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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.
The series is tied at one game apiece.
Enjoy the mutual radio broadcast of Game 3 featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.
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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.
It is overcast and cloudy as the series switches over here to the heart of Flatbush but the prediction is still no rain.
The air is heavy. There is a strong wind coming in from right field which is the short sector
which means that left hand pole hitters will be at a disadvantage.
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.
Ralph Branca is to me the starting pitcher for the Dodgers.
He's busy warming up for that familiar number 13 on the back of his home white uniform.
And Tommy Byrne, the strong arm, stout hearted left hander is getting ready for the Yankees.
The first two games have had unprecedentedly efficient pitching.
You all know that. They've all been one to nothing ball games and we've only had a one inning relief job.
In other words out of four starters three of them were complete.
The other one went eight innings.
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.
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.
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.
So pitching is the story.
However neither one of these two pitchers today is rated primarily as a control pitcher.
Both walk a great many men. Branker for Brooklyn the right hander and Byrne the left hander for New York.
In the regular season Tommy Byrne won 15 and lost seven. Wildness was the thing that plagued him more than opposing hitters.
He is a hard ball fastball pitcher with a solid curve and he changes once in a while.
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.
First he had arm trouble and then he was wild too and threw a lot of home run balls.
So the expectancy is that we'll have scoring today and certainly bases on balls.
The umpires are coming onto the scene right now.
There's a little meeting there in the Brooklyn bench.
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.
The crowd is all here.
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.
There are about 32000 reserved seats and that 32000 said not 32000 reserve seats 32000 seats.
Of course that includes the bleachers. The bleachers were closed off at 10 minutes of 11 this morning about two hours ago.
And there will be 2500 standing room seats sold. That's all that standing room tickets.
So that is the crowd and that's all there is to that.
Now we'll go down the batting orders for you.
As the series stands locked to the game of peace for the Yankees it is resumed all leading off at short.
Each manager has changed his batting order quite a bit today.
Brasuto leads off as usual and Henrik as usual is hitting number two and playing at first base.
Barra after being out with a swollen hand yesterday is back in the ball game today.
Barra left hand hitting catcher.
Maggiore DiMaggio hitting fourth and playing center field.
Bobby Brown gets the starting nod over Billy Johnson at third base.
Brown at third also a left hand batter.
Branca right hand is starting for Brooklyn.
Woodling a left hand hitter is in left field and hitting six for the Yankees. This is his first start.
Humpire is moving up to the plate now and the batting orders will soon be presented.
Mates goes back to right field, left hand hitter.
Coleman at second base hits eight and the pitcher is burned.
The batting order for Brooklyn, Reese retains the lead off spot and playing at short stop.
Eddie Mixis a right hand hitter with a left hand is starting for the Yankees for the first time in the series.
Mixis starts at third.
Carl Forello is hitting third on his back and right field and reports to manager Schotten that he feels a great deal better.
He has a groin injury you know that kept him out of the starting lineup yesterday.
Hitting fourth, Jackie Robinson.
A girl, Hadges, the first baseman is batting fifth.
Louis Olmo who finished in left field yesterday is starting there today for Brooklyn hitting sixth.
Snyder in center field is batting seventh.
Campanella catching and hitting eighth.
And the pitcher is Ralph Rankin.
Now the pop public address announcer is handing up the batting orders to the spectators here in the ballpark.
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.
Captain Reese who brings the Brooklyn list up to these pregame meetings has not yet come out of the Brooklyn dugout.
I was talking to manager Stengel and I asked him, I said Casey, this ballpark evokes many memories for you doesn't it?
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.
It was a preseason exhibition game and he says oddly enough with the New York Yankees.
I was then back in 1913, I was then a member of the Brooklyn team.
And he said all of the ballplayers in 1913 thought that this was the last word in baseball park.
And that the marble rotunda was well the most spectacular thing that ever would be.
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,
used to say that baseball was only in its infancy.
And judging by the way the crowds are swelling in attendance etc. I guess the game is still in its infancy.
Now we have Peewee Reese coming up with the Brooklyn batting order.
The ground rules are being discussed.
The six umpires in their working rotation, Art Passarella of the American League will be back at the plate on balls and strikes.
Lou Jordan of the National League staff at first base.
Gal Hubbard of the American League staff will be at second.
And Beans Ridden of the National League will be at third.
In the left field corner, National League umpire George Bob and in the right field corner, American League umpire Ed Hurley.
Now with the scene shifting over to the National League park, there is a change in baseball.
But it is not as much of a change as you might think.
The last two days at Yankee Stadium, which is an American League park,
The baseballs were stamped with President Will Harridge's signature and they were stamped with the American League.
And the balls that will be used today and for the next two games here at Brooklyn,
The National League park stamped with President Ford Crick's signature and the insignia of the National League.
But spawning makes them both, makes them on the same machines and there is no difference between them.
No difference at all.
In other words, one is just the same as the other.
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.
There was a very significant ceremony before the ball game and that was a ceremony in which Commissioner Chandler presented a huge banner,
a huge banner to the American Legion Junior Baseball team of Oakland, California representing post number 337,
The team that won the 1949 American Legion Junior Baseball National Championship.
And they have been brought here as a body all the way from Oakland, out on the Pacific Coast.
And don't you know that bunch of boys is really having a time?
And the commissioner gave them a grand big banner. Man, that's some treasure.
And it's interesting to note too that 27 of the 50 players certified for this World Series by Commissioner Chandler,
all graduates of American Legion Junior Baseball, 16 ex-Legion stars with the Yankees and 11 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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,
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,
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.
And there is Commissioner Chandler shaking hands with Bar President John Cashmore.
John Cashmore stepping aside for this youngster, of course. Everybody steps aside, for kids, for people who are in trouble,
and especially for the fine cooperation with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
So Arthur C. Sweeney in just a second will take the ball from Bar President Cashmore,
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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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.
Masudo at short, Henrik at first base, Berra is catching, DiMaggio in center, hitting fourth, Bobby Brown at third, Gene Woodling in left,
Triff Mapes in right, Jerry Coleman, the second baseman, and the pitcher is Tommy Byrne.
The batting order for the Dodgers, Reese at short, Mixis at third, Forello in right, Robinson at second, hitting fourth,
Hodgers at first, Olmol in left, Snyder in center, Campanella catching, and the pitcher is Branker.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a quick description of the ballpark for you now. Wright Field is the famous wall here at Brooklyn.
It is 297 feet down the Wright Field line. It falls away sharply to where in Wright Center Field it is 395.
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.
And the scoreboard is stuck out in front of the concrete and wire fence in Wright Center Field.
And you have any number of angles. The concrete wall does not go straight up and down.
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.
There are three different angles where the scoreboard intersects.
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.
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.
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.
There are no seats at all. It is on the wall in straightaway right field.
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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.
She has an art distinction. She is one of the few women who has a real Major League job in sports.
She entertains here at Ebbets Field and at Madison Square Garden.
So now Miss Gooding is being announced and we will have the National Anthem.
The National Anthem plays.
We would like to add one more note before we turn the microphone over to Mel Allen.
And that is that we are very happy to see down in the Yankee box that Mrs. Casey Stengel is sitting down there.
Because to add to the woes of the Yankee manager, Mrs. Stengel was quite sick last evening.
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.
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.
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?
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Baseball people galore around. Charlie Grimm and Frankie Prisher here, which we look about.
Ralph Branca looking in to get his sign from Campanella, outfield, around toward left. In comes the pitcher.
Rizzuto takes strike two, called a fastball over the outside corner, knee-high. Art Passarello of the American League, calling balls and strikes.
Lou Jordan of the National League at first, Cal Hubbard. Of the American League at second, Beans Ridden of the National League at third.
Now Ralph Branca, the right-hander, throws. Rizzuto takes high and inside for ball one. The count is one and two.
Ed Hurley of the American League, stationed down the right field line. George Bahr of the National League, down the left field line.
Branca getting set. Rizzuto in close to the plate up in front of the batter's box.
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.
It's going to go foul and out of play. Missing the wall by about 10 feet and fouled by about 25.
Louis, or rather Carl Perillo, playing right field, raced over to get the ball, but of course couldn't.
Got Louis Almo on left, Duke Snyder in center, Perillo on right.
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.
Ralph Branca, the right-hander, throws. Rizzuto swings and sends a ground ball to third. Up with his mixes going to his left.
The throw to Hodges in time and there's one away.
Phil Rizzuto grounds out, mixes to Hodges. A ground ball, hit the end of the hole between third and short, but not too hard,
giving mixes a chance to flash to his left, come up with it with the reach, backing him up.
And now here's Tommy Hendricks getting a hand as he is announced.
Left-hand batter stands deep in the batter's box.
Fairly close to the plate, not too close to it, however.
Branca's first pitch to Tommy is right over for a called strike.
Fast ball, got plenty of the inside part of the plate.
And above the knees, Frank Crassetti coaching there at third base, Bill Dickey at first for New York.
Mixes about 12 feet off the third baseline, raced over toward second.
In comes the pitch, inside and low for a ball, and the count is evened up at one and one.
Jackie Robinson at a point almost halfway between first and second, back on the edge of the outfield grass.
The outfield around toward right and deep, in center and right with Almo looking for Hendrick perhaps to slice toward left.
Oh, he's over toward left center a bit. The pitch, it's strike call over the outside corner.
And it's a one-two count now on Hendrick. Tommy started to cut at that ball.
It was taking off and he thought it might go wide to the plate, but it didn't.
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.
One out, nobody on top of the first inning.
Branca pitches, Hendrick swings and grounds one down to first.
Hodges up with it, runs to the bag, outruns Hendrick and they're two away.
It was a hard ground ball, but right at Gil Hodges.
And now with two down, up comes Yogi Berra.
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.
Yogi playing with that swollen left hand.
Outfield, infield set up the same for Berra as for Hendrick.
Big round frank to the right-handers, into the wind.
Up around comes the arm, the pitch curve swung on a ground ball foul down the first baseline.
Gloved by Hodges, three feet foul, he whips it around to Robinson as the ball goes around the infield.
Two men down, top of the first inning.
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.
One strike to count on Berra, branca pitches, change up in its high and outside, ball one.
He took a little bit off of a fastball.
One ball, one strike.
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.
Berra swings and fouls it off to the left of the screen.
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.
It was the first time it had happened to make a one-nothing victory in a World Series in the ninth inning.
But Stengel, where the Giants had beaten the Yankees with an inside the park homer, one-nothing, but that occurred in the seventh inning.
The one-two pitch swung on a dry foul down the right fiel line going out of play.
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.
One ball, two strikes, two outs, top of the first inning, no score, nobody on base.
Francis studies, Campanella signed, Roy in the crouched behind that plate, giving the pitcher a good target.
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.
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.
In other words, he pulls very sharply and he'll hit a million of them just fouled into the right field stands.
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.
No runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left on.
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.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, currently resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
You went to Wake Forest, as did Ray Scarborough, Washington Senator pitcher. They were teammates down there.
Tommy Byrne represents, in a manner of speaking, an enigma to Casey Stengel and to baseball observers.
He has some of the best stuff any pitcher has in baseball, but his problem always has been controlling it.
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.
On the other hand, there have been times as wild as his costing ball games.
And so we're all set to go, and you never know just how Tommy Byrne will go.
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.
They've tried that, but that hasn't worked.
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.
You've got Bobby Brown playing third base today, and he's in close in the event of a bunt by Reese.
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.
Byrne has a fastball that's alive. He's got a sweeping curve, and he's got a fast-breaking curve.
Outfield playing Reese toward left and center left with Mapes pulled over into right center a bit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One strike to count on Eddie Mixis. Carl Perillo is on deck.
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.
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.
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.
And the pitch into the plate. Outside. Ball two, two and one.
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.
Two balls, one strike.
Byrne all set a look at Reese leading off first. And the pitch to Mixis. Outside for ball three, three and one.
Now Jerry Coleman trots in from second base to talk to Byrne.
No activity in the Yankee bullpen is yet.
Coleman talking to Tommy.
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.
Byrne takes his stretch. Reese with the lead.
The delivery. Right in there for called strike two.
Pumped a fastball through there.
Mixis steps out of the batter's box just for a moment. Now he's back in.
Mixis high and foot is half out of the back restraining line of the batter's box.
It's a violation that's often most of the time overlooked.
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.
And Reese goes to second base. There's a throw to Coleman and Reese is doubled up at second base.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
So as we go to the top of the second inning of the scoreless game, up steps Joe DiMaggio.
Joe DiMaggio leads off with Bobby Brown and Gene Woodling to follow.
Ralph Franca on the hill.
Outfield around toward left infield around toward third to pitch right over for a call strike.
Fastball overhand fastball mixes deep at third near the line about two feet off of it.
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.
Franca throws low outside for a ball one and one. One ball one strike.
The Dodgers have certainly got a good book on the Yankees that is to say they have scouted them well.
Scouting is permitted in baseball just as it is in football.
One ball one strike.
Ralph Franca works and the pitch.
Curve swung on and missed strike two. A good swing a good hook.
One and two the count.
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.
Franca head of the hitter and the one two pitch on its way. DiMaggio swings and misses strike three.
Joe DiMaggio went down swing on an inside fastball and now coming up is Bobby Brown.
Bobby bats them left handed. He had a one thousand batting average for World Series play until he pinch hit yesterday and struck out.
In 1947 he hit every time that he was charged with the time at bat.
Franca's first pitch is swung on. It's a looping fly ball out in the short center going out as Robinson.
In comes Snyder's Jackie out there makes the catch in short center for out number two.
With two down the batter is Gene Woodling.
Woodling came up from San Francisco to the Yankees this year after having had brief trials with Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
He led the Pacific Coast League in hitting last year with a 385 average born from Akron, Ohio.
Stands in close to the plate deep in the batter's box. Feet together. Jokes the bat just about an inch.
In comes the pitch and it's a little inside. Ball one.
They play Woodling toward right in center and right straight away and left. The big gap in left center. Woodling slices he can pull.
Third baseman makes his end halfway on the skinned part of the infield. It doesn't feed off the line.
Franca throws. The pitch is right over for a call strike. A fastball and the count is evened up at one and one.
Reese is about three strides to the left of second in two steps.
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.
One and one the count. Two men out top of the second inning. No score.
Franca's pitch. Strike. It's called a fastball over that inside corner. Back Woodling away but the pitch stayed right in there.
One two count on Jean. Cliff Mapes on deck.
Frank Presetti coaching there third hollering something up to Woodling.
Franca gets his sign from Campanella. Starts the wind up around comes the right arm. The pitch curve and it's outside.
Ball two. It was a beauty. Just missed.
Art Passerella calling balls and strikes for the of the American League. Lou Jordan the National League on parring at first.
Cal Hubbard of the American League at second. Beans Ridd in the National League at third.
George Barr the National League down the left field line and Ed Hurley of the American League down the right field line.
And now Branca's two two pitch to Woodling. Swung on to high pop up foul off back of third.
Mixis waves Campanella off and he's under it makes the catch. Woodling fouls out to Mixis.
No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left on.
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.
And so far this has been primarily a goose egg series hasn't it Red?
Well Mel you've had only two runs and two ball games and one and a half innings.
I don't believe they run out of goose eggs for the scoreboard do you?
I believe they got enough out there to continue to deal them out.
Jackie Robinson leads off for the Dodgers in the last half of the second.
Gill Hodges and Louis Almodo to follow.
Phil Rizzuto honors something over there to Tommy Byrne as Tommy went to the Rossen bag.
The left hander sets to work on Big Jackie right hand hitter.
Brown in close at third in the event of the bunt.
Tommy Byrne's pitch to Robinson. Swung on it's a high fly ball out into short rides.
As a matter of fact the wind is holding it up in Coleman back of Henrik.
Makes the catch a step on the skinned part of the infield.
As the ball started out it looked as if it was going to go out into short ride.
Mape started in but the wind which was blowing in from right field and out toward left held it up.
And Coleman took it right in behind Henrik.
So with one down up comes Gill Hodges bats him right handed.
Outfield is around toward left.
Hodges drove in the winning run for the Dodgers yesterday.
Drove in Jackie Robinson who had doubled in that inning.
Now the pitch. Strike call over the outside corner.
Byrne south part of fastball.
That nicked the outside part of the plate just above the knees to Big Gill.
Brown deep at third or halfway back near the line.
In comes the pitch and it's way outside for the ball. One and one.
Phil Rizzuto is not too far over into the third base hole but pretty close to it.
Jerry Coleman only about two strikes to the right of second.
Henrik ten feet off first base in halfway on the skinned part of the infield.
In comes the pitch. Hodges takes strike call as Tommy Byrne whips a curve over the outside corner.
It's a one-two count now on Hodges. One out. Last half of the second inning. No score.
Milton Stock coaching at third for the Dodgers. Cups his hands over his mouth.
Hollers words of encouragement up to Big Gill who has come along fast in his development as a first baseman.
In comes the pitch. Curve swung on. Popped up into the air.
Off to the left of the plate. Yogi Berra goes over and makes the catch.
That brings up now Louis Almo.
Feel it.
Hodges fouls out to Berra. Off to the left of home plate.
Now Louis Almo steps in. Right hand hitter.
Tommy Byrne's first pitch to him is low. Ball one.
We've had some excellent umpiring in the series. Casey Stengel comes to the front of the Yankee.
Dug out and motion something out there to Woodling. Gene hasn't seen him.
Byrne delivers almost. Starts to swing. Held up as the pitch stayed inside around the letters for ball two.
And now Stengel is back out of the dugout. He's trying to get somebody's attention.
He's getting Brown's attention. Now he's got Woodling's eye and Woodling is moving more over toward left center.
DiMaggio is a step or two over toward right center. And Mape's almost straight away in right.
The two nothing pitch to Almo. Right over for a call strike. Two and one.
Milton Stock with a gesture of the hands indicates to Almo just meet the ball.
It's a two one count on the right hand hitter. Two outs. Last the second inning.
A scoreless ball game. Duke Snyder's on deck.
Tommy Byrne comes in with the pitch and it is swung on. Popped up into the air.
Off to the right of the plate but it's going to come back out of play.
Just above our heads.
Two to the count. Two balls. Two strikes. Two outs. Inning number two.
Each team looking for win number two in this series.
Tommy Byrne the slow worker. Rubs up to cover that new ball.
Things are fairly quiet at the moment as you would expect in a scoreless ball game.
There's big Hank Greenberg sitting behind Bill Beck. Eating himself a hot dog.
Alright. Tommy Byrne set to go again.
In comes the pitch and it is swung on. A slow roller hit down toward third.
Bobby Brown charges it up with it. Fires over to Henrik and it is in time for the out and a close play.
No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left on. Almo topped the pitch. It rolled slowly down third.
Brown charged it and fired Almo out on a very close play.
One of those pat pat or bang bang plays as they say in the trade.
And thus at the end of two innings you have another scoreless ball game.
The Yankees have been three up and three down.
The Dodgers have only had six batters but they've had one on.
Pee Wee Reese who was hit by a pitched ball but immediately was doubled up.
By the next hitter.
This is Mel Allen with Red Barber bringing you the World Series.
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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.
But he's not superstitious. As a matter of fact he's one of 13 children.
Strong arm broad shoulder right hander fires away. Mapes takes inside. Another fast one. Ball one. One and one.
Branca joined the Dodger organization in 1943.
Best year was in 1947 when he won 21 ball games.
Went to New York University.
One ball one strike. Mixes is wide at third. In comes the pitch. Mapes takes a curve that's high.
Ball two. Two and one.
Two balls one strike. It's an overcast day as Red told you a while ago.
For those of you who may have tuned in late we repeat it.
No immediate threat of rain however. The wind is blowing out toward left. In from right.
Now the delivery. Swung on. Bow tipped and into the mid of campanella for strike two. Two-two.
Cliff Mapes is a boy that has tremendous power.
He also has definite weaknesses at the plate.
That pitchers capitalize on but if they make one mistake he's got so much power he can hurt you.
Branca's two-two delivery on its way and Mapes swings and foul tips it dropped by campanella and Mapes is alive.
That's a rough job back at that plate.
When we say that a catcher has dropped the third foul tip it's not meant in any sense of criticism of the backstop.
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.
Now the delivery. Curve is low inside. Ball three.
Full count now on Mapes.
This is the first batter on which Branca's gone to a three-two count. His control has been superb up to now.
No score. Top of the third inning.
And the payoff pitch on its way. Mapes takes high. Ball four and he's on.
And that is the first base on balls given up by a Brooklyn pitcher in this series.
Number 22 Jerry Coleman. Neither Don Ucom nor Preacher Rowe gave up a walk.
Mapes gets the first walk issued in the series by a Brooklyn pitcher.
And now coming to bat is Jerry Coleman. Pride of San Francisco.
24 years of age.
The pitch is right in there for a call strike. Jerry stands about six feet. He isn't very hefty.
He only weighs around 165. Has come along marvellously.
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.
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.
It's out of play. Onto the roof and out of the ballpark. A two-strike count on Jerry.
The Dodger outfield of the day consists of Almo in left, Snyder in center, Perillo in right.
Mixis is at third as we go to the infield. Reese short. Robinson second. Hodges first. Campanella catching and Branca pitching.
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.
Robinson halfway between first and second and in halfway. Here's the pitch. Swung on to high. Fly ball. Curving foul back to first.
Hodges digs over near the stands but he cannot get it. It's out of play. The ball dropping about 10 rows in.
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.
But stranger things have happened.
The outfield is just about straightaway. Coleman, though he can pull, has for the most part in this series been hitting to right field.
And Carl Perillo is stationed over toward the right field line. Now the delivery. Curve is right in there. Throw down to first base.
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.
Of course you knew if you were following the count because Campanella whipped a quick throw down.
The Hodges trying to double up Mapes who had a good lead off the bag. But Mapes got back in time.
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.
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.
He's dangerous in other words with the plate. He hit 193 but he drove in 13 runs.
He's the kind of a guy who might hit the long ball for you. He might just take three cuts and sit down.
The delivery. Right in there for a called strike over that inside corner above the maze.
The outfield is shading him toward right, slightly in center and right. Almost a straightaway set up.
Byrne hits a lot down the left field line if he gets an outside pitch. He can also pull him.
Here's your delivery. Low inside for the ball. One and one.
Tommy had 16 hits in the regular season. Four of them were doubles and two of them triples.
Mapes has the lead. Hodges holding. Here's your pitch. Curve and it's low inside. Ball two. Two and one.
Eddie mixes. Walks a step or two from third over toward the mound to pep up Ralph Branca.
Ralph decides to take a wide hand chip out of his right hip pocket and mop his face.
It isn't a warm day, but it is warm when a guy's out there throwing that ball.
Looking around we see Joe Cronin, general manager of the Red Sox, see it off to the left of the Yankee dugout.
There goes Mapes. The pitch is swung on. A ground ball hit out past Robinson and a right center for a base hit.
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.
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.
Jackie Robinson made a beautiful backhanded attempt to get that ball, but couldn't quite reach it.
Duke Snyder went over into right center to grab it, whipped his throw back to the infield.
But Cliff Mapes, who was off and running, raced to third.
Now Joe Hatton, a left-hander, begins to throw in the Dodger bullpen.
As Phil Rizzuto steps up, Phil grounded to third in the first inning.
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.
He's started to cut but held up. His reflexes are wonderful. He can make a move and stop right on a dime.
Dixies and Rays are almost at the edge of the infield grass. Robinson is not quite so close. He's halfway.
Hodges holding against Byrne. Here's your pitch. It's bunny down the first baseline. Here comes Mapes and the ball goes foul.
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.
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.
Hodges might have had a play at the plate had the ball remained fair.
Mapes on third. Byrne on first, one out. And for Ralph Brank on the Dodgers, Rizzuto is the key man in this inning.
Stretch by Ralph. The pitch. Swung on to fly ball. Hit out into right center field. Perillo goes over, gets under, makes the catch.
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.
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.
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.
And as baseball observers will tell you, there again is that base on balls. Isn't that right, Ray?
Well, that's a question the Dodgers fits to given up. It probably cost them a run.
And now here's Tommy Henrik. Bats them left handed two down. The pitch. Curve inside. Ball one. Tommy Byrne on first base.
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.
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.
In these World Series games, once a pitcher allows a runner or two to get on as a rule, the bullpen becomes alive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And so we are beginning to get more action in this third game of the World Series than has been customary so far.
That is more concentrated action and scattered explosions here and there in the first two games.
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.
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.
Jackie Robinson deep at second. Halfway between first and second bases with Hodges deep near the line.
The wind remembers blowing away from right out toward left.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See red sort of looking down to see if there's any possibility of anybody being around a bat rack.
But Hatton is no longer warming up and it's early in the game and only one run different.
So the likelihood of Branca being out of there is very remote.
Last of the third, Duke Snyder steps in. Left hand batter, power hitter.
Stands 6-2, weighs around 175, in close to the plate. Left hand of Tommy Byrne delivers. Snyder takes outside for a ball.
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.
One ball, one strike on Duke. Yanks one, Dodgers nothing. Last half of the third inning, third game of the World Series.
Each team has won the game. Now Tommy Byrne's delivery. Snyder swings and sends a fly ball into left center.
DeMaj starts back and has to come in. The wind is holding up. Here comes Woodling and Woodling makes the catch.
That wind is rough today and causes the outfielders and infielders a little trouble.
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.
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.
Now here is Roy Campanella, right hand batter. Byrne throws. Campanella swings, bounds it down to third. Two hops to Bobby Brown.
Near the line, he fires across to Henrik in time and they're two away. Campanella smacked a hard two hopper to Bobby Brown.
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.
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.
Pushing Woodling over toward left center more. The pitch in there for a called strike.
The outfield set up is just about straight away. Woodling was a little closer to the left field line than Stengel wanted him.
Bobby Brown is about five feet off third baseline. Three steps away from the edge of the infield grass.
Rizzuto four strides to the left of second in about two steps. Byrne delivers. The pitch is over for called strike two.
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.
Two strikes to count on Franka. Tommy Byrne the left-hander into the windup delivers and it's swung on and missed. Strike three.
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.
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.
No runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left on. Let's listen to this announcement.
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.
At the end of three innings then your totals. The Yankees one run, one hit, no errors and two left on.
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.
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.
And so we move right along with the ball game.
Joe DiMaggio will be leading off in the top of the fourth with Bobby Brown and Gene Woodling to follow.
Tomorrow's game will start again at one o'clock.
Gillette will be on the air over mutual at 12.45. That's Eastern Standard Time.
On Sunday however, if we might anticipate just a bit, the game will start an hour and five minutes later.
Two oh five. So we'd like to tell you today so you'd be sure and remember that on Sunday.
Ralph Branca pitches to DiMaggio, swings and misses, strike one.
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.
Ralph Branca delivers, DiMaggio swings, fouls it back onto the screen, strike two.
Joe, always a key figure, has not had a good series offensively. He's had only one hit, a roller which he beat out.
But then it must be remembered that he actually got out of a sickbed battling off a near attack of virus pneumonia
to finish up the season the last two games with the Yankees and is still not at full strength.
Now the pitch. High, ball one, one and two.
But his mere presence in the lineup is inspirational to his teammates and he's always a threat.
One to nothing New York, fourth inning. One ball, two strikes on the clipper.
Branca delivers, DiMaggio swings and misses, strike three.
Cut hard to curve ball and that's the second straight time Joe has struck out.
That's the fourth strike out for Branca.
And in the series, four times DiMaggio has struck out.
He struck out once on opening day of the series and once yesterday and twice today.
Bobby Brown who popped out to Robinson in the second inning steps in, left hand hitter, chokes that bat,
bends slightly at the knees, leans from the waist.
Right hander, Branca throws outside. Ball one. One ball, no strikes.
One to nothing. They were the Yankees fourth inning. One out, nobody on.
It's getting a little darker out here right now, isn't it Red or is it my imagination?
Now it's getting darker now. It's around the ominous look and it might rain before the afternoon's over.
And wind is really whipping those flags around out toward left from right.
The pitch swung on, popped up in the air, back of third,
Mixers drips across the foul line under the ball and he makes the catch.
Bobby Brown fouls out to Eddie Mixers about 25 feet down the line from third base and 10 feet or so foul.
With two down, up comes Gene Woodling who fouled out to Mixers in the second inning and Cliff Mapes is on deck.
Branca studies Campanella's side.
Into the windup he throws, the pitch is inside, up around the letters and it's a one nothing count on Woodling.
Ralph taking his time.
The Mount Vernon, New York right hander into a quick windup, throws the pitch, a curve over for a call strike.
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,
he quickly brings his hands up over the head and without too much of a windup, comes down and throws.
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.
Woodling rounds first, hits for second, the throw comes in, sliding in safely with a double is Gene Woodling as Reese takes the throw.
Ferrello is limping.
Gene Woodling lines a double off the scoreboard in right center field.
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,
limped over after the ball, however it was high up on the scoreboard, he couldn't have caught it anyway.
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
Rizzuto's fly ball to right. They pitch to Cliff, high, ball one. They're two men away, top of the fourth inning.
One to nothing New York, Woodling's double is the Yankees second hit.
Branca stretches pitches, Mapes swings, sends a little roller wide at first, there's Hodges going over and then he lets Robinson do it,
he throws to Branca covering for the out.
Hodges dart over the ball and Jackie hollered him off, he took it, Branca covered beautifully and Mapes is out.
Robinson to Branca, no runs for the Yankees, one hit, no errors for the Dodgers, one left on for New York.
And the score at the end of three and a half innings of play is the Yankees one, the Dodgers nothing.
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Last half of the fourth inning, top of the order for Brooklyn, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie McSiss and Carl Ferrello.
Very dark overhead.
Dodger fans begin to squirm and call for a little action.
Pee Wee hit by a pitched ball in the first inning, the only Dodger to reach base.
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.
Bobby Brown moves in the step at third on the grass to tamp down some of the turf.
He's in close in the event of the bunt.
Byrne throws, Reese swings and sends a long drive to deep left field.
It may be going, going, it is gone.
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.
And now here is Eddie McSiss, a right hand batter.
Takes outside, ball one.
That was the first Dodger hit off Tommy Byrne and it's a one one ball game.
McSiss fouled out to Barrow in the first inning.
Tommy Byrne south paws one in, Eddie swings and sends a drive to deep center field.
DiMaggio is out there though and takes it for the out.
McSiss got hole one and drove it sharply to center but right at the Yankee Clipper.
So the one down up steps Carl Ferrello who's tied to center the first inning.
And as it was a predominantly Yankee crowd at Yankee Stadium, it is predominantly Dodger here at Ebbets Field.
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.
Carl Ferrello, right hand hitter.
Tommy Byrne the left hander throws.
The pitch is swung on, lined into left field, pass Brown for a base hit.
Woodland goes over, cuts the ball off, whips his throw to second.
Ferrello holds it first with a line single just to the left of Bobby Brown.
And out here's Yankee Robinson.
There's still no action from the Yankee Bullpen.
Henrik walks over to talk to Byrne.
Each Dodger who has come up in this inning has spanked the ball hard.
The fans are standing up to look toward the Yankee Bullpen.
The Yankee Bullpen is seated and looking at the folks standing up.
But there could be a hurry call in a moment.
Every ball has been hit hard, including the out, mixes line at the center.
All right, Ferrello leads off first, Jackie Robinson, upper right hand hitter.
The pitch inside to curve ball, ball one.
Robinson popped out in the second inning.
To Jerry Coleman.
A one-one ball game, last half of the fourth inning.
Henrik not holding against Ferrello, just in behind him.
Byrne delivers, Robinson takes low, ball two.
Jake Pettler dancing around, coaching there at first.
And now there's Jim Turner, Casey Stengel's pitching coach, signaling for action to the Bullpen.
A left-hander and a right-hander.
We'll give you their identities in a moment, as soon as they take their jackets off and go to work.
Meantime, Tommy Byrne, ready for his two-nothing pitch, delivers and it is outside for ball three.
Joe Page is the Yankee left-hander.
And the right-hander is Fred Sanford.
Now Tommy Henrik moves over from first base to talk to Byrne, who breezed through the Dodger lineup for the first three innings.
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.
Mixis lined out to DiMaggio.
And then Ferrello lined a single to left.
And now the count has gone to three and nothing on Jackie Robinson.
And we're ready for the three-nothing pitch and it is inside, ball four, and down to second goes Ferrello.
That is the first ball given up by Byrne.
Ferrello goes to second, Robinson to first, and Casey Stengel comes out of the Yankee dugout to the mound.
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.
Now Joe Page goes to work in the bullpen.
There he is working, a left-hander.
And Fred Sanford, a right-hander for New York.
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.
The Dodgers dugout to the right of home plate.
And for the first time in this series, we're getting a lot of action.
A lot of action involving runners on and base hits.
Ferrello is on second, Robinson on first, only one out, one run in, last of the fourth inning, score tied one-and-one.
Hodges fouled out to Berra on the second inning, waits the pitch from Byrne.
Here it is, way outside, ball one.
One ball, no strikes. Outfield round toward left.
Tommy checks for the Yogi.
Ferrello moves off second, Jackie Robinson off first.
Byrne stretches, has a look at second, here's the pitch.
And it's inside, ball two, curve ball.
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.
Now we're ready for the two-nothing pitch, two men on, first and second, here's the delivery.
Outside, ball three.
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.
A three-nothing count on Gil Hodges.
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.
And that got Byrne a little wary.
Now the pitch, over for a called strike, three and one.
In a tight ball game, in an important ball game, when a batter suddenly steps up and parks one on you,
then you get a little worried if you're a pitcher that somebody else will.
You try to be a little too careful.
You try to be careful, and you become a little too careful and miss the corners.
By either a little or a lot.
Three balls, one strike on Gil Hodges. Carl Ferrell on second. Jackie Robinson on first, one out, one in. Last to fourth inning.
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.
Ferrell goes to third, Robinson to second.
Hodges takes over at first, and the batter is Louis Almo.
Grounded out to Bobby Brown on the second inning.
And for the first time in the series, we've got the bases loaded.
Now Casey Stengel comes out of the Yankee dugout, walk out to the mound.
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.
Says something to Art Passarella.
Casey's looking toward the Yankee bullpen.
He walks to the mound, Henrik standing there.
And I believe Casey's going to have the left-hander, Joe Page is going to come on.
So Casey is not going to play percentage and bring in Sanford, a right-hander, to pitch to the right-hander hitting Almo.
He's going to bring in his ace left-hander, Joe Page.
Now, of course Casey's figuring ahead a little bit.
If he had brought in Sanford, then Gene Hermansky might have been sent up there by Bert Schotten.
So Joe Page is coming on to pitch to Louis Almo.
And Joe's coming in awful early for him.
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.
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.
Tommy Byrne gets a hand, he leaves the mound.
And while we await Joe Page's warming up on the hill, we pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Back at Ebbets Field, the Dodgers have the bases loaded.
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.
Walked two men, both of them here in the fourth inning.
Struck out only one.
And is responsible for the three men who are now on base.
Score is tied at one and one.
Joe Page calls Yogi Bear out to the mound as he finishes his warm-up tosses to talk to him.
And we're set to go.
You've got Carl Perillo on third, Jackie Robinson on second, Gil Hodges on first.
One out, one run in on Pee Wee Reese's inning opening homer.
Score tied one-one, and Louie Almore, right-hand hitter up, Joe Page in to the wind-up.
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.
They don't play Almore to pull.
They're shading him around toward right.
Louie's a right-hand batter.
Perillo moves up the line from third.
Robinson moves off second, Hodges off first.
Page comes in with his pitch, and Almore takes outside for a ball, one and one.
Yogi bluffs a throw down to first.
Then took a quick look at Perillo as Brown dashed to third.
Perillo is playing it safe over there.
Fred Sanford continues to limber up in the Yankee bullpen.
Louie Almore the batter.
Perillo on third, Robinson on second.
Hodges on first.
One ball, one strike on Almore.
Joe Page comes in with a pitch.
It is swung on and missed.
Strike two.
One and two the count.
A wicked hook.
And here you've got on the hill for the Yankees one of the most publicized relief pitchers in the history of baseball.
And the crowd sensing a dramatic situation.
But with the manager of the Yankees wondering whether this is the day that Joe has it or whether he hasn't.
You don't always have it, you know.
The Yankees hoping he does have, the Dodgers hoping he doesn't have.
With a count, one ball and two strikes, Almore steps out of the batter's box for a moment.
And as he starts back in, Page steps off the rubber.
Turns around, has a look into center field.
Dice back on, Almore back in.
Perillo on third, Robinson on second.
Almore on first, the wind up, Freeman lead away.
The pitch, Almore swings and lets a high pop up foul back to first, drifting over into the stands.
Henrik leans in.
He leans in, he's got it.
And the bases remain loaded.
Henrik leaned into the stands and grabbed that ball.
Tommy Henrik reached high over the heads of standing patrons in the field boxes.
Back to first base and grabbed that ball for the out, so they're two away.
And up comes Duke Snyder.
That's them left handed.
Slide to left field on the third.
And so the battle continues, three men on, two down, score tied 1-1.
Page into the wind up, in comes the pitch.
Snyder swings and sends a ground ball out toward Coleman.
He's up with it.
Throws to Henrik and the inning is over.
And Smokey Joe Page once again proved his pitching prowess as a reliever.
One run, two hits for the Dodgers, no Yankee errors and three men left on.
And there was one of the most dramatic situations we've had in the World Series so far,
with the Dodgers having a golden opportunity to forge way ahead, but stopped cold in that inning by Joe Page.
And so at the end of four innings of play, it's 1-1.
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Your four inning totals, the visiting Yankees, one run, two hits, no errors, three left on.
The Dodgers, one run, two hits, no errors, and three left on.
And so the tempo of the series has begun to pick up considerably from the standpoint of thrills.
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.
Ralph Franco, the right-hander, throws. Coleman takes a strike right in there.
Overhand fastball between the belt and the knees.
Coleman looked at a third-call strike in the third inning.
Of course, we had thrills of another kind in the first two games.
Thrilling pitching, thrilling defensive play.
Branca's pitch to Coleman, swung on and missed, strike two.
And Branca overpowered Coleman with a fastball just around the shoulders.
Ralph has his jaw set.
He's a game competitor.
Two-strike count on Jerry Coleman. Score tied 1-1, fifth inning.
And now Branca's ready. And his pitch curve is swung on, hit up into the air into center field.
Snyder out there, 100, and makes the catch.
Coleman skies out to Snyder in center.
And with one down, up comes Joe Page.
Page, the left-hand hitter.
Outfield about straight away.
Branca's pitch is right over a third-call strike.
You know, chances are in a regular season game, Casey Stangle might not have lifted Byrne in a spot like that,
because so many times Byrne has loaded them up and pitched himself out of those jams.
The one-strike delivery in there for called strike two.
But in a World Series, with time so short, managers refuse to take too many chances,
especially when they have well-loaded bullpens.
Now the two-strike pitch to Joe Page is swung on and missed strike three,
as Ralph Branca chalks up his fifth strikeout.
Now we go to the top of the Yankee order and pick up Bill Rizzuto,
who grounded a third and sent a fly ball into right center in the third inning
that drove in the Yankees' run when previously Mapes had walked, gone to third on Byrne's single,
and that set it up for Phil to score the run.
The pitch is swung on and fouled off in behind the plate.
A one-strike count.
Phil went for a low outside pitch trying to hit it to right field.
So far in this series there have been a total of 33 strikeouts.
Red was busy figuring up the total over there.
Branca delivers to Phil high, ball one, one and one.
Conceivably this might go down in World Series history as the strikeout series.
But we'll wait until that happens, see how far the series goes and all.
One ball, one strike.
Here's your pitch.
Swung on by Phil and fouled off to the right of the plate.
And as we followed the flight of the ball, our eye caught Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott, who are here.
A couple of fair ball players in their day, Red.
One and two that count on the scooter.
They're a couple of the greatest the Giants ever had.
Ralph Branca's pitch.
Curve is outside, ball two, two, two.
The commissioner waves to us, Mrs. Chandler.
And seated with the commissioner today is Mr. Joe Spang Jr., president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company.
Here's your pitch to Phil.
Curve ball high, ball three.
Man, that was over but just a little high.
So it's a full count on the scooter, three and two.
Branca goes to the rosin bag.
Eye comes back upon the rubber.
Toes it, looks in and gets the sign from Campanella.
Into the windup round comes the right arm.
The playoff pitch is swung on.
A ground ball hit right to Reese.
He stoops it up, flips on over to Hodges.
End time and the inning is over.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.
And the score at the end of four and one half innings of play.
One and one.
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,
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Joe Page, who not only won some games for the Yankees this past summer,
but according to Casey Stengel and pitching coach Jim Turner, saved 25 more, is ready to pitch to Campanella.
Does a curve in there for a called strike.
He's a big strapping six foot left hander and throws that ball hard.
He has a strong arm. He has the temperament to relieve.
His whole disposition is to come in and choke off a ball clap.
And he's been tremendous at it.
Pitches. There's a lead up curve over for a called second strike.
I feel around to what left on Campanella.
Four hitting eights in the book and batting order, first up, last to the fifth. She's a one in one tie.
And another one of these tough grinding ones.
Pitch, fast curve low, one and two.
Page, if you haven't seen him pitch, razz up on his toes and gives you a big forward kick.
And in addition, he's got a very loose set of hips, the way he gives you a lot of motion out there.
And back of that motion is the idea that there's a strong guy that's going to turn loose that rock.
And the hitters, well, they just don't exactly take a toehold.
Rough customer delivers one and two. There's a foul back.
Count standing as it was. One and one tie.
Campanella, then Branca, followed by the top of the order, Reese, who hit the Brooklyn home run in the fourth inning.
His metal toes are way up in left center field.
Page kicks, throws, Campanella fouls it off. Still a one and two.
Page has control.
Jim Turner was telling us that he's about the best he's ever seen at tuning up in a bullpen.
He knows just how much to get ready.
In other words, says Turner, he doesn't leave a pitch in the bullpen, meaning he doesn't do too much work.
And that is quite a trick for a relief man.
Page relieves 60 times this summer.
Throw, curveball high outside.
Two balls, two strikes.
Page wears number 11.
Notches his back on the plate, turns around to back of the mound.
The base is loaded and went out. He came on in the fourth inning and silenced it just like that.
One and two hitters. Foul ball, nice catch by Henrik.
And a ground ball by Snyder.
Curveball hits slowly down to the right side. Second baseman Coleman over, up with the ball.
Throws to first and that's all for Campanelli. He's thrown up by four or five steps.
Four to three if you're scoring.
Second to first. One up, one gone. Last to the fifth inning.
And here's Pitcher Branca coming out of the bullpen. That's making his way up to the plate.
Right end batter, wearing number 13.
After yesterday's game, manager Schatton said that his starting pitcher today would be either Branca or Barney.
He's got Barney down in the bullpen and he started with Branca.
Asked him in the Brooklyn clubhouse a couple of hours before the ballgame today, why Branca?
Let's see, here's the first pitcher out, high inside ball one.
He said simply that Branca has been starting the last three weeks in turn, has been working regularly.
And Barney has not made a start since the Dodgers were last at Chicago.
They were at Chicago, St. Louis, then back at Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia.
One and 0 pitch in there, fastball for a called strike.
Branca is not one of the best hitting pitchers in the trade.
He struck out, if you recall, in the third inning.
That field is not deepened and is swung in toward right.
Fast swings, misses.
Pages, drive that ball down in there.
One and 2.
Ballgame tied, one and 1.
Jake Fipler coaching it first.
Holler something up to the plate.
Milton Stark coaching it third.
Page pumping.
Now kicks, throws.
There's a foul on top of the first base stands, out of play one and 2.
Page balances the ball down his glove, blows in his hand a couple of times.
Big left-hander delivers.
Curve low inside, ball 2.
Two balls, two strikes.
He took something off that ball, trying to make Branca chase it.
Of course, I imagine that Branca's big idea up at the plate is to try and make Page pitch as much as possible.
Two and 2.
Delifa throws, fastball outside, ball 3.
Two balls, two strikes.
Nobody on, last to the fifth.
Here's another, Spine Tingler.
All tied, one and 1.
So far in the series, these two teams are either exactly tied or just the one-run differential.
Boy, that's cutting it awfully close.
Couldn't be any closer.
Page delivers, three and 2.
Call strike 3, fastball.
He pulled through there and wrapped, took it right off the hand.
So this is the first strike after Page.
Now, Lease gets a big hand as he walks up to the plate.
The Yankees had one to nothing.
He caught hold of one of Tommy Burns' pitches and drilled it.
351 feet, that's where it's marked, that's where the ball went in the lower left center field stands.
Lease, right-hander.
Attend to Page pitches, fastball in too close to the hands.
Ball 1.
That field swung around toward left for two reasons.
One, Reese pulls in that vicinity.
And three, the wind is blowing that way.
Fastball above, just above the knees on the inside.
One ball, one strike.
Two go on.
Page deals, Reese hits curveball foul.
One and 2, ball bouncing over to the Yankee bench and Coach Frankie Corsetti dots out.
Takes the ball on the bounce, throws it over to the umpire's ball boy.
One and 2.
Catch a barrel, down his haunches to give the sign.
The hustling young umpire, Art Passwell of the American League staff, catches down, taking his stance directly behind the receiver.
One and 2 pitch, outside.
Page took a little off that one. Two balls, two strikes.
Two and 2.
Things quiet for the moment.
Page moves off the rubber, checks his foothold, down halfway in the front of the mound.
Pitches a curve that Reese just does, check his swing on in time.
Bella turns around and claims Peewee swung.
Peewee turns around and claims he didn't swing and Passwell has said, he didn't swing for me.
Now Casey Stengel jumps to the front of the Yankee bench, he doesn't get out of it.
But there he stands, a figure of silent protest.
Boy on the stage lost a tremendous theskian when it lost Stengel to baseball.
He has a very mobile face.
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.
Three, two pitch, swung on, a ground ball right back to the mound.
Page picks it up, throws over to first and Reese is retired very easily.
So nothing of course against Joe Page in the last of the fifth.
He's come on to face five men and he's gotten them all and he's not had a ball, a hard hit.
So at the end of five innings, we'll check our totals.
One run, two hits, no errors, identical totals.
And so the big crowd looking on, all of the great people in baseball are here.
If Mel and I started telling you who we see, well we just wouldn't have any time for the play by play.
They're all here, all that you can think.
Now for the ball club going on the attack in the sixth inning for the Yankees, Henry Berra and DiMaggio.
That's how they'll hit for the Brooklyn club afield.
Franka on the mound, Campanella back of the plate.
Hodges at first, Robinson at second, Reese at short.
Eddie Mixis at third base today.
And left the roller, we all know.
Centifield, Duke Snyder and the right fielder is Carl Farrell.
The umpires, Art Passerello back of the plate, Jodder at first.
Hubbard at second, Rudin at third, Barr in the left fielder corner and Hurley in the right fielder corner.
The National League umpires represent 58 years of major league experience and 13 World Series.
The American League umpires represent 26 years of major league experience and 7 World Series.
Tommy Henry, first up in the sixth.
Swings and misses at a fastball, Franka threw right down in there.
Nothing in one. All tied, one in one.
Henrik rounded out to first baseman, Hodges in the first inning and walked in the third.
Wynn continues blowing from right fielder left, from first base to third.
As a fastball low inside, it gets away from Campanella and goes on back to the stands.
Nothing more than a ball one.
New agate put in play.
Terzadeh coaching at third, Vildeky coaching at first.
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.
Two balls, one strike.
Tom of course is being played to hit into right fiel.
Franka lets out his breath, now starts pumping, delivers two one.
All up, ball, second strike on the outside.
That seemed to be the change off the fastball.
Two balls, two strikes.
Henrik a slightly open stance.
Chokes that bat just a shade more right now.
Two-two pitch, curve swung on, hit out into short right fiel, Pirello coming in, he is under it, right fielder takes it.
And one man is disposed out, beginning matters in the sixth inning.
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.
He has got a little bandaging around his wrist and around the base of the thumb on his left hand.
That is the thumb that he broke if you recall in August.
Still sore and painful.
I feel toward right, Franka throws a curve ball in there, ball strike.
Nothing in one.
One out, nobody on.
The pitching continues to dominate.
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.
Berra and I am getting much more than halfway down the line.
So two men are gone and Big DiMaggio stepping in.
Even though he struck out twice, you can feel that the sentiment of the fans is all for this great player.
Atfield swings around toward left and is back at a most respectful distance.
Infield is deep, Reese at short is over shifted very much toward third.
Mixis is deep at third.
But in the branch of pitches, curve ball in for a call strike.
DiMaggio struck out in the second and struck out in the fourth, both times swingy.
One and one ball game, two gone.
The pitch, fastball, swung on, it's a high puck fly, the first baseman hid it, getting under and followed ground.
And now it's in fair ground and he makes the catch.
The wind blew the ball back into fair ground but the first baseman had it.
But he's nothing across all the Yankees in the top of the sixth inning.
The score on New York one, Brooklyn one.
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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.
I imagine that it's hard for you to run off any place and miss a battle.
Never has there been a series with such tightness of pitching as this series opened up.
That is, tightness on both sides.
Now we've got Eddie Mixis, first up last in the sixth inning.
Leptender Joe Page delivers.
Fastball low inside, ball one.
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.
And since that time, Mixis, a right-hand hitter, has alternated with Jorgensen, left-hand hitter at third.
Fastball inside, to ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Jorgensen played the first two games, if you'll recall, started them at the stadium.
And Mixis is starting this one.
The pitching for the Yankees today has been from the south-fourth side.
First Tommy Burry, now Joe Page.
A two-nothing pitch, over for a strike.
That's always the big one, because you not only have to get it over, but you've got to get something on it.
Two balls, one strike.
This is Page's ball game, of course, to win or lose.
He works.
Fastball swung on a high pop fly into right center field.
Mapes is under it, not a too tough chance for the right fielder.
And he's got it.
And there again you could trace the force of the wind.
Mapes must have juxted under that ball five more steps toward center field as the wind made the ball dance.
12-foot-out for the right fielder.
One up, one away, last of the sixth inning.
One and one tie, and Carl Forello, who is one for two, singled off-burn in the fourth inning,
after flying out to center field in the first.
A few rounds, one left.
Crowd watching tensely as this grim struggle continues.
In the center, Page pitches a curve outside, the right hand hit a call for a loss.
One and all.
Yankees are field, Page the leading, came on in the fourth inning,
but the bases loaded and won out and stopped the Dodgers right in their tracks,
kept the ball game then as it was and as it is now, one and one.
Barron is catching his second game, so they were caught yesterday back at the plate.
Henrik at first base, the second Jerry Coleman at short-step resuto,
and at third it is Bobby Brown for the Yankees.
The one and all pitch to Forello, swung on, bounced straight to second base with Coleman,
who's up with it on a big bounce, throws over to first base,
and that's all for Forello, who's retired before he's more than halfway down the line.
So too are gone.
Page has allowed no man to reach base safely.
And Jackie Robinson, who is off for one, pops to second base in the second inning,
walks against Barron in the fourth, now steps in.
Robinson, the yesterday double, and was scored a single by Hodges for the only run in that game.
Yankee outfield, Gene Woodling is in left,
DiNaggio remains in center, and the right fielder is Cliff Maipes.
Two gone.
Robinson leans in, he's deep back from the plate.
Let-up ball is high outside, ball one.
Ball game an hour and a half old.
The skies remain threatening and dark, but so far we have not had so much as a wisp of rain.
The weatherman said that it would be ominous, overcast, cloudy, but that it would not rain.
Also, he predicted that the weather would be clearing for tomorrow.
Let's hope so.
Well, high outside, the ball two.
Good ball, no strikes.
All eyes focused right now at the heart of the diamond, the defender, Page.
The batter, right-hand hitter Robinson, the pitch.
Low inside, ball three.
That was a fast ball.
I think Page expected Robinson to be swinging on that because he was trying to pitch him in close to the hand,
which is a way that a lot of left-handed pitches have been pitching Robinson for a couple of years.
Three and all, Joe said, like any baseball, so played on pass, pass the ball, accommodates him.
Page taking his time, getting ready.
On one ball game, nobody on, two out.
Three nothing pitches, ball four, and without throwing Robinson the strike, he walks him.
This is the second time the Jack has walked, first of all, given up on Page.
And this is the first man of eight to face Page to get on against him.
And Gail Hodges, who fouled out to catch a barrel in the second inning, and drew a base on balls off Byrne.
He was the last man that Byrne pitched to in the fourth.
Hodges was over one, steps in.
Drove in the run yesterday, Ax.
Actually, you speak of run so far in this series as the run of the first game and the run of the second game.
Well, each ball club has a run today.
Robinson off first, Hodges swings a high fly ball straight out to DiMaggio in center.
Joe's waiting for it.
He makes the catch.
You didn't think you'd do otherwise, did you?
We have no runs, no hits, one man left in that sixth inning.
Now let's check our sixth inning totals.
Still one run, two hits in no hours, there's identical totals.
Now before we move into the seventh inning, and as the Yankee fans here at Brooklyn begin standing for a stretch,
let's pause ten seconds for our station identification.
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Hear the World Series exclusively on WOR710.
See the World Series on WOR-TV, Channel 9, WOR, and WOR-FM, New York.
Speaking a moment ago about the fine job that Joe Page has done, it sets your mind to thinking of great relief pitches.
Page's predecessor as a great relief man, Johnny Murphy, is sitting over there alongside the Yankee dugout.
And then you think of other relief pitches, Hugh Casey, who is with the Yankees now, but did his greatest relief work with Brooklyn.
And then you go back to Fred Marbury, who was a great right-handed relief pitcher.
And of course everybody was extremely sorry that he had lost an arm in an automobile accident down in Mexico, Texas.
And of course everybody is pulling for him to soon be out of the hospital.
And if he's listening, we hope it's good listening.
Now we have Bobby Brown, first tip for the seventh inning.
Good left-hand batter. Chokes had about a couple of inches.
Swings and hits a hot one on one bounce to second baseman Robinson.
We throw it over to first, and that's all for Brown.
Throw one up, one pitch, and one away as this tough ballgame gets tougher.
The ball tied at one and one.
The last base hit to the Yankees was a double by Gene Woodling off the lower part of the right field scoreboard.
That field toward right, big Branca throws, fastball on the outside, the ball's one strike.
Nothing in one. The last man to get on against Branca was this self-same Woodling, who's up here now.
One away, nobody on the seven. One and one ballgame.
Everything tied, including one and one for games.
There's a curve low inside. All one.
Frankie Crisetti, who had high piping voice, which can easily be heard,
is busily holding encouragement from his coaching post third after Woodling, who was in the crouch.
He's got it close together, left hand hitter. Swing, fouls it off.
One ball, two strikes.
Woodling had a chance with Cleveland some years ago, and it was up in the National League with Pittsburgh,
and didn't hit, went out to the Pacific Coast League, changed his stance.
Lefty O'Doul helped him a lot, and he led the Coast League last year,
and he's been a very helpful fellow to have around the Yankee ball club this year.
One and two pitches, swung on. There's a high fly ball in the straightaway center.
Snider backs up one, two-step, waits for the ball, and makes the catch instead of field.
So Branca is now retired, the batting order, the last nine.
Fifth, Mapes, who bounced out in the fourth inning.
But more important, Mapes, who walked in the third, and that was the first walk,
drawn by a Yankee so far in the series, and that was turned into a New York run.
Mapes, the left hand, hit it.
Mapes walked, opened up the third inning, and with one out, went around the third base,
as Kutcher Byrne delivered a hit-and-run single. Mapes swings, foul ball, back out of play.
And as Mel pointed out to you in the third, that was a very vital point,
that base hit by Tommy Byrne.
And not only that, but Mapes had gotten a tremendous jump on Branca.
She was really off. He just went into third base standing up.
Throw, curve ball low inside, one ball, one strike.
One-and-one.
Everybody is very serious visaged in this ball game, nobody grinning.
One-and-one pitch, swung on, tipped, and it is strike two.
One ball, two strikes, two out.
The consistency of the way the pressure has carried through all these games,
unbelievably identical.
One-and-two of the count, throw, pass ball just missing inside.
Oh, that's close, so close in fact that play-on-power Pasarela just held his thumb
and his right index finger to show that that ball just did miss.
Missed off the inside. Right-hand pitcher, left-hand hitter.
Mapes Tadegol back from the plate, swinging from the end.
Outfield toward right, two-two pitch, swung on a high fly ball into center field.
Snider comes in, now goes back. He's under it. Center fielder under it.
He's got it. He's hit high and far. Had the win been the reverse of what it is today,
that might have been all the way.
So with a roar, the Brooklyn Denizens now come to their feet as they move into the last
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,
any one of the three on safely, then Pitcher Branko will hit.
One and one dog fall.
Joe Pades, who is the key man now for the Yankees as this game comes down with
grim tenacity with so few runs in it.
Bara sitting on the mound. Bara sitting down to give the sign.
Olmo, who stands deep back in the box.
Right hand hitter, an overly close stance.
Bounce that third to first against Byrne in the second inning and against Pades,
who has the biggest out of the ball game in the fourth.
Swings and a high, high foul ball that catches Bara is under.
Getting under, getting under, and makes the catch no more than 15 feet behind home plate.
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Now we've got Duke Snyder who's off the two. Left hand hitter.
So swung on, high foul ball on top of the third base stands, out of play and out of the park.
The ball's one strike. With the wind blowing out to the left field as strongly as it is,
that's the way it is blown all afternoon, and with Pades probably pitching outside consistently to Snyder,
The outfield is back in the left, especially to Maggio.
Duke swings and pulls the ball wide at first base.
Henrik up with it, runs over to the bag and makes the put out by two steps.
So the play handled by Tommy Henrik unassistedly, and two men are gone, last of the seven.
Roy Campanello, 0-2, stepping in.
The Brooklyn road secretary, Harold Tarr, has just brought us the attendance figures with the money figures with it.
32,788 paid, which means $164,016.
That is Roy Campanello. Swings, hits a high fly ball deep in the left center field.
There's a left fielder whittling under the ball, firsts the ball and makes the cut.
350 feet away, and the wall is 351.
So, men are crossing the lines to the seventh.
Two runs and put. Only four runs so far in the three games.
The first two, one to nothing. First one by the Yankees, the second one by the Dodgers.
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.
In the eighth inning for the Yankees, it's second baseman, Coleman, who is batting eighth.
First step followed by Joe Page. You know he'll hit for himself.
And then by the top of the order, Rizzuto.
When the Dodgers come in for the last of the eighth, it will be Pichabranca leading off in the top of the order.
Rizzuto and Mixers. And Ralph is just getting out to the mound right now.
There's Campanello coming up to the plate.
And let's open up that other microphone for Mel Allen and get his observations.
Mel, did you ever think you'd see such pitching, especially in the clutch when it meant so much?
Never did. As a matter of fact, in the press room before the ball game got underway,
I was talking to Dan Daniel, who, erudite sports reporter for the World Telegram,
had been following baseball for longer, maybe than red and eyes, ages together.
He said he didn't know what in the world all of a sudden happened.
He said they're blossoming forth here, the Matthewsons, the McGinnities, and the greats all over again.
He said something that no one ever expected. And that's just the way it's been.
And looks as if that's the way it's going to still be, Red.
Well, that's the way it is right now. All tied, one and one.
It's a move into the eighth inning. And here is the right-hand hitting second baseman of New York, Jerry Coleman, first up.
Brankers, fastball is over, but too high. Ball one.
Also, the weather conditions have befriended all pitches.
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.
Throw, curveball over. It has been dark this afternoon. Of course, that sets up a pitch of fastball.
The darker it gets, the more of a disadvantage the hitters are.
And then at the stadium for the first two days, the hitters were having to look against that white baseball,
against all the white shirts in the center field, bleacher section. Batting screen was down.
One and one pitch. One run and missed, shot, curveball.
Oh, make no mistake about it. The pitching staffs that had come through such a kilkenny struggle to win pennants,
well-braced, were all set.
One ball, two strikes.
Coleman choking well up on that bat. Oh, about three, four inches.
Fastball low inside, just under the hands.
Two and two.
Tranker and Page, even when they give the hitter a ball, are close to the plate.
Coleman, with his feet pretty well back from the plate, leans in.
Pess it from the waist. Outfield, step toward left. Pitch.
Fastball right over, half-track three.
And Coleman was just immobile. There it was, he just couldn't move.
You could just see him straining to try and break loose and he couldn't.
That's six strikeouts for Branker.
By the way, Branker's concerned in all the strikeouts of the game.
He's the only Dodger to be struck out. He's been struck out twice. He's struck out six himself.
And pitcher Page stepping in.
He's been up once this afternoon and struck out.
He's had bat in the fifth inning. Left hand batter.
Outfield toward right.
Branker throws, fastball in under the hands, ball wide.
One away. Top of the eighth inning. All tied one and one.
Campanella's throw back to Branker. Had loose in the pitcher.
Reese retrieves the ball at short.
Page who came in out of that bullpen to New York just 60 times this past summer.
Throw. Fung on foul back.
The Yankees figure that Page and his performance on Saturday,
as he came on, if you'll recall, and pitched six and a third innings,
held the Red Sox to no runs and one scratch hit.
The fact that he was able to finish set up everything for New York.
In other words, he pitched them to the win.
One-one delivery. Curve swung on. Hit back to the middle.
Reese going over. Up. Juggles the ball. Recovered.
Throws over to first. In time for the out.
And Page is out on a bang-banger at first base.
Reese had the ball bounced up and hit him in the chest.
He recovered. Throwed it to first to Hodges and Hodges, like a ballet dancer,
made that slip as he moved his whole body out to greet the ball.
And Page is out. Boy, he was straining, hustling down that line.
Oh, Reese recovering. Another one of the close plays.
Those are the things that give umpires nightmares when you get those bang-bangers.
We had four in the ball game yesterday.
So two men up and two gone on top of the gate.
Passarello back to the plate. He had two like that at first yesterday.
Passarello snaps on his mask.
Rizzuto, both to three.
With the right hand hitting shortstop.
That swings on a fastball and pops it up into short left field.
Reese going back from short. Waving almost out of the way.
And Peewee makes the catch.
Well, the Yankees are retired.
Having a toss in the top of the eighth inning,
as Maka has set the side down in order now for the last four rounds.
And with Brooklyn coming in for the last of the eighth,
The score remains New York 1 Brooklyn 1.
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The Brooklyn Dodger, knock them down and drag them up the back hall.
Rasmutter Symphony Orchestra that plays here throughout the summer
just came over and gave us a salute to our only living act president, Herbert Hoover.
Quite a baseball fan.
Now moving to the last of the eighth inning
and the two key figures of the ball game face each other.
Page on the mound and Branca who is the batter.
It's a tough one, one and one.
Apparently nothing for the big stakes in Major League Ball in 1949 is to come easily.
If tennis didn't, the World Series are not going that way.
Branca swings foul, Page's first pitch back, or a call strike.
Page, since he has come on, has pitched.
Three and two-thirds innings, retired every batter but one.
Branson, whom he walked with two out in the sixth inning, got the next man promptly.
Branca has gone all the way, given a one-run, two hits.
Those are the identical totals anyhow.
One and one tie.
Pitch, pass ball ripped in there for a call second strike.
Branca has retired the last 13 batters that he's pitched to.
That's the 13 that he's wearing.
Those of you who are not keeping score and backtrack on him.
Go into right and not deep.
Didn't feel straight away.
Throw, curve ball just hanging outside.
One and two.
One ball, two strikes.
It continues to be a dark afternoon, but the park is brilliantly illuminated by the pitching that we are having.
It has lighted up the entire series.
No series has ever begun with as much pitching efficiency as this one.
One and two pitch, curve in there, call, strike three.
So, Branca continues to be involved in all of the game's strikeouts.
He struck out once against Byrne, for Byrne's only strikeout, twice against Page, for Page's only strikeout,
and Branca himself has struck out six of the Yankees.
Dewey Reese, who hit a home run in the fourth inning to get the ball game balanced as it still is, one and one.
Reese stepping in.
His home run that balanced the game unbalanced Byrne.
His control almost went out the window immediately, as Mel told you.
Had to be lifted four hitters later.
I feel toward left. Page delivers a fastball low inside.
He threw that one hard. He meant to throw it hard. He always means to throw that ball hard.
Page, who was the glue man, he just held that Yankee staff together all summer.
Works inside against the hands, took a little bit off the fastball, then ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
The wind continues blowing out toward left field.
It is the wind that helps a right-hand batter who hits a high drive out toward left.
One gone. Last of the eighth.
Everything almost deathly quiet for the moment. Two nothing pitch.
In there. Fastball for a called strike.
Big guys working.
Two balls, one strike.
Reese waiting.
Trimmed square-shouldered figure.
Been the shortstop for the Dodgers since 1940.
A fellow whose job he took at shortstop was sitting over there with his boss.
That's Leo DeRosche, another man into the gyre, sitting over there with Horace Donham.
Two balls, one strike. Reese takes a curve. It just stays outside for ball three.
A barrel turns around and apparently kicks on that decision to pass it over.
And pass it over. It properly shakes his head. No.
The umpires are under tremendous pressure.
They do a tremendous job.
Three-one pitch. Ball four. In under the hands. Fastball is missed.
And grief, york.
This is the second walk given up by Joe Page.
Now Eddie Mix is walking up to the plate.
A right-hand light-hitting utility infielder for the Dodgers.
Playing third base today.
Reese at first.
An alert base runner.
Page, who of course has a good move to hold a man on at first, sets on the mound.
Henrik takes the back.
Now let's see what happens.
She's all tied. One-and-one. One out. Infield and double play depth.
Throw to first.
Out and tie.
Pitler, coaching at first, let out an agonized scream when he saw that Page was coming over to first base, but Reese was back.
Outfield, uh, Mapes and Wright is in very, very close.
Of course, he's got that wind behind him. Blowing in.
Mix is primarily a left-field hitter anyhow.
Third baseman Brown just stepped inside the bag. Here's the pitch.
And Mix sets the bunt, takes a curve over there to throw down to first base.
And Reese just does slide back. It was close.
Had Barrow, foul that ball. Both these catches today.
Barrow from New York who just threw and Campanella from Brooklyn.
They'll throw.
Serves a curve ball in.
And Mix is, was set to bunt, then drew his bat back out of the way.
The curve was over for a call strike.
Now, whether he was bluffing to try and set up something or just to annoy the Yankean field or whether he was serious,
it means to be seed.
Reese taking his lead off first.
Page delivers a pitch out, but Peewee isn't going, so does ball one.
The Yankees, of course, could afford to have Page come down deliberately outside with a fastball,
hoping that the Dodgers were running.
Now the count is one and one. The score is one and one.
The teams in the series up to this one are one and one.
Last to the eighth inning.
Page, looking down, draws his eyes now until they're practically slits.
Looks at first pitches.
Fastball swung on, hit wide up, and into left field for a base hit.
Reese comes around second base and holds on ahead of Woodlings arm.
So it's a single for Mixers, two between third and fourth.
Dodgers are first and second.
Hit number three for Brooklyn, hit number five in the ballgame.
So that's the first base hit off Page, and now Page is in a jam on his own making.
A base on balls, a one out to Reese, and a single to Mixers.
It may be that Mixers, in bluffing that butt, typing the Yankee infield up even closer.
At any rate, he added up so close that that ball just skipped nimbly through between third baseman Brown and shortstop Rezudo.
Now manager Stengel hollers for time, gets Page's attention and Tommy Henrik's attention.
He wants Henrik to play back. The Yankee infield now is still in double play depth.
The batter is Carl Pirello. The outfield is a little around toward left.
Throw is one for three, right hand batter.
Can't run fast because of the groin injury.
One out. Throw swings a high fly ball into right center field.
Mates going back, right field under it. Reese tagging up at second.
There's the catch, and Peewee bluffs toward third but holds on, and the throw goes beautifully and perfectly over to third base.
Cut off a shortstop Rezudo.
Mates has a fine throwing arm. He saved the Yankees some games by throwing one out of home plate in the pennant race.
So that's the big second out.
And the league's leading batter, Jackie Robinson, walking up.
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.
And so Page comes down and settles his own threat in the last half of the eighth inning.
So at the end of eighth, one run, two hits, and no errors for the Yankees.
One run, three hits, and no errors for the Dodgers.
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Here we go, end of the ninth inning, and Tommy Henrik is first up.
Ball game leveled at one and one. Branca right hands, Henrik swings a ground ball that Robinson picks up,
throws over the first in time for the off.
A great roll for a fine play.
Second base for Robinson, running along the edge of the right field grass toward first base.
Lean down toward his glove hand side, came up with what looked like a certain base hit into right field for Henrik,
and threw over to Hodges. So it is one up and one gone.
Now the batter is Yogi Berra.
This ball game is now being played on the same terms and conditions as though it were already an extra inning.
Berra, left hand hitter, crowds the play from behind.
Chucky strong, picks a lead up curve ball down by his knees.
Ball won. One away, one and one tie.
Who would have thought that this third game could continue such a pitiless pressure following the pattern of the first two.
Pitch, fast ball in at the knees, four ball two. Two balls, no strikes.
Branca turns his back on the plate, walks to the rear of the mound,
raised it short, walked part way in, says something to him.
Berra ready to swing, that's his stock in trade. He'll swing at anything if he takes the notion.
Brushed off very quickly by Art Passarella.
Two and two, that's the ball and strike count. One out.
Berra swinging that stick menacingly back and forth, pulled it from the end. Two-two pitch, curve ball, high outside,
and cut down and in. So it is now a full count of three and two.
Ball game is just two hours old. Just had two runs in it. Each side has one of them.
Branca shakes no. Now starts pumping, delivers three and two.
There's a solid foul outside first base, down into the right field corner.
Ed Hurley down there retrieves the ball, throws it out.
Commissioner Chandler, several years ago, took the alternate umpires out of the stands and put them down in the foul corners,
which is a very fine contribution. Sometimes balls hit right down in those corners are extremely difficult to judge.
So that gives umpires up in the outfield a better angle on balls that either caught or trapped.
Now three-two pitch again. Curve low inside, back to the stands. Yogi goes down to first base.
Cappanella comes back, retrieves the ball, and Berra stops it first.
So that is just ball four. Had Berra been able to advance any farther, then it would have been a wild pitch added.
With the curve ball down low and into the right. So with one out, Berra reaches first.
Base on balls, which is the third ball given about Branca today.
It's the third walk in three games given about the Brooklyn Mound stand.
Clyde Soukforth, the pitching emissary of manager, shot and goes trotting out to the mound.
Souk is in uniform and under baseball rules, which never relaxed, only men in umpires uniforms or players in,
or coaches or managers in baseball suits are allowed to be out on the playing field.
Unless they're in an emergency, they have to call for a groundkeeper.
In other words, a manager who is in street clothes has to stay in the dugout.
And, uh, Shotton does not wear a baseball suit.
Soukforth goes out to discuss matters with Branca.
Joe Hatton, a left-hander, gets up for the Brooklyn ball fence the second time he was up.
He was throwing down the third inning as Mel told you.
Now Joe DiMaggio at the plate, all for three today.
Right field deep, round toward left, one and one tie.
Barrett first, one out.
The pitch to DiMaggio, fastball high and outside, four ball one.
DiMaggio looks down to third base coach Presetti to get the sign as to how managers tangle, what this one played.
DiMaggio swinging from the end, feet wide apart.
Clipper, set picture, swings as a foul ball on top of the right field stands, and it's one and one.
One ball, one strike.
DiMaggio's foul up there on the right field stands, stood up three, six, half a dozen pigeons.
One and one.
Branca checks first pitches, a curve, low and away.
Campanella down into his right to hold the ball up, and it's two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
All tied, one and one.
Well, we got all the ball game today anybody could ask for.
Big right-hander, checks first, delivers, strike, swinging, fastball high and by the hand.
DiMaggio really took a rip.
Unbuttoned his shirt swinging on that one.
Two balls, two strikes.
No, not too swift a runner.
Leading down at first, hard to the first baseman.
In and out of the bag with him, now he's off the bag.
Two-two pitch to DiMaggio, a high, high foul up by third.
Mixis is under it, close to the stands.
He's got it.
Close to DiMaggio, it must be a very discouraging series.
Big guy, of course, he's not strong.
He's been sick.
He's had a terrible year.
The fates have really bitten at him.
But he's had only one hit in the series, and that was a dribble up to up third.
Today, he struck out twice, hopped up to the first baseman, fouled out to the third second.
Now Bobby Brown, who was a record-breaking pinch hitter back in the 47 series of ten batter,
choking that bat, he's a tough hitter.
Ranker set on the mound, delivers.
Brown swings and there's a ground foul halfway off toward third.
He was trying to check his swing, trying not to swing.
No balls, one strike.
Two teams are really locked.
A run of peace today and a game of peace up to here.
Beller, better to cut and go with two out at first.
The pitch, fastball, swung on, hit into right field for a base knock.
Beller going around second base and holds on.
Drillo is known to have a rifle for an arm.
The throw goes all the way to third base.
So Brown singles, which is the third hit for the Yankees.
And the totals are again even at a run, three hits and no errors.
So Yankees are first and second.
As the Yankees come on with a threat here in the ninth inning, a sharp single to right,
drilled through between first baseman Hodges, second baseman Robinson.
And the man of the hour is Gene Woodling, who is one for three.
This is his only appearance in the series.
Double to right in the fourth inning.
There had been no hit off, Frank, or since Woodling's double.
Left hand batter, feet close together, steps toward first base in his stride
and is in quite a crouch, swinging from the end.
Frank has pitch, swung on, foul back.
There was a high outside curve that Woodling went for.
No balls, one strike.
Brown the runner at first.
Barrow, who is the key runner, is down at second.
She's a one and one tie.
Woodling crouch.
Frank has stands erect, stops, pitches, fastball, just in at the knees.
Ball one, strike one.
Things grow quiet now for the second.
Branker prepares for his next delivery, rubs up the ball, now puts his glove back on.
Check second base, stops, pitches, inside at the knees again, four ball, two,
another fastball, two balls, one strike.
Woodling looking down to Crisetti.
See what the orders are.
The orders are going out, pitch by pitch.
Reese comes in from short, takes the ball from Branker,
and the shortstop slipping his glove, is busily rubbing up that ball meanwhile.
Peewee talking to Ralph.
Now the Brooklyn captain goes back to his shortstop post.
Two balls, one strike.
Barra leading down off second.
Crisetti continually reminding him, two men out, run on anything.
The ball is ordered, brought in to play on far pass,
for an inspection after Reese had rubbed it up.
It's bound to be serviceable.
Left in play.
Alright, two and one is the count.
Branker shaking no.
Campanella stays low back of the plate, the two-one pitch.
A fastball just misses low inside the ball three.
And the way Woodling backed from that ball,
Casey Stengel had ordered him to take it no matter where it was.
Now it's three and one, and Woodling checks for orders again.
Crisetti looked in to Stengel and then gave a bunch of signs.
One good one and the rest the hookers' pokers for the decoy.
Alright, count is three and one.
Branker deals.
Call strike two.
Fastball on the outside and Woodling, who had taken a step up toward first,
is recalled by the plate umpire's decision and bellows for the moment.
Crisetti hollers something from back of third.
So it's an automatic run and hit.
Three balls, two strikes, two out, men at first and second.
Well, I guess you'd say this is the biggest pitch so far, wouldn't you?
Game standing one and one.
Let's see what goes.
Branker ready.
Right hander pitches, the runners break, it's ball four.
And Cappanella had all he could do to keep that ball from going back to the stands.
So the bases are loaded.
Branker turned the fastball loose down across the shins.
So the bases are now filled.
First time the Yankees have had the bases loaded in the series.
A walk, a single, and a base on ball.
This is four walks given up by Branker.
Clip Mappes, the left hand hitting right fielder, is waiting to bat next.
And there is Clyde Soukforth, one of the Brooklyn coaches,
going out to the mound now to talk to Branker.
Robinson has come in from second base.
Captain Reeves from short, Cappanella is out there.
Right hander Jack Banner is up throwing in the Brooklyn bullpen along with Hatton.
Hatton's been throwing a long time.
Souky looking down to the bullpen, but he's taken Branker off to one side and is talking to him.
And apparently it looks as though Soukforth is talking with Branker
to give Branker a chance to say whether he thinks he can go on or not.
And they're going with Branker.
So the coach back into the bench.
Branker now stands on the mound, a long, solitary key figure.
Reese has gone back to short, Robinson is second, and Cappanella settled down behind the plate.
And Mappes, the six foot left hand hitting right fielder.
Wait a minute, and Mappes is going to be called back from the plate,
and Johnny Mize is going to pinch hit.
Mize, the former Cardinal, the former Giants, who was sold from the Giants late in the summer,
but in time to be eligible for the series to the Yankees.
Mize, who pinch hit a single yesterday in the right field, is coming on to pinch hit from Mates.
So Mize is no stranger to Branker.
They'll have many a brush.
So Johnny Mize is coming on to pinch hit and going down to the Yankee bullpen
to get ready to go into the outfield is Hank Bauer.
So Mize, who was one for one, pinch hit single yesterday, coming up to the plate.
Shortly after he was sold to the Yankees by the Giants, he hurt his shoulder.
He's available for hitting duty, but can't play it first.
So here's the big fella, Johnny Mize, stepping in, hitting for the right fielder in the ninth inning.
Freeman on, it's a one and one ball game.
Don't go away.
Outfield deep, down toward right.
Branker pitches and Mize takes a fastball in by the belt buckle for ball one.
There's Casey Stengel, sort of leading a little weaving, sinuous dance down there in the Yankee bench.
Branker pumps, delivers.
Mize takes a fastball in for a called strike.
One ball, one strike.
Mize is a big guy.
He's over the Giants, they call him the big cat.
And he swings that heavy bat as though it weighed no more than a dry turkey feather.
Okay, three men on.
One and one ball and strike count.
Branker pumps, two out.
The pitch is, the fastball outside, four ball two.
Two and one.
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.
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.
Well, she's tied one and one.
Hold on to your hats.
Freerunners take their leads.
The two-one pitch, swung on, it's belted out toward right field.
It's a base hit.
It's up against the screen.
In comes one rod.
In comes two runs and it's a long single to get in two runs.
And Mize is two for two.
The pitch hit on the Yankees' lead, three to one.
So big Mize delivers, he's set up there and he hit one about 25 feet off the ground against the wire screen.
And Bauer goes down to first base to run for it and Mize gets that tremendous hand as he goes off the field.
And the Yankee fans are deliriously delighted.
And there is Coach Clyde Schuchkow calling for time and going out to the Bauer.
This may be all for Branker.
It's three to one in favor of the Yankees.
Bauer has been announced, he's the pitch runner at first base.
And they're going to bring Joe Hatton.
Did it happen?
Or Bader, just a moment.
It is Jack Bader they want, not the left-hander after all.
Jack Bader, who didn't get very much time to throw.
So Bader is coming on and Johnny Mize, an old national leaguer, returns to the scene.
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.
Three to one in favor of the Yankees.
First time that any team has scored in one inning more than one run.
And the Yankees now in the ninth inning lead three to one.
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.
Branca gets a hand as he leaves the mound.
Branca goes out after eight and two third innings.
He got all but the final out.
And the first two runs for the Yankees were put on by bases on balls.
Branca retired 14 men straight and with one out in the ninth inning after retiring Henrik for his 14th consecutive out, he walked Barrow.
And that proved to be the undoing.
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.
And then came the base on balls to Gene Woodling to load them up.
The pinch hit single by Johnny Mize, who is now sitting comfortably back there in the Yankee bench.
And Jack Banner, tall lean right-hander, out on the mound relieving for Brooklyn.
It's the first time that a Dodger starter failed to finish.
Branca going to within one out.
So it is three-one in favor of the Yankees.
Three to one.
On that base hit, Woodling went around to third base of course.
Mize is a very ponderous runner.
That's why he was held at first.
A faster man might have made it a double.
So we have Yankees at first and third.
Bower on the first base.
Banner on the mound.
Second baseman Jerry Coleman steps in.
Right hand hitter in a crouch.
Outfield toward left.
Banner throws.
Fastball is butted foul.
There's a bid for a base hit, surprise measure.
Foul ball, strike one.
Bower at first is ready to go on anything.
He'll go out and play right field for the latter half of the ninth inning.
Woodling over at third.
Of course he's ready to set sail.
Outfield toward left.
Coleman, all for three, leaning in, choking that bat.
Banner checks first.
Right-hander pitches.
Fastball in for a called second strike.
He's leaning in too, no balls, two strikes.
Big Johnny Mize, while he'd been on some great St. Louis teams,
and been over there with the Giants, never got into a World Series until this fall.
And he's already more than repaid the Yankees for whatever they paid for him when they got him from the Giants.
This base hit now just did that.
Throw, there goes Bower.
There's a line, John, hit the center field.
The Yankee, four runs, three of them got on with bases on balls.
Now we have some action down the Yankee bullpen.
Fred Sanford, right-hander, begins throwing because this is a long inning.
A fastball outside, ball two.
Correction, that is not Sanford, that is Ali Reynolds who is now throwing.
Sanford was throwing earlier, and it is Reynolds, the pitching hero of the first game.
Strong right-hander, working the bullpen now for New York to get ready in the event that Paisley's in trouble
and nailing down this 4-1 ball game in the ninth inning.
Batter, checks first, pitches, paid swings, and slices foul in the lower third-base stand.
Come on.
Would like to repeat what we said of the four Yankee runs, three were scored by men who got on with walks.
Two here in the ninth inning and one in the third.
That is quite a story, and as much as there were no walks given to the Yankees in the first two games,
paid swings and fouls this one back, and there was a hit-and-run play on that one
because Coleman, the runner from first, was headed toward the still vacant second base.
The Yankees have exploded here in the ninth inning.
Frankler opened the door with one out, a walk to Barrow, then with two out,
single to Brown, a base on balls to Woodling loaded it up, a pinch hit single by Johnny Mize, knocks in two,
and Coleman is just single sharply off relief pitcher Jack Bathead.
Joe Page up there, it's his ball game to win.
All these runs belong to him. Two-two pitch, swung on and missed, strike three, and Page strikes out.
So eight men batted in the top of the ninth inning. Three of them scored on three base hits.
So the Yankees now lead 4-1.
It's the first time that any team has been more than one run away from the opposition.
And Page, who has pitched with phenomenal efficiency, came on in the fourth inning with the bases loaded.
That's when the Dodgers had their big chance. They had the bases loaded.
The ball game was then one-and-one, and Page got all the more on a foul ball to Henrik,
who caught the ball leaning against the first-row spectators alongside the stands at first base,
and then he got snide on the ground ball second to first.
Ali Reynolds continues toiling way down in the left-field corner for the Yankees.
Bauer goes out to right field, of course. He took over from Eyes, who had a pinch hit for right fielder Mapes.
Now in the last tonight, Page will be called on to pitch to Hodges, Olmol, and Snyder.
Hank Bauer now playing right field. That's the announcement on Bauer.
Big left-hander Joe Page, all set.
Gil Hager stepping in. New York 4, Brooklyn 1.
Scharron settling down to give the sign. Page in a hurry. Shuffles a little dirt out there on the mound with his spikes.
Happy around toward left. The wind continues blowing into left field.
Page pumps, kicks, twists, throws, and Hodges, Bunning, fouls the ball off.
He was Bunning for a base hit. Figured that that was about the last thing the Yankees would expect of him.
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.
Easy insurance if they need him. Page works. There's the ground ball, hits sharply down to second. Coleman up with it cleanly.
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.
Louis Olmo, who is 0-4-3, has not gotten the ball out of the infield.
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.
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.
And it is now 4-2.
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.
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.
Snider is at the plate.
Page deals. Over. Fastball for a called strike at the outside on that one.
Yankees four, the Dodgers two.
Page works. Over. Fastball for a called second strike.
Page two outs to go and a two run margin. 4-2 ball game.
Snider holding his stick down by the end. Overly close stands.
I feel back in the left on him. Pitch is swung on, fouled off. Nothing can do.
Lower back on the screen.
A few spectators of the crowd of 32,788 started for the exit gate. But Olmo's home run returned into their seats.
Page takes the sign very coolly. Throws. Kirk swung on and missed strike. 3 and Snider is buck up.
So Page now is one out away. Yankees four, the Dodgers two in this third game of the series.
And just who the pitcher will be tomorrow? Well, probably Eddie Lopat.
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.
Plus the outcome of this game makes a great deal of difference. Each side of the camp.
Campanella, right hand hitter, swings, fouls the ball back. Nothing in one. Two gone, last of the night.
Edwards waiting on deck. Least a hit for a relief pitch of batter in the event that Campanella can save him a bat.
As it stands now, Edwards on deck is the tying run. Yankees four, two. Campanella swings, fouls this one off.
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.
Hollers out to Page. And we are beginning to get a little rain. It is starting to rain right now.
First rain of the day. The skies are letting overhead. As we pointed out to you, they have been ominous all afternoon.
Page works. Campanella checks his swing on a low curve ball and it is ball one. One ball, two strikes.
In the column that counts, the Yankees four, the Dodgers two. The Yankees, after two men, were retired.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is the ninth time the two home runs have been hit in one inning in a World Series ballgame.
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.
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.
So Page is once again within one strike, his final out, and the crowd is still waiting. Everybody standing.
The Yankees four, the Dodgers three. Oh, hold on. Page comes down. Edwards takes just outside for a ball one. One and two.
He may have been setting up something with that pitch. Fast ball, just wide.
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,
and left-hander Joe Hatton for Brooklyn in the right field corner. Hatton throwing to the bullfin catcher Sam Nara.
Okay, one and two.
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.
Edwards unhappy about the decision. It was a high fast ball, left the shoulders on the outside.
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.
And the Yankees win the ballgame 43, and Ralph Branker is the losing hurler, of course.
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.
So the Yankees win this one and go up now two games to one, and coming up to the microphone, Mel Allen.
Mel, see you've got the record book, and you've been looking all the things and adding them up. How's it now?
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,
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.
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.
The Yankees won the first game of the World Series, and the two in the ninth inning, Louis Almal and Roy Campanella.
Joe Page, who was the key of the Yankee success this year from a pitching standpoint and who pitched them into that pennant,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
So that will show you how close this situation is.
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,
comes through to win his second World Series game. He won one and lost one in the 1947 World Series.
Joseph Francis Page, a 31-year-old left-hander from Springdale, Pennsylvania, born in Cherry Valley,
came on to save the day for Tommy Byrne, off whom Peewee Reese spanked that home run early in the game
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.
Branca had walked Mapes to start the third inning, then after Coleman struck out, Tommy Byrne singled to send Mapes around the third,
and he scored on Rizzuto's fly ball to right field. Reese's homer, off Byrne in the fourth inning, tied it up.
That was the first hit off Byrne, who had gone through the lineup without lying a hit in the first three innings,
and that proved to be Tommy Byrne's undoing. When after Mixus had lined solidly to center to DiMaggio for an out,
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
that looked as if the Dodgers were going to cash in, but that's when Page came in, and he got Almo and Snyder,
got out of that jam, and it was brilliant unto the ninth inning when Almo and Campanella hit those homers.
Offensively, it was Big Johnny Mize who had reached Major League stardom, but who had never been able to participate in a World Series,
and it was Mize who had pinched it safely yesterday for the Yankees in a losing cause, who came on to the ninth inning
after Ralph Franca, who had pitched beautiful baseball all the way, who had pitched a two-hitter to the ninth inning,
and who had gotten the first man out of the ninth, had walked Byrne and had gotten DiMaggio, and with two down,
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
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.
So it was a thrilling ball game all the way, where the totals, the Yankees, four runs, five hits, no errors, five left on,
and the Dodgers, three runs, five hits, no errors, and six men left on.
Joe Page, the winning pitcher, Ralph Franca, who went eight and two-thirds innings, is the losing pitcher, his second at World Series loss.
Well, we're having a little more excitement. It's building day by day, and we still have a long way to go.
Remember, we'll be back on the air again tomorrow at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time,
but do remember that on Sunday we will be on an hour later at 1.45 Eastern Standard Time, tomorrow at 12.45.
Tomorrow, we bring you the fourth game of the 1949 World Series from Evans Field in Brooklyn.
Make a note that we'll be on the air at 12.45 Eastern Standard Time the same as today.
Until then, folks, smooth sailing, smooth shaving, and good afternoon from your host,
The Gillette Safety Razor Company, Red Barber, and yours truly, Mel Allen.