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The New York Yankees face the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for Game 3 of the 1949 World Series on October 7th.

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The series is tied at one game apiece.

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Enjoy the mutual radio broadcast of Game 3 featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.

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Gillette's Cavalcade of sports is on the air. From Ebbets Field here in Brooklyn, Gillette presents the World Series.

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Good afternoon baseball fans everywhere.

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This is Red Barber with Mel Allen greeting you for the Gillette's Safe to Raise Company as the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers get ready for their third game in this 1949 championship classic.

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The weatherman has given us a forecast of cloudy weather and no rain and he's been exactly correct.

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It is overcast and cloudy as the series switches over here to the heart of Flatbush but the prediction is still no rain.

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The air is heavy. There is a strong wind coming in from right field which is the short sector

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which means that left hand pole hitters will be at a disadvantage.

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The wind is blowing, quartering toward the left field stands so the right hand batters who hit a high long drive figure to have an advantage on the wind.

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Ralph Branca is to me the starting pitcher for the Dodgers.

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He's busy warming up for that familiar number 13 on the back of his home white uniform.

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And Tommy Byrne, the strong arm, stout hearted left hander is getting ready for the Yankees.

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The first two games have had unprecedentedly efficient pitching.

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You all know that. They've all been one to nothing ball games and we've only had a one inning relief job.

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In other words out of four starters three of them were complete.

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The other one went eight innings.

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Only an aggregate of two runs the Brooklyn pitchers have given up no bases on balls in the two games so the headline has been pitching.

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First it was Ali Rattles on the strength of Tommy Hendricks ninth inning home run winning the first game and beating Don Newcomb for Brooklyn.

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Yesterday it was Preacher Rowe who lasted made a second inning one run stand up and beat Vic Grasje and Joe Page pitched the final inning of relief for the only relief assignment.

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So pitching is the story.

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However neither one of these two pitchers today is rated primarily as a control pitcher.

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Both walk a great many men. Branker for Brooklyn the right hander and Byrne the left hander for New York.

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In the regular season Tommy Byrne won 15 and lost seven. Wildness was the thing that plagued him more than opposing hitters.

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He is a hard ball fastball pitcher with a solid curve and he changes once in a while.

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Branker won 13 the number that matches his new ball that he wears lost five and Rowe had sort of an in and out season.

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First he had arm trouble and then he was wild too and threw a lot of home run balls.

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So the expectancy is that we'll have scoring today and certainly bases on balls.

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The umpires are coming onto the scene right now.

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There's a little meeting there in the Brooklyn bench.

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Some of the umpires this thing will manage a bird shot and they're sort of grinning. Apparently there's some little joke between them.

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The crowd is all here.

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We check with business manager Jack Collins of the Dodgers and we can tell you right now the attendance will be between 30 around around 34000 for this reason.

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There are about 32000 reserved seats and that 32000 said not 32000 reserve seats 32000 seats.

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Of course that includes the bleachers. The bleachers were closed off at 10 minutes of 11 this morning about two hours ago.

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And there will be 2500 standing room seats sold. That's all that standing room tickets.

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So that is the crowd and that's all there is to that.

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Now we'll go down the batting orders for you.

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As the series stands locked to the game of peace for the Yankees it is resumed all leading off at short.

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Each manager has changed his batting order quite a bit today.

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Brasuto leads off as usual and Henrik as usual is hitting number two and playing at first base.

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Barra after being out with a swollen hand yesterday is back in the ball game today.

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Barra left hand hitting catcher.

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Maggiore DiMaggio hitting fourth and playing center field.

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Bobby Brown gets the starting nod over Billy Johnson at third base.

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Brown at third also a left hand batter.

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Branca right hand is starting for Brooklyn.

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Woodling a left hand hitter is in left field and hitting six for the Yankees. This is his first start.

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Humpire is moving up to the plate now and the batting orders will soon be presented.

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Mates goes back to right field, left hand hitter.

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Coleman at second base hits eight and the pitcher is burned.

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The batting order for Brooklyn, Reese retains the lead off spot and playing at short stop.

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Eddie Mixis a right hand hitter with a left hand is starting for the Yankees for the first time in the series.

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Mixis starts at third.

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Carl Forello is hitting third on his back and right field and reports to manager Schotten that he feels a great deal better.

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He has a groin injury you know that kept him out of the starting lineup yesterday.

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Hitting fourth, Jackie Robinson.

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A girl, Hadges, the first baseman is batting fifth.

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Louis Olmo who finished in left field yesterday is starting there today for Brooklyn hitting sixth.

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Snyder in center field is batting seventh.

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Campanella catching and hitting eighth.

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And the pitcher is Ralph Rankin.

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Now the pop public address announcer is handing up the batting orders to the spectators here in the ballpark.

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Both pitchers continue working. The six umpires are up there. Casey Stengel, the manager of the Yankees, is up there to present his batting order.

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Captain Reese who brings the Brooklyn list up to these pregame meetings has not yet come out of the Brooklyn dugout.

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I was talking to manager Stengel and I asked him, I said Casey, this ballpark evokes many memories for you doesn't it?

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He said yes, this ballpark here at Brooklyn evokes memories for me from the time that this park was first opened for a professional game.

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It was a preseason exhibition game and he says oddly enough with the New York Yankees.

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I was then back in 1913, I was then a member of the Brooklyn team.

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And he said all of the ballplayers in 1913 thought that this was the last word in baseball park.

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And that the marble rotunda was well the most spectacular thing that ever would be.

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So time really changes and that brought back to mind that Charlie Abbott, back in those days when people accused him of having too fancy a park,

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used to say that baseball was only in its infancy.

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And judging by the way the crowds are swelling in attendance etc. I guess the game is still in its infancy.

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Now we have Peewee Reese coming up with the Brooklyn batting order.

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The ground rules are being discussed.

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The six umpires in their working rotation, Art Passarella of the American League will be back at the plate on balls and strikes.

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Lou Jordan of the National League staff at first base.

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Gal Hubbard of the American League staff will be at second.

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And Beans Ridden of the National League will be at third.

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In the left field corner, National League umpire George Bob and in the right field corner, American League umpire Ed Hurley.

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Now with the scene shifting over to the National League park, there is a change in baseball.

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But it is not as much of a change as you might think.

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The last two days at Yankee Stadium, which is an American League park,

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The baseballs were stamped with President Will Harridge's signature and they were stamped with the American League.

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And the balls that will be used today and for the next two games here at Brooklyn,

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The National League park stamped with President Ford Crick's signature and the insignia of the National League.

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But spawning makes them both, makes them on the same machines and there is no difference between them.

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No difference at all.

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In other words, one is just the same as the other.

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The two starting pitches that tend to burn for the invading Yankees here at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn and right-hander Ralph Branker both continue to hauling along.

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There was a very significant ceremony before the ball game and that was a ceremony in which Commissioner Chandler presented a huge banner,

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a huge banner to the American Legion Junior Baseball team of Oakland, California representing post number 337,

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The team that won the 1949 American Legion Junior Baseball National Championship.

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And they have been brought here as a body all the way from Oakland, out on the Pacific Coast.

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And don't you know that bunch of boys is really having a time?

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And the commissioner gave them a grand big banner. Man, that's some treasure.

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And it's interesting to note too that 27 of the 50 players certified for this World Series by Commissioner Chandler,

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all graduates of American Legion Junior Baseball, 16 ex-Legion stars with the Yankees and 11 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Now we're going to have the ceremony. As instant as the throwing out of the first ball, there's Commissioner Chandler over there in his box,

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which is just on the first base side. And he has with him a youngster who's just gritting so hard that I don't think he's been able to say a word for a couple of hours,

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Arthur C. Sweeney, 13 years old. He's a Brooklyn boy and he was a victim of polio this year and he has recovered beautifully.

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And there is Commissioner Chandler shaking hands with Bar President John Cashmore.

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John Cashmore stepping aside for this youngster, of course. Everybody steps aside, for kids, for people who are in trouble,

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and especially for the fine cooperation with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

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So Arthur C. Sweeney in just a second will take the ball from Bar President Cashmore,

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and standing shoulder to shoulder with Commissioner Chandler, will fire that ball out toward the mound and then the ball game will be on its way.

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Folks, to some of us, this month of October means the World Series and the beginning of football, and to others it means the start of the hunting season.

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But to all of us, it ushers in the annual drive on behalf of America's Community Chess.

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Community Chess means many campaigns in one. It represents the biggest federation of community services and givers in the world.

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Or if not for this once-a-year campaign, each of more than 14,000 Red Feather Agency units in it would have to conduct a separate appeal for funds.

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So when the Community Chess worker in your town calls it for new, make a real worthwhile contribution.

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There are various payment plans, so pledge now and pay as you can during the year.

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Ground rules are still being discussed. We will check the batting orders for you in case you just joined us on this Gillette broadcast just before Game 3 of the 1949 World Series for the Yankees.

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Masudo at short, Henrik at first base, Berra is catching, DiMaggio in center, hitting fourth, Bobby Brown at third, Gene Woodling in left,

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Triff Mapes in right, Jerry Coleman, the second baseman, and the pitcher is Tommy Byrne.

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The batting order for the Dodgers, Reese at short, Mixis at third, Forello in right, Robinson at second, hitting fourth,

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Hodgers at first, Olmol in left, Snyder in center, Campanella catching, and the pitcher is Branker.

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The discussion, incident to ground rules at this park, and of course Stengel is no stranger to this ballpark, Casey was as a player here on the first Brooklyn team to play in Ebbets Field back in 1913,

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played for many years, was a member of the Brooklyn pennant winning team of 1916, which is being honored by being guests of President Branch Rickey and the Brooklyn Dodgers at this World Series.

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And all of them that were alive were brought in at the expense of the Dodgers, and tonight they are to be given a special banquet, and Casey Stengel says, sure, he's going to attend.

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He remembers that that 1916 pennant was a mighty hard one to win, and he wants to be with those old friends for this evening.

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And of course Stengel managed here in Ebbets Field, so, well this is the ballpark too, you know, in case he walked up the home plate one afternoon, lifted his cap and a sparrow flew out.

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And Casey Stengel has had as much as any man that we know in setting the tradition that anything can and probably will happen at Ebbets Field.

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There's a quick description of the ballpark for you now. Wright Field is the famous wall here at Brooklyn.

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It is 297 feet down the Wright Field line. It falls away sharply to where in Wright Center Field it is 395.

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The Wright Field wall is 40 feet high. It's a 20 feet concrete wall with an additional 20 feet of screen paneling on top of it.

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And the scoreboard is stuck out in front of the concrete and wire fence in Wright Center Field.

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And you have any number of angles. The concrete wall does not go straight up and down.

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It goes up at a slant from the bottom and then is straight up and down, halfway up, in other words 10 feet off the ground.

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There are three different angles where the scoreboard intersects.

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So anybody who has played baseball will tell you that the Wright Field wall here with its many angles is the most difficult single outfield piece of passage in any of the Major League parks.

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Center Field is 393 feet and left Center Field 351. In the left field corner 348 feet. So this is a left-hand hitter's ballpark.

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The stands are double decked here at Brooklyn all the way from right Center Field back around behind left, behind home plate into the right field corner.

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There are no seats at all. It is on the wall in straightaway right field.

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And our friends, we'll pause 10 seconds for station identification. This is the mutual broadcasting system.

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Hear the World Series exclusively on WOR 710. See the World Series on WOR TV Channel 9.

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WOR and WOR FM New York.

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Back at Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Club goes out to take the field. We will have the National Anthem in just a moment played in song by Miss Gladys Gooding, the Consul of the Electric Organs.

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She has an art distinction. She is one of the few women who has a real Major League job in sports.

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She entertains here at Ebbets Field and at Madison Square Garden.

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So now Miss Gooding is being announced and we will have the National Anthem.

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The National Anthem plays.

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The National Anthem plays.

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We would like to add one more note before we turn the microphone over to Mel Allen.

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And that is that we are very happy to see down in the Yankee box that Mrs. Casey Stengel is sitting down there.

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Because to add to the woes of the Yankee manager, Mrs. Stengel was quite sick last evening.

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But we are glad that it was temporary because you can imagine how Casey would have felt if his wife had been unable to be out here at the ballpark today.

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So under overcast skies but with no prediction of rain, although you sort of feel it in the air, the ballgame is ready to go.

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Big bankers on the mound. And here at the microphone, Mel Allen, who has done such a great job in the field of sports broadcasting, has left it and all of us in it much distinction. Mel?

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Hello there everybody. Thank you very much, Red. This program comes to you by authority of the Commissioner of Baseball. It's intended only for the private use of our audience.

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

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And so we're all set to go as Ralph Branca, the 23-year-old right-hander from Mount Vernon, New York, who stands 6'2, weighs around 185, is all set to compete in his second World Series.

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He worked twice in 1947. He won one and lost one. He opened the World Series for the Dodgers, was beaten by Speck Shea 5-3.

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But he's all set now to go against Phil Rizzuto as the Yankee shortstop, a right-hand hitter, steps in the hitting position, chokes his bat a couple of inches.

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You've got Eddie Mixis in close at third. Phoebe Reese in the steppers over toward third. In comes the first pitch of the ballgame, swung on, popped up into the air, fouled off to the right of the plate.

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Campanella, after it can't get it, it's out of play into the upper deck. So strike one as we're underway in the third game of the fall classic.

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Baseball people galore around. Charlie Grimm and Frankie Prisher here, which we look about.

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Ralph Branca looking in to get his sign from Campanella, outfield, around toward left. In comes the pitcher.

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Rizzuto takes strike two, called a fastball over the outside corner, knee-high. Art Passarello of the American League, calling balls and strikes.

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Lou Jordan of the National League at first, Cal Hubbard. Of the American League at second, Beans Ridden of the National League at third.

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Now Ralph Branca, the right-hander, throws. Rizzuto takes high and inside for ball one. The count is one and two.

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Ed Hurley of the American League, stationed down the right field line. George Bahr of the National League, down the left field line.

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Branca getting set. Rizzuto in close to the plate up in front of the batter's box.

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Deep at third now as he mixes with two strikes on the scooter. In comes the pitch. Phil swings and sends a drive down the right field line.

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It's going to go foul and out of play. Missing the wall by about 10 feet and fouled by about 25.

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Louis, or rather Carl Perillo, playing right field, raced over to get the ball, but of course couldn't.

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Got Louis Almo on left, Duke Snyder in center, Perillo on right.

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Jackie Robinson is about four strikes to the right of second base in the step. Hodges in halfway at first, five feet off the line.

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Ralph Branca, the right-hander, throws. Rizzuto swings and sends a ground ball to third. Up with his mixes going to his left.

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The throw to Hodges in time and there's one away.

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Phil Rizzuto grounds out, mixes to Hodges. A ground ball, hit the end of the hole between third and short, but not too hard,

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giving mixes a chance to flash to his left, come up with it with the reach, backing him up.

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And now here's Tommy Hendricks getting a hand as he is announced.

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Left-hand batter stands deep in the batter's box.

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Fairly close to the plate, not too close to it, however.

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Branca's first pitch to Tommy is right over for a called strike.

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And above the knees, Frank Crassetti coaching there at third base, Bill Dickey at first for New York.

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Mixes about 12 feet off the third baseline, raced over toward second.

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In comes the pitch, inside and low for a ball, and the count is evened up at one and one.

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Jackie Robinson at a point almost halfway between first and second, back on the edge of the outfield grass.

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The outfield around toward right and deep, in center and right with Almo looking for Hendrick perhaps to slice toward left.

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Oh, he's over toward left center a bit. The pitch, it's strike call over the outside corner.

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And it's a one-two count now on Hendrick. Tommy started to cut at that ball.

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It was taking off and he thought it might go wide to the plate, but it didn't.

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Roy Campanella picks up a clot of dirt off the ball left of the plate, tosses it away in the direction of Yogi Berra, who's in the batter circle.

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One out, nobody on top of the first inning.

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Branca pitches, Hendrick swings and grounds one down to first.

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Hodges up with it, runs to the bag, outruns Hendrick and they're two away.

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It was a hard ground ball, but right at Gil Hodges.

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And now with two down, up comes Yogi Berra.

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Larry Berra from St. Louis, Missouri, who had the distinction in this ballpark two years ago of hitting a pinch at home run over the right center field screen.

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Yogi playing with that swollen left hand.

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Outfield, infield set up the same for Berra as for Hendrick.

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Big round frank to the right-handers, into the wind.

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Up around comes the arm, the pitch curve swung on a ground ball foul down the first baseline.

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Gloved by Hodges, three feet foul, he whips it around to Robinson as the ball goes around the infield.

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Two men down, top of the first inning.

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And the thousands here wondering, of course, whether we will have a reproduction today of the first two games of the series played at the stadium, both pitchers' battles, two one-nothing ball games, teams dividing them.

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One strike to count on Berra, branca pitches, change up in its high and outside, ball one.

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He took a little bit off of a fastball.

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One ball, one strike.

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When Red told you about Casey Stengel in this ballpark years ago, taking off his cap and letting a sparrow fly out, it reminded me of another story I'll tell you about in a moment.

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Berra swings and fouls it off to the left of the screen.

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There were reports after Hendrick's homer to win the first game in the ninth inning, one to nothing, that that was the first time that it had ever happened.

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It was the first time it had happened to make a one-nothing victory in a World Series in the ninth inning.

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But Stengel, where the Giants had beaten the Yankees with an inside the park homer, one-nothing, but that occurred in the seventh inning.

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The one-two pitch swung on a dry foul down the right fiel line going out of play.

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And when Casey hit that ball at Yankee Stadium and inside the park homer, he lost his shoe rounding second base and continued to circle the bases with one shoe on and one off.

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One ball, two strikes, two outs, top of the first inning, no score, nobody on base.

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Francis studies, Campanella signed, Roy in the crouched behind that plate, giving the pitcher a good target.

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The Dodger right-hander delivers and Berra swings and drives another one foul down the right fiel line, this one into the upper deck, swung on a curveball.

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Throughout the year, Yogi hits more foul home runs than any other member of the Yankee ball club and perhaps more than a lot of ball players in a lot of clubs.

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In other words, he pulls very sharply and he'll hit a million of them just fouled into the right field stands.

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Frank are all set, the one-two pitch and Berra swings and misses, strike three. Working out on a nice fast ball, let's take off outside.

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No runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left on.

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And the score at the end of the first half of the first inning is New York nothing, Brooklyn nothing.

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Last time for the first inning, the Dodgers sending up Peewee Reese, Eddie Mixus, and Carl Ferrello against the left-handed slants of Tommy Byrne.

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, currently resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

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You went to Wake Forest, as did Ray Scarborough, Washington Senator pitcher. They were teammates down there.

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Tommy Byrne represents, in a manner of speaking, an enigma to Casey Stengel and to baseball observers.

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He has some of the best stuff any pitcher has in baseball, but his problem always has been controlling it.

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He frequently will pitch a game in which he'll walk anywhere from six to ten men or more, and yet keep the opposition from scoring.

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On the other hand, there have been times as wild as his costing ball games.

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And so we're all set to go, and you never know just how Tommy Byrne will go.

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Generally, he has most of his wildest problems in the first inning, which has caused managers to wonder whether or not Tommy should have warmed up a little longer than the usual 15 minutes allotted for it.

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They've tried that, but that hasn't worked.

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Here's Pee-bee Reese leading off right-hand hitter, left-hander Tommy Byrne into the windup. In comes the pitch, and it is in there for a called strike.

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You've got Bobby Brown playing third base today, and he's in close in the event of a bunt by Reese.

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You've got Gene Woodling left and Cliff Mapes in right. Yankee changes from the first two games. In comes the delivery, and it's outside and low for a ball, one and one.

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Byrne has a fastball that's alive. He's got a sweeping curve, and he's got a fast-breaking curve.

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Outfield playing Reese toward left and center left with Mapes pulled over into right center a bit.

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In comes your delivery. Swung on and missed. Strike two. Reese gave it a good cut. One ball, two strikes to count on Pee-wee.

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Tommy Byrne, despite his wildness, has through the course of this year in winning 15 games and losing seven, won several key games for the Yankees in their battle for the pennant.

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Just when they had appeared to be in the throes of a losing slump, he would come along and win a key game for them, such as against Cleveland or one of the top teams that the Yankees had to beat.

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Now the delivery is inside. Reese hit him. I believe it hit him on the leg as that ball broke way on him. He did. He gets up and he trots on down the first.

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With a one-two count on Reese, Byrne whipped a terrifically breaking curveball inside, but it broke so far in that Reese couldn't even get out of the way of it.

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He hit him on the right ankle, or just above the right ankle, and time has been called while he trots up and down the line beyond first base toward right to take the sting out of it and also the possibility of getting that blood circulating around in there so he can run.

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Jake Fittler coaching there at first base is talking to him. Peewee says he's going to be all right. Meantime, Tommy is throwing a couple into Larry Barrett, and time is back in, and into the plate now steps Eddie Mixis.

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That's him right-handed, replacing Spider-Jorx in the third today with a left-hander going for New York. And so Tommy Byrne's wildness immediately comes into the spotlight.

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Ahead of the first hitter, he hit him. So Reese moves off first, the stretch by Tommy Byrne, a check of the runner. In comes the pitch, and it is a bunt foul off to the left of the plate, out of play, into the stands to the left of our mutual and Gillette broadcasting booth, which is located directly back on home plate.

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One strike to count on Eddie Mixis. Carl Perillo is on deck.

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Mixis is almost a local boy. He's from Burlington, New Jersey. Stands deep in the batter's box. Slightly open stance in close to the plate. Holds the bat just short of the end of the handle.

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Brown in close at third. Here's your pitch. Mixis takes outside for a ball. He did not indicate that he was going to bunt that time. Evidently Byrne shot and took the bunt sign off. Now he can just as quickly put it back on.

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Bobby Brown is still in close at third. Rizzuto is in halfway at short. Three strikes to the left of second. Coleman, same distance to the right of the bag and in halfway. Henry Coling against Reese, who takes a good lead. The stretch by Byrne, a look.

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And the pitch into the plate. Outside. Ball two, two and one.

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Two balls, one strike. Tommy Byrne now forcing himself a little bit after having hit Reese. He has a problem of his own mentally and that he's thinking about his wildest.

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Two balls, one strike.

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Byrne all set a look at Reese leading off first. And the pitch to Mixis. Outside for ball three, three and one.

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Now Jerry Coleman trots in from second base to talk to Byrne.

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No activity in the Yankee bullpen is yet.

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Coleman talking to Tommy.

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You've got Carl Perillo on deck and Jackie Robinson to follow. Top half, or rather the last half of the first inning, no score. Top of the order for Brooklyn. Reese on first hit by a pitched ball to count three and one on Eddie Mixis.

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Byrne takes his stretch. Reese with the lead.

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The delivery. Right in there for called strike two.

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Pumped a fastball through there.

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Mixis steps out of the batter's box just for a moment. Now he's back in.

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Mixis high and foot is half out of the back restraining line of the batter's box.

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It's a violation that's often most of the time overlooked.

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We're ready for the payoff pitch. There goes Reese. The pitch is swung on to high pop up. Off to the left of the plate. Byrne stumbles as he starts back for the ball getting toward the dugout for the Yankees and makes the catch.

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And Reese goes to second base. There's a throw to Coleman and Reese is doubled up at second base.

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And Art Passarello just ran over to the Yankee dugout and warned Casey Stengel. Stengel had come out of the Yankee dugout onto the playing area proper to coach Barra on the ball and Passarello warned him.

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But it was a daring gamble by Peewee and an alert play and a good play by Yogi to double up Reese at second. And they're two down and here's Carl Perillo, right hand hitter, and the pitch.

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Swung on a drive to deep right center field. DiMaggio racing back toward the wall and Leaps and DiMaggio's there under it and he makes the catch.

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No runs for Brooklyn. No hits. No Yankee errors. Nobody left on base and so we've had a lot of excitement already in the opening inning.

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And it may be a harbinger of things to come in this third game of the World Series. So in the last half of the first inning after Reese was hit by the pitched ball,

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Nixis with a 3-1 count on him took the next pitch for 3-2 and then hit a high foul pop up off to the left of the plate that Yogi Barra caught after stumbling starting back, caught it near the Yankee dugout and Peewee tagged up at first and broke for second with Barra having his back to the plate thinking he might get the jump.

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Thinking perhaps Barra wouldn't figure him to be going but Yogi Whirl and of course the boys on the bench hollered to Yogi to tell him and through his throw was not too true.

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It was on the shortstop side of second but Jerry Coleman was there to take it and had plenty of time to reach for it and then come back and tag Reese out sliding in for the double play.

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So as we go to the top of the second inning of the scoreless game, up steps Joe DiMaggio.

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Joe DiMaggio leads off with Bobby Brown and Gene Woodling to follow.

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Ralph Franca on the hill.

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Outfield around toward left infield around toward third to pitch right over for a call strike.

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Fastball overhand fastball mixes deep at third near the line about two feet off of it.

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Peewee Reese back on the edge of the left field grass and over toward the third base hole with Robinson three strides to the right of second.

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Franca throws low outside for a ball one and one. One ball one strike.

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The Dodgers have certainly got a good book on the Yankees that is to say they have scouted them well.

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Scouting is permitted in baseball just as it is in football.

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One ball one strike.

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Ralph Franca works and the pitch.

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Curve swung on and missed strike two. A good swing a good hook.

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One and two the count.

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DiMaggio has had only one hit in the series and that was what the boys in the trade term a bleeder as he beat out a slow roller in the ninth inning yesterday.

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Franca head of the hitter and the one two pitch on its way. DiMaggio swings and misses strike three.

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Joe DiMaggio went down swing on an inside fastball and now coming up is Bobby Brown.

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Bobby bats them left handed. He had a one thousand batting average for World Series play until he pinch hit yesterday and struck out.

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In 1947 he hit every time that he was charged with the time at bat.

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Franca's first pitch is swung on. It's a looping fly ball out in the short center going out as Robinson.

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In comes Snyder's Jackie out there makes the catch in short center for out number two.

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With two down the batter is Gene Woodling.

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Woodling came up from San Francisco to the Yankees this year after having had brief trials with Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

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He led the Pacific Coast League in hitting last year with a 385 average born from Akron, Ohio.

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Stands in close to the plate deep in the batter's box. Feet together. Jokes the bat just about an inch.

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In comes the pitch and it's a little inside. Ball one.

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They play Woodling toward right in center and right straight away and left. The big gap in left center. Woodling slices he can pull.

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Third baseman makes his end halfway on the skinned part of the infield. It doesn't feed off the line.

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Franca throws. The pitch is right over for a call strike. A fastball and the count is evened up at one and one.

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Reese is about three strides to the left of second in two steps.

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Jackie Robinson halfway between first and second back on the edge of the right field grass with Gil Hodges deep and three feet off the first baseline.

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One and one the count. Two men out top of the second inning. No score.

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Franca's pitch. Strike. It's called a fastball over that inside corner. Back Woodling away but the pitch stayed right in there.

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One two count on Jean. Cliff Mapes on deck.

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Frank Presetti coaching there third hollering something up to Woodling.

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Franca gets his sign from Campanella. Starts the wind up around comes the right arm. The pitch curve and it's outside.

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Ball two. It was a beauty. Just missed.

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Art Passerella calling balls and strikes for the of the American League. Lou Jordan the National League on parring at first.

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Cal Hubbard of the American League at second. Beans Ridd in the National League at third.

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George Barr the National League down the left field line and Ed Hurley of the American League down the right field line.

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And now Branca's two two pitch to Woodling. Swung on to high pop up foul off back of third.

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Mixis waves Campanella off and he's under it makes the catch. Woodling fouls out to Mixis.

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No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left on.

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And we move right along. You know watching today's game with us here in the broadcasting booth is a ballplayer you all know.

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Ready now for the last half of the second inning. Nothing and nothing.

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And so far this has been primarily a goose egg series hasn't it Red?

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Well Mel you've had only two runs and two ball games and one and a half innings.

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I don't believe they run out of goose eggs for the scoreboard do you?

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I believe they got enough out there to continue to deal them out.

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Jackie Robinson leads off for the Dodgers in the last half of the second.

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Gill Hodges and Louis Almodo to follow.

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Phil Rizzuto honors something over there to Tommy Byrne as Tommy went to the Rossen bag.

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The left hander sets to work on Big Jackie right hand hitter.

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Brown in close at third in the event of the bunt.

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Tommy Byrne's pitch to Robinson. Swung on it's a high fly ball out into short rides.

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As a matter of fact the wind is holding it up in Coleman back of Henrik.

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Makes the catch a step on the skinned part of the infield.

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As the ball started out it looked as if it was going to go out into short ride.

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Mape started in but the wind which was blowing in from right field and out toward left held it up.

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And Coleman took it right in behind Henrik.

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So with one down up comes Gill Hodges bats him right handed.

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Outfield is around toward left.

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Hodges drove in the winning run for the Dodgers yesterday.

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Drove in Jackie Robinson who had doubled in that inning.

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Now the pitch. Strike call over the outside corner.

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Byrne south part of fastball.

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That nicked the outside part of the plate just above the knees to Big Gill.

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Brown deep at third or halfway back near the line.

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In comes the pitch and it's way outside for the ball. One and one.

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Phil Rizzuto is not too far over into the third base hole but pretty close to it.

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Jerry Coleman only about two strikes to the right of second.

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Henrik ten feet off first base in halfway on the skinned part of the infield.

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In comes the pitch. Hodges takes strike call as Tommy Byrne whips a curve over the outside corner.

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It's a one-two count now on Hodges. One out. Last half of the second inning. No score.

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Milton Stock coaching at third for the Dodgers. Cups his hands over his mouth.

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Hollers words of encouragement up to Big Gill who has come along fast in his development as a first baseman.

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In comes the pitch. Curve swung on. Popped up into the air.

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Off to the left of the plate. Yogi Berra goes over and makes the catch.

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That brings up now Louis Almo.

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Feel it.

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Hodges fouls out to Berra. Off to the left of home plate.

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Now Louis Almo steps in. Right hand hitter.

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Tommy Byrne's first pitch to him is low. Ball one.

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We've had some excellent umpiring in the series. Casey Stengel comes to the front of the Yankee.

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Dug out and motion something out there to Woodling. Gene hasn't seen him.

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Byrne delivers almost. Starts to swing. Held up as the pitch stayed inside around the letters for ball two.

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And now Stengel is back out of the dugout. He's trying to get somebody's attention.

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He's getting Brown's attention. Now he's got Woodling's eye and Woodling is moving more over toward left center.

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DiMaggio is a step or two over toward right center. And Mape's almost straight away in right.

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The two nothing pitch to Almo. Right over for a call strike. Two and one.

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Milton Stock with a gesture of the hands indicates to Almo just meet the ball.

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It's a two one count on the right hand hitter. Two outs. Last the second inning.

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A scoreless ball game. Duke Snyder's on deck.

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Tommy Byrne comes in with the pitch and it is swung on. Popped up into the air.

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Off to the right of the plate but it's going to come back out of play.

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Just above our heads.

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Two to the count. Two balls. Two strikes. Two outs. Inning number two.

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Each team looking for win number two in this series.

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Tommy Byrne the slow worker. Rubs up to cover that new ball.

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Things are fairly quiet at the moment as you would expect in a scoreless ball game.

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There's big Hank Greenberg sitting behind Bill Beck. Eating himself a hot dog.

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Alright. Tommy Byrne set to go again.

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In comes the pitch and it is swung on. A slow roller hit down toward third.

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Bobby Brown charges it up with it. Fires over to Henrik and it is in time for the out and a close play.

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No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left on. Almo topped the pitch. It rolled slowly down third.

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Brown charged it and fired Almo out on a very close play.

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One of those pat pat or bang bang plays as they say in the trade.

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And thus at the end of two innings you have another scoreless ball game.

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The Yankees have been three up and three down.

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The Dodgers have only had six batters but they've had one on.

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Pee Wee Reese who was hit by a pitched ball but immediately was doubled up.

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By the next hitter.

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This is Mel Allen with Red Barber bringing you the World Series.

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In behalf of the Gillette Safety Razor Company who are proud to bring it to you for the 11th consecutive year.

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Jim Britt doing the telecast of the World Series games.

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And Renee Canizares beaming it to the Latin American countries.

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And our broadcast going around the world through the shortwave facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.

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Cliff Mapes looks at a strike. A fastball fired through there by Ralph Branca who wears the number 13 on his uniform.

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But he's not superstitious. As a matter of fact he's one of 13 children.

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Strong arm broad shoulder right hander fires away. Mapes takes inside. Another fast one. Ball one. One and one.

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Branca joined the Dodger organization in 1943.

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Best year was in 1947 when he won 21 ball games.

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Went to New York University.

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One ball one strike. Mixes is wide at third. In comes the pitch. Mapes takes a curve that's high.

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Ball two. Two and one.

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Two balls one strike. It's an overcast day as Red told you a while ago.

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For those of you who may have tuned in late we repeat it.

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No immediate threat of rain however. The wind is blowing out toward left. In from right.

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Now the delivery. Swung on. Bow tipped and into the mid of campanella for strike two. Two-two.

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Cliff Mapes is a boy that has tremendous power.

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He also has definite weaknesses at the plate.

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That pitchers capitalize on but if they make one mistake he's got so much power he can hurt you.

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Branca's two-two delivery on its way and Mapes swings and foul tips it dropped by campanella and Mapes is alive.

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That's a rough job back at that plate.

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When we say that a catcher has dropped the third foul tip it's not meant in any sense of criticism of the backstop.

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Those balls come spinning back there and they're rough even if you've got a mask and protect on as they do have it's still rough to handle.

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Now the delivery. Curve is low inside. Ball three.

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Full count now on Mapes.

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This is the first batter on which Branca's gone to a three-two count. His control has been superb up to now.

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No score. Top of the third inning.

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And the payoff pitch on its way. Mapes takes high. Ball four and he's on.

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And that is the first base on balls given up by a Brooklyn pitcher in this series.

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Number 22 Jerry Coleman. Neither Don Ucom nor Preacher Rowe gave up a walk.

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Mapes gets the first walk issued in the series by a Brooklyn pitcher.

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And now coming to bat is Jerry Coleman. Pride of San Francisco.

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24 years of age.

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The pitch is right in there for a call strike. Jerry stands about six feet. He isn't very hefty.

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He only weighs around 165. Has come along marvellously.

439
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And though he may not be the rookie of the year in the American League he did play a good enough ball to be in contention for that honor.

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Mixis is in close at third. Mapes has a lead. Hodges holding to stretch the pitch. Coleman swings and bounce it off to the right of the plate.

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It's out of play. Onto the roof and out of the ballpark. A two-strike count on Jerry.

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The Dodger outfield of the day consists of Almo in left, Snyder in center, Perillo in right.

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Mixis is at third as we go to the infield. Reese short. Robinson second. Hodges first. Campanella catching and Branca pitching.

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Mixis isn't looking for the bunt. He's halfway back at third near the line. Reese is in halfway at short. Four stripes to the left of second.

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Robinson halfway between first and second and in halfway. Here's the pitch. Swung on to high. Fly ball. Curving foul back to first.

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Hodges digs over near the stands but he cannot get it. It's out of play. The ball dropping about 10 rows in.

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A two-strike count still on Coleman. Naturally he wouldn't, as we go back to Mixis, would not be looking for the bunt with two strikes on Jerry.

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But stranger things have happened.

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The outfield is just about straightaway. Coleman, though he can pull, has for the most part in this series been hitting to right field.

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And Carl Perillo is stationed over toward the right field line. Now the delivery. Curve is right in there. Throw down to first base.

451
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Mapes just back in time. That was the third strike on Coleman. We didn't have time to tell you that it was the third one.

452
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Of course you knew if you were following the count because Campanella whipped a quick throw down.

453
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The Hodges trying to double up Mapes who had a good lead off the bag. But Mapes got back in time.

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So Coleman looks for third strike. Beautiful curve and that's the third strike out for Branca. And now coming to bat is Tommy Byrne.

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Though Byrne did not hit for a high average during the course of the season, nonetheless he is what is generally termed a good hitting pitcher.

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He's dangerous in other words with the plate. He hit 193 but he drove in 13 runs.

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He's the kind of a guy who might hit the long ball for you. He might just take three cuts and sit down.

458
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The delivery. Right in there for a called strike over that inside corner above the maze.

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The outfield is shading him toward right, slightly in center and right. Almost a straightaway set up.

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Byrne hits a lot down the left field line if he gets an outside pitch. He can also pull him.

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Here's your delivery. Low inside for the ball. One and one.

462
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Tommy had 16 hits in the regular season. Four of them were doubles and two of them triples.

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Mapes has the lead. Hodges holding. Here's your pitch. Curve and it's low inside. Ball two. Two and one.

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Eddie mixes. Walks a step or two from third over toward the mound to pep up Ralph Branca.

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Ralph decides to take a wide hand chip out of his right hip pocket and mop his face.

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It isn't a warm day, but it is warm when a guy's out there throwing that ball.

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Looking around we see Joe Cronin, general manager of the Red Sox, see it off to the left of the Yankee dugout.

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There goes Mapes. The pitch is swung on. A ground ball hit out past Robinson and a right center for a base hit.

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Mapes around second was way to third. Snyder up to the ball. Whips it in to Robinson and it's a base hit for Byrne.

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That's the Yankees' first hit of the ball game. They put the hit and run on and Byrne wrapped a solid base hit to the right of second.

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Jackie Robinson made a beautiful backhanded attempt to get that ball, but couldn't quite reach it.

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Duke Snyder went over into right center to grab it, whipped his throw back to the infield.

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But Cliff Mapes, who was off and running, raced to third.

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Now Joe Hatton, a left-hander, begins to throw in the Dodger bullpen.

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As Phil Rizzuto steps up, Phil grounded to third in the first inning.

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The Dodger infield is in for play at the plate. Here's the pitch. Phil takes in over the inside corner for a called strike.

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He's started to cut but held up. His reflexes are wonderful. He can make a move and stop right on a dime.

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Dixies and Rays are almost at the edge of the infield grass. Robinson is not quite so close. He's halfway.

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Hodges holding against Byrne. Here's your pitch. It's bunny down the first baseline. Here comes Mapes and the ball goes foul.

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They attempted the squeeze. Hodges broke from first toward the plate but allowed the ball to roll foul and he saw it spinning that way.

481
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Casey Stengel comes just to the front of the Yankee dugout and hollers to Phil to get a piece of it now. There's two strikes on the scooter.

482
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Hodges might have had a play at the plate had the ball remained fair.

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Mapes on third. Byrne on first, one out. And for Ralph Brank on the Dodgers, Rizzuto is the key man in this inning.

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Stretch by Ralph. The pitch. Swung on to fly ball. Hit out into right center field. Perillo goes over, gets under, makes the catch.

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Here's Mapes tagging up. And he scores. And the Yankees lead 1-0 as the throw was way off on third base side of home plate.

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I thought Hodges was going to cut it off as Tommy Byrne made a break for a second. But Byrne thinking they were going to cut it off.

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Then held up and came back to first. So Rizzuto flies out to Perillo in right center and is credited with a run batted in as Mapes tagged up and scored after the catch.

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And as baseball observers will tell you, there again is that base on balls. Isn't that right, Ray?

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Well, that's a question the Dodgers fits to given up. It probably cost them a run.

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And now here's Tommy Henrik. Bats them left handed two down. The pitch. Curve inside. Ball one. Tommy Byrne on first base.

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Joe Hatton continues to throw in the bullpen. 1-0 New York. Top of the third inning. Henrik grounded out to Hodges in the first inning.

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Gill is not holding now against Tommy but just in behind him. Now the delivery. Way inside to Henrik. Ball two. 2-0 to count.

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In these World Series games, once a pitcher allows a runner or two to get on as a rule, the bullpen becomes alive.

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The time is short. Best four games out of seven. You're not playing 154. And you've got to throw everything you've got into each game as much as you possibly can throw into it and save something for the next day.

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Now the delivery. Change up is high and away for ball three. 2-0 pitch is a favorite one for a batter to swing on.

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And sometimes it's a very smart pitch at changing up on a fastball hitter as Henrik is if you can get it over. But it was high outside.

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Two down. Branca ready for the 3-0 pitch. Here it is. Inside. Ball four. And Tommy Byrne moves down to second. Henrik takes over first as Branca gives up his second walk in the inning.

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And the batter now is Yogi Berra who struck out in the first inning. Reese and Campanella converge at the mound to talk to Branca to settle him down.

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And so we are beginning to get more action in this third game of the World Series than has been customary so far.

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That is more concentrated action and scattered explosions here and there in the first two games.

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Yogi Berra steps in. Byrne moves off second. Henrik off first. Two down. One in. Top of the third inning. One to nothing, New York.

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Outfield toward right and center and right. Straightaway almost and left. Big gap in left center. Mixes halfway back at third. Ten feet off the line. Reese in. Couple of steps. Three strides to the left of second. The pitch is inside. Ball one to Yogi.

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Jackie Robinson deep at second. Halfway between first and second bases with Hodges deep near the line.

504
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:16,000
The wind remembers blowing away from right out toward left.

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Berra left hand pull hitter. Awaits the pitch from Branca. Campanella on the cross gives Branca the sign. One run in. Top of the third inning. Two down. Two on. One nothing, New York.

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Byrne moves off second base. Henrik off first. Stretch by Branca. In comes the pitch. Berra swings and sends a pop up right out to second to Robinson. He takes it for the out and the inning is over.

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That ball had Jackie boo momentarily as it did most of us. As it started out it looked as if it might go further. Jackie took a step out toward right field and stopped and came in for the ball.

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It was not hit as hard or as well as it appeared. One run for New York. One hit. No dodgy errors. Two men left on for the Yankees.

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And the score at the end of two and a half innings, New York one, Brooklyn nothing.

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Last half of the third inning, the Dodgers will come up with Duke Snyder, Roy Campanella, and most likely Ralph Branca.

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See red sort of looking down to see if there's any possibility of anybody being around a bat rack.

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But Hatton is no longer warming up and it's early in the game and only one run different.

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So the likelihood of Branca being out of there is very remote.

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Last of the third, Duke Snyder steps in. Left hand batter, power hitter.

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Stands 6-2, weighs around 175, in close to the plate. Left hand of Tommy Byrne delivers. Snyder takes outside for a ball.

523
00:59:53,000 --> 01:00:10,000
Almost swung on it. Boy from Compton, California. 23 years of age. Byrne throws. The pitch is in there for a call strike, sidearm fastball.

524
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:17,000
One ball, one strike on Duke. Yanks one, Dodgers nothing. Last half of the third inning, third game of the World Series.

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01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:25,000
Each team has won the game. Now Tommy Byrne's delivery. Snyder swings and sends a fly ball into left center.

526
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:35,000
DeMaj starts back and has to come in. The wind is holding up. Here comes Woodling and Woodling makes the catch.

527
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:41,000
That wind is rough today and causes the outfielders and infielders a little trouble.

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01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:52,000
That ball started out into left center and DeMaj had started back. And then suddenly had to stop and start in as the wind carried that ball away from him and in toward the infield.

529
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But fortunately for the Yankees, Gene Woodling also had started the ball and the left fielder, racing over toward left center and in, made the catch.

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01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:06,000
Now here is Roy Campanella, right hand batter. Byrne throws. Campanella swings, bounds it down to third. Two hops to Bobby Brown.

531
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:17,000
Near the line, he fires across to Henrik in time and they're two away. Campanella smacked a hard two hopper to Bobby Brown.

532
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:27,000
Just inside the third baseline. Bobby was playing it in there close and grabbed it to throw him out easily. Here is Ralph Franka coming to bat now.

533
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:36,000
Two up and two away. Last to the third. New York one. Dodgers nothing. Casey Stengel at the front of the dugout of the Yankees now.

534
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:41,000
Pushing Woodling over toward left center more. The pitch in there for a called strike.

535
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:47,000
The outfield set up is just about straight away. Woodling was a little closer to the left field line than Stengel wanted him.

536
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:51,000
Bobby Brown is about five feet off third baseline. Three steps away from the edge of the infield grass.

537
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:57,000
Rizzuto four strides to the left of second in about two steps. Byrne delivers. The pitch is over for called strike two.

538
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:07,000
You got Jerry Coleman. Four strides to the right of second and deep and Henrik. Six or eight feet off first baseline and he's fairly deep there at first.

539
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,000
Two strikes to count on Franka. Tommy Byrne the left-hander into the windup delivers and it's swung on and missed. Strike three.

540
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:19,000
The ball dropped by Barra. He picks it up, throws easily down to Henrik for the out as Franka ran it. And that's all for the Dodgers.

541
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:26,000
The put out goes two to three since Barra dropped the third strike. It's a strike out however for Byrne and his first of the ball game.

542
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:32,000
No runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left on. Let's listen to this announcement.

543
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Oh this is an announcement concerning the fact that a number of the players in this World Series are boys who started out in the American Legion baseball.

544
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:53,000
At the end of three innings then your totals. The Yankees one run, one hit, no errors and two left on.

545
01:02:53,000 --> 01:03:06,000
The Dodgers have had only one man on base, that Pee Wee Reese who was hit by a pitch ball in the top of the first inning and was doubled up at second base by Barra after he had caught Mix's foul pop-up over toward the Yankee dugout to the left of home plate.

546
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:23,000
Now as we go to the top half of the fourth inning, the announcement that is going over the public address system concerns information already given to you by Red Barber earlier.

547
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:28,000
And so we move right along with the ball game.

548
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:38,000
Joe DiMaggio will be leading off in the top of the fourth with Bobby Brown and Gene Woodling to follow.

549
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:42,000
Tomorrow's game will start again at one o'clock.

550
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:49,000
Gillette will be on the air over mutual at 12.45. That's Eastern Standard Time.

551
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:58,000
On Sunday however, if we might anticipate just a bit, the game will start an hour and five minutes later.

552
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:03,000
Two oh five. So we'd like to tell you today so you'd be sure and remember that on Sunday.

553
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:08,000
Ralph Branca pitches to DiMaggio, swings and misses, strike one.

554
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:19,000
Our broadcast time on Sunday will be at 1.45 however, Eastern Standard Time. That's just for Sunday. Tomorrow we'll be on at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time.

555
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Ralph Branca delivers, DiMaggio swings, fouls it back onto the screen, strike two.

556
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:34,000
Joe, always a key figure, has not had a good series offensively. He's had only one hit, a roller which he beat out.

557
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:43,000
But then it must be remembered that he actually got out of a sickbed battling off a near attack of virus pneumonia

558
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:48,000
to finish up the season the last two games with the Yankees and is still not at full strength.

559
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:52,000
Now the pitch. High, ball one, one and two.

560
01:04:52,000 --> 01:05:01,000
But his mere presence in the lineup is inspirational to his teammates and he's always a threat.

561
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:06,000
One to nothing New York, fourth inning. One ball, two strikes on the clipper.

562
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Branca delivers, DiMaggio swings and misses, strike three.

563
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:14,000
Cut hard to curve ball and that's the second straight time Joe has struck out.

564
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:19,000
That's the fourth strike out for Branca.

565
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:27,000
And in the series, four times DiMaggio has struck out.

566
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:34,000
He struck out once on opening day of the series and once yesterday and twice today.

567
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:39,000
Bobby Brown who popped out to Robinson in the second inning steps in, left hand hitter, chokes that bat,

568
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,000
bends slightly at the knees, leans from the waist.

569
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:46,000
Right hander, Branca throws outside. Ball one. One ball, no strikes.

570
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:49,000
One to nothing. They were the Yankees fourth inning. One out, nobody on.

571
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:53,000
It's getting a little darker out here right now, isn't it Red or is it my imagination?

572
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:58,000
Now it's getting darker now. It's around the ominous look and it might rain before the afternoon's over.

573
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:02,000
And wind is really whipping those flags around out toward left from right.

574
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,000
The pitch swung on, popped up in the air, back of third,

575
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:10,000
Mixers drips across the foul line under the ball and he makes the catch.

576
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:18,000
Bobby Brown fouls out to Eddie Mixers about 25 feet down the line from third base and 10 feet or so foul.

577
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:31,000
With two down, up comes Gene Woodling who fouled out to Mixers in the second inning and Cliff Mapes is on deck.

578
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:35,000
Branca studies Campanella's side.

579
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:49,000
Into the windup he throws, the pitch is inside, up around the letters and it's a one nothing count on Woodling.

580
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,000
Ralph taking his time.

581
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:57,000
The Mount Vernon, New York right hander into a quick windup, throws the pitch, a curve over for a call strike.

582
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:06,000
When I say a quick windup, Branca doesn't take one of those lengthy graceful windups. As he stands on the rubber, gets his sign,

583
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:12,000
he quickly brings his hands up over the head and without too much of a windup, comes down and throws.

584
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:19,000
Now the delivery, swung on, there's a line drive to right center field, Ferrello racing over, he cannot get it, it's off the scoreboard.

585
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:25,000
Woodling rounds first, hits for second, the throw comes in, sliding in safely with a double is Gene Woodling as Reese takes the throw.

586
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:36,000
Ferrello is limping.

587
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:41,000
Gene Woodling lines a double off the scoreboard in right center field.

588
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:48,000
Carl Ferrello unable to go after a ball with his usual speed because of a groin injury he sustained before the end of the season,

589
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:55,000
limped over after the ball, however it was high up on the scoreboard, he couldn't have caught it anyway.

590
01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:01,000
Schneider converged with him and now here's Cliff Mapes who walked in the third inning and came on around the score on Burn's single and

591
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:12,000
Rizzuto's fly ball to right. They pitch to Cliff, high, ball one. They're two men away, top of the fourth inning.

592
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:21,000
One to nothing New York, Woodling's double is the Yankees second hit.

593
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:26,000
Branca stretches pitches, Mapes swings, sends a little roller wide at first, there's Hodges going over and then he lets Robinson do it,

594
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:31,000
he throws to Branca covering for the out.

595
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Hodges dart over the ball and Jackie hollered him off, he took it, Branca covered beautifully and Mapes is out.

596
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:43,000
Robinson to Branca, no runs for the Yankees, one hit, no errors for the Dodgers, one left on for New York.

597
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:51,000
And the score at the end of three and a half innings of play is the Yankees one, the Dodgers nothing.

598
01:08:51,000 --> 01:09:00,000
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606
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Last half of the fourth inning, top of the order for Brooklyn, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie McSiss and Carl Ferrello.

607
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:12,000
Very dark overhead.

608
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:18,000
Dodger fans begin to squirm and call for a little action.

609
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:22,000
Pee Wee hit by a pitched ball in the first inning, the only Dodger to reach base.

610
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:31,000
Right hand hitter waits the delivery from Byrne and it is in there for a call strike as he broke off the breaking pitch over the inside corner waist high.

611
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:36,000
Bobby Brown moves in the step at third on the grass to tamp down some of the turf.

612
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,000
He's in close in the event of the bunt.

613
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:42,000
Byrne throws, Reese swings and sends a long drive to deep left field.

614
01:10:42,000 --> 01:11:11,000
It may be going, going, it is gone.

615
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:27,000
And they're all tied up at one and one as Pee Wee Reese put the slug on one of Tommy Byrne's fastballs and drove it over the 351 foot sign into the left field stands in the lower section.

616
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:30,000
And now here is Eddie McSiss, a right hand batter.

617
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:32,000
Takes outside, ball one.

618
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:41,000
That was the first Dodger hit off Tommy Byrne and it's a one one ball game.

619
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:46,000
McSiss fouled out to Barrow in the first inning.

620
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:49,000
Tommy Byrne south paws one in, Eddie swings and sends a drive to deep center field.

621
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:53,000
DiMaggio is out there though and takes it for the out.

622
01:11:53,000 --> 01:12:00,000
McSiss got hole one and drove it sharply to center but right at the Yankee Clipper.

623
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:06,000
So the one down up steps Carl Ferrello who's tied to center the first inning.

624
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:14,000
And as it was a predominantly Yankee crowd at Yankee Stadium, it is predominantly Dodger here at Ebbets Field.

625
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:25,000
And the crowd has awakened with Pee Wee Reese's terrific blast into the left field stands, left center field stands to tie up the ball game at one and one.

626
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,000
Carl Ferrello, right hand hitter.

627
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,000
Tommy Byrne the left hander throws.

628
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,000
The pitch is swung on, lined into left field, pass Brown for a base hit.

629
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,000
Woodland goes over, cuts the ball off, whips his throw to second.

630
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:42,000
Ferrello holds it first with a line single just to the left of Bobby Brown.

631
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,000
And out here's Yankee Robinson.

632
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:48,000
There's still no action from the Yankee Bullpen.

633
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:52,000
Henrik walks over to talk to Byrne.

634
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:56,000
Each Dodger who has come up in this inning has spanked the ball hard.

635
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:59,000
The fans are standing up to look toward the Yankee Bullpen.

636
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:03,000
The Yankee Bullpen is seated and looking at the folks standing up.

637
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:11,000
But there could be a hurry call in a moment.

638
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:15,000
Every ball has been hit hard, including the out, mixes line at the center.

639
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,000
All right, Ferrello leads off first, Jackie Robinson, upper right hand hitter.

640
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:22,000
The pitch inside to curve ball, ball one.

641
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:25,000
Robinson popped out in the second inning.

642
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:30,000
To Jerry Coleman.

643
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,000
A one-one ball game, last half of the fourth inning.

644
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,000
Henrik not holding against Ferrello, just in behind him.

645
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:42,000
Byrne delivers, Robinson takes low, ball two.

646
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:45,000
Jake Pettler dancing around, coaching there at first.

647
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:52,000
And now there's Jim Turner, Casey Stengel's pitching coach, signaling for action to the Bullpen.

648
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,000
A left-hander and a right-hander.

649
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:58,000
We'll give you their identities in a moment, as soon as they take their jackets off and go to work.

650
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:04,000
Meantime, Tommy Byrne, ready for his two-nothing pitch, delivers and it is outside for ball three.

651
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:08,000
Joe Page is the Yankee left-hander.

652
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:11,000
And the right-hander is Fred Sanford.

653
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:22,000
Now Tommy Henrik moves over from first base to talk to Byrne, who breezed through the Dodger lineup for the first three innings.

654
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:31,000
But starting the fourth, the Dodgers teed off with Reese spanking one of the left center field stands for a home run to tie it up.

655
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,000
Mixis lined out to DiMaggio.

656
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,000
And then Ferrello lined a single to left.

657
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:39,000
And now the count has gone to three and nothing on Jackie Robinson.

658
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:51,000
And we're ready for the three-nothing pitch and it is inside, ball four, and down to second goes Ferrello.

659
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:55,000
That is the first ball given up by Byrne.

660
01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:01,000
Ferrello goes to second, Robinson to first, and Casey Stengel comes out of the Yankee dugout to the mound.

661
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:10,000
He goes to talk to Byrne and Yogi Berra with Gil Hodges, a power-hitting right-hand hitter coming up and Louis Almo on deck.

662
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,000
Now Joe Page goes to work in the bullpen.

663
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,000
There he is working, a left-hander.

664
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,000
And Fred Sanford, a right-hander for New York.

665
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:23,000
And then Byrne, a left-hander, leaves the mound, goes back to the Yankee dugout, which is located to the left of home plate here at Ebbets Field.

666
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:27,000
The Dodgers dugout to the right of home plate.

667
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:34,000
And for the first time in this series, we're getting a lot of action.

668
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:40,000
A lot of action involving runners on and base hits.

669
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:46,000
Ferrello is on second, Robinson on first, only one out, one run in, last of the fourth inning, score tied one-and-one.

670
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:50,000
Hodges fouled out to Berra on the second inning, waits the pitch from Byrne.

671
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:55,000
Here it is, way outside, ball one.

672
01:15:55,000 --> 01:16:07,000
One ball, no strikes. Outfield round toward left.

673
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:09,000
Tommy checks for the Yogi.

674
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:12,000
Ferrello moves off second, Jackie Robinson off first.

675
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:16,000
Byrne stretches, has a look at second, here's the pitch.

676
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:24,000
And it's inside, ball two, curve ball.

677
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:36,000
And the streak of wildness that you generally expect from Tommy Byrne, which did not occur early, as it so frequently does, has suddenly come here on the fourth.

678
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:40,000
Now we're ready for the two-nothing pitch, two men on, first and second, here's the delivery.

679
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:44,000
Outside, ball three.

680
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:52,000
And Byrne calls Yogi out to talk to him. Yogi just takes a step or two out, though, and doesn't go all the way out.

681
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:56,000
A three-nothing count on Gil Hodges.

682
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:06,000
The man most directly responsible, however, for Byrne's wildness is not Byrne, but Pee-wee Reese, who teed off and hit that ball into the left center field stands.

683
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:08,000
And that got Byrne a little wary.

684
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:13,000
Now the pitch, over for a called strike, three and one.

685
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:19,000
In a tight ball game, in an important ball game, when a batter suddenly steps up and parks one on you,

686
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,000
then you get a little worried if you're a pitcher that somebody else will.

687
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:24,000
You try to be a little too careful.

688
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:29,000
You try to be careful, and you become a little too careful and miss the corners.

689
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,000
By either a little or a lot.

690
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:38,000
Three balls, one strike on Gil Hodges. Carl Ferrell on second. Jackie Robinson on first, one out, one in. Last to fourth inning.

691
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:49,000
Tommy Byrne with the stretch, a look at his runners. Here's the pitch. Hodges takes outside, ball for it, and they're loaded up.

692
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:52,000
Ferrell goes to third, Robinson to second.

693
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:56,000
Hodges takes over at first, and the batter is Louis Almo.

694
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:03,000
Grounded out to Bobby Brown on the second inning.

695
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:09,000
And for the first time in the series, we've got the bases loaded.

696
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:14,000
Now Casey Stengel comes out of the Yankee dugout, walk out to the mound.

697
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:22,000
Casey has his mind made up. I believe he's going to take Byrne out. I'm not certain. He took a look at the bullpen.

698
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,000
Says something to Art Passarella.

699
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,000
Casey's looking toward the Yankee bullpen.

700
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:31,000
He walks to the mound, Henrik standing there.

701
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:40,000
And I believe Casey's going to have the left-hander, Joe Page is going to come on.

702
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:47,000
So Casey is not going to play percentage and bring in Sanford, a right-hander, to pitch to the right-hander hitting Almo.

703
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:53,000
He's going to bring in his ace left-hander, Joe Page.

704
01:18:53,000 --> 01:19:00,000
Now, of course Casey's figuring ahead a little bit.

705
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:06,000
If he had brought in Sanford, then Gene Hermansky might have been sent up there by Bert Schotten.

706
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:16,000
So Joe Page is coming on to pitch to Louis Almo.

707
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,000
And Joe's coming in awful early for him.

708
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:26,000
Though he did come in early last Saturday against the Boston Red Sox, the game the Yankees had to win to stay in the pennant fight.

709
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:33,000
And he went six and two-thirds innings that day and pitched one hit ball to actually give the Yankees a chance to win that pennant the next day.

710
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:45,000
Tommy Byrne gets a hand, he leaves the mound.

711
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:53,000
And while we await Joe Page's warming up on the hill, we pause ten seconds for station identification.

712
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:57,000
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.

713
01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:01,000
Hear the World Series exclusively on WOR710.

714
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:05,000
See the World Series on WOR-TV, Channel 9.

715
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:14,000
WOR and WORFM, New York.

716
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:20,000
Back at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers have the bases loaded.

717
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:29,000
Joe Page is coming in to relieve Tommy Byrne, who went three and a third innings, allowed for two hits, both of them in the fourth inning.

718
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:32,000
Walked two men, both of them here in the fourth inning.

719
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,000
Struck out only one.

720
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,000
And is responsible for the three men who are now on base.

721
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:47,000
Score is tied at one and one.

722
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:54,000
Joe Page calls Yogi Bear out to the mound as he finishes his warm-up tosses to talk to him.

723
01:20:54,000 --> 01:21:00,000
And we're set to go.

724
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:07,000
You've got Carl Perillo on third, Jackie Robinson on second, Gil Hodges on first.

725
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:14,000
One out, one run in on Pee Wee Reese's inning opening homer.

726
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:19,000
Score tied one-one, and Louie Almore, right-hand hitter up, Joe Page in to the wind-up.

727
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:27,000
In comes the pitch, and it is strike call a fastball through there toward the outside part of the plate between the belt and the knees.

728
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:30,000
They don't play Almore to pull.

729
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:32,000
They're shading him around toward right.

730
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:35,000
Louie's a right-hand batter.

731
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:37,000
Perillo moves up the line from third.

732
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,000
Robinson moves off second, Hodges off first.

733
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:44,000
Page comes in with his pitch, and Almore takes outside for a ball, one and one.

734
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,000
Yogi bluffs a throw down to first.

735
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:50,000
Then took a quick look at Perillo as Brown dashed to third.

736
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:54,000
Perillo is playing it safe over there.

737
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:59,000
Fred Sanford continues to limber up in the Yankee bullpen.

738
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:01,000
Louie Almore the batter.

739
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:03,000
Perillo on third, Robinson on second.

740
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,000
Hodges on first.

741
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:08,000
One ball, one strike on Almore.

742
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:09,000
Joe Page comes in with a pitch.

743
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,000
It is swung on and missed.

744
01:22:11,000 --> 01:22:12,000
Strike two.

745
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,000
One and two the count.

746
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,000
A wicked hook.

747
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:27,000
And here you've got on the hill for the Yankees one of the most publicized relief pitchers in the history of baseball.

748
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:32,000
And the crowd sensing a dramatic situation.

749
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:38,000
But with the manager of the Yankees wondering whether this is the day that Joe has it or whether he hasn't.

750
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,000
You don't always have it, you know.

751
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:46,000
The Yankees hoping he does have, the Dodgers hoping he doesn't have.

752
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:50,000
With a count, one ball and two strikes, Almore steps out of the batter's box for a moment.

753
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:53,000
And as he starts back in, Page steps off the rubber.

754
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:56,000
Turns around, has a look into center field.

755
01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:59,000
Dice back on, Almore back in.

756
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,000
Perillo on third, Robinson on second.

757
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,000
Almore on first, the wind up, Freeman lead away.

758
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:08,000
The pitch, Almore swings and lets a high pop up foul back to first, drifting over into the stands.

759
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:09,000
Henrik leans in.

760
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,000
He leans in, he's got it.

761
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,000
And the bases remain loaded.

762
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:23,000
Henrik leaned into the stands and grabbed that ball.

763
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:28,000
Tommy Henrik reached high over the heads of standing patrons in the field boxes.

764
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:34,000
Back to first base and grabbed that ball for the out, so they're two away.

765
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:38,000
And up comes Duke Snyder.

766
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,000
That's them left handed.

767
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:44,000
Slide to left field on the third.

768
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:48,000
And so the battle continues, three men on, two down, score tied 1-1.

769
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,000
Page into the wind up, in comes the pitch.

770
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,000
Snyder swings and sends a ground ball out toward Coleman.

771
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,000
He's up with it.

772
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:59,000
Throws to Henrik and the inning is over.

773
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:07,000
And Smokey Joe Page once again proved his pitching prowess as a reliever.

774
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:13,000
One run, two hits for the Dodgers, no Yankee errors and three men left on.

775
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:17,000
And there was one of the most dramatic situations we've had in the World Series so far,

776
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:25,000
with the Dodgers having a golden opportunity to forge way ahead, but stopped cold in that inning by Joe Page.

777
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:29,000
And so at the end of four innings of play, it's 1-1.

778
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:32,000
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779
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:37,000
Man, that's the kind of shapes you get every time with Gillette blue blades.

780
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:44,000
These blades, five for a quarter, are so sharp and so perfectly finished, they just glide through wiry whiskers.

781
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:46,000
Every stroke is a caress.

782
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:52,000
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783
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:59,000
It comes in both 10 and 20 blade sizes for the price of the blades alone.

784
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:05,000
Your four inning totals, the visiting Yankees, one run, two hits, no errors, three left on.

785
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:10,000
The Dodgers, one run, two hits, no errors, and three left on.

786
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:19,000
And so the tempo of the series has begun to pick up considerably from the standpoint of thrills.

787
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:26,000
And as we move now to the top half of the fifth inning of a 1-1 ball game, up is Jerry Coleman, right-hand hitter.

788
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:30,000
Ralph Franco, the right-hander, throws. Coleman takes a strike right in there.

789
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:33,000
Overhand fastball between the belt and the knees.

790
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:36,000
Coleman looked at a third-call strike in the third inning.

791
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,000
Of course, we had thrills of another kind in the first two games.

792
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:43,000
Thrilling pitching, thrilling defensive play.

793
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,000
Branca's pitch to Coleman, swung on and missed, strike two.

794
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:53,000
And Branca overpowered Coleman with a fastball just around the shoulders.

795
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:57,000
Ralph has his jaw set.

796
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,000
He's a game competitor.

797
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:06,000
Two-strike count on Jerry Coleman. Score tied 1-1, fifth inning.

798
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:11,000
And now Branca's ready. And his pitch curve is swung on, hit up into the air into center field.

799
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:14,000
Snyder out there, 100, and makes the catch.

800
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:19,000
Coleman skies out to Snyder in center.

801
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:37,000
And with one down, up comes Joe Page.

802
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:41,000
Page, the left-hand hitter.

803
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,000
Outfield about straight away.

804
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:48,000
Branca's pitch is right over a third-call strike.

805
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:55,000
You know, chances are in a regular season game, Casey Stangle might not have lifted Byrne in a spot like that,

806
01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:01,000
because so many times Byrne has loaded them up and pitched himself out of those jams.

807
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:06,000
The one-strike delivery in there for called strike two.

808
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:17,000
But in a World Series, with time so short, managers refuse to take too many chances,

809
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:22,000
especially when they have well-loaded bullpens.

810
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:29,000
Now the two-strike pitch to Joe Page is swung on and missed strike three,

811
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:37,000
as Ralph Branca chalks up his fifth strikeout.

812
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:40,000
Now we go to the top of the Yankee order and pick up Bill Rizzuto,

813
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:45,000
who grounded a third and sent a fly ball into right center in the third inning

814
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:52,000
that drove in the Yankees' run when previously Mapes had walked, gone to third on Byrne's single,

815
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,000
and that set it up for Phil to score the run.

816
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:58,000
The pitch is swung on and fouled off in behind the plate.

817
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:00,000
A one-strike count.

818
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:10,000
Phil went for a low outside pitch trying to hit it to right field.

819
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:15,000
So far in this series there have been a total of 33 strikeouts.

820
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:21,000
Red was busy figuring up the total over there.

821
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:25,000
Branca delivers to Phil high, ball one, one and one.

822
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:31,000
Conceivably this might go down in World Series history as the strikeout series.

823
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:39,000
But we'll wait until that happens, see how far the series goes and all.

824
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:41,000
One ball, one strike.

825
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:42,000
Here's your pitch.

826
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:45,000
Swung on by Phil and fouled off to the right of the plate.

827
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:54,000
And as we followed the flight of the ball, our eye caught Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott, who are here.

828
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:59,000
A couple of fair ball players in their day, Red.

829
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:04,000
One and two that count on the scooter.

830
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:12,000
They're a couple of the greatest the Giants ever had.

831
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,000
Ralph Branca's pitch.

832
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:19,000
Curve is outside, ball two, two, two.

833
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:25,000
The commissioner waves to us, Mrs. Chandler.

834
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:35,000
And seated with the commissioner today is Mr. Joe Spang Jr., president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company.

835
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:37,000
Here's your pitch to Phil.

836
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,000
Curve ball high, ball three.

837
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:46,000
Man, that was over but just a little high.

838
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:51,000
So it's a full count on the scooter, three and two.

839
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,000
Branca goes to the rosin bag.

840
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,000
Eye comes back upon the rubber.

841
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:58,000
Toes it, looks in and gets the sign from Campanella.

842
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,000
Into the windup round comes the right arm.

843
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:01,000
The playoff pitch is swung on.

844
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:03,000
A ground ball hit right to Reese.

845
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:04,000
He stoops it up, flips on over to Hodges.

846
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:08,000
End time and the inning is over.

847
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:12,000
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.

848
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:17,000
And the score at the end of four and one half innings of play.

849
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:23,000
One and one.

850
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:32,000
And now it's with a great deal of pleasure that I switch this Gillette microphone over to a fellow who not only has a good clean shave,

851
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:38,000
but a fellow with whom I always feel privileged to work with,

852
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:47,000
has been broadcasting World Series games since back in 1935, one of the outstanding baseball broadcasting authorities,

853
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:54,000
and a nationally famous sports broadcaster in all fields, the old redhead, Red Barber.

854
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:57,000
Thanks very much, Mel. Good afternoon again, everybody.

855
01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:01,000
Joe Page, who not only won some games for the Yankees this past summer,

856
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:07,000
but according to Casey Stengel and pitching coach Jim Turner, saved 25 more, is ready to pitch to Campanella.

857
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,000
Does a curve in there for a called strike.

858
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:13,000
He's a big strapping six foot left hander and throws that ball hard.

859
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:17,000
He has a strong arm. He has the temperament to relieve.

860
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:21,000
His whole disposition is to come in and choke off a ball clap.

861
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:22,000
And he's been tremendous at it.

862
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:29,000
Pitches. There's a lead up curve over for a called second strike.

863
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:33,000
I feel around to what left on Campanella.

864
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:38,000
Four hitting eights in the book and batting order, first up, last to the fifth. She's a one in one tie.

865
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:41,000
And another one of these tough grinding ones.

866
01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:44,000
Pitch, fast curve low, one and two.

867
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:51,000
Page, if you haven't seen him pitch, razz up on his toes and gives you a big forward kick.

868
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:57,000
And in addition, he's got a very loose set of hips, the way he gives you a lot of motion out there.

869
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:02,000
And back of that motion is the idea that there's a strong guy that's going to turn loose that rock.

870
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:08,000
And the hitters, well, they just don't exactly take a toehold.

871
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:12,000
Rough customer delivers one and two. There's a foul back.

872
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:16,000
Count standing as it was. One and one tie.

873
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:22,000
Campanella, then Branca, followed by the top of the order, Reese, who hit the Brooklyn home run in the fourth inning.

874
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:28,000
His metal toes are way up in left center field.

875
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:34,000
Page kicks, throws, Campanella fouls it off. Still a one and two.

876
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:37,000
Page has control.

877
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:42,000
Jim Turner was telling us that he's about the best he's ever seen at tuning up in a bullpen.

878
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,000
He knows just how much to get ready.

879
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:50,000
In other words, says Turner, he doesn't leave a pitch in the bullpen, meaning he doesn't do too much work.

880
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:53,000
And that is quite a trick for a relief man.

881
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:55,000
Page relieves 60 times this summer.

882
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:59,000
Throw, curveball high outside.

883
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:02,000
Two balls, two strikes.

884
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:03,000
Page wears number 11.

885
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:09,000
Notches his back on the plate, turns around to back of the mound.

886
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:14,000
The base is loaded and went out. He came on in the fourth inning and silenced it just like that.

887
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:18,000
One and two hitters. Foul ball, nice catch by Henrik.

888
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:19,000
And a ground ball by Snyder.

889
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:22,000
Curveball hits slowly down to the right side. Second baseman Coleman over, up with the ball.

890
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:26,000
Throws to first and that's all for Campanelli. He's thrown up by four or five steps.

891
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:28,000
Four to three if you're scoring.

892
01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:32,000
Second to first. One up, one gone. Last to the fifth inning.

893
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:43,000
And here's Pitcher Branca coming out of the bullpen. That's making his way up to the plate.

894
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:48,000
Right end batter, wearing number 13.

895
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:54,000
After yesterday's game, manager Schatton said that his starting pitcher today would be either Branca or Barney.

896
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:57,000
He's got Barney down in the bullpen and he started with Branca.

897
01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:04,000
Asked him in the Brooklyn clubhouse a couple of hours before the ballgame today, why Branca?

898
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:08,000
Let's see, here's the first pitcher out, high inside ball one.

899
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:15,000
He said simply that Branca has been starting the last three weeks in turn, has been working regularly.

900
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:20,000
And Barney has not made a start since the Dodgers were last at Chicago.

901
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:24,000
They were at Chicago, St. Louis, then back at Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia.

902
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:28,000
One and 0 pitch in there, fastball for a called strike.

903
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:33,000
Branca is not one of the best hitting pitchers in the trade.

904
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:39,000
He struck out, if you recall, in the third inning.

905
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:42,000
That field is not deepened and is swung in toward right.

906
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:45,000
Fast swings, misses.

907
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:47,000
Pages, drive that ball down in there.

908
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:52,000
One and 2.

909
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:54,000
Ballgame tied, one and 1.

910
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:56,000
Jake Fipler coaching it first.

911
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:58,000
Holler something up to the plate.

912
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:03,000
Milton Stark coaching it third.

913
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:04,000
Page pumping.

914
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,000
Now kicks, throws.

915
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:24,000
There's a foul on top of the first base stands, out of play one and 2.

916
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:33,000
Page balances the ball down his glove, blows in his hand a couple of times.

917
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:36,000
Big left-hander delivers.

918
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,000
Curve low inside, ball 2.

919
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:39,000
Two balls, two strikes.

920
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:44,000
He took something off that ball, trying to make Branca chase it.

921
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:54,000
Of course, I imagine that Branca's big idea up at the plate is to try and make Page pitch as much as possible.

922
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:56,000
Two and 2.

923
01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:59,000
Delifa throws, fastball outside, ball 3.

924
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:02,000
Two balls, two strikes.

925
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:04,000
Nobody on, last to the fifth.

926
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:07,000
Here's another, Spine Tingler.

927
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:09,000
All tied, one and 1.

928
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:14,000
So far in the series, these two teams are either exactly tied or just the one-run differential.

929
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:18,000
Boy, that's cutting it awfully close.

930
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:23,000
Couldn't be any closer.

931
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:25,000
Page delivers, three and 2.

932
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:26,000
Call strike 3, fastball.

933
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:30,000
He pulled through there and wrapped, took it right off the hand.

934
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:36,000
So this is the first strike after Page.

935
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:40,000
Now, Lease gets a big hand as he walks up to the plate.

936
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:42,000
The Yankees had one to nothing.

937
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:46,000
He caught hold of one of Tommy Burns' pitches and drilled it.

938
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:53,000
351 feet, that's where it's marked, that's where the ball went in the lower left center field stands.

939
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:56,000
Lease, right-hander.

940
01:36:56,000 --> 01:37:00,000
Attend to Page pitches, fastball in too close to the hands.

941
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:06,000
Ball 1.

942
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:08,000
That field swung around toward left for two reasons.

943
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:12,000
One, Reese pulls in that vicinity.

944
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:15,000
And three, the wind is blowing that way.

945
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:19,000
Fastball above, just above the knees on the inside.

946
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:22,000
One ball, one strike.

947
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:30,000
Two go on.

948
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:33,000
Page deals, Reese hits curveball foul.

949
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:38,000
One and 2, ball bouncing over to the Yankee bench and Coach Frankie Corsetti dots out.

950
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:44,000
Takes the ball on the bounce, throws it over to the umpire's ball boy.

951
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:53,000
One and 2.

952
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:57,000
Catch a barrel, down his haunches to give the sign.

953
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:06,000
The hustling young umpire, Art Passwell of the American League staff, catches down, taking his stance directly behind the receiver.

954
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:09,000
One and 2 pitch, outside.

955
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:14,000
Page took a little off that one. Two balls, two strikes.

956
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:21,000
Two and 2.

957
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:22,000
Things quiet for the moment.

958
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:33,000
Page moves off the rubber, checks his foothold, down halfway in the front of the mound.

959
01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:37,000
Pitches a curve that Reese just does, check his swing on in time.

960
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:40,000
Bella turns around and claims Peewee swung.

961
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:45,000
Peewee turns around and claims he didn't swing and Passwell has said, he didn't swing for me.

962
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:50,000
Now Casey Stengel jumps to the front of the Yankee bench, he doesn't get out of it.

963
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:55,000
But there he stands, a figure of silent protest.

964
01:38:55,000 --> 01:39:01,000
Boy on the stage lost a tremendous theskian when it lost Stengel to baseball.

965
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:04,000
He has a very mobile face.

966
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:11,000
So there's that half swing. Boy, I don't find no that he just picked his head wrong any time he has to compete with that one.

967
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:14,000
Three, two pitch, swung on, a ground ball right back to the mound.

968
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:18,000
Page picks it up, throws over to first and Reese is retired very easily.

969
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:21,000
So nothing of course against Joe Page in the last of the fifth.

970
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:27,000
He's come on to face five men and he's gotten them all and he's not had a ball, a hard hit.

971
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:30,000
So at the end of five innings, we'll check our totals.

972
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:34,000
One run, two hits, no errors, identical totals.

973
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:39,000
And so the big crowd looking on, all of the great people in baseball are here.

974
01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:46,000
If Mel and I started telling you who we see, well we just wouldn't have any time for the play by play.

975
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:50,000
They're all here, all that you can think.

976
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:58,000
Now for the ball club going on the attack in the sixth inning for the Yankees, Henry Berra and DiMaggio.

977
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:01,000
That's how they'll hit for the Brooklyn club afield.

978
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:05,000
Franka on the mound, Campanella back of the plate.

979
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:08,000
Hodges at first, Robinson at second, Reese at short.

980
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:13,000
Eddie Mixis at third base today.

981
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:15,000
And left the roller, we all know.

982
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:23,000
Centifield, Duke Snyder and the right fielder is Carl Farrell.

983
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:27,000
The umpires, Art Passerello back of the plate, Jodder at first.

984
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:33,000
Hubbard at second, Rudin at third, Barr in the left fielder corner and Hurley in the right fielder corner.

985
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:40,000
The National League umpires represent 58 years of major league experience and 13 World Series.

986
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:45,000
The American League umpires represent 26 years of major league experience and 7 World Series.

987
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:47,000
Tommy Henry, first up in the sixth.

988
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:51,000
Swings and misses at a fastball, Franka threw right down in there.

989
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:54,000
Nothing in one. All tied, one in one.

990
01:40:54,000 --> 01:41:01,000
Henrik rounded out to first baseman, Hodges in the first inning and walked in the third.

991
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:05,000
Wynn continues blowing from right fielder left, from first base to third.

992
01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:10,000
As a fastball low inside, it gets away from Campanella and goes on back to the stands.

993
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,000
Nothing more than a ball one.

994
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:14,000
New agate put in play.

995
01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:25,000
Terzadeh coaching at third, Vildeky coaching at first.

996
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:33,000
Henrik chokes that bat about an inch, leans in, left hand hitter, takes an outside curve, it just misses and it is two in one.

997
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:39,000
Two balls, one strike.

998
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:49,000
Tom of course is being played to hit into right fiel.

999
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:54,000
Franka lets out his breath, now starts pumping, delivers two one.

1000
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:57,000
All up, ball, second strike on the outside.

1001
01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:03,000
That seemed to be the change off the fastball.

1002
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:10,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1003
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:14,000
Henrik a slightly open stance.

1004
01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:16,000
Chokes that bat just a shade more right now.

1005
01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:22,000
Two-two pitch, curve swung on, hit out into short right fiel, Pirello coming in, he is under it, right fielder takes it.

1006
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:27,000
And one man is disposed out, beginning matters in the sixth inning.

1007
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:37,000
One-one tie, and Yogi Berra who is 0-2, struck out in the first inning, hopped up to second baseman Robinson in the third.

1008
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:44,000
He has got a little bandaging around his wrist and around the base of the thumb on his left hand.

1009
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:48,000
That is the thumb that he broke if you recall in August.

1010
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:50,000
Still sore and painful.

1011
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:56,000
I feel toward right, Franka throws a curve ball in there, ball strike.

1012
01:42:56,000 --> 01:43:01,000
Nothing in one.

1013
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,000
One out, nobody on.

1014
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:06,000
The pitching continues to dominate.

1015
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:13,000
Big right handers throw, let a ball swing on, hits sharply to first on one bounce, Hodges up, runs over to the bag and makes the put out unassisted.

1016
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:16,000
Berra and I am getting much more than halfway down the line.

1017
01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:22,000
So two men are gone and Big DiMaggio stepping in.

1018
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:33,000
Even though he struck out twice, you can feel that the sentiment of the fans is all for this great player.

1019
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:38,000
Atfield swings around toward left and is back at a most respectful distance.

1020
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:42,000
Infield is deep, Reese at short is over shifted very much toward third.

1021
01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:45,000
Mixis is deep at third.

1022
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:50,000
But in the branch of pitches, curve ball in for a call strike.

1023
01:43:50,000 --> 01:43:57,000
DiMaggio struck out in the second and struck out in the fourth, both times swingy.

1024
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:01,000
One and one ball game, two gone.

1025
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:07,000
The pitch, fastball, swung on, it's a high puck fly, the first baseman hid it, getting under and followed ground.

1026
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:09,000
And now it's in fair ground and he makes the catch.

1027
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:13,000
The wind blew the ball back into fair ground but the first baseman had it.

1028
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:20,000
But he's nothing across all the Yankees in the top of the sixth inning.

1029
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:25,000
The score on New York one, Brooklyn one.

1030
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:30,000
Coming out to Evans Field this morning, Bob Chipman, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs,

1031
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:35,000
told me that Gillette's super speed razor is the finest shaving instrument that he's ever used.

1032
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:38,000
So Bob, how about giving the fans the low down, will you?

1033
01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:41,000
It's always a pleasure to put your friends next to a good thing.

1034
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:44,000
And Gillette's super speed razor is all of that, believe me.

1035
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:45,000
Convenient, Bob?

1036
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:48,000
Yes, blade changing is a cinch and cleaning is too.

1037
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:51,000
More important, you get the slickest shaves in the world.

1038
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:57,000
Man, the new Gillette's super speed razor is the greatest shaving bargain ever offered.

1039
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:05,000
You get this fine precision made Gillette one piece razor and a 10 blade Gillette dispenser in a modern styrene travel case,

1040
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:08,000
a big $1.75 value for only a dollar.

1041
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:23,000
Ask for the new Gillette's super speed razor set at any convenient store.

1042
01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:31,000
Well, this world, sir, is getting to be the sort of one that you can't so much bet your eyelids for fear something might happen.

1043
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:42,000
I imagine you millions of folks listening in as over 700 radio stations carry this Gillette World Series broadcast to all four corners of the earth.

1044
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:50,000
I imagine that it's hard for you to run off any place and miss a battle.

1045
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:56,000
Never has there been a series with such tightness of pitching as this series opened up.

1046
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:58,000
That is, tightness on both sides.

1047
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:03,000
Now we've got Eddie Mixis, first up last in the sixth inning.

1048
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:06,000
Leptender Joe Page delivers.

1049
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:09,000
Fastball low inside, ball one.

1050
01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:16,000
The regular third baseman, the bulk of the season for Brooklyn, was Billy Cox, who sprained his ankle in a morning game Labor Day and has not played since.

1051
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:21,000
And since that time, Mixis, a right-hand hitter, has alternated with Jorgensen, left-hand hitter at third.

1052
01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:23,000
Fastball inside, to ball two.

1053
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:25,000
Two balls, no strikes.

1054
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:31,000
Jorgensen played the first two games, if you'll recall, started them at the stadium.

1055
01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:33,000
And Mixis is starting this one.

1056
01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:36,000
The pitching for the Yankees today has been from the south-fourth side.

1057
01:46:36,000 --> 01:46:39,000
First Tommy Burry, now Joe Page.

1058
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:43,000
A two-nothing pitch, over for a strike.

1059
01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:51,000
That's always the big one, because you not only have to get it over, but you've got to get something on it.

1060
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:56,000
Two balls, one strike.

1061
01:46:56,000 --> 01:46:59,000
This is Page's ball game, of course, to win or lose.

1062
01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:00,000
He works.

1063
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:03,000
Fastball swung on a high pop fly into right center field.

1064
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:06,000
Mapes is under it, not a too tough chance for the right fielder.

1065
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:07,000
And he's got it.

1066
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:10,000
And there again you could trace the force of the wind.

1067
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:17,000
Mapes must have juxted under that ball five more steps toward center field as the wind made the ball dance.

1068
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:19,000
12-foot-out for the right fielder.

1069
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:22,000
One up, one away, last of the sixth inning.

1070
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:29,000
One and one tie, and Carl Forello, who is one for two, singled off-burn in the fourth inning,

1071
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:34,000
after flying out to center field in the first.

1072
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:41,000
A few rounds, one left.

1073
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:46,000
Crowd watching tensely as this grim struggle continues.

1074
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:52,000
In the center, Page pitches a curve outside, the right hand hit a call for a loss.

1075
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:53,000
One and all.

1076
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:56,000
Yankees are field, Page the leading, came on in the fourth inning,

1077
01:47:56,000 --> 01:48:01,000
but the bases loaded and won out and stopped the Dodgers right in their tracks,

1078
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:05,000
kept the ball game then as it was and as it is now, one and one.

1079
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:09,000
Barron is catching his second game, so they were caught yesterday back at the plate.

1080
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:13,000
Henrik at first base, the second Jerry Coleman at short-step resuto,

1081
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:17,000
and at third it is Bobby Brown for the Yankees.

1082
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:21,000
The one and all pitch to Forello, swung on, bounced straight to second base with Coleman,

1083
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:23,000
who's up with it on a big bounce, throws over to first base,

1084
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:27,000
and that's all for Forello, who's retired before he's more than halfway down the line.

1085
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:29,000
So too are gone.

1086
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:34,000
Page has allowed no man to reach base safely.

1087
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:38,000
And Jackie Robinson, who is off for one, pops to second base in the second inning,

1088
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:42,000
walks against Barron in the fourth, now steps in.

1089
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:51,000
Robinson, the yesterday double, and was scored a single by Hodges for the only run in that game.

1090
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:55,000
Yankee outfield, Gene Woodling is in left,

1091
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:59,000
DiNaggio remains in center, and the right fielder is Cliff Maipes.

1092
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:04,000
Two gone.

1093
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:07,000
Robinson leans in, he's deep back from the plate.

1094
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:12,000
Let-up ball is high outside, ball one.

1095
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:14,000
Ball game an hour and a half old.

1096
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:21,000
The skies remain threatening and dark, but so far we have not had so much as a wisp of rain.

1097
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:28,000
The weatherman said that it would be ominous, overcast, cloudy, but that it would not rain.

1098
01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:32,000
Also, he predicted that the weather would be clearing for tomorrow.

1099
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:33,000
Let's hope so.

1100
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:42,000
Well, high outside, the ball two.

1101
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:48,000
Good ball, no strikes.

1102
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:54,000
All eyes focused right now at the heart of the diamond, the defender, Page.

1103
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:57,000
The batter, right-hand hitter Robinson, the pitch.

1104
01:49:57,000 --> 01:49:58,000
Low inside, ball three.

1105
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:02,000
That was a fast ball.

1106
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:07,000
I think Page expected Robinson to be swinging on that because he was trying to pitch him in close to the hand,

1107
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:15,000
which is a way that a lot of left-handed pitches have been pitching Robinson for a couple of years.

1108
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:27,000
Three and all, Joe said, like any baseball, so played on pass, pass the ball, accommodates him.

1109
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:32,000
Page taking his time, getting ready.

1110
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:34,000
On one ball game, nobody on, two out.

1111
01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:38,000
Three nothing pitches, ball four, and without throwing Robinson the strike, he walks him.

1112
01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:41,000
This is the second time the Jack has walked, first of all, given up on Page.

1113
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:47,000
And this is the first man of eight to face Page to get on against him.

1114
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:53,000
And Gail Hodges, who fouled out to catch a barrel in the second inning, and drew a base on balls off Byrne.

1115
01:50:53,000 --> 01:50:56,000
He was the last man that Byrne pitched to in the fourth.

1116
01:50:56,000 --> 01:50:59,000
Hodges was over one, steps in.

1117
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:02,000
Drove in the run yesterday, Ax.

1118
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:08,000
Actually, you speak of run so far in this series as the run of the first game and the run of the second game.

1119
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:11,000
Well, each ball club has a run today.

1120
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:16,000
Robinson off first, Hodges swings a high fly ball straight out to DiMaggio in center.

1121
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:18,000
Joe's waiting for it.

1122
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,000
He makes the catch.

1123
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:23,000
You didn't think you'd do otherwise, did you?

1124
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:27,000
We have no runs, no hits, one man left in that sixth inning.

1125
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:31,000
Now let's check our sixth inning totals.

1126
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:40,000
Still one run, two hits in no hours, there's identical totals.

1127
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:45,000
Now before we move into the seventh inning, and as the Yankee fans here at Brooklyn begin standing for a stretch,

1128
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:49,000
let's pause ten seconds for our station identification.

1129
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:52,000
This is the mutual broadcasting system.

1130
01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:56,000
Hear the World Series exclusively on WOR710.

1131
01:51:56,000 --> 01:52:09,000
See the World Series on WOR-TV, Channel 9, WOR, and WOR-FM, New York.

1132
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:17,000
Speaking a moment ago about the fine job that Joe Page has done, it sets your mind to thinking of great relief pitches.

1133
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:25,000
Page's predecessor as a great relief man, Johnny Murphy, is sitting over there alongside the Yankee dugout.

1134
01:52:25,000 --> 01:52:33,000
And then you think of other relief pitches, Hugh Casey, who is with the Yankees now, but did his greatest relief work with Brooklyn.

1135
01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:39,000
And then you go back to Fred Marbury, who was a great right-handed relief pitcher.

1136
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:46,000
And of course everybody was extremely sorry that he had lost an arm in an automobile accident down in Mexico, Texas.

1137
01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:49,000
And of course everybody is pulling for him to soon be out of the hospital.

1138
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:54,000
And if he's listening, we hope it's good listening.

1139
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,000
Now we have Bobby Brown, first tip for the seventh inning.

1140
01:52:57,000 --> 01:52:59,000
Good left-hand batter. Chokes had about a couple of inches.

1141
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:02,000
Swings and hits a hot one on one bounce to second baseman Robinson.

1142
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:06,000
We throw it over to first, and that's all for Brown.

1143
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:10,000
Throw one up, one pitch, and one away as this tough ballgame gets tougher.

1144
01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:16,000
The ball tied at one and one.

1145
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:30,000
The last base hit to the Yankees was a double by Gene Woodling off the lower part of the right field scoreboard.

1146
01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:37,000
That field toward right, big Branca throws, fastball on the outside, the ball's one strike.

1147
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:43,000
Nothing in one. The last man to get on against Branca was this self-same Woodling, who's up here now.

1148
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:47,000
One away, nobody on the seven. One and one ballgame.

1149
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:50,000
Everything tied, including one and one for games.

1150
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:56,000
There's a curve low inside. All one.

1151
01:53:56,000 --> 01:54:00,000
Frankie Crisetti, who had high piping voice, which can easily be heard,

1152
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:05,000
is busily holding encouragement from his coaching post third after Woodling, who was in the crouch.

1153
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:09,000
He's got it close together, left hand hitter. Swing, fouls it off.

1154
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:13,000
One ball, two strikes.

1155
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:19,000
Woodling had a chance with Cleveland some years ago, and it was up in the National League with Pittsburgh,

1156
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:22,000
and didn't hit, went out to the Pacific Coast League, changed his stance.

1157
01:54:22,000 --> 01:54:27,000
Lefty O'Doul helped him a lot, and he led the Coast League last year,

1158
01:54:27,000 --> 01:54:31,000
and he's been a very helpful fellow to have around the Yankee ball club this year.

1159
01:54:31,000 --> 01:54:35,000
One and two pitches, swung on. There's a high fly ball in the straightaway center.

1160
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:39,000
Snider backs up one, two-step, waits for the ball, and makes the catch instead of field.

1161
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:45,000
So Branca is now retired, the batting order, the last nine.

1162
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:49,000
Fifth, Mapes, who bounced out in the fourth inning.

1163
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:54,000
But more important, Mapes, who walked in the third, and that was the first walk,

1164
01:54:54,000 --> 01:54:58,000
drawn by a Yankee so far in the series, and that was turned into a New York run.

1165
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:02,000
Mapes, the left hand, hit it.

1166
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:06,000
Mapes walked, opened up the third inning, and with one out, went around the third base,

1167
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:13,000
as Kutcher Byrne delivered a hit-and-run single. Mapes swings, foul ball, back out of play.

1168
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:18,000
And as Mel pointed out to you in the third, that was a very vital point,

1169
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:22,000
that base hit by Tommy Byrne.

1170
01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:27,000
And not only that, but Mapes had gotten a tremendous jump on Branca.

1171
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:31,000
She was really off. He just went into third base standing up.

1172
01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:35,000
Throw, curve ball low inside, one ball, one strike.

1173
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:40,000
One-and-one.

1174
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:47,000
Everybody is very serious visaged in this ball game, nobody grinning.

1175
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:52,000
One-and-one pitch, swung on, tipped, and it is strike two.

1176
01:55:52,000 --> 01:56:00,000
One ball, two strikes, two out.

1177
01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:05,000
The consistency of the way the pressure has carried through all these games,

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01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:12,000
unbelievably identical.

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01:56:12,000 --> 01:56:17,000
One-and-two of the count, throw, pass ball just missing inside.

1180
01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:23,000
Oh, that's close, so close in fact that play-on-power Pasarela just held his thumb

1181
01:56:23,000 --> 01:56:27,000
and his right index finger to show that that ball just did miss.

1182
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:31,000
Missed off the inside. Right-hand pitcher, left-hand hitter.

1183
01:56:31,000 --> 01:56:34,000
Mapes Tadegol back from the plate, swinging from the end.

1184
01:56:34,000 --> 01:56:38,000
Outfield toward right, two-two pitch, swung on a high fly ball into center field.

1185
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:42,000
Snider comes in, now goes back. He's under it. Center fielder under it.

1186
01:56:42,000 --> 01:56:47,000
He's got it. He's hit high and far. Had the win been the reverse of what it is today,

1187
01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:49,000
that might have been all the way.

1188
01:56:49,000 --> 01:56:56,000
So with a roar, the Brooklyn Denizens now come to their feet as they move into the last

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01:56:56,000 --> 01:57:02,000
of the seventh inning and the score stands New York one and Brooklyn one.

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Now the last half of the seventh inning. Roy Olmo, Duke Snyder, Roy Campanella,

1203
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:08,000
any one of the three on safely, then Pitcher Branko will hit.

1204
01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:17,000
One and one dog fall.

1205
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:23,000
Joe Pades, who is the key man now for the Yankees as this game comes down with

1206
01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:29,000
grim tenacity with so few runs in it.

1207
01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:36,000
Bara sitting on the mound. Bara sitting down to give the sign.

1208
01:58:36,000 --> 01:58:41,000
Olmo, who stands deep back in the box.

1209
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:43,000
Right hand hitter, an overly close stance.

1210
01:58:43,000 --> 01:58:47,000
Bounce that third to first against Byrne in the second inning and against Pades,

1211
01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:50,000
who has the biggest out of the ball game in the fourth.

1212
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:54,000
Swings and a high, high foul ball that catches Bara is under.

1213
01:58:54,000 --> 01:59:02,000
Getting under, getting under, and makes the catch no more than 15 feet behind home plate.

1214
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:08,000
So one up and one away as Pades continues moving through the rooks and batters

1215
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:13,000
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1216
01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:18,000
Now we've got Duke Snyder who's off the two. Left hand hitter.

1217
01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:24,000
So swung on, high foul ball on top of the third base stands, out of play and out of the park.

1218
01:59:24,000 --> 01:59:28,000
The ball's one strike. With the wind blowing out to the left field as strongly as it is,

1219
01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:34,000
that's the way it is blown all afternoon, and with Pades probably pitching outside consistently to Snyder,

1220
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:37,000
The outfield is back in the left, especially to Maggio.

1221
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:39,000
Duke swings and pulls the ball wide at first base.

1222
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:45,000
Henrik up with it, runs over to the bag and makes the put out by two steps.

1223
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:55,000
So the play handled by Tommy Henrik unassistedly, and two men are gone, last of the seven.

1224
01:59:55,000 --> 01:59:58,000
Roy Campanello, 0-2, stepping in.

1225
01:59:58,000 --> 02:00:03,000
The Brooklyn road secretary, Harold Tarr, has just brought us the attendance figures with the money figures with it.

1226
02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:11,000
32,788 paid, which means $164,016.

1227
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:15,000
That is Roy Campanello. Swings, hits a high fly ball deep in the left center field.

1228
02:00:15,000 --> 02:00:19,000
There's a left fielder whittling under the ball, firsts the ball and makes the cut.

1229
02:00:19,000 --> 02:00:26,000
350 feet away, and the wall is 351.

1230
02:00:26,000 --> 02:00:29,000
So, men are crossing the lines to the seventh.

1231
02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:37,000
Two runs and put. Only four runs so far in the three games.

1232
02:00:37,000 --> 02:00:41,000
The first two, one to nothing. First one by the Yankees, the second one by the Dodgers.

1233
02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:53,000
And now each team has a run as they move into the eighth inning of this third game, with the games tied at one and one.

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02:00:53,000 --> 02:00:58,000
In the eighth inning for the Yankees, it's second baseman, Coleman, who is batting eighth.

1235
02:00:58,000 --> 02:01:02,000
First step followed by Joe Page. You know he'll hit for himself.

1236
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:05,000
And then by the top of the order, Rizzuto.

1237
02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:10,000
When the Dodgers come in for the last of the eighth, it will be Pichabranca leading off in the top of the order.

1238
02:01:10,000 --> 02:01:15,000
Rizzuto and Mixers. And Ralph is just getting out to the mound right now.

1239
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:18,000
There's Campanello coming up to the plate.

1240
02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:23,000
And let's open up that other microphone for Mel Allen and get his observations.

1241
02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:27,000
Mel, did you ever think you'd see such pitching, especially in the clutch when it meant so much?

1242
02:01:27,000 --> 02:01:33,000
Never did. As a matter of fact, in the press room before the ball game got underway,

1243
02:01:33,000 --> 02:01:39,000
I was talking to Dan Daniel, who, erudite sports reporter for the World Telegram,

1244
02:01:39,000 --> 02:01:44,000
had been following baseball for longer, maybe than red and eyes, ages together.

1245
02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:47,000
He said he didn't know what in the world all of a sudden happened.

1246
02:01:47,000 --> 02:01:55,000
He said they're blossoming forth here, the Matthewsons, the McGinnities, and the greats all over again.

1247
02:01:55,000 --> 02:02:00,000
He said something that no one ever expected. And that's just the way it's been.

1248
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:04,000
And looks as if that's the way it's going to still be, Red.

1249
02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:08,000
Well, that's the way it is right now. All tied, one and one.

1250
02:02:08,000 --> 02:02:13,000
It's a move into the eighth inning. And here is the right-hand hitting second baseman of New York, Jerry Coleman, first up.

1251
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:18,000
Brankers, fastball is over, but too high. Ball one.

1252
02:02:18,000 --> 02:02:24,000
Also, the weather conditions have befriended all pitches.

1253
02:02:24,000 --> 02:02:31,000
Weather conditions, as well as the fact that the batter's screen was taken down in center field at the stadium for the first two days.

1254
02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:39,000
Throw, curveball over. It has been dark this afternoon. Of course, that sets up a pitch of fastball.

1255
02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:43,000
The darker it gets, the more of a disadvantage the hitters are.

1256
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:48,000
And then at the stadium for the first two days, the hitters were having to look against that white baseball,

1257
02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:51,000
against all the white shirts in the center field, bleacher section. Batting screen was down.

1258
02:02:51,000 --> 02:02:54,000
One and one pitch. One run and missed, shot, curveball.

1259
02:02:54,000 --> 02:03:02,000
Oh, make no mistake about it. The pitching staffs that had come through such a kilkenny struggle to win pennants,

1260
02:03:02,000 --> 02:03:11,000
well-braced, were all set.

1261
02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:14,000
One ball, two strikes.

1262
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:18,000
Coleman choking well up on that bat. Oh, about three, four inches.

1263
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:22,000
Fastball low inside, just under the hands.

1264
02:03:22,000 --> 02:03:26,000
Two and two.

1265
02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:35,000
Tranker and Page, even when they give the hitter a ball, are close to the plate.

1266
02:03:35,000 --> 02:03:40,000
Coleman, with his feet pretty well back from the plate, leans in.

1267
02:03:40,000 --> 02:03:44,000
Pess it from the waist. Outfield, step toward left. Pitch.

1268
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:48,000
Fastball right over, half-track three.

1269
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:52,000
And Coleman was just immobile. There it was, he just couldn't move.

1270
02:03:52,000 --> 02:03:55,000
You could just see him straining to try and break loose and he couldn't.

1271
02:03:55,000 --> 02:04:00,000
That's six strikeouts for Branker.

1272
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:02,000
By the way, Branker's concerned in all the strikeouts of the game.

1273
02:04:02,000 --> 02:04:07,000
He's the only Dodger to be struck out. He's been struck out twice. He's struck out six himself.

1274
02:04:07,000 --> 02:04:11,000
And pitcher Page stepping in.

1275
02:04:11,000 --> 02:04:14,000
He's been up once this afternoon and struck out.

1276
02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:19,000
He's had bat in the fifth inning. Left hand batter.

1277
02:04:19,000 --> 02:04:23,000
Outfield toward right.

1278
02:04:23,000 --> 02:04:27,000
Branker throws, fastball in under the hands, ball wide.

1279
02:04:27,000 --> 02:04:31,000
One away. Top of the eighth inning. All tied one and one.

1280
02:04:31,000 --> 02:04:35,000
Campanella's throw back to Branker. Had loose in the pitcher.

1281
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:42,000
Reese retrieves the ball at short.

1282
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:50,000
Page who came in out of that bullpen to New York just 60 times this past summer.

1283
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:53,000
Throw. Fung on foul back.

1284
02:04:53,000 --> 02:04:58,000
The Yankees figure that Page and his performance on Saturday,

1285
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:01,000
as he came on, if you'll recall, and pitched six and a third innings,

1286
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:05,000
held the Red Sox to no runs and one scratch hit.

1287
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:09,000
The fact that he was able to finish set up everything for New York.

1288
02:05:09,000 --> 02:05:13,000
In other words, he pitched them to the win.

1289
02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:15,000
One-one delivery. Curve swung on. Hit back to the middle.

1290
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:18,000
Reese going over. Up. Juggles the ball. Recovered.

1291
02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:21,000
Throws over to first. In time for the out.

1292
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:24,000
And Page is out on a bang-banger at first base.

1293
02:05:24,000 --> 02:05:27,000
Reese had the ball bounced up and hit him in the chest.

1294
02:05:27,000 --> 02:05:31,000
He recovered. Throwed it to first to Hodges and Hodges, like a ballet dancer,

1295
02:05:31,000 --> 02:05:36,000
made that slip as he moved his whole body out to greet the ball.

1296
02:05:36,000 --> 02:05:43,000
And Page is out. Boy, he was straining, hustling down that line.

1297
02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:47,000
Oh, Reese recovering. Another one of the close plays.

1298
02:05:47,000 --> 02:05:51,000
Those are the things that give umpires nightmares when you get those bang-bangers.

1299
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:54,000
We had four in the ball game yesterday.

1300
02:05:54,000 --> 02:06:01,000
So two men up and two gone on top of the gate.

1301
02:06:01,000 --> 02:06:11,000
Passarello back to the plate. He had two like that at first yesterday.

1302
02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:16,000
Passarello snaps on his mask.

1303
02:06:16,000 --> 02:06:19,000
Rizzuto, both to three.

1304
02:06:19,000 --> 02:06:21,000
With the right hand hitting shortstop.

1305
02:06:21,000 --> 02:06:24,000
That swings on a fastball and pops it up into short left field.

1306
02:06:24,000 --> 02:06:27,000
Reese going back from short. Waving almost out of the way.

1307
02:06:27,000 --> 02:06:29,000
And Peewee makes the catch.

1308
02:06:29,000 --> 02:06:32,000
Well, the Yankees are retired.

1309
02:06:32,000 --> 02:06:35,000
Having a toss in the top of the eighth inning,

1310
02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:39,000
as Maka has set the side down in order now for the last four rounds.

1311
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:41,000
And with Brooklyn coming in for the last of the eighth,

1312
02:06:41,000 --> 02:06:45,000
The score remains New York 1 Brooklyn 1.

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02:07:50,000 --> 02:07:54,000
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1328
02:07:54,000 --> 02:08:02,000
just came over and gave us a salute to our only living act president, Herbert Hoover.

1329
02:08:02,000 --> 02:08:06,000
Quite a baseball fan.

1330
02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:08,000
Now moving to the last of the eighth inning

1331
02:08:08,000 --> 02:08:11,000
and the two key figures of the ball game face each other.

1332
02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:15,000
Page on the mound and Branca who is the batter.

1333
02:08:15,000 --> 02:08:19,000
It's a tough one, one and one.

1334
02:08:19,000 --> 02:08:24,000
Apparently nothing for the big stakes in Major League Ball in 1949 is to come easily.

1335
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:26,000
If tennis didn't, the World Series are not going that way.

1336
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:30,000
Branca swings foul, Page's first pitch back, or a call strike.

1337
02:08:30,000 --> 02:08:34,000
Page, since he has come on, has pitched.

1338
02:08:34,000 --> 02:08:37,000
Three and two-thirds innings, retired every batter but one.

1339
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:41,000
Branson, whom he walked with two out in the sixth inning, got the next man promptly.

1340
02:08:41,000 --> 02:08:44,000
Branca has gone all the way, given a one-run, two hits.

1341
02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:47,000
Those are the identical totals anyhow.

1342
02:08:47,000 --> 02:08:48,000
One and one tie.

1343
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:55,000
Pitch, pass ball ripped in there for a call second strike.

1344
02:08:55,000 --> 02:08:58,000
Branca has retired the last 13 batters that he's pitched to.

1345
02:08:58,000 --> 02:09:00,000
That's the 13 that he's wearing.

1346
02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:04,000
Those of you who are not keeping score and backtrack on him.

1347
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:08,000
Go into right and not deep.

1348
02:09:08,000 --> 02:09:10,000
Didn't feel straight away.

1349
02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:12,000
Throw, curve ball just hanging outside.

1350
02:09:12,000 --> 02:09:13,000
One and two.

1351
02:09:13,000 --> 02:09:16,000
One ball, two strikes.

1352
02:09:16,000 --> 02:09:23,000
It continues to be a dark afternoon, but the park is brilliantly illuminated by the pitching that we are having.

1353
02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:30,000
It has lighted up the entire series.

1354
02:09:30,000 --> 02:09:35,000
No series has ever begun with as much pitching efficiency as this one.

1355
02:09:35,000 --> 02:09:39,000
One and two pitch, curve in there, call, strike three.

1356
02:09:39,000 --> 02:09:44,000
So, Branca continues to be involved in all of the game's strikeouts.

1357
02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:50,000
He struck out once against Byrne, for Byrne's only strikeout, twice against Page, for Page's only strikeout,

1358
02:09:50,000 --> 02:09:53,000
and Branca himself has struck out six of the Yankees.

1359
02:09:53,000 --> 02:10:01,000
Dewey Reese, who hit a home run in the fourth inning to get the ball game balanced as it still is, one and one.

1360
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:03,000
Reese stepping in.

1361
02:10:03,000 --> 02:10:06,000
His home run that balanced the game unbalanced Byrne.

1362
02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:12,000
His control almost went out the window immediately, as Mel told you.

1363
02:10:12,000 --> 02:10:15,000
Had to be lifted four hitters later.

1364
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:19,000
I feel toward left. Page delivers a fastball low inside.

1365
02:10:19,000 --> 02:10:30,000
He threw that one hard. He meant to throw it hard. He always means to throw that ball hard.

1366
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:35,000
Page, who was the glue man, he just held that Yankee staff together all summer.

1367
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:41,000
Works inside against the hands, took a little bit off the fastball, then ball two.

1368
02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:43,000
Two balls, no strikes.

1369
02:10:43,000 --> 02:10:47,000
The wind continues blowing out toward left field.

1370
02:10:47,000 --> 02:10:56,000
It is the wind that helps a right-hand batter who hits a high drive out toward left.

1371
02:10:56,000 --> 02:11:06,000
One gone. Last of the eighth.

1372
02:11:06,000 --> 02:11:09,000
Everything almost deathly quiet for the moment. Two nothing pitch.

1373
02:11:09,000 --> 02:11:13,000
In there. Fastball for a called strike.

1374
02:11:13,000 --> 02:11:18,000
Big guys working.

1375
02:11:18,000 --> 02:11:23,000
Two balls, one strike.

1376
02:11:23,000 --> 02:11:26,000
Reese waiting.

1377
02:11:26,000 --> 02:11:29,000
Trimmed square-shouldered figure.

1378
02:11:29,000 --> 02:11:32,000
Been the shortstop for the Dodgers since 1940.

1379
02:11:32,000 --> 02:11:36,000
A fellow whose job he took at shortstop was sitting over there with his boss.

1380
02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:44,000
That's Leo DeRosche, another man into the gyre, sitting over there with Horace Donham.

1381
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:49,000
Two balls, one strike. Reese takes a curve. It just stays outside for ball three.

1382
02:11:49,000 --> 02:11:53,000
A barrel turns around and apparently kicks on that decision to pass it over.

1383
02:11:53,000 --> 02:11:59,000
And pass it over. It properly shakes his head. No.

1384
02:11:59,000 --> 02:12:06,000
The umpires are under tremendous pressure.

1385
02:12:06,000 --> 02:12:08,000
They do a tremendous job.

1386
02:12:08,000 --> 02:12:13,000
Three-one pitch. Ball four. In under the hands. Fastball is missed.

1387
02:12:13,000 --> 02:12:15,000
And grief, york.

1388
02:12:15,000 --> 02:12:18,000
This is the second walk given up by Joe Page.

1389
02:12:18,000 --> 02:12:22,000
Now Eddie Mix is walking up to the plate.

1390
02:12:22,000 --> 02:12:27,000
A right-hand light-hitting utility infielder for the Dodgers.

1391
02:12:27,000 --> 02:12:33,000
Playing third base today.

1392
02:12:33,000 --> 02:12:36,000
Reese at first.

1393
02:12:36,000 --> 02:12:38,000
An alert base runner.

1394
02:12:38,000 --> 02:12:43,000
Page, who of course has a good move to hold a man on at first, sets on the mound.

1395
02:12:43,000 --> 02:12:45,000
Henrik takes the back.

1396
02:12:45,000 --> 02:12:48,000
Now let's see what happens.

1397
02:12:48,000 --> 02:12:52,000
She's all tied. One-and-one. One out. Infield and double play depth.

1398
02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:53,000
Throw to first.

1399
02:12:53,000 --> 02:12:56,000
Out and tie.

1400
02:12:56,000 --> 02:13:03,000
Pitler, coaching at first, let out an agonized scream when he saw that Page was coming over to first base, but Reese was back.

1401
02:13:03,000 --> 02:13:07,000
Outfield, uh, Mapes and Wright is in very, very close.

1402
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:11,000
Of course, he's got that wind behind him. Blowing in.

1403
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:15,000
Mix is primarily a left-field hitter anyhow.

1404
02:13:15,000 --> 02:13:18,000
Third baseman Brown just stepped inside the bag. Here's the pitch.

1405
02:13:18,000 --> 02:13:21,000
And Mix sets the bunt, takes a curve over there to throw down to first base.

1406
02:13:21,000 --> 02:13:27,000
And Reese just does slide back. It was close.

1407
02:13:27,000 --> 02:13:31,000
Had Barrow, foul that ball. Both these catches today.

1408
02:13:31,000 --> 02:13:35,000
Barrow from New York who just threw and Campanella from Brooklyn.

1409
02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:37,000
They'll throw.

1410
02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:38,000
Serves a curve ball in.

1411
02:13:38,000 --> 02:13:42,000
And Mix is, was set to bunt, then drew his bat back out of the way.

1412
02:13:42,000 --> 02:13:44,000
The curve was over for a call strike.

1413
02:13:44,000 --> 02:13:49,000
Now, whether he was bluffing to try and set up something or just to annoy the Yankean field or whether he was serious,

1414
02:13:49,000 --> 02:13:54,000
it means to be seed.

1415
02:13:54,000 --> 02:13:56,000
Reese taking his lead off first.

1416
02:13:56,000 --> 02:14:01,000
Page delivers a pitch out, but Peewee isn't going, so does ball one.

1417
02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:06,000
The Yankees, of course, could afford to have Page come down deliberately outside with a fastball,

1418
02:14:06,000 --> 02:14:12,000
hoping that the Dodgers were running.

1419
02:14:12,000 --> 02:14:15,000
Now the count is one and one. The score is one and one.

1420
02:14:15,000 --> 02:14:23,000
The teams in the series up to this one are one and one.

1421
02:14:23,000 --> 02:14:29,000
Last to the eighth inning.

1422
02:14:29,000 --> 02:14:34,000
Page, looking down, draws his eyes now until they're practically slits.

1423
02:14:34,000 --> 02:14:35,000
Looks at first pitches.

1424
02:14:35,000 --> 02:14:38,000
Fastball swung on, hit wide up, and into left field for a base hit.

1425
02:14:38,000 --> 02:14:42,000
Reese comes around second base and holds on ahead of Woodlings arm.

1426
02:14:42,000 --> 02:14:45,000
So it's a single for Mixers, two between third and fourth.

1427
02:14:45,000 --> 02:14:57,000
Dodgers are first and second.

1428
02:14:57,000 --> 02:15:03,000
Hit number three for Brooklyn, hit number five in the ballgame.

1429
02:15:03,000 --> 02:15:08,000
So that's the first base hit off Page, and now Page is in a jam on his own making.

1430
02:15:08,000 --> 02:15:13,000
A base on balls, a one out to Reese, and a single to Mixers.

1431
02:15:13,000 --> 02:15:19,000
It may be that Mixers, in bluffing that butt, typing the Yankee infield up even closer.

1432
02:15:19,000 --> 02:15:26,000
At any rate, he added up so close that that ball just skipped nimbly through between third baseman Brown and shortstop Rezudo.

1433
02:15:26,000 --> 02:15:34,000
Now manager Stengel hollers for time, gets Page's attention and Tommy Henrik's attention.

1434
02:15:34,000 --> 02:15:39,000
He wants Henrik to play back. The Yankee infield now is still in double play depth.

1435
02:15:39,000 --> 02:15:44,000
The batter is Carl Pirello. The outfield is a little around toward left.

1436
02:15:44,000 --> 02:15:48,000
Throw is one for three, right hand batter.

1437
02:15:48,000 --> 02:15:50,000
Can't run fast because of the groin injury.

1438
02:15:50,000 --> 02:15:54,000
One out. Throw swings a high fly ball into right center field.

1439
02:15:54,000 --> 02:15:57,000
Mates going back, right field under it. Reese tagging up at second.

1440
02:15:57,000 --> 02:16:03,000
There's the catch, and Peewee bluffs toward third but holds on, and the throw goes beautifully and perfectly over to third base.

1441
02:16:03,000 --> 02:16:05,000
Cut off a shortstop Rezudo.

1442
02:16:05,000 --> 02:16:11,000
Mates has a fine throwing arm. He saved the Yankees some games by throwing one out of home plate in the pennant race.

1443
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:13,000
So that's the big second out.

1444
02:16:13,000 --> 02:16:21,000
And the league's leading batter, Jackie Robinson, walking up.

1445
02:16:21,000 --> 02:16:30,000
Page set delivers. Robinson swings, hits the ball right out to DiMaggio in center field, and there's the catch of the line drive throughout number three.

1446
02:16:30,000 --> 02:16:37,000
And so Page comes down and settles his own threat in the last half of the eighth inning.

1447
02:16:37,000 --> 02:16:43,000
So at the end of eighth, one run, two hits, and no errors for the Yankees.

1448
02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:47,000
One run, three hits, and no errors for the Dodgers.

1449
02:16:52,000 --> 02:16:56,000
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1450
02:16:56,000 --> 02:17:00,000
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1451
02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:04,000
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1452
02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:12,000
Here we go, end of the ninth inning, and Tommy Henrik is first up.

1453
02:17:12,000 --> 02:17:18,000
Ball game leveled at one and one. Branca right hands, Henrik swings a ground ball that Robinson picks up,

1454
02:17:18,000 --> 02:17:34,000
throws over the first in time for the off.

1455
02:17:34,000 --> 02:17:36,000
A great roll for a fine play.

1456
02:17:36,000 --> 02:17:41,000
Second base for Robinson, running along the edge of the right field grass toward first base.

1457
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:46,000
Lean down toward his glove hand side, came up with what looked like a certain base hit into right field for Henrik,

1458
02:17:46,000 --> 02:17:50,000
and threw over to Hodges. So it is one up and one gone.

1459
02:17:50,000 --> 02:17:53,000
Now the batter is Yogi Berra.

1460
02:17:53,000 --> 02:18:00,000
This ball game is now being played on the same terms and conditions as though it were already an extra inning.

1461
02:18:00,000 --> 02:18:03,000
Berra, left hand hitter, crowds the play from behind.

1462
02:18:03,000 --> 02:18:08,000
Chucky strong, picks a lead up curve ball down by his knees.

1463
02:18:08,000 --> 02:18:13,000
Ball won. One away, one and one tie.

1464
02:18:13,000 --> 02:18:19,000
Who would have thought that this third game could continue such a pitiless pressure following the pattern of the first two.

1465
02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:29,000
Pitch, fast ball in at the knees, four ball two. Two balls, no strikes.

1466
02:18:29,000 --> 02:18:34,000
Branca turns his back on the plate, walks to the rear of the mound,

1467
02:18:34,000 --> 02:18:41,000
raised it short, walked part way in, says something to him.

1468
02:18:41,000 --> 02:18:50,000
Berra ready to swing, that's his stock in trade. He'll swing at anything if he takes the notion.

1469
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:59,000
Brushed off very quickly by Art Passarella.

1470
02:18:59,000 --> 02:19:04,000
Two and two, that's the ball and strike count. One out.

1471
02:19:04,000 --> 02:19:10,000
Berra swinging that stick menacingly back and forth, pulled it from the end. Two-two pitch, curve ball, high outside,

1472
02:19:10,000 --> 02:19:15,000
and cut down and in. So it is now a full count of three and two.

1473
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:27,000
Ball game is just two hours old. Just had two runs in it. Each side has one of them.

1474
02:19:27,000 --> 02:19:32,000
Branca shakes no. Now starts pumping, delivers three and two.

1475
02:19:32,000 --> 02:19:38,000
There's a solid foul outside first base, down into the right field corner.

1476
02:19:38,000 --> 02:19:44,000
Ed Hurley down there retrieves the ball, throws it out.

1477
02:19:44,000 --> 02:19:53,000
Commissioner Chandler, several years ago, took the alternate umpires out of the stands and put them down in the foul corners,

1478
02:19:53,000 --> 02:20:01,000
which is a very fine contribution. Sometimes balls hit right down in those corners are extremely difficult to judge.

1479
02:20:01,000 --> 02:20:08,000
So that gives umpires up in the outfield a better angle on balls that either caught or trapped.

1480
02:20:08,000 --> 02:20:13,000
Now three-two pitch again. Curve low inside, back to the stands. Yogi goes down to first base.

1481
02:20:13,000 --> 02:20:17,000
Cappanella comes back, retrieves the ball, and Berra stops it first.

1482
02:20:17,000 --> 02:20:24,000
So that is just ball four. Had Berra been able to advance any farther, then it would have been a wild pitch added.

1483
02:20:24,000 --> 02:20:29,000
With the curve ball down low and into the right. So with one out, Berra reaches first.

1484
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:32,000
Base on balls, which is the third ball given about Branca today.

1485
02:20:32,000 --> 02:20:36,000
It's the third walk in three games given about the Brooklyn Mound stand.

1486
02:20:36,000 --> 02:20:42,000
Clyde Soukforth, the pitching emissary of manager, shot and goes trotting out to the mound.

1487
02:20:42,000 --> 02:20:51,000
Souk is in uniform and under baseball rules, which never relaxed, only men in umpires uniforms or players in,

1488
02:20:51,000 --> 02:20:56,000
or coaches or managers in baseball suits are allowed to be out on the playing field.

1489
02:20:56,000 --> 02:21:00,000
Unless they're in an emergency, they have to call for a groundkeeper.

1490
02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:04,000
In other words, a manager who is in street clothes has to stay in the dugout.

1491
02:21:04,000 --> 02:21:09,000
And, uh, Shotton does not wear a baseball suit.

1492
02:21:09,000 --> 02:21:13,000
Soukforth goes out to discuss matters with Branca.

1493
02:21:13,000 --> 02:21:17,000
Joe Hatton, a left-hander, gets up for the Brooklyn ball fence the second time he was up.

1494
02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:21,000
He was throwing down the third inning as Mel told you.

1495
02:21:21,000 --> 02:21:24,000
Now Joe DiMaggio at the plate, all for three today.

1496
02:21:24,000 --> 02:21:26,000
Right field deep, round toward left, one and one tie.

1497
02:21:26,000 --> 02:21:27,000
Barrett first, one out.

1498
02:21:27,000 --> 02:21:33,000
The pitch to DiMaggio, fastball high and outside, four ball one.

1499
02:21:33,000 --> 02:21:41,000
DiMaggio looks down to third base coach Presetti to get the sign as to how managers tangle, what this one played.

1500
02:21:41,000 --> 02:21:45,000
DiMaggio swinging from the end, feet wide apart.

1501
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:53,000
Clipper, set picture, swings as a foul ball on top of the right field stands, and it's one and one.

1502
02:21:53,000 --> 02:21:57,000
One ball, one strike.

1503
02:21:57,000 --> 02:22:09,000
DiMaggio's foul up there on the right field stands, stood up three, six, half a dozen pigeons.

1504
02:22:09,000 --> 02:22:12,000
One and one.

1505
02:22:12,000 --> 02:22:14,000
Branca checks first pitches, a curve, low and away.

1506
02:22:14,000 --> 02:22:18,000
Campanella down into his right to hold the ball up, and it's two and one.

1507
02:22:18,000 --> 02:22:24,000
Two balls, one strike.

1508
02:22:24,000 --> 02:22:26,000
All tied, one and one.

1509
02:22:26,000 --> 02:22:36,000
Well, we got all the ball game today anybody could ask for.

1510
02:22:36,000 --> 02:22:43,000
Big right-hander, checks first, delivers, strike, swinging, fastball high and by the hand.

1511
02:22:43,000 --> 02:22:48,000
DiMaggio really took a rip.

1512
02:22:48,000 --> 02:22:51,000
Unbuttoned his shirt swinging on that one.

1513
02:22:51,000 --> 02:22:59,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1514
02:22:59,000 --> 02:23:02,000
No, not too swift a runner.

1515
02:23:02,000 --> 02:23:05,000
Leading down at first, hard to the first baseman.

1516
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:08,000
In and out of the bag with him, now he's off the bag.

1517
02:23:08,000 --> 02:23:13,000
Two-two pitch to DiMaggio, a high, high foul up by third.

1518
02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:15,000
Mixis is under it, close to the stands.

1519
02:23:15,000 --> 02:23:17,000
He's got it.

1520
02:23:17,000 --> 02:23:23,000
Close to DiMaggio, it must be a very discouraging series.

1521
02:23:23,000 --> 02:23:25,000
Big guy, of course, he's not strong.

1522
02:23:25,000 --> 02:23:26,000
He's been sick.

1523
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:29,000
He's had a terrible year.

1524
02:23:29,000 --> 02:23:31,000
The fates have really bitten at him.

1525
02:23:31,000 --> 02:23:34,000
But he's had only one hit in the series, and that was a dribble up to up third.

1526
02:23:34,000 --> 02:23:41,000
Today, he struck out twice, hopped up to the first baseman, fouled out to the third second.

1527
02:23:41,000 --> 02:23:51,000
Now Bobby Brown, who was a record-breaking pinch hitter back in the 47 series of ten batter,

1528
02:23:51,000 --> 02:23:57,000
choking that bat, he's a tough hitter.

1529
02:23:57,000 --> 02:23:59,000
Ranker set on the mound, delivers.

1530
02:23:59,000 --> 02:24:03,000
Brown swings and there's a ground foul halfway off toward third.

1531
02:24:03,000 --> 02:24:08,000
He was trying to check his swing, trying not to swing.

1532
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:13,000
No balls, one strike.

1533
02:24:13,000 --> 02:24:16,000
Two teams are really locked.

1534
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:24,000
A run of peace today and a game of peace up to here.

1535
02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:28,000
Beller, better to cut and go with two out at first.

1536
02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:31,000
The pitch, fastball, swung on, hit into right field for a base knock.

1537
02:24:31,000 --> 02:24:34,000
Beller going around second base and holds on.

1538
02:24:34,000 --> 02:24:36,000
Drillo is known to have a rifle for an arm.

1539
02:24:36,000 --> 02:24:38,000
The throw goes all the way to third base.

1540
02:24:38,000 --> 02:24:42,000
So Brown singles, which is the third hit for the Yankees.

1541
02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:47,000
And the totals are again even at a run, three hits and no errors.

1542
02:24:47,000 --> 02:24:49,000
So Yankees are first and second.

1543
02:24:49,000 --> 02:24:53,000
As the Yankees come on with a threat here in the ninth inning, a sharp single to right,

1544
02:24:53,000 --> 02:24:57,000
drilled through between first baseman Hodges, second baseman Robinson.

1545
02:24:57,000 --> 02:25:00,000
And the man of the hour is Gene Woodling, who is one for three.

1546
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:04,000
This is his only appearance in the series.

1547
02:25:04,000 --> 02:25:06,000
Double to right in the fourth inning.

1548
02:25:06,000 --> 02:25:10,000
There had been no hit off, Frank, or since Woodling's double.

1549
02:25:10,000 --> 02:25:14,000
Left hand batter, feet close together, steps toward first base in his stride

1550
02:25:14,000 --> 02:25:18,000
and is in quite a crouch, swinging from the end.

1551
02:25:18,000 --> 02:25:20,000
Frank has pitch, swung on, foul back.

1552
02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:24,000
There was a high outside curve that Woodling went for.

1553
02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:27,000
No balls, one strike.

1554
02:25:27,000 --> 02:25:31,000
Brown the runner at first.

1555
02:25:31,000 --> 02:25:35,000
Barrow, who is the key runner, is down at second.

1556
02:25:35,000 --> 02:25:39,000
She's a one and one tie.

1557
02:25:39,000 --> 02:25:43,000
Woodling crouch.

1558
02:25:43,000 --> 02:25:50,000
Frank has stands erect, stops, pitches, fastball, just in at the knees.

1559
02:25:50,000 --> 02:26:02,000
Ball one, strike one.

1560
02:26:02,000 --> 02:26:04,000
Things grow quiet now for the second.

1561
02:26:04,000 --> 02:26:12,000
Branker prepares for his next delivery, rubs up the ball, now puts his glove back on.

1562
02:26:12,000 --> 02:26:17,000
Check second base, stops, pitches, inside at the knees again, four ball, two,

1563
02:26:17,000 --> 02:26:20,000
another fastball, two balls, one strike.

1564
02:26:20,000 --> 02:26:24,000
Woodling looking down to Crisetti.

1565
02:26:24,000 --> 02:26:26,000
See what the orders are.

1566
02:26:26,000 --> 02:26:28,000
The orders are going out, pitch by pitch.

1567
02:26:28,000 --> 02:26:30,000
Reese comes in from short, takes the ball from Branker,

1568
02:26:30,000 --> 02:26:34,000
and the shortstop slipping his glove, is busily rubbing up that ball meanwhile.

1569
02:26:34,000 --> 02:26:38,000
Peewee talking to Ralph.

1570
02:26:38,000 --> 02:26:42,000
Now the Brooklyn captain goes back to his shortstop post.

1571
02:26:42,000 --> 02:26:44,000
Two balls, one strike.

1572
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:47,000
Barra leading down off second.

1573
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:52,000
Crisetti continually reminding him, two men out, run on anything.

1574
02:26:52,000 --> 02:26:54,000
The ball is ordered, brought in to play on far pass,

1575
02:26:54,000 --> 02:26:56,000
for an inspection after Reese had rubbed it up.

1576
02:26:56,000 --> 02:26:59,000
It's bound to be serviceable.

1577
02:26:59,000 --> 02:27:01,000
Left in play.

1578
02:27:01,000 --> 02:27:05,000
Alright, two and one is the count.

1579
02:27:05,000 --> 02:27:09,000
Branker shaking no.

1580
02:27:09,000 --> 02:27:12,000
Campanella stays low back of the plate, the two-one pitch.

1581
02:27:12,000 --> 02:27:15,000
A fastball just misses low inside the ball three.

1582
02:27:15,000 --> 02:27:17,000
And the way Woodling backed from that ball,

1583
02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:21,000
Casey Stengel had ordered him to take it no matter where it was.

1584
02:27:21,000 --> 02:27:26,000
Now it's three and one, and Woodling checks for orders again.

1585
02:27:26,000 --> 02:27:31,000
Crisetti looked in to Stengel and then gave a bunch of signs.

1586
02:27:31,000 --> 02:27:35,000
One good one and the rest the hookers' pokers for the decoy.

1587
02:27:35,000 --> 02:27:37,000
Alright, count is three and one.

1588
02:27:37,000 --> 02:27:38,000
Branker deals.

1589
02:27:38,000 --> 02:27:39,000
Call strike two.

1590
02:27:39,000 --> 02:27:43,000
Fastball on the outside and Woodling, who had taken a step up toward first,

1591
02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:49,000
is recalled by the plate umpire's decision and bellows for the moment.

1592
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:55,000
Crisetti hollers something from back of third.

1593
02:27:55,000 --> 02:27:57,000
So it's an automatic run and hit.

1594
02:27:57,000 --> 02:28:02,000
Three balls, two strikes, two out, men at first and second.

1595
02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:06,000
Well, I guess you'd say this is the biggest pitch so far, wouldn't you?

1596
02:28:06,000 --> 02:28:07,000
Game standing one and one.

1597
02:28:07,000 --> 02:28:09,000
Let's see what goes.

1598
02:28:09,000 --> 02:28:10,000
Branker ready.

1599
02:28:10,000 --> 02:28:12,000
Right hander pitches, the runners break, it's ball four.

1600
02:28:12,000 --> 02:28:15,000
And Cappanella had all he could do to keep that ball from going back to the stands.

1601
02:28:15,000 --> 02:28:17,000
So the bases are loaded.

1602
02:28:17,000 --> 02:28:20,000
Branker turned the fastball loose down across the shins.

1603
02:28:20,000 --> 02:28:23,000
So the bases are now filled.

1604
02:28:23,000 --> 02:28:26,000
First time the Yankees have had the bases loaded in the series.

1605
02:28:26,000 --> 02:28:28,000
A walk, a single, and a base on ball.

1606
02:28:28,000 --> 02:28:32,000
This is four walks given up by Branker.

1607
02:28:32,000 --> 02:28:37,000
Clip Mappes, the left hand hitting right fielder, is waiting to bat next.

1608
02:28:37,000 --> 02:28:40,000
And there is Clyde Soukforth, one of the Brooklyn coaches,

1609
02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:42,000
going out to the mound now to talk to Branker.

1610
02:28:42,000 --> 02:28:44,000
Robinson has come in from second base.

1611
02:28:44,000 --> 02:28:48,000
Captain Reeves from short, Cappanella is out there.

1612
02:28:48,000 --> 02:28:52,000
Right hander Jack Banner is up throwing in the Brooklyn bullpen along with Hatton.

1613
02:28:52,000 --> 02:28:56,000
Hatton's been throwing a long time.

1614
02:28:56,000 --> 02:29:01,000
Souky looking down to the bullpen, but he's taken Branker off to one side and is talking to him.

1615
02:29:01,000 --> 02:29:06,000
And apparently it looks as though Soukforth is talking with Branker

1616
02:29:06,000 --> 02:29:11,000
to give Branker a chance to say whether he thinks he can go on or not.

1617
02:29:11,000 --> 02:29:19,000
And they're going with Branker.

1618
02:29:19,000 --> 02:29:23,000
So the coach back into the bench.

1619
02:29:23,000 --> 02:29:28,000
Branker now stands on the mound, a long, solitary key figure.

1620
02:29:28,000 --> 02:29:33,000
Reese has gone back to short, Robinson is second, and Cappanella settled down behind the plate.

1621
02:29:33,000 --> 02:29:39,000
And Mappes, the six foot left hand hitting right fielder.

1622
02:29:39,000 --> 02:29:43,000
Wait a minute, and Mappes is going to be called back from the plate,

1623
02:29:43,000 --> 02:29:46,000
and Johnny Mize is going to pinch hit.

1624
02:29:46,000 --> 02:29:53,000
Mize, the former Cardinal, the former Giants, who was sold from the Giants late in the summer,

1625
02:29:53,000 --> 02:29:55,000
but in time to be eligible for the series to the Yankees.

1626
02:29:55,000 --> 02:30:07,000
Mize, who pinch hit a single yesterday in the right field, is coming on to pinch hit from Mates.

1627
02:30:07,000 --> 02:30:09,000
So Mize is no stranger to Branker.

1628
02:30:09,000 --> 02:30:14,000
They'll have many a brush.

1629
02:30:14,000 --> 02:30:18,000
So Johnny Mize is coming on to pinch hit and going down to the Yankee bullpen

1630
02:30:18,000 --> 02:30:22,000
to get ready to go into the outfield is Hank Bauer.

1631
02:30:22,000 --> 02:30:27,000
So Mize, who was one for one, pinch hit single yesterday, coming up to the plate.

1632
02:30:27,000 --> 02:30:32,000
Shortly after he was sold to the Yankees by the Giants, he hurt his shoulder.

1633
02:30:32,000 --> 02:30:38,000
He's available for hitting duty, but can't play it first.

1634
02:30:38,000 --> 02:30:44,000
So here's the big fella, Johnny Mize, stepping in, hitting for the right fielder in the ninth inning.

1635
02:30:44,000 --> 02:30:48,000
Freeman on, it's a one and one ball game.

1636
02:30:48,000 --> 02:30:52,000
Don't go away.

1637
02:30:52,000 --> 02:30:54,000
Outfield deep, down toward right.

1638
02:30:54,000 --> 02:31:02,000
Branker pitches and Mize takes a fastball in by the belt buckle for ball one.

1639
02:31:02,000 --> 02:31:11,000
There's Casey Stengel, sort of leading a little weaving, sinuous dance down there in the Yankee bench.

1640
02:31:11,000 --> 02:31:13,000
Branker pumps, delivers.

1641
02:31:13,000 --> 02:31:17,000
Mize takes a fastball in for a called strike.

1642
02:31:17,000 --> 02:31:21,000
One ball, one strike.

1643
02:31:21,000 --> 02:31:24,000
Mize is a big guy.

1644
02:31:24,000 --> 02:31:27,000
He's over the Giants, they call him the big cat.

1645
02:31:27,000 --> 02:31:31,000
And he swings that heavy bat as though it weighed no more than a dry turkey feather.

1646
02:31:31,000 --> 02:31:33,000
Okay, three men on.

1647
02:31:33,000 --> 02:31:34,000
One and one ball and strike count.

1648
02:31:34,000 --> 02:31:35,000
Branker pumps, two out.

1649
02:31:35,000 --> 02:31:39,000
The pitch is, the fastball outside, four ball two.

1650
02:31:39,000 --> 02:31:42,000
Two and one.

1651
02:31:42,000 --> 02:31:51,000
Stengel had Mize up there at the plate and he was not going to reveal his hand until he saw whether manager Schotton was going to take Branker out or not.

1652
02:31:51,000 --> 02:31:58,000
But when it was apparent that Branker was to remain pitching, then he called Mize back and put big Mize up there where he now is.

1653
02:31:58,000 --> 02:31:59,000
Well, she's tied one and one.

1654
02:31:59,000 --> 02:32:02,000
Hold on to your hats.

1655
02:32:02,000 --> 02:32:03,000
Freerunners take their leads.

1656
02:32:03,000 --> 02:32:07,000
The two-one pitch, swung on, it's belted out toward right field.

1657
02:32:07,000 --> 02:32:08,000
It's a base hit.

1658
02:32:08,000 --> 02:32:09,000
It's up against the screen.

1659
02:32:09,000 --> 02:32:10,000
In comes one rod.

1660
02:32:10,000 --> 02:32:14,000
In comes two runs and it's a long single to get in two runs.

1661
02:32:14,000 --> 02:32:16,000
And Mize is two for two.

1662
02:32:16,000 --> 02:32:34,000
The pitch hit on the Yankees' lead, three to one.

1663
02:32:34,000 --> 02:32:41,000
So big Mize delivers, he's set up there and he hit one about 25 feet off the ground against the wire screen.

1664
02:32:41,000 --> 02:32:47,000
And Bauer goes down to first base to run for it and Mize gets that tremendous hand as he goes off the field.

1665
02:32:47,000 --> 02:32:50,000
And the Yankee fans are deliriously delighted.

1666
02:32:50,000 --> 02:32:54,000
And there is Coach Clyde Schuchkow calling for time and going out to the Bauer.

1667
02:32:54,000 --> 02:32:55,000
This may be all for Branker.

1668
02:32:55,000 --> 02:33:00,000
It's three to one in favor of the Yankees.

1669
02:33:00,000 --> 02:33:06,000
Bauer has been announced, he's the pitch runner at first base.

1670
02:33:06,000 --> 02:33:11,000
And they're going to bring Joe Hatton.

1671
02:33:11,000 --> 02:33:12,000
Did it happen?

1672
02:33:12,000 --> 02:33:14,000
Or Bader, just a moment.

1673
02:33:14,000 --> 02:33:18,000
It is Jack Bader they want, not the left-hander after all.

1674
02:33:18,000 --> 02:33:20,000
Jack Bader, who didn't get very much time to throw.

1675
02:33:20,000 --> 02:33:27,000
So Bader is coming on and Johnny Mize, an old national leaguer, returns to the scene.

1676
02:33:27,000 --> 02:33:39,000
But he's hit many a base hit here at Brooklyn and promptly hits a solid high pinch hit single and gets him two runs.

1677
02:33:39,000 --> 02:33:41,000
Three to one in favor of the Yankees.

1678
02:33:41,000 --> 02:33:45,000
First time that any team has scored in one inning more than one run.

1679
02:33:45,000 --> 02:33:49,000
And the Yankees now in the ninth inning lead three to one.

1680
02:33:49,000 --> 02:33:56,000
And with Joe Page on the mound, Casey Stengel is sitting over there just got a smile on there as big as a post-liferal watermelon.

1681
02:33:56,000 --> 02:34:06,000
Branca gets a hand as he leaves the mound.

1682
02:34:06,000 --> 02:34:09,000
Branca goes out after eight and two third innings.

1683
02:34:09,000 --> 02:34:13,000
He got all but the final out.

1684
02:34:13,000 --> 02:34:22,000
And the first two runs for the Yankees were put on by bases on balls.

1685
02:34:22,000 --> 02:34:29,000
Branca retired 14 men straight and with one out in the ninth inning after retiring Henrik for his 14th consecutive out, he walked Barrow.

1686
02:34:29,000 --> 02:34:32,000
And that proved to be the undoing.

1687
02:34:32,000 --> 02:34:40,000
After DiMaggio fouled out the third and with Branca trying to get the third out of the ninth inning, Brown laid in with a solid single to right field.

1688
02:34:40,000 --> 02:34:43,000
And then came the base on balls to Gene Woodling to load them up.

1689
02:34:43,000 --> 02:34:51,000
The pinch hit single by Johnny Mize, who is now sitting comfortably back there in the Yankee bench.

1690
02:34:51,000 --> 02:34:58,000
And Jack Banner, tall lean right-hander, out on the mound relieving for Brooklyn.

1691
02:34:58,000 --> 02:35:03,000
It's the first time that a Dodger starter failed to finish.

1692
02:35:03,000 --> 02:35:05,000
Branca going to within one out.

1693
02:35:05,000 --> 02:35:09,000
So it is three-one in favor of the Yankees.

1694
02:35:09,000 --> 02:35:11,000
Three to one.

1695
02:35:11,000 --> 02:35:15,000
On that base hit, Woodling went around to third base of course.

1696
02:35:15,000 --> 02:35:17,000
Mize is a very ponderous runner.

1697
02:35:17,000 --> 02:35:18,000
That's why he was held at first.

1698
02:35:18,000 --> 02:35:22,000
A faster man might have made it a double.

1699
02:35:22,000 --> 02:35:24,000
So we have Yankees at first and third.

1700
02:35:24,000 --> 02:35:31,000
Bower on the first base.

1701
02:35:31,000 --> 02:35:34,000
Banner on the mound.

1702
02:35:34,000 --> 02:35:37,000
Second baseman Jerry Coleman steps in.

1703
02:35:37,000 --> 02:35:39,000
Right hand hitter in a crouch.

1704
02:35:39,000 --> 02:35:41,000
Outfield toward left.

1705
02:35:41,000 --> 02:35:42,000
Banner throws.

1706
02:35:42,000 --> 02:35:44,000
Fastball is butted foul.

1707
02:35:44,000 --> 02:35:47,000
There's a bid for a base hit, surprise measure.

1708
02:35:47,000 --> 02:35:50,000
Foul ball, strike one.

1709
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:54,000
Bower at first is ready to go on anything.

1710
02:35:54,000 --> 02:35:58,000
He'll go out and play right field for the latter half of the ninth inning.

1711
02:35:58,000 --> 02:36:00,000
Woodling over at third.

1712
02:36:00,000 --> 02:36:03,000
Of course he's ready to set sail.

1713
02:36:03,000 --> 02:36:06,000
Outfield toward left.

1714
02:36:06,000 --> 02:36:09,000
Coleman, all for three, leaning in, choking that bat.

1715
02:36:09,000 --> 02:36:10,000
Banner checks first.

1716
02:36:10,000 --> 02:36:11,000
Right-hander pitches.

1717
02:36:11,000 --> 02:36:14,000
Fastball in for a called second strike.

1718
02:36:14,000 --> 02:36:17,000
He's leaning in too, no balls, two strikes.

1719
02:36:17,000 --> 02:36:21,000
Big Johnny Mize, while he'd been on some great St. Louis teams,

1720
02:36:21,000 --> 02:36:28,000
and been over there with the Giants, never got into a World Series until this fall.

1721
02:36:28,000 --> 02:36:33,000
And he's already more than repaid the Yankees for whatever they paid for him when they got him from the Giants.

1722
02:36:33,000 --> 02:36:37,000
This base hit now just did that.

1723
02:36:37,000 --> 02:36:38,000
Throw, there goes Bower.

1724
02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:39,000
There's a line, John, hit the center field.

1725
02:36:39,000 --> 02:36:43,000
The Yankee, four runs, three of them got on with bases on balls.

1726
02:36:43,000 --> 02:36:46,000
Now we have some action down the Yankee bullpen.

1727
02:36:46,000 --> 02:36:53,000
Fred Sanford, right-hander, begins throwing because this is a long inning.

1728
02:36:53,000 --> 02:36:55,000
A fastball outside, ball two.

1729
02:36:55,000 --> 02:36:58,000
Correction, that is not Sanford, that is Ali Reynolds who is now throwing.

1730
02:36:58,000 --> 02:37:02,000
Sanford was throwing earlier, and it is Reynolds, the pitching hero of the first game.

1731
02:37:02,000 --> 02:37:07,000
Strong right-hander, working the bullpen now for New York to get ready in the event that Paisley's in trouble

1732
02:37:07,000 --> 02:37:11,000
and nailing down this 4-1 ball game in the ninth inning.

1733
02:37:11,000 --> 02:37:18,000
Batter, checks first, pitches, paid swings, and slices foul in the lower third-base stand.

1734
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:26,000
Come on.

1735
02:37:26,000 --> 02:37:33,000
Would like to repeat what we said of the four Yankee runs, three were scored by men who got on with walks.

1736
02:37:33,000 --> 02:37:37,000
Two here in the ninth inning and one in the third.

1737
02:37:37,000 --> 02:37:41,000
That is quite a story, and as much as there were no walks given to the Yankees in the first two games,

1738
02:37:41,000 --> 02:37:45,000
paid swings and fouls this one back, and there was a hit-and-run play on that one

1739
02:37:45,000 --> 02:37:54,000
because Coleman, the runner from first, was headed toward the still vacant second base.

1740
02:37:54,000 --> 02:37:56,000
The Yankees have exploded here in the ninth inning.

1741
02:37:56,000 --> 02:38:00,000
Frankler opened the door with one out, a walk to Barrow, then with two out,

1742
02:38:00,000 --> 02:38:06,000
single to Brown, a base on balls to Woodling loaded it up, a pinch hit single by Johnny Mize, knocks in two,

1743
02:38:06,000 --> 02:38:11,000
and Coleman is just single sharply off relief pitcher Jack Bathead.

1744
02:38:11,000 --> 02:38:14,000
Joe Page up there, it's his ball game to win.

1745
02:38:14,000 --> 02:38:21,000
All these runs belong to him. Two-two pitch, swung on and missed, strike three, and Page strikes out.

1746
02:38:21,000 --> 02:38:29,000
So eight men batted in the top of the ninth inning. Three of them scored on three base hits.

1747
02:38:29,000 --> 02:38:31,000
So the Yankees now lead 4-1.

1748
02:38:31,000 --> 02:38:36,000
It's the first time that any team has been more than one run away from the opposition.

1749
02:38:36,000 --> 02:38:43,000
And Page, who has pitched with phenomenal efficiency, came on in the fourth inning with the bases loaded.

1750
02:38:43,000 --> 02:38:46,000
That's when the Dodgers had their big chance. They had the bases loaded.

1751
02:38:46,000 --> 02:38:51,000
The ball game was then one-and-one, and Page got all the more on a foul ball to Henrik,

1752
02:38:51,000 --> 02:38:56,000
who caught the ball leaning against the first-row spectators alongside the stands at first base,

1753
02:38:56,000 --> 02:38:59,000
and then he got snide on the ground ball second to first.

1754
02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:05,000
Ali Reynolds continues toiling way down in the left-field corner for the Yankees.

1755
02:39:05,000 --> 02:39:14,000
Bauer goes out to right field, of course. He took over from Eyes, who had a pinch hit for right fielder Mapes.

1756
02:39:14,000 --> 02:39:20,000
Now in the last tonight, Page will be called on to pitch to Hodges, Olmol, and Snyder.

1757
02:39:20,000 --> 02:39:29,000
Hank Bauer now playing right field. That's the announcement on Bauer.

1758
02:39:33,000 --> 02:39:36,000
Big left-hander Joe Page, all set.

1759
02:39:36,000 --> 02:39:42,000
Gil Hager stepping in. New York 4, Brooklyn 1.

1760
02:39:42,000 --> 02:39:51,000
Scharron settling down to give the sign. Page in a hurry. Shuffles a little dirt out there on the mound with his spikes.

1761
02:39:51,000 --> 02:40:00,000
Happy around toward left. The wind continues blowing into left field.

1762
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:06,000
Page pumps, kicks, twists, throws, and Hodges, Bunning, fouls the ball off.

1763
02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:11,000
He was Bunning for a base hit. Figured that that was about the last thing the Yankees would expect of him.

1764
02:40:11,000 --> 02:40:23,000
Ali Reynolds, who allowed no runs and won the first game, along with Hendricks home run, 1-0, continues throwing down the bullpen, being warmed up by Charlie Silvera.

1765
02:40:23,000 --> 02:40:29,000
Easy insurance if they need him. Page works. There's the ground ball, hits sharply down to second. Coleman up with it cleanly.

1766
02:40:29,000 --> 02:40:36,000
Throws over to first and Hodges was easily out by about three steps. One up and one gone. Last half of the night for the Yankees.

1767
02:40:36,000 --> 02:40:42,000
Louis Olmo, who is 0-4-3, has not gotten the ball out of the infield.

1768
02:40:42,000 --> 02:40:55,000
And I would say that Page is out of Olmo with the bases loaded and one man retired up until that situation in the fourth inning was the key out of the ball game.

1769
02:40:55,000 --> 02:41:02,000
Now Page works. Olmo swings, drills the ball back into left field. It's going a long way back. It is in for a home run.

1770
02:41:02,000 --> 02:41:15,000
And it is now 4-2.

1771
02:41:15,000 --> 02:41:24,000
Now Olmo running his home run home, steps on home plate and it's a 4-2 ball game. He hit a curve ball and drilled it well back in the straightaway left field stands.

1772
02:41:24,000 --> 02:41:36,000
The ball went about 365 feet when it landed. So it is now 4-2. Bruce Edwards, a second string catcher and a right hand batter is being brought in from the Brooklyn bullpen.

1773
02:41:36,000 --> 02:41:40,000
Snider is at the plate.

1774
02:41:40,000 --> 02:41:47,000
Page deals. Over. Fastball for a called strike at the outside on that one.

1775
02:41:47,000 --> 02:41:55,000
Yankees four, the Dodgers two.

1776
02:41:55,000 --> 02:41:59,000
Page works. Over. Fastball for a called second strike.

1777
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:06,000
Page two outs to go and a two run margin. 4-2 ball game.

1778
02:42:06,000 --> 02:42:12,000
Snider holding his stick down by the end. Overly close stands.

1779
02:42:12,000 --> 02:42:18,000
I feel back in the left on him. Pitch is swung on, fouled off. Nothing can do.

1780
02:42:18,000 --> 02:42:24,000
Lower back on the screen.

1781
02:42:24,000 --> 02:42:37,000
A few spectators of the crowd of 32,788 started for the exit gate. But Olmo's home run returned into their seats.

1782
02:42:37,000 --> 02:42:44,000
Page takes the sign very coolly. Throws. Kirk swung on and missed strike. 3 and Snider is buck up.

1783
02:42:44,000 --> 02:42:55,000
So Page now is one out away. Yankees four, the Dodgers two in this third game of the series.

1784
02:42:55,000 --> 02:43:01,000
And just who the pitcher will be tomorrow? Well, probably Eddie Lopat.

1785
02:43:01,000 --> 02:43:07,000
He's been figured to start most any time. Might start for the Yankees. Just who managed to shot him to come up with, you don't know.

1786
02:43:07,000 --> 02:43:12,000
Plus the outcome of this game makes a great deal of difference. Each side of the camp.

1787
02:43:12,000 --> 02:43:23,000
Campanella, right hand hitter, swings, fouls the ball back. Nothing in one. Two gone, last of the night.

1788
02:43:23,000 --> 02:43:30,000
Edwards waiting on deck. Least a hit for a relief pitch of batter in the event that Campanella can save him a bat.

1789
02:43:30,000 --> 02:43:38,000
As it stands now, Edwards on deck is the tying run. Yankees four, two. Campanella swings, fouls this one off.

1790
02:43:38,000 --> 02:43:47,000
No balls, two strikes. Case is tangled. Let's add an encouraging hoop and a hollow as he steps to the front of the Yankee bench.

1791
02:43:47,000 --> 02:43:56,000
Hollers out to Page. And we are beginning to get a little rain. It is starting to rain right now.

1792
02:43:56,000 --> 02:44:05,000
First rain of the day. The skies are letting overhead. As we pointed out to you, they have been ominous all afternoon.

1793
02:44:05,000 --> 02:44:12,000
Page works. Campanella checks his swing on a low curve ball and it is ball one. One ball, two strikes.

1794
02:44:12,000 --> 02:44:19,000
In the column that counts, the Yankees four, the Dodgers two. The Yankees, after two men, were retired.

1795
02:44:19,000 --> 02:44:32,000
Let go on the ninth inning and Johnny Myers and Joe Page, you can see the typesetters in the various newspaper composing rooms all over the country, getting their names ready for the headlines.

1796
02:44:32,000 --> 02:44:41,000
One and two pitch, swung on a high foul ball close to the first base stand and into the stand. So the ballgame is still alive.

1797
02:44:41,000 --> 02:44:53,000
The ball bounced three rows of seats back, hit on a piece of concrete walkway, and then bounced high up amidst some photographers, suspended under the upper deck behind first base.

1798
02:44:53,000 --> 02:45:12,000
One and two. Well, you had the feeling for this ballgame in its oneness that something would have to detonate it, explode it. And the Yankees did that in the ninth inning with two out.

1799
02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:23,000
Now, Page, trying to finish the ballgame, nearly down, works again one and two, curve swung on as a high fly ball back in the left field, back goes Woodley, way back, close to the stands.

1800
02:45:23,000 --> 02:45:45,000
He can't get it, it's in there for a home run by Campanella. Campanella felt for in the left field stand, it just goes in, and it's a four-three ballgame, and listen to the foul.

1801
02:45:45,000 --> 02:45:56,000
Wow, this is getting to be a most unpredictable series. And here at Ebbets Field, where anything can and usually does happen, Casey Stengel goes out to the mound to talk to Joe Page.

1802
02:45:56,000 --> 02:46:11,000
And Stengel is going to go with Page. He's going to stay with him. And Bruce never has a club hit more than two home runs in one inning in the World Series.

1803
02:46:11,000 --> 02:46:22,000
This is the ninth time the two home runs have been hit in one inning in a World Series ballgame.

1804
02:46:22,000 --> 02:46:27,000
The Yankees themselves have done it five times, so the Dodgers sort of took a leap out of their book, two home runs here in the ninth.

1805
02:46:27,000 --> 02:46:41,000
Edwards takes a curve, couldn't check his swing in time out of his strike two, no balls, two strikes, nothing in two, Bruce stepping in.

1806
02:46:41,000 --> 02:46:51,000
So Page is once again within one strike, his final out, and the crowd is still waiting. Everybody standing.

1807
02:46:51,000 --> 02:47:05,000
The Yankees four, the Dodgers three. Oh, hold on. Page comes down. Edwards takes just outside for a ball one. One and two.

1808
02:47:05,000 --> 02:47:11,000
He may have been setting up something with that pitch. Fast ball, just wide.

1809
02:47:11,000 --> 02:47:19,000
Because you never know what will happen in the ballgame, both the bullfens remain active. Right-hander Reynolds, pitching here over the first game, working for New York in the left field corner,

1810
02:47:19,000 --> 02:47:26,000
and left-hander Joe Hatton for Brooklyn in the right field corner. Hatton throwing to the bullfin catcher Sam Nara.

1811
02:47:26,000 --> 02:47:29,000
Okay, one and two.

1812
02:47:29,000 --> 02:47:37,000
So Barrow, who was warming up Reynolds, stops to watch this Joe Page pitch. Page delivers. Edwards takes strike three, called, and the ballgame is over.

1813
02:47:37,000 --> 02:47:43,000
Edwards unhappy about the decision. It was a high fast ball, left the shoulders on the outside.

1814
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Cash Roller walking off the field, and that is the ballgame. Edwards takes a called third strike, and that's the fourth strike out of the page, and it gives him the win.

1815
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And the Yankees win the ballgame 43, and Ralph Branker is the losing hurler, of course.

1816
02:48:02,000 --> 02:48:12,000
So we had a lot of excitement in the ninth inning, and we got some scoring in the ninth inning that we have not had at any other stage in the series.

1817
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So the Yankees win this one and go up now two games to one, and coming up to the microphone, Mel Allen.

1818
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Mel, see you've got the record book, and you've been looking all the things and adding them up. How's it now?

1819
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Well, we had a total of 39 strikeouts in this World Series, and the 39th one, of course, ended the third game of the World Series,

1820
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and gave the Yankees a spine-tingling 4-3 victory as a battling group of Franklin Dodgers refused to be counted out of it, even though they were down 4-1 the last of the ninth inning.

1821
02:48:45,000 --> 02:48:57,000
And they blasted two balls into the seats to get right back into contention, and as a matter of fact, all the Dodger runs today were scored on balls that were hit all the way.

1822
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The Yankees won the first game of the World Series, and the two in the ninth inning, Louis Almal and Roy Campanella.

1823
02:49:06,000 --> 02:49:15,000
Joe Page, who was the key of the Yankee success this year from a pitching standpoint and who pitched them into that pennant,

1824
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if you want to look at it that way, last Saturday when he went six and two-thirds innings of one-hit pitching in relief against the Boston Red Sox,

1825
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he was out and thus went five and two-thirds innings today and did not allow a hit until the eighth inning and then gave up two in the ninth.

1826
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So he pitched one hit ball until the ninth inning and then gave up those two, and they were two big ones. They were all the way.

1827
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So Page got credit for the victory, and you must say in the final analysis, these two clubs are still just as close as they can be.

1828
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Three ball games all decided by one run, and if they have to be decided, that's just the minimum they can be decided by.

1829
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So that will show you how close this situation is.

1830
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And so as you attempt to pick the heroes of the day, Joe Page, who came very near not being a hero with the Dodgers teeing off on him in the last of the ninth,

1831
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comes through to win his second World Series game. He won one and lost one in the 1947 World Series.

1832
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Joseph Francis Page, a 31-year-old left-hander from Springdale, Pennsylvania, born in Cherry Valley,

1833
02:50:29,000 --> 02:50:37,000
came on to save the day for Tommy Byrne, off whom Peewee Reese spanked that home run early in the game

1834
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in the fourth inning to tie it up at one and one after the Yankees had taken a one-run lead in the third of Ralph Branca.

1835
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Branca had walked Mapes to start the third inning, then after Coleman struck out, Tommy Byrne singled to send Mapes around the third,

1836
02:50:52,000 --> 02:50:59,000
and he scored on Rizzuto's fly ball to right field. Reese's homer, off Byrne in the fourth inning, tied it up.

1837
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That was the first hit off Byrne, who had gone through the lineup without lying a hit in the first three innings,

1838
02:51:05,000 --> 02:51:12,000
and that proved to be Tommy Byrne's undoing. When after Mixus had lined solidly to center to DiMaggio for an out,

1839
02:51:12,000 --> 02:51:18,000
Perillo singled to left, and then Byrne grew wild and walked Robinson and Hodges to load the bases with one out on the fourth inning

1840
02:51:18,000 --> 02:51:24,000
that looked as if the Dodgers were going to cash in, but that's when Page came in, and he got Almo and Snyder,

1841
02:51:24,000 --> 02:51:30,000
got out of that jam, and it was brilliant unto the ninth inning when Almo and Campanella hit those homers.

1842
02:51:30,000 --> 02:51:37,000
Offensively, it was Big Johnny Mize who had reached Major League stardom, but who had never been able to participate in a World Series,

1843
02:51:37,000 --> 02:51:43,000
and it was Mize who had pinched it safely yesterday for the Yankees in a losing cause, who came on to the ninth inning

1844
02:51:43,000 --> 02:51:48,000
after Ralph Franca, who had pitched beautiful baseball all the way, who had pitched a two-hitter to the ninth inning,

1845
02:51:48,000 --> 02:51:53,000
and who had gotten the first man out of the ninth, had walked Byrne and had gotten DiMaggio, and with two down,

1846
02:51:53,000 --> 02:52:01,000
Brown singled, and Woodling walked to load them up, and then it was that Big John stepped in and lined a single off the right field screen

1847
02:52:01,000 --> 02:52:07,000
to score two, and Coleman's single off relief pitcher Jack Bana sent the third one in, and that proved to be the winning run.

1848
02:52:07,000 --> 02:52:14,000
So it was a thrilling ball game all the way, where the totals, the Yankees, four runs, five hits, no errors, five left on,

1849
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and the Dodgers, three runs, five hits, no errors, and six men left on.

1850
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Joe Page, the winning pitcher, Ralph Franca, who went eight and two-thirds innings, is the losing pitcher, his second at World Series loss.

1851
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Well, we're having a little more excitement. It's building day by day, and we still have a long way to go.

1852
02:52:33,000 --> 02:52:38,000
Remember, we'll be back on the air again tomorrow at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time,

1853
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but do remember that on Sunday we will be on an hour later at 1.45 Eastern Standard Time, tomorrow at 12.45.

1854
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Tomorrow, we bring you the fourth game of the 1949 World Series from Evans Field in Brooklyn.

1855
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Make a note that we'll be on the air at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time the same as today.

1856
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Until then, folks, smooth sailing, smooth shaving, and good afternoon from your host,

1857
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The Gillette Safety Razor Company, Red Barber, and yours truly, Mel Allen.