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The New York Yankees face the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for Game 5 of the 1949 World Series on October 9th.
The Yankees lead the best of seven series three games to one, and this is the mutual radio broadcast of Game 5 featuring announcers Mel Allen and Red Barber.
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This is a perfectly beautiful day from the standpoint of the weather. It couldn't be nicer. The temperature is right at 80 degrees, a completely clear blue sunny sky.
The field is in apple pie shape, and the question now is what goes in this fifth game as the Dodgers or the Army?
In other words, Brooklyn is two down with three games to go. The Yankees, you know, lead three games to one and the best four out of seven.
So this one has to be more seriously considered than any other that has come about.
And for those of you who haven't looked in the Little Red Book of baseball records or who are not quickly conversant,
only twice in the entire history of the World Series, going back to 1903 when World Series as properly constituted began,
has a team behind three games to one come on to win. In 1903, the Boston Red Sox did it in the first World Series.
The last team to do it was the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Washington Nationals in 1925.
So there you have that. Now about the pitches. It is, as expected, Mick Rashie, the big towering 21-game winner,
who is coming back for a second shot. Rashie, who has been charged with the sole Yankee defeat.
So Rashie is going to get another opportunity this afternoon.
Mick Rashie, Andrew's case is tingled, smilingly says, Rashie is starting and Joe Page is ready in the ball pit.
For the Dodgers, it is the unpredictable right-hander, Rex Barney, who can be as good as any pitcher and can be as wild as any.
You think of the little girl in Longfellow's poem when you think about Barney.
And to forecast how he'll pitch, well, you don't know. He can be very, very good.
Or, in other words, good enough as a no-hitter witnesses for itself two years ago.
And Barney, of course, in the 1947 series threw a very hard ball. It was quite wild.
And some of the big moments came in some of his strikeouts, especially one of DiMaggio with the bases loaded.
In fact, he did that twice.
So it is Barney going for a return. This is his first appearance in this World Series.
He was in the bullpen two days, but he never threw in the bullpen at all.
So as far as Rex is concerned, he is completely arrested.
I managed to shot him before deftly coming down to Barney, had a little talk with Preacher Hall,
and wanted to know if by any chance the thin left-hander who pitched the 1-0 win in Game 2
thought that he should attempt this one today.
And Roe said no, he didn't think he had enough rest.
Roe, during a regular season, never pitches with less than five days rest, sometimes seven.
He's quite slender, physique, and quite frail.
But said Mr. Roe, and he doesn't bat an eyelash, I'll pitch tomorrow.
The lineups will be no surprise to you. I don't think the teams have shaken down.
So here they are.
Paul Yankees, as they go into Game 5, it is Rizzuto again leading off and playing a magnificent game at shortstop.
Tommy Henrik, living up to every letter in the phrase that has been lovingly bestowed upon him in recent years, all reliable.
Tommy Henrik at first base.
Yogi Berra is catching. He says his hand is even sore than it has been,
but he wouldn't get out of there unless six wild horses yanked him away from the plate.
And I don't see any horses in the ballpark today. There's no room for anybody but ticket holders.
Joe DiMaggio, and he of course is one of the most heartwarming stories in the series.
One of baseball's all-time great players who has been plagued this year.
First, that sore heel, and then virus pneumonia that bedded him.
Yet he was able to come off of his crutches at one time and spark-plugged the Yankees to a win against the Red Sox when they needed it,
then came out of a hospital and spark-plugged the Yankees in their last two games which got them into the series.
And DiMaggio so far has had one scratch single. He has struck out five times.
He has fallen down twice in center field.
DiMaggio in center.
Perhaps the human interest towards has been most overlooked.
This great ballplayer who is not having a great series.
Now we have Tommy Brown who was the batter yesterday with a double and a triple,
knocked in three runs, the winning runs.
Brown at third. Woodling is in left field for New York.
Mates is in right field. His double sliced in the left field corner.
Got in the first couple of Yankee runs and got to the start then yesterday as they won six to four.
Coleman who's played a fine game at second base.
And Vic Brashe coming back for his second start.
Now for the Dodgers. The batting order again goes with captain and shortstop Pee Wee Reese leading off.
With the right hander going for New York, man in the shot goes to his left hand hitters
which means third baseman Johnny Jorgensen is hitting number two.
Jorgensen at third batting second.
Snatter in center field.
Batting third.
Robinson at second base hitting fourth.
Batting fifth and in right field is Gene Hermanski.
Carl Pirello is still out with that injured right ball and he just can't go.
Hodges at first base is hitting sixth.
Marvin Radcliffe who came out of the second game of the World Series at the stadium if you'll recall
with a poor muscle in his back is a surprise nomination.
Manager Sharpton at noon an hour and 50 minutes ago here in New York thought that Olmer would be a starting left fielder.
But Radcliffe apparently told him that he was all right and manager Sharpton has changed and is going with Radcliffe in left field.
Roy Campanella is catching and Campanella yesterday I think impressed every baseball man in this ballpark with the fineness of his receivership.
His throwing, the fact that he was in there digging pitches out of the dirt, that he was taking them out of the air.
Just about all that you could ask a catcher to do he did.
Campanella catching and Rex Barney is the pitcher.
And for the umpires we will have the working rotation that we had in game one of the series when it opened at the stadium.
That means that Big Cal Hubbard will be back on home plate of the American League staff.
Beans Riddon of the National League staff will be at first.
Riddon is making this series his swan song.
He's been in the major leagues 24 years.
His health has not been too good.
He was out several times during the prenatal campaign with illness.
He is quite light, about 15 pounds off weight.
And he figures that he's going back to his adopted state of California and follow the day as far as umpiring goes as soon as this series is over.
He's had a great career.
And everyone in baseball is deeply indebted to a man who has given so much of himself with such honor and such judicial demean.
Art Passarella, hustling young umpire of the American League will be at second.
Lou Jordan, a veteran, will be at third base from the National League staff.
In the left field corner will be George Varr in the right of the National League.
And in the right field corner will be Ed Hurley of the American League.
But I should repeat again that the weather is ideal.
You could not have a finer day for a baseball game.
It is just hot enough and yet it is not too hot.
And we'll have to keep a close eye on the official time piece, our Longines watch,
to be sure that this ball game does not get underway before the New York State Sunday Law,
which says that no athletic event, baseball or otherwise, can begin before two o'clock.
In fact, with the 1916 Brooklyn Dodger team here as guests of President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Ball Club,
there's been a great deal of talk in which these players used to remark that back in 1916,
there were no Sunday games that they played while the team was at home.
The late mayor of New York when he was in the House of Representatives at Auburn in New York,
Jimmy Walker was the father of the Sunday's fourth law.
He got the law through and the law stipulated that no sporting event could begin on Sunday afternoon
in the state of New York before two o'clock.
Therefore, all Sunday games are advertised at 2 o'clock.
And now as the umpires walk up to home plate, Manager Stengel comes out with the Yankee batting order,
Captain Reese comes up with the Brooklyn batting order.
Here is an important message to every one of you veterans listening in to the World Series broadcast today.
To you veterans, if you have held National Service life insurance for three months or more
on a policy taken out before the end of 1947, that's on a policy taken out before the end of 1947,
you are eligible for a special dividend.
The amounts will vary, but many veterans will receive as much as $300.
Obtain your application from any post office, fill it out, and mail it promptly to the Veterans Administration.
Now don't fill out more than one application and don't write to the Veterans Administration about your application.
Checks will start going out after the first of next year.
Now in that final lull before the storm, while things are still quiet,
which they rarely are at Ebbets Field, we'll pause ten seconds for station identification.
This is a mutual broadcasting system.
Hear the World Series exclusively over WOR.
See it on WOR TV, Channel 9, WOR and WOR FM, New York.
The meeting at home plate, six gentlemen in their blue sedges,
and two in what is called in the trade mucky suits.
He's handing over his batting cards, Casey Stengel handing over his.
Each team representative comes up to home plate with three batting cards, and they must be identical.
One set of cards, that's one from each team, is kept by the plate umpire.
Then each team representative keeps his own batting card and one of the other fellows.
So they have to be made out in triplicate.
Rex Barney, who will start for Brooklyn and will take them on sooner than will Rashie of the Invading Yankees.
Barney has finished his warming up and has gone into the dugout, sitting down for a last minute blow.
And Rashie is just polishing off. He's just throwing sort of loosely back and forth,
just getting the feel in the draw and just right.
There's a final refinement going on at home plate over ground rules.
Big Gal Hubbard, who is back at the plate today, will act as the umpire in chief,
is straightening out something to make certain that Reese and Stengel understand.
Of course, anything about this ball, Barker Stengel doesn't understand.
He never will. He was entered as a player.
In fact, he played on the first Brooklyn team that ever performed in this ball.
It was an exhibition game against the Yankees just before the season opened in 1913.
Reese and Hubbard are going over some point of ground rules,
and Peewee is pointing out to what center field is, what it is.
I don't know. It's not very serious because George Bargren walks away.
Reese is just needling somebody. And Stengel grins.
And by the way, Casey Stengel was very pleased to be honored by the folks from Oakland, California.
Casey, you know, managed Oakland to a championship last year in the Pacific Coast League.
And before the ball game began, city commissioner Frank J. Ural of Oakland presented a proclamation
from the city commission,
commending Stengel for the fine job that he's done in managing the Yankees to the American League credit this year.
So the Dodgers are calm. The Yankees are proudly and serenely confident.
The Umphires are now scattered to their sixth defensive post.
One lone groundkeeper is finishing off a smooth place where Rashe was last warming up.
Now no one is on the field but the Umphires, and now the Dodgers take the field and the battle will be joined.
So Brooklyn goes to the field. Manager Shatton told his boss, I've reminded him,
that they did everything the hard way all season long, that in the important series after important series,
especially with the Cardinals, the Dodgers would inevitably lose the opening game of the series
and then have to come back to take the next two to keep going.
And Casey Stengel, of course, doesn't have to say anything. He just starts Rashe and the ball game plays.
Now in a moment, we'll have the national anthem. It's a minute up to two o'clock.
The announcement is made that Ms. Gladys Gooding will play and sing the Star Spangled Banner.
The Star Spangled Banner plays.
And the world is here above her feet,
In groups all the time,
To the place one feels at home.
Who's made a better nation than we have made?
In the land of the free,
And the home of the brave.
Applause.
Well, all the preliminary words have been written and have been spoken.
It is now a time for the actual playing performances on the playing field
and the play-by-play words of Mel Allen as we send you Game 5.
And Gillette is very pleased to have this in its cavalcade of sports.
Mel, let me say again while you can hear it, it's great to work with a Major League broadcaster.
And here you are.
Hello there everybody. That goes double with me, Rand.
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Roy Campanella's throw down to Jackie Robinson at second base.
The ball whips back around the infield and comes to rest in the glove of Rex Barney,
who performed in the 1947 World Series with the Dodgers in three games.
He won eight in the third innings.
I checked that he went six in two-thirds innings.
Lost one game to not win any as Specshe beat him 2-1 in the fifth game with a 1947 set-up.
And so the young right-hander, 23 years of age, for the Dodgers starts the wind-up pitching to Phil Rizzuto,
and the first pitch is outside for ball one.
Rex Barney from Omaha, Nebraska. I called him 23. I should have said 24.
He'll be 25 on December the 19th.
In comes the delivery. Rizzuto takes outside again for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
The scooter has a batting average in the series of 200.
He's had three hits and 15 times at bat, all singles.
Johnny Jorgensen's in close at third in the event of the bunt.
Pee-wee Reese over toward the third base hole.
Barney delivers outside again for ball three.
And now Johnny Jorgensen moves over from third base out to the mound to talk to Barney.
And Carl Erskine sticks his head out of the Dodger dugout, starts to go down to the bullpen,
and is immediately called back for a moment.
Now he's taking the walk down to the Brooklyn bullpen. He's trotting down now.
You've got Jorgensen third, Reese short. Robinson second. Hodges first.
Correctly left, Snyder center, Hermanski right, Campanella catching.
Rex Barney pitching three balls, no strikes to Rizzuto, and it's outside and low.
Ball four and the scooter is on.
Jackie Robinson trots over from second base now to talk to Barney.
Tommy Henrich steps in.
He's had four hits and 15 times at bat in the series for a 267 average.
There have not been too many robust hitters in the series.
It being predominantly a pitcher's classic this year.
Although yesterday the boys sort of broke loose a little.
Outfield around toward right for Henrich, stands deep in the batter's box in close to the plate.
The pitch inside for a ball is a curve.
Cal Hubbard almost went up with a hand. He was watching that one very closely.
The ball broke, almost hit the inside edge, but did not quite get it.
You've got Jorgensen about 10 feet off third baseline in on the edge of the infield grass
with three strikes to the left, the second in halfway.
Now the pitch and Henrich takes outside for ball two.
And Rex Barney is starting out in very wild fashion.
Time is called as Roy Campanella goes to the mound and Captain Peewee Riz comes in from short.
And there's action about to begin on the Dodger bullpen.
A little conference around the mound, trying to settle Barney down.
Riz goes back to short. Campanella comes back to the plate.
Milton Stock pokes his head out of the Dodger dugout to see that action is going on in the bullpen.
Rex Barney all set to pitch two and nothing to Tommy Henrich.
Here it is and it's in there for a call strike, a throw down to first, Rosito back.
That's the first strike that Barney's gotten in in seven pitches.
Jack Batta, a right-hander throwing the bullpen.
Two and one to count on Henrich. Jorgensen is backed up from the edge of the infield grass, not looking for the bunt.
Barney ready, throws. Henrich takes low, ball three, three and one.
The outfield around toward right, Jackie Robinson is halfway between first and second and about
three steps in from the edge of the outfield grass with Gil Hodges holding against Rizuto.
Henrich has a look at Frank Crocetti coaching at third for any sign.
Bill Dickey coaching at first.
He's going to be off and running with this pitch in the event Casey tries to put on the hit and run.
There goes Phil. The pitch is low inside, ball four. Henrich walks.
Rizuto holds up, eases into second.
And now coming up is Yogi Berra.
Berra has had one out of 11 in the series in the three games in which he's participated.
And thus you have almost a reproduction of the first inning of yesterday
where the first two Yankees getting on base.
And then coming on yesterday, they were on first and third,
Rizuto moving to third on Henrich's single.
And then came the play on which Berra hit into the unusual double play,
The retired Rizuto who was on third and Henrich who had rounded second.
Yogi squares away, Jorgensen in on the edge of the infield grass,
he's off third, Rizuto moves off second, Henrich off first.
Here's the pitch, Yogi takes inside, ball one, he bluffed a bunt.
Jack Banto, angular right-hander throwing the bullpen for Brooklyn.
Outfield for Berra, round toward right.
Gil Hodges has moved into the edge of the infield grass,
looking for the bunt though he hasn't charged.
Neither has Jorgensen who will try to anchor at third if he can to let Barney handle the bunt.
If Yogi is bunting, runners lead away. Here's the pitch, Yogi shortens up, takes a strike.
And Campanella started to throw down to second as Reese broke for the bag but he didn't throw.
He cocked his arm but he didn't let the ball loose.
One ball, one strike.
So the situation is boiling here in the first inning.
This is a key man as Rex Barney is trying to settle down.
It's worked to count to one and one.
Rizuto has his short lead off second, Henrich off first.
Now Hodges is in behind Henrich. He's not looking for the bunt.
Here's the pitch, Berra swings at a curve and misses.
Strike two, he went for a bad pitch that was low inside.
One and two, the count on Yogi.
Rex Barney who walked first two men, Rizuto and Henrich, is now ahead of the next man, Berra.
The count of one and two.
And of course Hodges is halfway back at first now, definitely not looking for any bunt.
Two strikes on the batter.
Riz halfway, it's short three strikes to the left of the bag. The stretch, the pitch, swung on.
Grounded foul down behind the bag at first and behind Bill Dickey and into the Dodger bullpen.
Ball retrieved along the right field line by the alternate umpire Ed Hurley of the American League,
George Barrow of the National League, stationed down the left field line.
You've got Radcliffe in left, Snyder in center, Hermanski in right.
That's the Dodger outfield today. They're playing bear to pull.
Barney gets his sign from Campanella.
Now he takes his stretch. Rizuto has his lead off second, Henrich off first.
Here's the pitch and Berra takes low into the dirt and the ball is nicely blocked by Campanella.
Keeping being a wild pitch and the count is two-two.
Barney has a world of stuff but he, like the Yankees Tommy Byrne, will have a difficulty controlling it.
And when they can have their control down pretty well, they're tough to handle.
Not easy to hit, in other words.
Two balls, two strikes. Top of the first inning, Rizuto on second, Henrich on first.
Reese trying to slip in behind Rizuto and Ivax away.
Here's your pitch and it's inside for ball three. Full count on Yogi, three and two.
That pitch was very close to the inside corner.
Possibly could have had it but probably was below the knees or at least it just missed it.
Full count now on Berra. Three balls, two strikes, nobody out.
Rizuto on second, Henrich on first and young Rex Barney getting ready for an important pitch.
They're all important in the World Series but particularly is it important at this moment?
There's Reese as it's going down to second trying to pick off playing the balls off Reese's glove
and he stumbles over the umpire passarella and going to third is Rizuto on the second, Henrich
and the ball is relayed into the plate by center fielder Duke Snyder on a peculiar play.
As they attempted to pick off Barney whirled through to Reese, Rizuto was getting back to the bag.
The ball was high, Reese went up for the ball and as he twisted around, Art Passarella, the umpire,
is there to call the play and Reese tumbled over him and cannot get up off the ground
and there was the shortstop of the Dodgers and Art Passarella both on the ground and Snyder
racing in to back up and keep Rizuto from scoring.
So it is an error charged to Barney on the throw enabling Rizuto to go to third and Henrich to second.
So you have runners on second and third, three and two on Barney and now Barney will take the full
line up. Around comes the right arm, the pitch and Barney swings and grounds it foul off to the right of the plate.
The ball skips up into the box just to the right of the Commissioner's box.
The ball is moving here for a World Series fan. Full count then on Barney.
Barney trying to help himself out of the jam on that pick off play but it didn't work and it resulted in an error
charged to him putting two men in scoring position, nobody down and the three-two pitch on its way
and Barney swings and misses, strike three.
Barney strikes out Barra and now here comes Joe DiMaggio.
Joe has had one out of fourteen in the series.
As Red told you, the story of Joe DiMaggio is one that hasn't been told too much in this series.
He hasn't had a very good series for a great star.
But then one of the reasons perhaps that not too much has been said about Joe's failure to hit is the fact that he got out of his
sickbed to finish the last two games of the year and is still not well.
And here he is, Rex Barney facing the clipper and the pitch.
High, ball one and the infield on the right side is in the left side deep as the Dodgers play it in a split-up defensive situation.
That is to say Jorgensen is halfway back at third, three-four feet off the line,
Reese deep at short over toward the gap but there is Jackie Robinson on the edge of the infield grass
and Hodges just a step or two away from the edge of the infield grass.
DiMaggio swings and sends a long drive to deep center field.
There Snyder racing way back toward the wall.
He leaps up and grabs it, tagging up and scoring after the catch at Rizzuto
and racing to third after the catch is Henrik as Duke Snyder leaps up against the deep center field wall
to three hundred and ninety-three foot sign to haul in the drive.
The man Joe gets a hand as he comes into the Yankee dugout and Casey Stengel pops his head out and claps his hands
and says, nice going Joe.
And Duke Snyder made his sensational catches.
He went all the way back to the deep center field wall and leaped and caught the ball above his head.
And now here's Bobby Brown with two down, one run in, one to nothing, New York.
Henrik on third, the pitch to Bobby in there for a called stripe.
That's about as good a ball as DiMaggio has hit on the series.
And had he been able to pull it just a little bit, it would have been up into the seats.
It is almost into dead center field.
Bobby Brown left hand hitter, chokes that bat.
Barney throws, Bobby swings and hits one right back through the middle.
Out of a second in the center for a base hit, Henrik comes in to score.
Up for the ball is Snyder, off the grass, throws on into Robinson and the Yankees lead two to nothing.
As Bobby Brown continues his spectacular World Series heading.
Three for three in 1947.
And he has had in this series three for eight.
Now four for nine with that base hit.
So a total of seven out of twelve in World Series competition for Bobby Brown.
And that's Bobby's fourth RBI in the series and he leads everybody in that respect.
Now here's Gene Woodling, left hand hitter.
The delivery inside, the knees, ball one.
Two to nothing for every Yankees.
And to refer to a situation that we always do, the manager's headache.
Those bases on balls, that started the Yankees off in this inning.
Barney stretches, checks his runner, the pitch right in there for a called strike, a throw down to first, not in time.
Brown sliding back in.
Hodges not bothering to tag Bobby because he throws a little late.
Gene Woodling the batter, Cliff Mapes on deck, two runs in, top of the first inning.
Barney again ready, has a look, here's the pitch.
The curve and it's just outside for a ball, two and one.
Banda still continuing to limber up in the bullpen, not throwing too hard now.
He's almost ready in the event he's needed.
Barney seems to be settling down a bit.
There's a quick throw to first back in time is Bobby Brown, quick move over.
When I said Barney seems to be settling down, I mean in so far as his wildness is concerned.
The right hander throws, the pitch is swung on foul-tip, skips off mid of Campanella into the chest protector in behind it of Cal Hubbard.
You know in the American League, the umpires wear the chest protector outside their jacket, the National League inside.
Cal Hubbard working his second turn behind the plate in this series.
He opened it up at the stadium.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs, two in, two to nothing New York, top of the first inning.
Outfield around toward right for Woodling, stands in close to the plate.
Barney throws, pitches inside.
Ball three, three and two.
Roy Campanella who has caught a beautiful series, taking his time for returning that ball to Barney.
The Yankees have all remarked about what a swell backstop Campanella is.
How swell he can throw and how he keeps all the baserunners on their toes.
And sometimes on their stomachs.
The pitch is inside as Brown was running on the three-two pitch with two outs.
It's ball four, Woodling walks.
Third pass given up in this inning by Barney.
And now coming to bat is Cliff Maepes.
Maepes has had one out of seven in this series.
Left hand hitter.
Brown on second, Woodling on first.
Two runs in.
Two men out.
In field is shaded around toward first.
Rex Barney delivers.
Maepes takes curve over for a call strike.
Came in with a fastball motion and delivered a slow curve with it.
Jorgensen, the third baseman, is halfway back.
Six, eight feet off the line.
Reese over towards second.
He's about three strikes to the left of the bag.
Brown moves off second.
Woodling off first.
Here's your pitch.
Swung on and foul tipped for strike two.
Ball skips out of the mid of Campanella.
Mara Brackley is over toward left center.
Duke Seidler into right center.
And Gene Hermanski is shading right center more than he would be the right field line,
not looking for Maepes to pull too sharply.
Runners move away from first and second bases of the pitch.
And it's inside to Maepes.
Right around the letters for ball one, one and two.
Ball players are not prone to take too much of a toehold against a pitcher who is inclined to be a bit wild as is Barney
or as is Tommy Byrne of the Yankees when he's working.
The one-two pitch.
It's just outside for ball two.
A curve.
Mighty close.
Barney figured he might have had the strike on that one.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs, two in, two on.
Brecht walks around the mound.
The eye comes back on.
Campanella gives him the sign and sets up the target.
Brown moves off second, woodling off first.
Hodges very deep at first.
The stretch of the pitch.
Swung on.
It's a high foul going out of play to the left of the plate and out of the ballpark.
The wind seems to be blowing from right out toward left.
So that at the present time, any ball hit up into the air in the direction of left field would be aided by the wind.
Held up, hit out into right field to some extent.
Once again, Barney set checks his two runners, leading off first and second.
The pitch, curve, and it's inside for ball three.
Three and two.
Two pitches that Barney has delivered, two of the pitches that Barney has delivered to MAPES have been very close.
Full count.
Three balls, two strikes, two outs.
Reese came in a few steps, honored something to Barney.
Brown on second, woodling on first.
They'll be off and running with this pitch.
They're being two down and three and two on the hitter.
Stretch by Barney.
There go the runners.
The pitch is strike three, called a curve that broke over.
For the Yankees then, two runs, one hit.
No errors for the Dodgers.
Two Yankees left on.
One error for the Dodgers as we double-checked.
That was on Barney's attempted pickoff at second when he threw the ball over Reese's head.
Two runs, one hit, one error, and two men left on.
And the score at the end of the first half of the first inning, Yankees two, Dodgers nothing.
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Last half of the first inning, Vic Rasci goes to the mound for the Yankees, making his second start of the series and working with two days' rest.
Defeated in the second game of the World Series, one to nothing by the Dodgers and Preacher Roe.
As Rasci gave up seven hits and one run and lost the ball game one to nothing.
The right-hander pitching to Peewee Reese, right-hand batter, throws and it's right in there for a called strike.
The official scorer has informed us that both runs for the Yankees were earned in the first inning.
Here's the pitch, swung on, hit sharply short, one hop, Razuto grabs it, throws over to Henrik in time, and it's one away.
Reese swung at a curve ball, hit it solidly, but right at Razuto on one hop, and Bill retired him.
Johnny Jorgensen steps in now.
Reese had had four hits in 14 times at bat in the series for a 286 average.
Johnny Jorgensen, in three games, has had two out of eight.
Left-hand hitter, Rasci delivers, fast ball in there for a called strike.
Bobby Brown's in close at third.
Razuto is over towards second base, about two strides to the left of the bag as we look out onto the field.
Jerry Coleman halfway between first and second, back on the edge of the outfield grass, and Henrik near the line.
Nick Rasci getting his sign now, taking a little time.
Now he goes to work, into the windup, Brown comes to the right arm, the pitch is swung on, a grounder hits the third.
Bobby Brown is left up with it, fires across to Henrik, end time, and they're two away.
Two up and two down, and now here's Duke Snyder.
The Duke, one of the hitting disappointments in the series for the Dodgers, has had to one hit him 16 times at bat.
But still a fellow that Bert Schotten's got all the confidence in the world in, and rightfully so, because when he connects, he can send him.
Nick Rasci's first pitch to the Duke, left-hand hitter in there for a call strike, slow curve, broke over just below the shoulders.
Robinson, a rather Snyder, is the kind of guy who can break up a ballgame for you at any given moment.
Robinson is on deck. Here's your pitch. Outside, ball one, one and one.
They play the Duke around toward right. Brown's in fairly close at third, giving the bag about a 10-foot berth.
Here we go by the stride to the left of second.
The one-one pitch on its way, the left-hand batter cuts and misses at a curve that broke off into the dirt and skipped in behind Barrow.
One and two, the count. Duke a little overanxious.
Jackie Robinson's on deck.
Larry Coleman, the second baseman, kicking at the dirt. He's back on the edge of the outfield grass and at a point halfway between first and second bases, with Hendrick deep three feet off the first base line.
Milton Stock coaching at third. Jake Fittler at first for the Dodgers.
Now the one-two pitch on its way from Rasci to Snyder, swung on and missed, strike three, and he's out of there.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.
And Snyder goes down striking out for the sixth time in the series.
DiMaggio had struck out five times, as had Snyder before the start of today's game.
So the two center feelers were both running parallel courses.
And now the Dodgers' symphony band are serenading one of the owners of the Dodgers, Walter O'Malley, evidently his birthday, as they are playing Happy Birthday.
And as they conclude, we pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Going into the top of the second inning, Jerry Coleman, Vic Rasci, and then Phil Rizzuto will be coming up for the Yankees.
It's two to nothing New York, end of the first inning of play.
Spider Jorgensen comes in to say something to Rex Barney.
Crowd sitting back rather quiet at the moment.
A lot of folks out here today who were unable to get here during the weekdays.
A lot of working people can't get out to the ballgames except on Sunday.
Notice Lou Woodrow, skipper of the Indians, who won last year out here.
There's a pitch right in there for a call strike as Barney cut loose with a fastball right over.
Jerry Coleman, right-hand hitter, has had three out of 15 in the series and has been playing a fine defensive game.
Chokes that bat three inches or so in fairly close to the plate.
Open stance, knees bent, leans from the waist a bit.
Barney throws, fastball swung on, hit high up into the air in the short left.
Reese goes out, waves Radcliffe off, he we hundred, and he makes the catch about 15 feet off the left field line, about 25 feet behind third base.
So Coleman pops out the reason short left.
And now coming up is Vic Rasci.
Vic Batcham, right-handed, outfield straightaway, infield shaded round toward third just a bit.
And in a normal setup, here's the pitch.
Just outside, ball one, fastball.
Yanks two, Dodgers nothing, second inning.
Bill Rizzuto's in the batter circle.
Rex Barney, the right-hander, throws, fastball, and it's outside for ball two, Rasci.
Two-nothing count.
Barney aims this one over, it's in there for a called strike, fastball.
Two balls, one strike.
Now the delivery to Vic is inside and a little high just around the shoulders, three-and-one the count.
Barney gets his sign from Campanella, getting ready to work.
Rasci stands way away from the plate, the three-one pitch, right over for called strike two.
Barney has got a good fastball, really alive.
I recall two years ago in the World Series when Billy Southworth came up here talking to Red and to me and he said,
there's a fellow I'd like to have on my ball club, he's got a lot of stuff.
Here's your pitch, strike, no, it's ball four.
Hubbard started to go up with a hand and he indicated as the crowd yelled that he was merely pointing down to first base.
The only way that we have of determining whether an umpire calls a strike or not is when he goes up with the right hand.
And Hubbard did go up with the right hand but he indicated again after that, that's the reason we called it the third strike,
as the crowd yelled, he said, with his gesture, he raised his hand up and pointed at first base, he merely meant for him to go on down.
So it was ball four.
That's the fourth walk given up by Barney.
Time is called here for a moment, a little conference at the mound, Reese, Robinson, Barney and Campanella,
while at the crash he adjusted his windbreaker.
Now Rizzuto, who walked in the first inning and scored the first Yankee run, awaits the pitch, he's right hand hitter.
It's on its way and it's outside, ball one.
And now Campanella turns and says something to Hubbard.
Barely uh, disgusting the situation a bit. Barney figures some of those pitches that were close should have been called strikes on some of these batters.
Gil Hodges walked over a few faces in first, now we're ready to continue.
One out, one on, top of the second inning, two nothing New York. Barney throws, Rizzuto takes a strike call, fastball in there.
One ball, one strike, one out.
Phil down on the end of the band a bit, here's your pitch. It's bunned down toward first, Hodges comes in, picks the ball up and tags Phil out on the line as Reishi goes to second.
Now Phil will be credited with a sacrifice, though that was not actually his intention. He was bunning to get on with one out.
He was hoping to bun it to the right of the mound to make Robinson come in and field it.
Hodges get off the bag so that he could beat it out, but he bunned it right toward Gil and the Dodger first baseman picked it up and retired Rizzuto unassisted.
However, since it moved, Reishi down to second, it must be scored as a sacrifice, though that was not the intent.
Now here's Tommy Henry, at least that was not the sole intent.
Frank Crissetti coaching the out third, hollering down to Reishi, he's watching Reiss and Robinson for Vick as Vick watches Barney.
Barney has the stretch, here's the pitch and Henry swings and sends a ground ball to backhanded nicely by Hodges, flips to Barney covering for the out and a beautiful play.
Gil Hodges backhanded that ball, which was hit into the hole between first and second, took a possible base hit away from Henry, flipped to Barney covering for the out, no runs for New York, no hits, no Dodger errors, one left on for the Yankees.
Fans, Earl Torgeson, first baseman for the Boston Braves is here watching the game with us.
Earl, come in and say a few words to the folks.
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Earl, have you enjoyed the series thus far?
Not very well, I'm too much of a Dodger fan now. That National League, I'm rooting for that National League.
Well, I can appreciate that. Rex Barney, you've batted against him a lot of times, haven't you?
Yeah, he has a world of natural ability, he could be a great pitcher.
Well, getting that control down, of course, is his biggest problem and he seems to be settling down just a little bit.
Yeah, I hope he does.
Earl, how's your hand?
It's going along all right, Mel, it's a little stronger now, it's feeling better.
You expect by the time spring training rolls around to be ready again to go with the Boston Braves?
I hope so, Mel.
Well, much obliged to you, Earl.
Thank you very much.
Earl Torgeson dropping in to visit with us for a little while.
And now we're ready for the last half of the second inning.
Jackie Robinson leads off for the Dodgers. Robinson's had two out of 12 in the series.
It'll be followed by Hermanski and Hodges, the thick crash, the right hand into the windup throws.
Robinson takes outside for a ball as he bluffed a bunt.
Brought Brown charging in from third.
Henrik is deep at first and Jackie looks as if he's going to try to shove one out towards second.
Jerry Coleman's only two strides to the right of second. Henrik near first, a lot of room in there.
Here's your pitch, swung on line right to Coleman as he leaps and grabs it.
Jackie Robinson's blazing liner was hit just above Coleman's head, but it sank.
It was a sinking liner and sank off to his left and Coleman spirited glove handed for a brilliant play.
Robbing Jackie Robinson of a base hit.
Now here's Gene Hermanski, left hand hitter.
Raschi throws, Gene takes a strike over the outside corner as a fastball.
Bobby Brown's in close at third near the line.
Rizzuto over towards second base.
Coleman halfway between first and second and deep.
Henrik deep near the line.
The outfield shaded around toward right.
Two to nothing New York last half of the second inning.
Mick Raschi goes to work, in comes the pitch.
Gene Hermanski takes high for a ball and the count is evened up now at one and one.
Jake Pitler as usual walking up and down, coaching that first.
Gil Hodges on deck, going through his usual batting, preceding his batting motions, adjusting his cap.
Here's the pitch and it's inside to Hermanski for ball two, two and one.
Berra turns and asks Hubbard where the ball was.
It was close.
Two balls, one strike.
Jerry Coleman just went over and took Jackie Robinson's club, which is nearby,
and tossed a little further back out on the grass in right field so it wouldn't be in his way.
Now your two-one pitch, swung on, popped foul off to the left of the plate and out of play.
Ball going into the upper deck and you've got a two-two count on Gene.
Raschi fumbling around with a rosin bag.
Here's a new ball to work with, working with two days rest, he's taking his time.
In talking with fellows like Rogers Hornsby, for example, and other old time baseball greats,
they say that pitching with two days rest is not so rough really.
The two-two pitch, curve is swung on, drilled out of the right center field,
there's Mapes racing over and he takes it for the out.
Hermanski didn't get a good cut at that ball.
If he'd have hit it solidly, they'd have gone a lot further.
Hornsby said that most of it's in a pitcher's mind.
And he referred back to the old days when pitchers used to work very frequently with very little rest.
Gil Hodges, right-hand hitter, awaits the delivery from Raschi.
It's fastball over for a called strike.
Two to nothing, favor of New York, last the second inning, two down, nobody on.
Hodges the batter, Marv Brackley on deck.
Outfield toward left.
Raschi throws, fastball misses the outside corner this time.
The count is evened up at one and one.
Big Gil, born from Petersburg, Indiana, who made the change from a catcher to a first baseman
and has developed amazingly rapidly and shows promise of becoming a very outstanding first baseman
if he already hasn't done so.
One ball, one strike, the count on him.
Raschi into the windup, in comes the pitch, swung on, hits sharply out to short.
Zudowitz is right up with the ball, fires the long way to Henrik and it's in time for the out.
The Scooters show a flash of his brilliance that has put him into contention
for the most valuable player award in the American League this year as he raced to his right,
took that ball deep over toward third and threw Hodges out.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on and the score at the end of two innings,
two to nothing, in favor of the Yankees.
With the Yankees owning the only hit in the ball game thus far.
Now as we move to the third, the Yanks will come up with Barra, DiMaggio and Brown.
It was good to see Ty Cobb out here and chat with him before the ball game.
And he is among the most excited of all the fans here at this World Series.
And in a measure you wouldn't think that there was a fellow who went through World Series
and a lot of the roughest and toughest ball games imaginable, a great competitor,
and played baseball for so many years, over 20, that you would figure that he'd take all this in stride.
But he's one of the most excited fans out here.
The Dodgers-Symphony band entertaining the crowd today.
Top of the third inning, two to nothing.
For you late tuners in, the Yankees got two runs in the first inning when Rex Barney started off
in wild fashion, walking Rizzuto and Henrik.
An attempted pickoff play at second, he threw the ball away.
Rizzuto went to third and Henrik to second, and after Barra struck out,
DiMaggio drove Snyder to the center field wall to take his drive.
Rizzuto scored after the catch and Brown singled Henrik home.
Now here's Barra. Barney throws. Pitch and swing on hit, back to the box on a hop.
Rex takes it, throws over to Hodges and Barra is out.
Yogi went after that first pitch and bounces out to Gil Hodges.
And up comes Joe DiMaggio, on whom Duke Snyder made a spectacular play in the first inning.
Duke went all the way back to the center field wall,
393 foot mark, leap timed the air and took the ball up over his head.
So the Clippers steps in and Rex Barney starts to work on him.
Right-hander fires, pitches inside at the belt for a ball.
The outfield is around toward left. Gene Hermansky almost half-facing the right field line.
He's way off of it. Third inning, one out, nobody on, two to nothing New York.
The delivery, swung on, lined out to center. Here Snyder coming in fast and he makes a good
man catch to the ball, sensationally, how about that?
Duke Snyder for the second consecutive time robs DiMaggio of a base hit as he came racing in from deep center.
And at top speed, reached down in about a foot or so off the ground,
blocked DiMaggio's sinking blazing liner to rob him of a base hit for the second straight time Joe's been at bat.
Brilliant play by the Duke. Now here's Bobby Brown, who takes a fast ball low, little inside, ball one.
The crowd roared its approval of the sparkling defensive maneuver of Duke Snyder.
Duke probably figures, well, I'm center field and I haven't been hitting, I haven't let DiMaggio have any either.
Here's a pitch and it's way outside for ball two. Two balls, no strikes.
DiMaggio himself remarked, he said, I've got only one hit in the series and that was what we term a blader, little roller he beat out.
And he says, you hit a lot of them real hard and real deep and they're caught.
Here's your pitch, inside to Bobby, almost hit him ball three.
So he concluded, said, this is a funny game after all, isn't it?
You can get them a mile and they'll catch them.
Then you can hit one five feet and beat them out.
Brown single to center in the first inning to drive in the second Yankee run. It's two nothing New York third inning, two outs.
Rex Barney comes in with his pitch and it's inside for ball four and Brown walks.
That's the fifth base on balls given up by Barney.
And coming to bat is Gene Woodling.
Woodling drew a base on balls in the first inning.
Barney walked 10 men on the 47 World Series and the six and two thirds innings he pitched.
But he had an earned run average of under three.
The right hander throws right over for a cross strike to Woodling.
Fast ball, got plenty of the inside portion of the plate, about high.
He's shade Woodling around toward right infield shaded around toward first Hodges holding against Brown two down.
In the event the Dodgers pull this one out of the fire and stay alive in the series, the scene will shift to Yankee Stadium for tomorrow.
And in that event, we'll be back on the air at our usual time of 1245 Eastern Standard Time.
Today we started an hour later than usual because of the New York State law.
The pitch swung on hit solidly to Robinson's right and out in the right center.
There is Brown rounding second on his way to third.
Snyder up to the ball whips his third.
Cut off by Reese Woodling holds first.
It's a solid line single to right center field.
Jackie darted to his right as the ball hit the skin part of the infield after starting out as a liner.
But as he attempted to backhand, he couldn't quite get to it and he went on out there for the base hit.
So the Yankees have runners on first and third.
That's their second hit off Barney and the batter is Cliff Mapes who took a third strike in the first inning.
The left hand batter swings and foul chips it at the plate.
Strike one.
Barney delivered a curve ball up there.
One strike to count.
Brown on third.
Woodling on first.
Hodges holding against Jean.
Banta starts to work the bullpen again for Brooklyn.
Rex Barney stretches.
Pitches.
Mapes takes outside for the ball.
Fast ball.
It took off.
Frank Versetti has a look in for Dugout.
See if Casey Stengel has got anything in particular on his mind.
Frank passes the signs along.
Barney again ready.
Throws.
Mapes started to swing and held up at a curve.
It's inside and Mapes in his effort to hold up fell away from the plate to his knees.
Two balls.
One strike.
Brown on third and Woodling on first.
The Yankees leading two to nothing.
Third inning.
Two men down.
Dodgers young right hander looks in, gets his sign from Campanella.
Again he's ready.
Takes his stretch.
Runners move off first and third.
The pitch is swung on and missed.
Forced strike two.
Here's a breaking ball.
And now Casey Stengel pops out of the Yankee dugout, hollers something at Cliff.
One of Casey's favorite expressions as all managers do have.
Just get a piece of the ball.
Don't try to murder it.
Two balls.
Two strikes.
Two on.
Two nothing New York.
Once again the runners move away from first and third.
The pitch.
Mapes swings and fouls it off to the left of the plate.
Dog goes back to the screen.
Barney with a new ball to work with.
Two balls.
Two strikes on Cliff Mapes.
Two strikes on third.
Woodling on first.
Again the right hander has the stretch.
Runners move.
The pitch.
It's low inside for ball three.
Barney looks in as if to say, mm-hmm, that was close and it was.
So we've got a full count on Mapes and with two down, Brown on third will be playing it
safe.
Woodling on first will be off and running.
Barney stretches.
Woodling ready to go.
The pitch is outside ball four and they're loaded up.
The sixth base on balls given up by Barney.
Brown is on third.
Woodling is on second.
Mapes is on first.
Milton Stock pokes his head out of the Dodger dugout and orders from Burt Schotton to see
how bad it is looking out there warming up in the Dodger bullpen down the right field
line.
And the batter is Jerry Coleman.
Jerry popped out on the second inning to Pee Wee Reese.
Right hand hitter.
Casey Stengel again pops his head out of the Yankee dugout located to the left of home
plate and hollers his usual expression, get a piece of it Jerry.
He's a choke hitter.
Chokes up on that bat about three inches of batter in close to the plate.
Brown leads off third.
Woodling off second.
Mapes off first.
The wind up by Barney.
In comes the pitch.
Coleman takes outside ball one.
One ball no strikes.
The outfield is about straight away and there is Hermanski moving a couple of steps more
over toward the right field line.
Coleman can hit that ball just where it's pitched.
He'll pull it, he'll hit it straight away, he'll hit it to right.
Rex Barney into the wind up.
In comes the pitch.
Swung on.
Hit on the hole between third and short to left field.
Brown scores.
Woodling rounds third.
Dicks to the plate.
The ball bobbled momentarily by Radcliffe.
His throw is back to second base.
Mapes gets back there in time.
It's a two run single for Jerry Coleman.
And the Yankees lead four to nothing and out of the dugout comes Dodger pitching coach
Clyde Sutforth.
Jerry Coleman coming up with a clutch single to left drive in two runs.
Scoring Brown and Woodling.
And all this action has happened after there were two men out and nobody on.
Again the base on ball started it.
With two down Brown walked.
Woodling singles.
Mapes walked and Coleman single to left.
That's going to be all for Rex Barney and Jack Batha will come onto the scene.
Jerry Coleman gets his fourth hit of the series.
Driving in his second and third runs.
There was Jerry Coleman's base clearing double in the eighth inning of the final game of
The season a week ago today against the Boston Red Sox.
The game of the Yankees there margin that carried him through the ninth inning against
Boston.
So Barney leaves after having gone two and two thirds innings and the fans give him a
hand.
He like Byrne is tough to hit but Wildness causes the trouble.
Barney only allowed three hits but he walked six struck out to land.
And now Jack Batha comes on.
Erskine is going to work in the bullpen for Brooklyn.
Batha has been in two games previously working a total of three and a third innings in this
series.
Allowing only two hits and giving up one walk striking out to and has not allowed any runs.
The right hander starts his warmup gets four to nothing now in favor of New York as just
concluded his warmup pitches from the mound and the first man he'll face will be Vic Grashee.
Jack Batha, six foot, two hundred and sixty-five pounder from Hutchinson, Kansas goes to work
with MAPES on second Coleman on first.
His delivery to Grashee is curved swung on for strike one.
Vic swung at that ball after his R.A. in Campanella's mid.
Look I couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to or not.
Grashee walked in the second inning.
Two runs are in here in the third.
Four nothing New York.
Batha ready.
Throws.
Pitch swung on hit through the short end to left center field for a base hit.
MAPES rounds third comes in to score.
The throw goes to second and Coleman dives back into the bag as Vic Grashee smacked a
solid single to Reese's left in the left center to drive in the third run of the inning for
New York.
Scoring Cliff MAPES.
And it's five to nothing in favor of the Yankees.
And now coming up is Phil Rizzuto as Gil Hodges goes over the mound to talk to Jack.
Batha allowed a single in the ninth inning of the first game here in Brooklyn.
The first man he faced when he came under relief.
Rizzuto swings and fouls a pitch off to the right of the plate.
That also scored a run.
He allowed a single to Coleman, the first man he faced, and then was all right thereafter.
That run of course is charged to Rex Barney.
It was put on by him.
Coleman's on second.
Grashee on first two down.
Three in.
Five nothing Yankees.
Phil Rizzuto takes low for a ball.
One and one.
The scooter walked in sacrifice previously.
He's not been charged with a time at bat in this ball game.
Yankee pitchers have done pretty well helping themselves in the hitting department this
series.
There's a pitch inside.
Rizzuto drops to the ground.
Ball two.
Two and one to count.
All the damage done here in the third inning after the two men were out, nobody on.
Brown walked.
Woodling single.
MAPES walked to load him up.
Coleman single.
The first out went Barney in came Banner.
Grashee greeted him with a single to score MAPES.
Coleman's on second.
Grashee on first.
Two balls, one strike on Rizzuto.
The right-hander for the Dodgers stretches, pitches.
Rizzuto takes a curve outside for ball three.
Three and one.
Carl Erskine continues to limber up in the Dodger bullpen.
Banner kicks the dirt out in front of the rubber.
Get you a sign from Roy.
Runners lead.
Now the pitch.
And it's in there for Carl.
Strike two.
Fast ball.
Got plenty of the inside of the plate.
And around the letters.
So with a full count on Rizzuto, three balls, two strikes, and with two outs, Coleman, who
is on second, Grashee, who is on first, will be off and running with the pitch.
Coleman and Grashee ready to go.
There they go.
The pitch swung on as they drive to left center field.
Duke Snyder moves over to get under it, and he makes the catch.
So eight men batted for New York.
Three of them scored.
Three hits.
No Dodger errors, and two Yankees left on.
The score at the end of two and a half innings, the Yankees five, the Dodgers nothing.
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Vic Brashee, taking his time coming out of the Yankee dugout to the mound, he was on the
bases, gives us time to identify ourselves.
And so we pause 10 seconds for station identification.
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World Series exclusively over WOR.
See it on WOR TV, Channel 9, WOR and WORFM, New York.
This is Mel Allen speaking to you from Ebbets Field, Red Barber, and I'm very happy to bring
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And now on the last of the third inning, first pitch is in there for a call strike to Marvin
Radclay, a left-hand batter.
Marv, a 5'10, 170 pounder from Wallaholla, South Carolina.
Brashee throws, it's swung on and fouled off the chest protector of Cal Hubbard's, it got
by Barrow for strike two.
Five to nothing, favor of New York, last of the third inning.
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Brashee studies, Barrow sign, going to work.
Around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, and it is swung on and fouled, tipped, but
into the mid of Barrow for strike three.
We had to hold up and wait to see if Barrow held onto the ball as did Cal Hubbard before
he would call him out.
And now here's Roy Campanella.
Brashee's second strikeout in this ball game, his sixth in the series.
Roy Campanella, right hand batter.
Brashee delivers, fastball just outside, ball one.
Campanella's had three for twelve, including a home run in the series for Brooklyn.
Outfield around toward left infield, shaded well around toward third, brown deep, five
feet off the line, resumed over toward the gap, the pitch, right over for a call strike,
evens up the count now, one and one.
One ball, one strike, one out, last of third, New York fire, Brooklyn nothing.
Yankees leading games three to one.
Here's your one-one service.
Campanella takes fastball outside for ball two, two and one.
In the game that Brashee pitched against the Dodgers at the stadium, second game of the
series, he used quite a number of curve balls.
He has been featuring primarily fast stuff so far today.
Now the two-one pitch, swung on, hit Sharpie down the third baseline, by Brown into the
left field corner, Woodling goes over into the corner, chases the ball up with it, fires
to second base, there's Campanella going in, the throw is toward third and Campanella's
on second with the double.
Gene Woodling, after he fielded that ball, we were watching Campanella and figuring Woodling
to be throwing to second, but instead he fired toward third, it caught Brown a little bit
off guard and it got by him, but Barrow was backing up, and it's a double for Campanella,
The first hit given up by Rashee.
Jack Banta is going to come up to hit for himself.
Jerry Coleman's over to talk to Rashee.
That was the fifth Dodger double of this series.
Rashee throws to Banta, left-hand hitter, it's in there for a called strike.
Banta is figured to be only a fair hitter as a pitcher, but anytime a man's up there
swinging a batch, you got to be wary of him.
A curve is swung on, a ground ball hit to Henrik, he's up with it, out runs Banta with
The bag, going to third is Campanella, they're two down, and coming up is Peewee Reese.
Banta grounds out to Henrik unassisted.
Rashee ran over to cover, but Henrik said, I'll take him, and did.
Now we go to the top of the Brooklyn order, and here's Peewee Reese, grounded to Rizzuto
on the first inning, hitting a sharp one-hopper to the scooter.
Brown moves in close at third, ready to move in on a top ball.
Not necessarily figuring Reese to be bunting with two outs, but then you always have to
watch every possibility, whether it be the unexpected or not in baseball.
Campanella on third, two down, here's the pitch to Reese, outside, ball one,
Spider Jorgensen on deck, outfield shaded toward left for Reese, stands in fairly close
to the plate, slightly open stance, holds the bat down at the end of the handle, pretty
much.
Rashee starts his windup, around comes the right arm, in comes the pitch, strike call,
a fast ball in there just above the knees, and the count is now even up at one and one.
Reese wants Cal Huber to have a look at the ball, and Cal gives a new one to Barra and
tosses the one that Rashee just had out of the game.
Might have been discolored.
Ball player's figure is tough enough to see those pitches coming up there without
pitcher throwing one that might have been stained by hitting the grass or being
discolored through the rubbing up process or getting into the dirt one way or another.
One ball, one strike, two down, Campanella on third, last to the third, five-nothing
New York, in comes the pitch, Reese swings, bounce it off to the right of the plate,
out of play, way back into the upper deck, and the count is one and two.
This has been just about the warmest day that we have had in the series.
A lot of blue upstairs, patches of white, maybe some clouds just in behind us where
The sun is because it's not out too strongly at the moment.
And as we speak, it fades away almost altogether.
Here's your pitch, swung on a ground ball, hit in the hole between first and second,
out of the right field for a base hit.
Campanella comes in to score, mates up with the ball, flips to Rasuto, and Reese is on
with a run-producing single to right field.
So the Pee-wee came through in the clutch.
He's one of your great money ball players.
Getting his fifth hit of the series and driving in his second run.
Hit the ball to the opposite field, on the ground, in between first and second, where
The Yankees were least expecting them to hit.
It's now a five-to-one ball game, and here is Piter Jorgensen, left-hand hitter up,
The stretch by Rasci, the pitch, swung on to high, pop-up, out back of second.
Rasuto is under the ball, waiting for her to come down, Reese running, and Bill makes
The catch for the out-to-end, the inning.
One run for Brooklyn, two hits, no Yankee errors, one left on for the Dodgers.
And the score at the end of three innings and the totals, the Yankees, five runs,
four hits, no errors, five left on.
Brooklyn, one run, two hits, one error, and one man left on.
Red?
Yes, ma'am?
In all the years that you've been watching that great guy, great performer, Pee-wee Reese,
I guess you've seen him come through on the clutch many a time.
Well, Reese and Rasuto have, at shortstop, given us all that you'd ever expect to see
in the World Series at that position.
And both also have been very well up at the plate, and they have run bases very well.
Frank Frisch, last evening I happened to bump into him, and of course he's been an infielder himself
and managed ball clubs, played in more World Series games than anybody else.
And his eye has been taken.
Of course he admits to being an old broken-down infielder.
Now he watches infielders first.
But he was talking about the work of Rasuto and Reese.
And I think actually that few fans appreciate either one as much as they should,
because neither Rasuto nor Reese have any eccentricities.
They try and make everything look easy.
They play very smoothly.
In fact, as Brett Schotton says, Reese should apply it to both.
They are ringers, Mel.
In other words, they're pros.
That's right.
As we go to the fourth inning, Yankees 5, Dodgers 1.
Tommy Henrik, Yogi Vera, and Joe DiMaggio are coming up for New York.
Jack Banta, right-hander throws to Henrik.
Curve inside, ball one.
For you late tuners in, Rex Barney was the starting pitcher for Brooklyn.
Went two and two-thirds innings, gave up three hits, and was out of there.
In comes the pitch now, swung on and missed by Henrik as he went all the way on that one.
All the runs that the Yankees have scored are charged to Barney.
Banta throws, change up and it's outside, ball two, two and one.
Outfield swung way around toward right for Henrik.
Jorgensen about a dozen feet off the third baseline,
four steps away from the edge of the infield,
grass race about three strides to the left of second.
Here's your pitch, swung on by Henrik, a ground ball hit to Robinson going to his right upper that throws over to Hodges.
Henrik is out.
Tommy Henrik grounding out.
Robinson to Hodges, second to first.
Here's Yogi Vera.
The St. Louis lads struck out in the first inning, bounced out to the pitcher in the third.
Yogi bemoans the fates that cost him an injury on his left thumb.
There's a pitch that's outside for a ball.
And he remarked that he was sorry that his thumb hurt him so because he's had a lot of good pitches to hit but hadn't been able to swing hard on him, he said.
Banta delivers, Yogi takes inside, little old ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
One out.
Fourth inning.
Yankees five, Dodgers one.
Outfield infield set up.
Same for Vera as for Henrik.
Right-hander Jack Banta comes in with a pitch that's outside the curve ball.
Three-nothing to count.
Banta to the rosin bag, gives it a touch, wipes his hand across the letters of the uniform.
Anyway, for that three-nothing pitch, aims it over the plate and it is in there for the called strike, three-and-one.
Gil Hodges deep at first and almost on top of that first baseline.
Jackie Robinson halfway between first and second and back deep.
Now the three-one pitch from Banta to Vera.
Swung on, lined right to Hodges for out number two.
Two up and two away and here's Joe DiMaggio who twice has been the victim of spectacular catches by center fielder Duke Snyder.
In the first inning, Duke went to the wall and straight center field, deep center field, the 393-foot sign leaped and caught DiMaggio's drive over his head.
Here's your delivery.
Inside to Joe for a ball.
The last time that DiMaggio was up, he drilled a smart liner in the center and Snyder came running in at top speed and gloved it about a foot off the ground.
Banta throws.
DiMaggio takes low outside for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Two outs.
In the second inning, New York 5, Brooklyn 1.
Bobby Brown on deck.
Outfield is swung around toward left infield, shaded well around toward third.
Joe with that classic stance of his, bat cocked up off his right shoulder.
On the next pitch swings and sends a long drive.
It stays fair and goes all the way.
It is going.
DiMaggio made sure this time nobody was going to make a spectacular catch and the boys greet him because he's had a rough series in the base hit department.
And the entire team practically came out and met him in front of the dugout and patted him on the back.
Here's Bobby Brown.
Strike one call over the inside corner.
Joe made sure that this time nobody was going to rob him.
Hit a high towering drive into the lower left field seats that just did go into the right of the foul pole as that ball was hooking.
Now the pitch to Brown.
Strike two call over the inside corner.
The ball cleared the 348 foot mark.
And yet he was out when he drove one nearly 400 feet, 393 feet to be exact, in straightaway center.
That's DiMaggio's sixth World Series homer.
This is the eighth series in which he has participated.
The pitch is swung on and missed strike three for Bobby Brown.
And Campanello flipped the ball down to Jorgensen at third, though it was the third out.
It shows you that sometimes the power of concentration in the World Series will do certain things to certain fellows.
Strike three.
One run for New York, one hit.
No errors for the Dodgers.
Nobody left on.
And a hand for DiMaggio.
And the crowd tweets him going out into center field.
And the score at the end of three and a half innings, the Yankees six, the Dodgers one.
Last half of the fourth inning.
Duke Snyder leads off with the Dodgers left-hand batter, struck out in the first inning, rashy pitches.
Duke takes a curve over for a call strike.
Jackie Robinson on deck.
Hermanski to follow.
There was a wild rumor that spread briefly before the ballgame concerning DiMaggio,
but it was quickly scotched that he was back in the hospital with a 103 degree fever.
Here's a pitch swung on and missed strike two.
Duke cut hard.
That was one story that was easy to trace down and scotch in a hurry because all he had to do was go down to the Yankee dressing room when the team arrived.
And there was Joe with his son, Joe Jr., Joe putting on his uniform.
The right-hander comes in with his pitch and it's swung on and missed strike three.
And Snyder goes down, striking out for the seventh time in the series.
Now Jackie Robinson steps in.
Robbed with a base hit in the second inning by Jerry Coleman.
On a sinking line of the Jerry Glove.
Outfield, shifts around toward left, shades around toward third on the infield,
frown in close to third in the event of a bunt or top roller.
Big crash into the lineup, throws, strike call, fastball through there.
New York six, Brooklyn one, last to fourth.
Robinson stands deep in the batter's box, just a little way away from the plate.
Rashie's delivery, curve, swung on, hit right back through the middle out over second in the center for a base hit.
Joe DiMaggio comes in, scoops the ball up off the green carpet, throws in the second to Rizzuto.
And Robinson holds on at first with a single to center.
There was a curve ball that he hit and he was just waiting for it.
Hit it right back through the middle.
That's the third hit off Rashie.
And now coming to bat is Gene Hermanski, who flied out to MAPES in the second inning.
Left hand batter, Bobby Brown about five feet off third, two steps away from the edge of the infield grass.
Rizzuto three steps to the left of second in halfway.
Now your pitch, swung on, it's a high fly ball out into short left.
Woodling trots in, towards short, under the ball.
Rizzuto hollers, take it Gene, he does.
Robinson halfway to second turns and shoots back to first.
Hermanski flies out to Woodling in short left.
And now coming to bat is Gil Hodges, who grounded a short in the second inning.
Tommy Henrik hollers to Rashie, I'm going to play halfway, or I'm going to play not on the bag rather,
against Robinson but in behind him.
Now Henrik moves in and has a look at Casey Stengel in the Yankee dugout to see where he wants him to play.
Meantime, Gil Hodges, right hand hitter steps in, stands away from the plate,
fairly deep in the batter's box, open stance.
Outfield around toward left, they claim the pull toward left field.
Here's your pitch, curve, and it's inside for a ball.
One ball, no strikes.
We'll watch Jackie Robinson for you in the event he does decide to take off and try to steal second.
Jerry Coleman moves in a step or two, hollers something to Rashie.
In the second inning, New York 6, Brooklyn 1.
Woodling is way back deep in left.
Rashie stretches, Robbie dances off first.
Henrik moves over to first, here's the pitch, and it's outside, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Robinson danced off first as if he might be thinking of going down,
and Henrik who was in behind him then came dashing over to first.
Rashie had a look, but instead of throwing to Henrik, came into the plate with it.
Robinson widens his lead a bit, stretched by Rashie, you look at Jackie.
There's the pitch, and it's in there for a strike.
Jackie bluffed to dash to second that time, thought he was going to go.
Two and one, they count on Hodges.
Robinson and Hodges now exchange glances.
They stand down, Rashie with the stretch, a look.
Here's your pitch, swung on, lying out in the right field corner,
and Robinson might possibly score on his rounding second, headed for third.
Mape plays the rebound beautifully, he throws in to Rizzuto
and holds Hodges to a single and Robinson to third.
Cliff Mape's beautiful play of that ball off the right field wall,
held that blow to a single as Hodges lined it into the right field corner,
and Mape, who was over in the right center, dashed over
and played the rebound perfectly to keep Jackie Robinson from scoring
and keep Hodges from taking the extra bases.
So Hodges lined a single into the right field corner,
sending Robinson to third, and the batter is Mar Brackley,
who struck out in the third inning.
And immediately, Carl Hurskin starts to warm up in the Dodger bullpen,
with Burchot inevitably having in mind the injection of a pinch hitter
for Banton, should Brackley, who now is at bat, and Campanella, who follows, get on.
Score, Yankee six, Brooklyn one, the last half of the fourth,
Robinson on third, Hodges on first, two men down,
Brackley left hand hitter up, stretch the pitch, outside, ball one.
There's nobody warming up in the Yankee bullpen.
Vick again ready, he throws, inside, ball two, Robinson on third,
Hodges on first, two down, and stretch by Raschi.
Here's the pitch, strike call, got the inside corner, just below the belt,
two-one count on Marv, Bobby Brown's in close at third,
Rizzuto four strides to the left of second in halfway,
Jerry Coleman deep, four strides to the right of second,
Henrik just in behind Hodges at first, a two-one count on Brackley,
again Raschi is set.
Here's the pitch, Brackley takes low inside for ball three,
Roy Campanella is on deck, and now Jim Turner comes out of the Yankee dugout
on orders from Casey Stengel and motions for action in the Yankee bullpen,
and it's Fred Sanford getting up.
Just as Raschi takes his stretch, Brackley steps out of the batter's box.
Raschi is perspiring rather freely, the upper portion of his uniform shirt
absolutely wet.
Are we ready for the three-one pitch, runners on first and third,
here it is, and it is strike two, call right over.
Brackley started at first and was called back by Hubbard going up with the right hand.
So you've got a full count on Brackley, three and two,
and with two down Robinson will be playing it safe at third,
that is he'll make sure that the ball is hit somewhere before he starts running.
Gil Hodges who's on first on the other hand and who is forced will be off and running with the pitch.
So the stretch by Raschi, there goes Hodges, the pitch is one-one and he missed strike three.
How about that?
No runs for Brooklyn, two hits, no errors for the Yankees,
and two men left on for the Dodgers.
And just as Raschi was on the verge, he recovered in time to strike out Brackley in the clutch.
And so the score at the end of four innings, the Yankees six, the Dodgers one.
Your totals, Yankees six runs, five hits, no errors, five left on,
Brooklyn one run, four hits, one error, and three men left on base.
This is Mel Allen with Red Barber bringing you the World Series from Ebbets Field.
Gene Woodling up, takes a pitch inside for ball one as we go to the top of the fifth inning
where the Yankees leading six to one.
Woodling walked and singled to center.
Right-hander ready for jacked down the throws, right over for a called strike fastball,
and the count is even up at one and one.
The fans exercising their prerogative are hollering at the umpire.
In comes the pitch, and it's high and outside for ball two, two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
The men in blue do a great job.
Without them, baseball wouldn't be what it is.
The two-one delivery on its way.
Swung on, there's a long drive to right field.
There's Hormanski racing back.
The ball's off the scoreboard. Gene plays it off.
Now Snyder comes over to get his.
It rolls away from Gene, and there's Woodling sliding into second with a double.
Gene Woodling lines a double off the scoreboard in right center field.
The rebound got away from Hormanski.
It didn't rebound directly at him, but at an angle,
and Duke Snyder figuring that possibility came racing over from center field to grab the ball,
but his throw in to second was not in time,
and Woodling is on with a double off the right field scoreboard.
Here's Swift-Mapes.
Left-hand hitter.
Banda's pitch curve inside ball one.
Mapes struck out and walked.
Woodling's only other hit in this series was a double,
and it was here at Abbott's Field in almost the same spot.
Banda pitches.
Mapes takes inside around the knees for ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Now the pitch.
It's butted at for a strike and missed by Mapes.
That pitch was way outside, but Mapes had his mind made up.
He was going to bunt and did.
That ball was two feet outside.
So it's a two-one count.
I said a moment ago that Woodling's only other hit in the series was a double.
I meant prior to today.
Today he's had a walk, a single, and a double.
Woodling moves off second, 6-1 New York.
Fifth inning, the pitch is butted out toward the mound.
There is Banda up with it, throws over to Hodges for the out.
Moving to third on the play with Woodling as the sacrifice for Mapes.
As Casey Stengel with a 6-1 lead figures every other run he can get now
means just that much tougher road the Dodgers will have to hold to stay alive in this World Series.
Mapes is out as he bunts down the first base line.
Banda to Hodges.
Here's Jerry Coleman.
Jorgensen moves over from third now to talk to Banda.
The attendance today, 33,711.
Gate receipts $167,165.45.
The players, of course, get their shares out of the first four games.
And it has been estimated that the winning team share will be just a little over $5,000.
And the losing team share just a little over $4,000 per player.
In field, in, in comes the pitch.
Jerry Coleman swings and sends the ground ball to Hodges, gets off his glove.
Here comes Woodling taking the plate.
The throw is in and not in time.
Woodling scored as Hodges had grabbed the ball, stepped on first to retire Coleman
and almost had the chance for an unusual double play at the plate.
But he threw in a hurry off balance and off to the right of the plate, into the dirt.
It had to be blocked by Campanella and he was at least 5 to 10 feet away from the plate
up the first base line and had no chance to get Woodling.
It was an unusual play with so much happening at once that you couldn't get it all in at one time.
Woodling had come up the line from third but when the ball was hit sharply to Hodges with the infield in,
Woodling decided not to go.
But when the ball skipped off the glove of Hodges, he came on in.
Now Rashie takes the fastball in for a strike.
The ball skipped off the glove of Hodges, rolled across the foul line.
He grabbed it, stepped on first in time to get Coleman, then threw to the plate trying to get Woodling,
who then decided he ought to run.
Now the pitch, swung on and missed, strike two by Rashie.
So Coleman is out, Hodges unassisted, is credited with a run back in, his third of the ballgame.
The Yankees lead 7-1. Rashie, who walked and singled, on the next pitch,
takes over the outside corner for a call strike three.
One run for the Yankees, one hit, no errors for the Dodgers.
Nobody left on for New York and the score at the end of four and one half innings of play,
New York 7, Brooklyn 1.
And as we get ready to go into the last half of the fifth inning,
all set to move into the Gillette microphone is Red Barber.
And it's always great to be able to work with a great announcer.
Red, I mean that from the heart and it's always a wonderful pleasure
to be able to associate with you on these World Series broadcasts or any other.
Thank you Mel, and at the two-way street, now Big Rashie trying to nail down the World Series to New York,
makes his first pitch to Campanella a good one for a call strike
as we move along with the last half of the fifth inning.
Big crowd sitting and sort of stirring restlessly.
The Yankees on top of a big score now, 7 to 1, third ball is over for a call strike.
Nothing in two.
That was a nice one that he spun off.
Rashie on the mound, this is his second appearance, as Mel pointed out to you.
He started the second game, he's coming back with two days rest.
He won 21 ball games, was a strong man on the mound staff for the Yankees,
in case his single out of nothing else than sentiment would give his biggest winner,
who puts the pennant winning game Sunday, an opportunity to go today.
Throw, curve ball outside, ball one.
What we mean by sentiment was that if Stengel had started somebody else and the Yankees had won today,
then Rashie would not get a chance to get even with the Boards.
He was the losing pitcher in game two.
So that's why he drew the assignment today, among other reasons of course.
It may very well be that Stengel felt he was his best possible pitcher anyhow.
Curve outside, and it's ball two. Two balls, two strikes.
Fulabara, who's had to catch through the series with a bruised left thumb,
every one of these pitches hurts him.
That's a jaw there, as that ball settles in that catching mitt.
Barra down to give the sign, big cow Hubbard,
working balls and strikes standing directly behind the receiver.
Here's the right-hander's two-two pitch, fastball swung on and foul,
straight back on the screen and out of play.
Campanella's up for his second at bat.
Rashie, was just moving along with the efficiency of a well-oiled machine,
and knocking off the first seven batters, so Campanella doubled in the third inning,
and two down, re-singling him over, look from the front.
I feel very much around toward left.
There's a slight breeze that is blowing out toward left,
but it is not a too strong game factor.
Campanella hits a high foul, back out of play again, still two and two.
As Mel gave you the figures a few moments ago,
it was brought in by the Book of the Ropes Secretary, Hal Park, 33,711.
Here to see this fifth game of the series, third game of the set at Ebbets Field.
Now let's see, this end of game carries on.
Rashie pitches again, two and two.
Campanella hits a hot fly and drive right at the receiver.
Here's the right-hander's two-two pitch, fastball swung on and foul,
straight back on the screen, out of play.
Campanella drives on, Rashie pitches again, two and two, Campanella hits a hot fly and drive right at the receiver,
and a fine little trot step, holds it as he dips into the hole between third and short.
Still, one up, one away, last half of the fifth.
The Yankee defense has been extremely sound.
Outside of a boop which meant nothing,
The way Raddick was pitching the opening game by Coleman, there have been no other mistakes.
Now Pinscherter, Tommy Brown, a right-hand batter, is coming up to hit the batter.
Samantha, who has relieved for the last two and the third innings, is out of there.
And Brown, making his second appearance as a pinch hitter, he's 0-1.
Slender, right-hand hitter, takes a fastball through there for a called strike.
Rashie, who is primarily our control pitcher, is making his pitches good as early as he
can on these hitters.
He's pitching with a 6-run lead.
Works curveball too high, and it is 1-1.
One ball, one strike.
Brown hitting for batter, in the last of the fifth.
Rashie not wasting much time.
Carl Erskine is the only pitcher working the book on both ends, trying to stand our own
so we presume it will be he who will come on to pitch against the top of the Yankee
batting order in the sixth inning.
New York 7, book and one, fastball, swing on, fouled off, and the count now goes 1-2.
The ball swung back and into the permanent press box, which is suspended from the roof
of these double-back stands here at Ebbets Field.
So one of the members of the Fourth Estate has a World Series souvenir.
One ball, two strikes.
Out to your left.
Infield is straight away.
That's Henrik, Coleman, Frazzuto, and Brown.
Rashie works 1-2.
First one on and missed, the strike three, so Brown.
They're set down and it's the fifth strikeout for Rashie.
Well, fires the ball down to third.
Brown trucks over toward the mound, tosses it on the hand now to the pitcher.
Let's see, the outfield moves a step more toward left.
That's Woodling in left field, who's had a perfect afternoon with a walk, single and
double.
DiMaggio, and I know that the sentimental heart of the American public was glad to see
him belt one, is in center, and the right fielder's Mates.
Peewee Reese up, pass ball over for a called strike.
Peewee leads the Dodgers with the most hits he has far.
One for two today.
Five for 16 for the series.
Swings, there's another one, a line drive over third down in left field.
So Reese is on at first.
And this fine money player for the Dodgers, ever since he came up in 1940, continues to
show why people consider him one of the fine shortstop anywhere around.
Line single into left.
And hit number five for Brooklyn.
Jorgensen, the smallish, south-forth swinging third baseman.
Jorgensen is 0 for 2 today and is 2 for 11 in the series.
Rashie pitches, pass ball, swung on, trickled up toward first.
Henry comes on, picks up the ball, and steps on the bag for the third out.
So that ends Madison, the last of the defending.
No runs, one hit.
Well, the check are five inning totals.
For the Yankees, seven runs.
They're all official miscorded earned.
A half a dozen hits into New York and errorless defense.
Far for the Dodgers, one run.
Off Rashie, which is earned.
Five hits, which have been pretty well scattered.
And for the Dodgers, one error, which was Barney's throwing error in the first inning.
Barney was wild at the bell.
And that wildness so far has been the turning point of the ball game.
He walked the first two hitters and then in throwing high to second base on a pickoff
play, moved them over an extra notch.
Well, that's the Brooklyn Dodgers and Barney over saluting now the commissioner and Governor
Dewey and playing the either-or-the-odder fellow.
Speaking about the runs being officially scored as earned a moment ago, we'd like to comment
that the work of the three official scorers, as appointed by Commissioner Chandler, has
been very sound and very short.
The official scorers are Roscoe McGard of the New York Times, Milton Gross of the New
York Post, and Lou Ness of the Brooklyn Eagles.
Erskine has been officially announced and is out on the mound.
Warming up his right arm, prior to taking over, E-R-S-K-I-N-E.
And now Erskine, he'll be pitching to Rizzuto, who's had a perfectly grand series, but kept
a splendid year all season long in the American League.
A little short stop, he's only been up officially once so far this afternoon.
That was a fly ball to set a field.
He walked to begin the ball game, which was as pivotal a play as you can get.
Then he got this sacrifice in the second inning when he was bunting, presumably for a base
hit but still moved a man over.
So therefore he was officially scored as a sacrificer.
He has three hits for 16 official at bats.
He's a tough target, he has good eyes, very quick with his wrists, and he is small, just
a little bit over five feet.
In fact, when you see him in street clothes walking around with these athletes, you figure,
well, see, that must be the bat boy.
Then Rizzuto, who can play this game with just as big fellows as they come.
Erskine makes his first pitch of fastball in under the hands of all one.
He said that Erskine was the smallest right-hander.
Well, of course, he's a pretty good-sized fellow compared to Rizzuto, pretty small as
pitches usually go.
Delivers fastball inside, and Rizzuto, who had stood up to it, apparently had his mind
set for a curve or something, had suddenly backtracked there at the last split second.
Two and all, Hatfield shaded toward left.
Third baseman Jorgensen is off the back, suspicious of a bat.
Hodges is a couple of steps up at first.
Robinson up at second.
Fastball in under the hands for ball three.
So Rizzuto is in the catbird seat now as far as the count is concerned.
Three and all.
The Yankees out in front, seven to one.
Rizzuto, who started in two and two-thirds innings, walked six men.
Didn't take many hits to capitalize, and a bushel basket full of runs.
Throw, missing for ball four.
So Erskine gives up the walk.
This is the seventh Yankee to get a free ticket.
Rizzuto for the second time is walked, and he's at first, and here is Tommy Henrik.
Infield up halfway, Henrik runs up his own with bunt and takes, and it's a called strike.
Goes that big right hand, even bigger, Carroll Hubbard.
Hubbard back of the plate, ridden at first base at second pass, Jorla at third in the
foul corner, Bar in left, and Hurley in right.
Erskine in position, checks first.
There goes Rizzuto.
There's a curve ball, chopped into right field, a hit-and-run play.
Rizzuto wheels right around, second comes on into third.
Brackley wheels, throws into second base, a shortstop race, and it's a hit-and-run single
into left field for Henrik.
So Erskine has no sooner come on, and he's drawn a couple of tortors, a base on balls
and a single.
And Yogi Barrett, who is 0 for 3 today, in a crouch, swings and drops the ball foul into
The right field corner.
He really swings that wood.
When he first came up to the Yankees, they didn't know where in the world they were going
to play him.
Whether they were going to catch it, play him in the outfield or just what.
But they knew they were going to play him, or as Bucky Harris said a couple of years
ago, anybody who can swing that bat's going to be out there playing.
Swing it the way he swings it, and he swings it.
Infield is up, hoping for a play at the plate.
The Yankees leading 7-1 and pressing forward here in the sixth inning.
Nobody out, men at first and third.
There's a fly ball into left field.
Brackley is going back underneath it.
Rizzuto tags to third.
There's the catch and deep left.
The throw goes to second, conceding the run and holding Henrik to run it first to first
base.
So, four New York now, 8-1, and Berra bats in the run with a long fly ball to left field.
The Yankees have now scored in five of the sixth innings in which they have come up to
The plate.
And Big DiMaggio gets a big hand.
Joe Fanle hit one.
I know he must feel emergently better.
He hit that home run in the left field corner in the fourth inning.
His second series hit and his first real solid hit.
The other was a squibbit up toward third.
At field toward left.
Joe swings as a high pop fly on the short right.
Second baseman Robinson is out.
Under it, under it, and takes it.
Henrik holding on it first.
Two men are gone.
And Tommy Brown who continues to play great ball in the World Series.
Let him get in the series.
And he almost takes over the show.
Henrik at first, ready to set sail.
Vicki coaching at first base.
Frankie Crisetti at third.
In field is now all in shadow.
So is left field.
Center field and right field still have sun.
Erskine delivers.
Terps swung on.
Drilled in the right field.
It is fair by about a yard in the corner.
And here is Henrik wheeling in the third.
The ball gets away from Ormanski.
Henrik is being waved on in by Crisetti.
The throw is being relayed by Robinson.
Henrik comes on to score.
And two-third goes down.
The ball gets away from Campanella.
And here is Brown coming on in to score.
Standing up at the plate.
Throw that will probably be scored as a triple and an error.
The high bouncing throw from right field to Ormanski got off the leaping form of the catcher
Campanella and went back to the stands.
It could be scored as a double as the throw in and as an error or a triple and an error.
However, it's a run batted in by Brown down into the right field corner.
Gives him another one.
The Yankees get two more runs over to go out and clutch ten to one.
And Clyde Souffport begins that slow death march out to the mound.
He is the fellow that takes the news after the producer manages the shot.
That is scored as a three-bagger.
And the error is being charged against second baseman Robinson on his relay.
Told you that Robinson relayed the throw and I think a moment later I hastily said that
The right fielder's throw bounced high over the catcher.
It was Robinson's relay and Robinson is charged with the error.
That is a triple for Brown.
That's all for Erskine.
He's out of there and here's Hatton coming on for the second straight day.
A triple for Brown.
That's the second time he's tripled.
Well, I guess Hatton knows Erskine field because Brown tripled off Hatton yesterday.
Brown a three-bagger on the right field corner and never stops running on the concomitant
error which is charged against the second baseman Brown score.
The announcement has now been made and Hatton is officially the pitcher and Erskine vacates
The mound for him.
Tommy Henrik is scored officially as coming all the way in of course on the three-bagger.
Now leaving the Brooklyn dugout going down to the bullpen is Erskine Polika.
Hatton takes over on the mound.
It is 10 to 1 in favor of the rampaging Yankees and Casey Stengel himself seems to be visibly
relaxed down there in the Yankee dugout.
I don't think he's particularly concerned now about events.
He's got a lot of pitches.
Firstly, one guy named Joe plays down the bullpen.
Of course, he's got one that's going very well on the mound and the percentages are
just packing up higher and higher with the American League champions.
They're leading now by an aggregate score of 10 to 1.
Now Hatton's about ready to go and the batter that he will pitch to is the left-hand hitting
left fielder Gene Woodling who's had a perfect afternoon and with this huge margin Stengel
is not making the reverse by pinch hitting with the right-hand batter.
Hatton throws fastball in there for a called strike.
So running on, the first nine runs for the Yankees ought to be scored as earned.
Well, the tenth one is to be scored as earned and that remains to be seen.
The error was not of the outmaking variety.
Pitch curveball low, one and one.
Woodling who walked in the first inning, singled in the center in the third and doubled in
The fifth.
He scored two runs.
Three hits for eight official at bats.
Ball is in under the hands and it is two and one.
Two balls, one strike.
The Yankees of course leading in game three to one and leading in runs and this one with
The Dodgers, Dormey, ten runs to one.
Two on pitch, swung on, there's a drive into left center field.
She's in there for a base hit and passed correctly, at least for a double.
Here's Woodling coming in to second standing up to continue his bid for a perfect afternoon
and this makes all ten of the Yankee runs earned.
So a solid line drive double for Woodling which gives him three for three.
His third hit is hit charged to Hatton of course.
The Yankee runs the first five charged to start a bonny, the next two to batter, the
next three to Erskine.
Hatton of course is completely responsible for Woodling in second base.
Joseph Mapes who is 0 for 1 officially, 1 for 8 in the series left hand batter, 1 for
8 in the series left hand batter, takes a high inside curve for ball one.
His base hit yesterday was a very big one for New York with the ball game standing even.
He sliced a double in the left field corner, knocked in the first two runs and the Yankees
were never headed.
Fung on a high fly ball into short left, Brackley comes in, the left field is under it, backs
up, makes the cut.
So that closes matters in the top of the sixth inning and the Yankees pick up three more
runs, three more hits.
There's one booked for Marrow and at the end of five and a half innings the score stands
now in New York 10 and Brooklyn 1.
Lou Boudreaux of the Cleveland Indians says that he'd rather go without his morning coffee
than passive shaving.
Yes, Lou uses Gillette's super speed razor and here he is to tell you why.
Well, fans, that's because it makes shaving something to look forward to.
And what way, Lou?
Well, red shaving is no longer a chore.
It picks me up, gives me a feeling of well-being.
In fact, it's as important as breakfast to me.
Well, you don't mean that you'd rather shave than eat, do you?
Oh, no, but I just don't feel right until I do shave.
Fans, with the Gillette super speed razor, shaving is a refreshing experience and far
more convenient than ever.
Look for Gillette's special World Series set, get this fine one piece razor and a 10 blade
Gillette dispenser in a handsome styrene travel cape, a big $1.75 value for only a dollar.
Last half of the sixth inning, the Yankees 10, the Dodgers 1.
Well, to be perfectly factual about it, if Brooklyn can pull this one out today, this
is going to be an explosion that will be topped pretty much only by several of atomic origin.
Hello, this is an unpredictable ball club, a dead game ball club, and it's a ball park
that is fated for the unexpected.
That's almost taken for granted around the Diggins and Pat Bush.
So let's hold on and see.
Duke Snyder, first half last of the sixth.
Right-hander rashie pitches and Snyder swings.
That's the ball out deep into let's set a field and it's in there for a base hit, comes
off the wall, Snyder's coming in the second base, Woodling throws in and it's a double
for Snyder.
The ball gets through from Coleman, but rashie backs up the play and Snyder is content to
stay a second, lashing out to the double.
So the Duke movement is swinging away.
Let's double, let's see alleyway and let's set a field.
This gives him his second World Series hit.
This is hit number six this afternoon off rashie.
The Dodgers trailing by nine runs have only two alternatives as they say in baseball.
You swing or you take.
In other words, you swing to hit and you take to try and get a base on ball.
10 to one New York, rashie is the uniformed straight now becoming sweat stained as he's
been twirling steadily along.
The right hander Robinson who is one for two today, backs out as rashie gets all set time
is called.
Robinson has three hits for 14 at bats.
At field toward left, Jack runs up his own with Brunson takes a pitch inside for ball
one.
Snyder second and of course Ruth Line run the bases conservatively.
Manager Stengel steps to the front of the dugout and says look out for the bun again.
The pitch fastball that is outside just by a tick for ball two.
Rashie trying to keep control of the situation with a nine run lead delivers in there for
a call strike.
He hasn't been fooling with his curve so much.
He's been primarily a fastball pitcher this afternoon.
Two holes one strike.
Robinson swinging.
Two and two.
Snyder not only came up with a base hit for himself in the sixth inning which will help
his feelings emergibly but by getting a base hit he saw to it that he didn't strike out.
He's only one strike out away from tying the record for a batter striking out the most
in the five game series.
Roger Hornsby struck out eight times in 1829.
Robinson takes a curve outside for ball three.
Three balls two strikes.
Snyder struck out seven times in the series.
Three and two.
That's the ball and strike count.
One out last for the sixth.
Rashie pitching with a little bit more deliberation now.
He's probably beginning to get tired.
Come back after two days rest.
Big right hander throws outside for ball four.
Ann Robinson achieves his objective getting on base based on balls which is the first
given up by Rashie.
Hand pitching coach Jim Turner steps to the front of the Yankee dugout and motions to
The Yankee bullpen with his left hand.
What do you think that means?
Only one thing Joe Page.
There's Big Page starting to warm up and he knows how to warm up.
He doesn't leave any of his pitches out on the bullpen.
Well the Yankees want to end it.
There it is.
Page throwing in the bullpen.
The Yankees leading 10 to 1.
The matter is Gene Hermanski at the plate.
Swings and falls the ball out of play back on the screen.
Nothing in one.
Big Rashie takes the sign from Stocky Beller.
Pitches.
There's a bounding ball hit through between first and second.
The Yankees are in the right field.
Matter being waved by Stack around third.
It comes on in the score and when the ball is bobbled in right field by Mates Robinson
who has stopped at second picks up both to third.
Hermanski holds his first.
That makes it a 10 to 2 ball game and an hour is charged on Mates in right field.
You can't bobble at balls for so much as a swift second on Robinson.
His reflexes are amazingly rapid.
So Hermanski singles in to right.
Dodges, if nothing else, are going to worry the Yankees and Stengel as much as they can.
They got Stengel up in front of the dugout howling now.
Robinson stops at second, moves over to third on right field.
The Mates is missed too.
Snyder scores of course.
Up now is Gil Hodges who singled his last 50.
He's 1 to 2 today.
He has 3 hits to 14.
Out to Alonso on left.
10 to 2 ball game for New York.
Nobody else.
Slow curve is over for a called strike.
And Page is warming up from the Yankee both end.
You watch him warm up.
You would think he was being very lackadaisical, very unconcerned.
It's a part of his ability to do so much work.
He just gets sort of loose down there and he gets right on the edge of where he's ready
to throw hard and then he takes them out.
Robinson off there in.
Manskill first.
The Yankee in field is up only one or two steps in double play depth.
The outfield toward left.
Rash your pitcher.
The curve is one on the miss.
Strike two.
He's spun a big slow breaking curve over.
Broke it off very nicely.
Nothing in two.
The Yankees 10 to the Dodgers 2.
There's a lot left to happen in this ball game.
You let folks might happen to send it to you wherever you are, wherever you happen to be.
Pudge is leaning in slightly.
Rash your pitchers.
Curve low outside.
The borough goes down nicely to his right to hold the ball up.
One ball, two strikes.
One and two.
Before the ball game, we had a talk with Billy Southwest and we're very happy to tell you
that he feels fine.
He looks fine.
He's all set to resume the managership of the Boston Braves next year.
He was pretty sick.
He's gone as far as he could go.
The one and two pitch, curve's one on the miss, strike three on Hodges.
He's stuck out on big breaking stuff.
This is the sixth strikeout for Rashie.
Rashie's struck out in eight innings, four men in game two.
Rashie apparently found that his hands were perspiring a great deal and Stengel held up
a towel over him to dug out.
But Rashie said, well, I don't want it.
So he's gone back to the mound.
Henry could come over from first base to visit with him, goes back to first.
Manski first base, Robinson at third.
Those are the two runners.
One man out.
The batter is Marvin Radcliffe, who was 0-2 both times he's been up.
He's struck out.
He's 0-4 on the series.
Works well up on the hand a little bit.
Small left hand hitter.
Swings on a curve, hits it down to first base.
Henry got and drops the runners.
Let's see, Russ Radcliffe back, steps on first for the out.
On Radcliffe, he holds Radcliffe at third base.
Manski moves on to second.
Jack, of course, in other words, had the one run meant anything, I think he'd have tried.
But of course, when you're eight runs behind, you don't risk it out.
So Henry just waved his arm menacingly once and Robinson obligingly dotted back into third
base.
Manski moved over to second.
So Radcliffe is just out routine to the first baseman.
On the system.
That's the second out.
Roy Campanella, who has had a fine series, who kept a very solid season.
Campanella, who is one for two, four hits for 14 at bats.
Right hand batter.
First base is open.
There's two out there pitching to him.
That eight run advantage lets you do it the way you want to do it.
Yankees leading 10 to two.
Last is the sixth.
Rashie takes a long time getting the sign.
Pumps watch pitches a curve ball in there.
Ball strike.
Rashie settle down, get the last two outs.
So Paige is promptly sloughed off.
Throw, curve ball low outside.
Ball one.
On ball one, strike.
Rashie apparently feeling that being tired, that he's losing something on his fast ball
is going to his curve more and more.
In case you're tangled, moving around, hollering at Rashie and Vic nods, uh-huh.
The pitchers, the fast ball in there for a call second strike.
One and two.
One ball, two strikes.
Simonson at third.
A long run down just then.
Just gets second.
I feel very much around toward left.
Campanella, stocky, strong, open stance.
Takes an outside curve.
It's down into the dirt.
Gets away from Barrow who picks up the ball.
Throws down to third base.
Robertson just this slide back.
It was a bang, bang play.
That ball hit into the dirt and spun out of Barrow's mid.
It looked as though it might be getting ready to be a wild pitch when Barrow promptly recovered
it on the first bounce.
And Robertson, who immediately started toward home plate when he saw the ball hit the ground,
was hard pressed to get back as Barrow recovered.
He lost his mitt in the process, but he didn't bother to pick it up.
He just picked up the ball and fired it down to third.
Two balls, two strikes.
Page resumes throwing once in a while leisurely in the Yankee bullpen.
The two-two pitch is a curve all over too hard.
So it is three and two.
Three balls, two strikes.
Last of the six spinning.
Ball game is now two hours old.
Rashi pumps.
Delivers three-two, a curve outside the ball.
Four and Campanella walks.
It's low for the bases.
And Billy Cox is coming up as a pinch hitter.
Billy Cox who pinch hit a dribble single.
I thought of that in front of the plate yesterday.
Cox taking over for Joe Hatton.
Can you hear him please?
Paul Brooklyn, number three.
Billy Cox batting for Joe Hatton.
So Cox coming up to hit.
The bases are FOB, they are full of Brooklands.
As the saying goes around the neck of the woods.
Three-man on, two out.
The Yankees ten, the Dodgers two.
Felika, the only pitcher throwing in the Brooklyn bullpen.
So we'll see him in the seventh inning.
Rashi now trying to settle matters in the six pitches.
Misses with the fastball in under the hands.
Four ball one.
One ball, no strike.
Big right hander has a very easy move.
He's centering his attentions on the hitter.
Pinch hitter Billy Cox, slight right hand batter.
Swings and misses.
That is a sharp curve ball.
One and one.
One ball, one strike.
Cox had the regular job at third until he sprained an ankle in the morning game Labor
Day.
And didn't play at all until yesterday.
He got in the ball game and finished it.
Twenty-one pitch, swung on, there's a foul ball.
Back out of play.
One and two.
The ball takes a new ball.
Ask for time, walks out to the mound.
One and two, ball and strike count.
Rashi who lost that brilliant ball game to Pichiro in two at the stadium.
Now trying to hang on.
Page and Silberon have stopped their work down the Yankee bullpen.
They're looking on, along with everybody else.
The pitch here is a curve behind side of the ball too.
Two and two.
Cox swings from the end.
Rashi in no hurry.
He's got a long weather ahead of him.
The two-two pitch.
Swung on to this, fastball high, strike three.
He couldn't lay off it.
High inside fastball.
It is one of the pitch's best friends at seven strikeouts for Rashi.
So it is one run in the last half of the sixth inning.
Two hits to the three men left.
So the totals at the end of the sixth inning for the Yankees, ten runs are all earned.
Ten hits and one error.
For the Dodgers, two runs earned, seven hits and two errors.
Now the Dodgers had an agreement that there was total cold water.
Flakers being announced with the pitcher to come on in the seventh inning.
And the Yankees at the end of sixth are out in front, ten to two.
And on our broadcast with the best wishes of the Gillette's Safe to Raise the Folks,
we'll pause ten seconds for our state's identification.
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Watch here the World Series exclusively over WOR and see it on WOR-TV Channel 9, WOR and
WOR-FM, New York.
I want to check back on the Yankee totals.
We just gave you ten hits for them.
The hits should be nine.
Three hits off Bonnie, three hits off Madda, two off Erskine and one off Hatton.
So Yankees ten, nine, one.
The Dodgers two, seven, two.
Now Pulika is out there on the troubled scene, ready to pitch to second baseman Coleman as
we move into the seventh inning.
Pulika, a young right-hander, used primarily as a relief pitcher all year for the Dodgers,
not used very much in the late stages.
Coleman, who's had a tremendous series for a rookie, one for three today, right-hand
batter, swings and slaps different foul on the upper first base stand.
Take one as we move along into the seventh inning with the Yankees leading ten to two.
The shadow of the stands has now almost completely developed the playing area.
Right center field in its depth out by the wall still has a little bit of sun.
Fast ball swung on and missed at the plate, strike two.
No balls, two strikes.
Pulika, six foot, graceful working right-hander, misses with a fast ball low inside, one and
two.
One ball, two strikes.
Pulika kicked on that decision.
The one and two pitch swung on, hit down straight to second baseman Robinson, who's up with
it on a big hop, throws over the first to Hodges, and Coleman is retired.
One up and one away.
And Pichirashi gets a growing round of applause as he comes closer and closer to home plate.
He's been quite a pitcher so far in this series.
When you lose one to nothing, that's just as close as you can cut it and be a losing
pitcher.
That was his fate against Pichirashi in the second game.
Pulika's fast ball high inside to Rashi, who's a right-hand batter, who has one hit,
knocked in a run with it back in the third inning.
Big steps up, swings, misses.
One and one, pitch is right down in the slot.
One out, nobody on in the seventh.
Throw, fast ball low inside, two and one.
Campanella pumps the sign.
I feel, step toward left.
Rashi is a good hitting pitcher.
Takes a fast ball over for a false second strike, and it's two and two.
It's a very interesting and a somber study to watch some of the faces of the national
leagueers that sit back at the Brooklyn bench over there in the New York giant box, Carl
Hubble, Eddie Brannock, the road secretary, Mel Ott sitting shoulder to shoulder with
Leo DeRoscia.
Two, two, pitch, swung on, hit right back to the mound on a big bounder.
Pulika throws over to first, and Rashi is out, but Pulika made him run all the way down
The line.
He wouldn't throw over there until after he had run very close to first base.
So, two men are gone, top of the seventh.
And the scudo, Phil Rizzuto, who's had a great series.
He's done everything that you could ask of him.
Pitch, fast ball in there.
I think in one.
Pulika so far just trying to get the ball over, I think.
He hasn't gone very much.
He can throw almost anything.
Deals, there is a breaking ball that's fouled off.
It might have been a knuckle up, or seemed to be giving it snake-like waivers that came
up.
Nothing in two.
That field's what left.
Infield is up because of this fellow's speed.
Curves, one and missed, strike three.
So Pulika strikes him out.
That's the first curve ball to use.
Coming across then for the Yankees, this is the first time in the ballgame that they did
not get a man on base in some fashion in the seven innings in which they batted.
And the score remains, the end of six and a half innings, the Yankees ten and the Dodgers
two.
Last half of the seventh inning, and it's the top of the order, Reese, Jorgensen, and
Snyder.
And despite the adverse fortunes to his ball club, Pee-wee Reese has continued to be a
standout.
He has had singles his last two trips, drove in Brooklyn's first run, which guaranteed
that if nothing else, the complete ignominy of a shutout would be averted.
Pee-wee has had six hits so far.
As she works, there's a line drive right into left field, right out to Woodley.
Straight to the left field, who holds it?
And gone, last of the seven, and Johnny Jorgensen, who's off to three, moves up to the plate.
Duke Snyder moves out on deck.
The Spada, as they call him, a ten-hitter with an open stance at 150 pounds.
Big rashie, pumps once, delivers, fastball on the outside, ball one.
He just pitching to spots.
First of his shirt now, staying with perspiration.
He deals outside again for ball two.
Two and all.
The Dodgers in a spot like this have no alternatives left but to take the count right on down,
trying to get ball four, because, you know, there's no defense against ball four, and
you've got to get a lot of men on when you're behind eight runs.
Rashi misses with a fastball at the knees, low inside for ball three.
Three and all.
One away, nobody on.
Barrett sets his mid as a target, three nothing pitch, inside for ball four.
The Jorgensen throws his stick away, sends Strahl, the book, and that boy retrieves it.
This is walk number three for Rashi and Duke Snatter, who doubled last time up in sixth
inning.
Later was turned into Brookton's second tally.
Snatter won for three today.
He has two hits for 19 at bats.
Curve, swung on, hit down to second base for Coleman, gets to him, on the right center
field.
Jorgensen runs second, goes in the third, and Snatter holds it first.
Coleman going to his right over toward second base, that's a tough play, as the meat hand
side to the second baseman can't quite come up with a ball, although he partially flags
it and it's officially scored as a base hit.
So, Snatter comes up to the wall.
That has to be a base hit.
That could have only been a great play had Coleman come up with it.
So that is a single in the center field for Snatter sending Jorgensen to third.
Hit number eight for the Dodgers, and the batter is Robinson, who has one hit for two
today.
Running at first and third, Rashi's fastball is lost, side ball won, and Joe Page is up
again.
He's, first of all, as they used to say, is sure his death and taxes, well, you might
say as far as the Yanks are concerned, is sure his death, taxes, and pay.
Robinson takes a call strike, fastball over, one ball, one strike.
One is at first and third, one out last to the seventh.
Appear around to what left.
Throw, swung on, hit the ball outside first base, it's one and two.
One ball, two strikes.
I guess at a time like this that Casey Stengel remains a little itchy because he's seen big
leads evaporate.
Everybody of course knows that at one time in the World Series, the Athletics came up
with 10 runs in one inning.
That's what makes baseball the interesting, charming, irresistible sport that it is, is
its consistent uncertainty, complete unpredictability.
So you play them out to the end, see what happens.
That's what we're doing.
The one and two pitch, swung on, there's a high fireball into left field, Woodlings on
rich, an easy chance for him.
Jorgensen tags that third, there's the catch.
Jorgensen comes on in and scores and Henrik, the first baseman, no, it's Brown, cut the
ball off in front of Henrik and this hole started at first base.
So it's a 10 to three ball game.
Fly ball to left field, high, deep enough, but not too well tagged, and Jorgensen scores.
10 to three, Stengel of course going just as far as he can with Rashid, he wants him
to finish.
Gene Harmanski who's singled in the run in the sixth inning for the Dodger, their second
tally comes up.
The Yankees are now moving all so close, so close to the big stake.
The Pernod races were bitter, right down to the last day.
Now the Yankees trying to decide the series.
Harmanski takes a curve that hangs outside to him, right hand pitcher working the left
hand batter.
Gene asked to have the ball examined, so Fred Umparkel Hubbard audited, brought to him for
an inspection, and he takes it out.
Apparently it had some dirt spot on it.
If there is anything that has changed the play of baseball, it has been the baseball
itself.
And not only the construction of the baseball, but the fact that a new ball is constantly
being used.
In the old days, they'd just play with the ball all afternoon.
Harmanski takes a pitch high, ball two.
Back before 1920 for example, pitch could do anything with the ball he wanted to.
Some of them did some fearful things.
Today a pitcher has to make every pitch good.
Two nothing pitch, low outside, ball three.
Two balls, no strikes, and there's Stengel just mucking around.
It's a 10 to 3 Yankee lead, but Mr. Stengel is not comfortable.
He's been in this game a long time, and in this ball pocket book him a long time.
Rashe seems to be quite tired.
He's forcing himself.
For a minute he gets up to start throwing in the book on both ends.
Pitch low, throw ball four, and Harmanski draws the base on balls.
Two out, he takes first to start and moves over to second base.
Walk number four off Rashe, and all four walks have come in the last two innings, sixth and
seventh.
Well, there's Stengel standing in front of the Yankee bench.
Boy, what a year he's had, huh?
What a year.
Never got very far managing in the major leagues at Brooklyn, Boston.
Never had very good ballplay.
He was given some ballplayers this year, and he's really come through.
Now the matter is Hodges, 10-3, favorite New York.
Rashe misses just outside, no more than the width of a Gillette blue blade, but that's
wide enough, ball one.
Hodges has one for three.
Outfield, Ron, toward left, a 10-to-minute.
Very tall, going down in the right-field corner for Brooklyn.
Page has already warmed up.
He's just watching for the Yankees.
They're the fast ball over, one and one, one ball, one strike.
Rashe is weary, but he wants to go.
You have a feeling, however, the next thing that happens to him, he's out.
One-one pitch, swung on, there's a high five ball deep in the left field, way back in the
left field.
It is in there for a home run, and it's a 10-to-6 ball game.
Stengel going to the mound, and Rashe's coming out.
Well, Rashe, there he goes, a big, swept-steam figure with his head down, walking into the
Yankee bench, Stengel is out of the mound, holding the ball, talking to Bellarmine.
Joe Page is coming on, and the Dodgers, who die hard, are still alive, and it's a 10-to-6
ball game.
There's Joe Page, the master release pitcher of his era.
Page coming out to the mound.
Big Hodges, it's a three-run home run.
Stengel waiting on the mound to hand the ball to Page.
Blackley is scheduled to hit first, but it will probably be a pinch hitter.
Blackley's a left-hand batter, and Page is a left-hander.
I see Laurie Ormahl going over to the Brooklyn batting cage.
Apparently, he's going to get a stick and hit.
Basically, I haven't picked up a bat as yet.
Page is going to pitch to the end out.
Well, while we have the opportunity, Page is taking over at the mound.
It's a 10-to-6 game in favor of New York.
We'll pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the neutral broadcasting system.
Hear the World Series exclusively over WOR.
See it on WOR-TV, Channel 9.
So far, Manager Schotton has not picked up his pinch hitter as yet.
Ralph Branca gets his glove, and the big pitcher who wears number 13 is going down to both
and along with Bruce Edwards to throw with Paul Menna.
It's a 10-to-6 ball game, and Louis Ormahl will be the pinch hitter.
Well, Mal, you've been watching Ratchie all year.
He got pretty tired, didn't he?
It was obvious he was quite tired.
He's the fellow that we wondered about at the very beginning of the game, the two-day
rest proposition with him.
Though he's a big fellow, and he is strong, yet he doesn't particularly care for the warm
weather.
He's always a better pitcher in cooler weather.
And he gave it all he had up to that seventh inning.
He was tiring in the sixth.
Now, think Casey Stengel's idea there was to try and get as far as he could with him
so that he would not have to work Joe Page any longer than he would have to, because
Joe has worked quite a lot in the series.
Well, so the Dodgers caught up with Ratchie, and he's gone.
And now Louis Ormahl is coming up with the pinch hitter against Joe Page the last time
they met.
Ormahl hit him for a home run.
So Page takes over.
The Dodgers who were behind 10-1 now moved up to work 10-6.
There's a pass ball right in that court called strike.
And it's a big better than six-foot left-hander.
Joe Page takes over.
It's the third time that Page is relieved.
Page relieved Tommy Byrne, you know.
Did a tremendous job in game three.
Winning pitchers.
Ormahl swings at a high foul back of the Brooklyn bench, coming down in the spectators.
Out of play.
Ormahl's two strikes.
Ormahl right-hand hitter.
Tense deep, back in the box, overly close stance.
Joe the clock is buzzing again.
Page delivers.
There's a swing of the best of strike three and he comes out on a place-to-fell over on
three straight pitches.
So that closes matters for the last half of the seventh.
And in the last of the seventh inning for the Dodgers, four runs, an inning which was
featured by Gil Hodges' home run with two on.
Two hits.
The other two men to get on were bases on balls.
So at the end of seven to check totals, 10 runs, nine hits, one hour for New York.
Six runs, nine hits, and two hours for Brooklyn.
All runs in the ball game are earned.
Ormahl who hits for left fielder Radcliffe has just been announced as going out into
left field.
Ball game, two and a half hours all.
Ready to move now into the eighth inning.
In case you're wondering what would happen should a ball game which started at two o'clock
on Sunday here this late in the year in the fall, should it be an extremely long game
and run into darkness?
Would they call it?
Well, Commissioner Chandler decided that if necessary because there are lights in both
parts, the lights would be turned on.
The game would go ahead.
However, on Sunday they could only play until seven o'clock.
They did have to turn the lights on.
The most runs ever scored by both clubs in the total world series game, 22 in case you're
wondering about that.
They've been 16 so far in this one.
They had divided with the Yankees 10 to Dodgers 6.
Now we'll see what happens.
The eighth inning.
That is Tommy Henrik who has one hit today, single his last time up.
Right end to Pelika delivers and Henrik swings and drills the ball to right center fielder
Snatter going over and makes a fine catch on it.
What a day he's had.
He's still got the ball.
That's the third fine catch for Snatter.
Two of them off the magio as Mel Allen told you earlier in the ball game.
Ball out steps in and takes a called strike.
Nothing in one.
There's a pitch high outside.
Ball one.
One ball, one strike.
Yankees 10 to Dodgers 6.
And the place is alive.
Vibrant with the sole once again.
Pitch is swung on.
There's a high fly ball into deep right center fielder.
Snatter back all against the concrete makes the catch.
376 feet away.
Throw to Lanagard.
Two up, two out.
Top of the eighth.
And here is the magio.
The jolted one in the fourth inning.
The second series hit and his first solid win.
A home run.
Right hand batter as you know outfield deep around to the left.
Fulika pitches a fast ball high inside.
Ball one.
The two Brooklyn pitchers in the bullpen, Branker and Minner continue working.
The magio takes a fast ball over for a called strike from both the knees.
For the Dodgers in the last of the eighth inning it will be Campanella with a catcher
who hits eighth and probably a pinch hitter in the top of the order.
One to one touch.
Low outside for ball two.
Two balls, one strike.
Two and one.
Ball game that was 10 to one is now 10 to six for New York.
Two out for the Yankees in the eighth.
Two on pitchers, a curve just missing high outside for ball three.
And Fulika turns his back, walks to the back of the mound.
He still has not turned around to accept the ball from Campanella.
Now he does.
Three and one.
Three one pitch, swung on and missed.
Fast ball in by the hand.
The Dodgers taking this cut.
Three and two.
Campanella bumps aside.
Making response to the livers.
High inside for ball four and the magio walks.
Fulika and his relief roll with the first five and now walks the magio.
They have bases on balls.
The Yankees have received eight walks.
The Dodgers have received four.
Great number of runs stemmed from the walks.
Snyder has been very busy in center field.
Mel has just checked up.
He looked back through his box score.
Snyder has had 18 put outs so far in the series.
The record in a five game search for center fielders, 20 by Earl Combs.
Tommy Brown takes a curve ball, Bobby Brown takes a curve ball in there for a false strike.
No balls, one strike.
Bobby has had a single walk strike out on a triple.
Brown gets in and sets it to Fulika.
That's his right foot on the slab.
He's in pitching position.
Delivered the magio, breaks and Brown hits the ball out of the left field.
He's in there for a base hit.
It's a bounding ball that almost goes down.
The magio holds on a second base.
The throw goes into second.
So two men go on a walk to Joe and another base hit for Brown.
Line single in the left field.
That ball almost had enough kangaroo in it to bounce up high over the left fielder.
So for the Yankees, man at first and second.
And stepping in is Gene Woodley.
These who had a nine run lead are now reduced to a four and they'd like to have some of
that big plus back again.
All they can get.
The Yankees of course trying to nail the series down.
The Dodgers trying to remain alive.
The matter is quite simple, very basic.
Throw, swung on a high fly ball into left field.
Almost unripped.
And the left fielder takes it for the third out.
And this is the first time that Woodley has been retired as a batter.
But that's all for the bid and the top of the eighth inning.
No runs, one hit, two and a left.
And with the Dodgers coming into the last half of the eighth, the score remains the
Yankees 10 and the Dodgers six.
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Mark Caffanella stepping in to be the first batter last of the eighth inning.
And Bruce Edwards, a stocky right hand hitter, second string catcher is being brought in
from the bullpen up to the bench.
Apparently to hit for Follica.
However, let's wait developments and see.
And Edwards comes up to the bench and is apparently instructed to notify the bullpen who they
wish to have throwing.
And Branca is ordered to stop throwing and Minner is to throw.
Eddie Mixch's utility infielder gets a catcher's lung goes down to the bullpen in place of
Edwards.
Page takes the sign, throws, first swing's a high high pop fly.
Let's see the first baseman Tommy Henrik is under the ball, under it, he's got it.
Throw one up and one gone.
And Bruce Edwards walking up to pinch hit.
This will be his second appearance.
He ended game three as he looked to the third strike that paid through fast.
For Brooklyn, number 10, Bruce Edwards starting for Follica.
Edwards stepping in.
Page trying to nail the world's championship down for the Yankees.
Delivers fastball swung on and missed.
It was Pagaw son along working for a pennant.
What a job he did in the next and last game to keep the Yankees alive in order for them
to win something.
And now he's pitching for the big stick.
Delivers fastball outside ball one.
Oddly enough it was Pagaw in the seventh of the deciding game between these two teams
in 47 that held Brooklyn off and enabled the Yankees to go ahead and win and clinch it.
So he's being given a second chance to clinch it for his ball class.
It's a rather appropriate honor.
The games that he saved say nothing of those that he's won himself all season long.
21 pitches swung on as a base hit into the field as the Dodgers remain going.
Edwards is single, in the lap, then he's on the first.
So hit number one on page number 10 for the Dodgers.
That's hit number 20 in the ball game.
You can add them appropriately correctly.
And lead off with Peewee Reese who is two for four today.
Six hits for 18 so far.
12 to five games.
Reese up.
Yankees leading 10 to six.
Third ball in, they're good for a call strike.
Reese who is very good if an occasion of dropping a bunt for a base hit.
Bluffs that he would bunt.
Page broke off the mound toward the plate.
The third baseman Brown came rushing in.
Nexus is being recalled at the bench from the both end.
Menner is the pitcher up throwing.
Apparently it will be Menner who will come on to relieve in the ninth inning.
Big tall range, he left hand it.
Pitchers checks first.
Henrik is not on the bag.
Reese swings and misses.
Nothing in two.
And judging from the way the Peewee moved, the speed he was trying to hit that ball on
The right.
Nothing in two.
Edwards doesn't get off first very far.
The percentage of course is for Henrik to be off the bag and the first baseman is.
Halfway between first base and his full fielding depth.
Pitchers swung on hit right back to the mound.
Page is up with it.
Throw it down to second base for a zero.
One out to throw on the first base.
Double play.
And that ends the eighth inning.
So a bounding ball is hit back to the pitcher.
Page knew what to do with it.
Fought it back to Schwarzkopf for Zudal who then relayed it over to first baseman Tommy
Henrik and that took care of that.
And for the Yankees that gives them their fifth double play in the series.
The Dodgers have had one.
So at the end there are eight full rounds.
Men are coming in from the bullpen and the Yankees lead with Page trying to be the boy
at the dike ten to six.
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For men are the 17th Dodger to get into the ball game and the sixth pitcher comes on to
The mouth.
The market for the most players in a World Series game by one team is 21.
Correction then there's the 18th.
So a minute comes on.
For the Yankees it will be Mapes, Coleman and Page, the last third of the batting order
in the top of the ninth.
The Yankees got two runs off Barney who walked the first two men that he faced early in the
afternoon about two hours and 45 minutes ago.
Then Rex and a pickoff for Tipped at second base made a wild throw and the runners each
went up a notch.
So a fly ball and single got them in.
Then the Yankees picked up three runs and got Barney out of there in the third inning.
They continued at the expense of Jack Banner with single runs in the fourth and fifth and
got three runs off Erskine in the sixth inning.
Hadn't finally got them out, Fulika held them.
Men are now taking over.
Meanwhile the Yankees would have been front running just tomorrow.
There is a consultation between the umpires and Commissioner Chandler and the lights are
going to be turned on.
The lights are going to be turned on for the first time in a World Series ball game.
Commissioner Chandler who has had all the World Series so efficiently and so thoughtfully
now says that with the whole field in shadow we will pause until all the lights can be
turned on.
So what the commission is doing is what baseball has been doing is taking advantage of the
benefits of science.
So the lights are now being turned on and this is an historic occasion.
They were about to be turned on oddly enough in a Sunday game which went very long between
The Yankees and the Dodgers in 1947.
But the ball game happened to end.
Had they gone another inning the lights would have been turned on then.
And as we told you earlier the commissioner had said that he would turn the lights on
if he felt it was necessary.
So after a brief consultation with the played umpire Cal Hubbard and Beams Redden who is
The senior umpire from the National League as far as years of work are concerned the
commissioner said we will hold up the ball game, let men throw a few more pitches and
get the lights turned on.
So light power after light power are being turned on.
So history is being made.
The lights are being turned on.
As we look at the clock on the scoreboard here at Brooklyn it indicates roughly ten
minutes of five Eastern Standard Time.
Where there are no stands they would not have had to turn the lights on.
But with the sun setting behind the main stands the whole field is completely in deep shadow.
So the lights are being turned on.
And it takes a little time to get them all turned on.
In other words there is no master switch that turns on all the light powers at one fell
swoop.
Now let's see Mel I see you've got the record book out.
Is this game going to be a long game by time compared to some other World Series games?
No, Red it's an approximation of course a great deal happens.
Depends on what happens here in the ninth inning.
The longest game by time three hours and twenty eight minutes the Tigers and Cubs in 1945
but that was an extra inning game.
Won twelve innings.
The longest game by time for a nine inning game is three hours and nineteen minutes the
Dodgers and the Yankees in that very same game you were talking about a little while
ago.
And we've gone two hours and forty five minutes so far so possibly could approach the record.
They say that everything happens at Brooklyn when we got the lights on for the first time
in a World Series game.
And now Menno makes his first pitch relieving in the night to Cliff Mape the left hand hitter.
And it is called strike.
Menno left handed.
Mape the left hand hitter.
Over two today.
Takes a curve one there for call strike two.
Nothing in two.
So all the lights are on and it makes quite a difference.
Although the lights do not take as much effect with daylight as they do of course in complete
darkness.
But that will help.
It destroys the shadows.
Throw high outside.
That's a very sound decision by Commissioner Chandler because it not only adds to the efficiency
of the fairness of the game but it prevents any possible injury.
One and two pitch curves from on there's a high fly ball into left center field.
Starter coming over.
Wait left field almost over.
And the left fielder makes the catch.
So put out for left fielder Louis Olmo.
One up one away.
Top of the ninth.
The fans in the ballpark are remaining waiting to see if they will do something in the last
half of the ninth inning.
I imagine that's what you folks are doing listening to this Gillette broadcast.
Yankees ten and the Dodgers six.
Second baseman Jerry Coleman had a fine series right hand batter stepping in.
As hard as pitches throw the ball we're only 60 feet and six inches away.
When it begins to get dark in the ballpark it's very hazardous for a hitter.
Throw high inside.
Ball one.
One ball no strikes.
One out top of the ninth.
Minus Jerry leaning in pitches swung on file back.
One and one.
One away, nobody on.
Jerry leaning in.
Minus pitches a fastball too low two balls one strike.
Bill Dickey coaching it first, Hollis at the Coleman, get on that bag.
One of the perennial first base coaching war cries.
Two on pitch, swung on, drilled out into right center field.
There's Hemanci going back, the ball's hit over his head.
And there's Holman around, first base coming in a second, and stands up for a double.
So he's got one.
That gives him now a total of two hits today and five so far for the series.
He just moved right in as though he'd been playing in them all his life.
This happens to be his first.
And he's hit his base hits to all fields.
And now picture Page comes off.
That's the third double for Coleman as he stands down at second base.
One out, Page, a ten batter stepping in.
The Yankees, that gives them 11 hits and they have gotten at least one hit off of all six
of the Brooklyn pitches.
Got three off Bonnie, three off batter, two off Erskine, and one each off Hatton, Flicker,
and Armino.
Page takes a fastball in on his hands for ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
One gone.
I feel toward right.
I play him to pull.
So swings at the right back to the mound.
Minner runs Coleman back into second and throws over to first and pages out.
One to three if you score and he puts it at the first baseman.
Minner to Hodges, two men are gone and the batter is Phil Rizzuto.
Phil has not had a hit today.
The Yankee hits have been hogged by Brown and Woodley, each having three.
Coleman's had two.
Rizzuto swinging, foul tips it.
Overall, one strike.
New York 10, Brooklyn six.
Stengel, of course, would like to pick up this run.
Coleman represents his second, a little bit more on ninth inning insurance.
Fastball high outside for ball one.
One ball, one strike.
Rizzuto, tough man up there at the dish.
He's hard to get past.
Big tall left-hander delivers a slow curve.
Joe, line of the right field, Hermanski coming on and makes the catch to the line.
The ball is well-hipped, so that's all for that bit at the top of the ninth inning.
So here we are.
This is it.
Last half of the night.
The Yankees, 10 and the Dodgers, six.
Joe will know something definite in the next few minutes.
That's for certain.
What I was saying definite is a real pause, 10 seconds, for station identification.
This is the neutral broadcasting system.
Here is the World Series exclusively over WOR.
See it on WOR TV, Channel 9.
WOR and WORFM, New York.
Last half of the ninth inning.
And Eddie Nexus will hit for Jorgensen to get a right-hand batter up against left-hander
Joe Page, who's leaving.
There's nobody throwing in the Yankee bow pen.
Manager Stengel has complete confidence in Joe Page.
Nobody throwing in the Brooklyn bow pen and no reason to be until several fellows get
on base and score.
The Yankees, 10 and the Dodgers, six.
Now is this to be the new tomorrow or not?
Mixers who makes the 19th player that manager Schotten has committed to the ball game.
He's hitting for Jorgensen after the ninth inning.
Right-hand batter.
Hot deal around toward left.
Well Big Page, a Stengel's man.
He's got nobody behind him in the bow pen right now.
Joe sort of rubs his left arm across his nose.
Now looks down, takes a sign from Barra.
Pitches in the crouch.
And Page starts to pump and then decides that he won't pitch backs off.
Pitting isn't just right.
Lights are on.
Came on top of his ninth inning.
Throw.
Swung on.
Line drive.
In the left field for a base hit.
It'll be for two.
There's Mixers around first base.
The ball kicking around in left.
And there's Mixers coming in a second with a whistling double.
The shooter runs out to the left and brings the ball in.
Well Eddie Mixers opens up with a line drive double.
And Jim Turner, Alan Orta, for manager Stengel, motions down to the bow pen for a right-hander.
So there's going to be somebody throwing down in back of Page now.
And Duke Snider is at the plate.
He's had hits his last two times up.
Two for four.
And Ali Reynolds, a pitching star for the Yankees, is in the bow pen drawing.
There's a curve outside to Snider.
Ten to six.
Faber, New York.
Mixers has opened up with a pinch and double last half of the ninth inning.
Snider at the plate.
The Yankees stood to be.
Page pitches and Snider swings him.
This is a fastball in down around his knees.
He went after it.
One ball, one strike.
Snider to be followed by Robinson, a man's key.
Arjun is at the back from the batting order.
Fort Frick, National League president, looking on in Kepler.
Looking over there with Mrs. Frick.
Back of the Brooklyn dog out.
There's a curveball in to Snider.
One and two.
One ball, two strikes.
Mixers not getting very far off second base.
Ali Reynolds throwing in the bow pen for New York.
Snider swings him.
This is for strike three.
And thus Snider in a five game series has now struck out eight nines.
And this ties the World Series record for the most strikeouts in an eight game series.
It was originally set by Rogers Harnsdon.
Robinson at the plate.
And Stengel steps out in front of the Yankee bench, gets the attention of the infield and
Page to caution against the bunt for a base hit.
Robinson swings and follows the ball on top of the stand out of play.
No balls, one strike.
At the O, round to at last.
Page works.
Robinson swings a high foul back on the screen.
Nothing in to.
No balls, two strikes.
Yankee ten.
The Dodgers six.
Mixers at second, one out.
Back to the ninth inning.
Lights are on for the first time in the history of World Series play.
Mr. Chandler after conferring with the two senior umpires has been turned on.
Excellent move is getting dark inside the park itself.
Mixers just standing down on second.
Page delivers.
Robinson swings and there's a nubbed foul ball into the third base band.
The ball was in on Jack's hands.
No balls, two strikes.
And Page bowing down.
This is one of his most important ballistic assignments.
Reynolds who pitched the shot out and won the first game, one to nothing, nailed down
The last ten Dodgers yesterday, is throwing in the bullpen for the Yankees.
Stengel isn't worried about tomorrow.
He doesn't want any tomorrow.
He wants it today.
Throw.
Swung on hand.
Missed.
Robinson tries to check his swing and can't.
He's stuck out.
There was a dancing curveball on the outside that got him and Page is bowing down.
He's rolling.
And the Yankees who hold the record of course for teams getting in the World Series the
most frequently, winning the most World Series games, the most World Series titles, are trying
to in their sixteenth series, nail down their fifty-fifth series victory and their twelfth
series one.
They're only one out away from it.
Gene Hermanski up and takes a curveball over.
All strike.
That field step toward right.
Ten to six favor New York.
Throw.
Swung on and fouled off into the stands back at third base.
Mobile.
All two strikes.
Well, this is the third meeting between the Yankees and the Dodgers in the ball classic
and they'll be meeting tomorrow.
Both great farm assistants.
Gene Hermanski holding a club down by the end, the Dodgers down to the last strike of
their last out.
Sterling Buffer with a man at second.
Page.
Climax relief pitcher in the trade these days.
Trying to fondly put the Yankees in the clubhouse victorious.
Let's see.
They pitch too low under the knees and it is ball one.
One ball, two strikes.
One and two.
Hermanski square stands.
Reynolds begins easing up.
Throwing down to Nahos in the bullpen for New York.
Page, there is a sign.
Big fellow ready.
Delivers.
A curve low.
Ball two.
Ball game is still alive.
Two balls, two strikes.
The count is two and two.
Two men are gone.
Page takes out a big red bandana.
Maps the beads of perspiration off of his face.
Now he steps down the mound.
Looks down with those cold blue eyes of his.
Take the sign from Stocky Crouch.
Yogi Barrow.
Catch your back to the plate.
Page is still standing in second after opening up the last of the night with a pinch hit
double.
Two to a pitch.
Just low outside.
Just missing and Page a little bit unhappy about that decision.
It's a four count of three and two.
Three balls, two strikes.
Three and two.
Page on the mound.
Works three and two.
Ball four.
And Hransky walks off to first to go.
First ball.
First ball given up by Joe Page.
And Gil Hodges walks to the plate.
Big strapping first baseman to the home run.
With two on to get Rashie out of the game and get the Dodgers up to then four runs behind.
They've won it one time trailing by nine.
The ball game remains as it was since Hodges last swung that bat for the home run.
Ten to six.
The tying rod is Roy Ormore waiting on deck.
Ten to six New York.
Two men on.
Hodges takes a high curve ball for a ball one.
And Reynolds is now throwing steadily in the bullpen.
Stengel jumps to the front of his dugout again.
Boy he's acting like a flea with a hot foot.
Moves third baseman Brown a little deeper.
The one and oh pitch.
In there for a call strike.
There's a fast ball.
One ball one strike.
Page in a set position delivers outside a fast ball for ball two.
And Page hollers on the decision on that one.
He didn't like it.
Two balls one strike.
Boy that tension is closing in.
Hodges under orders of course.
The manager shot and pitched by pitch.
The two one pitch.
He swung on a high foul back out of play on the screen.
It's now two and two.
Two balls two strikes.
Page again with that red bandana.
Now Stengel walking down to the water cooler.
A wobbling familiar walk of his.
Two balls two strikes.
Stengel standing up he's not even sitting down.
The two two pitch is swung on in this strike three.
And the Yankees are champions again.
For the twelfth time the Yankees are champions of the world.
And Joe Page is being surrounded by his teammates.
Casey Stengel out there and I shake him out of hand.
And so I guess the story right now is Casey Stengel who was with the first played in the
very first game in this ballpark at Ebbets Field in 1913.
It was a long time but he comes back as manager of the world champion New York Yankees.
So that does do it.
That wraps it up.
So that's all for that one.
I'd like to congratulate both ball clubs.
I'd like to congratulate the work of the umpires on the handling of the game by Commissioner
Chandler and his staff.
And without further ado Mel it's nice to work with you and congratulations on your assignment.
Give my best to Stengel and the Yankees.
The Yankees champions of the world in 1949.
Winning it four out of five and finishing with Joe Page artistically nailing it down.
Okay Mel here you are.
Best of luck.
Thank you very much Red.
And again let me just say that it was a tremendous pleasure as it always is and I hope that we'll
have the opportunity of working together again in the future.
And so the Yankees win their 12th world's championship in 16 series in which they have
participated and that is the fourth time that they have won a world's championship in five
games.
The totals, the Yankees 10 runs 11 hits, one error nine left on.
The Dodgers six runs 11 hits, two errors and nine men left on.
Vic Grasci is credited with the win his first world series victory while the loser is Rex
Barney his second defeat he has won one.
Banta Erskine, Hatton, Fulican, Minner in relief and Joe Page you might call that a
bit of poetic justice in the way.
Joe Page the big guy who had so much to do with the Yankees winning the pennant as he
came in over 60 ball games in the course of the year in relief and was one of the key
figures so much so that he is one of the few pitchers who have ever been considered in
The voting for the most valuable player award.
And as you always say it's just a shame when you get two great ball clips together that
there must be one of them that will lose.
So hats off to them both we hope that you enjoyed this world series.
This is Mel Allen saying smooth sailing, smooth shaving and good afternoon from your host
The Gillette Sink to Razor Company and Red Barber.