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The New York Yankees face the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for game 4 of the 1949 World Series on October 8th.
The Yankees lead the best of seven series, two games to one.
This is the mutual radio broadcast of game number four featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.
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This series, there's a big hand for all these Dodger stars of 1916.
And Miss Gladys Gooding is playing all Langsine. Jeff Pepper, Knap Rucker, Zach Wheat, Otto Miller, Chief Myers, Rupe Markward,
more names to conjure with as you look back through baseball history.
And those who were unable to attend today, Jack Coombs, now baseball coach at Duke University, Duster Mails,
now doing work on the West Coast, Fred Merkel, first baseman, now living in Daytona Beach, Florida.
No longer living are manager Wilbert Robinson of that 16 team, Ed Appleton, a pitcher, first baseman Jake Dorbert,
third baseman Harry Mowry, and Sherrod Smith. As a matter of fact, Sherrod Smith just passed away not long ago.
And if you want to go back into history, in that 1916 World Series, there was a guy in there pitching named Babe Ruth for the Boston Red Sox.
And it was in that series when the longest game ever played in the history of the fall classic.
The Dodgers lost to the Red Sox in the 14th inning.
Babe Ruth, who won the 2-1 decision, passed on last year, and Sherry Smith, who pitched for the Dodgers in that game, also passed along recently.
And now the lineups for today's game. For the New York Yankees, Phil Rizzuto leading off playing shortstop, hitting second,
and playing first base Tommy Henrik. Batting third is Yogi Berra and catching.
Hitting fourth, Joe DiMaggio, center field. Hitting fifth, Bobby Brown, third base.
Hitting sixth, Gene Woodling, left field. Batting seventh, Cliff Mapes, right field.
Hitting eighth, Jerry Coleman, second base. In the ninth spot of the order in pitching, Eddie Lopat, who won 15 and lost seven for the Yankees in the regular season.
For the Dodgers, a change by Bert Schotten, leading off, as usual, being captain and shortstop, Peewee Reese.
Hitting second, Eddie Mixis, third base. In the third spot of the order will be Duke Snyder, playing center field.
In the cleanup spot, Jackie Robinson, second base. Hitting fifth, Gil Hodges, first base.
Batting sixth, Louis Almo, left field. Hitting seventh today will be Roy Campanella, catching.
In the eighth spot of the order, Gene Hermanski, playing right field. And in the ninth spot, pitching, Don Newcomb.
Kyle Farillo normally would be playing today, but that injury of his, that groin injury, has hampered him considerably.
He has attempted magnificently to play in the series for the Dodgers. A great outfielder, a great thrower, and a fellow who had been murdering that ball in the last couple of months of the season.
But when injuries hamper you, it's just rough and tough. And though he gave it a great try, Bert Schotten realizes he had to go with Gene Hermanski today in place of Farillo in right field.
Gene, a left-hand batter, against a left-hand pitcher. But sometimes there are certain left-handed batters who can hit left-hand pitchers, as well as others.
Particularly when it comes to the type of stuff a left-hander delivers, and Lopat is a slow-stuck type pitcher.
The umpires for today at the plate will be Lou Jordan of the National League. At first base will be Cal Hubbard of the American League.
At second base will be Beans Ritten of the National League. And at third base, Art Passerella of the American League.
The foul-line umpires will be Ed Hurley and George Barr with Hurley in left field today and Barr in right field today.
The umpires are moving down to their positions after the meeting at home plate with Reese and Stengel exchanging batting orders.
Stengel stops and Lopat chats with him and the smile on his face and then continues to warm up. Don Newcomb's still warming up.
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The umpires have taken their places. In a moment we shall have the playing of the national anthem by Miss Gladys Gooding,
whom Red told you about yesterday, who sings and the anthem and plays the organ here at Ebbets Field.
And while there go the Dodgers trotting out on the field, and as they rush to their positions, we pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Hear the World Series exclusively on WOR. See it on WOR-TV, Channel 9, WOR and WOR-FM, New York.
The Dodgers are out on the field. Bill Rizzuto is coming out of the Yankee dugout with a couple of bats.
Don Ucom walks out to the hill. And now, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Gladys Gooding and our national anthem.
And now, sing the national anthem.
The Reds are out on the field.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the Dodgers are out on the field.
And now, sing the national anthem.
The Reds are out on the field.
And now, sing the national anthem.
Well, we're all set to go in the fourth game of the World Series. Each of the first three have gone right down to the last pitch.
The tension has been terrific. Every one of them decided in the ninth inning and right down to the last pitch before you could know which team had finally won.
And now, as we get ready to go, moving into the microphone, a fellow who has done a brilliant job of reporting this World Series,
as he has in every previous World Series he's done dating way back to 1935. I refer, of course, to the old redhead, Red Barber.
Thank you, Mel. Just trying to keep up with you. Afternoon, everybody. Big Newcomb is throwing down to Campanella.
Rizzuto is getting ready to be the first hitter for game four. And this program comes to you by authority of the Commissioner of Baseball.
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As mal-charged, it's an overcast afternoon. All the folks here, the weather man, says that it will not rain.
The temperature is in the middle 70s and the humidity is quite high. And the humidity is expected to get higher.
In other words, it's an afternoon for perspiration. The air is quite heavy and quite muggy.
The Yankees, later the three games played, two to one. Rizzuto, who has won for 11 so far.
Small right-hand batter, very active. Big Newcomb coming back for the second time on two days' rest.
Big right-hander throws, fastball inside, ball one. Newcomb and Campanella the battery.
In field, Hodges at first, Robinson at second, Reese at short.
Eddie Mixers for the left-hander, Eddie Lopat starting for the Yankees. There's a 30s right-hand hitter.
Olmore in left field and Center Snyder in the right field to Hermanski.
Newcomb delivers a fastball strong on a drill for a base hit out into center field.
So Rizzuto comes up with the second hit of the series and begins this ballgame sharply.
So Rizzuto opens up with a single, sharply out in the center.
One up and one on.
The first hit off Newcomb when he started the opening game of the series didn't come until Lindell's single was won out in the second inning.
In other words, Newcomb retired the first four men if you interested in any sort of a comparison such as that.
It is no score and time is called for the moment. Campanella is calling over to the Brooklyn bench.
Olmore in left field wants his sunglasses.
The sun has not broken through the overcast, but it has made enough penetration to where there is a glare coming down.
So left field Olmore figures that this question is certainly the better part of valor and this World Series game is held up.
Newcomb is now tossing a few pitches down.
Sunglasses have not yet been discovered in the Brooklyn bench to be taken out to left field Olmore who's walked in behind shortstop.
We might give you a little note on Don Newcomb coming back up to two days rest.
Manager Shutton said before the ball game, we were talking to him, he said that he wasn't going to announce that Newcomb was going to be the starting pitcher,
but he was going to talk to Newcomb.
There's Rex Barney loping out with those sunglasses for left field Olmore now.
And Shutton said that he was going to ask Newcomb how he felt about pitching with two days rest.
If Newcomb said he felt okay, then he'd go.
If he said he didn't feel okay with just two days rest, he wouldn't go.
Because said Manager Shutton, when you realize it, it's these players' money that they're playing for.
As a manager, I don't even have a vote for a share.
So Newcomb apparently told Manager Shutton he was ready, willing, and able.
So here he is on the mound.
Rizzuto has touched him up for a line single.
He's at first base, perhaps the best and most dangerous baserunner for the Yankees, and the batter is Tommy Henry.
Pitch curve low inside for a ball wide.
One ball, no strikes.
It's smoky-ish, hazy-ish, very much the overcast high humidity, warm afternoon, temperature in the 70s.
Big crowd on hand, headed by Commissioner Chandler.
Had a lot of dignitaries attending these games.
This is Truman, this is Coolidge, ex-President Hoover, the Mayor, of course the Borough Presidents, Jim Lyons of the Bronx, John Cashmore of the Brooklyn.
Now here's the pitch to Henrik, swung on a high foul ball out of play, back to the Brooklyn bench.
One ball, one strike.
You can look down seat by seat behind their respective dugouts, and there are the big wheels, of course, of baseball and the many other walks of life.
Tommy Henrik, left-hand batter.
He has won for 11 at one, beat Newcomb in the first game.
There's a catch-out, but Rizzuto wasn't going anyplace.
Ball two.
Two balls, one strike.
Frankie Crisetti, with that high piping voice that carries so well, coaching at third.
Very alight, quick moving, quick thinking fellow.
Bill Dickey, one of the great all-time catchers of the game, pushing it first.
Rizzuto leads off, no score, nobody out.
Henrik hits a ground foul, and it dies, it goes over toward the first base there, and rolled right up against the box in front of Commissioner Chandler.
Two balls, two strikes.
Rizzuto, who can scamper.
He bothered Newcomb, if you'll recall, when he got on base in game one of the World Series, back at the stadium.
Rizzuto got on with a, in that first game, with a force-out, sixth inning.
A two-and-two.
Newcomb checks first pitches, Henrik swings, grounds it, fouls sharply, back to first base.
Ball comes off, first base coach Bill Dickey throws it out, no score.
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Henrik chokes that stick a little bit.
All reliable, they call him at the stadium.
Newcomb delivers as a ground ball, hit the first, just fouled by a foot.
Big Cal Hubbard, who moves extremely easily for any size man, and especially as big as he is.
Hubbard giving the out sign.
Two balls, two strikes.
I remember a few years ago talking to George Hallis, the coach and owner of the Chicago Bears, and I guess about as good a judge of professional football players anybody's ever seen.
I asked him who was the toughest football player that he had ever been in contact with and knew anything about.
And Hallis said, let him. He has to say Cal Hubbard.
The guy at some point at first.
Players don't storm at him too long, we might add in.
Blue jaw to working balls and strikes back of the plate.
Hubbard at first, Riddon at second.
Passarella is at third.
Throw to first, not in time.
Down the left field corner is Ed Hurley, in the right field corner, George Ball.
No score.
Newcomb with deliberation, ready to pitch again.
Two, two, does.
Henry hits the ground foul outside first base.
Ball kicks back over.
And first base umpire Hubbard throws her up.
Still two and two.
Henry again spinning on that ball.
Kicked a little dirt on the plate and George brushes it off.
It is continuing to get brighter and more glarish.
The, what did they say, down east in New England, that the sun is burning it off?
That seems to be what's happening.
The other man has certainly not missed a single prediction.
He said it would finally be clearer this afternoon.
And it's becoming clear right now.
It looks like in another inning or so, it will be completely clear if it keeps on at the present gate.
All right, Newcomb set two and two.
Nobody out.
No score on it first.
Throw to first again.
Rizzuto takes his lead.
He's quick.
He has an extremely rapid lateral move, which any good baserunner must have.
The pitcher has swung on a high foul ball back of the Yankee dugout.
Still two and two.
Of course, one of the great strengths of humanity is the feeling for other people.
Memory, sentiment.
That's one of the great strengths of baseball.
And that was certainly very vividly shown before this ballgame began.
When, as the guest of President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Ball Club,
there's numbers who could get here of the 1916 pennant winning team when it is.
Henrik swings a ground ball here in the right field for a base hit.
The zero goes on to second base, then goes on for third.
A man's just throw over to third base is not in time.
And Henrik holds it first.
That's a single on the right by Henrik.
And the Yankees are pressing forward with men at first and third and nobody out.
And the Brooklyn Bullpen gets up and goes to work.
Joe Hatton, needless to stop throwing to the bullpen, catches Sam Naran.
So Henrik comes up with a second hit of the World Series.
It's the second hit of this fourth game and all of his hits are off to Don Newcomb.
This is a clean single to the right.
Rizzuto, who can run, got a good jump, took the extra base.
Reese comes in from short, talks to Newcomb for the moment.
So Newcomb has now got one foot in the pickled bat.
Yogi Bauer catching his third game.
He has no hits out of six official at bats,
but he got a very telling base on balls that went out in the ninth inning yesterday.
Outfield toward right, the infield is in double play depth.
Others will give a run to get outs.
Runners at first and third.
Newcomb's pitch low inside, a slider, and Bauer checked his swing in time.
Ball wide. Now Robinson comes in from second base, says something to Don.
Campanello goes out to the mound.
Left-hander Joe Hatton, who has been in the bullpen every day,
been throwing for the last couple of days, is now throwing today.
It's no score, but the Yankees are pushing forward here at the opening bell.
No man retired.
Yogi Bauer, stocky, strong, free-swinging left-hand batter at the plate.
One ball, no strikes.
DiMaggio waiting on deck.
Then Bobby Brown.
Rizzuto, who can fly, leading down off third.
He just took the extra base, which is an important thing in this business of baseball.
Henrik, who is a good runner, although not too swift.
He knows how to run, leads off first, the infield half.
We have the pitches. Swung on, fouled off.
One ball, one strike.
Nobody has gone down to the Yankee bullpen at all.
In fact, there's St. Joe Page, probably doesn't even know how to act.
He's sitting right there against the water cool in the dugout.
I guess he feels a stranger hanging around that dugout.
Quite a job he did yesterday.
Swung on, let's see.
Big Newcomb, ready.
Right-hander pitches. There's a ground foul outside first base.
It's one and two.
One ball, two strikes.
Don Pulling with the pitchers, Rosenberg.
Rizzuto and Henrik have opened up with singles, if you just joined us,
on Gillette's broadcast of the World Series.
No score, and the Yankees are trying to give Newcomb a rough time right here at the start.
Casey Stengel walks in front of the dugout, Hollis setting up the bearer.
The one and two pitch, hit down to third base.
Here comes the throw to the plate, and Rizzuto is caught in a run-up.
Campanella throws the ball back to Mixers, bluffs him into third base,
tags him, runs him out of the baseline, runs him out of the baseline,
and Henrik is called out second base, and Robinson tags him, and he's out.
So two men are out, two men are out, no score, and Bella winds up at first.
And now we've got a rule bar.
The Yankees are claiming, I think, that Jordan called time.
That's what the Yankees are claiming, and the umpire say, no, he did not call time.
Jordan had to call the out on Rizzuto, who was not tagged, he ran out.
Now let's go back over that play with Rizzuto at third base.
Henrik at first, Bella hit a solid ground ball, shot to the third base to Mixers.
Rizzuto came halfway to the plate and realized he was a dead bird and stopped.
Mixers threw the ball to Campanella.
Campanella running Rizzuto back toward third.
Rizzuto tried to run around Campanella and ran out of line into foul ground
and was called out by Jordan.
Henrik, who had turned to the left to fight second base, was out when Campanella threw to Robinson.
And Henrik immediately started to protest claiming time had been called, but it had not.
So two men are out.
That's the first Brooklyn double play, no score.
Bella at first to Maggio takes a curve ball low outside for ball one.
Well, you expect things to happen here at Ebbets Field.
It does sooner or later, and there it was.
The Yankees got hung up on the bases.
Casey Stengel said, hey, that used to happen when I was at Brooklyn.
Throw, fast ball, it's too low, ball two.
The Yankees in the series had come up with three double plays.
This is the first one for Brooklyn.
And that double play was the third baseman to the catcher to the second baseman.
Assist for the third baseman, a put out and an assist for the catcher and a put out for the second baseman.
Maggio swings, misses, throw to first base, not in time, Campanella will fire, Dora getting back.
So your double play was five to two to four if you're scoring.
And of course, that takes Newcomb out of quite a hole that was yawning for him.
It looked as though the Yankees were just about ready to give him a very bad first inning.
Well, let's see, two down, no score.
DiMaggio up, takes a fast ball outside for ball three and the count is now three and one.
DiMaggio has had one hit for 11 official at-bats and that was a dribble single down to third base.
Barrow with a fieldless choice, he's at first base.
Newcomb off the mound, pulling with a handkerchief.
Everybody's perspiring today, not only from the pressure of such a ball game, but from the weather.
High humidity.
At field, deep potluck, there's ball four and Barrow was running.
DiMaggio takes ball four, this is the first base on balls given up by Newcomb.
He gave up no walks in the opening game.
Two men go on, the Yankees are at first and second.
And Bobby Brown, who came up with a money-based hit in the ninth inning.
When the two down, he single shot be in the right field.
Brown up, he has one for five, he's a dangerous batter.
Barrow at second, DiMaggio at first.
Two out, outfield toward right.
Brown chokes that stick about three inches.
Slender left hand hitter.
Newcomb pitches, fastball low inside.
That ball hit the dirt, Campanella trapped it.
Plain and fine Jordan examines it, finds it's all right.
One ball, no strikes.
The sun that threatened to burn off the overcast early in this first inning has been unable to do so,
and the clouds have moved back in again.
That ball hit the dirt, Campanella trapped it.
Plain and fine Jordan examines it, finds it's all right.
One ball, no strikes.
The sun that threatened to burn off the overcast early in this first inning has been unable to do so,
and the clouds have moved back in again.
Barrow ready to take off on any provocation at second base.
Two down, DiMaggio at first, right side of the infield back on Brown.
Play him to pull.
Young man who continues his studies down in New Orleans to be a doctor up there at the plate, Bobby Brown.
Pitch is low, down by the batter's feet.
Ball two, Campanella again blocks it, it's into the dirt.
Plain and fine Jordan again demands the ball for an inspection, and finds it is scuffed up now and he throws it out.
Two balls, no strikes, and Campanella goes to talk to Newcomb.
Newcomb does not have the sharpness of his control today.
That is obvious compared to the way he performed over at the stadium Wednesday.
Two and all, crowd quiet, settle back, ball talk all decked out in Gala red, white, and blue bunny.
Jack Collins and his crew done a fine job.
Groundkeeper Eddie Durham has of course got the field just right.
Little do you think about it, but the World Series is the big moment for the fellow who runs the park and the fellow who runs the field.
Big for everybody.
Now let's see, big Newcomb ready to pitch two and all, does.
Brown takes a high outside pass ball for ball three, so Newcomb is now back in the hole.
The double play alleviated some of the pressure, but then came the walk to DiMaggio.
Time is called, and the pitching coach, Platt Soukforth, goes out to the mound to talk to Newcomb.
Three balls, no strike, left hand to Joe Hatton, who shares the same honor as manager Stengel, being a boy from Oakland, California.
Hatton throwing down the bullpen.
Understand there's a proclamation from Oakland which is to be given tomorrow to Casey Stengel.
So Souk is back in the dugout, three balls, no strikes to Brown.
You can rest assured that this is not what it's called, the automatic strike.
Brown has gotten his orders from boss man Casey Stengel.
Big Newcomb set, pitch is three nothing, high outside for ball four, and Brown walks and the bases are loaded.
Sarah, who moved to second on DiMaggio's walk, now moves to third on Brown's walk as DiMaggio moves over to second.
Three men on, and Gene Woodling stepping in.
Had a fine year out on the Pacific Coast last year and is back for another trial in the majors.
Had a very successful workman-like season with the Yankees.
No score.
Had a double play, two hits, two walks, field of choice, three men are on, two out.
Outfield toward right.
Right now Newcomb's pitch is high outside of fastball for ball one.
He hasn't been particularly close to the plate on these walks.
One ball, no strikes.
Big rookie, came up to the ball club in May, wasn't even with it at the start of the season.
He's carrying the hopes of Brooklyn trying to get even.
Delivers, too low, over, but low, it's a slide up for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
And Stengel has had a tight raid on these hitters.
He's just letting Newcomb get into all the trouble that he can.
As they say in baseball, Stengel is saying to it that his hitters do not help the pitcher.
Now that you get a pitcher wild, a lot of managers want batters to take.
The two-nothing pitch, in there, there's a throw down to third base, not in time.
Campanella trying to help his pitcher, as the saying goes, tried to pick Barrow off third.
Barrow took a run up the line.
While the throw was reasonably close, it wasn't dramatically close.
Barrow had to slide back.
All right, two balls, one strike.
Woodling had the take on just now.
The ten hitter in a crouch, crowds are played from behind the pitches.
Swung on, there's a fireball in the center field.
Snatter going back, back, he's under it, he's got it.
For the third out, a no-run score.
So at the end of half an inning, the score is New York nothing but for nothing.
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The stocky southpaw, Eddie Lopat, who is a pitcher with the same sort of philosophy and stuff
and delivery as Preacher O, although one has been eaten at the bigger end of the trough
than the other one as far as physique is concerned.
Lopat gives you knuckles, screw balls, slow curves, and uses fastball as a change-up,
as well as trying to pick a corner of the plate once in a while.
Eddie Lopat getting ready. It's his first start in the series.
Back of the plate is Yogi Berra. Henrik at first base, a second Coleman, a short stuff for Zudo,
The third base, and his Brown.
In the outfield, it's the same as started yesterday.
For the Yankees, in left it is Woodling, in center, DiMaggio, and in right field, Mapes.
Berra takes the last of the warm-up pitches, fires it down to second base.
Reese mixes and snider, hitting for the Dodgers, no score, and Newcomb was really waiting around
in hot water, but he didn't get scalded. That double play pulled him out of it.
Reese, who has had two hits for ten at-bats, won a home run.
First up, right-hand batter. The Yankee outfield is around toward left.
Left-hander Lopat pitches and gets looked like a slider in up there against the hands for a called strike.
He throws some of anything. Knuckles, screwball, sliders, curves.
Stocky left-hander deals. There's a curveball hit out into left center field.
It is in there for a base hit, an extra base. Reese is around first.
She's coming in to second base. DiMaggio takes the ball on the bounce.
She's coming to double as Reese comes in standing.
The Brooklyn captain, Pee-wee Reese, just teed off on a curveball and straightened it out,
hung it up the alley and left center field. Woodling went over, couldn't get to the ball,
and then fell to the ground, deliberately to get out of the way of DiMaggio's throw.
He promises in game four to be a rot-wiss afternoon before it's concluded.
The fourth games are oddly enough between the Yankees and the Dodgers.
They've always taken place at Brooklyn and they've always had something dramatic.
Game four and 41 was the Mickey Orrin third strike. Game four and 47 was the Lavagetto-Bevins affair.
Eddie Mixers hits a ball in front of the plate, spare.
Berra recovers, throws to first base. Mixers is out and Reese is held at second.
So, Mixers swinging on the first pitch, beats it right down in front of the plate.
Berra handled himself very well, the catcher firing down the first base from Henry.
So, we have one out last to the first, Reese at second, and Snatter, who has one hit for 12 at bats.
That can batter. It's all slender.
Right fielder Mates plays him straight away. DiMaggio in center is veered over toward left a little bit.
Left fielder Woodlings straight away.
Time is called, but your low fat wants to talk to his battery mate.
So, Yogi goes out to the mound.
Low fatty, no hurry.
He fusses with you and tries to finish you, tries to get you off balance and gives you some of that slow stuff.
And tries to make you hit a breaking pitch or a bad ball.
Now, if you're itchy up there at the plate, boy, that low fat really won't help you.
See, Snatter leans in, low fat delivers. It's a big curve high outside, ball wide.
Low fat got a big kick out of talking with Mel and me the other day,
talking about how we try and describe what the pitches are.
And he said, well, when I work, I'll give you boys a workout.
Reese off second, one out, no score.
Left hand to pitches, a fast ball, a slow long hit wide of third, up with it is Brown nicely.
The throw over to first base in time. Snatter's out for two steps and Reese is still bothered at second.
Still, two are gone. And Robinson stepping in.
He has one hit for nine at bat so far in the series.
Out the line toward left.
Jake Flippler coaching at first base.
Hollers up second for the plate. Milton Stock coaching at third.
Reese now ready to take off on anything with two out at second base.
No score. Low fat who set it right down delivers.
Robinson swings, hits it through to South.
Nice play over to first base, into the day.
Then Henry Joghlet.
Robinson, he's got it.
And Henry Joghlet. Robinson is out.
Henry just did get this ball on the skip.
It looked like he might Joghlet, but he stayed with it.
So, that is all.
Rosuto made a fine play.
Just like a quick bug.
He scooted over toward second base toward his left hand side, came up with the ball.
And he had to take it right off of Reese's feet.
As Peewee delayed trying to shield the infielder from the side of the ball.
Which is a trick which accomplished based on his youth all the time.
But Rosuto made the play.
His hard throw was into the dirt.
And Henry just did stay with it.
That's something when you have to dig him out.
So, that's all for a threat for each side.
So, we've had an exciting, but a scoreless first inning.
Newcomb hoping that he's over his wild streak, is ready to pitch in the second inning.
And will pause ten quick seconds for station identification.
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The World Series is heard exclusively on WOR.
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Moving into the second inning, it's the last third of the Yankee hitting list of nine.
Right fielder Maples, a left hand batter, followed by Jerry Coleman.
Who now is tied with Peewee Reese for the most hits in the series, each possessing three.
And then Pichulofat, who hasn't been up in the series, this is his first appearance.
Maples, 0 for 5, left hand batter.
Very much an asian overcast afternoon.
It's extremely warm.
Muggy.
Right hander delivers, pass ball too high, and it is ball one.
Newcomb, 6'5, 230 pounds. He's big.
Outfield toward right.
Maples, sort of a slenderish, six foot left hand hitter.
Swings with a bounding ball at Newcomb, grabs it to Bowers.
Throws over to first place to Hodges and Maples it out.
There's a hot bounder, the pitcher's beard.
One up, one go on opening up the second inning, no score.
And here is Jerry Coleman, who bradded in the fourth and has paid off the winning run for the Yankees yesterday.
Coleman has had a fine series, played very well at second base.
He's had three hits for 11 at bat.
Outfield straight away, infield straight away.
Coleman works upon the handle of that bat.
Newcomb's slider misses on the outside, ball one.
Don doesn't call that hard, quick curve of his a slider, he calls it a hard curve ball.
Everybody else calls that sort of pitch a slider.
That's become, I guess, on the most overworked words in baseball in the last five years.
One and 0 pitch, pass ball, swung on, a high foul, Campanella coming back close to the stands, close to the stands, he's got it.
Ball, a catch of the foul ball by the catcher, two men out, no score.
And pitcher Lopat is over at the Yankee bat rack.
Hasn't found his stickers yet.
Now he's got it.
Here he comes, walking easy up to the plate.
He's a nonchalant sort of a fella.
Lopat left hand hitter.
Stocky, thick through the shoulders and chest, light red hair.
Outfield, shaded toward right.
Newcomb's pass ball is in there for a called strike, nothing in one.
Two down, nobody on second inning.
Things moving easily now after the frenetic first inning that we had on both sides, especially for the Yankees.
Pitch outside, one ball, one strike.
Packed stands, rather quiet for the second.
Just waiting.
One and one pitch, curve, swung on and missed, one and two.
Sharp curve ball at the knees.
One ball, two strikes.
Lopat swings from the end.
He stands up there like a workman with that stick.
The sun is getting through a little brighter.
Sort of glary.
The one and two pitch is swung on, a fly ball out into deep and dead center field.
Snyder is back, turns, waits.
He has it and nothing across the Yankees in the top of the second inning.
And it is still no runs in the ball game.
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Red, one more question then.
How do you feel about this ball game today?
You sort of sense or smell something?
Yes, I think there's going to be a lot of happening today, Red.
The pitching doesn't look quite as sharp as it has in the first three ball games.
Newcomb, for one thing, is much more unsteady than he has been in his previous start.
Okay, Red.
Well, I see that Hodges is up now to hit against Lopat.
Last of the second inning, no score.
I feel toward left.
Hodges takes a letter ball outside, ball one.
This is game four and game four at Ebbets Field with the Dodgers and Yankees for the last two times has always had supplement.
It's a don't go away very far, has looked like a knuckleball outside, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Hodges, one hit for eight at bats.
That one hit drove in the run in game two.
Sockie left-hander delivers and gets it over the outside for a false strike.
Two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
Lopat seems to sort of sling himself sideways, working sidearm pretty much.
Delivers, fastball swung on as a high fly ball into short left field.
Woodling under it easily, waiting.
He's got it.
Ball went up, went away.
Last of the second inning, no score.
Louis O'Mall moving up to the plate.
O'Mall has two for six so far.
The second one was the 19th home run yesterday.
It's threatened to precipitate a rally.
It did get a rally on the way, but it fell short.
Now it is getting quite bright again.
Notice shortstop for Zudow is checking the glare up above,
peering up underneath his glove hand.
Lopat starts to pitch and decides he wants another sign.
Gets it.
Left-hander, it works.
Curveball swung on as a high fly ball right out to left field of Woodling,
who is under it, waiting, waiting.
He has it.
It's all two up, two put-outs for left field of Gene Woodling.
And Roy Campanella, who has two for eight, and his second hit was a home run.
Last run in the game yesterday.
Stocky, right-hand batter.
Barra settles down to give the sign.
Giorno working off the catcher's left shoulder
into the crack between the receiver and the hitter, who's right-hand batter.
Two out.
Things quiet.
Lopat delivers, spinning fastball high outside, ball one.
Stands there with sort of an impassive countenance, chewing gum steadily.
Lopat, who doesn't waste much time, deals.
As a trickle out toward first base, Lopat himself feels it.
The pitch is thrown to first and Campanella is out.
Hit a screwball right off the end of his bat.
And he's out, the pitcher coming over to the first base line
and firing over to first baseman Henry.
So we have a threat in the first inning, a real big threat for the Yankees,
which our base running double play broke out.
The Yankees got two singles, two walks in the first inning and didn't score.
And the Dodgers have a threat in the last of the first inning.
Double by Reese who opened it up, but he never got off second base
and everything was quite quiet in the second inning.
This time you can see that the sky is blue.
Well, it's been blue, of course, as we all know.
We all know the sun's been up there all the time.
But the haze is finally burned away and the weatherman has hit it right on the nose again.
Well, congratulations to him.
He said it would be fair, warm and clear before the game was concluded.
And the forecast is for completely clear, sunshiny weather tomorrow afternoon.
And remember that because of the New York State Sunday Law,
tomorrow's game cannot start before 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
It is advertised to start at 5 minutes past 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
Our Jeanette broadcast tomorrow will tee off at 1.45 Eastern Standard Time.
For these first four games, as you know, our time has been 12.45.
Now moving to the third inning, the Sudol who began the ballgame
blasting a line single into center field, a first second at bat.
The scooter now has two hits for 12.
Outfield shaded toward left, infield up a step because of the batter's speed.
Fastball is over.
All strike.
Rizzuto bluffing a bunt.
Mixers, of course, has to stay uptight inside third.
No third baseman can play back on Rizzuto.
He's bunt every time.
He just keeps him right in there so close he can almost shake hands with him.
Newcomb delivers.
Misses with his curve low outside.
That was his sharp curve, one and one.
Now the sun is very definitely out.
No question about it.
All the fellows are wearing sunglasses that they would normally wear.
21 pitch.
Curve ball hits down to third and one bounce.
Mixers over to first to Heizer.
That's all for Rizzuto before he's halfway down the line.
One up, one away.
Tommy Henrich who hit Newcomb for the dramatic home run,
one of the most dramatic home runs in the history of World Series.
It's always dangerous to say the most of anything, but certainly one of the most.
Henrich then greeted Newcomb his next time against him with a single in the first inning.
They'd sent Rizzuto around the third with nobody out.
And now here is Henrich up again.
His two hits have been off Newcomb.
Tommy failed to hit safely in games two and three.
Hotfield toward right.
Right-hander kicks, throws.
A lot of curve high outside. Ball one.
Henrich is about as all-round a threat batter as you would say.
He'll bunt up on occasion.
Draw one.
He's a good judge of a pitch.
There's a pitch low inside.
Ball two.
Newcomb changed on that one.
Slowed it up a little.
Two balls, no strikes.
Down pumps.
Henrich leans in.
The pitch swung on, a sharp bounding ball that Hodges feels with one hand.
Newcomb comes over, takes the toss at first, ball the out, and Henrich is out by a step.
First baseman Hodges, two-pitcher Newcomb, cover it.
I'd like to comment that throughout the series,
all pitchers have fielded their positions brilliantly,
especially on those very tough players going over to first base.
Now we have the yogi up there.
Berra, who is 0-7,
banged into that base running double player in the first inning.
Ball game, no score.
Berra, stocky left-hand hitter, takes a change-up, in on the hands of ball one.
That's the first full out-and-out change of pace that Newcomb has thrown in this series.
The first time he went all the way out with his slow ball.
Works.
Fast ball swung on, belted, foul in the right field corner,
up into the upper deck.
One-on-one.
Berra has a little piece of white bandage there around his left thumb.
That thumb is sore.
That's on his catching hand, and of course, catching these pitches perched that hand,
especially as hard as Allen Reynolds was throwing in the opening game.
One-on-one pitch to Berra, change-up ball, swung on, hit out into right center field,
back goes right fielder Hermanski, under the ball, and makes a catch in deep right center.
So Newcomb going to his change of pace, sets the Yankees out,
one, two, three, in the top of the third inning,
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In the last of the third inning, no-score game, Gene Hermanski, who is starting in right field for the second game,
because of the fact that Forello's groin injury has flared up on him, and he's unable to go.
Hermanski first up, followed by Newcomb, and then by Reese.
Managers shot and did everything he could to see that Newcomb in game one would be pitted against a right-handed pitcher,
because Newcomb is a left-hand batter and a good one.
But Casey Stengel finally works the thing out the way he wants it,
by getting left-handed Lopat starting against Newcomb the second time the Newcomb comes out.
Managers have to figure right down to those things.
After all, I know it was the pitcher single yesterday that was most pivotal.
Now here's Lopat delivering to Hermanski, who swings and misses on a high-inside curveball.
I think a lot of folks forgot that Tommy Byrne, before he was taken out of the ball game,
came up with a base hit that sent the first Yankee run around the third base.
You'll recall yesterday afternoon.
Hermanski takes a fast ball low inside at the shin, ball one.
Lopat, barely left-hander, Hermanski, strong, muscular, left-hand batter,
sun out fully now, sidearm curve, swing on and miss, strike two, one ball, two strikes.
Hermanski didn't hit against many left-handers in the opponent campaign.
He was used exclusively against right-hand pitchers.
One ball, two strikes.
Lopat with all that stuff delivers.
There's a slow curve that's hit foul down the right field corner.
Just about the same spot that Byrne hit his foul ball in the upper part of this inning.
One ball, two strikes.
No score in the ball game.
The Yankees lead in the series, as you know, two games to one.
And this is that fateful fourth game at Ebbets Field in which things have happened.
This was game four with the Yankees, you remember, that Henrik struck out
and Mickey Byrne missed it in the ninth inning in 41.
And with two men out in game four with the Yankees here in 47,
Lavagelow pinch hit against Bevins.
One and two pitch to Hermanski is a curve way outside, sidearm curve.
Ball two. Two balls, two strikes.
Second baseman Coleman notices that the glove of Robinson is just the way he didn't want it to be,
so he goes over and moves it.
These players have to be important to every little detail.
A two-two pitch, swung on, a ground ball foul outside first.
That looked to be a screwball, was breaking in on the hands.
Ball down the right to a corner, bounced in amongst the spectators.
Unless balls bounce into the stands, the spectator's not going to get them
because it has been announced and announced repeatedly that under no circumstances
are fans to lean over the low rail and reach for balls on the playing field, foul or otherwise.
Very sound rule.
No score. Two balls, two strikes.
Hermanski first, tough last to the third loop, had the livers and Gene fouls this one off.
Ball down in the dirt.
Two and two.
The thing's sort of quiet for the moment.
You can look around and you can see this tenseness in all the faces.
President Dan Topping of the Yankees sitting with George Weiss,
General Manager Del Webb, they're just staring intently.
Two-two pitch.
Curve ball high and side, ball three.
And in their vicinity is Ed Barra, who had so much to do with building the Yankees
and the great team that they have been in awe.
Connie Mack is sitting over there.
President Will Harridge.
Hank Greenberg, Bill Beck.
Hermanski swings, misses the curve ball and it is back three.
So Lopat works on him and strikes him out.
It's the first strike out of the ball game.
Also there are two fellows and I wonder what their thoughts are.
Sitting over there in the American League delegation by the dugout.
Here's Newcomb coming up to the plate.
It's a big hand.
The two men I was speaking of in the American League are Eddie Collins
and Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox.
Boy, the furnace in both leagues were really bitter this summer, weren't they?
Newcomb, left hand hitter, takes a fastball that's over for a call strike.
I've got the inside just above the knees.
No balls, one strike.
Lopat is the sort of fellow that doesn't numb you or jaw you or overpower you.
He's just like a fellow with a little sharp knife.
He just walks around and takes a nick here and a nick there.
He delivers a curve, swung on and missed, strikes two.
As Jim Turner, coach of the Yankees, says that Lopat pitches pretty much the same way
as you're all Brooklyn pitches.
Just nibbles and needles you to death.
Throw anything.
Delivers knuckleball that was low, just the knees.
One ball, two strikes.
One out.
I feel shaded toward right.
Newcomb very much an open stance against his left hander.
Lopat works curve, swung on and missed, strike three, and Newcomb, it'll wind up.
So that's two strikeouts, last two batters, retired by Eddie Lopat.
And Peewee Reese, who is the only Dodger to get on base against Lopat,
opened up with a double in the first inning.
Reese has three hits for 11.
Reese in the square stance, easily balanced.
He's the veteran Brooklyn ballplayer.
He goes back to 1940.
In spring training camp, they called him the old man of the ball cloud.
He was all of 30 years old.
Pitch, good curve above the knees, a tall strike, nothing won.
There is no perceptible wind.
The air from the humidity is rather heavy.
It will hold up a ball that is hit high.
Knuckleball high outside, ball one.
The batters on both sides, as they took pregame batting practice,
remarked that they would hit a ball hard, and it wouldn't seem to go very far
because of the moisture in the atmosphere.
Two out, no score, nobody on, Lopat just pitching away.
Reese at the plate, count one and one.
Fastball is good.
There he came in with his fastball and got it.
Just at the inside corner above the knees, we're called second strike.
Very efficient pitch.
One and two.
One and two pitch, high outside, ball two.
I'm mentioning some of the American League officials over on the Yankee dugout.
Back of the Brooklyn dugout is President Ford Frick sitting there,
looking very tense.
Of course, his league is a game behind right now.
Walter O'Malley, John Smith, co-owners with Branch Ricky,
The Brooklyn ball club, and their boxers.
The two-two pitch is swung on as a high fly ball.
Let's see, first baseman Henrik says, I'll take it.
He's under it and makes the catch midway between first base and pitcher's mouth.
So Lopat, aside from Reese's opening double, has got them all.
He has retired, and with some at ease, the last nine.
So let's check our total's, Mel, at the end of three innings.
No runs, two hits, and no errors for the Yankees.
And no runs, one hit, and no errors for the Dodgers.
Well, Newcomb's ammeling out to the mound.
It's going to give us time for a little visit, Mel.
How have you seen this ball game, and how do you feel about it?
Well, Red, I felt very much as you indicated in your remarks in the first inning
about the fourth games of every World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers,
developing into something of a spectacular nature.
And certainly we had a lot of action packed into that first inning,
something of an unusual nature with a double play,
getting runners who were on first and third, the batter himself being safe,
and one runner thinking that time had been called,
one of those situations that smack of the irregular.
And then with Reese leading off the last, the first inning of the double,
it looked as if these boys who have been stifled, comparatively speaking,
by the pitchers, pitching certainly has predominated thus far in the series,
it looked as if this was going to be a hitter's day.
But just as suddenly as it started, as suddenly did it end,
and once again we're back in the pattern of the first three games,
but early and still a lot capable of happening, and it probably will.
Well, let's wait until the ninth inning anyhow.
Well, here we go into the fourth inning, Nostor and DiMaggio up.
They draw base on balls in that February's first inning.
Joe has one hit an infield single out of 11 at-bats.
Big Newcomb pumps once again, kicks, throws, over for a called strike.
Fastball, they just fire right down through there.
I feel very much around toward left.
One left, Snider in center, a man skin right.
Newcomb right hands, fastball high and side up by DiMaggio's hands, one and one.
Judging by Joe's reaction to that pitch, he was taking it all away anyhow.
DiMaggio, his feet widespread.
Boy, does he want to hit one.
Another one pitch is swung on, there's a high drive, deep out toward left center field.
Snider goes back, close to the wall, close to the wall, he's got it.
That ball looks to be going upstairs when it took off.
Didn't get there.
It may be that this humid air today held it up just enough,
because that ball's trajectory was tremendously high,
as high as the top of the double deck stand.
And then it seemed to just come plummeting straight down the field.
So that's the best hit ball that DiMaggio has turned loose.
And he's out.
Put out for the center fielder, and the batter now is Bobby Brown.
He too walked in the first inning.
Swings, there's a foul ball out of play back at the Yankee dugout.
No balls, one strike.
One gone, top of the four.
No score.
And the wheels are grinding slowly, tensely again.
Sun out and full force.
The pitch swung on and missed.
Newcomenant ball sinking then, and he gets that effect when he takes a little bit off of his fast ball.
No balls, two strikes.
Brown, one for five.
That was a big single, as it proved to be.
Did he hit in the right field with two out top of the ninth yesterday.
Pitch high inside, one ball, two strikes.
Bill Dickey, facing restlessly in the coaches' box at first base.
Crissetti doesn't pace down at third, he just goes one place and stands.
Outfield toward right.
Other defensive players on the toes.
Newcomenant delivers one and two outside for a ball too.
Two balls, two strikes.
To show you the tension, as soon as a pitch is made and is taken at the plate, you can see the infielders and the outfielders, all seven of them,
immediately take a step forward to regain their balance, then they get set again.
They have to be ready to go.
The two-two pitch swung on, fouled off.
Still two and two.
One away.
Bases clear here in the fourth.
Remember that air time for the Gillette broadcast, the World Series tomorrow, will be 1.45 Eastern Standard Time, or one hour later than it has been for the first four games.
Two-two pitch, swung on, bounced down toward first and fouled.
Still two and two.
There's a spectator stepping out of the stands to come up with that ball.
And I imagine that that's going to probably draw some little reprimand because it has been announced, and for very good reasons, that nobody is supposed to lean all the way.
Unless they step on the field to get a ball that is in play.
And a foul ball is still in play.
Well, the umpire declares it dead.
Two balls, two strikes.
The pitch is swung on.
There's Drillden, the left-side of the field.
It's going to be in the alley for an extra base.
Brown whistling to the left around first base.
Now there's Slipps, comes up with a ball.
Brown is around second and then holds on standing as the throw comes in to third.
So there's a real solid line-drive double right up the alley in left center field, just where they were not playing.
So with one gone, Bobby Brown comes up with his second hit on the sixth official at bat.
A line double that on the second bounce went up against the concrete in left center field, about 375 feet away.
Hudges comes over from first, talks to Newcomb. Robinson has come in from second and is talking to Don now.
So with one gone, the Yankees come up with their second threat as far as base runners are concerned.
That for the Yankees gives them a total of five doubles so far in the series.
And Gene Woodling, who got one of those doubles yesterday, he has one for four.
He was one for three yesterday and he's all for one today.
He made the third out in the first inning. Takes a slider low inside, ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
Brown was a good runner, leads off second. Outfield toward right.
Woodling in a crouch, the ten hitter, took this stick about an inch and backs out of the box, time call.
No scores.
The Yankees had a big threat in the first inning when Rizzuto and Henrik opened up the singles and men were suddenly first and third.
But then Berra hit into a double play.
Newcomb throws, low, ball two.
And if he just joined us, that threatened the first inning after the double play was a bounding ball to the third baseman.
Rizzuto, the runner from third, was caught in a run up.
And then Henrik, who was the original runner at first in that sequence, overran second base and was picked off.
Berra wound up at first.
And Newcomb walked the next two men, but he got Woodling, who is now at bat, in the first inning he hit a fly ball to his center fielder, Snyder.
Now the Yankees have their second threat, one with one out, Brown is a second with a double.
Woodling takes a high curve, four ball, three.
Green all.
Newcomb trying to be oh so careful.
Three balls, no strikes.
Joe Hatton begins to fidget around down the Brooklyn bullpen, the left hander was up in the first inning.
The three nothing pitch is a curve long, ball four, so Woodling walks.
And Yankees are first and second.
This is the third walk given up by Newcomb today in three in the third inning.
He walked no man in the first game of the series.
Hatton is now up to start throwing to Sam Nairn.
Tetsa Campanella walks out to the mound to say something to Newcomb.
Presetti coaching at third base.
Others encouragement to the present Yankee batter now, Fifth Mapes.
Mapes bounced out, pitch to the first in the second inning, 0 for one today and 0 for six so far in the series.
Left hand hitter.
Outfield toward right, infield, upper step.
Fast ball is low and inside for ball one.
One and all.
Now you can feel the tension mounting.
Yankees putting on the pressure.
Newcomb deliberately taking the sign.
Comes to a stop position, second pitchers.
Fast ball swung on, hit down the left field corner.
It might be trouble, Ohmo going over, over, over and the ball is fair in the left field corner for an extra base hit.
In comes Brown.
Around third base coming in to score is Woodlink.
He scores the ball, gets away from Campanella.
It's a double for Mapes.
He hit that ball no more than six inches fair.
Right down in the left field corner, 348 feet away.
He was playing him, he hit it to the right.
He sliced back the other direction.
And again the reason of having an umpire in each foul corner was plainly demonstrated then.
That would have been a very tough one to have had to call from back on the infield.
Because the stands jut out in the left field corner and there's a low railing of seats coming right along on the foul ground.
The Yankees are now ahead two to nothing on a double in the left field corner.
The umpire in the left field corner, Ed Herle, was right on top of the, he wasn't five feet away from the ball when it struck.
Had that ball sliced another couple of inches, he should have been fouled.
That's a very tough corner. It's about the toughest corner, I think, in the major league.
Especially when an umpire is distant. It's caused many a rubav here at Brooklyn.
But when the umpire down in the corner, that was it.
Commissioner Chandler started using the altons that way, if you recall, in the 47 series.
Okay, so Mapes comes up with his first series hit.
And the Yankees are now out in front two to nothing.
Hatton continues calling in the Brooklyn bullpen.
Mapes walking down off second, feeling better about everything.
And Coleman is at the plate. He has three hits so far in the series.
Takes sort of a little curve off the hand for a called strike.
Presetti, the third base coach, had both of those Yankee runners going.
It was easy for Brown, of course, but Woodling, they had to start him and run him all the way.
In first base, and he scored from first easily.
The throw came in, fast away from Campanella, but made no difference.
There's a high fly ball hit into short left field.
Olmore coming over close to the foul line and makes the catch in foul ground.
So that's the second out.
Coleman foul ball to the left fielder.
Two to nothing is the score in favor of the Yankees.
They're in the top of the fourth inning.
Mapes slicing a double down in the left field corner.
And now a pitcher, Eddie Lofat, who's a rich man as far as pitchers go.
He knows how valuable each of these two runs is that he possesses.
Actually, he's going to try and make it three if he can.
A base hit might very well do it. Mapes runs well on his long legs.
Lofat is one of the good hitting pitchers in the trade.
Newcomb checks second, delivers.
Curfew low, ball one.
Big Don, look at second, works.
Lofat swings, and there is a base hit going into left center field.
She's in there, it's another double for him if he wants to run it out.
And now Lofat going into second base hit, comes to throw.
Lofat slides, no, he stands, and he is safe.
He almost fell off second base.
Naturally makes the score to make it three-nothing.
Lofat doubles.
But he started to slide, then decided he didn't have to slide,
and took to his stand-up momentum that he almost fell off second base.
His foot did go off, but he reached back with a hand.
And Beans Redden was right on top of that play to call it.
Ramison put an early tag on him, and then Lofat fell off the ball,
and then reached back with his hand before Ramison could re-tag him.
So Lofat is safe with a double, and the Yankees are out in front three to nothing,
and I think this is going to be all for Newcomb.
There is Clyde Sukeforth pointing to the ball, Ben, and Joe Hatton is to come off.
So Lofat himself hits a line drive double in the left center field corner,
and this makes it three-nothing in favor of New York.
So Joe Hatton is making the walk-in from the bullpen back in the right field corner.
He's going across pass first base right now.
Newcomb, who didn't have it today, will soon leave the mound.
He's just waiting to wish Hatton luck and go through the...
The puck recur to shoot the situation.
There's the jacket taken down to Lofat. At second there's Newcomb walking off.
And the Yankees are on top solidly now, three-nothing.
So we'll have a little while while Hatton gets the feel of the mound,
throws down to Campanella, and lets use up ten of those seconds for station identification.
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Joe Hatton, slender, blonde, slightly bold at the knees, left-hander, taking over on the mound.
Won a dozen ball games this last season, lost eight.
Hatton appeared briefly, worked in and out, got in four different games,
a total of nine innings, and gave up seven earned runs in the World Series against the Yankees in 1947.
All right, she's through nothing in favor of the Yankees.
We're leading in games two to one.
And as Casey Stengel said before today's ball game, he said,
well, if we can win this one, it looks like we'll be sitting a little comfortably.
And of course, they are out to try and do it.
Look, Patty just tipped himself with a double, and now here is Rizzuto.
Up here in the fourth, right in here to Hatton pitches a fast ball over for a call strike.
So we got luck down to both sides.
Hatton's place in the Brooklyn Bowl, then, is now taken by the lean right-hander Jack Bata,
who relieved yesterday and who was hit by Coleman for a single that knocked in the Yankees fourth,
and it turned out to be their winning run.
Hatton's shaded toward left.
Two out, three runs in, curve ball, hangs low outside, one ball, one strike.
Rizzuto is one for two today.
He has two hits for 13 official at bats so far in the series.
Three runs, all charged up near him, of course, and five hits for the Yankees.
Gone out of there after three and two-thirds innings.
Hatton works one and one, too high with a fast ball high and outside.
Two balls, one strike.
Rizzuto a little bit back from the plate, slightly over the close stance,
so it's a stick-up an inch.
He's about to do most anything.
He can hit the right, pull the ball, also can take, and he's a good bonner.
Two on pitch.
Swings and hits a Hatton through an electoral base hit.
There's Lopat, ruling around third base.
Here comes a throw from Momo.
It might be close at the plate, and Lopat is out.
He was out by 20, and Captain Ollagay, but the big decoy, he just stood there,
so there's no throw coming, and so the throw from Momo was perfect on the second bounce,
and so ends the inning.
But the pitchers didn't get him out.
The final pitch that did get anybody out was left fielder Omo.
So Rizzuto a single to left for his second hit of the day,
and Lopat is thrown out of the plate, left fielder Omo to catch a Campanella.
So the Yankees pick up three in the fourth inning, and at the end of three-and-a-half innings,
The score is New York 3-and-Brookton nothing.
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Lopat was out there running on the bases.
He ran in for his double, as you'll recall.
He tried to score on a solid, hot single.
The left field was thrown out at the plate, and he is still being cleaned up there in the dugout after the slide.
The fans are a little bit restive.
They want to see him come out in the game or so.
3-0 in favor of the Yankees.
And Mel, how do you see things now?
Well, I was just thinking back to that fourth inning.
It was an oddity in that three left-hand hitters got doubles, and they all hit to the opposite field.
That is to say, normally, you figure these fellows left-hand batters to pull toward right or right center,
although they are left-hand hitters who don't pull.
However, Bobby Brown does happen to be the type of hitter that'll hit the ball where it's pitched.
He'll hit to all fields.
He doubled the left center. Mapes, who normally will pull the ball, on occasion,
I've seen him in the last couple of years hit a lot of them down the left field line like that.
And oddly enough, that ball that he hit, he has so much power, it not only didn't miss very much by going foul,
it also didn't miss much going into the left field stands for a home run.
That is to say, approximately, figuring a left-hand hitter hitting a ball that far into that left corner when he usually pulls to the right.
In other words, he got an awful lot of power behind it more so than anybody figured he might.
It was sort of an odd inning all the way around at that.
All right, Mr. Allen, anything else down before we go on to the last four?
All caught up.
Okay, and I see that Eddie Lopat's all caught up. He's ready to go now.
And the Yankee ball's up a field. Left-hander Lopat, who's ahead now, three to nothing, and at third runs his,
Barrow back of the plate, first base is Henrik at second base Colman, a shortstop for Zudel, and at third base it is Brown.
Brown, who, again, the assault on Newcomb with one out with a whistling line drive double.
In left field is Woodling and center field, DiMaggio. Must be a tough series for Joe.
Not hitting. Of course, he's playing on his nerves, what he did all year.
And in right field is Mapes. Place that double down the left field corner.
Well, we've got Eddie Mixes, first up in the last of the fourth inning, throwing out catcher to first,
and the ball which he banged in front of the plate in the first inning.
Three to nothing, New York. Big spinning curveball is over for a called strike.
Lopat, who is quite a competitor, he works with that noggin of his.
Now busy defending his three to nothing lead. Gives a screwball in there, swung on in this strike, too.
That was the biggest screwball that he threw as far as you could see its break.
That one really was going down and back. He throws his screwball at two different gates.
Slow one, fast one.
Nothing in two.
Mixes slightly open stance, it's for him to pull a little.
Let a ball on the outside, one ball, two strikes.
Lopat walking around.
Solid pitcher. Didn't get flustered.
Knows his trade, steadied it.
Deals fastball over, called strike three.
Well, that was the change. Following the screwball and then suddenly the fastball right over.
And mixes, he just caught looking.
Well, that's the sort of pitcher that Lopat is.
He works around you. He is a head pitcher.
That's three strikeouts for him.
Now we have Duke Snodden, who is 0-1, throwing out third to first in the first inning.
The Yankees three, the Dodgers nothing. The Yankees coming up with three runs in the fourth.
High field is divided against Snyder.
There's a high fly ball in the right center field.
Mates going over, signals he'll take it. The Mad Joe's out of the way.
The right field is under it and makes the catch.
So that's all for Snyder. High fly ball, right field, Mates.
Two gone after the fourth.
Reese opened up on Lopat as the first book combatter with a double.
And not another Dodger has been able to turn to the left at first base.
They've all had to go to the right.
Jackie Robinson, who is 0-1 today, throwing out short to first.
That was a fine play by Rizzuto.
And throwing Robinson out in the first inning, an equally fine play by Henrik at first base.
Throw, just to be a fast screwball on the outside, ball one.
Robinson is 1-10.
High field, what left?
Sun shining brightly.
Very threatening at noon.
There's a let-up breaking ball, low outside ball, too.
Two balls, no strikes.
Bucky Lependa, just standing around the back of that mound like he owned it.
The axis is unconcerned as though he were at an afternoon tea in somebody's backyard.
He's ready, pumps once, pumps again, delivers 2-0.
And misses with his fast ball on the outside.
He tried to clip that outside corner for a strike.
Eyes behind, 3-0.
Robinson is, of course, pitched to more capler than any other hit in the book in batting order.
3-0 pitch is low inside for ball four.
And Jack is off to base on ball.
Let's see now, yesterday he walked twice.
First had three walks today, only three walks in the series.
Two no-walks the first two games.
Gil Hodges, we had a fly ball to left fielder Woodling in the second inning, 0-1.
After retiring, 11 consecutive batters.
Base on balls comes up to Robinson.
Yankees three.
Dodgers nothing, two gone.
Robinson, of course, while he'll take a fairly long lead at first base, he always does.
He won't be trying to go anyplace.
Dodgers behind three runs, left hand pitcher on the mound, an addition.
There's a ball snuck right over the inside corner at the knees for a called strike.
Low pat pitching to spots, different gates.
You throw by the knees, so out of pitch you can name.
Henry Golding, first base.
Robinson leading off, not too far.
Two out.
The pitch is a curve in there nicely for a called second strike.
That one did tricks.
That was coming down a little on the outside and shoulder high and suddenly down, should cut right in there.
Nothing and two.
Hodges swinging from the end.
Low pat standing with the ball, hand is small of his back.
He's in no hurry at all.
He's enjoying it.
Checks first pitches.
Strikes three, swing and a screwball.
Left knee is on the outside.
That's slow tantalizing screwball.
And Hodges tried to check his swing and just pound the ball, but he couldn't do it.
All right, so at the end of four innings, malcheck me on these, please.
For the Yankees, three runs are all earned, all off Newcomb in the fourth inning and six hits the first five off Newcomb.
No errors.
And for the Dodgers, no runs, one hit, which was the opening double by Reese and the Brooklyn, no errors.
Three nothing, New York.
End of four.
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Now for the fifth inning, Tommy Henrik, Yogi Berra, the only two in the Yankee batting order that did not bat in a three run four,
followed by DiMaggio.
What happened to Hatton, who came on, face Rizzuto who's single, but the fourth inning was ended and Lopat was thrown out of the play.
Hatton delivers a curve, sidearm swung on, missed for a strike.
Left hander stepped forward first, threw the ball in tight on the left hand hitter.
Nothing in one, outfield toward right.
Henrik one for two today, two hits for 13 at bats.
Curve is fouled off the end of the bat down toward third and Presetti picks up the soft rolling ball, throws it out.
Nothing in two.
Joe looking down to the right for the moment.
Henrik slightly open stance against the left hander, relief pitcher Hatton delivers, curve ball high inside.
Henrik, dodging away from it, almost ducked into it.
Tommy sort of grins.
He had apparently judged that ball to be a fastball and was going to just sort of squat underneath it, but he said it was a curve and Tommy had to give his head an additional bob.
One or two pitches, a curve high inside.
Henrik again ducking down.
Two balls, two strikes.
Two and two.
Pitch high inside, a fastball for ball three.
Pitch the first batter up in the fifth inning.
Yankees leading three nothing.
Hatton leans toward third trying to read the signs from Campanella.
Now delivers three to a curve ball high inside for ball four.
And Henrik draws the baseline ball, which opens up matters in the fifth inning.
Sam Nairn, who is the boss of the Brooklyn Bullfin, gets up now with his mitt and the baseball and I see he's throwing up Jack Banner.
There has not been an agate throw down in the Yankee bullfin today behind Lopat.
Barrow 0 for 2, 0 for 6 for the series.
Bluffs a bunt and takes a fastball low outside ball wide.
One and all.
Barrow looking around to see if they do want him to bunt. They don't bunt him very often. Usually they just let him swing.
Outfield, toward right, deep.
Hatton checks first. Pitches. Barrow sets the bunt and takes a curve outside ball two.
And obviously they had to bunt all men.
Casey Stengel, who knows that three runs in the fifth inning sound fine, but sometimes might not be enough by the time he gets to nine, playing for one more, which is the percentage worry.
Reese comes in from short, talks to Hatton. Robinson 0 from second.
Now the second base combination turning to their defensive positions.
Banner is throwing seriously in the Brooklyn Bullfin.
Barrow asks for time and he calls Presetti. He wants to be sure he's checking the sign.
Barrow's going to go down and ask the third base coach right now, he wants me to bunt or what?
Well, when in doubt, that's the thing to do. I mean, managers would have less gray hairs.
If hitters were complete when they got confused on what they were supposed to do, we'd go ask.
Out of hitters, we'd just pretend the hitters had bluffs through, they knew what the sign was.
It causes a lot of weird things to happen in games.
Hatton pitches two nothing and Barrow swings with the ground ball through in the right field for a base hit.
There's Henrik around second base and then holds on against Hamanski's throw, which goes over to third base
and gets away from Eddie Mixis and there's nobody backing up third base, so Henrik comes in two third
and Barrow goes in two second. Hatton never got off the mound.
Pitcher Hatton never got off the mound.
Now I don't know why that throw was right in the third base on the low hop, got away from Mixis,
but the man at fault in this play is the pitcher who had never got off pitches mound.
Whenever a ball in a spot like that has hit the right field and there may be a throw to third,
The first rule for a pitcher is to back up third base.
Hatton, I guess, just overcome by the situation, never got off the mound.
The error is charged to Eddie Mixis for letting Hamanski's good throw get past it.
So it's a single and error charged to third base, but the pitcher did not back up the play.
Had he backed up the play, runners would have still been at first and second.
Now it's going to be a deliberate base on balls to DiMaggio to pull up the board at first base.
So there's the base hit at the right field for Barrow just now and he goes right on to second base.
The error charged to Mixis, Henrik is at third, DiMaggio is being purposely walked.
Here comes ball four and the bases are now loaded for New York.
On a walk, a single, an error, which was not only an error of pull-missions at third by Mixis,
but a glaring error of all-mission by the pitcher who got off the mound to back up third base.
In addition to right-hander batter now throwing in the book and bullpen
is a small right-hander by the name of Paul Erskine,
who relieved quite a lot since he was brought up in the middle of the season from Fort Worth.
So the Yankees are leading 3-0 and they are pressing forward now.
They're trying to tap the paint patch here at Brooklyn.
They've got three men on.
The Brooklyn infield of necessity is up very close,
and the batter is Bobby Brown, who doubled his last time to begin that three-run assault.
There's a quick curve above the knees for a called strike.
Brown left-handers pretty well. This is a single. It's quite content to have him up there.
Henrik off third.
He was alert enough when that throw got away from third,
and Hatton was not backing up to come right on over.
Barrow off second, and DiMaggio off first.
Hatton in a jam delivers a curve low outside, and it is ball one.
Campanella bluffed as he would throw to third.
Henrik ran back, but there was no throw. Mixer's third baseman was not even over to the back.
They wouldn't have been close had he been there.
One ball, one strike.
Hatton puffing.
Deals. Fastball swung on. There's a high foul back on the stands.
Now to play, and it is one ball, two strikes.
The draw is for the expected scramble. Foul ball goes back in there.
One and two.
The Yankees three.
And threatening to add to that. The Dodgers nothing.
Hatton in a bad spot right now, and he himself added to it by not backing up third base,
which is a rule of thumb play.
Ball hit the right field, run it first.
Throw. Side on ball. Low outside, and Hatton slipped and fell after he stepped toward first and threw that ball.
It's ball two. Two balls, two strikes.
Joe isn't hurt physically. Of course, any pitch of spirits are bruised when he slips and falls on the mound.
One of the big crowds picked in a World Series game.
Two and two.
Round. Meaning in, Bennett and Eaves, trim figure.
That field toward right. Two-two pitch. Swung on, trickled foul outside first base.
Two and two.
Things moving rather slowly as time being.
Yankees three men on. Henrik at third. Barra at second.
Benadjord first. The infield up tight, hoping for a play at the plate.
Brown choking that bat. Just trying to meet the ball.
The two-two pitch is swung on, and he makes it. It's a line drawn in the right field for a base hit, probably for an extra bag.
Henrik is scored to make it four-nothing. Barra comes in to make it five-nothing.
Hrmanski can't come up with the ball. Benadjord is coming on and are in.
The third base goes Brown, and three runs are in.
The ball hit the right field wall, and Hrmanski was having trouble trying to pick it up.
And three runs come in to make it six-nothing.
We'll check with the scorers whether that's a triple all the way, or whether it is a double and an arrow on the right field.
It's scored as a triple. The right field wall, as Mel and I told you in the first broadcast, is the most difficult wall in the major leagues to play.
There are so many angles. And that ball was bouncing around, and Hrmanski couldn't come up with it.
He's not used to playing right field anyhow. Playing there because Shirello's hurt.
Short is six-nothing. In favor of New York, a base cleaning triple, a line driving to the right field corner by Brown.
And now Woodley gets the plate. Takes a curve high inside for a ball one.
So all three of these runs are in. They're all to be scored as earned.
These three runs are charged against Joe Hatton. Triple for Brown, with our next inning following his double.
Throw, swung on and beaten down to the big foul. Paul Minner, a big left-hander who relieves on occasion, is trotting from the Brooklyn Dog out down to the bull's end.
So the young medical student, Bobby Brown, is certainly the doctor as far as fixing up the Yankees is concerned.
He's bad medicine, however, to Brooklyn. In between baseball seasons, he's still taking medicine at Tulane, at New Orleans.
Woodley hits a high fly ball into relatively short left center field.
Snider running in underneath the ball. Here comes his throw, and they hold Brown at third.
Throw comes all the way to the plate. Throw out number one. Woodley, fly ball to center.
Brown is turning to a one-man wrecking crew, getting all three of those runs in.
Cliff Mapes is scheduled to hit, but just a moment, they're going to take him out of there, and Hank Bauer is going to bat.
So Hank Bauer is coming on to hit for Mapes to get a right-handed hitter in the ball game against relief left-hander Joe Hatton.
Now Bauer's officially in the game. Here is the announcement coming up over to PA.
The second place, Lennie Lark, number 25, Hank Bauer batting relief.
One man gone, and a few remaining up. It is six-nothing, a half a dozen for the Yankees.
If they can hold any part of this lead, then they've got a vice on the series.
Pitches, a curve, low inside, gets away from Campanella for just a moment.
Brown has to stay at third base. He didn't start. He didn't have a long lead off third and couldn't start.
So it is nothing more than ball one. The ball rolled back all of 20 feet.
In other words, had he taken one of those big run-ups at third, he could have coasted in.
But he was just standing at third, and then he made a bluff run.
Then happened the pitcher, got off the mound, started to the plate, so they held him up.
So Hank Bauer pinch-hitting.
All runs earned, the arrow, you know, allowed an extra base to be taken.
Six-nothing, favor New York.
Outfield toward left, throw, curve ball swung on a beacon-down foul, one-and-one.
All hips are right-handed.
He started in the outfield in game two.
One hip, or I bet.
He and Mape sort of on a swing-shift basis.
That is, when injuries are such that they had extra outfields, he could afford to switch around.
One-and-one pitch, curve ball too high, ball too. Two balls, one strike.
Paul Menna takes Jack Bata's plate from the Brooklyn Bulls end.
So it is left-handed Menna and right-handed Erskine now warming up for Brooklyn.
There's been no action in the Yankee both ends.
They're just sitting back watching.
Curve ball swung on, hit out into right center field, rest of the shot, fly ball.
Hemanci comes in, makes the catch.
Here comes a throw and Brown again is held up at third base.
They throw, gets away from Caponella for the mullet, but he recovers it.
And Casey Stengel, I think, wanted Brown to be sent in.
But Grazetti held him up.
Stengel had even jumped to the front of the doggauld.
Impotuning, imploring, come on.
The throw was quite wide. He would have made it had he run, but he didn't run.
So that's a put-out for the right fielder.
Two-and-a-go on top of the fifth.
Stengel on every run he can get.
Now we have Jerry Coleman, who's played such a distinguished second base.
He's had three hits so far in the series.
Knocked in, would turn to be the winning run yesterday.
Right-hand hitter, working well up on the handle of that bat.
I'd feel around toward left.
There's a ground ball, hits the short.
Reese juggles it, it gets off of his chest, he recovers, throws to first.
In time for the out.
So Reese recovers.
And Hatton finally gets the three outs, but the Yankees came up with three more in the seventh inning.
Three runs on three hits.
One error, one man left.
So the total score now at the end of four-and-a-half, New York six, but the net.
So the Yankees leading six to nothing.
Ed Lofat warming up on the mound, and all warmed up and ready to go as we move into the last half of the fifth inning.
Here's Mel Allen, who's done such a fine job broadcasting the Yankees for these recent years,
and on these World Series broadcasts for Gillette.
Mel, you still wondering about the ninth inning?
Well, I will for the simple reason that every last half of the ninth inning has been played in this series.
Yankees leading six to nothing.
It's the last half of the fifth inning.
Louis Almo leading off for the Dodgers, flying to left field in the second.
Left hand to Eddie Lofat, into the windup.
In comes the pitch swung on to pop up off to the left of the plate just in behind it.
Barra under the ball, and he makes the catch, and there's one away.
Louis Almo fouls out to Barra, back of the plate, last half of the fifth inning.
Six to nothing. The score favor the Yankees.
The first ball game in this series in which there has been such a disparity in the score.
Every game up until now has been decided on a one-run basis, and out here is Roy Campanella getting a hand.
He did a lot of scrambling and rambling back of that plate in the top of the fifth inning.
Doing a lot of work on throws in from the outfield, out on a short pass ball.
Eddie Lofat of Little Rock, Arkansas, pitching to Roy Campanella.
Eddie's a native New Yorker being born and brought up here, but resides down Little Rock now.
Left hander, Studi Jogisai, starts the work, into the windup.
Brown comes left arm, the pitch swung on, a ground ball hit wide of third.
Drozudo backs up Brown, up with the ball, fires over to Henrikh, and it's in time for the out.
The scooter, scamper to his right, backed up Brown.
As that ball eluded, Brown going to his left, and Phil went far to his right,
field of that ball about 20 feet off the third baseline, and tossed to Henrikh in time to get Campanella.
Up comes Gene Hermansky, who struck out in the third inning.
The official paid attendance today, 33,934.
Lofat delivers to Gene inside, ball one.
Yesterday's attendance was 32,788, a gate take of $164,016.71.
Today, 33,934 people. The pitch to Gene swung on, fouled off, the handle of the bat at the plate.
Gate receipts $167,906.37.
66,000 was the first game at the stadium, 66,224.
Second game, 70,053.
Broken into smaller capacity, of course. Yankee six, the Dodgers nothing.
It's the last half of the fifth inning, fourth game of the World Series.
Gene with the open stance, bent slightly to the knees, awaits the pitch.
Here it is, swung on, hits son of the end of the hole between first and second.
Out in the right field for a base hit, taken on a couple of hops by Bauer,
hops the ball, picks it up, flips on end of second, Hermanski holds it first.
The relay gets through the legs of Rossuto, dashing to second are Coleman and Brown,
but it wasn't far enough away as Rossuto to retrieve the ball and permit Hermanski to take the chance.
So we're going to have a pinch hitter, Tommy Brown.
Second please, Paul Brooklyn, number five, Tommy Brown, 98,1.
Tommy Brown, a young fella coming up to hit for Joe Hatton and Jim Turner, Yankee pitching coach,
crawls time, trot down to the mound to talk to Lopat as they discuss the manner in which they want to pitch to Brown.
He is the only native citizen on the Brooklyn Ball Club, a six foot, 165 pounder,
born on December the 6th, 1927, so that should make him only 21.
Be 22 in December.
He was 16 years old when he joined the Brooklyn Ball Club, played shortstop during the war.
Tom Brown, pinch hitting for Joe Hatton, right hand hitter, Hermanski,
with that single right fielder, line drive between first and second on first base.
That's the first hit off Lopat since Reese opened the game with a double.
The pitch is swung on as a looping fly ball in short right.
Bauer comes in, gets under the ball and makes the catch.
Sort of a half swing, looked as if Brown wanted to change his mind but couldn't,
but still got enough to drive that ball out into right where Bauer took it.
No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on.
And Red will check our five inning totals, the Yankees six runs, eight hits, no errors.
They've had five left on. The Dodgers no runs, two hits, one error, and three men left on.
And now Carl Erskine is going to come on to do the pitching for the Dodgers,
and while he walks to the mound, we pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Joe Hatton, who came on on the fourth inning with two outs and pitched to one batter,
went one and one third innings and gave up a total of three hits and three runs.
Don Uckle went the first three and two thirds innings, gave up five hits and three runs.
So Carl Erskine comes on, a right-hander, to do the pitching as we go to the sixth inning.
He's a 5'10, 156 pounder from Anderson, Indiana.
He's 22 years old, will beat 23 on December the 13th.
Eddie Lopat moves into the batter's box and is greeted with a round of applause.
He has done a noble job for the Yankees thus far, pitching two hit ball over the first five innings.
It's six to nothing, New York, as we go to the top of the sixth.
Lopat, in addition, doing some fine pitching, unloaded a double left center on the fourth inning to drive and a run,
after having skied to deep center in the second inning.
Erskine taking his time.
Blue Jordan, the National League, calling balls and strikes.
The relief right-hander's into the windup.
In comes the pitch and it is swung on.
It's a high pop-up off the right of the plate down toward first.
Gil Hodges dashes in almost halfway to the plate, makes the catch in fair territory,
three feet off the line, and there's one away.
Now coming to bat is Phil Rizzuto, who's had two for three.
After having had but one hit in the first three games of the series,
he's had two today, two singles in the first and fourth innings, grounded a third in the third.
Eddie mixes it in close in the event of the bunt.
Out the heel, shaded toward left.
Erskine's delivery, he's swung on.
It's a high foul going out of play to the left of the plate, up over the roof and out of the ballpark.
Yankees six, Dodgers nothing, sixth inning.
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Here's the pitch inside and the count is one and one on the scooter.
It's fastball.
Frank Percetti coaching there at third, Bill Dickey at first.
Erskine working rapidly, delivers.
Rizzuto swings and sends a drive to left center field.
Almo and Snyder converge.
It's Almo out there in left center near the wall, making the catch about three feet away from the wall
at the spot where Peewee Reese's homer entered the stands yesterday,
but this one did not get that much carry.
So they're two down.
And up to bat comes Tommy Henrik.
He's had one for two in the ball game.
He's singled in the first inning, grounded to Hodges in the third and walked in the fifth.
Tommy started the Yankees off in the fifth inning with that base on balls that led to three runs.
Brown scoring the maul with a triple.
Pitch is low outside for a ball.
Triple of the base is loaded.
Outfield plays Henrik to pull.
They have shaded around toward right and center and right with Almo looking for Tommy perhaps to slice toward left a bit.
Mixes wide of the line at third.
Here's your delivery.
Tommy Henrik swings and sends a drive to right field.
There's Hermanski racing over to the corner.
The ball is up against the wall, bounding off to Hermanski.
Henrik takes the turn but holds up quickly and has to come back to first.
As Hermanski played that ball, the rebound off the wall and right in beautiful fashion,
and Tommy had to hold up with a line single off the wall in right field.
His second hit of the ball game, his third of the series.
His first one was a payoff punch in the first game, a ninth inning homer off Newcomb,
to win that opening game of the series.
That's the Yankees' ninth hit of the ball game.
Yogi Berra steps in.
One out of three, single to right field in the fifth inning.
Erskine takes the stretch.
Hodges holds against Henrik.
The pitch to Berra, right over for a call strike, half-speed ball.
One strike to count.
Again, Erskine's ready.
Here's his pitch.
Outside, ball one.
Outfield, infield, set up.
Same for Berra as for Henrik.
One ball, one strike, two down.
Henrik moves off first base.
Erskine sets throws.
The pitch is swung on to high pop-up around second base.
Jackie Robinson calls for the ball.
Shades his eyes from the sun, and he makes the catch for the out.
No runs for the Yankees.
One hit.
No errors for the Dodgers.
One left on for the Yanks.
And the score, at the end of five and one half innings of play, the Yankees six, the Dodgers nothing.
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Last half of the sixth inning, the Brooklyn Dodgers trailing the Yankees by a score of six to nothing.
We'll come up with the top of the order, Reese, Mixis, and Snyder.
In the first game of the World Series, the Dodgers had only two hits, the Yankees five,
and in the second game the Dodgers had seven hits, the Yankees six, and yesterday the Yankees had five hits, and the Dodgers had five hits.
So the Yankee total of nine hits in this series is a series high, not in history but for this current classic.
As we come to the last half of the sixth inning, Dodger fans are beginning to call for a little action with some rhythmic applause.
Peewee Reese, right-hand batter on the first pitch, takes inside around the belt buckle for ball one.
Reese doubled a left center the first inning, popped out to first and the third.
There the Dodger fans now clamoring for a little activity. The pitch is strike call over the outside corner, Lopat screwball.
They play Reese to pull.
Hang bar in right field, not too far over into right center.
Brown in close at third and as Lopat was ready to go into his windup, Reese stepped down on him.
Time call, now he's back in.
Jake Pitler walking up and down, coaching it first.
Once again, batter and pitcher unable to get together. Reese stepped out as Lopat was ready.
Now we're all set. Here's the one-one pitch on its way. Reese takes inside for ball two, two and one.
Milton Stock coaching it third for Brooklyn.
Now the two-one delivery on its way and Reese swings and sends a drive into left center field.
Demage falls down as he starts in. He can't get to it and the ball drops for a base hit.
He comes up for the ball, flips his throw in to Coleman and Reese is on with a pop fly single left center.
Demage breaking fast, tripped and fell.
And before he could get up and go, the ball had dropped for the base hit.
Now you're going to have a pinch hitter for Eddie Mixis. Billy Cox coming up.
Cox was injured about two months before the season ended.
I said two months is on Labor Day, wasn't it Red? Labor Day morning and this is his first appearance since that time.
And Red, how did he injure himself?
He simply was running hard to score a run, turned his ankles and came around third base.
Early in the morning of the morning game of Labor Day. It's his first time in any action in Dakota, Mel.
Right hand hitter, Billy Cox batting for Mixis. The pitch swung on.
Now we're down in front of the plate, could be trouble. Lopat up to the ball, can't make a play.
Billy Cox, top save, it's that roll down toward third. Lopat came in to grab it, Barrow went out.
Lopat grabbed it but Cox was hurrying down the line and it's a base hit.
Reese goes to second and now the Dodgers have the pot boiling here in the last sixth inning.
Runners on first and second, nobody out and Duke Snyder at bat.
He grounded Billy, he grounded in the first inning to Bobby Brown at third, skied out in the fourth.
Left hand hitter, the pitch swung on and fouled off on the ground to the left of the plate, strike one.
Reese on second, Cox on first, Snyder the batter, Robinson on deck, nobody out, last of the sixth inning.
Yank six, Dodgers nothing. And the Duke up.
Lopat studies Yogi's sign, outfield about spread away for Snyder.
Lopat studies the sign intently, Nia has his stretch, Reese off second, Cox off first, here's the pitch, curve swung on, foul,
tips, strike two. He had Duke going for that change up, slow curve.
In 1947 we had several occasions on which outfielders fell down and again we've had it in this series.
Trying to make those sharp cuts.
Lopat stretches, runners move away from first and second the pitch and Snyder takes outside for ball one. One ball, two strikes.
Phil Rizzuto is over close to second base and in halfway. Bobby Brown near the third base line, about five or six feet off the line
and about halfway back on the skinned part of the infield. Big shot between third and short.
Jerry Coleman in a step or so halfway between first and second, Henry deep near the line, the stretch, Reese off second, Cox off first,
here's the pitch and Snyder swings and sends the ground ball out to Rizzuto, is up for that, steps on second, himself fires to Henry,
The double play, going to third is Reese.
Duke Snyder ran one right at the scooter, had him pegged perfectly in so far as placement was concerned.
He grabbed Duke's hot bounder, stepped on second to force Cox and fired on over to Henry to double up Snyder. That's the Yankees fourth double play of the series.
And now coming to bat is Jackie Robinson. Snyder, like DiMaggio, two of the big guns and the two teams attacks, both have been stymied in this series.
But Robin Snyder's had one hit and DiMaggio one hit. And now here's Jackie Robinson, right hand batter of the pitch, swung on and missed, strike one.
Reese on third, moving to third on the double play. Last six thinning, six to nothing New York. Billy Cox has gone down to the Dodger bullpen to loosen up his arm.
He'll go in to play third when we go to the seventh inning. Robinson grounded short and walk. National League's leading hitter this year.
Texas Curbs outside. Ball one, one and one.
Big gap in the outfield is in right center. DiMaggio and Woodling looking for Robinson to pull. Bauer not too far in the right center, looking for Jackie to slice toward right.
The infield shaded around toward third. Jerry Coleman about two strides to the right of second. Here's your pitch. Robinson swings a line to the left field for a base hit to score Reese, taken on two hops by Woodling.
There's a throw in to Coleman and it's a six to one ball game.
Jackie Robinson with a solid line drive to left field to score Reese from third. It's now Yankees six, Dodgers one and up comes Gil Hodges who fly to left field and struck out.
Right hand batter, Louis Almos on deck.
Dodgers scoring their first run of the ball game. Gil, big tall, rangey, powerful boy. On the first pitch swings and bounces off the plate, gets in between the legs of Barrett, strike one.
They play Hodges almost the same way in the outfield as they do Jackie Robinson.
Tommy Henrik holding against Roddy, who with two out and his team five runs behind may not be attempting to affect the steal at second in a tight ball game or close one.
That might be the order of the day.
But then there are always exceptions to the rules so we'll watch him.
In the second pitch studies Yogi Sein as he stretched Robinson with a short lead. Here's the pitch. Swung on, a bouncer hit right back through the middle out of a second in the center.
Robinson around second on his way to third to match up the ball, throws to third but it is not in time. Robinson goes into third holding first as Hodges and the Dodgers have runners on first and third and Louis Almos coming to bat.
So the Dodgers come alive here in the sixth inning with four hits, two of them solidly belted.
And Louis Almos coming up with Roy Campanella on deck.
One run in, two down, Robinson on third, Hodges on first. Henrik goes over to the mound to say something to Lopat.
A bit grassy, gets up off the Yankee bench not to go warm up but just to shift his position as we take a look down there.
Ball players sitting on a bench like to move about. Well let's move over here and get into another spot. Maybe that'll change the luck.
And on the Dodger bench they're stirring around.
So Louis Almos steps in, right hand hitter, Robinson on third, Hodges on first, two down, one run in, last to sixth, Lopat takes his stretch.
Here's the delivery. It's strike call over the outside card, even the screwball.
Outfield for Almos, shaded toward right, in center and right. Woodling looking for Almos to pull but not too sharply. Almos pulled one very sharply yesterday.
He occasionally does but for the most part it'll hit toward left center and around that way a bit.
Now there's the signal by Jim Turner, Yankee coach to the bullpen for some action.
And Lopat delivers, Almos swings and sends a ground ball right back through the middle.
Here's it, O'Peeca, Robinson scores, Hodges on second, on his way to third, the match is closed into second and the Dodgers have two runs in.
It's now a 6-2 ball game. The Dodgers have come up with five hits in the sixth inning and now Casey Stengel comes out of the Yankee dugout walking to the mound to talk to Lopat.
And Allie Reynolds begins to deliver in the Yankee bullpen.
Big Ranchy gets his jacket and when I said a moment ago that Ranchy was getting up off the bench and shifting his position, he shifted more than we had anticipated. At that point he is going down to the bullpen.
Stengel talking to Lopat. Now he leaves him, he's going to let him stay on in there. He got Roy Campanella coming up.
After the double play, three consecutive singles by Robinson, Hodges and Almos and two runs are in. It's a 6-2 ball game, two men are on and Roy Campanella who bounced out to Lopat and grounded his short is up at the plate.
A right hand hitter, Hodges on third, Almos on first, outfield around toward left and the Dodger fans are now up in arms.
Eddie Lopat in the stretch, here's the pitch, Campanella swings, the lines went out to left field for a base hit, in comes Hodges to score, holding it second is Almos, the throw goes into third, that's going to be all for Lopat.
And now the National League contingent and the Dodger Rooters have something to cheer about. Lopat is going to stay on in there though with Gene Hermanski, a left hand hitter coming up.
Reynolds actually hasn't had too much time to get ready. He just started warming up a moment or so ago so he's not really warm. And here's Gene Hermanski who struck out in single to right with Almos on second, Campanella on first, three runs in.
Here's the pitch, swung on and bowled off to the left of the plate, strike one. The Dodgers are back into the ball game, it's 6-3.
Casey Stengel comes to the front of the Yankee dugout hollering something out to Lopat. And the crowd has come alive, it being a predominantly Brooklyn crowd of course.
The game's being played at Ebbets Field. Coming alive too, the Dodger bullpen with a left hander and a right hander throwing, Bata and Minner.
Almos on second, Campanella on first, four consecutive singles here by the Dodgers after two are out and a runner on. Six hits on all in this inning.
Lopat with the stretch, runners move away from first and second, here's the pitch, it is way outside for a ball.
Ball games have a way of reversing themselves with lightning-like profidity.
All right, Almos off second, Campanella off first with a big lead, the stretch by Lopat has a pitch, swung on, lined, correct field for a base hit.
Here comes Almos around third, he comes in to score, the throw goes to second, Campanella goes to third, and out comes Stengel.
It is a six to four ball game.
Five consecutive singles after two are out and the Dodgers are right back in it, six to four, with Allie Reynolds coming out of the Yankee bullpen to take over for Eddie Lopat.
Lopat, who pitched two-hit ball for five innings and who got two out in the sixth inning, unable to get to the next one.
He went five in two-thirds innings, gave up seven hits here in the sixth, nine all-toes in the ball game, five in a row,
and has allowed four runs and is responsible for the two-maner on base.
And Carl Perillo, who had started out of the dugout to pinch hit, has gone back in.
Looks like Spider Jorgensen, a left-hand hitter, is going to come out to do the pinch hitting.
So it's a big inning for the Dodgers and Jorgensen is going to hit for Erskine as Allie Reynolds comes on to take over for the Yankees.
Allie Reynolds, who pitched the one-nothing shutout for New York in the opener of the series against Don Newcomb, coming on in relief.
And while he takes a few warm-up pitches, we pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Red's been checking the record book for us, and you might have been wondering whether or not these five consecutive hits by the Dodgers, so far the sixth inning is a record.
And Red, what have you found?
Well, I find that it's not a record now. The most consecutive hits in an inning are eight.
The Giants in the seventh inning in 1921 on the seventh of October made eight in a row, the most hits in an inning, ten.
The Athletics in the seventh inning on October 12, 1929 made ten in one inning.
Rob, the joint's jumping now, so you better try and calm it down.
Spider Jorgensen, a left-hand hitter, comes in to bat for Erskine. Campanella on third.
Hermanski with his second straight hit on first, four runs in, six to four the score, play for the Yankees.
Allie Reynolds ready to pitch the left-hand batter, throws, and it's over for a call strike, fastball.
On deck is Peewee Reese. Jorgensen is the ninth man to come to bat in this inning for Brooklyn.
And so as we hinted earlier in the game, both Red and I, the fourth games of World Series play between the Yankees.
And Dodgers are generally productive of something that borders on the spectacular.
And here are the Dodgers who were behind 6-0. Now in there, 6-4 on the pitch, and Jorgensen swings and fouls it off.
Left with the plate, and it's out of play. Strike two.
Thirty-odd thousand who are out here are all up in arms.
Regardless of what their partisanship may be, they're rooting one way and then the other.
But they're all hollering.
All right, Allie Reynolds. Now looks to get the sign from Yogi.
She's on third. Hermanski is on first. Reynolds with a stretch. Jorgensen the batter.
And the pitch. It's strike three. Call a fastball right through there for the letters.
And Jorgensen argues with played on fire Lou Jordan.
And then slings his bat away. And then he stops and turns and goes back toward Jordan.
And then turns and remembering the evening job, the commissioner of baseball, A.B. Chandler.
Starts to go back to the dugout. Then he comes back up to Jordan.
And now he's going away again.
At the end of six innings, it is New York, six runs, nine hits, no errors.
Six left on. Brooklyn, four runs, nine hits. One error and five men left on.
Ralph Branca, who pitched such beautiful ball yesterday to the ninth inning, is in the bullpen now for Brooklyn.
This is a big ball game for both teams. The Dodgers need it to stay right in there.
The Yankees need it to keep the jump.
And also the Dodger rally is forced Casey Stangler to bring in his start of that first game.
Here's Joe DiMaggio swings and fouls it back. Strike one.
As Jack Bata, long, lean right-hander, has come on in relief.
Erskine was removed for a pinch hitter.
We're in the seventh inning. Yankee six. Dodgers four.
The right-hander throws. DiMaggio swings and misses. Curve ball. Strike two.
Joe has walked twice in this ball game and drove the deep left center in the fourth inning.
A ball that came close to being all the way, but not quite.
Two-strike count on Joe. Right-hander, Bata throws. Swung on.
Little nub grounder hit out towards second. Jackie Robinson charges up with it. Throws to Hodges. DiMaggio's out at first.
One up and one away for New York in the seventh inning. And here's Bobby Brown, who walked, doubled, and tripled.
With the bases loaded in the fifth inning, he scored in the fourth with his one-out double on a double by Mapes.
Bobby Brown has had an amazing series batting average. Bata delivers to Bobby. High. Ball one.
In 1947, Brown had three for three in the series. Pinch hits.
And so far, he's had three hits in this series. So he's had six hits and ten times at bat. He swings and misses. Strike one.
He has a 600 batting average for World Series play.
One ball, one strike, one out. Seventh inning. New York six. Brooklyn four. Gene Woodling on deck.
Jack Band into the windup. In comes the pitch. Curve. Swung on. A ground ball hit right to Robinson. He's up with it. Throws over to Hodges. Two away.
Two up and two down. And now here's Gene Woodling, who flied to center, walked, and flied to center.
Jack Bata, a six-foot-two, 165-pounder from Hutchinson, Kansas. 26 years of age.
Done some fine relief work for the Dodgers this year. Delivers to Gene outside. Ball one.
Sometimes in a game like this, where one team gets off to a commanding lead and then suddenly sees it slipping away, you have a spectacle of one team slipping and the other one coming.
Here's your delivery. And it's in there at the knees for a called strike. The one team has lost its momentum. The other one is gaining.
And then the question becomes, how far will the one meet the other? And will they pass or not?
The one-one delivery. Breaking ball just outside. Ball two. Very close. Two balls, one strike. Yankee six. Brooklyn four. Seventh inning.
You have seen in this series the very factors that drove both of these teams to thrilling finishes and wins in their respective leagues.
That is indomitable fortitude. They both have all the courage in the world. The two-one pitch. Swung on. A ground ball hit right to Jackie Robinson.
He's up for that throw to Hodges. The ending is over.
No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left on. And the score at the end of six and a half innings. Yankee six. Brooklyn four.
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Last half of the seventh inning, and it's going to be the top of the order for the Dodgers.
Nine men batted in the four-run sixth inning. It was all started off by Peewee Reese, and he's coming up again.
He's had two out of three today, a double in the first inning, single in the sixth, popped out to first in the third inning.
Cox and Snyder to follow. Reynolds delivers. Reese on a curve, swings and drives at the right center field.
Bauer races over and back and takes it for the out.
Reese lines the right center with Hank Bauer racing over to take it, and now you've got Billy Cox coming up.
He batted for Mixus in the sixth inning and beat out a roller. Brown and Barrett at the mound now, talking to Reynolds.
Both bullpens for the time being inactive.
Duke Snyder is on deck in case he's tangled, comes to the front of the Yankee dugout, and hollers out to Reynolds.
And he tells him to tell Hank Bauer to move over toward the right field line more for this right-hand hitter.
The pitch, low inside, ball one.
Yankee six, Dodgers four, last of the seventh inning, one out, nobody on.
Billy Cox from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania awaits the pitch. Here it is. Outside, ball two. Two balls, no strikes.
The outfield set up for Cox now straight away. Brown in close at third, three, four feet off third baseline.
Judo in a couple steps, it's short. In comes the pitch. Swung on to high, pop-up going out of play foul back of third.
Up onto the roof. Folks in the upper deck back of third were waiting for it to come down so they could scramble for the souvenir, but stayed up onto the roof.
Two balls, one strike to count on Billy Cox. Duke Snyder on deck. Yankees got three runs in the fourth inning, three in the fifth.
Dodgers slashed back with four in the sixth, then it's a six to four ball game for present time, last half of the seventh inning.
The two-one delivery. Swung on, there's a drive to center field. DiMaggio getting onto that one and he hauls it in for the out.
Two away, two up, two down, and Duke Snyder steps in. Grounded to third, sky to right center, and bounced into the double play in the sixth inning.
Powerful left-hand hitter.
Compton, California, Clowder. Right-hander Allie Reynolds comes in with the curve. Swung on and missed, strike one, and Duke was going all the way.
He was trying to belt one out into Bedford Avenue, which is back of right field. Outfield set up.
Almost right away, shaded slightly toward right. Brown in close at third. In comes the pitch. Low fastball. Count evened up at one and one.
Jackie Robinson's on deck. Phil Rosuto, two strides to the left of second. He's way over.
Jerry Coleman, deep at a point almost halfway between first and second. Tommy Hendrick, very deep and about two, three feet off the first baseline.
And Allie Reynolds into the windup. Around comes the right arm. The pitch is swung on. Foul back to the screen. Strike two, one and two.
Reynolds with a new ball to work with. Getting set. A lot of room between Brown and Rosuto. Brown is backed up at third. He's near the line.
Rosuto over near second. In comes the pitch and it is swung on. He missed. Strike three. Went down swinging a low fastball.
No runs for the Dodgers. No hits. No Yankee errors. And nobody left on for Britland. And the score at the end of seven innings, the Yankees six runs, nine hits, no errors.
Six left on. The Dodgers four runs, nine hits, one error, and five men left on base.
And so there have been a couple innings of concentrated action as the Dodgers have battled their way right back into the ballgame.
And they did it with the Vincents, didn't they, Red?
Well, nothing is as uncertain as a baseball game and certainly not apparently at Ebbets Field, game four between the Yankees and the Dodgers.
The only thing sure is that we've got a nice afternoon from the weather and what will come up in the eighth and ninth innings, I know for one I wouldn't miss seeing it.
I think you folks listening in, I'd of course have Mel telling you about it.
Going into the first half of the eighth inning, the Yankees will come up with Hank Bauer, Jerry Coleman, and Allie Reynolds.
Casey Stengel sent Bauer in to hit for Mapes in the fifth inning with a left-hander in there during the pitching at that time for Brooklyn,
and a runner on third hoping to get him home. It didn't happen.
Band of pitches, Bauer swings and sends the ground ball out through the middle almost.
Reese goes to his left up with it, flips to first in time for the out.
The ball wasn't hard, hit quite hard enough to go right on through, gave Reese a chance to scamper to his left, come up with it, and he makes the put out at first.
And with one away, here's Jerry Coleman who fouled out on the second inning to Roy Campanella,
fouled out in the fourth inning to left fielder Louis Almo, came across the foul line to take his fly ball, and he ground it out to short on the fifth.
Chokes that bat, leans in close to the plate, the pitch is a fast ball just off the outside corner, ball one.
Allie Reynolds, the next scheduled hitter, Ruggito is out in the batter's circle. Outfield about straight away.
One man down, and the pitch, swung on, say fly ball, hit out into short right, Gene Hermanski in under it, and he makes the catch.
So they're two down for the Yankees in the eighth inning, and Allie Reynolds coming out of the dugout.
Allie had a couple of hits in the first game in the series that he worked, one of them a double, one a single.
Struck out his last time up in the first game, bats him right handed.
Two men down, eighth inning, score, Yankees six, Dodgers four.
Banner delivers, and it's inside, a little high, ball one, one ball, no strikes.
They shade Reynolds a bit toward left.
The delivery, swung on, it's hit high into the air, behind the plate, foul pop-up, Campanella under it, and he makes the catch.
So the Yankees go out in order for the second straight inning, as Banner does a perfect job of relief pitching.
And the score, at the end of seven and a half innings, remains the Yankees six, the Dodgers four.
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The last half of the eighth inning at Ebbets Field, it'll be Jackie Robinson, Gill Hodges, and Louis Olmo coming up.
Score, Yankees six, Dodgers four. Robinson grounded a short, walked and singled a left in the sixth inning.
Right hand batter, outfield toward left and center and left, almost right away and right, the big gap in right center.
Second baseman, Jerry Coleman, over near the bag, Brown in close at third.
In comes the pitch from Reynolds and it's over for a call strike. Fast ball.
Rizzuto about four strides to the left of second in a couple of steps.
Robinson fast, he may be bunting, he may be swinging away, you never tell.
He'll try to catch you napping and dump a bunt on occasion.
The one strike pitch and Robinson takes low outside for the ball, one and one, breaking delivery.
Jake Fettler, ever active, coaching there at first, cups his hands over his mouth, hollers words of encouragement down to the plate to Robinson.
Milton Stock, standing there at third.
Reynolds starts the wind up, around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, Robinson takes just over the outside corner for call strike two.
One ball, two strikes.
Bobby Brown backs up at third now with two strikes on Jackie and he's about three feet off the line.
Rizzuto over toward that third base hold, movement over near second.
Reynolds delivers, curve is inside to Robinson, ball two, two-two.
Fans exercising their prerogative, always trying to help the umpires umpire the game.
Two balls, two strikes.
Robinson leading off, last to the eight, Thunningham.
Allie Reynolds delivers, Jackie Robinson swings, it sends a ground ball toward third, Brown is left up with it.
Fires across to Henrik in time and there's one away.
Robinson grounds out, Brown to Henrik.
Here's Gill Hodges, Brooklyn first baseman, moving into hitting position, fly to left in the second inning, struck out on the fourth and single to center in the sixth.
Outfield, shades around toward left for Big Gill.
A boy from Petersburg, Indiana.
Bobby Brown losing close third now near the line.
Allie Reynolds delivers, pass ball swung on, ground out to short.
Rizzuto grabs it on two hops, flips over to Henrik in time and they're two away.
Hodges going after that first pitch, hit it solidly but right at Rizzuto.
Two up and two down.
And now coming to bat is Louis Almo, who fly to left, fouled out to Barra and single to center.
Seven big base hits in that sixth inning for Brooklyn to put them right smack back into the ballgame.
Four runs coming in, cutting down the Yankees six-nothing lead built up in the fourth and fifth innings.
Off Newcomb Manhattan.
Reynolds in relief of Eddie Lopat, getting set to pitch to Almo.
Louis had stepped in, he steps out to get a little dirt in his hands, now he's back in.
Slightly open stanchion, close to the plate, holds the bat down to him, the handle.
Reynolds comes in with a pitch curve and is high, ball one.
Bobby Brown is not in close at third of the two down, not figuring Almo to be bunting.
Not too deep, but not too close.
The Yankee right-hander throws, the pitch is strike call, fast ball.
Got the outside corner just at the knees.
One ball, one strike.
Reynolds, primarily a fast ball pitcher with a good snapping curve.
Occasionally he uses his slow curve.
Now the one-one delivery.
Overhand fast ball is inside, backs Almo away, two-and-one the count.
Jim Turner, Yankee pitching coach, told me that Allie Reynolds, though it hasn't been publicized too much,
has one of the best fast balls in the major leagues.
It's always very alive.
Now the two-one pitch.
It's high and inside, ball three, another fast ball, three-and-one the count.
You got Roy Campanella on deck.
And of course you got a ball game close enough so that in the event a Dodger gets on,
that puts the tying run at the plate.
The fans quite aware of it.
Three balls, one strike.
Reynolds going to work on Almo and the pitch.
Right in there for call strike two.
Just fired a fast one through the middle, figuring Almo to be taking two down, two runs behind, eight-thunning.
So you got a full count on the batter, three-and-two.
Reynolds ready.
Starts the wind up, around comes the right arm, the payoff pitch is strike three, call over the outside corner.
How about that?
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.
And the score at the end of eight innings, Yankee six, Brooklyn four.
Yankee six runs, nine hits, no errors, six left on.
Brooklyn four runs, nine hits, one error, and five men left on base.
And as you go to the ninth inning, the Yankees will come up at the top of the order,
Rizzuto, Henrik, and Barra, while on the last of the night, scheduled a hit for Brooklyn, Campanella, Hermanski,
and a pinch hitter, of course, for Banta, unless something might happen to the two hitters before that
in the way of tying up the ball game, in which case Banta would probably go up and hit for himself.
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Phil Rizzuto takes a pitch that's low for ball one as we go to the top of the ninth inning.
Yankee six, Dodgers four.
Banty Cox in there at third base in close.
Jack Banta delivers outside, ball two.
Ralph Branca throwing in the bullpen for Brooklyn.
No action in the Yankee bullpen.
Rizzuto's had two out of four singles in the first and fourth innings, grounded out the third in the third,
flied to left in the sixth.
Outfield around toward left.
Banta's pitch inside, backs Phil away for ball three.
Three-nothing count on the scooter.
Now that Allie Reynolds has had to come in today,
it's difficult to predict what the pitching selections will be for tomorrow.
In comes your delivery, and it's inside to Phil, almost hit him.
That three-nothing pitch was way inside, and Rizzuto walks.
That's the first man to reach base on Banta since he came on to the seventh inning in relief.
Vic Grash, who pitched the second game of the series, could be a Yankee pitching selection.
He'd have to come back in the fifth game with but two days' rest, as Newcomb did today.
Fred Sanford could be a starter, though Casey Stengel might think twice.
He could come back to Tommy Byrne, who didn't go very far yesterday.
Here's Tommy Henryk. As a throw to first base, not in time,
Henryk singled in the first inning, grounded in the third to Hodges, walked in the fifth, and singled in the sixth.
Tommy steps out, Banta was ready to work.
All signs at the moment would point to a possibility of Rex Barney starting for Brooklyn tomorrow.
Banta delivers to Henryk, Tommy shortens up, takes the ball, Hodges breaking for the plate, looking for the bunt, Cox in third.
Since Joe Hatton was used today in relief,
and with Branca throwing the bullpen, having worked just yesterday,
it's entirely possible that regardless of the outcome of today's game, it would be Barney for Brooklyn tomorrow.
Banta all set, throws, Henryk swings and sends a ground ball through first, out in the right field for a base hit.
Rizzuto around second, on his way to third, up to the ball is Ferillo.
Here's the throw, it is not in time, or rather Hermanski, excuse me, and Rizzuto gets in to third.
So Tommy Henryk, singles in the right field, sending Phil Rizzuto to third base.
That's Henryk's third hit of the ball game, his fourth in the series.
His first one, of course, will long be remembered when you talk about World Series games.
Dramatic inning opening, last half of the ninth inning, home run that won the ball game,
one to nothing for Reynolds over Newcomb at the Yankee Stadium.
Now here's Barra up, who's had one out of four.
The infield is in for play at the plate, Rizzuto on third, Henryk on first, ninth inning, six-four New York, nobody out, the pitch.
Barra golfs a foul, grounder down the first baseline, strike one.
You had a similar situation in the first inning today, when Rizzuto and Henryk single to start the ball game,
putting runners on first and third, and Barra hit into strange double play, grounding to third.
Rizzuto was caught in a chase and put out, and Henryk, rounding second, was caught to complete the double play, and the Yankees failed to score.
So there were two bases on balls following.
Here's your pitch to Yogi, it's a pitch out, a throw down to third, and he is out of third.
Rizzuto was caught at third as he stumbled, trying to get back.
How about that?
Again, you have a strange situation developing, just as you had in the first inning.
Roy Campanella was taking a look at Phil, coming up the line, Cox eased over,
and Campanella called for that pitch out and fired down to Cox,
and Rizzuto stumbled, trying to get back, and he couldn't make it, as Cox blocked him off.
So there's one out, Henryk on first, and the pitch to Barra is way outside for ball two.
Yes, sir, this fourth game has been productive, of a lot of surprises, and it's not over.
Two balls, one strike, one out.
Rizzuto picked off third by Roy Campanella.
Henryk inches off first, Banda delivers to Barra, inside.
Ball three, three and one.
Man, you know, that relieves the pitcher of a lot of pressure.
Runners on first and third, nobody out, and not a difference working that way,
The man on first and one out.
Branca and Menna, a right-hander and left-hander, throwing the Brooklyn bullpen.
Ready for that three-one pitch.
Here it is, Barra swings and sends a drive to right field,
Hermanski going over toward the line under it, makes the catch for the out,
Henryk Camp, 20 seconds, comes back to first.
So now you can see the importance of that Campanella play at third,
because Rizzuto could have tagged up and scored after the catch,
and that would have made it necessary for the Dodgers to get four runs
in the last of the ninth inning to win, where now they need three.
Another two away, and the batter is Joe DiMaggio, who walked,
skied to center, was intentionally fast and grounded to second.
Joe has had but one hit in the series, that was a top roller that he beat out.
Down the counter, stretches, pitches, DiMaggio swings and lines one,
foul on the third base line, strike one.
As far as line drives are concerned, that's the most solid one
that DiMaggio has belted in this series, it was foul.
Get a long drive in the fourth inning, just short of a homer in left center.
One strike to count on the clipper, two down, ninth inning, Yankee six, Dodgers four.
Regular round toward left infield, shaded well around toward third,
though Robinson not too close to second for Joe.
Jack Banner stretches, pitches, DiMaggio, there's a pitch out,
a throw down to first base, Henrik just back in on time.
Boy, that Campanella really does a job behind that plate.
Always working with his pitchers, trying to help him out.
He's been doing a lot of throwing in this series, and it paid off today.
One ball, one strike, batter ready, and the pitch.
DiMaggio takes strike two, called over the outside corner above the knee,
low fast ball.
One and two to count on Joe, Bobby Brown on deck will be the next batter
in the event DiMaggio gets a board.
It's a six to four ball game, Yankees out in front, ninth inning, two down,
Henrik on first.
Jack Banner sets, a look at first, here's the pitch, DiMaggio swings and misses,
strike three.
So the Yankees fail the score, though they had runners on first and third
and nobody out.
No runs, one hit, no errors, one man left on, and we come to the last half
of the ninth inning.
And every last half of the ninth inning has been played in this series.
The Yankees, the home team, won the first game, but they had to do it
in the last of the ninth.
Then the Yankees lost the second game, and the scene shifted to Ebbets Field
yesterday, and the Dodgers lost that one, but had to take their turn at bat
in the ninth.
And here they are again, coming up in the last of the ninth with Roy Campanella
leading off, Gene Hermanski to follow.
And after Hermanski, we'll see.
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Now here's Roy Campanella, right-hand hitter, leading off last of the ninth
inning, six to four New York.
Ali Reynolds delivers, swung on, hits Sharpie to third, up with it on one,
hop is Brown, fires across to Henrik in time and is one away.
That was a solid belt on a short hop to Brown that Bobby had a little trouble
with momentarily, but held onto it and retired Campanella with his throw to
Henrik.
Now here's Gene Hermanski, struck out, singled in the fifth and sixth innings,
two out of three.
Campanella had one hit in the sixth inning, one out of four.
Gene digs in, outfielder round toward right, Ali Reynolds goes to work,
in comes the pitch to the left-hand batter, Hermanski takes inside around the
belt, ball one.
Bobby Brown's in close at third in the event of a top roller down that way or
a bunt.
Joe Page starts to go to work in the Yankee bullpen,
risotto, two strikes to the left of second and halfway, Ali Reynolds delivers,
Hermanski swings and fouls it back, strike one, one and one.
Bruce Edwards has been called down from the Dodger bullpen to come up and swing
for Jack Bata.
One ball, one strike, one out, last of the ninth inning, Yankee six, Dodgers
four.
It's Gene Hermanski digging in, Ali Reynolds with the new ball to deliver,
gets his sign from Yogi Barrow, the outfielder round toward right,
Page warming up from the Yankee bullpen, and now the Chief from Oklahoma City
is into the wide, up in comes the pitch, it is swung on and missed, strike two
and the count is one and two.
Reynolds hitches up his trousers, rubs up to cover the ball.
Jake Fittler hollers down from his first base coach's box, come on Gene.
Gene grips that bat very tightly, Reynolds starts the windup, in comes the one-two
pitch and Hermanski takes into the dirt, ball skips in behind Barrow onto the
backstop to the screen, it's a two-two count, a breaking pitch.
A two-two count on Hermanski, last half of the ninth inning, fourth game of the
World Series.
Reynolds slams the ball into the pocket of his glove, shakes his arm free, now
he's ready, starts the windup, in comes the pitch and it is way outside for ball
three, full count three and two, came into the fast ball that took off outside.
So he's gone to the full count on Hermanski, three balls, two strikes, one out,
last of the ninth inning, yank six, Dodgers four, Reynolds getting ready for the
big payoff pitch, into the windup, around comes the arm, here it is, it is swung on
and missed, strike three and Hermanski dances out of the batter's box and slams
his bat to the ground. It was a quick curve ball, fast snapping curve that had
him missing and Hermanski's so mad as he walks toward the Dodger dugout he kicks
The batter's rousin bag. It's going to be Dick Whitman coming up to hit for batta
instead of Bruce Edwards. Edwards had come down to the dugout from the bullpen,
but he is not going to come up to bat, it's going to be Dick Whitman, a left-hand
hitter, and now Barrow steps aside from the plate and looks into the Yankee
dugout to Casey Stengel to determine how they shall play Whitman and Stengel
motions to Gene Woodling to come in a bit and left. Gene Hermanski went down
striking out, second, let's see, one, two, three, four, fourth strikeout for
Reynolds, here's the pitch, low inside, ball one, and Reynolds struck out nine
The first game so a total of 13 strikeouts for him in the series. Six to
four Yankees, last of the ninth inning, two down, Dick Whitman, left-hand hitter
batting for Jack Batta, five-eleven, 170 pounder. Reynolds throws a pitch over
for a called strike, one and one. Whitman from Eugene, Oregon. Outfield toward
right and center and right, shallow and left and straight away, Brown in close
at third, Rizzuto in halfway, it's short, three-stretched left of the bag,
Coleman three strikes to the right end of the step, Henrik Diep near the first
baseline, one ball, one strike, two down, Allie Reynolds into the windup, in comes
The pitch, Whitman swings and grounds it foul in behind the plate, and it's a one-two
count. You've got Peewee Reese on deck. Bobby Brown moves over from third to
holler words of encouragement to Reynolds as Yogi Berra moves out in front of the
plate to deliver a brand new baseball to Allie. Incidentally, someone wired us.
Want to know whether they used an American or National League ball in the
series? They used the American League ball in the American League Park, the
National League ball in the National League Park. But actually, it's the same
ball except for the name on it. One says American League, reach, one says
bowling, National League. Here's the delivery. Swung on it, missed, strike three,
and the ball game is over. And Allie Reynolds strikes out, the last two men,
his fifth in relief of Lopat, 14 strikeouts in the series, no runs, no hits,
no errors, nobody left on. And the Yankees beat the Dodgers 6-4 as Allie Reynolds
comes to the fore in relief and retired a total of three, six, nine, ten men,
The last ten men in a row after the Dodgers had blasted Lopat off the hill
with a seven-hit four-on-on slot in the sixth. So that's the ball game. The
Yankees win it 6-4. Red will have the totals for you and other statistical
information and his always keen observations on this fourth game of the
World Series that now sees the Yankees out in front in games three to one.
It was a game, I might add, before Red takes over that developed along the lines
we had anticipated using previous history as a precedent. And it was exciting
all the way. We had things happening just every moment. I know that Red enjoyed it,
didn't you, Red?
Quite a ball game and it was a very human ball game and it showed the importance
of making one basic mistake. There were fine individual performances, as you would
expect in World Series. Bobby Brown was the offensive batting star. His double in
The fourth inning began the upending of Don Newcomb and when the fourth inning
subsided the Yankees had gotten Newcomb out of there and had made off with three
runs. And then in the fifth inning against Joe Hatton with the bases loaded and
nobody out, Brown tripled. And that got in the other three runs. So he was the
fellow that was swinging the stick. And those two extra base hits in consecutive
innings gave him a total of five bases, a run scored and three batted in.