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Audio recordings of the radio broadcasts of games 2, 3, and 4 of the 1937 World Series are not known to exist.
During those games, the Yankees won games 2 and 3 to take a commanding 3-0 series lead.
After scoring just three runs in the first three games combined, the Giants avoided the sweep by winning game 4.
On October 10, 1937, the New York Yankees faced the New York Giants at the Polo grounds for game 5 of the 1937 World Series.
The Yankees led the best of 7 series three games to one, and this is the NBC radio broadcast of game 5,
featuring announcers Tom Manning, Red Barber, Warren Brown, and George Hicks.
We wish to thank H. Sendrick and Co. for kindly relinquishing half their broadcast period in order that you may hear a description of the World Series game.
Charles Wood speaking, smoke dreams originating in the studios of the Nation Station,
came to you through the facilities of the Red Network of the National Broadcasting Company.
This is station WMAQ Chicago. In 10 seconds it will be 12.45 Central Standard Time, and now for the World Series baseball game.
We take you now to the Polo grounds.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. This is George Hicks of the NBC, speaking now from the Polo grounds in New York City.
We're about to witness the beginning of the fifth game of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants,
where the series is now standing three games to one in the Yankees' favor,
and a victory today for the Yankees, a clinching of the pennant and the championship by winning the first four out of seven.
The biggest news this morning that we have is that the weather is wet and chilly, but it's not going to rain this afternoon, and the game is going on.
The laughter you just heard a moment ago was for Shaq, who's down on third base now with his baseball uniform on today.
No swimming suit today, it's too cold, but still with his tailcoat with the red lapels and his silk hat.
And he's warming up with the remnant of the Yankee infield, the regular infield has come in now,
and Coach Fletcher is driving balls down at Shaq at third,
and Glenn the catcher and Shaq engage in a little hot hand as they get closer and closer to each other on the third base line.
But to get back to the game, the weather, well, last night in New York it started raining, and it rained most of the night.
It was raining this morning, and that steady light, but consistent way it has in late fall.
And up till noon, we were still having rain and a heavy overcast sky and the wind coming in from the north,
and it looked like a pretty bad day for football, let alone for a World Series game.
But Judge Landis came up with a plan, and it wasn't until 12.30 that he made his decision and decided to have the game played.
And it's for the benefit of course of the fans who had planned to see big league ball and World Series ball this Sunday.
I'm very happy to say that although the crowd has been hailed off by the late decision of whether the game would be played or not,
the grandstands are now almost half full, the bleachers are loyal of course and packed solid and have been even in the rain,
and the sky has cleared up enough so that we feel confident there won't be rain during the game this afternoon.
Now we've got Al Shack out in the pitchers box now, and he and Glenn the Yankee catcher are trying to decide where to put the ball.
And he Shack threw it and it came up here on the second tier, behind home plate, where we're speaking.
Again, this fifth game is being played at the Polo grounds on the Manhattan side of the Harlem River,
and we can see the huge bulk of the Yankee Stadium moving up across the canal on the other side in the Bronx,
where we move to tomorrow if the Giants win this game today and it goes to three and two.
And again the New York Giants here at the Polo grounds are the home team, again they're dressed in their white uniforms,
and they will field first and of course will bat last as the innings go on.
We all know the Giants won their first game of the series yesterday by a score of seven to three,
with Hubble pitching after they'd lost the first three games, and their cause up to then seemed almost hopeless.
We couldn't help but notice that the team has looked a great deal peppier in batting and fielding practice this morning.
Old Luke was out there batting them around to the infield, the boys were on their toes,
they just pulled the top hole in off about 15 minutes ago, the infield looks very good,
the attendants are now working on it but they still can't get shacked out of the pitcher's box.
But I think the feeling among the many fans and the hot stove experts that we find at every office or factory or farm,
undoubtedly is as we start the fifth game today, that even with yesterday's win,
the odds are terrifically heavy against the Giants, especially with the Yanks as their opponents.
And if they should and could pull this series out of the fire now,
won their three down, well it would be the most amazing comeback in World Series history.
The attendant finally got shacked off the pitcher's box, but no, he's going back now, he's going to argue the point.
He's pushing aside the attendant's toes and he's going to pitch but the catcher has now left home plate.
We see two southpaws warming up just one to each side of home plate,
a long, lanky southern boy from Tennessee with a big blue 16 on his back, he stands six feet four inches,
he has somewhat prominent hearing appendages, they call him ears, his name is Cliff Melts or Mountain Music,
the freshman star of the Giants who is slated to start pitching this fifth game.
And on the other side of the plate, warming up and watching shacked over one shoulder to be sure he doesn't get into any trouble,
is a smaller built lad, also a southpaw, shooting his ball in very easy now to the catcher with a big 11 on the back of his gray uniform,
Lefty Gomez, who pitched the first game of the World Series, who's never lost a game in the World Series,
who won against Hubble eight to one in the first game of this 1937 series.
NBC's microphone is again in their box directly behind home plate at the edge of the second tier.
Looking out through the mesh screen, and with us are those two redheads who flash you the play inning by inning,
Tom Manning of Cleveland, veteran baseball describer, and that soft-drawing Florida and Cincinnati lad, Red Barber of station WLW.
Shacked is getting a nice hand now for his endeavors, and he's got the attendance of just this moment's clean home plate,
nice and white, and Shacked comes with his spike and covers it all up again.
And with our two redheads is the imperturbable, impartial, Phi Beta Kappa scholar of baseball, Warren Brown,
sports editor of the Chicago Herald Examiner, who comes in between the innings to translate the action he's seen into the baseball meaning that he knows.
Well now the diamond's empty, except for the two pitchers warming up.
We'll hear the national anthem in a few moments, and then the teams will cut out on the field, and we'll hear the roar that starts the fifth game.
Before that takes place, I'd like to turn you to Warren Brown, who, to give us the lineup, then he changes,
anything that he's found out, digging around the clubhouse and the dugouts this morning.
But first, Warren, we've been through four games up to now.
What deductions could you make concerning the four games that we've seen played so far?
Well, George, I want to thank you first for all those titles that you've given me.
It seems as though each day that I come up here, you promote me a little bit higher.
Now getting back to your question about the deductions, the one outstanding characteristic of the World Series of 1937 to date
has been the diversity of the playing conditions, weather and track conditions, if I might use that expression.
The first game across the Harlem River at the Yankee Stadium was played under a rather excessively hot circumstances.
It was very muggy, sultry, and there was plenty of perspiration out on the brows of the players and on the gentleman of the radio and the press in back of us, no doubt.
Then we ran through a couple of cold days and today, as George Hicks has told you, there was even a reasonable doubt about the possibility of a game at all
until Judge Landis came out here a little afternoon and decided that the game must go on.
From the point of view of the New York Yankees, the delay or the playing of the game did not make a great deal of difference
since their pitcher Vernon Gomez, who has not started since the first game of the series, had sufficient rest for all practical purposes.
On the other hand, the New York Giants, I have no doubt, wouldn't have welcomed the postponers
because the postponing of the game today would have given their pitcher, Cliff Melton, an additional day's rest
and we all remember that Melton has already appeared twice in the World Series
in a comparatively few days.
Looking back at the four games that have been played, it is rather interesting to note that going into this game, the fifth this afternoon,
the New York Yankees, who were characterized going into the series as a very powerful team with more than a suspicion of good pitching,
have also appeared in the guise of fielding marbles.
Up until the present time, the Yankees have not made an error in the series.
That is rather a remarkable situation.
The Giants, on the other hand, who built their reputation in their National League race on pitching and team spirit and a sturdy defense,
have made, well, not many errors, although they did have a wholesale production in two innings of two different games
in which they made three errors in an inning on two occasions of the nine that are now charged against them.
Consequently, that has been a little bit of a surprise.
There has been a little surprise too, I think, considering the fact that the Polar Grounds, where the game is being played today,
and the Yankee Stadium, which is the home of the American League champions, have both been productive through the regular season
and a great many home runs.
So far, we have seen but two home runs and the Yankees have had both of them.
It just happened that neither one of the home runs, Tony Mazzari in the first game and Luke Erick Homer yesterday,
have made any material difference in the ball game.
There have been no heroic home runs, in other words.
Nothing to win the game or nothing to bring the crowd scoring to its feet.
Out in the direct center field, the Al Shack is leading a tearing section of the bleachers, much after the manner of a football crowd.
And truly, this is ideal weather for a football.
And it's quite a commentary on Shack's quick width, as he realized that and went out there in the deep center field to lead the bleachers into a chair.
I think he's getting ready now to get them started again, so let's listen to him.
Now that I should say is rather handily done.
And while I dare say that the undergraduates in the center field bleacher section of the polo grounds,
it's difficult competing with this cheering, but we must go on, the show must go on.
I think the Shack, at such a time as he completes his splendid career as a baseball comedian,
can certainly wind up at Yale or California or Stanford or Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Illinois,
anyplace Duke that you may think of and take up the life's work as a cheerleader.
I don't know of any college cheering section that was able to make so much noise and make the noise in unison
with so little rehearsing as this crowd in the center field bleachers at the polo grounds.
That, I believe, is a tribute to the directing genius, Al Shack.
Now getting back to our baseball, we have heard and undoubtedly you have read in the last several days
about the laxity of hitting on the part of the Giants.
I was just looking here at a composite box score of the four games,
and I noticed curiously enough that there are only four different in the hits at the present time.
The Yankees have made 34 hits and the Giants have made 30,
but the balance of power nevertheless has been strongly on the side of the Yankees.
Going into today's game, which is the last at the polo grounds, regardless of what transpires here,
the Yankees are really the favorites. They have to be regarded as the favorites.
They've won three out of the four games in eight, but one more to gain the world's championship.
Over the amplifying system at the present time, the announcer has been giving you the battery,
which will be Cliff Melton and Harry Danning for the Giants and Vernon Gomez and Bill Dickey for the Yankees.
Yesterday, Harry Danning along with Hank Lieber got into the Giants lineup for the second time,
did most of the hitting that turned back the tide of Yankee power,
and made it necessary to play today's game, the National Anthem.
question mark
Well, the baseball game is almost ready to begin.
The Giants, the home club, are rushing out of the field.
So I'm going to turn you over now to the very efficient services of Tom Manning to give
you the lineup and the detail of the ball game.
All right, Tom.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Well done, Warren Brown.
Here's the lineup.
In the field, for the first half of the first inning, will be the National League entry
to the Giants.
Moore, left field.
Martell, short.
Harts, third base.
Here's a change in the lineup.
Ripple, right field.
Batting ahead, off center fielder Lieber.
That'll be Moore, Martell, Harts, Ripple, Lieber.
McCarty, first base.
Manning, catch.
Whitehead, middle fielder.
Martell, off, ripple, leaper.
McCarthy, first base, tanning, catch.
Whitehead, second.
Ann Meltem, long, lean, left-hander in the box.
Well, the Yanks, goes out of it short.
Robe, DiMaggio, center.
Geary, first.
Nicky, catch.
Holt, left field.
Selkirk, right.
Mazari, second.
Gomez, pitch.
The umpires behind the plate will be Ormsby.
First base will be Barr.
Second base, Basil, and a third base, it'll be Stewart.
Everybody in position.
Nick Martell has just tossed the ball to Melton.
Umpire at Ormsby has adjusted his paraphernalia.
Frankie Cosetti steps into the batter's box.
And the wind-up of the ball game is on.
The pitch, it's a long drive going deep into left field.
Back, Joe Moore is back, under it, and he takes it.
One away, Frankie Cosetti stepping into that first ball pitch.
And it was a long drive to left field.
Joe Moore was off, under, and caught for the first out.
Frankie Cosetti had one hit out of 17 times at bat.
Now third baseman, Red Rolf.
Red has five bingles out of 17 times at bat.
Here's the pitch.
It's a strike.
Oh.
Lift belt, left-hander in the box.
Standing, catching, and Rolf.
The Yanke third baseman, left-hand batter, is at the plate.
Inside ball.
Ball one, and strike one.
Rolf pumping that old fat up on town, one-on-one, coming.
It's a base hit.
Between third and short in the left field.
Joe Moore retrieves the ball.
Rolf grounds first.
The throw is to Martell at second.
And it's a single for Rolf.
Joe DiMaggio coming up.
Something wrong with Joe's bat.
After walking clear up to the plate,
oh, he threw the wrong bat away.
Each of the players, you know,
come up there with two or more bats.
Joe tossed the wrong one over the dugout,
and hadn't noticed it until he got clear up to the plate.
Now he's in there, ready to go.
It's the first inning of this fifth game of the World Series.
Yanke batting Rolf on first, one out.
Nelson takes the stretch, and here it is.
It's a high fly ball, the short center field.
Everybody's after it, everybody's after it.
And finally, Whitehead makes a beautiful running catch,
way out in center field.
Whitehead taking that ball to the foot out.
And that's the roar of the crowd, is for Whitehead.
That looked awful bad for a moment.
With center fielder Lieber coming in.
Burgess Whitehead dashed out there,
and at the last moment, he made up his mind
to keep on going, and he grabbed that ball
with his back to the plate.
Larabine Lou Gehrig of Columbia coming up.
Joe DiMaggio had five out of 17.
Now we have Gehrig at bat.
Gehrig has three out of 13.
Some spectator let go of the Sunday newspaper,
and there's plenty of paper flying out there
in center field, and three of the groundkeepers
are running out there, chasing foot like crazy.
Groundkeepers are running out there, chasing foot
like a flock of ducks when it first came out of the stands.
Aralev retrieved the last bit of it now,
and there's a round of applause for them.
Boys are still running off the field.
We were detained while they retrieved
that blowing paper out there.
Lou Gehrig at bat, two out, and we have Wolf on first base.
Here's the pitch, strike, a sharp breaking curve ball
that had Gehrig pulling away from the plate.
It caught the inside corner,
and Ong's being called to the strike.
Two out, Wolf is on first.
Here it is, outside, ball one, and strike one.
This is the third appearance in this series of Cliff Mountain.
Open the second game and we lead them to third.
Ball one, strike one, play at first base.
It's not even close.
Ball one, and strike one.
On Lou Gehrig, the batter.
The Yanks are batting in the first inning.
Again, Melton tosses over to McCarthy.
At time, we're all standing there with his foot on the bat.
Heavy wind blowing, another play at first.
This one's closer, but he's safe.
The heavy wind blowing, and that's a distinct advantage
for the left-hand hitters.
There's a stretch, and here it is.
Outside, almost a wild pitch.
Nice stuff by catcher Harry Danning.
Ball two, and strike one.
Danning stands there with his glove off,
now rubbing the ball up before tossing it out there
to Cliff Mountain.
It's Lou Gehrig, and he's going to be the first to hit the ball.
It's Lou Gehrig batting.
Ball two, and strike one.
Two out, and ball is on first base.
A stretch.
Coming.
Ball three, that's a wild pitch.
He's going down the throw.
He's lying. He's safe.
I believe that that will be scored as a wild pitch.
We'll get the official decision for you in a moment.
Let go of ball two, and strike one.
Cliff Mountain let go with a curveball of the slow outside.
And Roth went to second.
Now the count is three and one.
The official scores are still...
Wild pitch is correct. Here we go.
Ball four, another sweeping curveball.
Missed the outside corner.
With the runner on second base,
Cliff Mountain was taking no chance
and slamming that ball down through the middle to Gehrig
with a count three and one.
He threw a slow sweeping curveball that was outside.
That brings Bill Dickey to bat.
Bill has four hits out of 16 times at the plate.
First base from McCartney playing way back,
giving Gehrig a big lead.
Here it is.
Strike.
Goal.
Sharp breaking curveball with Melton Heather in there
over the inside corner to Bill Dickey, a left-hand batter.
Roth is on second.
Gehrig is on first.
It's the first inning.
No score.
Two men out.
Outside.
Ball one and strike one.
Let Roth is on second.
Gehrig on first.
Two out.
Ball one, strike one.
Pitch.
It's a top ball down first.
It's ball and strike two.
Earl Colman's coaching at first base retrieves that ball.
That diamond is well soaked.
The only thoroughly dry spot on the diamond there
is the pitching rubber and the spot around home plate.
Strike two and ball one.
Ready to go again.
Two out.
Ball on second.
Gehrig on first.
Melton takes a stretch.
Strike two and ball one.
Inside.
Ball two.
Flip.
Early aim.
That ball over the inside to Bill Dickey.
Once again, Harry Tanning has his big mitt off standing there
rubbing the ball with his bare hands before tossing it out to Melton.
Dickey steps out of the batter's box.
It's ball two and strike two.
Two men out.
A block of twos.
Alright, it's two and two.
Coming.
Strike three.
All.
Stop breaking third ball and so is Dickey.
Please, it was a strike.
Just ducked his head and ran for the Yankee dugout.
So that's all for the Yanks for the first inning.
No runs, one hit, one base on balls and no errors.
Warren.
Melton certainly worked himself out of a rather difficult position there in this inning,
especially pitching to Bill Dickey who was one of the more powerful hitters
in this New York Yankee lineup.
I noticed that in the first inning, Melton was throwing more curves, I think, than fastballs.
He threw curves almost exclusively to Garrick when he walked him
and that was about all that Dickey had, save one fastball that came in around his ankles.
That last curve was a beautiful thing, breaking sharply over the plate and it fooled Dickey completely.
Melton certainly has started out his first inning while he was in a little trouble
with no sign that the three appearances which he's been forced to make in this 1937 World Series
have cramped his style in the Yankees.
He began with a rush and now we'll have a look at Gomez making his second appearance in the World Series.
Gomez was very effective his first time out over in the Yankee Stadium
and since he is tremendously fast, one of the swiftest pitchers in the American League,
the Scott Day, which is supposed to be ideal for fast pitching,
ought to be right down Gomez's alley, much as it is down Melton's.
The first giant batter is about out of the plate, Tom, so I guess you can take charge again.
No score is yet, we're going into the last half of the first inning and Joe Moore,
left fielder of the Giants, will hit first.
Joe gets a nice round of applause from the fans here, I believe about 35,000 in the four of rounds.
Gomez winding up the pitch.
It's a base hit on the left field, a base hit.
Out come of the ball momentarily, picks it up, returns it to Lazzari and it's a single for Joe Moore.
Going to Lazzari, had the ball, now he's walking clear into the pitching rubber,
rubbing it up before handing it to Gomez.
That was a line drive, it shortstopped Frankie Cosetti, leap far to his right, Moore,
locked listed by several feet.
Moore went bounding out the left field with a free-five hole.
All right, we have six Bartell up in the strike one, swinging.
Bartell has a right hand batter.
Moore had six hits out of 18 Giants at bat and Bartell has four out of 17.
Gomez takes a stretch and here it is, the high fly ball to left field.
Hogue gets under it, running in, still coming in, makes the catches out.
Ball was hit pretty hard, there's a wind blowing in from left field.
Hogue started to slow up for that catch, then had to hurry a little bit to catch up with.
We still have Moore on first, one man out and now on.
Left hand batter and third baseman coming up.
Now has three hits out of 17 times at bat.
Strike one, took a healthy cut from way back at that ball.
We have no scores yet, we're playing the last half of the first inning.
The Giants batting one out and Moore is on first base.
Inside, ball one and strike one.
Jimmy Gomez pitching for the Yankees and Bill Dickey behind the bat.
Gomez, ready, there it is, foul up and back.
Up and back of home plate, a bit of a scramble going on for it,
it makes the count on Melott, strike two and ball one.
We have right fielder Jimmy Ripple coming up next.
How fast Gomez is pitching.
Like we know, going for a bad ball high on the outside.
That was really a bad ball high on the outside.
Mel started a swing, couldn't hold, collared through and looked just a little bad on that strike out.
Two gone, Jimmy Ripple coming up.
Here's three hits out of 13 trips to the plate.
Another base hit in the right center field, Moore rounding second.
DiMaggio has the ball, the throw is cut off by Frankie Cosetti.
And it bounds away from Cosetti over to the pitcher's box where Rolfe passes on it.
Ripple stopping it first, Moore on third base, Ripple on first and Lieber coming up.
Both of those Giants hits were ringing line drives, one by Moore over Cosetti's head,
Ripple over Rosetti's head.
DiMaggio came up with that ball and cut loose a bit quick, but Rosetti running heads up,
seeing that there was no chance of getting Moore at third base, cut that ball off,
so as to prevent Ripple from going to second and be in a scoring position.
Hank Lieber, you know, has a right hand batter, he has two hits out of seven times up.
Two very important hits there were, too, the stretch and the pitch outside, ball one.
Letty Gomez in the box for the Yanks.
Outfield is a play, plenty deep.
Here it is.
Strike, he swings wide and misses.
Ball one and strike one.
Hank Lieber has stepped out of the practice box for a moment.
Tense moments indeed.
Two out runners on first and third, one and one coming.
Ball two, that ball was over but just a little bit high.
Ball two and strike one.
Merle Hogan playing way out there, the 400 foot sign.
DiMaggio has moved out, too.
They're playing direct position, though, left, center and right.
All right, ball two and strike one.
The high infield fly near first base.
On the line is Gehrig waiting and Gehrig takes it.
That's all for the Giants in the first inning.
No runs, two hits at, no errors.
One.
The thing worth commenting on in that inning is the change of tactics on the part of the New York Giants.
Rather, it is a return to the tactics that they used while they were in their regular play in the National League season.
Joe Moore, their leadoff man, has established a record down through the years of liking to take a whack at that first ball.
We've been watching him all through this series and Joe has been letting the first ball go by more often than not.
Today, perhaps Gomez thought he was going right on, too, with that and came in there with it when Moore got his base hit.
The other mark change is their lack of respect today, or at least in this first inning, for the throwing arms of the Yankee outfielders.
You may have remembered from listening to the broadcast of the other games that the Giants fell in third to take that extra base.
Today, Moore kept right on going in spite of the fact that the ball was hit at the night deal.
We're supposed to have the best throwing arm in the Major League.
It's all right, Tom, the ready goes.
Merle holds the first hitter, right hand batter, the wind up and the pitch.
All one.
Fast ball outside.
Merle has five hits out of 16 times at bat.
No score as yet.
First man up for the Yankees in the second inning.
Here it is.
Inside on a ball, too.
Keeping her ball and Merle holds right hand batter, watched all the way and then stepped away from it as it was too close and inside.
Ball to the count.
Strike.
Fast ball right down the alley.
Flip Melton, throws a string on that one.
Ball two and strike one.
There it comes.
There's a long drive going deep in the right field.
High up in the right field, making for a home run.
A home run by Merle holds the left field of the Yankees.
At ball by Merle Ho, the right hand hitter, the count ball two and strike one was in the upper deck well over in right field.
The ball was rolling, perhaps about 450 feet.
One to nothing in favor of the Yanks.
Selkirk, right fielder left hand batter is up.
Ball run.
Fast ball at Max Selkirk, away from the plate.
At the top of the second inning, the score of one to nothing in favor of the America League entry, the result of that mighty home run by Merle Ho.
Flip Melton, southpaw.
Pitching.
Ball one to count.
Ball two.
And a fast ball inside.
And the count is two and nothing.
Tony Lozori hanging around, heel back next.
Ball two.
Strike.
Fast ball right down the middle and fell high on the count on George Selkirk.
Ball two and strike one.
George steps away from the plate, wipes his hands on his trousers.
Back in there ready to go.
Ball two and strike one.
Bounding ball down, fourth second.
Right head comes up with it to Cole.
He's out.
Right head to Pataki.
George Selkirk rounding out, one gone, nobody on.
Tony Lozori.
Tony has five hits out of 12 times at bat.
Getting a nice round of applause.
George Selkirk has four hits out of 15 times at bat.
Tony Lozori.
Strike.
Fast ball just above the knees, over the outside corner.
First half of the second inning.
Power ball.
Line drive into the right field corner.
That's strike two on Lozori.
Low line smash that had the spectators scattering.
Here it comes.
Ball up and back.
Hits the screen right in front of the microphone here.
Score is one to nothing in favor of the New York Yankees.
First half of the second inning, one man out.
Nobody on.
Lozori at bat with strike two.
The wind up.
Strike three, Cole.
It's a beautiful curve ball.
Tony Lozori knew it.
That's bowed his head as much as to say absolutely correct and walked away.
Both of those strikeouts, Dickey and Lozori, no question in the mind of the batter.
They were very definite in their own minds that it was a third strike.
Now they have Gomez coming up.
Two off, nobody on.
Lefty bats and throws, left-handed.
Two off, nobody on, and here we go.
Ball one.
Sweeping curve ball.
Lefty Gomez started a swing at that.
Harry Danning turned around, claiming that it was a strike.
Long as he said nay.
Here we go.
Cole strike one.
Ball one in, strike one.
Curve ball inside, Gomez swinging hard, tap the ball.
First half of the second inning.
One to nothing in favor of the Yankees.
Two off, nobody on.
Strike two, the curve.
Ball.
It's a mix-up on the decision on those balls and strikes there.
He called that first one a ball, but they have strike two and ball one on the board.
Now it's a tip ball, so it doesn't make any difference now.
That first pitch that Danning claimed might have been a strike,
long as he held up his left hand, which means that it was a ball.
Makes no difference if strike two and ball one.
Here it comes.
Strike three, Cole.
Nice shot, breaking curve ball at Gomez.
Around to class five, and it's no, one run, one hit, and no errors for the Yankees in the second one.
And the home run that we talked about in advance of the game has finally made its appearance
in the World Series at a point where it really means something.
Marl Hoaks line shot over there into the upper deck of the right field stand.
Starting the Yankees off, one run to the good is the first home run of the three made in the series
that had material effect upon the game.
At the present time, except for that home run, Melton seems to be pitching very well out there.
He has his control back. He doesn't even seem to be as unsteady as he was in the first inning.
Against the right-hand hitters, it looks to me as though he's been pitching outside to them,
particularly to Hoak to keep him from pulling in the left.
But the California boy simply stuck out his bat and poked the ball into the right field stand.
He's got his home run over there, so I guess it doesn't make much difference.
If they're going to hit him, they're going to hit him, whether you pitch inside or outside.
The Giants coming up for their turn, and it's your turn, Tom.
It'll be Johnny McCarthy, the Giant first baseman leading off in the last half of the second.
McCarthy, Danning, and Whitehead coming up.
The late tuners in again, let Yankee outfielders Hoag left, DiMaggio center, Selkirk in right.
Kerrigan first, Lozari second, Rosetti short, ball third, and the battery is Lufty Gomez and Bill Dick.
On firearms behind the plate calls play ball, and here we go.
A far back, strike one.
Johnny McCarthy is a tall Yankee boy.
Bats and throws left-handed.
Mack has had four hits out of 15 times of bat.
A bounding ball down between first and second, Lozari has it to throw to Kerrigan.
He's out.
Run away, nobody on.
Harry Danning coming up.
Harry Danning having replaced Gus Mancuso. Gus was injured.
Little finger of his right hand.
Danning making a very acceptable substitute.
Right hand bat of the first pitch, outside, ball one.
Last half of the second inning, the score one to nothing in favor of the Yankees.
The Giants have bat one out, nobody on, Danning heading, and it's ball one.
Oh, oh.
Hard smash down, right field, curving into the stands, it's ball one and strike one.
Here comes strike two.
Danning went off his bat on that one.
Split second too late.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's pretty tough to see that ball out there.
Gomez, speedball pitcher, and it's awful dark here in New York.
Strike three, out of the ball, fell higher, about a hop on it for the third strike.
That's the second strike out for Gomez.
Melvin Hart from Harry Danning.
Perch is right-hit coming up.
Perch has three hits out of 12 times at bat.
Right hand hitter.
Giant half of the second, two out, nobody on.
High fly ball, right field, looks like a Texas League hit, it is.
Texas League hit, right hand is fouled at first and he's going to second.
There's the throw, he's safe, a two-bagger.
That was a high pop, fly down of right field.
Gary goes off on the crack of the bat.
Selkirk also, both of them came over there and neither Gary or Selkirk got within 20 feet of that ball.
It was finally retrieved by Selkirk, looked into the infield, and it's a two-base hit for Whitehead.
They have the pitcher Cliff Melvin coming up.
This being a full day, going to take the pitchers quite some time to get up to the plate
because they're wrapped in their heavy sweater and a big blanket at the completion of each inning.
Bill Dickey, Gomez, and up by Ormansby, all standing halfway between the plate and the box,
discussing something and Ormansby is looking at the ball.
Everything's okay, they're going back to their positions now.
Gomez has his glove off, rubbing that ball up.
Thompson steps in the box, we're ready to go.
Ball one, stripping curve ball is high and outside.
It's the giant half of the second inning.
Two outs. Whitehead on second.
Strike.
Took a mighty cut at that one, it was ball one and strike one.
One and one, the pitcher batting.
Strike two, he swings hard again.
It's lefty Gomez, he's got a lot of speed out there this afternoon.
Every afternoon too.
Ball is too high, a change of pace offering.
Try to pull Cliff Melvin with that one if it's strike two and ball two.
Two and two.
Strike three, he's out.
Whitehead on second base, Gomez, man, Melvin.
This game is always coming to you from the holograms of New York City,
the fifth game of the World Series between the Giants and the Yankees.
It's being sent to you over the combined red and blue network of the National Broadcasting Company.
We pause now for station identification.
This is station WMAQ Chicago.
Looking at the holograms and the NBC booth in the upper deck,
watching the progress of the game between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants.
The Yankees at the present time are leading by one to nothing
because of a home run delivered in the second inning by Merrill Hoag, their lefty.
Both lefty Gomez and Cliff Melvin, the pitchers, are progressing very favorably.
At the present time there is no criticism to make of their pitching.
The Yankees are at bat now and Tom Manning.
First half of the third inning, the top again, Frankie Grossetti.
Strike one, he cuts off the first ball pitch.
Last time up, he might fly into left field.
Also, that time was bad, he hit the first ball pitch.
Strike one, inside and it's ball one.
Ball one and strike one.
Cliff Melvin pitching, here we go.
Ball one, that ball was over the plate, but too low.
Last time up, Bill Zicke struck out.
Here it is.
A high foul at the back of the plate, Danning coming back.
He's under it, he ought to get it, he does.
Bill Zicke calling out to catcher Danning.
Now the home run hitter, Marl Hobe coming up.
Marl's right hand battered.
Last time up, of course, he had his home run giving him six hits out of 17 times at bat.
Malcolm's first delivery, inside, ball one.
First half of the fourth inning, the Yankees are batting.
Score two and two, one man out, nobody on.
Ball one on the hitter.
There it goes, it's a long drive to left, but this time Moore is over near the wall and makes the catch.
Moore was hit in a good spot, ordinarily a base hit, but this time Joe Moore was playing over there,
close to that 360 foot sign there and ran over against the billboard to make the catch.
George Iselkirk and Pat, last time up George bounded out, right hand to McCarty.
Four hits out of 16 trips to the plate.
Ball one.
Change of pace curve ball, sort of a sweeping thing that came at the batter and then flushed inside, but not quite enough, and it's ball one.
Strike, beautiful fast ball right down the alley and felt high.
Ball one and strike one.
Two out, nobody on.
High foul ball between third and home, I believe Danning will take it out, as in there Danning takes it.
That's all for the Yankees, that was quick, no runs, no hits and no errors.
Tom I suppose you've noticed in that inning that Melton seemed to be faster than he was at any time in the ball game.
Those three hitters, one after the other, all failed to get their backs around as the saying is.
Ball was past them before they got a good cut out of them and the result were those up flies, two of them to the catcher and a sort of a soggy one.
Really I think Hogue hit that ball on the handle that went out in the left field.
That is a good indication that Melton is still a very strong pitcher and I think this is really a remarkable thing on his part because after all three appearances in five games there's a lot of work from a pitcher.
On the other hand, up to the present time the Giants seem to be hitting Gomez I'd say steadily, certainly more steadily than they did when they first faced him over at the Yankee Stadium in what now seems like the long ago.
Indeed it does and we're going into the last half of the fourth inning that score is all tied up two and two.
We have McCarthy, Johnny McCarthy leading off, Harry Danning, second and white hit third. Gomez, the first pitch, strike call.
Shock breaking curve ball that Johnny pulled away from and broke over the heart of the plate for a called strike.
Here it is. Ball outside, it's one and one.
Last half of the fourth inning. Johnny McCarthy leading off for the Giants.
Strike two. Johnny waved at that one. Last curve ball over the outside corner and it's strike two and ball one.
Strike three. He waved at that one. Took a very beautiful cut at it however, didn't miss it by very much.
That's the third strikeout of the afternoon for Gomez.
Score the Yanks two, the Giants two, last half of the fourth inning one out. Danning up, hits the first ball, it's a foul over the boxes in fact the first base.
Strike one.
That's the Gomez taking his time before the next delivery to Harry Danning. Now we're ready. It's strike one you know.
Ball inside. Ball one and strike one. One man out.
Danning up. Ball outside. Ball two and strike one.
Snyder and Luke doing the coaching for the Giants as usual.
That's the Gomez pitching. Ball two, strike one. Strike two.
The roar from that dog was from the fact that Harry Danning was fooled on that pitch and looked awful bad swinging it.
He swung late then swung at least a yard over that ball.
That is sometimes caused because the batter's trying to outguess the pitcher.
Power ball in the box is over in back of first.
Ball one and strike two.
The appearance of that swing Harry was expecting a sharp breaking curve ball instead of that. Gomez struck it over the outside corner.
Ball five. Two and two.
Hit ball back. It remains two and two.
The count is two and two. The score is Giants two, the Yankees two and we're in the last half of the fourth inning and we have one man out and nobody on.
Harry Danning twisted himself a little bit and swinging at that ball.
He's standing out of the batter's box.
He's ready to go again. Two and two.
It's a long drive going off the right field but it's fouled by only a foot.
Danning was all the way down to first base. That ball hit the top of the scoreboard in the right field corner.
That was up over the 294 foot side.
It was a ringing line drive. Everybody jumped to their feet expecting the ball to drop over the top of the parry or out there for another home run.
But it hit only inches from the top and only about one foot foul.
Harry's taking a lot of time coming back from first base.
Ball was hit like a shot out of a cannon.
When we go again it'll be ball two, strike two, one out and nobody on. Here we go.
That's a line smash over in the boxes in fact with third base. It's a foul.
Everybody over there trying to catch that ball out there.
Harry's got his eye on the ball. It's two and two.
Gomez winding up. There we go.
High foul ball coming back. Vicki coming back fast.
He has it.
That was so close to the stands here that we had to wait for the roar of the car that time.
We couldn't see it so we have two out, nobody on and gorgeous whitehead coming up.
Two men out.
Whitehead coming up. Last time up whitehead had a double.
Last half of the fourth inning, Giants batting. It scores two and two.
We have two men out, nobody on.
Ball one. That ball was over the plate, a little bit too low.
It may be getting just a little darker now than it was at the start of the game.
That wind is drawn cold.
Ball two.
Whitehead started a swing at that and this time he was able to hold the swing back.
That's the first time in the series as we remember that the boys started a swing and were able to hold it.
That's a shot to right for this foul.
That one of the ground keepers out there comes up with a little Charleston after that one.
Shivering from getting out of its way.
The ground keeper is a sitting lad out there close to the foul line in the right field corner.
It's ball two and strike one. Ready?
The ball strikes the right field right at Georgie Shulker and he takes it so high. A line drive that he never moved for.
That's all for the Giants for the fourth inning.
No runs, no hits and no errors. Mr. Brook.
And because Tom there was no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody on base, obviously it was the pitchers' inning rather than the hitters.
I have no doubt that the darkness of the afternoon had some effect on the swinging I think.
Some of the boys that have been batting down here have taken almighty cut sets.
Pitchers that ordinarily they must let go by.
Some of them they've missed by several feet.
Some of them have been bad pitchers.
And it's really dark and at the present time there is a little sprinkle of rain starting to come down,
which I daresay will add to the confusion in a very short order.
The Yankees are coming to bat again against Cliff Melton of the Giants.
Tom, I guess maybe you better come in out of the rain and go to work.
What do you mean come in out of the rain?
Our microphone is right out here in the open at the Polar Gowns over at the Yanke Stadium.
It's undercover but over here it's right out in the open so you'll hear the pitter-patter of the rain hitting the entire family.
Oh my, can we get going?
Do you get your fireman's hat?
Well, we can take it. Ready to go. First half of the fifth. It's two and two.
And push him up. Tony Lozali is at bat.
Last time up, Tony struck out. Scrawled out on a ball and knocked him head over the outside corner.
Inside. Ball. Ball one and strike one.
First half of the fifth inning. Lozali the first batter up.
There's a high five ball going deep. Going out, out. Leiber going straight.
He doesn't make the catch. Lozali is round at first. Lozali is round at second.
There's a relay. Right hook goes out and Lozali stops at third base.
A mighty triple from four hundred and sixty feet from home plate.
To the crack of that bat. Triple.
Leiber the center fielder. Set sail for the ball. But, triple.
Neither one of them can catch up with it. And it landed out there just about one yard from the barrier in left field.
That's about four hundred and fifty feet from home plate.
Ball was really hit.
You've really got to hit them to get them over that barrier.
And that's about twelve feet high after you get to the furthest extent of the line between home plate and center fielder.
Lozali is on third base. We have Gomez coming up.
That is the fourth Yankee hit of the afternoon.
The fifth one was taking a lot of time before tossing that first ball up to lefty Gomez.
In field. They're going to move in of course.
Trying to cut that run off Lozali.
Lozali is on third base. Nobody out but score is five, two and two.
Here we go.
The line is tired and the base hit.
The coaches white hit got a drop hand on that ball but it was hit like lightning.
And it's a base hit in the center field. And Lozali scores from third base.
The Yankees of the American League three and the Giants of the Master League two.
The result of Lozali's triple and with the infield drawn in.
Lefty Gomez swung hard and hit a lightning smash.
That second baseman white hit just barely got his drop hand on and batted it out into center field.
It hit so hard that if it had been right at him it probably would have knocked him down.
First half of the fifth inning nobody out. Gomez is on first.
And what you laid for a moment while lefty Gomez the Yankees catcher gets his sweater on.
He's got it on now and all buttons up and we're ready to go.
Up comes the top again. Frankie Crozzetti. No hits out of two times at bat.
One hit out of 19 times at bat in series.
It's a strike call.
Fast ball right down the alley.
First time up Frankie fly to left field. The next time up he bounded out.
Hot summer coffee.
Here comes the high fly ball in the short right field.
Ripple coming in fast.
William Wally is coming in.
Nice running catch by Ripple.
Came in on the dead run and he's getting a nice round of applause.
He was playing rather deep for Frankie Crozzetti.
Mike dropped that ball in the short right field with Ripple off with a crack at the bat coming in and taking the ball at top speed.
One man out.
Lefty Gomez is on first and red ball for left hand batter coming up.
Red has a single and struck out out of two times at bat this afternoon.
Six hits out of 19 times at bat.
It's a strike call.
Shock breaking curve ball that Rolfe pulled away from.
The ball broke over the inside corner for a called strike.
Outside of his ball. Ball one and strike one.
First half of the fifth inning to score the Yankees of the American League 3.
The Giants of the National League 2.
One man out. Gomez is on first.
Rolfe at bat.
Ball one.
Strike one.
It's inside.
Ball two.
This boy, Cliff Melton, big, gambling youngster, takes a lot of time walking around out there just as cool as a cucumber.
Very nonchalant.
A stretch outside and this ball three.
Three and one.
Harry Danning, giant catcher, walking all the way up the pitcher's box now before tossing the apple back to Melton.
Melon is walking in right way to the pitcher's box from third base.
And the count will be ball three and strike one.
A little drizzle of rain continues.
Very high wind.
And it's still just as dark as ever.
Ball three and strike one.
Gomez on first one out.
We're ready to go.
Rolfe hitting inside.
Ball four and he walks.
That's Gomez advancing to second.
And Joe DiMaggio coming up and getting a nice round of applause.
Listen to it for a moment.
All right, one eyes on first and second.
One out, the stretch and here it is.
Outside.
Ball one.
The fans here are not sitting back in their chairs half asleep this afternoon.
I'll tell you.
One man out.
Gomez on first and second, the stretch.
Here it is.
A high infield fly ball.
Everybody's after it looks like.
It's an automatic out of course, but Danning finally makes the catch.
Well, it's on first and second, the infield fly rule.
It's a problem there.
Two men out.
It would have made no difference whether or not anybody caught that ball.
We're in the fifth inning and I have two men out now to score three to two in favor of the Yankees of the American League.
We have Lava Bing Lu coming up left hand batter so far this afternoon.
Lu drew a base on balls and then struck out.
Gomez is on second base.
Wolf is on first.
Here it is.
It's a ball.
Shock breaking curve ball.
It was too high.
Manny Lou Kerrig leaning over that fight there.
That's a left hander to know.
Waving that bat up and down.
Here it comes.
Swings and misses.
Strike one.
Ball one and strike one.
That was a pitch inside.
That's another high that Kerrig tried to pull.
The runner's on first and second.
Two out.
Ball one and strike one.
Manny Lou Kerrig at the plate.
And here it is.
There it goes.
It's a base hit in the right center field.
Diva going after the ball.
Gomez is found at third.
Wolf is found at second.
Here's the relay.
Wolf found at third and had to slide back.
It's a two base hit for Kerrig sending Gomez across the plate.
Wolf stopping at third.
Kerrig getting it double.
Score.
The Yankees four.
And the Giants two.
Kerrig is on second.
Wolf is on third.
Too thick he had bat.
Pretty fast building by Lieber out there.
That ball was hit right in the hole between left and center field.
Lieber going over there fast to take that ball on the run.
He got it back to that infield.
Manny fast.
This boy, Wolf, is a speed merchant.
All right, Dickey at bat.
First pitch wide.
Ball one.
Wide sweeping curve ball.
It was about four feet outside of the plate.
New York Yankees four and the New York Giants two.
First bat for the fifth inning.
Two out.
Runners on second and third.
Manny and Dickey at bat.
Lieber and Ripple playing very, very deep.
Here it comes.
Inside.
Ball two.
Merle Hope coming up next.
Yankees made three hits and have a base on balls this inning.
Ready to go again.
Melton took a lot of time before delivering this one.
It's ball two and here it is.
Ball three.
Trying to keep that ball over the inside corner to Phil Dickey.
That first bag unoccupied.
He probably won't give him anything too good.
Strike.
Curve ball at this time.
He caught the inside corner and it's ball three and strike one.
Ball for standing in third.
Gary Gunn second.
Ball four.
Ball is plenty wide at the plate.
Now we have the bases loaded and the home run hitter, Merle Hope coming up.
That's the second base on balls this inning for the Yankees.
Now we have a play at every base.
The score is four to two, you know, in favor of the Yankees.
First half of the fifth inning, two men out.
Rolfe on third.
Gerrick is on second.
Dickey is on first.
Hope, right hand batter is up.
Cliff Melton, giant pitcher.
Going around, look to the outfield for a moment.
The left hander warming up out there for the Giants.
Here we go.
High foul ball.
Canning is going over fast.
He is under it and he has it.
That's all for the Yankees in the fifth inning.
New runs.
Three hits, two bases on balls and no errors.
At the conclusion of four and a half innings to score, the Yankees at the American League,
four of the Giants at the National League, two.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Tom Manning speaking to you.
I had the pleasure of broadcasting the first four and a half innings and the last four
and a half will be sent to you through the medium of the voice of Red Bob.
This is the fifth game of the World Series between the Yankees and the Giants being played
at the Polo grounds in New York City.
It's being sent to you over the combined blue and red network of the National Broadcasting
Company and once more we pause for station identification.
This is station WMAQ Chicago.
Back in the NBC booth at the Polo grounds as we are ready to go into the last of the fifth
inning.
Cliff Melton is slated to be the first hitter up for the Giants.
As for the second time this afternoon, the Giants in this very crucial ball game, which
may mean the series or may mean a continuation of it, find themselves two run behind.
Early in the afternoon after the Yankees had hit two battering home runs, the Giants came
from behind two to nothing as up with Paltel on first and one out in the third, having
a home run for the only giant foremaster of this 1937 Polo Classic.
And now as the Giants come in from the last of the fifth, they are again behind by two
runs as the Yankees have turned on more power, getting two runs in the top of the fifth.
It is four to two in favor of the Yankees.
Melton is slated to hit first last to the fifth and then the top of the order, Joe Moore,
who has by one the most base hits of any player in the series.
But it looks as though Melton will not bat.
Apparently there's going to be a pitch hitter coming up.
And it is Blondie Ryan who is going to be first up in the last of the fifth inning.
Blondie Ryan who hits right handed, who was the talisman, the good luck charm of the Giants
on an earlier win in campaign in the National League, who made famous the cry of they can't
beat us.
And it's Blondie Ryan coming up to the plate, his first appearance in this 1937 World Series.
Hitting right handed and first up, lefty Gomez pitches.
Ryan takes strike one, called.
A sharp curve down on the inside, just above the knees.
Gomez has an easy swinging stretch.
Dickey comes out of his crouch.
Pitch is low for Paul once.
One and one.
It's rather customary for balls to be given ahead of strikes, and we bow to custom.
One and one.
Outfielder straight away, and not particularly deep in center.
The match will be fairly close, close than usually plays.
Pitch swung on, lifted high and foul into the seats, back of first base.
Out one and two as Ryan is behind.
Ball one, strike two.
Melton, after five innings, is finished.
Melton in those five innings, gave a four runs all-in on six hits, struck out five.
Here's the pitch.
Eye outside, the cap levels, two and two.
Melton walked three men.
Had a great deal of stuff.
He made a couple of pitches with the Yankees, singing their theme song, I Like Mountain
Music, I Gotta Hold Up.
Ryan swings and lifts his strike three.
Lefty Gomez strikes out Blondie Ryan, first up in the last of the fifth innings.
And that for Gomez is his fifth strikeout of the afternoon, achieved in four and a third
rounds.
It is four to two, favor of the Yankees, who have won three games already.
The Giants behind two runs have won just one game.
Joe Moore, who has the most hits of any play in the series, is up batting left-handed.
Takes high up above the peak of his cap.
Ball one.
Gomez fastballs, failed to sink it all.
Vicki walks a couple of steps out in front of home plate, returns to Lefty.
Lefty working as usual in quick movements.
Slicks down, takes the sign.
Without wasting any further time, delivers.
It's inside up against the letters, and Moore leans back from it.
Two-nothing.
Two balls, no strikes.
The outfield is pulled a little around toward right.
However, Hogan left is staying straight away.
Joe Moore hits to both fields.
Joe chokes that bat.
Takes inside again.
He's ahead three-nothing.
Gomez shakes his head to say, I don't like that.
This is the kind of a ball game that anything can suddenly pop up in a pirate play.
Gomez pitching three-nothing, gets it in there for the automatic strike.
Four-taking, of course.
Three-and-one.
The pitchers swung on, and the Lions drive both ways out of the center field for a solid base rep.
DiMaggio takes on the third bound, throws in the second to Lizally, and Moore with his eighth hit of the series.
Sharp line drive, throws line single into center field, holds on at first base.
That's hit number six, off Gomez.
And up now steps Dick Bartell, who has one blow this afternoon.
He's out the fly ball single in the left field in the third inning, just ahead of Mel Ahn, who had that home run in his system, which he finally got out.
Lizally, crafty and fielded.
One of the brainiest players in the game.
The second has a brief converse with Gomez, talks to him a little bit about how to pitch to Bartell, a right-hand hitter.
Moore leads off first.
The pitch to the plate is swung on and fouled high and deep and back of third.
Roth comes running over Stewart right behind him, and it drops into the seats.
And amongst the spectators, about three rows back.
We'd like to comment upon the fine world series that's been done by the umpires.
They were very, very alert, running down the foul lines, running after plays, keeping up with the ball, on their toes and hustling all the way through.
Both league presidents can be very proud of their arbiters.
Accidental foul, back into the giant dugout.
An outside pitch, Bartell took that puzzling half swing, tried to check himself, couldn't get his bat out of the path of the projectile, and swiped it back foul.
Now Dick's behind, nothing and two, no balls, two strikes, one off.
Joe Moore on first base, a very fast runner, and the Yankees lead 4-2.
Time is called, but Gomez throws anyhow, so disregard the pitch.
Bartell steps out of the box, umpire arms, bailed the American league, back of the plate, call time, Gomez not seeing the umpires, outstretched right palm through anyhow.
So the pitch doesn't count.
Still nothing and two, Bartell waiting, takes high.
Now it's one and two.
Going up above the ridge of Dick's nose.
Artiou pulled a couple steps around toward left.
Grizetti and Lazare make it up between them, who's going to cover second should Moore come down.
Gomez delivers to the plate, Bartell swings, drives the fly ball out into left center field, and Artiou goes back, waves Roth out of the way and makes the catch.
Uh, Volga out of the way and makes the catch.
That's all for Bartell.
This under applause which is now echoing through the stands is for Melvin Artiou, who put a world series crowd into its highest state of hysteria so far this fall, when he walked up to the plate in the third inning with Bartell on first and hit that home run to put the Giants back on a knee, even putting with the Yankees.
And now Artiou is coming up for his next appearance after that home run.
Two men are off, Joe Moore is on first. The pitch to Artiou outside, all one.
Gomez apparently is not going to give out anything he can pull toward right field.
Now field is toward right. The pitch is swung on, rolled out to second, Lazare picks it up cleanly, the throw over to Gerec, Artiou's out, still in the last of the fifth inning.
And the score stands the Yankees four runs and the Giants two.
Here's one drop.
And Gomez in that inning after getting way to a slightly bad start when Joe Moore got his base hit, certainly fits his way out of whatever trouble might have been coming up.
Incidentally, Joe Moore is apparently on his way to become the leading backsman of this 1937 World Series. So far he's batted successfully in each of the games that have been played to date. The right-handed pitchers or left-handed pitchers don't seem to make much difference to Joe.
And most of his base hits have been very solid ones, line size two or over the infield. Because of the fact that Blondie Ryan was used as a pinch hitter in that inning, the Giants will have to start another pitcher.
And coming in from the bullpen now is a man who looks strangely like another left-hander, Al Smith, who will probably take up here. I would call your attention to the fact that Melton in the other game he started, which was the second game of the World Series, went just about as far as he did today.
Although in his first game he was driven out and in this game he was taken out for a pinch hitter.
All right, Red, perhaps you want to describe some of the activities of Al Smith out there, while he's digging in on that red clay mound for territory to see what he can do to the Yankees.
Thank you a great deal, Warren. Stalky little Al Smith, who has been used primarily as a relief pitcher, his entire tenure with the Giants, is now going down to Harry Danning.
Melock, very cool, has come over from third and is standing on the third base edge of pitcher's mound watching Smith and talking to him as Smith is working out the last kinks in that left arm of his.
And standing aside from batter's box and watching Smith also is George Selkirk, who will be first up in the sixth inning for the Yankees. He'll be followed by Lazar and then my pitcher Gomez.
There's the last of the warmer pitchers and it's thrown down to second base. Whitehead takes it, puts it over to Bartell and Bartell walks it back to the mound, stands talking to Smith.
Selkirk steps in, left hand hitter. Melton has just gone out of sight up into the clubhouse, finished for the afternoon.
Now Bartell goes back to his post and short, the outfield pulls around toward right, Bartell moves a couple steps toward second.
Right side of the infield as the steps are moving over toward right, Selkirk swings on the first pick at the sharp line, drives foul high up into the upper deck of the right field stands.
Selkirk pulled out on a couple of feet too much.
Oh, a solid smack. Going right up to Al Smith, the relief pitcher for the Giants this afternoon after his first pitch.
Now Selkirk back again. He's twisting the handle of the bat around Vicksland, the palms of his hands to be certain that he has a firm hold on it.
Smith duly worn, now ready to pitch again to Selkirk, delivers.
George takes a 52 curve low inside after almost going after it, ball one. One and one.
Wormsby is behind the plate this afternoon for the American League.
Ma is at first, Maisel at second, and Stewart is at third. The umpires, the same assignments this afternoon as for the first game of the series.
This is the fifth game. Smith down out of his stretch, delivers a change of pace low outside for ball two. Two and one.
The Yankees are ahead, four to two.
Smith, that is Danning's sign a moment. Down a swinging stretch, down.
Smith is outside, the curve did not stay on. Three and one.
Al takes a deep breath, pushes his lips out for the moment.
Time's called, Selkirk steps out of the box. Now Twinkle Toes in again, he's turned slightly toward right field.
Right field a ripple, back as deep as the wall will commit. Selkirk takes a change of pace in there for call strike two.
Not a slow ball, but Smith slowed down his curve. Selkirk off his timing, did not go after it, after wriggling his shoulders at the pitch. Three and two.
As the ground ball rolls down, McCoffee up with it and beats Selkirk to the bag easily.
Selkirk out by four steps, and it's one up and one away as we start the sixth inning.
Selkirk certainly took a few years off of the giant ruders here at the Polo Grounds lives.
And he hits Smith's first pitch of the sixth inning, a whistling high drive that just was full foul.
John Brennan is now throwing in the giant bullpen.
The interrupter is Tony Lozare, who has one for two, a tremendous triple his last trip.
And Lozare cannot get out of the way of an inside pitch that hits him on the left knee.
Tony limps for about one step and then starts walking off down toward first.
Shakes it off, he doesn't bother to lean over and rub it.
That's the first hit batter in the series, Al Smith with Lozare.
On first base, hitting him on the left knee.
Tony is walking around, working out that left knee, letting his body weight get out on a gingerly.
Tony walks off first.
Gomez, waiting. Gomez is very, very happy.
He singled in the fifth inning and drove in a run, hitting left handed.
Runs down toward third.
Ott picks it up, they throw it to second base in time for a force on Lozare.
The Yankee strategy was to have the pitcher butt, which Gomez did.
And the oddity of it is that Gomez looked to be a much, much better batter than the rest of his Yankee teammates who are supposed to know how to do such tricks.
Gomez pushing a butt right down toward third, Ott suspicious of it, came in on the pitch, picked it up and threw down to second for a force on Lozare.
Gomez with a sacrifice field of choice, which counts as an official trip to the plate, is now at first base.
He has his sweater on.
Very wet. Yankee's ahead by two runs and the hitter is Crezetti.
Setting right handed, takes a curve outside, ball one.
A few pulled a little around toward left.
Montell's a step down toward third.
Crezetti takes a curve that's neatly in, it counts even, one and one.
Gomez, who relies mainly on his curve ball.
He has curves at several speeds. He's glad to show the boys any time they want a demonstration.
Ducks at first, not pitches.
He misses that one low outside, two and one. Two balls, one strike.
Yankees four, Giants two.
This is the top of the six.
Two of the Rupert rifles have been fired at blank.
Gomez is the only base run at the moment.
Leading off first, Joe McCartney rolls the call against it. Smith carefully pitches the position, delivers.
Crezetti bounces slowly down toward third. Smith runs over, picks it up, goes back to first.
In time by a half step.
A slow dying top roller down toward third, which Smith himself could get to a step before Ahn.
And that step difference made the difference on the out at first base.
That's all for the top of the six. One.
The red was one of the finest bits of feeling that the series has developed to date.
Wasn't anything spectacular about it, but for all the elements that were required.
And Smith getting over there towards the line after that hit.
And keep from sliding in that sort of soggy ground.
Then ride himself, get the ball over to first base in time to keep Crezetti from getting an infield hit.
All those things combined to make that quite a play.
And at this point, I would say that this World Series is nineteen hundred thirty seven.
That certainly produced a lot of great plays.
Every game has seen some splendid feelings.
Things on the part of individuals on both sides.
And right at this moment, although the Yankees are leading four to two and the game is past the halfway mark.
One never knows what might develop.
The Yankees are coming to bat now with the middle part of their batting order.
Preparing to face lefty Gomez and we shall see what we shall see.
All right, first up in the last of the sixth inning, Ripple, Levo, McCoffee.
Gomez has not finished throwing down his preliminary pitches to Bill Dickies yet.
He has one or two more left.
On fire, Orensby standing in back of Dickie, holding his mask in his hand, design the procedure.
Vasari is stationed patiently down at second base, waiting for the last of the pitches and the return to him by Dickie.
There it is.
Twenty-fifths are down to short.
Crisetti passes it on to Roff, the third baseman.
Gomez following the flight of the balls, is in position to take it.
This soon as Roff puts it over to him.
Now stepping in is Ripple, who has one for two this afternoon.
Getting left handed, he takes the fastball inside.
All one.
Outgives toward right.
One and nothing to Ripple.
First up, last of the sixth.
The Giants two runs behind.
Gomez shoots it down.
Ripple swings it to line drive over to get his head taped out in the left field.
A whistling single.
And Ripple with his second single is on first base, opening up the last off the sixth inning.
A sharp single to left field.
That's hit number seven for the Giants.
And it's hit number thirteen in the ball game.
What will it mean?
What will it lead to?
Up now is big, blonde, hand cleaver, right hand hitter.
The pitch is a curve breaking sharply down in for a called strike.
Gomez fixes his uniform a moment.
Licks the fingers quickly of his left hand.
The infield is straight away.
Upper half step around second.
The outfield is straight away.
Garry holds first against Ripple.
Inside for ball one.
One and one.
One ball, one strike.
Leaver, one and a slip pick, all for figure.
Tap the end of his pat down on the plate and straightens out.
Gomez fires.
Leaver swings at the foul back off the genetic.
Straight back.
One and two.
Tank's behind.
Tank, one of the few ball players in World Series history to have two hits and one inning.
Those are his two hits for the series and he got them both.
The Giants beginning yesterday.
Gomez pitches.
Leaver swings as a foul hits down onto the plate and foul on the ground and back of third.
Schneider, the Giants third base coach, picks it up.
That field still remains straight away.
Gomez ready to go.
Delivers.
Leaver swings as they hit into left center field.
Around second goes Ripple and when the ball is momentarily comboed by DiMaggio, he hits the third.
And then when Joe picks it up, he ducks right back to second.
That was one of these, I go this way, I go that way and finally I stay where I am.
Ripple advances to second as Leaver hits a solid single out into left center field.
DiMaggio picking it up momentarily and Ripple started the third.
And then when he saw Joe recovering, he immediately held off.
And McCoffee has two pitches in the ball pen throwing hurriedly.
They look from this distance to be Murphy and Wicker.
No money out.
The Giants have the tying runs on in the last of the sixth inning.
And the hitter is Jack McCoffee.
The Yankee infield is pulled up looking for a butt.
There it is and it's fouled down along the third base line.
McCoffee trying to sacrifice the two Giants runners from first and second to second and third
to put them both in position to be scored on a base hit.
That's the strategy at the moment or was the strategy on that last pitch.
Snyder, the third base coach, called Ripple to run down the third.
While the Yankees are having a confab around pitches mound,
Ripple comes down and Snyder tells him personally.
Evidently he's not going to trust the sides on what this next move is to be.
The tying runs along for the Giants, the underdogs, to a game lead battling back.
The Yankees lead four to two.
This is the last of the sixth.
Nobody out and with singles.
Ripple is on second and Leaver on first.
The pitch to McCoffee is butted.
This one toward the pitcher.
Gomez feels it.
Throws over to third and times for a fourth.
That's third.
That's the only play.
Gomez handling McCoffee's bunt which was butted straight back down the middle.
Throwing it over to Red Rock for a force by two steps on Ripple who was coming down from second.
For you have to score McCoffee as a sacrifice field of choice.
Advanced Leaver on the play down to second base and have Ripple force that third.
Gomez, two off.
The tying runs are still on but now one man is out.
Let's see how the Yankees play for this.
They're pulling their infield back straight away.
Evidently playing for a double play.
The other is Danning.
That's right handed.
Gomez delivers.
Danning swings and misses.
And he went after that one like a hungry man after food when he hasn't tasted in three days.
Strike one.
Danning after swinging on that pitch and missing it asks on fire Aubry to examine it.
Put's the on fire. That's it.
And finds the ball well qualified to remain in play.
Leaver leading off second.
McCoffee off first.
Danning swings at the high foul back into the second back to the stands.
Nothing and two.
Gomez has now jumped ahead with his first two pitches on Harry Danning.
Danning going after both of them.
Danning is punishing a big wad of gum.
Chewing steadily, methodically.
Gomez out of position. Delivers Danning swings and misses.
Strike three.
Gomez ball down and with three pitches executed Danning to accomplish his sixth striking fee of the afternoon.
The outfield has to be straight away on Danning.
Gomez now shifts sharply toward right despite the fact that Whitehead is a right hand hitter.
They don't play him to pro.
Burgess Whitehead takes a strike.
Gomez taking a wicked curve down in there.
Gomez bearing down Brunninger now in this clutch here in the last of the sixth.
Delivers.
There's the ground ball rolled down to a second base for Lozare who's up with it plays over to Gehrig.
That's Hall for Burgess Whitehead.
And so ends the giant threat of getting back on an equal plane with the Yankees in the ballgame.
And at the end of six innings the Yankees are still ahead by their two runs, four to two.
The Yankees are still ahead but rather because of some of the most effective touching in the pinch by Gomez that the series has produced as yet.
Those two runners on base and no one out certainly looked as if the Giants were going to go somewhere.
So that when he had to Gomez certainly came in there with some fine pitching in that inning as he did in his first game.
And that is one of the reasons I suppose why it is that up to the present time Gomez has never been defeated in a World Series ballgame.
He's doing all right today too.
All right Ed.
Thanks Warren. Another stop to seventh inning where the Yankees coming to bat against the Leafs pitcher Al Smith.
Red Rolf is the first hitter.
DiMaggio and Gehrig in line.
Rolf getting left handed in the crouch.
The Giants pull to the right.
Red takes a strike.
Smith puts the curve right down and over.
Preaching that plate.
Strike one called.
Al takes the sign from Banning.
Gehrig comes out of his crouch and sets his admitted target.
Rolf swings.
Triggers it down towards third. Ott picks it up to throw it to first. It's going to be close.
It's entire mile half step.
Rolf is out.
He hits that one apparently off the end of his bat.
Roll it down towards third.
One up and one away for the Yankees starting to seventh.
A little left hander who's been leaving Al Smith.
He came on to start the sixth inning after starting pitcher Melton gave way for a pinch hitter.
He's now ready to pitch to DiMaggio.
Joe takes a strike.
That was a fast ball just above the knees.
Just a half an inch above the knees.
Strike one called.
DiMaggio has one for three this afternoon and what a blow that one was.
Home run.
Alfield what left in deep.
Joe swings and misses.
Well that home run was still firmly planted in his mind's eye.
As though that were the stars from which to hit his wagon.
Now Smith ahead.
Nothing in two.
One out.
Nobody on him to seventh.
Over his head and down.
It's low.
Danning tries to block it but it bounce away from him.
Doesn't make any difference.
Nobody's on.
Ball one.
One and two.
DiMaggio picks up a little of the moist clay.
Rubs it into the palms of his hands.
Now gets a hold of the bat.
Bounces it down two or three times on the plate.
Straightens up.
Then a side from one front.
Stands like an automaton.
Very popular with that bat caught high behind his right ear.
Swings.
Bounce it.
He's got it played and up against him.
Count remains one and two.
Ball still in play.
Danning going out.
Picking it up.
Going down to Ahtu.
Swoops it quickly over to Al Smith.
John Brennan.
Drawing.
And the giant bullfin.
Nobody working in the Yankee one.
Smith pitching.
Right swing swinging.
A low curve ball on the outside.
DiMaggio is quick.
That's the first back out for Al Smith.
And it's the sixth Yankee to be banned this afternoon.
All told there have been 12 strikeouts so far in this fifth World Series ball game of 1937.
In which the Yankees are leading 4-2.
Here is Luke Garrick who hammered a double his last time up in that Yankee fifth when they went ahead.
Garrick getting left at it.
Takes a strike.
I believe that's the fastest ball that Smith has thrown.
He whips it down on the inside.
Just under the waistline.
Yatsiel Sharper toward right and deep.
Big powerhouse hitter waiting.
Takes outside.
That one didn't stay on.
One and one.
Combs behind first.
Fletcher behind third.
Both talking it up.
Yelling encouragement to Garrick.
He stands there quietly almost spotty late.
He's ready.
Swing.
As the line dives deep under the right ripper coming in.
Can't get it.
Smith the ball bounds over his head.
Goes back against the wall.
Garrick is around first.
There he goes for second into the bullfin.
Goes able-picked it up.
Garrick is coming toward third.
Right head goes out and takes the throw in.
And Garrick holds up that third base with a triple.
It has to be scored as a triple.
Garrick hit a tremendously fast traveling low line drive straight out into right field.
Ripple came running in and then saw he could not possibly catch it.
And so he tried to check himself to take it easily on the first foul without having to play the ball trapped.
But as you know the Polo grounds is very, very wet after an all night and a partially morning rain.
And when Ripple tried to put the brakes on, well the spikes weren't long enough.
His feet went out from under him.
He fell flat up on his back.
And Garrick's ball bounced squarely over him.
Went up against the wall, down into the giant bullfin and was up to leave it to retrieve it.
A triple for Garrick.
Here in the seventh with two out.
And now the batter is Bill Dickey getting left handed.
Bill tries to push a butt and it goes foul down toward third base.
So Gomez's fair butt of the sixth inning, even if it did not accomplish its desired result, becomes more and more momentous.
Luke Garrick with a sharp triple reading down off third.
Dickey up there, one strike again.
That's the first hit off Al Smith.
And it's the seventh hit for the Yankees this afternoon.
The Giants have eight blows.
Dickey waiting, hasn't hit today's swing.
There's a high fireball, felt it deep in the center.
Lieber is back waiting and he has it.
That's all for the third of the top of the seventh.
No runs.
One hit.
And it's still four to two the Yankees with the Giants coming in for what they hope will be their half of the lucky seventh.
And here's more than half of the Mike Warren Brown.
Thank you, Red.
Well, it doesn't seem as though we can have a single half inning in this ball game without getting some manner of a thrill.
That was one of the high points of the game, certainly.
That ball that Garrick lined out there into right field.
And the Giants, after all sorts of difficulties out there, really did do some remarkable work in holding that to three bases.
Perhaps Garrick might have kept on coming and given us a little more excitement down here in front of us at the home plate.
But Hank Lieber got over there in the bullpen after Jimmy Ripple was taken out of the play by falling down.
The excitement contingent upon the racing of Lieber into the bullpen and the racing of Garrick around the bases with the possibility at first of a home run inside of the grounds certainly had everybody up and yelling around here.
The pitching of Smith has been really effective.
He's been in there for two innings now and outside of that ball which Garrick landed on him, he hasn't been hit hard at all.
That was the only base hit and most of the others that batted against him fell to hit solidly.
We're having a pinch hitter now for the Giants as they come to bat in their half and I'll turn the microphone back to Red.
Benning instead of Al Smith, the relief pitcher who took Melton's place is Gus Mancuso who has a broken right little finger but he's hitting nevertheless.
He takes high outside and it's ball one for the Swarthaville Giant captain, Mancuso, who split the first bone in his right little finger.
Gus takes a strike, bonehead coming right in there with it, one and one, Gus batting right handed.
Mancuso steps, goes out on a crouch, takes outside, fast ball that did not break down on in.
Two and one, first shot up to the last of the seven.
The outfield is straight away on Mancuso.
The infield is playing straight away also.
The office perhaps just a little wide at third but he seems to place third a little wider than most third basemen anyhow.
Bonehead comes down with that left arm, outside and high for ball three.
We're in one, the Mancuso, who has yet to offer.
Gus has just a slight bandage over the end of his right little finger.
If he didn't look very closely you wouldn't detect him.
Gus has been soaking that finger.
It seems like 24 hours every day in plenty of water trying to get the swelling down.
Gus takes strike two, fast ball is pulled right through.
Three and two, Mancuso, pinch hitting, starting off the last of the seven.
The pitch, three-two, is hung on.
It's a high fly ball into right center, circle, gun-rid and has it.
Pinch hitter Mancuso is out.
Now it's one away, starting the giant half of the seventh to last of the seventh.
The ball game stands at four to two in favor of the American Lakers.
Atop of the Orland, Joe Moore, who has eight hits in this series out of 21 trips.
He has the most hits of any ball player on either side of the fence.
Betting left-handed, takes inside, one that caused him to lean back but did not break down over the plate.
Ball one.
Moore has two singles out of three tries today.
So if she sticks somewhat, swings and misses.
Going for one in there on the fingers, one and one.
Luque, one of the greatest of the Cuban ball players in the major leagues.
The Giants coached first, Snider behind third.
Moore takes inside, getting back from it to ball two, two and one.
That field of Oge is straight away.
Center field of DiMaggio is about four steps over toward right center.
That's a trick that's straight away in right.
Moore swings and hits a line drive to right center field, which is in there for a hit.
Joe's third of this ball game this afternoon.
His third blow, this one going out into left center field.
And that gives Moore three for four today and gives him nine hits out of 22 tries.
Now there seems to be an electric wave of excitement surging through the polo grounds.
It is more or less edge out from the far end of their seats.
They feel that something might be ready to pop or happen.
Big Bartel's up there, running right handed.
Swings and fouls back into the stands.
The upper deck behind home, strike one.
It's a four to two ball game at the moment in favor of the Yankees.
With one out and the last to the seven.
Joe Moore is on first base for the Giants.
Gerrig holds the corner. The pitch to Bartel is swung on, lifted high and short.
In back of shortstop, Crisetti under it and he has it.
Then he drops it deliberately and throws over to second baseman, Lazzari.
And so the out is on Moore, who is thereby forced at second base.
And Bartel is at first.
The infield fly rule does not come up on that situation.
What happens is this, Crisetti deliberately dropped that pop by Bartel.
The idea was, because it was such an easy looking play from the start,
Crisetti hoped that Bartel would not be running it out.
And thereby, if he was not, they might have gotten a double play.
As it is, Moore is forced to second base, short to second, and Bartel is the runner in first.
The first pitch to Melat, low outside, the ball won.
And now the stage is set in the seventh, as it was in the third, except for one difference.
One was out in the third, now two are out in the seventh.
Ott takes ball two, one thrown to the point of his shoulder,
which drives him down to a knee, getting out of the way, and it's two-nothing.
Ott is at the plate, Bartel is at first base, and the Giants are two runs behind.
Ott remedied that in the third. Can he do it in the seventh?
He takes high inside under the chin, ball three.
And it's three-nothing to Melat.
The pitch is inside for ball four.
Gomez gives up his first pass on the ball game,
walking Melat to put the tying run at first base.
Bartel scrolls on down to second.
Bartel at second, out at first, and Jimmy Ruppel has been hit on.
He has two for three this afternoon.
He has five blows out of 16 tries in the series.
Ruppel stands at the plate, a sturdy left-hand swinger.
Gomez delivers outside for ball one.
Accompy has two of his right-handers warming up in his bullpen now for the Yankees.
Gomez delivers, Ruppel takes inside against him for ball two.
Gomez is having difficulty with his control.
He has not drawn a strike on any of his last six tries.
On at first, the tying run.
Bartel at second, two off in the last of the seventh.
The pitch now, two-nothing. He's taken for ball three up against Ruppel.
And it's three and all to Jimmy Ruppel.
One more pitch and it will be wide, and the bases will be filled.
The tying run pushed down two seconds.
However, there will be a deliberation before this fourth pitch to Ruppel.
Luke Gehrig, the captain, comes walking down and talks to catcher Bill Dickey.
Rainey Second baseman Lazare comes over to the mound along with Third baseman Red Rall
to talk to pitcher Gomez.
Now Gehrig goes down toward first.
Gomez steps back on the pitcher's plate.
Lazare goes walking back to second.
Presetti takes his depth of short.
Rall gets position on third.
It's three-nothing to Ruppel.
The pitch, strike one call, right in there.
Gomez had no choice but to try and throw a straight one, straight as a string,
two as a dock.
That it was.
Now field toward right, three and one.
Ruppel hit this one. Let's see.
He takes it. It's off, strike two.
Three and two.
Gomez takes a look out to the ball pit.
It's good to say, well, I'm glad to know you guys are out there, but I hope I don't need you.
Now the pitch is the runner's break is swung on.
Down to Lazare who's up with it over to Frank that throws the ripple
and two ends the threat in the last of the seven-tenning.
And the ballgame stands at the end of seven hectic split-arounds,
four for the American League Yankees and two for the National League Giants.
We pause for station identification.
WMAQ Chicago.
Back in the NBC booth in the parlor grounds
where the New York Yankees and Giants are engaged in their World Series game.
The Yankees leading at the present time four to two.
The Giants just having missed another opportunity
in their half of the seventh getting someplace and getting the score tied.
Once again as in the sixth inning, the Giants had two men on bases
and that was the way the inning ended with the two men still on bases.
The necessary hit was not forthcoming.
Jimmy Ripple who was up there in the pinch hit the ball hard
but directly at Tony Lazare and thus Vernon Gomez in these last two innings
having given the Giants opportunities to get the score squared
certainly clamped down on them when it really began to get serious.
However, these two innings have provided a rather large crowd
for a rather chilly afternoon here at the parlor grounds.
A little bit more excitement to add to what has been created ever since the game started.
This is far and away the most interesting game of the entire series
and that interest has been sustained from start right to the present time.
We're going into the eighth inning now and Red Barber it's your turn.
Thank you Warren and it's now Don Brennan's turn out there on the mound
to make his second relief appearance in this World Series.
Don Brennan who spent most of his years in baseball as property of the Yankees
and now with the Giants gets his first chance to pitch against the Yankees.
Brennan is ready to pitch to hold first up in the eighth inning.
The Yankees lead 4-2. Right hand to Brennan delivers.
The curve ball is outside. Ball runs.
Don fits the ninth inning Friday and set down Vicki Selkirk and Hogan order.
He's ready for his second pitch now to hold.
Jenna Crouch hitting right hand to hold swings and misses above it for Spike one, one and one.
Brennan very cool, very smart.
He has a great deal of stuff.
He relies on his control and on his knowledge of hitters weaknesses.
He delivers. It's a fast ball in there.
Spike two, one and two.
Hold first up in the eighth.
Hogan this afternoon has one blow out of three tries.
That was a home run first up in the second inning.
That was the first score of the afternoon.
Don delivers. A curve which is swung on, lifted deep out on the left.
Jomar is going back, back, back, back and leaning against the wall he makes the catch.
Right against the 414 foot distance side.
Jomar, 414 feet away from home plate, leaned way back up against the boards and made the catch.
That's all for hold.
And the fielding plays are excellent.
Continuous pace.
And I believe we are approaching even higher hysterical heights in this World Series ball game, the fifth of 1937.
Now it's one out in the top of the eighth and the batter is Selkirk hitting left handed.
He hasn't hit this afternoon out of three tries.
He failed to get a hit yesterday.
George Brenning left handed.
Probably played from behind.
Selkirk swinging.
Jomar hit out of the right field. Ruppel stays on his feet this time.
Chops it.
The throw is in the second and Selkirk with a single holds up at first base.
Single in the right for George Selkirk.
That is hit number eight for the Yankees.
Good afternoon.
The amount of now is Tony Lozari who hit a tremendous 415 foot on the fly triple in the fifth inning.
You know this is a ball park that is 25 straight through the middle.
Lozari hitting right habit.
Choking that stick drastically.
The outfield is straight away.
Infield up around second.
Strike one called.
Right in.
Up the knees.
One out.
Selkirk on first.
McCarvey holds the corner.
John takes the sign.
Turn that forward again.
Turning the show of emotion and gets ready down in the pitcher position.
Delivers outside as the pitch out but there's no throw to first.
As McCarvey was not back on the bag.
And thanks to Selkirk was closer to first base than McCarvey.
One and one to Lozari.
Four to two.
Play for the Yankees over the Giants.
A curve that misses the outside corner not holding on.
Lozari goes ahead on the count two and one.
Melat is playing back fairly deep at third and a little bit over to the line.
Throw to first by Brennan.
Holding Selkirk on.
Bartell spoke to Whitehead.
Rest of the keystone combination for the Giants.
Behind the back of his glove he does it again now.
Telling Whitehead who's going to cover second.
Should Selkirk come down.
A high fly ball into short left field.
Jorma is on his mule coming in fast.
But it's short stop Bartell back for the catch.
Lozari hits sky high.
Up into the clearing clouds of the afternoon.
The threat of rain which came up at the start of the fifth inning when a few mystery drop spells
appears to have been vanished.
No one is thinking of rain any longer.
That's two out in the eighth.
The hitter will be Gomez.
There he is coming up to the plate.
Back to that candid.
He's south-pouish all the way through.
Banning goes out to talk to Brennan.
Gomez standing a third of the way out in front of home plate.
Talking for the moment.
Gomez stands quietly leaning on his back to a well-propped.
Banning touches back on home plate.
Brennan sets out there on the mound.
Selkirk ready to go on anything.
Two out, leaps way down off first.
The outfield is full court right and in close.
Gomez crotches, takes inside.
The knees for ball one.
Gomez has a hit.
If he can win this ball game, there will be no holding him tonight.
He can also win a game pitching and get a base hit to boot and won the drives and the runs.
Gomez swings, there's a low-line drive in to left.
More waiting for it takes it.
Gomez is out.
But he's set.
He smoked that apple right quickly on the nose.
That's all for the top of the eighth inning.
And as we get ready to go into the last of the eighth with the Giants coming in,
the Yankees still lead four to two.
Well, if it is true, as it seems to be in the last couple of innings,
that Gomez is letting down a little as a pitcher off of his previous effectiveness,
he's certainly picking up in his hitting.
You've mentioned and Tom Manning ahead of you mentioned the fact that
Gomez drove in the run, which put his ball club ahead in this 1937 World Series.
And now to find him coming up there hitting at another type of pitching,
Don Brennan's type and lashing that line fly out in the left field,
he's beginning to look a little bit like Ty Cobb.
And as you said very truly, there will be no holding him,
because any pitcher likes to win his game when he's pitching.
But no pitcher likes anything better than a base hit.
And you said a mouthful, if I may use that expression, when you said that about Gomez.
So here are the Giants with Hank Lieber taking another try.
They're in their half of the eighth, all right here.
Hank Lieber, you can call me on deck and Danning in the hole.
Lieber has one for three this afternoon.
He has three hits out of ten tries in the series.
The score is four to two, the Yankees.
The Giants are not only two runs behind in the ball game,
but they're two runs behind in the World Series.
I feel straight away in deep on Hank, who takes strike one.
Gomez getting the jump for the first pitch,
fall strike on the inside, right under the belt buckle.
Lieber, a big powerhouse, stands at the plate waiting.
Gomez delivers, that ball inside, missing by a finger.
It's one and one.
DiMaggio now moves over by a step, step and a half over toward left.
The pitch comes in, swung on, and foul-tip straight back on the line.
It's one and two.
Lieber's behind, one ball, two strikes.
First Giants up in the last of the eighths.
Gomez drives up the fingers of his left hand,
leans down, takes the sign,
Gazzetti, talking it up and short, another pitch,
low and into the day.
Vicki traps it, has a little difficulty holding on to it,
has to chase it back a couple of feet.
Osby, acts for the ball, looks at it,
drives it to remain in play,
not scarred or roughened to a great extent.
Two and two to Hank Lieber, the first Giants up in the last of the eighths.
Giants trailing by two runs.
Gomez delivers, Lieber swings,
and it's a base hit through the hole between third and short out into left field.
And Lieber holds on at first base with a single,
his second straight hit this afternoon giving him two for four.
A single in the left, which was hit sharply between Roth and Vicketti.
That's hit number nine off Gomez.
Stepping up now is young Jack McCarthy.
Lindo, left hand hitter,
he's finishing out his first GR in the big show.
He was a rookie with the Giants in the front of the race.
Gomez pitches outside, ball one.
Johnny Murphy throwing out the bullpen now for the Yankees.
Gomez pitches, swung out and missed.
Swinging strike onto the shoulders.
One and one to McCarthy.
Dannings on deck swinging a couple of war clubs to make one feel lighter.
The pitch is under the chin for ball two.
McCarthy had to bend backwards like a reverse jackknife
to keep him getting a closer shave than he would like.
That is in a ball game.
Gomez looks at first and now delivers.
McCarthy swings with the long fly ball deep out on the right.
Chuck Kirk is back, fires and takes it.
And Lieber a third of the way down toward second.
Touchback on the first base as the throw in comes to second baseman Lozari.
That's all from McCarthy.
One away in the last of the eighths.
Down and out is Dannings.
He had three for four yesterday, so far he's all for three today.
And twice Gomez has struck him out.
The other time he got him out he made him foul up to catch a Bill Dickey.
Danning up.
That feels straight away.
Lieber leading off first, Dannings swinging, foul chips it straight back into the netting.
Strike one.
Dickey takes a new ball, wraps it right back out to Gomez.
It's alive, loose jointed left-hander, gets the sign, licks his fingers.
Now set, facing first.
And time is called.
Gomez starts to pitch and then has to hold up.
Danning walking back out of the box.
Out in the bleachers apparently, oh I see what it is.
A salesman for something, one of the park salesmen for the concession in a white suit was walking up the steps in the bleachers right on a line with Dannings eye on the pitcher.
So time had to be called until the rusher got out of the way.
Now the pitcher's high and outside, one and one to Dannings.
A batter focusing his eye on the pitcher, trying to watch the ball in the pitcher's hand. If something white distracts him out in the bleachers it can be serious.
There is a line drive right to Gehrig who steps on first base, jumping Lieber long.
Dannings one on an outside pitch, trying to hit it to right to you.
And hit it about a yard fair inside of first right at Gehrig who smothered it with his mitts.
Made one leap, blank, a frightened kangaroo, bounding on the first base for another system double play by Gehrig.
And that ends the last of the eighth inning.
And the Yankees are still persevering along ahead 4-2, Mr. Brown.
And red that also ends another trying inning for the New York Giants for the third time in a row.
Now they looked as though they were getting ready to start something but nothing has happened.
That last one was really a tough break because Dannings had a chance to drive in a run two innings ago and didn't really start it out that time as though he was going to do some damage.
That line drive he hit was well hit.
But unfortunately for the Giants cause directly at Gehrig who was very close to first base and had no trouble making double play.
That's three innings in a row now that Gromans have started the Giants off and raised some of their hopes undoubtedly.
And then had them dash to earth, a rather soggy earth at the polo grounds this afternoon.
Now the Yankees are coming to bat for the first half of the ninth inning and what may possibly be for their last time in the 1937 World Series.
Certainly it will be unless when the Giants get around to it they get some runs.
All right then.
It's off the night. Right hand hitting Presetti is up. Takes low under the knees.
Gromans first pitch of the ninth inning, ball one.
The outfield slightly around toward left.
Infield is straight away.
Whitehead up a step by second.
Runnin' comes down with his right arm. The pitch is inside up against Presetti's letters.
And it's ball two. Two-nothing.
Mikey Presetti who has just one hit in the series.
Up for his 22nd time.
Takes low inside for ball three.
One just took off the toes of his shoe.
New ball put in play.
Up down at third. Takes it from Danning. Grubs it up. Walks it over to the mound.
Runnin' behind now.
Three and oh.
Presetti set.
Right hand hitter in the crowd. Shoking his stick.
Down delivers.
It's low for ball four and go ahead to present.
Runnin' walks the first Yankee up in the ninth inning.
The runner is Red Rawl.
Who has one hit out of three official tries today.
He's been on the bases twice. He drew a pass in the fifth inning.
Outfield. Flows around toward right.
They play Rawl for the full hitter.
Runnin' watching first. Now delivers.
Rawl front.
The ball bounce down and up and hits him.
It is foul.
Strike one.
The Giants come in.
Starting to say.
There the basis of the Giants argument is.
That the ball when it's bounded up and hit.
Rawl was in fair territory and therefore the batter should be automatically out.
However, umpire ought to be ruled that the attempted butt was foul all the way.
And it hits Rawl as a foul ball and therefore is just foul ball strike one.
That's nothing in one.
Standing walking out toward the mound.
Runnin' after taking the ball from him on a short toss.
Was trudging back up.
That summit of red play.
That is Pitcher's Hill.
In the polo grounds.
Nobody out. Presetti leading down off first.
While they hold the corner. Whitehead is halfway down.
The Giants are looking for a butt.
Rawl tries to butt. This one is fair.
Downing takes it. Throws down to first. Rawl is out.
Presetti safely sacrificed down to second base.
The Yankees in the ninth inning of this fifth game accomplish a sacrifice play.
That's nothing the Giants in the first one or two games wish they had done.
Instead of swinging with two strikes on them after two foul butts.
Presetti sacrificed down to second.
The out was downing at two o'clock.
Out one away.
Here at the top of the ninth. DiMaggio is up there.
Runnin' off, set the pitch to him.
Down delivers.
Inside.
Curve which started at the shoulder.
Broke down toward the plate but didn't break enough. Four or one.
Presetti leading off the keystone.
180 feet from where they pay off.
Down to the field. Step toward left and deep.
DiMaggio takes high outside.
Ball two.
Brennan's behind. Two-nothing.
Run, run. The third Giants pitcher out this afternoon.
Melton started.
Fits five innings. Gave way for a hitter.
All four of the Yankee runs.
He came off cliff.
Smith fits the next two. Brennan fits one and he's now going into the ninth.
Here this hit high and short out in the left field.
Under it is shortstop Bartell and has it.
The second out at the top of the ninth.
DiMaggio popping sky high up and out.
Two away on the ninth.
The Yankees ahead.
Four to two.
Lou Gehrig steps into the plate.
Lou has a double and a triple for his last two efforts.
He has five hits all told in the series.
His bag includes a grand slam.
Not put together in any one game.
But throughout the series he has one of every kind.
A single, a double, a triple and a home run.
That's what you'd call pretty fair country clout.
That's the way I came from.
Two away top of the ninth.
Presettion second. Lou Gehrig up.
He hasn't been stopped.
He has two tries.
Hitting left-handed takes outside.
Running pitch did not come down in there.
Right-handed pitcher working to a left-hand hitter.
All one.
Presetti ready to go on anything.
Running carefully down into pitch position delivers a curve in there.
And there's a throw to second which is into the dirt.
But Bartell comes up with it.
Presetti of course is back long ago safely.
McCall strike to Gehrig with standing through down to second.
He threw it into the dirt about six feet short of second base.
And a couple of feet on the shortstop side of the keystone.
Bartell took it on the hop.
Not allowed to go through.
Running into position throwing out of the shoulder.
A curve down into McCall strike two.
Gehrig took a long healthy stride going in on that pitch.
But did not swing.
And it broke sharply down in there.
One and two to move.
Running again in position delivering.
Swing committed.
Strike three.
And so ended the top of the ninth inning.
And the Giants will now be pressing in for what may be their last chance.
One round.
And even that inning could not get by without something,
some little bit added to the excitement.
The potential run on second base.
And DiMaggio, Gehrig and Dickey supposedly coming up next.
That was a trying moment for Don Brennan.
I thought he did real well getting out of there without any damage.
He limited DiMaggio to a high fly just a little bit back on the grass.
And of course striking out Gehrig is always something to get excited about at the time.
Now the Giants will be at bat for their last time.
Unless they happen to get themselves two runs.
And if they get more than two runs it will still be their last time.
Since it is the last half of the ninth inning, the home club's half.
And I imagine that the official attendance of 38,216
would sort of like to see the game get tied up and go on.
After all it's getting to be a much better day now than when it started.
And everyone present, with the exception of the Yankee folks of course,
are pulling for a tie score. Here they go, Reds.
Burgess Whitehead is first up. Gomez pitches.
Strike one called, a first pitch of the last of the ninth.
And with what feelings?
Last of the ninth is approached by both clubs.
The pitch swung on and fouled back.
Strike two, nothing in two to Whitehead.
This afternoon Whitehead has one for three a double.
He has four hits out of 15 tries in the series.
The outfield is playing in, notably in center and right, and is pulled toward right.
The right side of the infield is up a step, the right side is usual depth.
Whitehead in the crowd swinging.
It's a clouding fly out in the center.
Imagine your look back and pulls it down for the out.
And the Giants, two runs behind, have put two outs left to them
in the ball game and in the series.
One away on the last of the ninth inning.
And Wally Burger is coming up to bat for Don Brenner.
Wally Burger, big right-handed hitter.
Wally Burger up there, takes high outside.
All right, this is the third time in the series Burger has come up as a pinch hitter.
He has not delivered.
The pitch is high outside for ball two.
Burger is ahead.
Burger, who when he connects, has terrific driving power.
With these fans yawning dangerously close down along each foul line, Burger sets.
Gomez left-handed in.
Burger swings, breaks his bat, hits it into the great front of his area.
He was up for this to throw to first.
Burger is out.
And that's what you call insult to injury.
Breaking at bat and then going out at the same time.
And now but one out remains to the National League cause.
The Giants being their standard ballers in this 1937 climate.
And now Bill Terry, the manager of the Giants and injured catcher and captain Gus Mancuso have come out.
Burger has come back to join them.
And they are putting on an argument with umpire Ormsby.
The argument, no doubt, being whether there was interference on Burger's swing that time with his bat.
That's the second time that argument about interference by the catcher with the batter's bat has come up this afternoon.
And for the first time in the series we have a conference of the four welles of the blue surge.
Umpire Ormsby calls his three compatriots, his former American League umpire Basial and the National League arbiters, Braun Stewart, for a conference.
And they talk it over.
And they agree there was not interference.
The four umpires decided then.
And Terry takes off his cap and in mock deference to the umpires, follows scurrifically low.
And you can see his lip work as he says, I think.
Now the umpires go back to the stands between the Yankees and the championship of the world in 1937.
But one out is left to the Giants cause.
More swing, a slow roller down for first.
Terry picks it up, the cause over to Gomez who covers.
That's the final out.
Gomez makes the final put out himself.
Gary to the pitcher, Moore is out.
And the hilariously happy Yankees are making a mad dash for their clubhouse with the Giants coming back.
And the Yankees are now champions of the world.
And now the national broadcasting company takes you to Tom Manning in the Yankee clubhouse.
All right ladies and gentlemen, and here's the boys that hit the longest ball of the series, Joe DeMondfield.
Thanks Tom, thanks Tom.
It was a great thrill to win this game.
I mean that home run was a great show.
I never hit a ball out of my life.
The Giants played a good game and we did too.
I mean as far as, I went with them, joining was a great game.
Thank you Joe.
Where's that Gary guy?
George Selkirk, come here.
Yeah, there you are George.
What do you want me to play now?
How do you feel boy?
Aw, just fine.
And here's the guy that picked the two winning goal games.
Come on over here Lefty.
Lefty Gomez.
I'm really thrilled to death and I want to say to my folks out in California,
I'll be home real soon.
Thank you very much Tom.
What are you puffing up on?
I'm happy and just running.
Come on, give us a gag.
It wouldn't be Lefty Gomez without some kind of a gag.
Come here Bill.
I do like that hit I got today Tom.
I think that was a piffle.
Listen, what did you have out there?
Everything?
Nothing, I was very lucky.
All right, and here's the scouter Phil Sicki, one of the greatest catchers ever.
Hello Bill.
Give Gomez all the credit boy.
He deserves these last, this last ball game and that first one too.
He's missed great ball all during the series.
He's a great pitcher.
What do you have out there today Bill?
Plenty, had a lot of everything.
Phil you hit that old ball pretty hard but you were hitting it too far and too high.
Yeah well you got to be lucky.
What are you going to do this winter?
Well I'm going down to Florida on a vacation right now.
What are you going to do with that dough?
Oh, what are you going to do with that dough Lefty Gomez?
I'm going to put it into an annuity for my, when I'm an old man.
You're an old man now, what do you mean when you're an old man?
All right, the photographers are pushing them out here.
Joe McCarthy ladies and gentlemen, the greatest manager that ever lived.
One of the finest fellows, new radio and newspaper man.
Ladies and gentlemen it's a real pleasure to present to you now Joe McCarthy,
the manager of the world champion New York Yankees.
Well I'm very happy but I really thought that the Giants would give us a little tougher battle.
I really thought they'd at least win two of their, I'll win that.
I just went on through the field.
What's the matter Joe?
I'm so tickled I don't know, I couldn't say anything anyhow.
What are you going to say hello to the folks over in Buffalo?
Well I want to say hello to all my good friends in Buffalo and I'll soon be back with you.
Thank you.
Thank you Joe a lot.
Come on over here, Max Butcher, come here.
Max Butcher.
Well I want to first say hello to everybody in Collinsville, Illinois.
I want to thank Henry Sherman for the wonderful telegram and I say to all enthusiasm,
there's a wonderful demonstration going on, I'm going to let somebody else talk.
Pat Malone, come on over, thanks a lot.
That was a great series, in my room he pitched a great game.
I'm Gomez's room and Hello Mylan and Mother and Joel,
was the greatest series I believe I ever saw.
What's that going to do with that big fat check?
Same as last year, give it to our wife and baby.
Hi Hal Tudor.
Tony, come on over, what's up?
Tony, come here.
Tony.
Hello everybody in San Francisco and Millbury, it's been a wonderful series.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the American League, the Honorable Will Herridge.
Too much noise here but I want to just say a great victory for the American League.
Thank you very much President Herridge.
Red Wall, come here, don't you run away, you've got to get over here.
We Redheads will stick together again.
It's great to be on another winner.
We all know that lefty Gomez was starting today and finished.
Thank you very, very much for letting us play the lot of third base too.
Listen, I want to get a hold of Luke Gerry.
Where's Luke?
Where's Gerry?
Oh, he's sitting over here with his arms around to go to Mars, Joel.
Will you get off that court for a moment?
Please, will you give us a little more court?
Hey, photographer, hey, photographer, off the court please.
Where is that?
Luke, come on up here, I've got enough court.
Come on over here.
Come on over here, little Michelle New York.
Joel, don't be so backwards.
I'm just lucky to be with a great ball club, that Joel.
Listen, what do we have on that ball with you, Hickson?
Come on over here, say hello to that fly for you, you big step, come on.
Come on, Luke.
Oh, there's a quartet in there, one hundred, they're taking pictures up there.
That quartet happens to be Earl Combs, the tenor and so forth.
And ladies and gentlemen, federal has broken loose.
We've had the pleasure of having our NBC microphone here in the dressing room.
The boys are being pushed and shoved around.
I do want to get Colonel Rupert on the air for you.
If I'm swimming through that, will you please say, Colonel Rupert?
And here's the owner of the Yankees. Hey, hey, give me the court, please.
Colonel Rupert.
Ladies and gentlemen, Colonel Rupert is perhaps the happiest man here,
and I know that he'd like to speak to you all over the world.
And here he is, the Honorable Colonel Rupert,
owner of the New York Yankees of the American League, Colonel Rupert.
No doubt I'm the happiest man in the world.
They've done great work and they deserve to win it.
They're a fine ball club, they're fine, and they deserve it.
Thank you all. Thank you, Colonel Rupert.
Hey, Charlie Ruffey! Charlie! Hey, Charlie!
Get Ruffey, go ahead.
Tom Henry.
Here's the boy that caused a lot of excitement throughout the year, Tom Henry.
He was made a free agent, got himself about 25 grand.
And he's from Ohio, the same state that I'm from,
a smiling youngster on his first World Championship team, Tom Henry.
Great to be on this team.
That's my lion. I'm too darn horse to say much.
I didn't get in the game, but I sure hollered like a son of a buck.
You'll be in there a lot, kid, don't worry about that.
And here's the old Red Ruffing himself, ladies and gentlemen,
what a ball game he's had. How are you, kid?
I'm fine, all right. I'm glad it's all over now.
I didn't think the best team won, no two.
So you're pretty happy about getting that dough that you lost early in the spring
after you held out on... Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
What are you going to do with all that dough?
I'll buy a whole lot in California, I think, right?
Maybe the juice could catch you, though, would it?
Joe Glenn, Pope Joe, I'll say if you want.
Joe Glenn, come on in, Joe.
I'm a little excited, but I do want to say hello to my folks
and to all my friends, the great series, and I'm very happy we won.
Mark Ross, Mark, Mark, come on over, sir.
Here's the secretary of the Yankee Club, ladies and gentlemen, Mark Ross.
This is the tenth one for me. I hope we have another one, make it 11.
Thank you. Off the court, please.
Wait a second, I gotta get somebody, wait a minute.
Oh, no. Hey, here's the mascot.
What's your name? Nobody ever tells them.
Jimmy Sullivan. Jimmy, how long have you been mascot for the Yankees?
Two years.
Listen, you speak for the whole Yankee team now and get going, come on.
Very glad we won, folks.
What are you going to do with all the dough you made?
Put it in the bank.
What bank?
Congratulations, kid. Have a good winter and we'll see you again on the spring.
They're still pushing and shoving around here,
and the little picture that we got now, every photographer, I believe, in America,
is here in this dressing room of the Yankees,
and we pull all the ballplayers on for you.
This is Tom Manning speaking, and I want you to return you again to the dressing room.
Back in the NBC booth at the top of the upper deck of the Polar Grounds,
the crowd is streaming out on the field, rapidly making its getaway,
and the 1947 World Series is definitely over,
but the New York Yankees return world champions for the second year in a row.
They have defeated the New York Giants, champions of the National League,
in four out of five games.
They managed to do that because they opened up in a manner of speaking a long lead
by winning the first three games of the World Series
before the Giants seemed to be unable to get going at all.
Yesterday, behind the fine pitching of Carl Hubbell,
the Giants were able to win and looked very much like they had looked
while they were winning a championship in the National League.
Today, in this, what turned out to be the final game,
Lepty Gomez, who won the first game for the Yankees, came back again.
He was not the same kind of a pitcher by any means today that he was in the first game,
but he managed to withstand the repeated fine starts that the Giants made in several innings
and held them to their two runs.
The Giants got ten hits off of Gomez, but he kept them fairly well scattered.
The main thing that Gomez did today was to show his ability to pitch his way out of trouble,
and he was in trouble a good deal, especially in the latter part of the game.
He was in most of his trouble, of course, in the third inning when Mel Ott,
the New York Giants third baseman, got the Giants' only home run of the series,
scoring Dick Bartel ahead of him and tying the score.
The Yankees prior to that had made two runs, both on home runs off Cliff Melton.
Joe DiMaggio got one of them and Marle Hoog got the other.
Later on in the fifth inning, with the score tied at 2-all,
Tony Lozare came through with a tremendous three-base hit in the dead center field.
And then nobody else but Gomez himself came up and delivered his only hit of the series,
but one that was good enough to knock home the one run that he needed to win the way he went thereafter.
Later on in the ball game, when that inning, Gomez himself scored to make the score 4-2,
and that was the way it went, although this crowd of a few hundred more than 38,000
that was here this afternoon on a cold, really damp day with a tread of rain all the time
certainly got quite a kick out of the proceedings in the latter innings.
There were many chances for the Giants, and the Giants today played very fine baseball all the way through.
Perhaps they didn't get the breaks that they wanted, but their chances were there for them to come through.
And because they didn't, it seems to me that it goes on the credit side of Gomez
as much as on the debit side of the Giants.
It has been an interesting series all the way through,
and this Warren Brown talking to you must say that he has enjoyed it thoroughly.
And now I'm going to turn the microphone over to George Hicks, and goodbye.
Again, NBC and its Associated Stations from coast to coast have brought you under a leaden sky
at the Polar Grounds in New York City, the last game of the Autumnal Classic,
and the complete report of all the action of the series.
The Yanks win, of course, four games to one, winning the first game 8-1, the second game 8-1,
the third game 5-1, the Giants winning the fourth game 7-3,
and the Yankees now winning the last game 4-2.
The Yanks got 8 hits and no errors, the Giants got 10 hits and no errors.
Your two action describers have been Tom Manning,
the veteran baseball announcer from station WTAM Cleveland,
and Brett Barber, the flashy southern boy of WLW Cincinnati,
and Warren Brown, the sports editor of the Chicago Herald Examiner,
was that voice of authority between the innings.
This is George Hicks speaking from New York.
These are programs of the National Broadcasting Company.