's all for Snyder.
So the Dodgers go down one through three, top half of the first inning.
The Yankees are coming in and so the score is Brook to nothing and New York nothing.
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The last of the first inning and the lean Lactander preacher on the mound for Brooklyn.
The stocky catcher Roy Campanella back to the plate.
The Yankees it would be a Rizzuto, Henrik and Bauer leading off.
The Brooklyn infield Hodges at first Robinson at second Reese at short and Jorgensen at third.
The outfield is Marvin Radcliffe in left and Santa Snyder and Gene Harmanski is in right.
He has played a great deal of right field. In fact when he first came up with the Dodgers a few years ago he came up as a right fielder.
So his going in right is make very much difference.
The rotation of the umpires today being traded to the national league back of the plate on balls and strikes.
Art Passerello of the American League at first.
Who joined on the national league at second.
Gal Hubbard who was back at the plate yesterday as at third.
George Bars in the right field corner.
He's in the national league staff and in the left field corner it is Ed Hurley of the American League staff.
Now Rizzuto who is the shortest man in the series and one of the smallest in baseball.
Right hand batter choking that stick up.
Third baseman Jorgensen has to be in a little close because of Rizzuto,
left hander roll pitchers, fastball swung on foul out of play.
And back to the Brooklyn dugout which is on the third base side.
It's a coolish afternoon.
A fairly strong windThe wind seems to be increasing in its velocity.
It's coming in from left. In other words it is a wind which is for the pitchers.
It will hold up balls hit to left field and hold them up decisively.
It will push a ball hit along the right field foul line foul.
Rodeels screwball high outside one and one.
This is the first world series for Rode get in.
So this is his fall classic baptismal.
He's a very cool fellow.
Lovers one and one. Curveball swung on drill in the left field.
First solid base hit. It actually goes over the cup to ball off.
There's the throw going in the second end. Rizzuto after his turn
and first holes on with the first hit of the ball game.
A line single. He hit a curveball serving into him and it followed it to left.
So the studer who is one of the most talented base runners in the trade
at first base and Tommy Hendricks stepping to the plate.
Listen.
Well, Hendrick is the fellow that sent everybody home yesterday afternoon.
He emptied the park. Bang. Just like that.
Left hand hitter. Throw throws over to first.
Rizzuto wasn't off at all.
Haden is holding first base close to the outfield. Swung around toward right.
He had to play a little bit more toward right on Hendrick than usual because of the wind.
Hendrick sets and takes a curve over for a call strike. He'd love to bunt.
To find out whether that is a single is bunting this early in the ball game. Probably not.
Hendrick shot a crowd to play from behind. Left hand hitter.
He's a six footer. Ungraceful. Throw throws to first. Rizzuto steps back on.
Skinny softball. Comes to his top position.
Delivers. Curveball low outside. One and one. One ball. One strike.
When the Dodgers were coming down the stretch, they had some very difficult games with St. Louis.
And Rowe is the fellow that pitched the ball games that kept Brooklyn alive.
One and one pitch. Curve swung on. Fly ball out of the short right field.
Hermanski coming in. Getting under it. Makes the catch in the right field corner.
The throw is to first base. Not in time. Rizzuto back by a step.
So, Hendrick first of all roused the crowd a little when the ball began going toward right.
But anyone watching the progress of the right field knew the ball was not going very far.
Hermanski was angling in all the time toward the power line. So he had one man more.
And as the events brought out, Stinkle was not going to bunt with Hendrick.
He just had him bluff that one pitch.
Hank Fowler getting in. This is his first series.
Right hand batter. Square across the shoulders.
Outfield toward left. Rowe pitches. In at the knees. Throw to first base.
He catches Campanella. Not in time. Rizzuto back.
Bauer and Mapes. That is when Stinkle could afford the luxury of switching outfielders.
That is when he had enough out of the hospital during the season.
He used them as alternates depending on whether the pitching was right or left handed.
Mapes left hand batter. And Bauer. As he stands there, right hand hitter.
No score. One out. Slow curve in under the hand. Ball two.
Two balls, no strikes. Bauer backs out of there. B-A-U-E-R.
Takes a look at the veteran third base coach, Frankie Crissetti.
This is just how the Yankees want to play this two-nothing situation.
Bill Dickey coaching your first base. Rowe checks first.
Pitches. There's that ball hit foul outside third.
Ground foul. Two and one.
Two ball tossed out of the mound. Rowe is not a power pitcher.
He's a stuff pitcher. He's a control pitcher. He's what the trade would call a head pitcher.
He's not an arm pitcher. He lost his fastball a couple of years ago.
Got hurt. And he uses his fastball as primarily his change of pace.
It's his best change of pace. But he uses different gait curves.
He has a screwball. Throwes a slider. He just monkeys with hitters.
Pitches. There is a fastball that is popped up back of first base.
Robinson, the second baseman, comes over and makes the catch just in foul ground.
Why the second baseman rather than the first sucker?
Because Robinson, in running over, had the ball in front of him all the time.
Hodges, to have made the play, would have had to have backpedaled, which is sometimes rather risky.
Jolter, when he went on, Rowe using his fastball limbs to change his pace and the ball didn't get around on him.
So the Jolter, Big DiMaggio, who made a fine catch on probably the hardest hitball of yesterday's ball game,
The ball that was hit by Robinson, that ball would hit a way out there.
Of course, this is a big ball pop. It is 461 feet to straightaway center field.
457 to left center. 407 to right center. Slotted acreage.
DiMaggio, right hand hitter, bends at the knees, then steps back outThe throw goes to first base.
Fersuto has opened up with a single. Last of the first inning, he's the first two out.
DiMaggio takes a sharp curve in under the hand, just missing, and it is ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
That pitch didn't miss by much more than the width of a Gillette blue blade.
Close. Rowe started doing his breath when the call went against him.
See the habit pitchers have when close wins. Throw.
Curve down at the shins for ball two. Two and on.
Rowe is sort of herky-jerk on the mound to a degree.
He's never still. He's always moving around, just as restless as a cat with a hot foot.
As a curve swung on and fouled off, DiMaggio over swingingThe ball was slowed up.
Rowe had pulled the string and given it a twist. Two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
I feel deep on DiMaggio around toward left.
I have to keep in mind that the one effect of the weather today is the wind, which is blowing in from left field.
Rowe checks first pitchers two-one. Pass ball two-half of all three.
Two and one. Two balls, one strike.
DiMaggio looking to see what the orders are.
No score.
The Yankees now may have Rizzuto on his way.
He's an excellent runner. Threats to steal on his own anyhow.
Rowe checks first. DiMaggio leads off. There he goesThe pitchers swung on.
There's a long five-ball deep to the left center field.
Smarter's got a long way to goThe center field is under it and pulls it down in deep left center.
DiMaggio hits a long drive.
DiMaggio's starter gathers it in.
No runs, one hit.
So we have no runs. And for those of you who haven't seen Yankee Stadium,
I don't know of a better fellow to tell you about the size of it, the dimensions and the distances, the triple decking, etc.
Than the guy who lives around here all summer long, Mel Allen. Mel, tell us.
Well, Yankee Stadium in left center field where Joe just hit his ball, I think, which is a big reason that Red wanted me to step in here for at the moment,
is perhaps the deepest of any major league outfield.
It's 457 feet, for example, to the point at the bleachers in left center.
Just to the right of the flagpole in straightaway center, it's 461 feet.
And at a point in right center, at the bleacher wall, it's 407 feet.
And then they stand sort of move in toward the foul line so that at a point in right field, it's 344 feet, about, I'd say, 75 feet off the foul line.
And in the extreme right field corner, it's only 296 feet, but the ball has to be pulled very sharply to get in there.
And down the left field line, it's 301 feet right into the corner, but it drops off at the point where the left field grandstand is divided from the bleachers to 402 feet.
So there's plenty of room for outfielders to chase balls in, in left center and in deep center and in right center.
The balls have to be pulled very sharply to get into those seats without too much behind them.
And now here we are, Red, with Jackie Robinson up in the second inning.
Robinson, first up, takes the first pitch, which is a sharp curve over the inside off the hands for a called strike.
Robinson, yesterday, as the National League leading hitter, failed to get a base hit. He went 0-4-4.
Raschi, right hand's a curve, inside, and it is 1-1.
I notice that Raschi has picked up the habit, started out with it, that National League pitchers used by and large over the years trying to pitch in on Robinson's hands.
1-1 pitch. Change up ball, low inside, ball, ball, two. Two balls, one strike.
Outfield to what left on Robbie. Second baseman Coleman, about two steps closer into second base than straightaway position.
Raschi pitches 2-1. Robinson takes a passball on the outside for a called second strike. Two balls, two strikes.
Just a bit of a cross on that one.
Now the big brunette right-hander, sends partly on the mound, takes the sign. Robinson out of plate, now Jack is in.
Raschi pumps once, pumps again, deals. Passball's hung on, line double third in the left field corner for a base hit.
Robinson's around first base, he's on his way for second. Here comes the throw from Lindell, and Robinson comes in standing for a line double in the left field corner.
So Robinson comes up for his third series, and he's at second base.
That looked to be a fastball in on the hands, it wasn't quite in enough.
And Robinson, who of course is pitched to a great deal that way, has a habit of falling back.
Also, he uses a thicker handle back than most hitters just because he hits a lot of balls down on his hands.
So he fell back from an inside fastball and pulled it, lined it high over third baseman Johnson in the left field corner for a double.
And the batter up now is a man's keep playing right field today. Left hand hitter.
The pitch is a curve swung on, there's a foul ball out into short right field, close to the foul line.
Second baseman Coleman over, makes the grab, and Robinson starts the third.
Coleman slips and can't get the throw, and Jack goes into third base.
Robinson is going to go, he's a daring runner as you know, and his reflexes are instant.
He set at second base that foul ball was deep back at first, across the right field foul line.
Second baseman Coleman could get to it better than anybody else.
It rained, you know, right up to about nine o'clock yesterday morning.
And as Coleman recovered after catching the foul and set the throw, he had to hold his throw moment as his foot slipped in the mud.
And that of course guaranteed Robinson going over to third.
So, Homanski a foul ball to the second baseman, and Robinson moves on the play over to third.
So the Yankee infield is up hoping for a play at the plate, and Marvin Radcliffe getting his first World Series ball game under his belt.
Here's a small diminutive trim left hand hitter.
Takes a curve ball over for a call strike.
Radcliffe earlier this year was with the Dodgers, then was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Johnny Hopp.
Then the Pirates didn't like his arm, thought it was sore, and the deal was nullified, and so he was returned to Brooklyn.
So here he is in the World Series.
Robinson off third, no score.
Right hand to Rashid, do they use?
Fast ball hit slowly up toward third base, Robinson has to hold.
Johnson throws over to first base, and it's in time.
Radcliffe is out.
A bang, bang decision at first.
Hard pass to Ralla.
Out of the play, Jake Kutler, the first base coach, lets out a holler, but that's all.
So that's the second out, and Robinson had to hold at third.
Radcliffe checked his swing and just trickled the ball up toward third.
Robinson was not coming down on the play at all, so he was caught flat-footed.
So that's the big second out.
A nice play by Billy Johnson, who got a rifle for an arm.
Johnson to Henrik.
Sawtoor gone, second inning, no score.
And the batter is Gil Hodges.
Right hand hitting first base.
Rashid going around the back of the mound, going for the rosin bag.
It was a big out that he just got past.
Second out, that means a no run can now be scored as a result of an out.
Robinson jockeys back and forth off third a little bit.
Rashid sets, Johnson playing a little close to third.
Rashid comes to a stop position, delivers, it's a curveball low.
Well, that is interesting that Rashid is not pumping with this runner at third base.
Pitchers usually do that, no other runner on.
But Robinson is stolen home five times this year, and he can misdirect the pitcher's attention
as he takes his paints and his dashes down off third.
So Rashid is just going to come to a stop position.
To hold Robinson up at third.
Throw, fastball over, ball strike.
One ball, one strike.
Hodges the batter.
In yesterday's ball game, Hodges was up officially twice.
He can get a base hit and banged into a double fly.
No score.
Rashid trying to get out of this jam.
The sun is coming out brighter.
The wind continues coming in from left field.
One on one pitch.
Too low, all the way but low, just under the knees.
And Rashid just sort of winched a little bit at that decision.
Two on one.
Johnson is moving out a little bit wider at third base.
Robinson leading down off third.
But he can't go very far because Rashid is not pumping.
In other words, he is getting set.
He's set now, deals.
Fastball's thrown on children to that field for a base hit.
Robinson cuts in and the Dodgers get their first run of the series.
And Hodges falls into second base as Lindell errors on the ball.
He's fumbled up the ball here on the chest.
So Hodges knocks in the line, takes the extra base,
as the ball handcuffs Lindell in left.
That's a line single, a run battered in, of course, an earned run.
And Hodges gets the extra base as the error is charged against left fielder Johnny Lindell.
So it is Brooklyn 1, New York nothing.
And Roy Campanella is going to be purposely passed.
That's ball one.
Campanella will be purposely passed to bring Preacher Roll up to the plate.
And Roll is probably as notorious for your poor hitter as we have around the league.
In other words, he's one pitcher who gets paid for pitching.
Campanella being delivered to pass.
Here's ball three.
In a second, he'll be stationed at first base.
And ball four.
Apparently, the catcher's position in the World Series on a deliberate base on balls
is going to be the American League interpretation,
where the catcher can move anywhere around and catch his box, which is plainly defined.
And if you're going to pass the league, you got to keep one foot like a home plate.
Preacher Roll right hand batter.
Feeling better about things.
His pitch is off and they have runs to work on.
There's now one nothing, Brooklyn.
Rashid, who got passed two big outs but didn't get the third one,
is working for the third one right now.
Hodges at second, Campanella at first.
As expected, following the magnificent pitching duel of yesterday,
there's a curve over, ball second strike.
As expected by most all the observers, the scoring would be beginning fairly early today.
You just don't get pitching, we saw yesterday, coming right back to second day on both sides.
That's not in the baseball book.
One nothing.
They have a Brooklyn.
Two outs.
Pitcher up with two strikes on him in the second inning.
Pass ball, swung on him, missed strike three.
So that's the first strike out for Rashid.
And that closes up matters.
A run, a couple of hits, two men were left.
That was an error.
So the Dodgers get out in front.
The Yankees come in now in the last of the second inning.
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Well, Hank, as long as we've got you up here,
what about these two pitchers as you see them work?
How would you characterize them, one pitcher talking about others?
Well, they look like two different kinds of pitchers.
We have Roe out there who is strictly a controlled pitcher.
He has a screw ball, a slow curve, and a fast curve.
Rash is more of a fastball type pitcher.
There was a lot of fastballs in the sharp curveball.
Hank, you're getting a bang out of the series?
I am. It's a very good series,
and it looks like it's going to be a lot different from yesterday's series.
I think we'll see quite a bit of good hitting here this afternoon.
Well, I just brought a picture when the hits started going.
A seat in the grass there, all right.
Nice to have you, Hank.
Now we've got Johnny Lindell, first half last, the second inning.
The outfield round toward left on him.
He pulls decidedly.
And preacher Roe, ahead one to nothing, delivers.
Lindell hits a sharp foul in the lower left field stands by one.
He hit well out ahead of that one.
One strike is a move along.
Lindell to be followed by Johnson and Coleman.
All right-hand hitters.
Stengel has got as many right-hand hitters as he can get.
Roe pumps twice, delivers.
Lindell swings.
There's a high pop fly in the short right center field.
Robinson goes out from second.
Hromanski, the right fielder, comes in.
Hromanski under it, and he makes the catch.
One up, one gone.
And Billy Johnson.
Won many a big ball game for the Yankees.
He had a great World Series, if you'll recall.
Stagger 1943.
And the Yankees volunteer, then booked with the Cardinals.
Right-hand hitter.
He's got the ball in under the hands.
Ball one.
Yesterday, Johnson went off for three.
Struck out twice.
A lot of guys struck out yesterday.
Roe pumps.
Deals.
There's a drive hit deep under left center.
Smatter's got a go.
He's under it, and he makes the catch as the ball sailed on him.
The wind is coming in from left field.
I guess the ball was hit with some sort of English on it.
As Smatter was going toward left, that ball dotted back toward center.
It just curved.
Just a sharp curve ball.
I don't think I've ever seen one sail this sharply.
I think the wind helped it, plus probably some sort of English.
It was hit on the ball, but all of a sudden, it was just like it was going to curve right away through the center fielder.
And Smatter just stuck out his left hand.
The glove was on his left hand and grabbed the ball one-handed.
That was an odd one.
That was a tough one.
Not as easy as it looks to be out there on the picket line.
OK, now the batter is Jerry Coleman.
Takes a fastball high inside.
Ball one.
Frankie Crissetti, who can be easily heard all over the stadium.
He's coaching in third now.
Hollis set him up to the plate.
Frankie's voice has always had that high carrying quality when he was playing shortstop for second base.
You could hear him all over the place.
Coleman, Slender Brunette, ready.
Rowe's not Slender.
He's just plain skinny.
You had to look at him twice to see him once.
Ready on the mound.
Rodeels, there's a fly ball into right center field.
Snider, who's a busy young man, is under it and makes the catch.
So for Snider, that gives him three of the last four put-outs.
At the end of two innings, two check totals, all the dodges, a run, two hits, and no errors.
The run is earned for the Yankees.
No runs, one hit and one error.
And the error had nothing to do with any of the scoring.
One-nothing Brooklyn.
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The World Series.
And we'll pause now 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
For the tops in sports, listen to WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.
Hello again, everybody.
This is Joel Redhead speaking to you from high up in the third deck at Yankee Stadium behind home plate for game two of the 1949 World Series.
And speaking for Mel Allen, who is here in the self-same radio box, for Jimmy Britt, who is doing television, for Rene Canisares,
who is sending the description to our Latin American friends who are doing it all in Spanish.
And we are delighted on behalf of the ball clubs and the commissioner and Gillette and the network to say hello to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces wherever they are all over the world.
Now we have Reese first up in the third inning. Raschi curbs him outside for ball one.
Outfield, round toward left.
Right hand to Raschi, fastball right through there, one and one.
Raschi has a big sort of sideways move out there on the mound.
In stepping toward the plate, he puts his striding foot sort of over toward third and his body comes down with a third base twist.
Delivers curveball high inside. Reese just did check his swing in time.
Two balls, one strike.
Raschi, the solid man of the Yankee pitching staff last year,
121 for him and some big ones, delivers to one on the outside with his fastball, gets it all in, it's two and two.
Two balls, two strikes.
First man up in the third inning, Brooklyn one, New York nothing, game two of the series.
Charlie Silvera settles down to give the sign. He's got a bad hand too, but Barrow's hand is just worse after catching Reynolds fastball yesterday.
Reese swings a ground ball on two big bounces to short, Rizzuto up the throw over to first in plenty of time, Rizzuto to Henrik and that's all for Peewee.
One up one away, third inning.
Jorgensen, left hand hitting third baseman, stepping in.
The sun is now out the brightest that it has been.
Pretty bright too. And remember, Sunfield here at the stadium is primarily left field and a great part of center field.
Right field is always in shadow. Jorgensen takes a fastball high outside, ball one.
Right side of the Yankee infield, that's first baseman Henrik, second baseman Coleman straight away and normal depth.
Jorgensen takes a fastball high outside, ball two.
The left side of the Yankee infield, shortstop Rizzuto, is upper step and a couple steps over towards second.
Third baseman Johnson is squarely off the bag and a step wider than he usually plays.
In other words, they're playing Jorgensen to pull. His tendency is to pull and the wind will help that tendency.
There's a high foul ball almost straight into the air. Catcher Silvera, Henrik and he's got it.
In a sense, I believe of all the fielding chances in baseball, that's the toughest. That high foul ball straight up overhead.
I've seen fellows that have been in pro ball for years suddenly wind up 15 feet away if mother ball comes down.
So Jorgensen fouls out to the catcher. Silvera, very sure and steady under the foul ball. Two go on and the batter is Snyder.
Over one today, bounce out short to first in the first inning. Right-hander Rashid delivers the curve low inside. Ball one.
I feel very much caught right on Snyder no matter which way the wind is blowing.
Right side of the infield back, pitch, curve ball right in there, nice one, one and one. One ball, one strike.
That's an easy move that this big right-hander has.
He's a steady workman. Not spectacularly, but solid.
One and oneThe pitch, curve swung on, grounded wide. Our first play, second baseman Coleman over up with a thruster first in time and Snyder is out by a step.
It was a nice play by second baseman Coleman running along the edge of the infield grass.
Nothing across in the top of the third inning and at the end of two and a half the score is Brooklyn 1, New York nothing.
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The crowd settling back has not been particularly stirred all afternoon.
The game in a large degree has resumed almost the pattern of yesterday. Runs very, very scarce.
One nothing Brooklyn. Pitcher Rall ready to pitch to catch is Silvera. Right-hand hitter.
There's only one left-hand hitter of the ragamids for the Yankees. That is Henrik.
Must have them all right-handed against the Brooklyn Southpaw.
Here's the pitch to Silvera. Curve on the outside. Being too wide, ball one.
The run in the second inning was scored on a double by Robinson who moved to third base after a long foul ball was caught by second baseman Coleman who also skidded a step in the mud.
He got ready for his throw and a single by Hodges.
There's a foul ball out of play in the left field stands, up a deck. One ball, one strike.
The starting minnow is triple decked. There is the ground level.
Then there is a second level, which is known as the mezzanine. And then there is the third deck.
And when you get up at the top of the third deck, you are up in the air.
Silvera right-hand hitter in open stands, swings on a curve, high, pop fly up toward third.
Jorgensen, the third baseman, comes in one or two steps and makes the catch just two steps off the bat.
Silvera pops up to third.
A change of speed artist.
Showed off a little bit then.
And here's a big round of applause for the big pitcher, Big Rashi.
Big Rashi, number 17.
Rashi up.
Big Rashi.
Stands highly well back from the plate and off of it.
Right-hand hitter takes a curve that Rowe just dunked right over there above the knees for a call strike.
That field toward left. Rowe pumping.
Delivers. Curve way outside. One-one.
One ball, one strike.
That field shaded toward left.
Big Rashi's pitcher to hit his weight and pull the ball to left.
Draw. Fastball. Swing on and miss.
On and do. One ball, two strikes.
Rowe is not the type of pitcher who can pitch too frequently.
He's slender. He has to have a great deal of rest between assignments.
One and two pitches. Fastball outside for ball two.
Stangles said as soon as this game is over, he will announce down in the Yankee clubhouse his pitcher for tomorrow.
Bert Schotton said before the ball game that it would be either Branker or Barney. That's how he saw it then. But Barney is down in the bullpen.
It depends on what Rowe does todayThe Brooklyn pitching selection for tomorrow.
Two-two pitch. Swung on. A high foul ball deep back of first base, close to the stands and in amongst the customers.
Two balls, two strikes.
Two and two.
One gone. Last to the third. Brooklyn won. New York nothing.
Dodgers scored in the second inning. Robinson doubled him with two out. Hodges single. Got him in.
One change primarily in each ball club's outfield. Bauer is in right field. He got a right hand hitter for the Yankees.
Hamanski moves from left to right for the Dodgers as Torello is benched because of the groin injury and Rackley is in left.
Now Rowe pitches two-two to Rasche. Just misses outside. Football three. So Preacher, who is pitching a great deal of care to Rasche,
but getting careless with him, has now got the string three and two.
Rasche leaning in. Rowe comes down. Swung on. There's a bounding ball. Half speed to short. Reiss charges it.
There's the short step. Throw the first and Rasche is outbunding more than a step.
So two up, two gone. Last to the third. And the top of the order is Rizzuto, who hustled a line drive single in the left field on his first at bat.
He's the only Yankee to get on base. Never got out first.
So the little short step. Plays a great game. An all-around ball player.
Rizzuto up. One for five in the series. One for one today. One-0 for four yesterday.
Rowe gives him a screwball high outside. Ball one. Rizzuto is a tough target. He's just a little bit over five feet.
He's a fine demonstration that a little man can play with a big man.
Throw. Although for a called strike.
But in addition to the fact that the physical area of the strike target for Rizzuto between his knees and his shoulders, because of his lack of great height, he's not very large.
He also has fine eyes and fine wrists. Swings at a hot man down to short. Reiss knocks the ball down. Picks it up but he can't make the throw.
And Rizzuto is on. Let's see that one to fix the score. It was a hot one. And it is charged an hour on the Brooklyn shortstop.
The ball was hit about two steps to the shortstop's left. In other words, between the shortstop and second base.
And Reiss got his glove squirrely on the ball but didn't come up with it. In other words, that's one of those plays you do or you don't and he didn't. He merely batted it down.
So it's an hour charged against Reiss and the shooter was on.
This is the first arrow charged against Brooklyn in the series. They played Errol's ball yesterday.
Now we have Tommy Henrik there at the plate and this has created an excited hubbub and a star to sweep through the huge stadium.
That goes to Rizzuto. Henrik swings, falls the ball off into the left field stand on hit and run play.
So the Yankees were running.
Low balls, one strike.
Henrik hit a short fly ball to right field to Hermanski in the first inning.
He was one for four yesterday and that one was it.
The Yankees lead in the series one game to nothing.
Dodgers lead today one run to nothing.
The Presudo the tying run at first two outlasts the third.
Row of pitches, a curve on the outside missing. One and one. One ball, one strike.
Upfield drawn back over to the right.
Henrik pulls to rightThe wind is coming in from left to push a high fly ball toward right field.
Rizzuto steps back on. He's quick. Quick like a little rabbit.
Dickey coaching at first.
21 pitch, curve thrown and missed.
That was a big sweeping curve ball.
Row side on it and Henrik went after it all the way and Tommy steps out of the box and flexes at his back.
He took such a cut at that ball that you know that back is quite sore.
I think he must have given it more than a wrench right then.
He's back in there. He doesn't go through any gyrations.
He had to get his breath though. That swing hurt him.
The one and two pitch, there goes Rizzuto. Pitch out. There goes a throw down to second base and Rizzuto is safe.
He steals it. He steals it.
So that's the first deal for the Yankees and that balances the total of steals.
His restore on yesterday's was what that was.
So Rizzuto is tying on his now at second base and Roy is mad at himself.
Apparently he must have taken his eye off Rizzuto for a moment because Pitcher threw a slow outside curve ball.
In other words, it wasn't a pitch out in the sense that they expected Rizzuto to run.
That pitch was breaking down the caponella's left to his left hand and of course catchers being right hand throwers.
That put Roy in a spot. He had to reach up toward third to get the ball.
Then had to make a reverse turn of 160 to 80 degrees in order to be able to throw down the second base.
And Rizzuto steals it nicely.
So they certainly selected the right pitch, a slow outside curve ball, which put the catcher behind the eight ball.
Now the two-two pitch to Henrik is a fastball hit down the short,
Reese is up with it, the throw is over to first base in time and Henrik is up.
So that is all for that threat.
An error at short with Rizzuto capitalizing as much as he could with a steal.
No runs, no hits, one man left and one error.
Well, with Mel listening to be sure that we don't get you too far off base, we'll check our three inning totals.
Boyd Brooklyn, a run on two hits and one error.
For the Yankees, no runs, one hit and one error.
Getting ready for the fourth inning and Robinson, who opened up with a double in the second and then was scored
for the game's only tally on a line single by Hodges.
Both of the hits off Raschi were decidedly clean.
Robinson, Harmanski, Rackler, that's how they go here in the fourth.
Big right-hander who moved so easily, almost effortlessly.
Raschi's quite graceful.
Throwing down to Silveira, Henrik warming up the rest of the Yankean field.
That's Coleman at second base, Rizzuto at short, Johnson at third.
Mendel has his sunglasses on out in left.
DiMaggio walking in sort of a small circle out in center.
In right field, Hank Bauer.
If you want to find out just how much of a player's in the ball game,
you watch a fellow like DiMaggio now.
He's been around so much, so many World Series.
And yet, he will come up on his toes on every pitch that Raschi makes
or any other pitch he's on the mound.
He's ready to go on every pitch.
People wonder, well, how does he get a jump on a fly ball?
That's the secret.
And that takes a great deal out of you when you play baseball that hard.
Robinson won for one, the line double in the second inning.
But nothing but then, Raschi ready to go.
First pitch of the fourth inning is Bauer.
Jack Bunning for a base hit, he was trying to push the ball ahead of him up toward first base.
The infield was deep.
That's the first time that he's attempted that.
Outfield woodlap.
Now third baseman Johnson is up.
He takes one warning for Billy.
He's right up there or right off third base.
And Henrik is a step closer than usual at first.
Raschi on the mound pitches, gets a fastball over nicely.
The ball is two strikes.
So Robinson is now behind.
Raschi well ahead on the count.
Crowd quiet for the moment.
Raschi bends to his task, delivers.
Curve low outside.
One ball, two strikes.
Subway train goes rumbling along, back of the open bleachers behind Settafield.
One or two pitch, swung on and missed.
Curve ball, a good one on the outside.
Robinson strikes out swinging.
That's the second strike after Raschi.
That was a big one for him to begin the fourth inning with.
Gene Hermanski who fouled out to second baseman Coleman.
Deep across the right field line for the second baseman to go.
Deep enough for Robinson to move after the catch of it over to third base from second.
Hermanski up.
Outfield toward right.
Right hand to Raschi, twist throw.
Then there's a ball drilled out in the right center field for a base hit.
And it gets away from the mound.
You're on a bad hop.
Joe calls down.
The ball is having to be retrieved right through the mound.
Hermanski's around second base.
He's on his way in the third.
There's second base from Coleman's run in of the ball.
And it winds up as a triple because DiMaggio never even touched the ball.
Remember we told you that a ball dotted and Snatter just did grab the ball back in the second inning.
That was a ball hit by Billy Johnson.
Well this ball up to right center field seemed to be a simple single.
DiMaggio was offset to play it on the customary second bounce.
And the ball suddenly hooked.
It hooked away from DiMaggio.
And remember the outfield is very tricky because of the recent rains.
It did not rain after yesterday morning.
But the rains up until then fixed it up good.
And when DiMaggio cut out from under him went his feet.
And there was the picture of the great center fielder on the ground.
The ball rolling all the way back to where it's marked.
Quarters and seven feet.
It's a triple for Hermanski.
And the batter is Radcliffe.
Who was unable to move Robinson in with one out from third base in the second inning.
He tapped out third to first.
And Radcliffe is given the identical opportunity here in the fourth.
A man at third went out.
And Radcliffe gets tired of waiting for Raschi.
Raschi waiting deliberately of course to try and get this young ball player
in his first World Series game thinking too much.
So there is a triple.
It's an odd one.
Hermanski off third.
Raschi pitches and there is a swing and a miss at a curve ball.
The ball is one strike.
Radcliffe chokes well up on the handle of that bat.
He's known to the trade as a singles hitter.
Enfield is growing up of course hoping for a player to play.
That feels straight away.
Hermanski leading off third.
Johnson right off the bag.
Raschi is pumping on Hermanski.
Pitches.
Pitch out.
This ball was on.
Hermanski wasn't going any place.
On that pitch out you could tell the Yankees were expecting a bunt.
The squeeze play.
But there was no attempt for it.
They pitched out up the third base line.
Select ten batter.
21 pitch.
Curve ball hits slowly up to our second base.
Here comes Hermanski.
The throw is to the plate.
In time and he's out.
Hermanski is out and gets up.
And he's furious with Beans-Werdum for calling a bang bang play against him.
He gets up and as he gets up his chest and Werdum is outside the chest wind protective touch.
And you can see the veins in Hermanski's neck.
And Werdum is also sore too.
Now Hermanski goes walking away.
A bang bang play at the plate.
And Werdum calls Hermanski out.
And Hermanski is furious.
Rockley goes to first base.
Coleman coming in on the slow trickle towards second.
Threw the ball nicely in.
Gil Hodges traces the third base corner home plate with his bat.
As if to say to the crowd as well as to Ritten.
This is where Hermanski touched it.
And Ritten must have said Hermanski never touched the plate.
Because Hodges was pointing to it with his bat.
So that's the second out.
Well that's a tough decision.
And of course that's the work of the umpire.
When they're close like that it's going to be tough either way they're called.
A beautiful throw in there by second baseman Coleman.
He didn't lose any time.
It didn't look like he had a chance when he came in on that slow trickle towards second.
And Silvaro was in there at the plate nicely.
So the second base with the catcher two out.
Hodges at the plate and takes a curve in under the hands.
Well that was an electric moment.
In a regular season ball game that would have been quite a rhubarb.
But in the World Series both players and umpires have been cautioned now to put that extra patience in there.
And Hermanski's every instinctive reaction was to really create a ruckus.
But he took a second thought and walked away.
Rashie's set.
Checks first.
Throws over there.
Henrik Miller returns.
Rockley was not off any place.
Notice that most all first base coaches are grey haired.
They get it there from these fellas taking leads and pitches thrown over there.
Rashie, big right hander set.
Watching first.
Using her head bob on the mound.
Pitches.
Hodges swings and there is a drive into short right center field.
Power under it.
Right fielder takes it for out number three.
More runs in one hit in the top of the fourth inning.
A real threat however at the end of three and a half the score remains Brooklyn one and New York nothing.
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We're all getting set for the last of the fourth and we'll take ten seconds now for station identification.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
For the tops in sports listen to W.O.R. and W.O.R.F.M. your World Series stations in New York.
Last half of the fourth inning Hank Bauer just made the most recent put out.
Jordan Maggio and Johnny Lindell.
All right hand hitters left hand the roll.
Lean skinny.
He laughing or first himself is a big bag of muscles.
All right hand batter takes a change of ball that is too high for one.
I feel toward left.
Bauer fouled out to second baseman Robinson first inning.
Broad delivers catch one on the road out into center field it's in there for a base hit it's a clean single for Bauer ball is a three bus not a ball is going on a second base and he is out.
Reese taking the throw in from Snyder.
Wow I guess you figured the slider was going to be a little cavalier about it.
He tried to do it he got thrown out.
So Bauer all dirty slid in there on his chest hand straining for second base but he was out at second.
The ball was hit into center field Snyder was playing a deep center and he came in and apparently Bauer thought that Snyder's easy loafing move.
I mean he may have been decoyed by it.
And let's say.
Brackley is coming in from left field just a moment.
Maybe he heard himself running over there to back up that play in the event the ball got away from Snyder.
Brackley is walking in out of left field.
We'll have to find out just what's the matter with him.
Captain Reese has called time and is motioning with his right hand to the bench meaning have somebody throw.
Apparently Brackley has come out of the game.
He was not involved in that play.
In running across to be of assistance if he could be maybe he pulled his leg or something but he's out.
And he comes and he's limping down the steps.
He apparently hurt his leg or his ankle.
So Captain Reese is over there talking with Bert Schatten.
Schatten who stays in the dugout wearing civilian clothes of course.
And Reese is now going up to play on power ridden to notify him who the new left fielder will be.
He has not come out of the Brooklyn dugout as yet.
It's going to be Louis Olmo the senior from Puerto Rico.
So I imagine that Rene Canazares who is sending the broadcast down to South America.
I imagine he's probably wishing he could get Olmo right up here.
They could carry on the language that Mel and I think could cope with.
Olmo going out to left field.
O-L-M-O.
One of the ball players who was in the Mexican League affair and was reinstated in the middle of the past summer.
Louis Olmo now being announced.
Now playing left field for the Dodgers.
Louis Olmo.
Number 37.
So the only thing that could have happened to Radcliffe is in running across he must have twisted his ankle.
Or pulled a muscle in his leg.
And he reported it to Captain Reese saying well you better take me out because I can't run.
So Olmo is now in left field.
His right hand banner.
One nothing Brooklyn.
Joe DiMaggio formidable tremendous figure there.
Played right hand hitter.
Left hander all pitches and the joker cuts and fouled it off.
There have been many days for many ball players all over the field of baseball.
But no day approached the day they gave DiMaggio this past Saturday here at the stadium.
He made the day complete by leading the Yankees as they came on from behind to beat the Red Sox by four.
Pitch down by the shins.
Ball one the ball going back to the stand.
Ball one struck.
Brooklyn outfield Olmo now in left.
First world series for him.
Snatter in center.
Right field Hromanski.
DiMaggio swing slaps it foul against the upper stand back of first base.
Ball two strikes ball hit up there and bounded back down right behind the Yankee dugout.
Glad to spam him.
One and two.
One man out.
Bauer single to center field.
He was cut down trying to stretch it into a double.
Snatter to Reese.
Pumps once pumps again delivers strike three swinging.
That was a fast screwball down low inside DiMaggio strikes out swinging.
That is the first strikeout for Rowe.
Oddly enough the first strikeout yesterday for Newcomb was DiMaggio.
Two men are gone last to the fourth.
Batter is Lindell.
Rowe deals.
Swung on line right back.
Rowe beats the ball down picks it up throws over the first and Lindell is up.
The ball was hit right back at Rowe and it hurt him on his right hand.
He's looking at his right hand it was hit right back at him.
He knocked the ball down he's ringing his right hand.
That's not his pitching hand but that ball hurt him.
He knocked it down recovered through over the first.
So no runs one hit and nobody left.
Last of the fourth inning.
One and nothing Brooklyn.
The sides change fields Dodger will hit the fifth the Yankees are going out defensively.
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Also we've got another tough ball game coming now into the mid stages.
Moving in for the fifth inning is Roy Campanella to be the first batter for Brooklyn.
Then preach a row and the Brooklyn bullpen gets active right handed Jack batter gets up to go back and start throwing with Sam Naran bullpen catcher.
That line drive of Mendel's hit row on the heel or maybe on the thumb of his right hand.
It was hit right back at him.
He didn't have much choice.
He had to block that ball down to keep it from taking part of his belt buckle with it.
So we'll know in a moment just how a row is.
If he's pinch hit ball we'll know that he's heard.
If he's going to get hit for himself we know that he's going to carry on.
Curve is low outside the Campanella.
All one.
There's nobody out on deck yet for Brooklyn.
As customer if the pitcher is going to hit that the leadoff man be out there in the pitcher's place let him stay back in the dugout.
Pitch is swung on hit wide or third base into left field for a base hit for Campanella.
So Roy's on with a single the ball is fumbled for the moment in left field recovered throwing in the second and Campanella is out.
Lindell fumbled the ball briefly and Campanella set sail for second base.
But Lindell who had fumbled one for an hour recovered in time to throw Campanella out at second base.
Jerry Coleman the second baseman took the throw and I made the tag and here is Roy coming out of the dugout.
Two hit for himself so I guess that his right hand is all right.
In fact I noticed as he came out of the dugout he was carrying the bat in his right hand so he certainly wasn't favoring it.
So Campanella is a single and he's out stretching.
Roy is recalled over to the dugout and Shotton is saying something to him.
Now here's the pitcher coming back up to the plate.
So Campanella is out Lindell really recovered that ball in a hurry.
It looked as though he was going to roll up his arm and he was going to have trouble finding it.
It's almost a replica of the play although there was no juggle on it.
A bowler single in the center field lasted the fourth inning.
So Roy who struck out in the second inning up for his second at bat right hand hitter.
Bunch and foul the ball off running for a base hit of course.
Only one run in the game the Dodgers got it in the second inning.
Only have an aggregate in the way of hits of a half dozen.
Pitchers are being very stingy.
Throw curveball swung and missed strike two.
No balls two strikes.
Passball outside ball one.
On that last pitch that the roll swung on he took his right hand off the bat
and he pulled through with his left hand.
Mel detected that and it may be that right hand is quite sore.
Apparently there's nothing broken.
Roy is gripping the stick right now but I notice he just flexed his right hand again.
The pitch is over for call strike three.
So Roy looks at the third one.
That's the third strike out for Raschi.
Two go on nobody on here in the fifth.
One and nothing Brooklyn and shortstop Reese who is the lead author.
Right hand batter steps in.
A bang bang ball game and the umpires are being given some bang bang plays there.
There weren't any close ones yesterday.
Curve is low outside ball one.
A lot of baseball people commented on the fact that there were no close umpiring decisions
be made yesterday except always those close ones on the part of the plate umpire.
We had some close ones today.
One and no pitch high inside ball two.
What's the thing that fans should always remember.
The people who do not ever think in terms of a game being won or lost to the umpires.
Their decision is merely safe or out fair or foul ball or strike.
That's all.
Pass ball over call strike.
As the great Bill Clem once said and it's repeated over and over again for the benefit of young umpires umpire the ball.
To one pitch curve ball low inside and it is ball three.
Three and one.
Three balls one strike.
As much often it said that an umpire doesn't know when the winning run comes over the plate.
Three one pitch over for a call second strike.
I think that is best explained Mel will remember that after Lava Jaddle got the only hit off Bevin's two years ago in game four and knocked in the tying and winning runs played on Paul Larry gets with the ball players running off the playing field started to brush off home plate for the next hitter.
The umpires concentration is not on winning or losing at all.
Which we should all be most grateful to the players it would really be a mess wouldn't it research of only ball down the third Johnson up throws over the first that's all for peewee and so in the top half of the defending and flavors third to first still runs one hit the body left top of the fifth.
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Now is getting ready to take over the microphone, but it's a question where the preacher is going to take over the mound or not.
Now, how do you see this?
With the preacher not yet having come out and with people looking toward the Dodger bullpen tend to indicate that perhaps there may be a new picture coming on.
On the other hand, there are those in the Dodger dugout looking in at the bench, which we cannot actually see.
We can see the edge of the dugout, but evidently there's going to be somebody else coming on.
There's a signal going out to the bullpen.
On the other hand, beans written.
Beans written is gone and to look into the Dodger dugout.
That signal the bullpen may have said, Never mind.
Don't come in.
We're merely speculating beans written.
Plain umpire is over the Dodger dugout.
Here comes Roy Campanella out and ridden walking back to play down.
The preacher is going to come on out and pitch.
That settles that problem for the moment.
We're all concerned about it.
Preacher Rowe has turned in a masterful performance thus far.
Has dazzled the Yankees, as Red told you, with his beautiful control pitching, his stuff pitching.
He can come in with that fastball on occasion when he feels that he wants to use it to get it over the plate.
As Red told you, he will generally waste it and try to make him hit that slow curve, his other breaking stuff, or that screwball he throws.
And he has done a great job so far.
As we come into the last half of the fifth inning, the Yankees will send up Billy Johnson, Jerry Coleman, and Charlie Silvera.
So far this series has continued to be dominated by the pitchers.
A total of seven hits yesterday, five for the Yankees and two for Brooklyn.
And a total of six hits today, four for Brooklyn and two for the Yankees.
So it's just about the reverse of the situation as of yesterday.
At the present time, one to nothing.
They were the Dodgers as we come to the last half of the fifth inning.
And Billy Johnson, who was the victim of a sensational catch by Duke Snyder in the second inning, right-hand hitter,
awaits the pitch on the Dodger south ball.
There it is, swung on, popped up into the air just off to the left of the plate.
Roy Campanella under it and foul territory makes the catch about four or five feet to the left of the plate.
And there's one away.
That ball, evidently, was doing tricks because as Johnson started to swing,
evidently he had his mind made up he was going to cut on the first one.
He didn't take the good cut, but he almost had to sort of drop his bat and take a half cut at the ball.
One down and here's Jerry Coleman flying to center field in the second inning, a right-hand hitter.
Johnny Jorgensen is playing in close at third for him.
Rose delivery, fastball is over for a called strike.
There's one time he used his fastball to get the strike, get the jump on the hitter.
The outfield for Coleman, almost straight away.
Jorgensen in fairly close at third, Reese.
Four strikes to the left of second and a step.
Robinson three strikes to the right of second.
Your pitch is swung on, hit down the third base line and by Jorgensen to the left field corner, chasing at his Omo.
He bounces high off the barrier.
Coleman rounds first, heads for second.
Omo up for the ball, flips it toward third to Reese.
It's a double for Jerry Coleman.
Jerry Coleman getting his second hit of the series.
And both of them have been doubled.
Yesterday, he got a two-base hit, a line drive into the right field corner.
So he's on second base with one down.
And the batter is Charlie Silbera.
Popped out in the third inning to Jorgensen.
Jack Banner, right-hander going to work in the bullpen for Brooklyn.
He has been working and is resuming.
Silbera, right-hand batter, stands in close to the plate.
Swings and sends a ground ball into the hole, stopped beautifully by Reese behind third to throw in time for the out.
Going to third is Coleman, a beautiful play by a little Colonel.
That ball eluded the grass with Jorgensen going to his left.
Reese, speeding to his right, grabbed that ball back on the edge of the left field grass about 25 feet off the third base line and fired Silbera out.
And that was the key play of this inning.
Had he not been able to do that, had he been able only to knock the ball down or hold on to it and not make his play.
Coleman, moving to third on it, would have been in position to have scored on and out.
As it is, it will require a base hit, barring the other possibilities of wild pitches, pass balls and errors.
But it will require now a base hit on the part of Vic Grasci.
In other words, the run cannot score on the long fly ball.
So Pee Wee Reese made the key play there.
Now Vic Grasci up, takes a curve over for a called strike.
The little Colonel showed you a flash of his superb defensive play, which has gained him national recognition.
One strike to count. Outfield for Grasci, round toward left.
Coleman comes halfway. Here's the pitch, swung on, little roller fouled on the third base line.
The crowd began to warm and started to holler. They thought that Coleman was going to come all the way and try to steal home.
Jerry came not quite halfway on the wind up by Preacher Rowe.
If he had kept coming, the crowd would have kept hollering and increasing in its crescendo until he would have had the decision to play.
But Jerry is merely trying to rattle the Preacher.
So they're two down, Coleman on third and two strikes quickly on Vic Grasci.
Preacher Rowe throws, fast ball low, ball one, one and two.
One to nothing favor the Dodgers.
Last half of the fifth inning.
Frank Crisetti coaching third for New York's S-hunting, Coleman.
The Dodger left-hander gets you a sign from Campanella.
With a count of one and two on Grasci, in comes the pitch and Vic swings and sends a roller out toward third.
Charged by George Knuppert, it flips on over to Hodges in time and the inning is over.
And that was all. No runs, one hit.
No errors for the Dodgers, one left on for New York.
And at the end of five innings of play, the Dodgers lead one to nothing.
Your five inning totals, one run for Brooklyn, four hits, one error, and three men left on.
For the Yankees, no runs, three hits, one error, and three men left on.
This is decidedly different from 1947 when the Dodgers and Yankees got together, isn't it, Ray?
It is, Mal, except I think that like most everybody else, we forget that the first two games were fairly routine.
The explosiveness that got rolling with the third game when we had all those bases on balls and strikeouts and stuff,
and then of course I think everybody thinks that the 47 series began with Bevens and Lavagel in the ninth inning.
Or to put it another way, as I know you so often say, everything in the world happens at Ebbets Field,
and so it all began perhaps when we moved from the stadium to Ebbets Field in the third game.
It looks like it will be there tomorrow.
It will be there.
Going into the top half of the sixth inning, it will be Jorgensen, Snyder, and Robinson coming up.
And in the event there are those of you who may have tuned in late, the Dodgers got their run in the second inning
when Jackie Robinson led off with a double in the left field corner,
utilized his speed to dash from second to third on a foul pop caught by Jerry Coleman down the right field line
as Jerry slipped in a addition in the wet turf trying to get his throw away, and then scored on a single by Hodges.
Here's your pitch, and it's a strike call over the inside corner to the leadoff man for Brooklyn on the top of the sixth inning,
Spidey Jorgensen, who grounded out to Henrik in the first inning and fouled out to Silbera in the third.
Jorgensen had the first hit of the World Series, first inning yesterday, bats him left-handed.
Big crash to the right-hander throw, high and outside. He intended it for a slow curve, but it didn't break very much.
The outfield for Jorgensen is toward right and center and right with Lindell looking for the Spidey to slice to left,
but not too sharply. Johnny's about 100 feet off the left field line. Johnson in close to third.
A curve is swung on, lifted down that left field line. It can drop too, and if it stays there, it'll be in there, and it drops fairly.
And there is Jorgensen going into second, standing up for the double.
So as they were over-shifted on Jorgensen in left, Jorgensen dropped that pop-fly right down the left field line,
and though Johnson and Rizzuto and Lindell all gave chase, they could not get to it, and it's a two-base hit for the Spider.
His second hit of the series is second double, and thus the Dodgers, who have a 1-0 lead, are now in position to increase it
as you move into the latter innings. And up to the plate steps Duke Snyder, who grounded out in the first inning to Rizzuto
and in the third inning to Coleman. Big crash, he's delivery. Inside to the left-hand batter, ball one.
Bill Johnson is in close at third, three, four feet off the line. Rizzuto is about two stripes to the left of second in halfway.
Coleman at a point halfway between first and second and deep with Henrik, three feet off the first base line in halfway,
and the outfield swung way around toward right. All right, right, she's set. So is Snyder at the plate.
The left-hand hitter on the pitch swings and misses. Strike one, cut hard. One ball, one strike.
Nobody out. Top of the sixth inning, one to nothing. Flavor of Brooklyn and the Dodgers have Spider Jorgensen on second base
with nobody out. Robinson and Hermanski to follow. Meet of the order. Jake Fittler, excited about it all.
Keet up, enthusiastic, walking up and down, coaching at first. Here's Rasheer with the stretch. In comes the pitch.
Snyder swings and lifts a high fly ball out in the short center. DiMaggio comes racing in.
Coleman going out. DiMaggio coming in. He makes the catch and Jorgensen holds at second.
The wind, because it is blowing from left and porting across toward right and out toward right,
sometimes catches these balls that are high in the air and does tricks with them.
So there's one away and Robinson coming up.
We have just gotten the official report on Marv Rankley. He pulled a muscle in his back.
As Red told you, he was not involved in that play an inning or so ago when Bauer single to center and was thrown out in second,
attempting to stretch it into a double.
And Rankley, who was in left, came running over and pulled a muscle in his back.
Jackie Robinson is up the pitch. Curve is inside and high for ball one. Robinson doubled to left in the second inning.
Scored the only run of the ball game thus far, struck out on the fourth.
Big Rasheer all set. Jorgensen off secondThe pitch swung on, hit foul down the right field line, out of play into the upper deck.
And the count is one and one. Looked as if Robinson was trying to hit that ball to right field.
One ball, one strike, one out. One to nothing, Brooklyn, top of the sixth inning.
Johnson's in close at third for Jackie. Outfield shaded toward left and center and left.
Bauer looking for Robinson, hit the right, the big gap in right center. Rasheer looked back at second.
And there's Coleman dashing over to try to take a throw. Here's the pitch swung on, hit foul down the right field line, way back into the lower seats.
And it's a one-two count.
You had a situation developing there where Jerry Coleman, who was at second, darted over to the bag,
with the object, of course, of pulling Jorgensen back to the bag and possibly taking a throw.
But at that moment, Rasheer decided he'd deliver into the plate instead of whirling and delivering to second.
And thus Robinson, taking advantage of that opening at second, was attempting to hit through the gap.
You had a lot of thinking going on at that time.
One ball, two strikes, one out, one nothing, Brooklyn, top of the sixth inning. Rasheer sets, throws.
Robinson swings and the bouncer out to Rizzuto. Rizzuto grabs it, plays it to first base, however, to Henrik in time.
He'd take a look at Johnson at third. He might have had to play it third on Jorgensen, but elected to take it the safe way.
Robinson bounces out, Rizzuto to Henrik. You had Johnson moving to the bag. Rizzuto grabs a look.
And it seemed as if Phil, of course, he had to make his mind up in a hurry because Robinson is very fast getting down the line.
And he perhaps thought he might mess up the play at third or whatever his thinking was anyway, he decided to go to first base with the throw.
It is not for us to say here whether or not he might have gotten Jorgensen with the throw to third.
At least there was a possibility as Rizzuto was feeling that ground ball that he might have gone to third with it.
Here's Gene Hermanski, left-hand hitter, takes a curve ball inside, ball one.
One ball, no strikes, two outs. Top of the sixth inning.
Vic Rasheer, a product of Springfield, Massachusetts, but who now lives at Lake Venises, New York, gets his sign from Charlie Silbera.
Outfield toward right and center and right. Lindell looking for Hermanski to slice to left.
Big gap in left center and a lot of room around the left knee line. Johnson in close at third.
Here's the pitch. Swung on, little roller hit down the first baseline. Could be trouble.
Henrik takes it, steps on first, end time for the out.
No runs for Brooklyn. One hit. No Yankees errors and one man left on for the Dodgers.
That was one of those little slow rollers that could have caused a lot of trouble.
So the score at the end of five and one half innings remains Brooklyn one, New York nothing.
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Coming into the last half of the sixth inning and we've got ourselves another one of those fingernail biting ball games.
The Dodgers leading 1-0. Preacher Rowe attempting to get his teammates even in this 49-ball classic.
And the Yankees have the top of the order.
Rizzuto, Henrikken Bauer coming up.
Phil open the ball game with a single, safe on an arrow in the third inning, right hand hitter.
Jorgensen in close at third.
Rowe throws right over for a called strike.
You always have to watch Rizzuto.
You never can tell when he might dump a bunt or try to shove one to the right of the mound out toward second when he catches the second baseman back too deep.
The outfield for Phil toward left.
Preacher Rowe south paws one in and it's outside. Ball one, one and one.
Peewee Reese is at a point halfway between second and third in the step.
Jackie Robinson three strides to the right of second in the step with Gil Hodges in about halfway and five, six feet off first baseline.
Rowe throwsThe pitch is right in there for called strike two.
Little Phil started to give it that motion that he generally does when he drops a bunt.
As Red indicated to you yesterday, Phil never telegraphs his bunt.
He doesn't square away as most people do when they bunt. He simply at the last moment, a little flick of the wrist, the bat drops, the ball drops and he's off and running.
Now the one-two delivery from Preacher Rowe.
Rizzuto swings and hits the ground ball to Hodges, is up with it on a big hop, steps on first after running three, four steps and there's one away.
Phil trying to hit the right field between first and second but hit it right at Gil Hodges.
One down and up comes Tommy Henrik who climbed the right field in the first inning, grounded out to short in the third with Rizzuto on second base.
That, by the way, was one of the two times the Yankees in this ballgame have had a runner as far as second base in scoring position.
Preacher Rowe delivers to HenrikThe left-hand batter takes a sweeping curve outside for ball one.
The outfield deepened around toward right, in center and right, with Amo fairly deep and left, looking for Henrik to slice out there.
The big gap in left center. Jorgensen about six, eight feet off third baseline in about halfway.
Here's your pitch. Curve outside again for ball two. He's halfway in on the skinned part of the infield, not too deep.
Reese is about four stripes to the left of second in the step and Jackie Robinson shading second just a bit more than first and deep.
Gil Hodges, very deep, almost on the edge of the outfield grass and no more than two feet off the first baseline.
Now Rose, two-nothing pitches on its way and Henrik swings on it, sends a bouncer deep to first.
Hodges takes it high, flips to roll covering and it is in time for the out.
Henrik bounces out, Hodges to Rowe, the preacher getting over there.
The ball took a high hop on Hodges as he was all set to field it.
About 15 feet off first baseline, he took that high hop, he reached up over his head, grabbed it.
Robinson was over to his left, possibly could have made the play had Hodges elected to go to first.
And then Gil's throw was low, but the preacher getting over, picked it up almost off the ground to complete what the boys in the trade always like to call a very neat play.
Hank Bauer, bats him right-handed.
Two outs, score Brooklyn one, the Yankees nothing, top of the sixth inning.
A game that is almost a duplicate of yesterday's, at least in so far as the tenseness of the situation and the predominance of pitching are concerned.
Now the pitcher swung on, hit the third on a couple of hops, almost handcuffs Jorgensen up with it over to first, in time and the inning is over.
The hard smash that Jorgensen had to play very nicely because it handcuffed him, but he held onto the ball.
So the Yankees are out in order, no runs, no hits, no errors for the Dodgers, nobody left on for New York.
And at the end of six innings, the Dodgers one run, five hits, one error, four left on, the Yankees no runs, three hits, one error and three men left on base.
And standing up here as we go to the top of the seventh inning are the Brooklyn Partisans for their seventh inning stretch.
And there are thousands of them here in this crowd that we estimated somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 to 70,000.
And while they are standing up taking their stretch, why don't you folks at home do the same as we pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
WOR and WORFM, your World Series stations in New York.
This is Mel Allen with Red Barber bringing you the 11th consecutive World Series to come your way in Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports.
Jim Britt doing the television, René Canizares beaming the broadcast in Spanish to the Latin American countries.
And this broadcast being short-waved around the world through the facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service to 51 outlets covering the European,
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Louis Almo, right-hand hitter.
Steps up for his first appearance at the plate and the delivery.
Right in there for a called strike.
Vic Brasci into the windup delivers, curve swung on, there's a drive down the left field line but it's going foul into the upper deck. Strike two.
Louis got hold of one but he pulled it too sharply and he went into the upper deck foul, foul by at least 25 feet.
Two strikes to count.
Rackley started the ball game for you late tuners in, pulled a muscle in his back in the last half of the fourth inning and Almo replaced him and this is his first appearance at the plate.
The delivery, curve, just misses the outside corner and it's a little low, ball one, one and two.
Score, the Dodgers one.
The Yankees nothing and we're in the top of the seventh inning.
And a ball game at some one hour and 40 minutes old, both Brasci and Preachero very deliberate and like to take time between their pitches.
The one-two delivery. Almo swings in, hits a drive out in the right field coming fast as Hank Bauer, he can't get to it, it's in there for a base hit.
Almo cuts first, holds up as Bauer then bobbles the ball.
But it was too late, he had taken his turn and stopped and started back.
Bauer took his eye off the ball as he put it on Almo to see whether he was breaking or not.
The ball was not rolling hard, it had dropped in front of him and he'd gotten the glove on it so he just reached in behind him and grabbed it.
So Almo is on with a bloop single to right field.
It wasn't a line drive type of hit but they don't care what kind they are, whether they are the bloop type, the line type or whatever the type, as long as they come under the heading of hits.
And here's Gill Hodges who single to left in the second inning to drive in the long run of the ball game thus far and fly to right field in the fourth.
They pitch to Gill high inside for a ball.
Henrik and Johnson were looking for the bunt, they both charged the plate from first and third respectively.
One to nothing Brooklyn, seventh inning.
Johnson's on the edge of the infield grass, couple feet off third baseline, Henrik holding against Almo and ready to charge.
Rezudo three strides to the left of second in the halfway, two or three strides to the right of second is Coleman in the halfway with the outfield in general shaded step or two toward left.
Right here the stretch checks his runner.
Here's the pitch Hodges swings and sends a brown ball at Rezudo, it is right up with it over to Coleman for one back to first base it is a double play.
The Yankees execute a thrilling double play because that ball was hit into the third base hole, had it been a little harder probably gone through the base hit.
But not being hit too hard it still though it gave Rezudo time to flash his right and grab it also made the Yankee infielders hurry to get the double play.
Phil grabbed it, fired to Coleman who pivoted and over to Henrik for the DP.
Now Roy Campanella takes a curb outside for ball one.
The double play is the pitcher's greatest weapon.
Outfield around toward left.
Here's the pitch.
Curve low outside for ball two, two balls no strikes.
We have seen some thrilling baseball from the standpoint of well executed baseball.
From the standpoint perhaps of baseball it was originally conceived not too much of a power type but close to the best baseball that is so often exciting in a quiet sort of way.
The two nothing delivery to Campanella strike call over that outside corner two and one.
Red I suppose you might use the word seething for this type of baseball.
That's pretty good word Mel.
It continues and continues and you're always tense because no one team ever gets too far ahead of the other at least so far.
There's only been one run difference between them ever since the World Series started.
Well if they don't cut it out a lot of people are going to start developing ulcers.
Here's the two one pitch and Campanella swings and sends a long drive to deep left center field.
Lindell races back and back and back and he hauls it in for the out.
No runs, one hit, no errors and nobody left on.
And the score at the end of six and a half innings remains Brooklyn one, the Yankees nothing.
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Yankee fans still standing after having taken their seventh inning stretch.
And by the way that the people stood in the top and now in the bottom half of the seventh inning you would not know whether Brooklyn or Yankee partisans predominated.
It looked like an even steven proposition.
Yankee fans are beginning to holler right now. Last the seventh one nothing Brooklyn Joe DiMaggio leading off. Preacher roll throws DiMaggio takes inside for ball one.
The Clipper flying to center and struck out.
They claim to pull sharply. Snyder deep and over toward left center and Almo way over toward the left field line.
Hermanski is not looking for Joe to hit too much in the right center though.
And the delivery swung on and fell off to the left of the plate as Joe took that good cut.
One ball one strike. He has one of the most graceful swings that any ball player has ever had.
As Red Ralph now manager the Detroit Tigers remarked once this summer as he noted a picture in the Yankee press room after a Yankee Tiger ballgame.
A picture showing DiMaggio batting against Bob Feller when Feller pitched a no hitter against the Yankees in forty six.
He said just look at that. A sheer picture or picture rather of sheer power.
DiMaggio swings and sends a bounder right to third to Jorgensen right near the line. He's up with it. Clips on over to Hodges. End time.
And there's one away.
And so the Yankee Clipper remains hitless in this World Series.
And up to the plate now comes Johnny Lindell who fly to right and bounced out to row.
And the fourth inning I say bounced out he lined out to row and almost got row out of the game.
Not because of rows pitching deficiencies at all.
He hit a liner hit row on the glove as he knocked the ball down.
It was his right hand not his pitching hand and really fucked it up a little bit.
He was concerned about it for a while and caused speculations whether he'd be able to continue or not.
He has and he's done magnificently.
Now the pitch to LindellThe curve is up high. Ball one.
One to nothing Brooklyn. Last half of the seventh inning.
Lindell asks played on prior at Beans Riddon to have a look at the ball. Said it's all right.
Riddon calling balls and strikes. National League. Art Passerelle of the American League on prior at first base.
Lou Jordan of the National League at second. Cal Hubbard of the American League at third.
George Barlow of the National League down the right fielder.
Ed Hurley of the American League down the left fielder.
There's a pitch swung on. It's a fly ball hit out into left field.
Louis Alnol gets under it and he makes the catch.
So there are two away.
And Billy Johnson stepping in.
Johnson robbed of an extra base hit on a beautiful running catch by Duke Snyder of Johnson's liner in the second inning that did tricks.
Not only sank but curved.
And Snyder wound up having to make a gloved hand catch of the ball to his left as he was racing to his right.
Johnson fouled out in the fifth inning to Campanella.
Preacher Rowe throws. Misses the outside corner with a half speed ball. It's ball one.
As Red remarked earlier in the game, Rowe has not shown you any of the overpowering type of stuff that Newcomb or Reynolds did yesterday.
He's not that type of pitcher. There's a curved outside ball two.
But he is a stuffed pitcher who mixes up his slow curves and he'll toss a fast one in there on occasion.
He won't overpower you but he can fool you.
Two down and the two nothing pitch to Billy Johnson.
Right over there for a call strike. Two and one.
One to nothing Brooklyn. Last to the seventh.
This is steady, consistent, hard-fought baseball.
Brilliant pitching.
Now the two-one delivery. Swung on. There's a line drive to left field that Almo races in.
Boy can't get. Debounces. Takes it on one hop.
Throws quickly into second. Johnson takes his turnaround. First is on with a single on a ball that Almo conceivably could have caught had he kept coming in.
But at the last second he for some reason decided to stop and go back and took it on a hop.
So Johnson is on with a line single to left.
And that is hit number four for the Yankees. Never more than one in any inning.
The Dodgers who have had a total of six hits found themselves with more than one in only one inning.
And that was the beginning of the game thus far. Robinson's double and Hodges' single. Giving the Brooklands their one-nothing lead.
Now you have Jerry Colvin who flied to center in the second. Double last time up.
Jerry takes just outside for a ball. It's a fast ball.
Colvin doubled into the left field corner in the fifth inning with one out.
But neither Silveira nor Raschi were equal to getting him around.
He did advance to third on Silveira's infield out. But that was as far as he got.
Brooklyn one, New York nothing. Seventh inning, two down.
The stretch by row of the pitch. Jerry Colvin takes, strike, call.
That was a fast ball. Came in there just below the shoulders.
One and one. That's the count on Colvin. One and nothing. That's the score in favor of Brooklyn.
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And we will be on the air at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time.
Row throws. Colvin. There goes the runner. There's the throw down.
And in there safely is Johnson with the stolen bases. Everybody was fooled.
And the whole ball barked.
Reese didn't cover. Robinson didn't cover.
And I'm just wondering if maybe Jerry Colvin hadn't missed a sign.
Billy Johnson does not steal bases.
He stole one during the entire season.
But sometimes the unexpected is what defeats the opposition.
We can only speculate as to whether, I mean frequently it could happen that a batter missed a hit and run sign.
Or the baseman rather might have gotten the notion that he saw one and didn't.
A lot of things could happen but the fact remains that neither Reese nor Robinson covered.
And it would probably be Robinson's job to cover. We don't know just what their situation is.
But with Colvin the right hand hit her up and you can pull. Here's your delivery.
Swung on. Little roller hit wider first. There's Robinson in on it. Up with it. Over to Hodges. End time. And the inning is over.
So nothing came of a stolen base. No runs for the Yankees. One hit.
No errors for the Dodgers and one left on for New York. So your seven inning totals.
Brooklyn one run. Six hits. One error. Four left onThe Yankees no runs. Four hits. One error and four men left on base.
And thus we move along to the eighth inning with Preacher Rose scheduled to lead off for Brooklyn.
And then the top of the order Pee Wee Reese and Johnny Jorgensen.
Ebbets field tomorrow for the third game of the series. For the fourth game of the series. And for the fifth game of the series unless you anticipate a sweep.
Something most people don't listen to. Hand for all.
In the event a sixth game is necessary the teams will return to Yankee Stadium. And the event the seventh game is necessary it too will be played here.
So we're ready now for the top half of the eighth inning. Preacher Rose is the batter. Charlie Silver emotions Lindell a move in a little closer and left.
Johnson's in close at third.
The crash of the right hander to wind up in comes the pitch and it's outside for ball one is a fastball roll has struck out twice. Once swinging last time watching the third strike go by.
Milton stock clapping his hands together coaching their third Jake Butler coaching at first.
The throws strong only missed strike one one and one one ball one strike.
Yeah, it feels very shallow.
And the delivery swung on a missed strike to one and two fastball delivered inside to the batter in front of the risks.
Here we reached in the batter circle.
Rash is one to delivery.
Hi, Paul to to to
Jake Butler comes out of the first base coaches box cups his hands over his mouth or something up the road, let him up a little
bitThe batters do another job to and moving around and hollering and sometimes rattle pitchers. Here's your to to delivery on its way the right hand batter swings and misses like three row goes down striking out for the third time.
That's four strikeouts for rashie. Three of them have been at Rose expense.
The other was Jackie Robinson on the fourth inning.
Roger order.
Little Colonel TV reach from Louisville, Kentucky, find the left grounded short grounded the third Johnson moves in close at third.
Reese a good butter.
I feel shaded slightly toward left rashie fires pitches swung on it sharp out to shore Zootogers right up with it rolls over to Henrik in time and races out to up and to away.
Now you've got Johnny Jorgensen coming to bat rounded out to Henrik fouled out to Silbera and then double the left in the sixth inning leading off it's not score alone run thus far occurred in the second inning when Jackie Robinson doubled in the left field corner for his first hit of the series advanced
The third and with two down scored on Hodges single left.
Jorgensen bats some left handed and on the first pitch swings and lines one right to Coleman for out number three.
The ball sank a bit of it started out if it'd be over Coleman said in the right center for a base hit but it sank and came right down in Jerry's glove.
No runs no hits no errors nobody left on the end of seven and a half innings the score Brooklyn one the Yankees nothing.
It was next to impossible old timer say to hit a ball past Jimmy Collins the greatest third baseman of them all.
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And as we come into the last half of the eighth inning Casey Stengel with a game going late last day is trying to make his move he is sending in Johnny Mize to bat for Charlie Silvera and Joe Page has just gone to work in the Yankee bullpen.
And there may be a pinch hitter for big rashy it's one to nothing in favor of the Dodgers.
So Johnny Mize who came from the National League to the Yankees toward the end of the season in time to be eligible for the World Series is pinch hitting for Silvera.
In comes the pitch strike one it's called sidearm delivery got the outside corner.
Mize is no stranger of course to row or the Dodgers.
Row delivers sidearm again it's outside ball one one in one.
Mize hurt his shoulder after joining the Yankees having played a couple of games for them and the play at Thomas Key Park in Chicago and has been able to play first place but can swing a bat you can't throw the one one pitch swing on hit on in the right field coming fast forward
and turn man's key can't get it's in there for a base hit.
Mize singles to right gets a hand as he leaves first base but George Stern Weiss going in to run for Mize and Bobby Brown is going to come up to hit for big rashy
Mize hitting for Silvera singles to right.
Stern Weiss is going into run for Mize and Bobby Brown will come up to hit for rashy.
Little conference with Reese Hodges and preacher row.
Johnny Mize gets a base hit in his first appearance in a World Series.
Fanta going to work in the bullpen for Brooklyn.
Just in passing as great a record as Johnny Mize has compiled greatest stars he's been.
He had never appeared in a World Series.
And this was his first appearance and the Georgia boy single to right he lives down in Florida now.
And here's Bobby Brown who hit 303 on the regular season batting for rashy.
Spiner Jorgensen moves way on the grass at third stretch by row.
As a move to first base Stern Weiss back.
You're going to try and hold him very close.
The outfield for Brown almost straight away.
Snyder is just a step over toward the right center from a straightaway center position.
The pitch right in there for a call strike sidearm delivery.
Broke right over.
Gil Hodges comes over now to say something to preacher row.
Reaches down to pick up the rosin bag as he says something to him.
Sawtoe voice.
One to nothing Brooklyn.
Last to be a cunning.
And for the first time the ball game the fans are getting really aroused.
Getting down to the final stages.
Bobby Brown Bunt's no he held back pitches outside for a ball.
He went into the motion.
Beans written back to the plate went down on the knee and watched the plate very closely and said no he did not make the motion and the pitchers outside and it's ball one and the count is one and one.
So here is a situation.
The Yankees trailing by one they have a runner on Dodgers are looking for that bunch.
Brown up chokes his bat leans over the plate the pitch he is taking it's in there for call strike two.
The preacher cut loose with a fast one that time.
He figured Brown to be bunting.
Brown is not going to bun he was ready to swing but took the pitching out the outside corner about letter high.
One ball two strikes and now Jorgensen has backed up at third.
Rees and Robinson both in a couple of steps at double play depth and even with the ground ball coming their way.
Hodges holding Sternweiss to stretch by role.
Here's the pitch and Bobby Brown takes strike three call over the outside corner.
Preacher all gave Bobby that left handed screwball the pitch that made Carl Hubble famous.
Matter of fact the last two pitches were screwballs read reminded me of that.
And Bobby Brown who is quite a nuisance to the Dodgers in the 47 World Series strikes out in a pinch hitting role here in the last thing.
So there's one out Sternweiss running from eyes who pinch hit successfully for Silbera on first to throw over not in time.
And the batter is Bill Rizzuto who singled in the first inning safe on air on the third and grounded out in the sixth to first baseman Gil Hodges.
Jorgensen moves in close third row ready checks his runner.
Looks around now the pitch it's inside for a ball Rizzuto one ball no strikes.
Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Tommy Henrik in the batter's circle.
Little fellow up there trying to advance his teammate George Sternweiss one way or the other.
Time has been called by Sternweiss as we mentioned his name Sternweiss call time.
And fakes a pulling of the tongue of his shoe on his left foot but actually stealing a look down to Rizzuto to get straightened out on the side.
Now a fellow is back in the hitting position.
Stretch by rows Sternweiss with a short lead.
Look around here's the pitch swung on and foul back to the screen.
The count is one and one.
So the crowd is warming to this situation with the Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Last the eighth inning and with the runner on things could happen.
And so Dodger partisans are rooting for Rowe to stop a potential rally.
Yankee partisans are rooting for the Yankees to come along and tie it up or go ahead.
And so the battle continues to seep out here at Yankee Stadium and Preacher Rowe very calm delivers Rizzuto.
Bunch the ball down towards third there's Rowe going over picks the ball up.
Boots it. He boots it and all hands are safe.
Little pill. Drop the bunt down the third baseline Rowe raced over grabbed the ball started a whirl of throw and then dropped it.
And they have scored it as an error.
Sternweiss is on second and Rizzuto on first.
And the batter is Tommy Henrik.
It will probably be scored as a sacrifice and an error.
It is it's a sacrifice for Rizzuto and an error for Rowe.
And here's Henrik who fly to right grounded to short and grounded to Hodges.
Rowe stretches pitches Henrik takes outside ball one one ball no strikes.
And so the Yankees for the first time in the ballgame of any consequence at least.
Have begun to put a little pressure on Rowe whether or not they'll be able to break through remains to be seen Sternweiss off second Rizzuto off first the pitch.
Outside ball two two balls no strikes.
Rizzuto is on first with nobody out in the first inning.
He was on first with two outs in the third.
Coleman was on second with one out on the fifth.
Johnson was on second with two outs in the seventh.
So the Yankees have not had a runner.
I'd say that Coleman actually advanced to third with two outs in the fifth inning.
That's the only one they've had as far as third.
Two balls no strikes on Henrik.
Sternweiss moves off second Rizzuto off first the pitch.
Swung on he missed strike one.
Henrik gave it the good cut.
And it's a 2-1 count on Rowe reliable.
Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Last half of the eighth inning one out.
Sternweiss on second Rizzuto on first the outfield toward right and Rowe with the stretch.
Comes in with the pitch it is fouled off to the left of the plate by Henrik who didn't even swing.
He started to held up the ball hit his bat and skipped on in behind the plate.
So the count is two and two.
And the preacher walking very easily and called me around the mound.
Not too perturbed.
He's been in situations like this before.
Perhaps tougher ones.
Never in a World Series.
But in battling to get into a World Series.
And so he looks to get the sign from Campanella.
And Sternweiss moves off second Rizzuto off first the two-two pitch is swung on and fouled off behind the plate.
As the preacher delivered that screwball up there.
The pitch on which he struck out pinch hitter Bobby Brown.
Joe Page in the meantime is heating up on the bullpen.
Two balls two strikes one out. Last of the eighth inning.
Dodgers one Yankees nothing.
And perhaps the first truly exciting moment outside of Tommy Henrik's dramatic sudden death blow in the ninth inning yesterday.
That we have had so far in the series.
That is anything that kept building and building.
And then he give an instant.
So the count two and two.
Rowe stretches. Sternweiss off second Rizzuto off first the pitch.
Swung on and fouled back again on the screen.
And Henrik slams his bat.
He sort of flipped it into the air and slammed it with his left hand.
Because evidently that was the pitch that he was looking for and wanted but didn't do anything with.
So before some 70,000 fans 70,053.
We have.
Tremendous tension building up here.
It's a battle between Rowe and Henrik right now.
Sternweiss off second Rizzuto off first the pitch and Henrik takes just outside for ball three.
That was close.
Full count on Henrik three and two.
And now you have the situation.
With runners on first and second being forced by this pitch.
But whether or not Casey Stengel will have them running with one out or playing it safe.
Eighth inning of the World Series behind one nothing is something we shall have to look for.
The stretch by RoweThe check of the two runners.
I look around. There they goThe pitch is swung on and fouled.
That is dropped by Campanella.
How about that?
There was Tommy Henrik.
Almost struck out.
A foul tipped and with that tremendous spin off the bat.
That's pretty rough on a catcher trying to hold those.
And it's tough on a pitcher when a catcher doesn't.
With that's a job I don't believe I'd like to have.
Would you read that catching department?
And now time is called as Pee Wee Reese trots in from short to talk to the pitcher.
Just a nickname that is not his profession.
He is a school teacher by trade.
And so far this afternoon has been giving Yankees a few lessons in baseball.
It's a full count on Henrik.
Sternweiss on second.
Rizzuto on first.
I think Campanella probably wanted to throw that ball to third so the kick of the runners breaking caused him to drop it.
The stretch. They're playing it safe.
The pitcher swung on supply ball to left field.
Almoh going back is going to get under it.
And he makes the catch for the out.
Sternweiss and Rizzuto each halfway go back to second and first respectively.
And they got rid of a rough man two down and the batter is Hank Bauer.
Henrik flying to Almoh on left.
No advance.
And that was a thrilling little duel going on right there.
Particularly in view of the fact that it was Tommy Henrik who broke up the ballgame yesterday and who had that opportunity in the eighth inning.
Preacher Rowe was equal to it.
He was pitching and Tommy was swinging and the crowd was thrilled.
And now with Hank Bauer coming up there are Rowe Robinson, Reese and Jorgensen discussing the situation.
And Pee Wee while talking overreached into his hip pocket extracted a stick of chewing gum and shoved it into his mouth while he was also talking to Preacher.
Pee Wee the captain of the team, a great competitor.
And now here's Hank Bauer who fouled out in the first inning to Robinson to move in behind Hodges across the foul line to catch the pop up and who singled in the fourth and grounded the third and the sixth.
The outfield way around toward left.
Jorgensen deep at third two three feet off the line.
Reese deep at short over into the third base gap.
Jackie Robinson about three strides to the right of second.
Hodges deep six feet off the first base line.
Rowe ready.
Here's his pitch and Bauer swings and sends one to third and beautifully up with it is Jorgensen throws to Robinson for the four sided second on Rizzuto and the thread is over.
No runs for the Yankees.
One hit.
One error for the Dodgers and two men left on for New York and Rowe continues to refuse to let the Yankees have more than one hit in any inning.
Though that was the closest they came because that smash by Bauer was very well hit and almost went to the left of the spider but he went over to get it.
So the score at the end of eight innings remains the Dodgers one, the Yankees nothing.
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Before we go into the ninth inning we pause 10 seconds for station identification.
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Coming into the ball game for the New York Yankees is Joe Page.
The crash he was removed for the pinch hitter in the last of the eighth inning.
Gus Nyhoss goes in to do the catching as Charlie Silbera was removed for a pinch hitter.
So a new battery for the Yankees in the ninth inning.
Page pitching Nyhoss catching.
Barra's left hand is still swollen, a fractured thumb that he sustained back on August 7th hit by a pitch ball which put him out of action for a month.
And which still gives him trouble.
Was aggravated yesterday as he received those murderous fastballs of Allie Reynolds.
And now as we go to the top of the ninth inning Duke Snyder left hand hitter up.
Grounded his short to second, sky to center.
Joe Page making his first appearance of this World Series comes in with a delivery.
Swung on and foul back strike one.
A good cut by Duke Snyder, a good fastball delivered by Page.
One to nothing, favor the Dodgers.
There are probably several things that you people listening in are wondering about in the nature of statistics and World Series history.
That we will tell you about in a little while.
Page delivers outside ball one.
As a matter of fact it possibly will be delayed intentionally by us to the end of this game.
And Red is doing a lot of thumbing through the good old record book.
Double checking situations.
And we'll discuss them with you.
The one one pitch.
Swung on, hit sharp into the hole between third and short.
From the left field for a base hit.
Johnny Lindell comes over.
Off to the ball.
Bobbers it momentarily.
Fires into second.
Holding first to Snyder with his first hit of the World Series.
Hit that one on the handle and sliced it in the left.
But it had so much power behind his wing that it was well hit.
Now you've got Jackie Robinson coming up.
Jackie doubled in the second inning.
Struck out on the fourth.
Grounded a short in the sixth.
And the Dodgers are in position.
To with a 1-0 lead to go for the extra one by way of the bunt by Robinson who is one of the best.
At bunting and also at beating them out.
But we'll see.
He might be swinging.
Johnson's looking for the bunt that throws to first base back in time with Snyder.
More action taking place in the New York bullpen which is in a runway between the bleachers and the right field grandstand.
Page stretches.
Checks his runner with a pitch inside Robinson and low.
Ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Top of the ninth inning.
Page gets his sign.
He's ready.
Here's the pitch.
Robinson shortens up.
Bunch the ball at a beautiful spot.
It's taken by Henrik.
Plays it to Coleman for the out.
He cocked his arms if he's going to throw to second risotto but so he did not have a chance to get Snyder who was really winging.
And the fans started to come up with a roar thinking that Henrik is going to make a play too late there.
But he stopped his motion and whirled it through to Coleman who had come over from first.
From second to first to take the throw.
It's a sacrifice for Jackie Robinson.
He is out.
Henrik to Coleman.
Thus a runner is set up in scoring position for the Dodgers.
And here is Carl Perillo coming out to bat for Gene Hermansky.
Perillo who was the leading Dodger hitter in the stretch run who is out of action today because of a groin injury that hampered him no end yesterday.
And Bert Schotten playing percentage to the hilt is sending up this right handed batter with a left hand pitcher now coming in for New York.
Joe Page.
And Perillo is up there to hit for Gene Hermansky.
Went Snyder on second.
One out.
Ninth inning.
One nothing Brooklyn.
And Page steps off the rubber momentarily to break the tension.
Dodgers one.
Yanks nothing.
Page sets.
Throws.
Perillo fouls it off to the right of the play.
I started to say he swung.
He started to check his swing but the ball hit the bat and skipped foul off to the right.
One strike on Carl.
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Snyder has a short lead off second.
Joe Page throws.
Perillo swings and it's a high pop up out in the short right.
Coleman backtracks.
He's under it.
Henrik Hollers-Jerry and Coleman makes the catch and holding second is Snyder.
Looks like I saw a little white that time coming out of the pocket of Coleman's glove as that ball might have spun around a little.
So there are two down and Louis Almo coming up.
He was Radcliffe's replacement in the last of the fourth when Maher pulled a back muscle running to back up a play at second base.
Almo digs in at home plate, stands deep in the batter's box, slightly open stance, holds the bat down to the end of the handle.
Not too close to the plate now.
Johnson deep at third near the line.
Brazudo over towards second.
A lot of room between shortstop and third baseman.
Here's your pitch and it's outside for a ball.
One ball, no strikes.
And here are two teams who have so far come up with magnificent pitching in the two games of this World Series.
Joe Page sets, throws, swung on a bouncer, hit out to short.
Auzuro grabs a two hops, flips on over to Henrik in time and the inning is over.
Joe Page actually was the first pitching change that was necessary in the series and that brought on not by a pitching deficiency, but by the need of a pinch hitter.
No runs for the Dodgers, one hit.
No Yankees, one left on.
And so we come to the fateful ninth, last half of the ninth, with Brooklyn leading one to nothing.
And thus the shoe, so to speak, is on the other foot.
Yesterday at this very same time, it was a scoreless ball game and Tommy Henrik coming to bat.
And with dramatic suddenness on a two nothing pitch, a rifle shot into the right field seats and the 66,000 stunned by the suddenness of it all, set there for a moment.
Now, as we come to the last half of the ninth inning today, the Yankees trail by one to nothing and you've got Mike McCormick going to the outfield for the Dodgers.
He will play right field in place of Gene Hermanski, for whom Carl Perillo hit.
Thus you have for Brooklyn, Louis Olmo in left, Snyder in center.
Mike McCormick, who played in a World Series previously, in right field.
And leading off in the last of the ninth inning is Joe DiMaggio, who flied to center, struck out, and grounded to third.
And Elwyn Rowe from down in Arkansas is into the windup and pitches.
He swings and fouls it off upstairs to the left of the plate, strike one.
Somebody made a fair catch for a souvenir and gets a hand.
One strike to count on DiMaggio, the outfield swung toward left, in center and left with McCormick looking for DiMaggio to hit toward right a bit.
He hadn't been pulling too much since he was ill.
And your pitch, right in there beautifully for a call strike two on the curve.
Johnny Lindahl on deck and Billy Johnson to follow.
One to nothing in favor of Brooklyn, last half of the ninth inning.
Jorgensen deep at third near the line, Reese over into the third base gap.
Jackie Robinson, two or three strides to the right of second.
Gil Hodges, ten feet off the first base line in halfway.
A Dodger left hander throws, DiMaggio swings and sends a little roller out toward short.
Coming in fast for DiJorgensen up to the ball.
Fires to first base not in time, DiMaggio beats it out.
Joe DiMaggio beats out a slow roller.
He was fooled by the pitch, did not get the solid part of the bat on it at all.
Hit over the ball and hit a slow roller out toward a point between third and short.
Spidey Jorgensen raced in, grabbed it and fired, but DiMaggio beat it out for an infield hit.
Jack Banner goes to work in the bullpen.
And now here's Johnny Lindahl up, fly to right, bounced out to the pitcher and fly to left.
Jorgensen moves in close at third to look for the bunt.
Hodges holding against Joe.
There's Robinson sneaking in behind.
There's a pitch out, a throw down to first to DiMaggio just in there in time as Jackie Robinson made a fall away.
Diving catch of that throw by Campanello to keep it going in the right field.
Red and I were able to spot that play immediately because Jackie Robinson started moving quickly toward first base.
Something that he would not normally do if he weren't looking for the pickoff.
The pitch out was called for because if he left his position like that, the batter sometimes could drive one through it.
But you could see as he started racing to first as Hodges started racing in, they were trying to work that beautiful pickoff play at first.
Ball one, no strikes.
Jorgensen looking for the bunt, so is Johnson.
Here's the pitch. Lindahl swings and misses.
First strike is he was going for the base hit.
Hoping for it.
He's not going for the bunt.
One ball, one strike.
Sometimes batters go up there and purposely miss a swing like that to try and move an infielder back a bit and then lay the bunt down.
We'll watch. Row ready. Ninth inning.
There's a move to first base to DiMaggio back.
Beautiful to watch everybody move.
There's the right fielder. Mike McCormick darting toward the right fielder line of that throw to first.
Stretch. Here's your pitch. Lindahl shortens up. Bunts into the air foul off the right of the plate.
Hodges charging couldn't get to it.
So it's a one-two count on Lindahl and now he's got to be swinging.
And the possibility of many things happening.
Either for good or for bad depending on which way you're looking at it.
And we're looking at it from a point directly back of home plate right down the middle.
One ball, two strikes.
Jorgensen backed up at third.
Hodges holding against DiMaggio. Last of the ninth inning. One to nothing Brooklyn.
The stretch. Here's the pitch. Lindahl swings and he misses. Strike three and he's out of there.
That's the third strikeout for Row.
He hasn't struck out too many but he has struck them out when he had to. He struck out Brown in the eighth inning with the runner on first and nobody out.
He struck out Lindahl in the ninth with the runner on first and nobody out.
And here's Billy Johnson who's had one for three. It's an easy lob over to first base to match on the bag all the while.
Johnson lined to center foul of the catcher single to left.
One down. Last of the ninth inning. Row ready.
Has it moved to first base again to match back.
A lot of times people feel that when a batter doesn't bunt that he's deficient in that respect.
Sometimes that pitcher's got an awful lot to do with it.
Here's your pitch. Low inside. Ball one.
That pitcher can throw that ball away he wants to.
Very difficult to bunt them sometimes. In other words it isn't as easy as it looks.
The southpaw throws. Johnson takes strike call over the inside corner.
And that's the first beef that's been registered all afternoon on a call decision at home plate.
To any extent Johnson walked out of the box.
Didn't say too much but in his actions indicated that he was displeased with the call.
But says very little. One ball one strike one out.
Last of the ninth inning one to nothing Brooklyn to match you off first.
Here's your delivery. Johnson swings in foul tips it for strike two.
And preacher O is mixing up his curves his screw balls in magnificent fashion.
One and two to count.
One out last of the ninth. Brooklyn one New York nothing.
The Dodgers run coming in the second inning.
When Jackie Robinson not off of the double and with two down scored on Hodges single left.
After he had advanced to third on an infield out.
Here's your pitch swung on a fly ball hit foul down the right field line and going out of play.
Robinson advanced to third excuse me on a top fly foul that Jerry Coleman caught down the right field line.
Slipped as he was about to throw but Jackie with his great speed and a daring gamble raised the third and made it easily.
Not even drawing the throw. All right we're ready.
Here's your pitch Johnson swings pops it up into the air.
Down toward the second toward first Jackie Robinson is coming in under it and makes the catch.
Take a look at Johnson see whether Billy was going to run it out or not.
If Billy was running too slowly might have allowed it to drop and then started what he would have hoped to have been a defeat.
So Johnson pops out to Robinson.
Jerry Coleman is the batter.
And you have had as an incidental bit of information important actually rather than being incidental.
And this is a no wise mention at this time for purposes of jinxing anybody but merely from a reputorial standpoint that the Dodgers the Dodgers pitchers Newcomb and Rowe have yet to walk a man in this series.
Two outs last the ninth inning Jerry Coleman who fly to center double left and grounded the second is the batter the man Joe on first Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Already here's his pitch Coleman takes high ball one one ball no strikes.
Rowe of course is quite a control artist that is the secret of his pitching success along with his natural stuff. But regardless of how much stuff a pitcher may have he's unable to control it or to put that ball where he wants to it doesn't do him too much good.
Now the left hander throws and Coleman swings and files it off to the right of the plate is going to go out of play back or first the ball dropping into the upper deck.
So the count on Coleman is one and one one ball one strike two down last to the ninth inning the Dodgers one the Yankees nothing.
And very few people leaving.
You don't leave these kind of ball games that last man is out.
One ball one strike two down.
Roll with a stretch. Here's the pitch Jerry Coleman swings and sense of drive the right center field racing over fast forward as Mike McCormick getting under he makes the catch in the ball game.
And so it was turnabout and turnabout is fair play as the Dodgers shut out the Yankees today one the nothing with preacher Rowe refusing to let the Yankees have more than one hit in any given inning.
And the total.
For the Dodgers one run.
Seven hits two errors and five men left on and for the Yankees no runs.
Six hits one error and seven men left on base.
So another brilliant pitching duel.
The series stands at one one as the Dodgers win it today one to nothing. And I know that I read Barber enjoyed this ball game as much as he did the one yesterday because we have seen baseball played in an old fashioned sort of way.
And they do say that old fashioned things are the best after all red.
Well I don't know a couple of us young fellows talking about the old fashioned way except I've been going back to the record book Mel and I know what you're referring to as far back as the eighth inning and you were kind enough to both ball clubs you didn't want to bring it up.
This is the first time in the history of World Series that they have been to consecutive one to nothing games put back to back and it's the first time since 1921 that the World Series opened with consecutive shutouts they were not one to nothing ballgame be the one of them.
And a total of 52 shutout games have come about in World Series all told beginning with the 1931 when the modern records are compiled and they're on is where we go.
And so these are the only two one to nothing ones back to back. And it's been a long time since the World Series open with consecutive shutout games in 1921 when you look all the Yankees had their maize and heart shut out the Giants.
Well the story in this ballgame is is the story of one guy that is there are many stories but it's a lean skinny maybe the late Rudyard Kipling had him in mind when he was writing about a rag and a bone and a hank of hair and that's about all he is to feature.
And he's not a big guy except the heart that's as big as his native state of Arkansas and he's just a bundle of fighting nerves out there on the mound. He'd known for some days what he was going to do.
Managers Shatton knew and Rowe knew that when Rowe was called to leave on Saturday to Philadelphia as frail as his his physique that he could not be the starting pitcher yesterday.
And he was close to Brooklyn realized that that relief call Saturday at Philadelphia meant that Newcomb would have to start yesterday and roll today.
And so roll for those days has been sweating it out and of course yesterday's game added the pressure to him as he watched these two great pitchers Reynolds and Newcomb.
However, Pritcher went out there and he had things go wrong including messing up with a bun himself. But when trouble came down he was the equal to it and was the master and we have had two brilliant World Series games.
This one was much more nervous and pressure packed for the simple reason that the Dodgers got their run in the second inning.
Yesterday's game the run came with explosive suddenness when Henry first up in the last of the ninth belted it in there and he hit it well in the seats.
But there was that one run on the scoreboard today and the Yankees were running at it all day which meant they were playing for a run and the Dodgers were trying to make what can be a very slender margin to get back in the clubhouse with it as is the case with the Brooklyn club now trying to make a one run lead stand up.
I said that the story is raw. It is the story of role.
But in any human being story there is also the additional stories of all the other people that come in contact with one.
And I think that the secondary story to roll being on the mound is how he got on the mound today and a man in a brown suit and a big sloppy brown felt hat a big bear of a man barely shaped man jumped out of a box right by the book and dug out and the road came and they dug out.
This this man had been slapping Brooklyn players all over the place as though they were just little 10 10.
But when it all came in he really gave him a big hug that man with branch Ricky roll came up under Ricky and the Cardinal system as a young left hander who could throw hard.
This was before he had an accident when he got hurt coaching basketball in Arkansas and lost his fastball.
And so under Ricky years ago in the Cardinal chain roll couldn't quite make it.
He could always get to Columbus let's say but he couldn't get to St. Louis to pitch for him.
Well as I can only white over in their heyday would be just ahead of him.
But Ricky always had great faith in him.
Roll was later sold from the Cardinals to the pirates.
And two years ago when it became a question when you have the most popular player in the history of Brooklyn which is Dixie Walker Dixie was traded with somebody had to come take the place of that fellow.
And it was in that deal that Ricky reached for preacher all and brought him from Pittsburgh last year.
Roll was an effective pitcher this year he won 15 games and today he rewarded that great thing.
Ricky wanted him and reached for him all the way through.
And today it was a picture.
Mal would look down once in a while.
I couldn't help looking knowing the relationship between the two.
As Ricky sat there the only show of emotion was the fact that he was clenching and unclenching his hand.
But when the game was over I believe Ricky moved faster than he ever moved in his life.
And it was to preacher all the left hander that he had reached for and who returned it.
Roll was the anchor man.
Newcom was brilliant.
But the biggest game the Dodgers had to win with the Cardinals the last two series they met.
Roll was the fellow that did it.
And I know that the Cardinals are listening.
I don't believe they're completely surprised because they know the sort of fellow that Roll is.
So that's the ballgame.
Each side had many many opportunities to score.
In fact you could look back and say well gee it ought to have been a bushel basket full of runs in the ballgame.
Vic Rashie is of course the losing pitcher.
And he went out for a pinch pitcher Paige in the ninth inning.
Rashie pitched a tremendous game.
Good enough to win most any time.
So this series is following the regular season pattern.
Everything is very hard to win this year.
Both pennants came to the closing day the last innings.
And now it looks as though one run is all you're going to get in a World Series ballgame.
Now things don't come any tougher than 1949 do they?
They sure don't Red.
About the only easy thing I know of is getting Gillette Blue Blades.
Okay so once again your totals for the Dodgers to even the series.
It is one run seven hits and two arrows.
For the Yankees no run six hits in one arrow.
It's quite a day quite a human day.
And tomorrow the series will be over at Ebbets Field.
And tomorrow is another day.
And Gillette's Cavalcade Sports will be back on the air properly at 12.45 Eastern.
Instead the time to report the third game of the 1949 World Series for you play by play from Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.
So until then smooth sailing, smooth shaving.
And a good afternoon from your host the Gillette Safe to Raise Company Mel Allen and yours truly Red Baldwin.
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And as we come into the last half of the eighth inning Casey Stengel with the game going late last the eighth is trying to make his move.
He is sending in Johnny Mize to bat for Charlie Silvera and Joe Page has just gone to work in the Yankee bullpen.
And there may be a pinch hitter for Bick Rashie.
It's one to nothing in favor of the Dodgers.
So Johnny Mize who came from the National League to the Yankees toward the end of the season in time to be eligible for the World Series
is pinch hitting for Silvera.
In comes the pitch.
Strike one it's called.
Sidearm delivery got the outside corner.
Mize is no stranger of course to Rowe or the Dodgers.
Rowe delivers sidearm again it's outside ball one one and one.
Mize hurt his shoulder after joining the Yankees having played a couple of games for them.
He's been to play at Comiskey Park in Chicago and has been unable to play first base but can swing a bat.
He can't throw the one one pitch.
Swung on hit out in the right field coming fast forward is Hermanski can't get it's in there for a base hit.
Granted on a hop close to second and Mize pinch hits and singles to right field.
Now we'll have a runner.
Johnny Mize singles to right gets a hand as he leaves first base with George Sternweiss going in to run for Mize
and Bobby Brown is going to come up to hit for Vic Rasche.
Mize hitting for Silvera singles to right.
Sternweiss is going in to run for Mize and Bobby Brown will come up to hit for Rasche.
A little conference with Reese Hodges and Preacher Rowe.
Johnny Mize gets a base hit in his first appearance in a World Series.
Fanta going to work in the bullpen for Brooklyn.
Just in passing as great a record as Johnny Mize has compiled as great a star as he's been.
He had never appeared in a World Series.
And this was his first appearance.
And the Georgia boy single to right he lives down in Florida now.
And here's Bobby Brown who hit 303 on the regular season batting for Rasche.
Spiner Jorgensen moves way on the grass at third.
Stretched by Rowe.
As he moves to first base Sternweiss back.
Going to try and hold him very close.
The outfield for Brown.
Almost straight away Snyder just a step over toward right center from a straightaway center position.
The pitch right in there for a call strike sidearm delivery.
Broke right over.
Gil Hodges comes over now to say something to Preacher Rowe.
Reaches down to pick up the rosin bag as he says something to him.
Sato voice.
One to nothing Brooklyn. Last to be a stunning.
And for the first time in the ballgame the fans are getting really aroused.
And down to the final stages.
Here's your pitch Bobby Brown.
No he held back. Pitch is outside for a ball.
He went into the bunt motion.
Beans ridden. Back of the plate went down on the knee and watched the plate very closely.
And said no he did not make the motion and the pitch was outside and this ball won.
And the count is one and one.
So here is a situation.
The Yankees trailing by one. They have a runner on.
Dodgers are looking for that bunt.
Brown up.
Leans over the plateThe pitch he is taking it's in there for a call strike two.
The preacher cut loose with a fast one that time.
He figured Brown would be bunting.
Brown was not going to bunt. He was ready to swing but took the pitch.
He got the outside corner about letter high.
One ball two strikes and now Jorgensen has backed up at third.
Rees and Robinson both in a couple of steps. Double play depth and even with the ground ball coming their way.
Hodges holding Sternweiss to stretch by a roll.
Here is the pitch and Bobby Brown takes strike three call over the outside corner.
The preacher gave Bobby that left handed screwballThe pitch that made Carl Hubbell famous.
Matter of fact the last two pitches were screwballs. Red reminded me of that.
And Bobby Brown who is quite a nuisance to the Dodgers in the 47 World Series strikes out in a pinch hitting role here in the last D.A. thinning.
So there is one out.
Sternweiss running for Mize who pinch hit successfully for Silveira on first a throw over not in time.
And the batter is Bill Ruzudo who singled in the first inning safe on air on the third and grounded out in the sixth to first baseman Gil Hodges.
Jorgensen moves in close third row ready checks his runner looks around now the pitch.
It's inside for a ball Ruzudo one ball no strikes.
Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Tommy Henrik in the batter's circle.
Little Bill up there trying to advance his teammate George Sternweiss one way or the other.
Time has been called by Sternweiss as we mentioned his name Sternweiss call time and fakes a pulling of the tongue of his shoe on his left foot.
But actually stealing a look down to Ruzudo to get straightened out on the side.
Now Bill is back in the hitting position.
Stretch by row Sternweiss with a short lead.
Look around here's the pitch swung on and bowled back to the screen.
The count is one and one.
So the crowd is warming to this situation with the Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Last the eighth inning and with the runner on things could happen.
And so Dodger partisans are rooting for Rowe to stop a potential rally.
Yankee partisans are rooting for the Yankees to come along and tie it up or go ahead.
And so the battle continues to see about here at Yankee Stadium and preach your row very calm delivers Ruzudo bunch the ball down towards there.
There's Rowe going over picks the ball up.
He puts it in all hands are safe.
Little Bill dropped the bunt down the third baseline row raced over grabbed the ball started a whirl of foreign and drafted and they have scored it as an error.
Sternweiss is on second and Ruzudo on first and the batter is Tommy Henry.
It will probably be scored as a sacrifice and an error.
It is it's a sacrifice for Ruzudo and an error for Rowe.
And here's Henry who fly to right grounded short and grounded to Hodges.
Rowe stretches pitches Henry takes outside ball one one ball no strikes.
And so the Yankees for the first time in the ballgame of any consequence at least have begun to put a little pressure on Rowe whether or not they'll be able to break through remains to be seen.
Sternweiss off second Ruzudo off first the pitch outside ball two two balls no strikes.
Ruzudo is on first with nobody out in the first inning.
He was on first with two outs in the third.
Coleman was on second with one out on the fifth.
Johnson was on second with two outs in the seventh.
So the Yankees have not had a runner.
I'd say that Coleman actually advanced the third with two outs in the fifth inning.
That's the only one they've had as far as third two balls no strikes on Henry.
Sternweiss moves off second Ruzudo off first the pitch swung on him this strike one.
Henry gave it the good cut and it's a 2-1 count on old reliable.
Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Last half of the eighth inning one out.
Sternweiss on second Ruzudo on first the outfield toward right and Rowe with the stretch comes in with the pitch.
It is bowled off to the left of the plate by Henry who didn't even swing.
He started to held up the ball hit his bat and skipped on him behind the plate.
So the count is two and two.
And the preacher walking very easily and calmly around the mound not to perturb.
He's been in situations like this before.
Perhaps tougher ones.
Never in a World Series but in battling to get into a World Series.
And so he looks to get the sign from Campanella and Sternweiss moves off second Ruzudo off first.
The 2-2 pitch is swung on and bowled off behind the plate as the preacher delivered that screwball up there.
The pitch on which he struck out pinch hitter Bobby Brown.
Joe Page in the meantime is heating up on the bullpen.
Two balls two strikes one out.
Last the eighth inning.
Dodgers one Yankees nothing.
And perhaps the first truly exciting moment outside of Tommy Hendricks dramatic sudden death blow in the ninth inning yesterday
that we have had so far in the series.
That is anything that kept building and building.
And then he give an instant.
So the count two and two.
Rows stretches.
Sternweiss off second Ruzudo off first.
The pitch swung on and bowled back again on the screen.
And Hendricks slams his bat.
He sort of flipped it into the air and slammed it with his left hand because evidently that was the pitch
that he was looking for and wanted but didn't do anything with.
So before some seventy thousand fans seventy thousand fifty three.
We have.
Tremendous tension building up here.
It's a battle between Row and Hendrick right now.
Sternweiss off second Ruzudo off first.
The pitch and Hendrick takes just outside for ball three.
That was close.
Old count on Hendrick three and two.
And now you have the situation.
With runners on first and second being forced by this pitch.
But whether or not Casey Stengel have them running with one out or playing it safe.
Eighth inning of a World Series behind one nothing is something we shall have to look for.
The stretch by row the check of the two runners.
Look around.
There they go.
The pitch is swung on and bowled tip that is dropped by Campanella.
How about that.
There was Tommy Hendrick almost struck out.
A bowled tip and with that tremendous spin off the bat.
That's pretty rough on a catcher trying to hold those.
And it's tough on a pitcher when a catcher doesn't.
With that's a job I don't believe I'd like to have.
Would you read that catching department.
And now time is called as Pee Wee Reese trots in from short to talk to the pitcher.
Just a nickname that is not his profession.
He is a school teacher by trade.
And so far this afternoon has been given Yankees a few lessons in baseball.
It's a full count on Hendrick.
Sternweiss on second.
Marzuto on first.
I think Campanella probably wanted to throw that ball the third so quickly the runners breaking.
Why did it cause him to drop it.
The stretch they're playing it safe.
The pitch is swung on supply ball to left field.
All more going back is going to get under it.
And he makes the catch for the out.
Sternweiss and Marzuto each halfway go back to second and first respectively.
And they got rid of a rough man two down on the batters Hank Bauer.
Henry applied to all more and left.
No advance.
And that was a thrilling little dual going on right there.
Particularly in view of the fact that it was Tommy Henry who broke up the ballgame yesterday.
And who had that opportunity in the eighth inning.
Preacher Rowe was equal to it.
He was pitching and Tommy was swinging and the crowd was thrilled.
And now with Hank Bauer coming up there are Rowe Robinson, Dries and Jorgensen discussing the situation.
And Pee Wee while talking overreached into his hip pocket extracted a stick of chewing gum and
shoved it into his mouth while he was also talking to Preacher.
Pee Wee the captain of the team, a great competitor.
And now here's Hank Bauer who fouled out on the first inning to Robinson and moved in behind Hodges across the foul line to catch the pop-up.
And who's singled in the fourth and grounded the third and the sixth.
The outfield way around toward left.
Jorgensen deep at third two, three feet off the line.
Rees deep at short over into the third base gap.
Jackie Robinson about three strikes to the right of second.
Hodges deep six feet off the first base line.
Rowe ready.
Here's his pitch and Bauer swings and sends one to third and beautifully up with it is Jorgensen throws to Robinson for the fourth out at second on Razudo and the thread is over.
No runs for the Yankees.
One hit.
One error for the Dodgers.
And two men left on for New York.
And Rowe continues to refuse to let the Yankees have more than one hit in any inning.
Though that was the closest they came because that smash by Bauer was very well hit and almost went to the left of the spider.
But he went over to get it.
So the score at the end of eight innings remains the Dodgers one, the Yankees nothing.
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Coming into the ballgame for the New York Yankees is Joe Page.
The crash he was removed for the pinch hitter and the last of the eighth inning.
Gus Nyhoss goes in to do the catching as Charlie Silvera was removed for a pinch hitter.
So a new battery for the Yankees in the ninth inning, Page pitching, Nyhoss catching.
Vera's left hand is still swollen.
The fractured thumb that he sustained back on August 7th hit by a pitched ball,
which put him out of action for a month and which still gives him trouble.
Was aggravated yesterday as he received those murderous fastballs of Allie Reynolds.
And as we go to the top of the ninth inning, Duke Snyder, left hand hitter up.
Grounded his short to second, sky to center.
Joe Page making his first appearance of this World Series comes in with a delivery.
Swung on and foul back, strike one.
A good cut by Duke Snyder, a good fastball delivered by Page.
One to nothing, favor the Dodgers.
There are probably several things that you people listening in are wondering about in the nature of statistics
and World Series history that we will tell you about in a little while.
Page delivers outside ball one.
As a matter of fact, it possibly will be delayed intentionally by us to the end of this game.
And Rand is doing a lot of thumbing through the good old record book, double checking situations.
And we'll discuss them with you.
The one-one pitch. Swung on, hit sharp into the hole between 30 short and the left field for a base hit.
Johnny Lindell comes over, up to the ball, bobs it momentarily, fires into second, holding first to Snyder
with his first hit of the World Series.
Hit that one on the handle and sliced it in the left.
But it had so much power behind his wing that it was well hit.
Now you've got Jackie Robinson coming up.
Jackie doubled in the second inning, struck out on the fourth, grounded a short on the sixth.
And the Dodgers are in position with a one-nothing lead to go for the extra one by way of the bunt by Robinson,
who is one of the best at bunting and also at beating them out.
But we'll see, he might be swinging. Johnson's looking for the bunt that throws the first base back in time with Snyder.
More action taking place in the New York bullpen, which is in a runway between the bleachers and the right field grandstand.
Page stretches, checks his runner with a pitch inside Robinson and Lowe, ball one. One ball, no strikes.
Dodgers leading one to nothing, top of the ninth inning.
Page gets his sign. He's ready. Here's the pitch. Robinson shortens up, bunch the ball at a beautiful spot.
It's taken by Henrik, plays it to Coleman for the out.
He cocked his arms if he was going to throw to second, Rizzuto, but sorry, did not have a chance to get Snyder, who was really winging.
And the fans started to come up with a roar, thinking that Henrik was going to make a play too late there.
But he stopped his motion and whirled him through to Coleman, who had come over from second to first to take the throw.
And to sacrifice for Jackie Robinson, he is out Henrik to Coleman.
Thus a runner is set up in scoring position for the Dodgers.
And here is Carl Perillo coming out to bat for Gene Hermanski.
Perillo, who was the leading Dodger hitter in the stretch run, who is out of action today because of a groin injury that hampered him no end yesterday.
And Bert Schotten, playing percentage to the hilt, is sending up this right-handed batter with a left-hand pitcher now coming in for New York.
Joe Page and Perillo is up there to hit for Gene Hermanski.
Went Snyder on second, one out, ninth inning, one nothing Brooklyn, and Page steps off the rubber momentarily to break the tension.
Here's one, yanks nothing.
Page sets, throws, Perillo bows it off to the right of the play.
I started to say he swung, he started to check his swing, but the ball hit the bat and skipped foul off to the right.
One strike on Carl.
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Snyder has a short leadoff second, Joe Page throws, Perillo swings, and it's a high pop-up out in the short right.
Coleman backtracks, he's under it.
Henry Collars, Jerry, and Coleman makes the catch and holding second is Snyder.
It looked like I saw a little white that time coming out of the pocket of Coleman's glove as that ball might have spun around a little.
So there are two down and Louis Almo coming up.
He was Rackley's replacement on the last of the fourth when Marv pulled a back muscle running to back up a play at second base.
Almo digs in at home plate, stands deep in the batter's box, slightly open stance, holds the bat down at the end of the handle.
Not too close to the plate now.
Johnson deep at third near the line, Rizzuto over towards second, a lot of room between shortstop and third baseman.
Here's your pitch and it's outside for a ball.
One ball, no strikes.
And here are two teams who have so far come up with magnificent pitching in the two games of this World Series.
Joe Page sets, throws, swung on, a bouncer hit out to short.
Rizzuto grabs the two hops, clips on over to Henrik in time and the inning is over.
So Joe Page actually was the first pitching change that was necessary in the series and that brought on not by a pitching deficiency, but by the need of a pinch hitter.
No runs for the Dodgers, one hit.
No Yankees, one left on.
And so we come to the fateful ninth, last half of the ninth, with Brooklyn leading one to nothing.
And thus the shoe, so to speak, is on the other foot.
Yesterday at this very same time, it was a scoreless ball game and Tommy Henrik coming to bat.
And with a dramatic suddenness on a two-nothing pitch, a rifle shot into the right field seats.
And the 66,000 stunned by the suddenness of it all sat there for a moment.
Now, as we come to the last half of the ninth thing today, the Yankees trail by one to nothing.
And you've got Mike McCormick going to the outfield for the Dodgers.
And he will play right field in place of Gene Hermanski, for whom Carl Perillo hit.
And thus you have for Brooklyn, Louis Olmo in left, Snyder in center.
Mike McCormick, who played in a World Series previously, in right field.
And leading off in the last of the ninth inning is Joe DiMaggio, who flied to center, struck out, and grounded to third.
And Elwin Rowe from down in Arkansas is into the windup and pitches.
And DiMaggio swings and fouls it off upstairs to the left of the plate, strike one.
Somebody made a fair catch for the souvenir and gets a hand.
One strike to count on DiMaggio, the outfield swung toward left, in center and left, with McCormick looking for DiMaggio to hit toward right a bit.
He hadn't been pulling too much since he was ill.
And your pitch, right in there beautifully for a call strike two on the curve.
Johnny Lindahl on deck and Billy Johnson to follow.
One to nothing in favor of Brooklyn, last half of the ninth inning.
Jorgensen deep at third near the line, race over into the third base gap.
Jackie Robinson, two or three strides to the right of second.
Gil Hodge is 10 feet off the first base line in halfway.
A Dodger left-hander throws, DiMaggio swings and sends a little roller out toward short.
Coming in fast forward is Jorgensen, up to the ball, fires the first base, not in time, DiMaggio beats it out.
Joe DiMaggio beats out a slow roller.
He's pulled by the pitch, did not get the solid part of the bat on it at all, hit over the ball,
and hit a slow roller out toward a point between third and short.
Spidey Jorgensen raced in, grabbed it and fired, but DiMaggio beat it out for an infield hit.
Jack Banner goes to work in the bullpen.
And now here's Johnny Lindahl up, fly to right, bounced out to the pitcher and fly to left.
Jorgensen moves in close at third to look for the bunt. Hodge is holding against Joe.
There's Robinson sneaking in behind. There's a pitch out, a throw down to first.
DiMaggio's just in there in time as Jackie Robinson made a fall away,
diving catch of that throw by Campanello to keep it going in the right field.
Red and I were able to spot that play immediately because Jackie Robinson started moving quickly
toward first base, something that he would not normally do if he weren't looking for the pickoff.
But the pitch out was called for because if he left his position like that,
The batter sometimes could drive one through it.
But you could see as he started racing to first as Hodge started racing in,
they were trying to work that beautiful pickoff play at first.
Ball one, no strikes. Jorgensen looking for the bunt, so is Johnson.
Here's the pitch. Lindahl swings and he misses. First strike is he was going for the base hit,
hoping for it. Not going for the bunt. One ball, one strike.
Sometimes batters go up there and purposely miss a swing like that to try and move an infielder back a bit
and then lay the bunt down. We'll watch. Row ready. Ninth inning.
There's a move to first base to DiMaggio back. Beautiful to watch everybody move.
There was the right fielder, Mike McCormick, darting toward the right fielder line of that throw to first.
Stretch. Here's your pitch. Lindahl shortens up, bunts into the air foul off the right of the plate.
Hodge's charging couldn't get to it.
So it's a one-two count on Lindahl and now he's got to be swinging.
And the possibility of many things happening.
Either for good or for bad, depending on which way you're looking at it.
And we're looking at it from a point directly back of home plate right down the middle.
One ball, two strikes. Jorgensen backed up at third.
Hodges holding against DiMaggio. Last of the ninth inning, one to nothing, Brooklyn.
Stretch. Here's the pitch. Lindahl swings and he misses. Strike three and he's out of there.
That's the third strikeout for Row.
He hasn't struck out too many, but he has struck them out when he had to.
He struck out Brown in the eighth inning with a runner on first and nobody out.
He struck out Lindahl in the ninth with a runner on first and nobody out.
And here's Billy Johnson who's had one for three.
It's an easy lob over to first base to match on the bag all the while.
Johnson lined to center foul to the catcher, single to left.
One down, last of the ninth inning. Row ready.
As it moved to first base again to match back.
A lot of times people feel that when a batter doesn't bunt, that he's deficient in that respect.
Sometimes that pitcher's got an awful lot to do with it.
Here's your pitch. Low inside, ball one.
That pitcher can throw that ball the way he wants to.
They're very difficult to bunt them sometimes.
In other words, it isn't as easy as it looks.
The Southpaw throws. Johnson takes strike call over the inside corner.
And that's the first beef that's been registered all afternoon on a call decision at home plate.
To any extent, Johnson walked out of the box.
Didn't say too much, but in his actions indicated that he was displeased with the call.
But says very little. One ball, one strike, one out.
Last of the ninth inning, one to nothing, Brooklyn. Demagio off first. Here's your delivery.
Johnson swings and foul-tips it for strike two.
And preacher O is mixing up his curves, his screw balls in magnificent fashion.
One and two to count. One out, last of the ninth. Brooklyn one, New York nothing.
The Dodgers run coming in the second inning when Jackie Robinson let off of the double and with two down,
scored on Hodges' single left after he had advanced to third on an infield out.
Here's your pitch. Swung on, a fly ball hit foul down the right field line and going out of play.
Robinson advanced to third, excuse me, on a top fly foul that Jerry Coleman caught down the right field line.
Slipped as he was about to throw, but Jackie with his great speed and a daring gamble,
faced the third and made it easily. Not even drawing the throw.
All right, we're ready. Here's your pitch. Johnson swings, pops it up into the air.
Down toward second, toward first. Jackie Robinson is coming in under it and makes the catch.
He took a look at Johnson, see whether Billy was going to run it out or not.
If Billy was running too slowly, he might have allowed it to drop and then started what he would have hoped to have been, ADP.
So Johnson pops out to Robinson.
Jerry Coleman is the batter and you have had as an incidental bit of information, important actually rather than being incidental,
and this is in no wise mention at this time for purposes of jinxing anybody,
but merely from a repertorial standpoint that the Dodgers, the Dodgers pitchers, Newcomb and Rowe, have yet to walk a man in this series.
Two outs, last to the ninth inning. Jerry Coleman who fly to center, double to left and grounded to second is the batter.
DiMaggio on first. Dodgers leading one to nothing.
Rowe ready. Here's his pitch. Coleman takes high, ball one. One ball, no strikes.
Rowe of course is quite a control artist. That is the secret of his pitching success along with his natural stuff.
But regardless of how much stuff a pitcher may have, if he's unable to control it or to put that ball where he wants to, it doesn't do him too much good.
Now the left-hander throws and Coleman swings and fouls it off to the right of the plate. It's going to go out of play back to first, the ball dropping into the upper deck.
So the count on Coleman is one and one. One ball, one strike, two down, last to the ninth inningThe Dodgers won, the Yankees nothing.
And very few people leaving. They don't leave these kind of ball games until that last man is out.
One ball, one strike, two down. Rowe with a stretch. Here's the pitch. Jerry Coleman swings and sends a drive to the right center field.
Racing over, fast forward as Mike McCormick getting under and he makes the catch and the ball game is over.
And so it was turnabout and turnabout is fair play. As the Dodgers shut out the Yankees today, one to nothing.
With Preacher Rowe refusing to let the Yankees have more than one hit in any given inning.
And the totals for the Dodgers, one run, seven hits, two errors, and five men left on.
And for the Yankees, no runs, six hits, one error, and seven men left on base.
So another brilliant pitching duelThe series stands at one-one as the Dodgers win it today, one to nothing.
And I know that Red Barber enjoyed this ball game as much as he did the one yesterday
because we have seen baseball played in an old-fashioned sort of way.
And they do say that old-fashioned things are the best after all, Red.
Well, I don't know. A couple of us young fellows talking about the old-fashioned way.
Except I've been going back to the record book, Mel, and I know what you're referring to as far back as the eighth inning.
And you were kind enough to both ball clubs. You didn't want to bring it up.
This is the first time in the history of World Series that there have been two consecutive one to nothing games put back to back.
And it's the first time since 1921 that the World Series opened with consecutive shutouts.
They were not one to nothing ball games either one of them.
A total of 52 shutout games have come about in World Series all told beginning with the 1931 when the modern records are compiled.
And from there on is where we go. And so these are the only two one to nothing ones back to back.
And it's been a long time since the World Series opened with consecutive shutout games in 1921
when you recall the Yankees had Mays and Hoyts shut out the Giants.
Well, the story in this ball game is the story of one guy.
That is, there are many stories, but it's a lean, skinny, maybe the late Rudyard Kipling.
He had him in mind when he was writing about a rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
And that's about all he is to preach a row, except the heart that's as big as his native state of Arkansas.
And he's just a bundle of fighting nerves out there on the mound.
He'd known for some days what he was going to do.
Manager Chatton knew and Rowe knew that when Rowe was called to leave on Saturday to Philadelphia,
as frail as his physique, that he could not be the starting pitcher yesterday.
I think most everybody really close to Brooklyn realized that that relief call Saturday at Philadelphia
meant that Newcomb would have to start yesterday and Rowe today.
And so Rowe for those days has been sweating it out.
And of course, yesterday's game added the pressure to him as he watched these two great pitchers, Reynolds and Newcomb.
And however, if Richard went out there, he had things go wrong, including messing up with the butt himself.
But when trouble came down, he was the equal to it and was the master.
And we have had two brilliant World Series games.
This one was much more nervous and pressure-packed for the simple reason that the Dodgers got their run in the second inning.
Yesterday's game, the run came with explosive suddenness when Henry first up from the last of the ninth,
bellated in there and he hit it well in the seats.
But there was that one run on the scoreboard today and the Yankees were running at it all day,
which meant they were playing for a run and the Dodgers were trying to make what can be a very slender margin
until you're back in the clubhouse with it, as is the case with the Brooklyn Club now,
trying to make a one-run lead stand out.
I said that the story is Rowe. It is the story of Rowe.
But in any human being's story, there is also the additional stories of all the other people that come in contact with one.
And I think that the secondary story, Rowe being on the mound, is how he got on the mound today.
A man in a brown suit and a big, sloppy brown felt hat, a big bear of a man, a burly-shaped man,
jumped out of a box right by the Brooklyn dugout and when Rowe came in the dugout,
this man had been slapping Brooklyn players all over the place as though they were just little pen-pins.
But when Rowe came in, he really gave them a big hug. That man was Branch Rickey.
Rowe came up under Rickey in the Cardinal system as a young left-hander who could throw hard.
This was before he had an accident when he got hurt coaching basketball in Arkansas and lost his fastball.
And so under Rickey years ago in the Cardinal chain, Rowe couldn't quite make it.
He could always get to Columbus, let's say, but he couldn't get to St. Louis to pitch for them.
Fellers like Ernie White who were in there that day would be just ahead of him.
But Rickey always had great faith in him. Rowe was later sold from the Cardinals to the Parrots.
And two years ago when it became a question, when you have the most popular player in the history of Brooklyn,
which is Dixie Walker, Dixie was traded when somebody had to come take the place of that fellow.
And it was in that deal that Rickey reached for preacher Rowe and brought him from Pittsburgh.
Last year Rowe was an effective pitcher. This year he won 15 games and today he rewarded that great faith.
Rickey wanted him and reached for him all the way through. And today it was a picture.
Mal would look down once in a while. I couldn't help looking, knowing the relationship between the two.
As Rickey sat there, the only show of emotion was the fact that he was clenching and unclenching his hand.
But when the game was over, I believe Rickey moved faster than he ever moved in his life.
And it was to preacher Rowe, the left-hander, that he had reached for and who returned it.
Rowe was the anchor man. Newcomb was brilliant. But the biggest game the Dodgers had to win with the Cardinals,
The last two series they met, Rowe was the fellow that did it.
And I know that the Cardinals are listening. I don't believe they're completely surprised because they know the sort of fellow that Rowe is.
So that's the ballgame. Each side had many, many opportunities to score.
In fact, you could look back and say, well, gee, it ought to have been a bushel basket full of runs in the ballgame.
But Rashid is, of course, the losing pitcher. And he went out for a pinch-pitcher page in the ninth inning.
Rashid pitched a tremendous game, good enough to win most any time.
So this series is following the regular season pattern. Everything is very hard to win this year.
Both pennants came to the closing day, the last inning, and now it looks as though one run is all you're going to get in the World Series ballgame.
Now, things don't come any tougher than 1949, do they?
They sure don't, RedThe only easy thing I know of is getting Gillette Blue Blades.
Okay. So once again, your totals for the Dodgers to even the series. It is one run, seven hits and two arrows.
For the Yankees, no runs, six hits in one hour. It's quite a day, quite a human day.
And tomorrow the series will be over at Ebbets Field. And tomorrow is another day.
And Gillette's Cavalcade of sports will be back on the air promptly at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time to report the third game of the 1949 World Series.
For you, play by play from Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.
So until then, smooth sailing, smooth shaving, and a good afternoon from your host, the Gillette Safe to Raise Company, Mel Allen, and yours truly, Red Baldwin.
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