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On October 1, 1954, the New York Giants faced the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland Stadium for Game 3 of the 1954 World Series.
The Giants led the best of seven series, two games to none, and this is the mutual radio broadcast of Game 3 featuring announcers Al Helfer and Jimmy Dudley.
Good afternoon, fans. And it's really a pleasure to have Al Rosen, all the capable third-best men of the Cleveland Indians, on our direct program this afternoon.
Al, they told me you're not going to play this afternoon.
That's right, Frankie. Due to this thigh injury of mine, my right leg has been acting up quite bad. You remember seeing me run.
And we feel that possibly I'll be of more value to the team in a 10-centers role or even playing in the later innings of a ball game if necessary.
And certainly I can't help the ball club by trying to go all the way.
Well, I know you would help it if you were in then. Now look, Al, what happened in these last two games from a player's viewpoint?
Well, strictly from a player's viewpoint, we feel that one base hit in either ball game or even a fly ball in either ball game, the game might have gone the other way.
We ran into Magnuson Fitching, a terrific defensive ball club.
Even though I must say for our own sector, I think our pitches were as good as anything we saw from the Giants.
We just didn't get the runs that the Giants did. They capitalized more on opportunities than we did.
That's right. Winn-Picchi-Cellippi came yesterday. How about that little Adam Ali?
Johnny has come a long way since I saw him this spring, and he certainly deserves the reputation we've received, that we've heard about him.
Johnny certainly is one of the finer left-handers in the game. He's certainly as good as anything we've seen in our league.
Did you hit against him in the All-Star game?
Yes, I did.
How'd you do?
Well, I think John had a bad day, and by the grace of God...
I hate him then. You hit two home runs in the All-Star game. Did you hit him all the time?
I did.
Now, what happened yesterday with the man on second base?
Well, I think Johnny was just a better pitcher yesterday. Maybe I was a worse hitter. I don't know.
But Johnny fooled me yesterday. I certainly wasn't looking for a fast ball with the man on second base.
Al, didn't he throw you two fast balls?
Yes, he did. He got one up around my letter, which I think is my long ball, the fast ball up, and then he got another one right down around my knees, and I should have been swinging Frank.
Al, you know we've been hearing so much about playing in a certain ballpark. Do you think a ballpark makes any difference?
No, I really don't. I think that sometimes a ballpark looks funny to you when you first walk in it, but most fellows have been around a big league for a few years.
They've managed to see most of the ballpark. Now, our club has seen the polo grounds. We've played numerous exhibition games there at the end of our spring training season.
So, actually, there's no advantage, I don't believe, to any pitcher working in a certain ballpark or any hitter having to hit against a certain wall in a ballpark.
Well, it's certainly been a terrific series so far. I know Propeller, in my case, has been in as many world series games.
Al, I've been getting a terrific thrill out of this thing. Say Al, I've got a little gift here for you, and it's a new Gillette one-piece razor set.
And in the back here is the 1954 World Series record book. I know you'll enjoy that. And just stick around with me for a minute, will you?
I want the fans to look for this Gillette display at your favorite store. You will find this big little book filled with baseball bats, and they've got the diagrams of all the ballparks.
All the major league ballparks. Now, here's the Cleveland Stadium. Seats 73,500. That's quite a stadium. The seating section and everything is right in there.
And you've got 112 pages of real dope on World Series history. And then we turn back here, Al, this is important.
I think this is a great little thing in this book. Hands-on winning baseball. And then you've got batting.
You know, it's good for little leaguers, good for semi-professional ballplayers, college ballplayers. In fact, I'm going to kick out of reading it.
It's got face running, peeling, pitching, and the foil rockers of all clubs. And I hope the fans will get this quick.
Last year a lot of fans waited a little too long, and thousands of fans missed out. So I hope they'll bear down this year and get them soon.
Al, Rosen, lots of luck to you. And I hope that leg comes along, because fans, here's a great guy on the field and off the field. Thanks for being on our program.
Lots of luck to you. And our next guest will be a young fellow that did a courageous job yesterday.
I admire this young guy. He walked out his first World Series game. Johnny Antonelli.
How old are you now, John?
Twenty-four, Frank.
Twenty-four.
Now I want to ask you one question. I felt for you in that first inning yesterday with the three men on.
What did Leo say when he walked out of the mound? Were you nervous?
No, I don't think I was nervous. I believe I was trying to be.
Well, I would have been out there.
But I mean, he just tried to calm me down, I believe. He didn't actually say much about the game. He just came out there to talk to me, and that was it.
Dave, in the last inning you had a man on 13th third. One out.
Thanks.
What were you aspiring to pick worse?
Mostly fastballs at that time, Frank.
That's when you did a...let me brag about you a little. I know you don't care about it too much.
But for a young guy, 23, 24 years old, pitching his first World Series game, this kid, the ninth inning, the Giants leading 3-1, did a terrific job to count 3-2.
Right. I think he fell off about five or six pitches.
Five or six pitches, and still you didn't walk.
Right.
What about the double play ball? The ball that Regaldo...wasn't that the fellow Rudy Regaldo hit the ball with the shortstop, John?
Yes.
Were you ready to go to the clubhouse in that place?
Actually, I thought we had it, and I was jumping up and down if you had seen me, but I guess I was set to walk on that one.
Say, John, where's your home?
Right now I'm living in Weston, Massachusetts.
Oh, right outside of Boston?
That's right, about 12 miles.
You're married, aren't you?
Yes, I am.
And how about the little youngsters?
I've got a little daughter, one year old.
And how about Papa and Mama? Are they here?
Yes, my father and mother are here at Cleveland, right now.
Boy, I bet they got a kick out of that baby yesterday, didn't they?
They certainly did.
Well, John, you're a good kid. You know, I had on my baseball all summer long 25 wins, and you owe me a couple of Coca-Cola's.
You know that, don't you?
But look, here's a Gillette Razor, and that little World Series record book, I know you'll like it.
I want you to take that little Gillette one-piece razor and a 1954 World Series record book, and you can get your copy at your favorite store.
And John, I know you'll get a kick out of that.
Thank you very much, Frank.
I can certainly use that.
There's a lot of good stuff in there.
When are you going to pick again?
I don't know, Frank. If he needs me Sunday, I'll be ready to pick it now, probably Monday.
Fine, lots of luck to you.
Okay.
Well, fans, the clock says it's time to go until we take you back to Gillette's Broadcasting booth.
And now, fans, this is your Philly, Jimmy Dudley.
Back to you at New Trolls Readyware booth, and we're ready for today's third game of the 1954 World Series.
This broadcast is authorized under broadcasting rights granted by the Commission of Baseball,
sold for the entertainment of our audience.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem.
Oh, can you see by the dawn's early light What the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting In the air, the bombs bursting
Through the land, the land of the free, The land of the free, the land of the free
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting In the air, the land of the free, The land of the free
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting
Any publication we broadcast to have a use of the description,
down the counts of this game, without the exception of the Commissioner, is prohibited.
And now turning you over to, just before turning you over to our helpers,
here are the lineup for today's game.
For the Giants, at first base leading off, Whitey Lockman, at shortstop, Alvin Duff, John Mueller, right field,
Willie May, center field, Hank Thompson, third base,
Monty Ervin, left field, Baby Williams, second base, Wes Westrom, catching, and Ruben Gomez, the pitcher.
He's won 17 in last nine during the regular season.
For the Cruze Indians, the home team, leading off, Al Smith, left field,
Bobby Avila, second base, Larry Dobie, center field, Rick Wirtz, first base, Hank Madeski, third base,
Dave Philly, right field, George Strickland, shortstop, Jim Hegan, catching, and Mike Garcia, the pitcher.
Garcia, during the regular season, won 19 in last eight.
The umpires for the third game of the 1954 World Series, falling the balls and strikes back to the play, there's Jaco Conlon.
At first base, Hegan, second base, Al Barlett, third base, Charlie Berge.
On the right field foul line is Ron Warnocky, on the left field foul line is Larry Ness.
Now the Indians have taken the playing field, and today's game is ready to get underway.
And here is the man who will get today's game underway for us,
this was Al Helfer, big Al coming in.
Thank you very much, Jimmy Deadley, hi everybody, and we're very happy to say that this speaker,
Bill Gray Eagle, is here in person, he's gotten over his illness, and he's showing out the first ball here this afternoon.
And this speaker throws the first ball out to Jim Hegan, the starting catcher for the Cleveland Indians,
and prior to getting started on this game here this afternoon, we have right now, 10 seconds for our four-station identification.
This is mutual, the radio network for all Americans.
This is WGN, this is World Fair Station in Chicago.
And now the business in hand here at the vast municipal stadium in Cleveland, Ohio,
where this afternoon Al Lopez is sending a patched-up lineup to meet the New York Giants,
who have won two of the two games already played in the 1954 Classic.
At third base we have Hank Fagetsky, as Jimmy Deadley has already told you.
Hank Fagetsky, one of the veterans of Major League play, taking over for Al Rosen.
Al tried it, his leg was too bad, and he figured that he was in there hurting his ball club rather than helping it.
So he and Al Lopez got together.
And Al Rosen is on the bench this afternoon and will be utilized as a pinch hitter if needed.
Hank Fagetsky is at third base.
So let's set the Indians for you defensively now.
As Big Mike Garcia, the vice-salely right-hander, is on the mound for the Cleveland Indians.
Old Val Jess is throwing down to his battery mate, Jim Hegan.
At first base is Victor Wirtz, at second base, Bobby Avila.
At shortstop, George Dickens.
At third base, Hank Fagetsky.
Out in left field is Al Smith.
For center fielder is Laurie Dobie.
And at right field here this afternoon is Dave Philly, the kid from Texas.
And stepping up to the plate is the first hitter here for the New York Giants, batting at 1-1-1 in the series, 1-9, is Whitey Luchman.
Whitey Luchman hitting left hand, standing deep at the plate.
Now a broad-crossing spot here at Cleveland, who's very fine.
We're right behind home plate, just slightly off on the left-hand side of home plate.
Yoko Conlon, the plate umpire, looks down over the shoulder of Jim Hegan.
And we're about to get started on the third game of the 1954 World Series.
Please remember the Giants have won two, and Cleveland has one run.
So this is the game, as far as Cleveland is concerned.
Big night, right field, the little fastball, Whitey Luchman swings on, there's a line drive in the right center field.
It's going to be in there for the base hit.
Over is Philly to cut it off.
Luchman down the first base to hold on.
So the first hit here this afternoon is a long shot single in the right center field by Whitey Luchman.
That is the first hit given up by Garth Thayer, who surrendered only 220 base hits all year.
Now coming up to the plate batting at 375 is Alvin Dark.
He has three for eight in the series so far.
Out to a plate from just about straight away.
This is a big ball orchard here, 320 feet down the left and right field line,
to 410 feet to the restraining tension center.
A plenty of room to go get them here in this ballpark.
Mike Garth Thayer, the big right-hander from Vitellia, kicks.
Third around the mound, looks down at Alvin Dark, who has that wide, straight eagle stance leaning over.
Whitey Luchman leads off first down comes a pitch fastball fired in at the knee for a called strike.
When Big Mike is right, that fastball of his comes zipping in there.
Hank Majewski, expecting a bunt, is throwing a shallow fur.
And Bickford, holding Whitey Luchman on the third base, will come charging in when the next pitch is made.
They're expecting that the New York Giants will try to get that runner down in scoring position.
Whitey Luchman is pretty fast and he's liable to be moving anytime.
The pitch is made and this time it's flung on.
Alvin Dark hits a foul ball down off the first base line, back into the crowd, out of play.
Hank Majewski, number five, moving back there to take a station third.
It's been a long time since we've seen Hank Majewski start a ball game, but he's always on tap and ready.
You know, I've got an interesting note on Hank Majewski for you here in just a moment and I'll pass it along to you.
Like I say, a Texas runner over at first base, that's Whitey Luchman taking a pretty good five lead.
Bickford's on the inside corner.
We'll look at Alvin Dark now, the pitch is thrown and the swing on.
A pretty good hitting run, man trying to punch the right knee and fouls it off again and that's strike two.
Hank Majewski, the oldest player among all of today's World Series eligible, is playing a third base for Cleveland.
He'll be 38 next December the 13th. Now you'll find the ages, the heights, the weights, and the records of all the
first players in the collect World Series books, hope you have yours.
Next pitch to play the swing on by Alvin Dark and this is called strike three.
That's the first time Alvin Dark has struck out in the World Series, but he strikes out here for big Mike Garcia.
Mike Garcia had 130 strikeouts over the course of the regular season.
Here's John Mueller, the touchy guy at the plate, nice performance from the standpoint as he's playing that base hit for you.
When you're muted the most, John Mueller has two for nine in the series batting a 222, has struck out only one time.
Whitey Luchman, who opened with a line shot single into right center field, is still on the first base for the Giants.
Mike Garcia has to bear down from the opening pitch.
He's ready to go here to the left hand of batting John Mueller, the choke hitter.
In comes the first pitch, nice back ball over to him, the first ball strike.
Big Mike when he throws is a little off balance, that is when he finishes up he falls toward first base.
When he started out in the spring this year he tried to correct that and finish up in a square away position in order,
but he may see in front of balls and balls that were hit back to his right, the left of the pitchers mounted will look out from the diamond.
But he found that he was not as effective with his pitches so he went back to his old style.
He delivers now, pass ball, swing on, hit down off the rubber, a home play to hide down to the availer.
The play goes to Stickland for one to throw back, it's gotten time, gets away from Bigfoot,
Heaghan is backing up, there goes Mueller trying to check and the throw goes down and he's in there.
The throw got away from Nick DeWitt who had to reach for it, it was a hurried throw by George Stickland.
And we'll probably have an error charge on the play.
So we'll wait for the official score as Mr. MacCarrie and Mr. George and Mr. Caminto to see what their decision is going to do on this one.
They're going to go from first down to second. There's going to be an error on George Stickland.
So puts John Mueller on at second base on the error, committed by George Stickland on his over throw at first base trying to get a double play.
And incidentally we have not had a double play in the World Series up till now.
So Mueller will get first on the fourth out of Wiley-Laxman at second base.
They went from Avila to Stickland so we have two outs, one on and Willie Mays coming up.
We'll get together base at the series.
Starkey opposing the fastball and brushes the uniform drive the batter away from the plate, that's ball one.
Willie Mays in this series so far has walked three times, he struck out once.
He has gone 0 for 5, no hits for 5 official times up.
Mays the right handed batter, what a ball hop and the National League Batting Champions.
That's away from the plate now, he's down here one ball and no strikes.
Up until just this moment when George Stickland committed the error, the throwing error at first base allowing John Mueller to scoot on down to second.
The Cleveland Indians were absolutely errorless in the World Series.
That's it, Texas running with second, delivers a play to soft curve ball, it's one run by Mays and punches back foul right off the right of our Gillette microphone bouncing up near the first section and bounces down into the television camera.
Somebody goes home over there on that camera crew, very happily this afternoon with a souvenir of the World Series.
There are two outs here in the top of the first inning, John Mueller is running with second base for the New York Giants.
There is no sore here with Leighton overcast skies, sucking the four rings down on us any minute.
The bits of the plate are high and inside to Willie Mays.
It's now to two balls and one strike.
We've got more airplanes flying over this municipal stadium here this afternoon that even Jimmy Dudley, an old pilot himself, can shake a stick at.
But he's flying high right here in the broadcast and he doesn't have to be in that plane this afternoon.
Jimmy invited me to take a plane ride with him and I said, now what's the simmer down after the series is over, we'll do it.
Willie Mays up at the plate with the count of one ball and two strikes.
Big Mike Garcia as the winner on his second behind him, there are two outs for the Giants here in the top half of the first inning.
There is no sore.
Outfield playing fans around the left and deep as Mike Garcia throws the overhand fastball.
Mays swings and doesn't get it.
That's strike two.
The Vice-Valiant right-hander came right back and tore that ball in over the fifth from the inside corner.
Mays liked it.
Two balls and two strikes.
Now on number 24, Willie Mays.
Jockel Conlon handling the plate here this afternoon in the third game of the World Series.
Down comes the pitch to Mays.
Fastball coming on.
Hit the right field.
The Crandreau.
When he comes in, he cuts the ball.
It bounces off his chest.
He goes to second base as Wheeler comes on in to score.
So Willie Mays gets his first thing hit.
Willie Mays, the single in the right field, driving the run here.
And the Giants lead one to nothing.
John Mueller shooting around and coming on in from second base to score.
So the air is up and he has hurt right up until now.
That's the second hit of Mike Garcia and run number one.
So Cleveland's behind here in the top half of the first inning.
The Giants have a runner on the first base and Willie Mays, a pretty good hit-and-run guy.
Up at the third, a pretty good hit-and-run guy with a stick in his hand is Henry Thompson.
He's batting a 333 in the series, two for six.
And Eastlake spectacularly appeared defensively.
A fastball, Thompson tying outside as the sun breaks out to cast a shadow here at Cleveland for the first time.
One ball and no strikes.
It's a count on Hank Thompson, a little left-handed hitter, standing deep at the plate.
The weatherman said exactly at one o'clock we would expect the heavens to open up and rain the four down on us,
but it hasn't happened so far.
Garcia leans forward, puts back over his left shoulder, checking Willie Mays at first.
The pitch is made to the plate.
Thompson takes it high inside.
Willie Mays holding right on there at first base.
Two balls, no strikes.
It's a count on Thompson.
Hank Thompson batting a 333 in series play.
Hank has walked wide, struck out once in the two games that have preceded this one.
Garcia leaning forward to take his sign, checks his runner, Willie Mays.
He's always a threat to goal.
Down comes the pitch.
Mays slips, going, and the pitch is taken at the plate for ball three.
Garcia asks Jaco Conlon for another baseball and gets it.
We should like to hear the start of the third game of the World Series to compliment the umpires for the work they have done in this World Series so far.
We've had two fine jobs behind the plate in the first and second games.
Al Bartick of the National League in the first game, a mighty fine job behind the plate.
And Charlie Berry, the veteran in the American League umpire, came up with an equal performance yesterday.
And here's Jaco Conlon, a very fine veteran, working the plate this afternoon.
An overhand fastball.
He's in there for a strike, giving a count on Thompson now, a three-and-one.
Garcia back to visit the Rosenberg, number 25, standing down there on the mound.
Gets up, takes the position on the rubber.
Willie Mays will take a lead at first now.
The first hole, green side corner on him.
The check of the runner, down comes the pitch, taken.
It's outside by Scherrard on a leather curveball.
So Thompson drives his third base on balls in the series, the first one here this afternoon.
The first walk driven up by Garcia.
Garcia walks 71 over the regular season.
Now hitting right-handed is Monty Urban.
Monty has gone 0-4 in the series.
He's starting the course at 0-0-0.
The right-hand hitter has an opportunity of knocking in his first run.
As Willie Mays has moved down to second on the walk, handed by Arturio DeSampson.
The first pitch to Monty Urban, a strike.
Monty backs his group up a handful of dirt, drives hands.
Hudson downlong his uniform trousers, steps back in, beats the bat down on the rubber of home plate.
Garcia now standing out the sunlight.
The sun is broken forth in all of the printing here for at least a moment.
Delivered to the plate.
It's taken high and inside for ball one.
One ball and one strike to count on Monty Urban.
The big left field is the New York Giants.
Batting number six in the order.
He'll be followed by Davey Williams if he's needed.
Five men have come to the plate.
One runner has been scored by the Giants.
They lead one to nothing.
Willie Mays at second.
Hank Thompson's run at first, two down.
OK, a computer with an overhand let-up that sits outside at the shoulder.
Two balls and one strike.
And there's going to be some activity down on the bullpen now for the Cleveland Indians.
The right-hander up and starting to throw for the Braves.
That'll be Art Haldeman.
Art Haldeman up throwing for Cleveland in the Cleveland bullpen.
Down back, that'll be right field line.
Interesting notes that Steve Jess just put up here and I believe that the two as I take the grants back through the books,
the first team to score in both games that have already been played blocked the ball game.
The book is thrown on.
There's a half-foul ball hit off to the right of the plate and way back into the customers.
Two balls, two strikes on Monty Urban.
Yeah, that's right, Paul.
Cleveland scored first in the first game and scored first in the second game and they went on to lose both of them.
And now the Giants play the first time here in the top half of the first inning.
Jess, I'm going to be going along in the series that we'd like to know for you.
Two balls, two strikes to count on Monty Urban with runners for first and second, two down top of the first.
The Giants leading one to nothing.
Now Garcia as set.
Check his runner, Willie Mays as second.
Belivers plays an overhand fastball.
Monty Urban punches the pile off the first-place line as goes Higgins over near the Cleveland Duggars.
And Higgins is back.
He's going to make the catch.
That's one catch on a fastball by Jim Higgins.
So here in the first inning for the New York Giants one run on a fair bay pitch.
There was one walk mixed in there.
There was another committed by Cleveland and two men were left on.
So the score at the end of the top half of the first inning is the New York Giants one.
They're now coming to back Cleveland Indians nothing.
That's all.
This is the got to do it game for the Indians if they want to preserve their World Series win record.
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Now into the last half of inning number one here at the Minnesota Stadium in Cleveland.
One to nothing in favor of the New York Giants.
They scored one time on two base hits.
Look at the bandage of a cruiser there.
And we have the first unearned run in the 1964 World Series.
Now stepping up to the plate hitting right-handed is Al Smith.
Young fellow who led off for Cleveland yesterday by poking a home run out of the park at the Polo Ground.
He has three hits for eight at-bats batting at 375.
He crowds up on the plate, stands three quarters deep and is a joke hitter.
Ruben Gomez from Francisco is on the mound for the New York Giants, makes the first pitch, a fast ball that's underneath for ball one.
Ruben Gomez on the regular season for the New York Giants, won 17 ball games last night before shutout.
His battering mate is the very dependable West Westman.
At first base, Wiley Lockman.
Second is David Williams, a shortstop captain Al Vandark.
At third, Hank Thompson, out of left field, Marty Irvin. The center fielder is Lou Mays.
And in right field is Don Mueller.
Al Smith up at the plate ready now. Gomez, the right-hander, throws a sidearm fast ball.
And the south side, the crossfire, misses the ball too.
Two balls, no strikes.
Down here on Al Smith.
Thompson's playing rather shallow third base on his right-hand hitter.
Right-hander throws another sidearm. It's been off the hip, right side up against the batter, the ball three.
Al Smith will stand around the left.
Al Smith, he'll put that long ball for you.
He proved that yesterday, leading off ball three.
Aware of number 32.
Simon looks down over the shoulder of Westman.
Here comes Gomez's pitch.
Sidearm let up, it's up side with all four. Maybe it's up for tying on arms.
That's the second time Smith has lost in a series.
First base on balls given up by Gomez.
Here's Bobby Avila.
Bobby Avila.
He's fighting a 222, has two for nine in the series.
One on, nobody out here in the last half of the first inning.
Ruben Gomez looks over at first base to see what Whitey Luckman's doing about holding him close for the years.
Bobby Avila standing in, batting right-handed.
The American League batting champion.
Gomez throws the pitch, home is going to break the swing on and foul-kicked.
So Al Lopez wanted to get that man down to second, get him around.
Right away the gay senior are playing hit-and-run ball here.
Before the thousands that have jammed in here through the municipal stadium in Cleveland.
The Giants are leading in the ball game one to nothing by virtue of their one run score at the top of the first.
And aware of number one himself, Bobby Avila.
He'll put in front of the very first Mexico.
Out at the plate here for the Indians.
Comes in with the pitch, there's the bunt.
Down to the left for Mike Gomez, comes off field, throws the first base in time.
There's got Bobby Avila and there is the runner moving down to second.
Flip over and second, almost thrown out.
Whitey Luckman, whips that ball over quickly.
He's got Bob Alvin Dark.
So Avila's out, sacrificing, very successfully.
A very nicely placed bunt for the left-back pitchers now.
And if you look out on the diamond, Gomez and a big hurd made to play to Whitey Luckman.
There's Larry Dobie.
Alvin Dark talking to Wilbur Gomez.
As this fellow is in right hand to get ready now to pitch to left hand hitting Larry Dobie.
This kind of feeling for the Cleveland Indians has been such a star for them over the years,
particularly this year in the run-started-in department and in the home run department.
So it snippers on at second base, a pretty free-to-pitch guy who can really move around the bases.
Dobie has a chance to find his ball, get him up to him and come through with a base hit.
Right on fastball, Dobie's low into the base.
And that is ball one.
Now Gomez hits.
Here comes the pitch, a fastball that drives Dobie back from the pitchers, flipped over the inside center chest,
high, right under the level, score called strike.
One ball, one strike to count on Larry Dobie.
He holds up that way down to the end.
Starts to bend his knees as though he were about to get down on him.
Opens his stance just slightly down toward first base.
The outfield is around right and deep.
Hit to him, a let-up curveball is outside knee-high, football through.
One ball, one strike on Larry Dobie.
One out to the Indians here in the last half of the first inning.
Al Smith, the leadoff man, walks with sacrifice by Bobby Adair down to second base.
And he's in starting position at second in this one-nothing ball game for the Giants.
Tony Cucinello waiting to wave some traffic by third.
He yells upwards with encouragement as Gomez pitches outside again to Dobie for ball three.
Three balls and one strike.
Smith hanging pretty close there at second base.
He doesn't want to be caught off.
The Giants use the count plate quite often.
Takes a little whirl around and makes the cross back there,
waiting for the man-designated cover.
And in the hopes that he does.
The Giants call as Larry Dobie steps away from the plate and Gomez, about ready to pitch,
has to break back off the mound.
Now he's set.
Smith takes his lead and comes to pitch.
It's taken by Dobie over on the outside corner for a half-second.
That's the second lead.
Three balls and two strikes.
Well, we've got thousands on fire from the stands here this afternoon.
I can tell you that for sure.
Oh, everybody sees that pitch just a little bit differently.
It all depends on which side you're rooting for, too.
It's the bail pitch now to Larry Dobie for in two.
Gomez checks his runner at second.
Delivers the fake fastball.
Dobie swings at the high-fly ball to his short center field.
Coming in is Willie Mays, as he has it.
And he has.
So there's the second out.
Dobie flying out to Willie Mays in center.
Smith holds on at second.
And here is Victor Wirtz.
Victor Wirtz carrying the highest batting percentages of anybody on the field right now.
For Cleveland in this area, Victor Wirtz, obtained from the Baltimore Orioles
about the middle of the summer, has five for eight, including extra base floors.
And he is batting right this minute at 625 in World Series play.
Big fellow from New York, Pennsylvania, hit from left-handed.
Primitually bald guy.
Steps up to the plate.
He's got pretty good-sized wrists and forearms.
Hits him left-handed, stands almost straight away to the pitcher.
The outfield comes around slightly to the right.
Particularly, right fielder Don Mueller playing deep in right field.
Hits his inside off the hip for a ball run.
Fast half of the first inning. Cleveland has a tying run on its second, two down.
Victor Wirtz up there.
Then comes the pitch.
Again, Wirtz backs off one inside.
That's ball two.
Leo DeRosier must really be masterminding the Giants right down to the net field
because Westrom keeps checking in for the Giants dugout to DeRosier to make sure what he wants called.
Gomez delivers a knucklehead that's hung on the middle of his side.
Gomez will flash that knucklehead to you every once in a while.
And I notice he throws a sidearm pitch, much in the manner of Larry Janton, who is now on the coaching staff.
You know, Larry was taken off of the active staff.
He's now coached, but they tell me he's going to make a comeback for next year.
He's been working with these pitchers.
And one of the pitchers, Gomez sort of emulates the old guy from Forest Grove.
The three-one delivery. There's the knucklehead again. It's outside.
Three balls and one strike to count on Victor Wirtz.
That's the moment I felt a drop of rain.
This was my imagination.
Three balls, one strike to count on Victor Wirtz.
Neff is on his second and scoring position.
The outfield around to right and deep.
Wirtz comes in free, one with the fastball. Swing on and hits right on the line to Alvin Dark and Short.
Wirtz lands out to Dark and Short.
There's a dog for Cleveland. That's what goes for the board.
No runs. There were no base hits.
There were no giant errors.
And Cleveland has now left their 27th man on, the first one here this afternoon.
As players on the field this afternoon, one guy stands out in my mind.
I saw him at the Pittsburgh Magnificent ball game yesterday for five innings before he was dented.
And I went down to the locker room and ran into Early Wim in that locker room and he was shaving yesterday.
He's a fine guy.
He's as fine as you ever heard from me. And he's a real rooter for Gillette.
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A quick shave puts me back in form after a tough workout.
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Now we move into the second inning here, at Cleveland.
The first man up for the New York Giants will be Williams, starting the last third of their batting order.
Williams will be followed by West Westman, and then will come Ruben Gomez,
as Mike Garcia goes back to the mound.
Mike Garcia from Visellia, California.
Big likeable right-hander, working with his battering mate Jim Hagan.
Dave Williams batting in the series at 0-0-0. He's 0-7.
He's coming up.
The wearer of number ten.
Davey stands about three-quarters deep at the plate.
Sweetwired spread apart, slightly open, stands down toward bird.
The justy comes up to play shallow at third base.
The justy expands around to the left for Davey.
And all hands are ready to go.
1-0 in favor of the Giants here over the Indians at municipal stadium in Cleveland in the third game of the 1954 World Series.
The justy is ready.
Frozen overhand curveball.
Touch guard at ball one.
The justy will give you a little of that big motion in through that close stuff sometimes.
The justy's best pitch is probably quite in the fastball.
There's the fastball.
It's under the knee.
Good ball to strike to count on Davey Williams.
Rest him on deck to go next.
Herman Francis, his coach for the Giants, down behind third.
At first it's ready for Simmons.
Oh, that's ready really.
It was a picture in his day, wasn't it?
Great. Jim is like, you remember him many times.
Ticks. A fastball.
Fired through the knees for a called strike.
He's down to two-and-one now on Williams.
He's taken down the comfort line.
Garfield leads forward to take it.
And they pitch now to Davey Williams.
Garfield overhands the fastball.
It's just low enough right.
That's ball three.
Three balls and one strike.
Garfield isn't playing his deep for Davey Williams as they would play, say, for a guy like Weston.
Williams won't hit that long ball too often.
Fastball to him is fired across the knees, an overhand fastball to run the count clean through.
Williams moves that stick back and forth rather nervously.
Garfield seems to operate the same way.
He's a header behind.
Delivers three-two to the fastball.
Inside off the knees for ball four.
So Williams walks for his first time this afternoon and the first time in the World Series.
He's got the second base on balls given up by Garfield.
And the batter is West Westrom.
West has two base hits for sixth at bat.
And his percentage for World Series players this year is 333.
Right-hand hitter with a slightly open stance down toward 30.
So he's headed corners across batter's box.
Works up somewhat on the handle.
Walks up on the first pitch and takes it under the knees for ball one.
Javi Williams opens the second inning by getting a walk here for the New York Giants.
He's on the first base.
And Pickworks holds the inside corner.
Larksy is taking plenty of time.
Text is running Williams at first.
Delivers the plate.
An overhand fastball is through there.
First strike right off the base.
Westrom just shook his head as if to say he didn't quite think so.
He's going out home in Franks to pick up the sign.
It's been relayed from the bench.
Williams has that sign.
He's already been informed as to what it might be from Freddie Simmons.
Counted one ball, one strike on Westrom.
Garcia settles down, deals it off and Westrom's trying to bunch the ball.
Misses it completely.
The ball gets away from Huygen here goes to Williams down to the second base.
So we'll know in a minute whether it's going to be a wild pitch or a fastball.
It's a wild pitch.
So we have a wild pitch moving David Williams down to second base.
Shrugs the wild pitch to Garcia.
So David Williams now is in scoring position.
Garcia and Magersky are talking things over.
Williams had a wild pitch yesterday if you recall.
And Lemonhead won the first day.
All three of the Cleveland pitchers have come up with a wild pitch now in one of the third games.
Westom at the plate with a count of two balls, one strike.
David Williams now in scoring position.
One to nothing in favor of the New York Giants.
They scored in the top of the first inning.
Garcia pitches.
Westom tries to bunch this one and fouls it off to the right of the plate.
So they're trying to get Williams over to third to score him on that sacrifice fly.
It's no other way.
But Westom now has a count of strike two so the big danger of the bunch goes to the board.
Two balls, two strikes to count on Westom.
This Western's a very determined guy.
Very hardworking guy.
They call him the bulldog behind the plate.
I guess he is in a way.
He's got his 15-year-old time and hangs on.
He's still ready to pitch two and two and two.
He's down.
The corner of the miss for strike three.
Gomez setting that fast ball and got him.
That's the second strikeout for him.
And Ruben Gomez, a pretty fair-hitting pitcher, comes up to the plate.
West Western from Clearbrook, Minnesota.
Now living in Hyde Park, New York.
Strikes back to the Giants dugout down the third baseline to sit down.
Ruben Gomez coming up to the plate.
Ruben Gomez hits him right-handed.
That's the big swim.
Now, quickly for the equal right-hander.
He has an overly close stance.
Let's look forward to the plate.
Fall and slander.
Remember, it serves me rightly.
Ruben Gomez hit a home run with here for the Giants.
And please remember, let's fix it.
Remember, he swings on the first pitch and doesn't get it.
Let's hear Ruben, point that fast ball in there.
Baby Williams still on there at second base.
One out here and they talk to second inning.
Giants leading one to nothing.
As they were working again, take something off the fast ball.
And this is with a bow outside to Gomez.
He's down.
There's one ball, one strike with him now.
On back to go next is the Giants leadoff man, first baseman, Whitey Lockman.
He started everything off here in this ball game with a line drive single in the right center.
Let's hear again a second runner at second.
That's Baby Williams.
Hooks down to Gomez.
Then delivers to him an overhand fast ball.
Gomez countered in the center field.
Larry Doby offers left to center, takes the line drive, hurriedly rips up the call in,
and Baby Williams has to hold on at second.
Gomez hit the ball well all right, but lined it right to Larry Doby.
They have a second out here in the top half, Albany number two.
Whitey Lockman moves in.
Here's Carolina Gomez.
He's one of the most quiet guys you'll meet in a long time.
Whitey Lockman, he and Don Muir, I think if you put them in a room all by themselves,
they probably wouldn't have 50 words of conversation in 24 hours.
Mike Garcia ready to pitch to Whitey Lockman.
Only thing Whitey gets hoppin' mad twice on playing field.
And Don Muir only one time.
Always steady performance, both of them.
Now Garcia gets set.
Takes his time from Higginafter, shaking one off.
He's ready, looks willing, second.
There's the tape.
And breaks back off the mound and chases Williams back into second.
Mageski is playing shallow at third base.
Down comes the pitch to the plate now to Lockman at flow.
Count is one ball and no strikes.
Can you imagine truly something for Hank Mageski to be down there playing the third base in the World Series?
He's been a utility man for several years.
He probably figures this is a real opportunity, a rematch, so to speak.
The
fastball is over for Lee.
The first strike now is a count on Whitey Lockman.
Garcia taking plenty of time to convert.
Two outs, one on.
Williams is second.
He was lost and was wild-pitched for second.
Garcia trying to get out of his trouble here with the Giants leading on the method.
Dover, Lockman swings and beats one foul.
And while we have the new ball going in play, let's pause for a second for station identification.
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Right back to the versus of hand here at Cleveland.
It's Mike Garcia picking to Whitey Lockman with the count of one ball and no strikes.
And down in the Cleveland bullpen, Art Haldeman.
Right hand there warming up for Cleveland just in case Garcia should have any more trouble here in inning number two.
Mike has been touched for one run and two hits.
All of that coming in the first inning.
One error behind him, of course, did not help him.
The run incidentally is unearned in case he's feeling in late.
Garcia is ready.
Delivers a curveball swung on by Lockman and dribbled up the first baseline where Vic Wirtz picks it up.
One ball and two strikes.
A count on Whitey Lockman.
Hanging around, hoping to get a chance to hit the innings, Alvin Dark.
Leaves the midfield, Vic to Wirtz at first.
Bobby Avila at second, George Dickman at short, and Hank Brzezki at third.
Lockman choking up on the handle of the bat.
Standing away from the plate with an open stance, flatly down toward first.
Outfield playing him as a punch hitter into left field.
They're not even playing him straight away.
Big hole in the outfield in the right center.
Locked the daylight too.
Down the right field line.
Garcia delivers.
Whitey Lockman swings and cuts his foul back to the tree.
One ball, two strikes.
A count on Whitey.
David Williams.
Another second base there so long he's about to grow roots.
Cuts down.
Out takes his lead.
Garcia keeps checking back there to make sure Whitey.
To make sure David Williams is not taking too much of a lead.
Now he delivers the plate to Whitey Lockman.
Swung on.
There's a high fly ball hung along the right field line.
It could be trouble for Tindr, but Avila goes back and slips over in foul territory.
Takes that ball and stumbles and turns on there.
Tindr's track and goes down.
He's all right.
A very, very nice play by Bobby Avila in foul territory.
Slipped across the line, deep behind first base.
Oh, made a great play out of that one.
So Whitey Lockman is out.
Here's a second baseman, Bobby Avila.
Go for the dance.
No runs, no hits.
No errors.
One man was left on.
A round of applause for Bobby Avila as he comes off the playing field.
He richly deserved it.
Well, a score at the end of one and a half minutes of play is New York 1 and Cleveland nothing.
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Now Hank Majewski.
He was used as a pinch spatter over in New York.
And Hank Majewski's 0 for 1.
So he's coming up for his second time in World Series play.
Hank Majewski batting right-handed.
He's a little fella, very stockily put together, heavy, he's set through the leg.
Pretty good sized chest on him.
Gomez tries to pass ball on him and misses with it outside.
Low, for ball one, he gets away from Western, shoots back and screens.
Majewski came on as a pinch spatter in the ninth inning, the first game of the World Series, and didn't even get a chance to get up to the plate.
Mitchell came in to bat for him when Drosser pulled some strategy and shifted pitchers from Little to Grytham.
This next pitch is over the low and it counts as ball two on Majewski.
Two balls and one strike.
Gomez tried on fast ball, plays the two there at the knees for a cold strike.
Two balls and one strike on Hank Majewski.
I can guarantee you that should the closing Indians pop up with anything in this ballgame this afternoon, this crowd, and there's a good one here, will really tear the place down.
The Giants have won a pair and the Indians are trying to dent it.
There's the third ball to Majewski, good at the knees for a cold strike.
Two balls, two strikes on Hank Majewski.
He's the number five hitter in the Cleveland order coming up for his first time in the ballgame, leading off here in the second inning.
He's leading one to nothing.
Gomez sets the other two to a side on curveball, swung on and bounced foul down to Tony Couturello, approaching behind third.
Clips it over to Gomez.
Probably you can hear in the background the rattle of the telegraph key sending the description of this ballgame to parts of the world where radio probably has not been able to get to.
And that would be pretty small I think because Evans knows this one's going all over the place.
Fastball is swung on by Majewski.
There's a high tough foul on the first base line.
Whitey Rockland gets over under, makes a catch and Majewski is out.
Edmunds on Dave Philly.
Dave Philly is looking for his first World Series hit.
He's also score.
The fourth hitter from Paris, Texas will be batting left-handed against Ruben Gomez.
He's been quite a defensive man for Cleveland this year.
Dave Philly, obtained from the Philadelphia Athletics by the Cleveland Indians.
Gomez ready to work to him, delivers a sidearm curve that stays outside of our shoulder high.
Gomez will throw you the school ball every now and then and he works it particularly to left-hand hitters.
Looks like that's what that might have been.
Comes down again with an overhand fastball and misses with it again.
That's ball two, low and outside.
Two balls, no strikes. One out.
Nobody on last half of the second inning.
Cleveland up at bat and trailing one to nothing.
Gomez, sort of a spindly leg guy, standing out on the mound, leaning forward, taking a side from Weston.
Goes to the top of the pump, comes down with a curve ball that Philly strives into and takes shoulder high for ball three.
Three balls, no strikes.
Continues to be dark and overcast here at Cleveland.
Now the three-oh delivery.
A fastball inside for ball four.
And picks up the second walk, given up by Gomez.
Here's George Strickland.
George Strickland in the World Series has gone 0 for 6.
So he has no batting suspended.
George has been a victim of a strikeout twice.
He has completely closed stance and bats right hand.
All thin color from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Gomez, textured runner, the potential tying run for Cleveland at first in Dave Philly.
And who is the picker in the plate?
Strickland takes it over first strike.
No balls, one strike to count on George Strickland.
One out, one on here in the last half of the second inning.
These Cleveland Indians are grim and determined this afternoon.
This is a game they've got to win.
Third ball to Strickland is under the knees.
Counted one ball and one strike.
Gomez bouncing that ball around in his mitts.
Steps up, puts his foot on the rubber.
Looks around the infield and outfield and then peers down until he's battered George Strickland.
Dave Philly takes his lead at first base, whitey Loughman inside on the corner.
The pitch is hung on by Strickland in the mitts.
Gomez came in with a sidearm medium speed pitch.
He throws a lot of his stuff three-quarter overhand with some of it sidearm.
Very rarely does he go completely overhand with his pitch.
One ball and two strikes.
One little bit surprised that Gomez Daddy might be listening in this afternoon.
There's an overhand pitch outside.
Three-quarter overhand.
Ruben Gomez Daddy is the pitcher on his hand down in Puerto Rico.
Two balls, two strikes is the count here on George Strickland, the wearer of number two.
Two and two.
Dave Philly ready to run on anything, takes his plate at first base and drives off a couple of steps.
Gomez, two-twos the plate, curve ball, swung on and found it right back to the mound.
Gomez is high off the mound, takes the ball close to David Williams.
For the outfield, the first base is not in time.
Gomez came off that mound like a small kitten.
Bounced high on that ball, made the throw back to second base to David Williams.
He was taken out of that play very nicely by David Williams, but he got it by Dave Philly, but he got his throw off anyway.
Jim Hagan, the batsman.
Two down for Cleveland in the second.
George Strickland, the runner at first base, and Jim Hagan batting at 125.
It's coming up to the plate.
Jim has had one base hit, a double.
He hit into left center field.
That was in the second inning of yesterday's ball game.
He was sacrificed down to third, but died there in that second inning.
Jim Hagan, right-hand batter.
Massachusetts four leaning over the plate.
Takes Gomez fastball outside to ball one.
Those fast pickers with his gray overcast here today are going to look even faster.
George Strickland takes the lead now at first, two down here in the second.
Pitch to Hagan is a low curve ball under the knees.
That's ball two.
Jim Hagan has struck out just one time in the series.
He's cut for Cleveland all through the series with the exception of the time he was lifted
and mixed with Gretzky.
And the first game came on to catch an inning.
Two balls, no strikes on Hagan, right-hand batter.
Side on pure ball, Hagan goes a little bit too far around trying to check himself.
This ball, again, seems to strike one.
Cleveland has come up with a pitching here in this World Series,
but the highly-fonded bats of the Cleveland Indians have been, in a way, rather silent.
So that might be the answer to the edge the Giants now have.
Gomez ready with the 2-1 delivery to Hagan.
Weaver's a little up there, and Hagan swings on it, sends a bounding ball down to third base line foul.
Two balls and two strikes to count on Jim Hagan.
Two outs, one on, last half of the second inning, score one to nothing in favor of the New York Giants.
It was figured by most of the experts that Cleveland had a pretty good opportunity to win this ballgame this afternoon,
going with Mike Garcia, a pretty good fast baller,
and they still have a lot of time to win this ballgame.
We're just in the last half of the second inning.
Two downs for Cleveland, one on, the tying run at first.
Gomez, pretty tough right-hander in his own right, delivers.
The quarter overhand pitch is outside and low, three and two.
Three balls, two strikes.
Now George Strickland will be off and moving toward second base when Gomez fires away to Hagan.
Strickland about to step off and take his lead.
Gomez goes to the top of the stretch, hesitates, and quickly throws over to first.
That is, his motion was quick, but his toss was easy because Strickland hadn't wandered away too far.
Count remains three and two on Hagan as he digs in his plate.
Now Gomez, that delivers.
There goes the run of the pitcher, swung run and fouled back to the screen off to our right.
Throws right up into the television booth off to our right.
There's a good friend, Jack Brickhouse, and that's Hodges working.
Count remains three and two on Jim Hagan.
Gomez starts to get ready.
Checks George Strickland.
Down comes Fitzhawker Strickland.
The ball is swung on, hit down to third.
Deep behind third Thompson comes up with a throw, sends it to the third at first, but Whitey Loughman comes up with it and Hagan is out.
Throwed up to Towson's side.
Loughman taking out Thompson's low throw at first base.
And here in the second inning, again, the Cleveland Indians have a tying run on.
Cannot capitalize.
No runs, there were no base hits.
There were no errors and one man was left on.
Well, right here at the end of two full innings of play, it's New York 1 and Cleveland nothing.
And a ball game that promises to give us just as many throws as we have had in the first two that were played over at the Polo Grounds in New York City.
And while Mike Garcia comes out there, he's got to get ready for any number three.
I'd like to switch over here to my sidekick, Jimmy Dudley, and see what his comments in the first two innings might possibly be.
Jimmy, how about that? What do you think?
Well, Al, I'm getting a great deal of pleasure out of watching this Rielgen Gomez work.
This is the first time that we've actually seen him in tough competition.
And I'm telling you, that screwball that he has really has the boys up there baffled.
They don't know exactly what they're swinging for and so far he's been master of the situation.
But the game has started moving along just like the first two.
The Giants broke on tap and it's one of those days when you sort of figure that the Indians must have the breaks coming somewhere along the line.
Well, all right, Jim, and we can expect this afternoon, as it wears on, to see both of these fellows, Gomez and Garcia,
firing that fastball right up until the last minute.
One thing we can caution you to watch before as far as Gomez is concerned, as the afternoon goes on, he'll come in more and more spite on with these pitches.
Mike Garcia, of course, the biggest benefit of fastball pitching is the overhand variety.
And now let's see what he's going to do here with the Giants in the top half of the third inning.
He's behind one to nothing as the Giants lead the back margin.
Alvin Dark is the back one who struck out the first inning.
They'll be followed by Don Mullen and by Willie Mays.
Mike Garcia, big right-hander, delivers an overhand fastball. Dark swings it out into left center field.
That's going to be in there for the base hit.
Coming over is Doby to pick it up on the first skip and fire it into George Strickland.
So Dark opens with a single into left center.
That'll give him his first hit this afternoon, giving him his fourth World Series hit.
And that's at number three of Garcia.
So Alvin Dark's first, Don Mullen, who forced out Wadie Lachman at second,
and he himself went on to second when George Strickland committed the only Cleveland error in the series by throwing the wild at first base.
Down comes the pitcher to win a break.
Pitcher's one-one and hits through the hole between short and third, not into left field.
There goes Alvin Dark all the way around the third.
Don Mueller hitting through the left side of the infield, into left for a single.
Throw-binding ball that died about halfway out into left field, and the trans-switch got it.
He was able to make the throw in. Alvin Dark's running on the blow as he moved all the way into third base.
So now Garcia is in trouble again. That's the fourth hit given up by Mike.
That's the third hit Mueller has picked up in the series, going to battle 11 times.
Willie Mays has one base hit for one time up today, and he sees Sammy in.
Runs the first and third.
Majeski playing just off-court, works on the inside corner on Mueller at first, and the second base combination playing a double play depth.
Pitcher's swing on by Mays. There's the drive down to third to Majeski.
He's got the ball, fires it into Higgins. That's got Alvin Dark and Horsey between home and third.
There is Higgins, packing him up.
And while the Horsey was going on for the tag out, the runners moved on down to second and third.
So Mueller has moved in to third base on the field of choice.
Willie Mays gets all the way down to second.
And the play went from Majeski, third baseman, to Higgins.
Back to Majeski and back to Higgins.
Finally made the tag on Alvin Dark.
So we have one out here in the top of the third inning, runners in second and third.
And the batter coming up now is Thompson.
Alvin Dark caught in the run down.
Hank Majeski's first opportunity.
The infield pulls up tight now and Hank Thompson on there is going to be, the play is going to be put on intentionally.
They're not going to monkey around with him at all.
They're going to put him on and set it up for a possible chance for a double play.
Oh, there is ball three. Now ball four.
So Thompson is intentionally locked. That will be the third base on balls given up by Garcia.
And out there at second base, now Barlich, you know fans of second base umpire are standing in third territory.
And that raises the question, if a batter's ball strikes him before reaching a fielder, is the hitter safer out?
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World Series.
Well, fans, here's the guy that's been giving the Sweden ending fits.
Dusty Rose with hammer two home run.
In world series play for the New York Giants.
He's fighting for money open with the bases loaded.
One out here in the top half of third inning.
Dusty Rose, R-H-O-D-E-S.
He'll probably stay in the ball game to play in the field.
First field, delivers for him. Rose swings and it's a base hit for right field.
In comes John Mueller to score the second run right behind him.
Some strikes with Willie May. Thompson moves over the first.
Well, now two more runs batted in.
Dusty Rose batting here in the third inning.
Check up on this guy, Rose. He's still batting a thousand.
That gives him four hits for four at bat.
He has now batted in seven runs.
Batted in seven runs for the New York Giants.
Gets through here this afternoon.
Hit number five runs two and three up to our stand.
And he now ties Dr. Bobby Brown, who held the record as a pink batter in world series.
In three hits, now Dusty Rose has three pink hits in world series.
Up to the plate is J.B. Williams taking the first pitch over for a called strike.
Rose is in the right field.
Moving Johnson around the third and scoring a pair.
Draw three nothing and play for the Giants over Cleveland.
That's their deliver. J.B. Williams snaps his head back and takes a fastball.
It's a ten-point football run.
And so what was it they said this morning about Dusty Rose?
Given an inch, it'll take a mile.
Boy, he's taking a mile against Cleveland this year.
Cardfield ready. It delivers an overhand fastball.
The winner breaking from third, squeeze is on, and the run scores.
There is a throw to first base. It's not in time.
Not in time to fix the work.
So the Giants squeeze in their fourth run.
It's now four to nothing.
And the official scores are talking over the situation now,
so whether it's going to be a base hit or not, we'll know in a moment.
Mike, Jocelyn is going to be charged with an error for holding that ball too long.
So it's going to be a sacrifice for Williams and an error on Jocelyn.
But the run has been squeezed in.
Up at the plate is Lutgren.
Hit time is over first strike.
Dusty's next delivery, evens the count of one and one.
Rhodes on that squeeze play, sacrifice, which was the squeeze play.
Move to second to hit to question, blow off the ball too.
Two balls and one strike.
So the Giants are sort of broken out in a rash here in the third inning,
taking up three runs to go out in front four to nothing.
Garcia, Texas runners, bears back, delivers to Westrom, who hits the ball back to the mound.
Garcia has it close, first base to work for the Albers.
The runners advance.
Williams moves down to second.
Dusty Rhodes, who batted here in the third inning for Marty Irvin,
singled in a pair of runs, has now moved down on the injured out third base.
Two outs, two on.
The Giants have runners in scoring position, second and third.
About a coming up is Ruben Gomez.
Probably sees a great deal better about the situation.
Down the bullpen for Cleveland, Art Houtemann.
He's throwing again.
Garcia wheels the pitching there, and Gomez swings on it and doesn't get it.
Last minute he tried to check himself, but he'd gone too far.
Rhodes, who batted for Irvin, is on at third base.
Williams, the second base runner, first is open.
Garcia delivers a let-up curve.
Taken. Let-up curve, peak of the cap, runs his count to one and one.
He's looking through the record book here.
Garreg has nine runs batted in, going through the let-world series record book,
to lead in single series.
Rhodes now has seven.
Lomax swings on the next 15 spousers down the first base line, way back into the crowd.
So all those guys Rhodes, the third base, has to do to tie Garreg's record in the way of French batted in the single series and pick up a pair now.
He's got maybe the rest of today.
It all depends on what the Roaches are going to do where they're going to allow Rhodes to stay in left or not.
He's got the day in tomorrow to do it, for sure.
And if Cleveland should come back and win this one, it'll go more than that.
The pitch to Blake is on managements over for Carl Stike three.
Well, that's all. Eight men come to bat here for New York for the third inning.
Lomax gets his third, or, uh, Cursi gets his third strike.
I'd roam as the victim.
And in the third inning, three big runs for the New York Giants, picked up on one, two, three base hit.
There was one error and there were two men left on.
So all that's far here, at the end of two and a half innings of play,
the New York Giants four and the Cleveland Indians nothing.
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As we had expected, Jesse Rhodes goes into left field now for the New York Giants,
playing left and left after third.
And Bob Lemon comes up to bat for Mike Garcia.
Bob Lemon the pitcher hits him left handed.
Romare feeds him the fastball and is taken over to an eight-foot called strike.
So Garcia is all through here after having hit three and easy with the four runs, five hits,
walked three, struck out three and wild-pitched one time.
The pitch to play taken by Lemon is strike two called.
Time is called for the second while Weston goes out, talks to Romare.
Actually just forgotten to turn the plate and yelled something up to him.
Bob Lemon, who we told you on several occasions, has been used as a pinch batter although he is a pitcher.
He brings in his pitch to miss and strikes three.
So that's all for Bob Lemon as he goes down pinch batting for Garcia here in the third inning.
And before we have just the drop of the batting order coming up for Cleveland,
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Ruben Gomez ready now to deliver to Smith.
The first pitch to him is crushed by a low and out strike of ball one.
One out to Cleveland, last half of the third.
The score is 4-0 in favor of the Giants.
They scored one in the first inning, three in the big third,
which they sent eight men to the plate.
Gomez delivers, pitch is swung on and hits right back on the line to the pitcher.
Gomez holds his four out number two.
Two down, last half of the third as the Giants continue to handcuff the Cleveland Indians.
Bobby Avila, who sacrificed successfully in the first inning,
coming up now for his first official out bat of the afternoon.
Gomez, who has been old man tough here this afternoon,
he's been ice water personified, is ready to pitch to Bobby Avila.
Down comes that first pitch and Avila takes the trooper across the corner
on the outside at about week half, strike one.
Mike García, in going three innings here this afternoon against the Giants,
used exactly 61 pitches.
Gomez uses one up on a curve ball inside to Avila,
counted one ball, one strike on him.
Avila wearing number one.
Bought enough in the score in favor of the Giants.
Gomez ready, delivers one run aside on fastball at Mrs. Lowen outside,
and the curve count moves off to two and one.
Avila back into taking stands.
Gomez set.
Rubens fires away.
There's a sidearm fastball.
It's over.
First strike and that's the second one.
That's a pretty rough pitch to look at.
Gomez throws it pretty well.
When he's right, Gomez is right, he's pretty tough.
Artur's seeing some after here too and gets clobbered on occasion.
I guess that happens to any pitchers.
Small is great.
Avila after the next pitch, bounds one down before baseline foul.
Two balls and two strikes.
Last half of inning number three.
Two outs, nobody on for prison.
Let's let two men on and let's go on one in the first inning by virtue of a watch and one in the second.
He got on as a walk.
Gomez delivers fastball, swung on and hit down a third.
Thompson waits for it, picks up now her as he throws a first and Avila is out by one strike.
So Avila grounds out from third to first, Thompson to Lockman to retire the side,
and to Cleveland in the third inning, nothing across.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on.
At the end of the third inning, the score is New York 4 and Cleveland nothing.
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Now the business of inning number four here at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland
for the New York Giants fair leadoff man, Whitey Lockman.
He'll be followed by number two hitter, Al Van Dork, and then by Don Mueller.
Mueller, Mueller, Al Cleveland.
Whitey Lockman comes up and the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians will be Art Hulteman.
Art Hulteman relieving for Cleveland.
Right up to the first pitch by Art Hulteman to Whitey Lockman.
Art pumps twice, first, calls an overhand curve.
Let up a parade and it's inside, it's ball one.
Art Hulteman picking up for the Cleveland Indians.
One fellow born in Detroit, Michigan, now lives in Birmingham, Michigan.
Goes to fastball and misses with that, that's ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Art pumps twice, twists, throws an overhand fastball and lays it through there.
Whitey Lockman for a strike, down to two and one.
Art takes the time again from Higgins.
Bears down on the next pitch and swung on as the bonding ball hit the shortstop.
Hulteman has it, off to his right, up to the first base and Whitey Lockman's up.
About an hour for Alvin Darks.
Art Hulteman gets ready to face him now.
Art took year 115 and lost seven in the pairing 32 games.
Art can get it over to Nees for a strike.
Dark stands in late.
Hulteman comes in with a big curve ball, drives dark back in the plate,
lifting off the short hit.
One ball, one strike down on the giant captain.
About this afternoon has one to two, he's struck out the first inning.
Hit a single, but left center field.
He's struck out the third, the third in which the giant scored three times.
Fastball to Darks, swung on as they fly ball to right field.
Getting under the sputty on the routine chance and takes it to round number two.
Two down, nobody on top of the fourth of the giant.
And with the bases empty, Don Mueller comes up.
He's not going to do any damage this time as far as driving men from first to third on the single to left.
That's going to be a fastball inside off the knees.
Don just sort of jackknifed back in place, keeping it in here.
One ball, no strikes.
Don choking up on the wood.
Hulteman with that jangly pumping motion here delivers and the pitch is outside.
Two balls, no strikes.
Four to nothing in favor of the giants.
They scored one in the first, three in the third.
It will be four-nothing as we move along in the top of the fourth.
Hulteman delivers two-nothing.
Mueller swings and gets just enough of the pippet ball.
Two and one.
Now little patches of blue try to peek through the overjazz.
We might get by without rain here this afternoon.
No big hand fastball, punched by Don Mueller out by second base and a half-up by Bobby Avila coming on under it.
He's got it.
Well, that's all here for the Giants.
And toward the top, they're pleased with the fact that the Giants go down a one-two-three order for the first time this afternoon.
Nothing to throw.
And the score at the end of three and one-half an inch of play remains New York 4 and Cleveland nothing.
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End of the last half of the fourth inning here.
It's Larry Dobie shows up to the plate for shaving the face of Ruben Gomez.
Ruben, like early win yesterday, has been just about as tough as anyone could imagine the pitcher to be.
If you recall, it was early win, pitching for Cleveland yesterday,
and he's promoted the Giants down with surprising rapidity until he ran into a pitfall in the fifth inning.
And let's see what's going to happen with Gomez as he steps into the fourth inning to pitch for Larry Dobie,
Dobie who has gone over one with a fly ball to center field.
Gomez throws him the fast ball and Dobie takes it high.
That's ball one.
That's a ball game can turn right around and it's winking of an eye.
Gomez cuts, delivers, Dobie swings on the slow curve and doesn't get it.
That's like one.
One ball and one strike.
Gomez had him completely fooled on the true ball.
Now the one-one pitch.
There's the fast ball.
It's one-one by Dobie.
Reach out and let's see if that's going to drop in there for the first base hit off, Gomez.
Dobie is on.
Dobie comes in, fires that ball back in.
Dobie opens the fourth with a single, a left field.
Make the work catch a round of applause.
The first base hit comes off Gomez here in the fourth.
First base hit off early wind came yesterday by the Giants in the fifth inning.
So it may be that the call has gone out just one inning early.
Well on the minutes, four to nothing ball game in favor of New York.
Cleveland trying to battle their way back.
They know this has got to be the game.
Make the work for the batter.
Woods came up in the first inning and retired the side by hitting a tough line drive to Shrutched up to Alvin Darks.
Gomez, Texas runner at first delivers the play.
Woods takes the screwball outside for ball one.
Getting a printable lighter here at Cleveland.
Hope it continues to do so.
Run up and delivery.
Third ball looks like another screwball and that's low on that side.
Two balls, no strikes.
That's the other playing just about straight away for Woods and their flaming beat.
Who wouldn't after he drove Willie Mays to a most surprising catch at the Polo grounds in the first game of the series.
Pick a hung on by Woods and this is a strike one.
Two balls, one strike on Victor Wirtz, the wearer of number 23.
Trying to drive the bat handle off now as he steps up to the plate.
Laces the bat off on the rubber of home plate.
Takes the preliminary swing, puts the bat up on his shoulder.
Gomez steps around and delivers to him.
High inside curve ball.
That's ball three.
Third one to count on Victor Wirtz.
Four to nothing to count in the ball game in favor of the Giants.
They walked right out and got one in the first inning and added three more in the third to lead four to nothing.
Cleveland getting their first hit here in the fourth inning.
Hicks the plate to Wirtz is over.
Fast ball at the knees, just like he falls.
Three balls, two strikes from Victor Wirtz.
The runner at first base is Larry Doby.
He hit a handle, whooped around in blood field.
He's on.
Wasn't a solidly hit ball.
Sort of loops out there.
Down comes the pitch three-two.
Swing on, there's a bounding ball.
Hicks down to Baby Williams.
He goes back to dark.
The one out at second to throw the first not in time.
So Doby is erased on the fourth out at second base from second base from Williams to stretch up Alvin Duff.
Victor Wirtz outlegged the throw to first base.
He's on at first with one down here in the last half before the fourth inning.
About a reponse for Guckey.
He's gone over one today.
He's over two in the series.
Guckey didn't get a chance to swing one time.
First time he came up to the plate.
He used Derrick's immediately for a pinch better.
One out, one on.
Last half of the course.
Thanks for Guckey.
Wearing number five, steps up to the plate.
Right hand hitter.
Guckey seems pretty much together.
He's going to pitch over for strike one call.
Ruben Gomez turned that three-quarter flat-on fastball.
A tail around the left and deep.
Guckey will hit that long one for you.
He's got a lot of power in those wrists and forearms of his.
Stuck a little color.
Gomez third ball.
It's hung and fouled on the third baseline.
Out of all two strikes, Jockel Cronin, left-handed umpire, steps out behind Guckey.
Guckey hits that ball back to the mound, a new one back to the mound to Gomez.
That's some combination of left-handed Irishman.
Now the open pitch here on Hank Budjeski.
Gomez eyes his runner.
This works the first.
Second and third open, one out.
Down comes the pitch.
Budjeski snaps his head back and takes a curve right off the corner of the chin for a ball one.
One ball and two strikes.
Gomez not in a bit of a hurry.
Takes not much time, but Budjeski steps away from the plate to get a double handful of dirt to dry his hands.
Squeezes the neck end of the bat and he's ready to step up there now.
There he goes, moving into batting spot.
Rick Wirtz steps off at first.
Lachman's not holding him on.
But way back to his depth.
First swing on by Budjeski.
There's a two-hopper hit to Doc.
He's up with a go to Williams who won the first.
There's the first double play in the World Series.
Hank Budjeski wrapped into the first double play.
In the 1974 World Series, it goes to Malvin Doc, to Davey Williams, to Widy Lachman.
Wirtz fell on the front end of the double play to retire the side here in the last half.
No running, no runs, one hit, no errors, and there was no one left on.
So the score at the end of four innings of play now is New York 4 and Cleveland nothing.
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Now for inning number five.
Willie Mays, the leadoff for the Giants.
He has one for two.
Hit a single to Redfield in the first inning to get his first World Series base hit.
And Tom Thompson followed by Dusty Rhodes, who again has been the difference in the ballgame.
Art Huddleman delivers to Willie Mays.
He throws the crossfire across the Japanese first strike.
Art Huddleman and release ball to Mike Garcia.
So it means that we have an entire new Cleveland, we have a new Cleveland battering.
The pitch to the plate for Willie Mays is over.
What low for ball one?
One ball and one strike.
Huddleman pumps, kicks and throws one-one curve ball.
Willie Mays swings on it and hits a high fly ball to the right side off the left field line.
In a few minutes to go, the Cleveland has a new battery.
That's right, when one man has changed the battery with you, and Art Huddleman is the pitcher now.
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Willie Mays after the next pitch with the high fly ball in the big left center field.
There goes Larry Doeby back.
He's still going back.
He's under it and he makes the catch.
Well, Willie Mays is out.
Doeby taking care of that one.
Doeby slides around out there in center field like Breeze Likens.
Thompson is about an hour for New York.
Hank Thompson is in left-handed.
The Giants have four runs right now and five base hits.
And that's our clear.
They've committed no errors this afternoon.
A slow curve there by Adam Minnis taken by left-handed batting Thompson.
That's not a run.
The Giants took their own established game.
That's 10 to 5 men.
They're under a total of 17 for the series.
Adam Minnis is late.
Thompson takes the curve and it's over.
One ball, one strike.
One out, out to the third.
No base runners for the Giants.
They're leading here by the score of four to nothing.
Doeby has no runs.
On one base hit they've committed a pair of errors.
And that's 10 to 2 men.
Thompson swings on the next pitch, loops it out into left center field.
It's in there for the base hit.
Doeby comes in quickly to pick up.
There's no chance he's going to try for two.
Doeby still comes hurriedly into second slide and Thompson's in there.
Dora Thompson gets a double into left center field.
That'll be hit number one off our Haldeman.
Hit number six.
That's the first extra base hit other than Dusty Rhodes with two home runs for the Giants.
They're not going on here.
Mr. Finney, Dusty Rhodes coming up there.
Here's a real chem.
So this time, Dusty, you're not going to talk it for us.
Dusty Rhodes is bringing in intentional base on ball.
That'll be the first walk by Haldeman, the fourth walk picked up by the Giants here this afternoon.
They respect his bat.
They might not worry too much about him out in the field, but when he comes up there swinging at numbers,
he's an all-time swagger and they say, uh-uh.
So he steps out to first base now.
I'm with one of the runners at second and first.
The batter is David Williams.
David, who sacrificed successfully in the third inning, and I was charged to go here.
He very successfully sacrificed. Please know, I mean, the success of his sacrifice was it was a screen time,
got the run in.
Now they're ready for Haldeman's delivery.
Pass ball, half a fifth on the inside corner today.
The winnings for Carl Schacht.
Haldeman's setting up the base of the hand, inspects those runners.
Overhand pass ball.
From down his reach, he tries to get a kick and gets it out close to the available one.
He's going over to first base.
There's the count in time.
He comes up for the nice save. A clear into the first.
There they get one.
Williams is the runner at third.
Rhodes with the race going into second base.
And slips them to at the rim.
They take a step back to the second base and covering.
And on fourth our Thompson's.
He's right over to take second and third.
The other drives have runners at first and third now.
Second is open, two down.
The batter is West Wetland.
The automatic ball game in favor of the New York Giants.
We move along here at the municipal statement in Cleveland.
Very gently they're on third.
The Giants have won two.
They've been trying to win one here this afternoon.
Haltz-Haldeman in the release of back to the end.
He's ready to deliver the rest of the guys in West Lake City pick outside for ball one.
What's in this afternoon is stuck out and passed back to the mound.
He goes for two.
He's not too comfortable with the ball in the first game of the series.
Thompson whippers.
Now the one and old beloved, Haldeman.
He deals off his dreads, throws the pass ball and whips it in the left hip.
Great hit.
Then comes Thompson at the score.
Williams goes to second to hold on.
Got some singles in the left.
Brought the hit ground ball through the hole between fourth and third.
Williams now the base runner and second base.
Thompson's down to the fourth and fifth Giants run.
And his hit number two and run number one of Haldeman.
Now a four.
By now a five.
Thompson up his back to the ground.
He's taking up his seventh base hit.
A lot of coming up to the plate now is Luton-Jomers.
He's lined up for the field.
The very good, the good in the middle.
He's not getting a third and stuck out.
There's Jomers.
Thompson's up there now looking for his eighth base hit.
He's got a hit.
Haldeman on third.
And Williams activity down the bullpen now.
Cleveland-Wilson.
He's got a second for him.
Hart-Haldeman gets ready.
The limits to go now.
He's going to go down the bullpond on the third base run.
Raynard-Escie.
Ricky-Rick-Hander down on the bullpen for Cleveland.
Hart-Haldeman on the mound.
Ready to put the ball down there.
Williams at second.
Williams on third.
The first round of eight runs got it in for the Giants.
That's five runs got it in for the Giants.
That's 12 all told.
Jomers and Batten-Levitt are in the Williams is on the second.
Browns is looking for the Giants.
Hart-Haldeman settled down to work on fast pass the ball.
Out charge for the half of that one.
Jomers half from Belmont-Straight.
Jomers on the top of the stretch.
Looks to Jomers.
A little swim overhand pass ball and pours it right through with the knee.
That's like two.
Two balls, one strike.
Williams ready to step off second.
That just made Jomers come on.
There's a bounding ball hit down.
The first base run gets it all.
It's a touch of a line.
Went to the first base ball and kicked out before it went to the back.
That's what is known as a snake hopper.
It's wiggling all over the place.
There's Williams.
He's running on that one half.
He's moving all the way back to second.
Williams got there second.
Jomers on the top of the stretch.
Down.
One run is through the hooker.
The ball's been up and he's over the ground.
The runner's got 60 seconds.
He's down.
Jomers got the time attack of low and he's on the hard.
Number 28, the pitch.
They're made by Hart-Haldeman.
One and two, three.
So that's Jomers.
Right side of the area.
That's Hart.
Right side again with the inning by Jomers.
And that's the pitch from here for number four.
The Giants are running through the fair for New York.
For New York, they're sending one run.
And she bases it.
There's no worries.
And she makes the ball out of bounds.
Seven men have been standing here now by the Giants.
Going about a third of the time.
And the second run, at the end, the four and one half and eight.
The New York Giants five and the three and the Indians nothing.
All at one stop.
The difference is three, but you'd better hurry.
It was a sellout last year and the new and large division was going even faster.
They're now ready to step into the last half of the first inning and to complete the ball game.
And that means that our good friend Jimmy Dudley takes over right here in his own stompin' ground.
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Thank you, Al.
And here we go into the last half of the fifth inning.
There's Dilley.
The Indians right fielder leading off of the drive against Ruman Ruben Gomez with one wail of a pitch of that card.
The first pitch is a strike with a fastball hitting the outside corner of the nine.
Dilley the first time up in the second inning to a base on ball.
The only hit given up by Gomez was a pop-flash from Yobaydobi.
Next pitch is thrown on the ground.
The ball is passed baby-winner, Bender White-Center for a base hit.
Dilley coming through with the Indian second hit of the day.
He's on first with nobody out and the batter is number two, George Strickland.
Gomez has been a very solid pitcher.
Just the second hit he has given up.
He has struck out only one man, walked through, but has been command in command of the situation throughout the entire game up to this point.
Strickland the right hand got a step turn.
Wings on the first pitch and hits the far ball into left field.
Bestie Rhodes moves in.
Remember this one now.
He has it easily throughout number one.
Strickland five-two.
Bestie Rhodes in left field.
One out.
Runner on first and the batter is Jim Hugen, the Indian second.
May now be a game start to work down on the Indian bullpen.
There is a possibility that Huddleman may be listed for a pinter.
The middle inning of the ballgame.
An hour low pair would like to get something started with a game off to a solid five-to-nothing lead.
Dilley takes the lead.
First pitch to Hugen is a set call with a serve getting the outback runner.
Gomez is not only fast, he has been very quick with all of his pitches.
The serve ball, the free ball, and the fast ball.
He won 17 ballgames during the regular season, losing nine.
Next to Hugen swings and misses a bad pitch.
Good stop by the catcher, wet, wet from.
Going through the count on the batter.
He outfields around to the left.
Hugen is first time up in the second inning.
Grounded out to the third baseman, Hank Johnson.
Boy, what an incident.
He has played a lot of fine ball in this series.
That's right.
Next to Hugen swings and hits the fly ball out into left field.
Jones moving in fast, on to the track now, close to the foul line.
He makes the catch, just in fair territory.
And they're a few out.
Hugen glides the road in left.
And the picture of Art Huddeman is blue.
And we'll catch somebody coming out of there in just a moment.
It's going to be Rudy Rigolato, number eight.
Rudy Rigolato, utility infielder, coming in to bat for Huddeman.
Rigolato is a right-hand batter.
Roy who played one year of organized baseball before moving up to the playing club.
Looks exceptionally good in playing games and was given an opportunity to play third base.
And Al Rosen moves over to play first base for the Indians.
Now seven into the bat, it's about two out and the runner-on first.
Cilley let off of the single, but he killed it first.
Art Huddeman playing straight away.
From his pick as a strike, the curve ball, knee-high.
That curve has worked to perfection for him this afternoon.
We have noted many of the Indian batters looking back to the young fire
and great goodbyes on the call of the pitch which is in there, just about knee-high.
The next pick, Rigolato fouls into the bridge, it's like two.
Going to the count.
The Giants, after winning the first two games in New York,
moving out in front of this one, five to nothing.
We're at Cleveland's huge municipal stadium
before approximately 70,000 people this afternoon.
Right to the count.
Batter and deck is out here.
Cilley ready to travel, leads off the pitch,
the point and the ground ball slowly hits to the left out of the infield.
Thompson charges it up a bit, the photo first and Rigolato is out.
Another fine play by Hinchom from the third base on a slow roller down the third base line.
Three guys, man.
And for the Indians in the fifth, no runs, one hit, one man left.
At the end of five, the score is New York, five to nothing.
Early win of the Indians who lost a real heartbreaker yesterday, giving up only four hits.
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Going into the first half of the sixth inning, we have a new pitcher coming on for the Indians.
Ray Noleste, young right hander.
While we're waiting for him, he'll charge now ten seconds for patient identification.
This is New Toulouse, a radio network for all America.
Will he be able to?
And now back at municipal stadium.
Here in Cleveland, the Giants leading five to nothing.
The first half of the sixth inning, the new pitcher, Ray Noleste.
We're leaving on Houghton and we're two innings of the ballgame.
Gave up two hits, lost one, struck out one, and about one run.
Four of the dad runs are charged to my daughter.
Noleste is a member of our Lopez pitching staff in the release department.
With one of the twin firemen, along with Ray Noleste, is John Martin.
And those two boys have done a whale of a job with him.
The pitcher's record is three and three, but he's started only two ballgames.
Without the regular season, he worked in 42 games and closer to the man's run average of 2.22.
First man to face him will be Wiley Loughman.
Outerman came in on the fourth inning, faced the job of the batting order.
And now Ray Noleste, the third Indian pitcher.
A giant lead, five to nothing. The first pitch to Loughman is four, one, two, high.
Noleste is what the boys referred to as a hard nose.
The lad who comes from there in release just wears back and really fires.
Next pitch is two high, another fastball taking off.
High and outside, this time the count is false and no strikes.
Last year he played under Verdy Kovitz, then manager of the Indianapolis Indians and the American Association.
Moved up with the fan club this year.
The two and nothing pitchers are strike.
Right over about an inch high, the count is two and one.
Hank Magiacchi, the Indian third baseman, is Ray's ballgame.
And on the edge of the infield bat, the outfield straight away.
The two and pitchers high for ball three.
Three and one the count.
Loughman led off with a single in the first inning.
The Giants went on the score run.
Added three in the third and one in the fifth, the lead by a two and nothing.
Here's the wind up in the three one pitch.
A foul hit back into the stand, dropped to the right of the plate.
Out of play and the count is ball three, strike two.
It's a very happy, hot baseball bouncing around.
It's a hot from the upper deck and down below.
There they pitch to pitch.
Here's ball four, outside.
Loughman takes the base on balls.
Loughman on first with a base on balls.
He's the first man to show his future as a team Indian
captain of the New York Giants, one of the two players on this ball club.
This is a 15th World Series game.
Next man up is Don Neely.
He swings on the first pitch and tops it up to the left out of the infield.
Hank Majeski is under and he has it for the second out.
They're two gone.
And coming up there's Willie Maties, number 24.
The Giants in the field in batting camp in the National League.
Put out the regular season.
Neither batting champion has been able to do very much in this World Series up to date.
Two outs with the runner on second.
Don has his first pitch.
May's playing to Mary's face.
Foul ball's going out into right field.
It's got a drop and that's a base hit.
And Loughman raising around third.
It's coming out of store.
The throw in is cut off by Wirt holding May's at first base.
The May's come through with his second hit today.
And the Giants take a lead of six to nothing.
The next batter is Hank Thompson.
He has a perfect day, two outs and a double.
And give him a lot of credit for legging out that base hit for a double.
Last time up in the fifth inning.
Left hand batter swings on the first pitch and tops it up down the third base line.
Hank Magestue moves over in the foul territory and now straddle line to make sure he didn't say a pair of fairs.
Thompson tops to Hank Magestue.
In the sixth inning for the Giants, score one run on one hit, one walk, one man left.
And we're going to the last half of the sixth inning with a score.
New York Giants six to seven, Indians nothing.
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And now going into the last half of the sixth inning, it will be Al Smith leading off.
Ruben Gomez has completed his warm-up shows and is all ready to work on Al Smith.
That's why she walked in the first inning, flying back to the pitcher in the third.
Swings on the first pitch, it's a bounding ball to the shortstop.
Big hop taken by a guard to throw the first and the stripper's out.
One pitch, one man out.
Six-three in case he is going along with it.
Give us an idea of how effective Gomez has been.
The last three, he has thrown just 33 pitches.
The batter is Bobby O'Helene, 0-1 officially, sacrifice in the first inning.
He picks it up and Gomez took this ball and went outside, a curve ball breaking away from him.
The outfield is playing him straight away.
Bobby O'Helene, Indian second baseman, batting champion of the American League.
There is ball two, high and outside, two and no count.
Gomez has given up just two hits, a bargain baseman single for Larry Doby in the fourth inning,
a single on the ground into right center by Dave Philly to open the fifth inning.
Next pitch is a strike, hitting the inside corner.
And that has been Gomez throughout the football game up to this point, hitting that ball just where he wants to.
Ball two, strike one.
Into the windup, it's hit there and Gomez now has the count of ball two and strike two.
A real swung on that ball.
I believe he foul-tipped it out of the catcher's grab, it dropped to the ground.
Turn two, umpire Conlon picks up the ball.
Johnny Cucinello coaching the third base, guarding the third man down to the batter.
Red press to go through at first.
One out and nobody on in the last half of the sixth inning.
Capella steps out.
Now in position, the two two-pitchers, one on the left, a five-ball hit into left field,
but that's DeRose moving back, avenged it, and has it all the way for out number two.
Two gone, as DeRose fired to left fielder, that's DeRose,
who has certainly been one of the outstanding performers in this World Series.
Suggesting to work like magic for Leo DeRose, who's a giant manager.
Barry Doby steps into the batter's box.
He has one out of two.
Left hand batter takes a strike with a fast ball, way through the middle.
Strike one called.
Strikes are very much overtaxed.
Well, great day here at Cleveland.
The next pitch is ball one high and outside.
The count is even up, one and one.
Two out and nobody on.
They're playing DeRose to pull.
And well around to right.
The second one pitch is a change up, ball two, with over but high, ball two and strike one.
Romesh Dexter-Shine from Shackler-Weston.
He walks into the windup.
The pitch and Doby swings, it's a top-five into left center.
Over under this one is Willie Mays, and he makes the catch.
Mays back-drops from the ball.
I think you believe he's having trouble, but he just wants to give it that basket treatment.
He holds the glove right there and around the belt.
Most of those catches.
Doby's drive through Mays and center.
Three up and three down for the Indians.
No runs, no hits.
Nothing is lost, and at the end of sixth the score is New York six, Cleveland nothing.
Merwin Bessie-Rose blasted that long homer yesterday at the Polar Ground to New York.
I thought about the chapter called Hempstown winning baseball in the New Gillette World Series record book.
Among other things, it illustrates the draft-like swing that's best for connection with those long low ends.
This is just one of the many things that makes this book so valuable to have handy anytime baseball is played or discussed.
Now to six runs in total.
The Giants have six runs, eight hits, no errors.
The Indians no runs, two hits, and two errors.
The Indians have left three men on the bases.
The Giants have left a total of eight.
It'll be Bessie-Rose leading off in the first half of the seven-tenning.
Many of the fans here at the stadium have come up for the Giants half of the seven-tenning, the old lucky seven-tenning stretch.
Number 26, Bessie-Rose.
Wayne Oleski.
A swing and a miss on the first six.
Oleski working into the window very apparently came out with a platform.
Boy, it's over to the window to put it in late years.
Strike one.
The next six, a swing and a miss.
Six, strike two.
John Fiery, Al Barlich at second base, now moves over to the first-day side of the keystone.
Here's the windup.
The next six, a swing and a miss.
A rookie by the name of Wayne Oleski, caps the mighty Bessie-Rose.
He struck him out.
The fans here get a tremendous kick out of it.
Henry Williams has got a swing to come up first with the miss and he strikes one.
George, of course, has been the sensation of this World Series thus far.
Next pitch by Oleski with Williams is ball one, upside and lower the carry.
Count is even up, one and one.
One out of the first half of the seven-tenning.
The Giants lead six to nothing.
This is ball two, over but low.
The count is two and one.
He doesn't waste any time.
Takes a short windup and gets pumped.
He had 52 strikeouts in 89 innings in the regular season.
Williams swings with miss a strike two.
Ball two and strike two, the count, one out and nobody on.
Oleski, the third, Henry and Fiction.
The circle kick, ball three, over but high and the swing is out.
Full count of three and two.
Oleski came on in the sixth inning, walked one man and gave up a hit.
A single for Willie Mays.
Next pitch, Williams swings with the ground ball to Fiction, it's short.
Up with it, there's the short of first and Williams is out.
Grounding out, short to first.
There too gone and the batter is Wess Wessam.
Wessam has one out of three.
A single is last time, up to drive and a run.
In the second inning he struck out.
In the third he's rounded out as he attempted to pull away from a pitch.
He hit a little rounder right back to the pitch and right back here.
Oleski's first pitch to him is just right for the curve, working to the outside front of Wessam.
The Giants lead, quick to nothing, the third game of the 1954 World Series.
Oleski leads our straight away for Wessam.
Oleski okays the time.
That's fastball popping out of Heegans glove, rolling off to the left of the plate.
Ball one and strike one.
Now Oleski's dad played for the Boston Red Sox quite some years ago.
He's an infielder.
Here's the windup, the one and one pitch.
Wessam swings and misses, it's strike two.
One and two the count on the batting.
Two out and nobody on, the first half of the seventh.
The one and two pitch.
Wessam swings and misses, he's struck him out.
A fine performance by the rookie right-hander.
In the seventh for the Giants, no runs, no hits, nothing across.
And the fans now come up with a last half of the seventh inning, no home stretch.
At the end of six and a half minutes, the short is New York six, even nothing.
There you could have been with us on the baseball front the last night.
Four teams were aboard and you never saw a finer-looking bunch of young men.
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Twenty for 98 cents, 10 for 49 cents.
$71,500 at this time.
Applause.
And now back here at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, the home of the American Legion.
Applause.
The attendance, $71,555.
Last of the sevens in this week's league jobs.
First pitch during by Gomez is ball one, inside and low.
Ball on the count.
Bryant's lead, picked him up, and there's ball two, a fast ball.
Too close to the batting. Ball cannot strike.
The outfield is shaded around club right.
Where's it go for two?
Connected.
Press call.
And in the outside corner with the two balls.
Ball two, strike one.
What a maze moving around in Tennessee.
Now it's just about straight away.
Next pitch is one, a major drive for and get out of the left corner.
Maze is chasing after that ball, and it is on its way for a home run.
Applause.
Big work. Indian's first baseman coming up with hit number three and the Indian's first run of the day, a home run over the right center field fence.
The low line drive, not a towering moment.
Missed the ball. That was a very solid big hit.
And the next batter is Hank Mageski.
Oh, buddy out, Mageski, right hand batter, steps in.
Here's go for two.
And he's going to a double play last time up.
Seventy-one thousand, five hundred and fifty-five fans.
Getting a big kick out of things.
Work comes through with his home run.
Now new houses.
Left handers start warming up on the Indian both ends.
All right, the first pitch to Mageski.
Ball went outside with a third.
Ball on the count.
Batter on deck is very silly.
The Giants lead six to one.
The Indians start supporting the white watch with that home run.
Next pitch is ball two inside.
Ball two, no strikes.
The boys down in the Giants, little game, looking in towards the dugout.
So far there's been no action in the Giants both ends.
Nobody out, nobody on.
The pitch is eight strikes, no mares.
Play the curve right over the heart of the plate.
Ball two and strike one.
Giants lead six to one.
The Giants lead six to one.
That brings up number 17, Dave Philly.
In two trips to the plate, he has a walk and a single.
His single was a ground ball in the right center.
Looks at ball one outside and low.
First pitch.
Ball on the count.
Batter on deck is George Strickland.
Go case to time.
The pitch is eight strikes with a fastball knee high.
Even up, ball one and strike one.
Works his home run where his hit number three off go med.
The one and one pitch.
Philly takes the strike with a change up.
Ball one and strike two.
Now steps back to talk to the umpire, Jaco Conlon.
Ball one and strike two.
Philly asking umpire Conlon where that ball was and he told him.
Right over.
Ball two high and outside.
The outfielders are shaded just a bit toward right for Philly.
Here's the wind up.
The two to pitch.
Just swing and a miss.
He's chucking out.
Philly goes down swinging.
That is the second strike out for Ruben Gomez.
He has walked only two batters.
Now it's George Strickland stepping into the batter's box.
Coming up with two out and nobody on.
Takes a fastball strike right in there.
Last half of the seventh inning the Giants lead by a score of six to one.
Next pitch Strickland swings and pops this one up to the right side of the infield.
Going back on the edge of the grass is Whitey Lockman and he makes the catch.
The third out and the Indians in the seventh get one run, one hit.
Big works his home run.
At the end of seventh the score is New York six Cleveland one.
New York's New York City batter, who won the American Lake batting title with a 3.41 average, has gone 2 for 11 so far in this World Series of 1954.
He has quite a jinx to overcome because batting champions generally do poorly in the series.
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Ted Williams averages 200 and Muzio 256 and Jackie Robinson 242.
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The Giants won the first two games in New York and lead the Indians on their home grounds right here in Cleveland in this third game by a score of six to one as we head into the first half of the eighth inning.
The Giants will lead off with Richard Gomez getting a nice hand from the crowd as he comes up.
He's got him a fine performance.
Right hand got him. He lined the center field and struck out twice.
Dallas gets first pitch. He swings and misses. Strike one.
Next tricks to him. He swings on it and pops it up to the infield. Right by second base is George Strickland. He makes the catch. We're out number one.
Gomez pops to George Strickland, the shortstop.
And now the top of the batting order.
Lockman, left hand batter number 25. He has a single and a walk in four trips to the plate.
Stands deep in the batter's box and chokes up on the bat. Swings on the first pitch. It's a ground ball to Wirtz at first.
Wirtz takes it, races to the bag. Ahead of the runner, we're up number two.
Lockman grounded out to Wirtz unassisted. That brings up Alvin Dock.
And nobody on. First half of the eighth inning.
Dock, the right hand batter, has one out of three officially. He sacrificed his last trip to the plate.
And he tries to hold back with swings and hits and easy grounder. Right back to the pitcher. Now let's get takes.
First to first ends, the Giants are retired in order. Three up and three down. No runs, no hits for the Giants.
And going into the last half of the eighth inning, the score is New York 6-3-1.
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And now before we go into the last half of the eighth inning, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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And now back at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, the last half of the eighth and a pinchhead are coming up for Jim Higgins.
Kyle Lopez calls upon his reserve to get something started for his tribe. Trailing in the series, two games to nothing, and trailing in this ball game, six to one.
Bill Glenn is batting for Higgins, left-hand batter. Swings on the first pitch and hits the flat ball into right field.
Coming over hard for it is Gillette. He drops the ball. Gillette's going for two. He runs some under his cap. Gillette picks it up.
They throw in, but too late. And it's in his second base.
That is going to be a two-base hit. A fine try by Don Mueller. He got a glove on the ball, but it was a sinking line drive.
He couldn't handle it. He dropped to the ground for a two-base hit.
Another pinchhead is coming out. Dale Mitchell, number three, batting for Raynor Lesky. Mitchell is the left-hander.
Hails from Oklahoma City, product of Oklahoma University. Mitchell, during the regular season, batted 283, but was used mostly in the pinchhead a role.
Lloyd Wilhelm, a right-hander, and Wendy McCall, a left-hander, starts warming up for the New York Giants.
First pitch to Mitchell. He swings and hits the ground ball to the first baseman.
Lachman takes it, races to the bag. As Glenn moves to third, Mitchell is out.
Mitchell, grounding out on the first pitch. Lachman, unaffected.
Glenn is on third, and the top of the batting order is coming up.
Don Mueller, left-hander, is now warming up for the Indians, so is Al Maradon, a catcher.
Al Smith is the batter. He has to walk in three trips.
First pitch to him is a strike. Curve ball is good to the knees. Right over, strike one. Glenn is on third with one out.
Last half of the eighth inning, the Giants lead by a score of six to one.
Outfield, rolled around toward left. Smith, standing deep in the batter's box, well back of the plate. Takes ball one outside and low with a curve, breaking into the dirt.
Bobby Avila is on deck. Here's the windup. Glenn makes a false start from third. The pitch is swung on, fouled, down the third baseline. Out of play.
Ball one and strike two. Gomez, keeping the ball low to Smith. He fouled that one off his foot.
Quite a bit of pain. He steps again back from the plate.
Right this way, he was a protected thin guard. Smith is always fouling the ball off onto his own foot, bouncing it up and hitting him in the leg.
Here's the windup. One and two pitch. Ball two outside. He's started to go forward but held back in time to take ball three.
Runner on third with one out. Glenn doubles off Mueller's glove and right moved up as Mitchell grounded out.
The pitch is low into the dirt for ball three. And the string is out. Full count of three and two on Al Smith.
The Indians bouncing back against the fine pitching of Ruben Gomez, who has given up only four hits.
Glenn is on third with one out. The count three and two. Here's the payoff pitch. Swung on and fouled off. Down the first baseline, curving back into the crowd. Out of play.
Whitey Lockman raised over with no chance to get it.
New ball is tossed into play.
Gomez is all set. Here's the windup. The three-two pitch. Hit foul down the third baseline and Glenn had to jump out of the way of that ball.
Dusty Rhodes racing over, taking no chances on whether it was foul. How fair. Feel of that ball right where the boys are warming up. McCall and Wilhelm.
Smith to bat it with a count three and two. Glenn on third. Yacht field around toward left. Time is called. Smith steps out of the batter's box.
All right, the three-two pitchers were on the ground ball to the shortstop. Doc is up with it. Glenn is coming on to score. The throw high at the first base. And yellow Smith is second. He races around second.
Lockman is up with the ball to throw across the diamond. Smith holds up and goes back to second.
The score is now New York six, Cleveland two, and Smith is on second. That could well be a break for the Indians.
We'll get the official call on it. It is a base hit and an arrow. A hit to deep shortstop. And an arrow.
The batter is Bobby Avila. The score is six to two. The run got it in for Al Smith. Glenn scored. Smith is now in second.
The first pitch to Avila. Ball one high and inside. Smith goes to second on the throwing arrow by Alvin Doc.
That's the first giant error of the game and the third for both teams. The Indians have two. One out here in the last half of the eighth inning. Smith on second. Takes the lead.
The next pitch. Avila takes ball two inside and low.
The Giants now have a total of four errors for the three games of the 54 World Series. The Indians two. Next pitch. Avila takes ball three high and inside.
Ball three, no strikes. Batter on deck is Larry Dolby. The score is New York six, Cleveland two.
The outfield playing straight away. Gomez okays the sign. The pitch is a strike. The outside corner, waste time.
Three and one to count. Avila may not let this one go by. Naturally he'd like to get on if possible. Dolby coming up. There's ball four, too high and Avila takes the wall.
Coming up is Larry Dolby. And here comes Leo DeRoscia out of the giant dugout.
We'll have a little conference out there on the mound. Indians have runners on first and second with one out.
You know fans, this is only the third World Series for Cleveland, yet its players have achieved the greatest single batting and fielding feats possible.
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Now umpire Jaco Conlon goes out and it looks like a new pitcher is going to be called into the game.
Mark Wilhelm. DeRoscia making with the knuckler sign, his right hand.
And that is going to be all for Ruben Gomez.
Mark Wilhelm, a knuckleball pitcher, is coming into the game to face Larry Dolby.
So Gomez, running into a bit of trouble here in the last half of the eighth inning, has worked seven and one third innings.
He has given up five hits. He has walked three men. He has struck out two.
And has allowed two runs and is leaving two men on. Should they score, they will be charged against him.
And now we have a change in our scoring. We've just had word from the official scorers that Al Smith does not get a base hit.
However, he does get a run batted in. There's a two base throwing error charged to Alvin Dock.
So Gomez has given up only four hits.
Got that, and you're scoring seven and a third innings. Given up four hits, walked three, struck out two. Gave up two runs and is leaving two men on.
Wilhelm, wearing number 49, taking his warm-up throws. He is different from most knuckleball pitchers.
And that he throws a fast knuckle. It's a knuckleball, but it's very fast.
Still works the same, and is just as hard, if not harder, to hit.
Larry Dolby, who was the hitting star of the 1948 World Series against the Boston Braves, now has a chance to come through for his ball club.
All right, Wilhelm says he's ready to work. Dolby steps in. Smith is on second. Bobby Avila is on first.
Vic Wirtz is on deck. Indians trailing by four runs.
Marv Grissom now joins Wendy McCall, the left-hander warming up in the bullpen. Grissom is the right-hander that helped in the first game, actually won it.
All right, Wilhelm is ready. Here's the stretch. The pitch to Dolby, he swings and misses. Strike one.
Boy, and there was no question about what he wanted. He was swinging for the distance.
There's the owl. He was swinging for defense.
The runners move off. The next pitch, swung around the ground ball is into the first base when Lachman takes it, races to the bag ahead of Dolby, and Dolby is out on a close play.
The runners move up. Dolby tried a slide into first base, but Lachman beat him there.
The bullpen is out, and the batter is Vic Wirtz.
A Giants lead by a score of 6-2.
Now time is called. Westrom goes out to talk with Wilhelm.
Wilhelm is in the picture, proving that he can reach into the bag and come up with some fine relief pitching.
Marv Grissom got credit for winning the first game of the World Series.
Yesterday was Johnny Antonelli all the way.
First pitch to Wirtz now, his ball went outside.
He'll try to keep it away from his power. Batter on deck is a right-hand batter, Hank Majeski.
Smith is on third, Avila on second. The Giants lead 6-2. They're two out.
Here's the windup. The next pitch is a strike hitting the outside corner waist-tie.
Ball one and strike one.
Wirtz has certainly been the hitting star of the series for the Indians thus far, just as Rhodes has been for the Giants.
Next pitch fouled back to the screen, and now the pitcher has him in the hole.
Ball one and strike two.
One and two count.
Wilhelm didn't like the ball that he got there, tossed it back into the catcher.
Another little left-hander, the umpire back of the plate, Jaco Conlon, throws another out.
Into the windup, the one and two pitch. Wirtz swings and he misses. He struck him out.
Wirtz goes down swinging, and Mr. Wilhelm did a mighty fine job, a right-hand pitcher against two left-hand batters.
The Indians in the eighth inning get just the one run on one hit.
There was one giant error, and two men were left on the bases.
At the end of eight innings, the score is New York 6, Cleveland 2.
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And our fans, we're back at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, going into the first half of the ninth inning of the third World Series game between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians.
The new triad pitcher is number 12, Don Mossy.
Mossy is making his second appearance in the World Series, appeared in 40 ball games during the regular season.
And young Hal Narragun is the Indian catcher.
Number 18, Hal Narragun, he has just returned from the Marines this year and was carried by the ball club as that extra serviceman.
He hails from Bobbitton, Ohio.
He appeared in 45 ball games, posted a batting average of 238.
And now in the first half of the ninth, it'll be Don Mueller leading off for the Giants, left-hand batter number 22 against left-hand pitcher Don Mossy.
Mueller has one out of four and has scored two runs, swings on the first pitch and wraps the line drive out of the third baseman's head into left field.
A base hit, Smith is up with it, the throw to the infield, holds it to a single.
Mueller lined the first pitch into left.
His hit into left field in the third inning was a beautiful thing to see.
With the hit and run on, dark was moving, Mueller hit one through the hole into left field.
Now here's Willie Mays, he has two out of four, two singles both into right field.
He's a right-hand batter, nobody out.
First pitch is a strike, a fastball, let her hide.
Runner on first, Don Mueller leads away, nobody out.
The next pitch is high and outside with a curve that refused, ball one and strike one.
Mays today coming up with his first World Series hits, has two of them now.
The Giants have a total of nine, has against four for the Indians.
One and one to count, here's the stretch.
The pitch is swung on and fouled back into the stands, out of play.
Count moves to ball one and strike two on the batter, Willie Mays, number 24.
On deck is Hank Thompson.
And Marcy O'Kee's the sign from his young battery mate, Al Narragun, checks the runner.
The one and two pitch is high, ball two, ball two and strike two.
Mays has made his hits pay off today, two hits, two runs batted in.
Mueller takes the lead off, ready to travel.
The two-two pitch and it is ball three, a bit too high.
Ball three, strike two.
Mays almost went through with the swing, but held back just in time, did not break the wrist.
Ball three, strike two, and now Mueller will be moving.
The stretch and the pay off pitch is swung on, there's a line drive, hits sharply into left center.
Mueller makes the turn at second, he's going for third.
He'll be in there standing up, don't be throwing to second.
Mays holding it first.
Three hits for Mays and he has come through each time with men on base.
That's the kind of a hitter you like.
The guy that can deliver, and there are runners on the sacks.
Giant runners on first and third, nobody out.
The winner is Henry Thompson, third baseman.
He has two walks and a double.
Getting more action down in the Indian bullpen now as Bob Hooper starts to warm up, right hander.
First pitch to Thompson, he hits a line drive to Strickland.
Strickland's throw back to first and Mays has doubled.
Mays was halfway to second and had not the slightest chance of getting back.
And with one pitch, Marcy erases two men.
Mueller is holding at third.
That's the first double play for the Indians and just the second of the World Series.
Thompson lined to Strickland who doubled Mays at first.
Here's Dusty Rhodes up.
Two out, runner on third.
Mays was struck out by Norlesky in the seventh inning.
First pitch to him, he swings and hits a ground ball foul down the first baseline.
Lot of play in the counter, strike one.
Seven runs batted in in this World Series and this is just the third game.
The Giants are leading by a score of 6-2.
And unless the Indians can pull their forces together, it looks like an abbreviated one.
Next pitch is ball one high and inside, one and one to count.
Neither manager has named a starting pitcher for tomorrow's fourth game.
Here's the windup.
The pitch is too low for ball two, two and one to count.
Mueller on third, he let off of the single, moved to third on Mays' hit into left center.
Thompson lined into a double play.
The outfield playing straight away.
The next pitch to Rhodes is ball three, inside and low, three and one to count.
Ball three, strike one.
Rhodes came on in the third inning as a pinch hitter for Monte Irvin, singled into right field, driving in two runs.
Green run the county, maybe gunning for it, here's the windup.
And the pitch is a strike call, a little high.
Full count of three and two on the batter.
Fans start buzzing a little bit as Marcy gets ready for the big pitch.
The count three and two.
With two out in the first half of the ninth inning, the Giants lead by a score of six to two.
Marcy in action.
The three-two pitch, a swing and a miss.
He struck him out.
In the high curve ball and Rhodes went for it, struck him out.
Second time.
And two rookies turn the trick.
So in the eighth inning for the Giants, no runs, they had two hits, one man left.
And going into the last half of the ninth inning, the scorer is New York 6, Cleveland 2.
You know, fans, unless you're an expert, you may have missed a few points of today's game.
So stay tuned after the last out and hear old man baseball himself, Bill Cobb,
who reviews the game and points up the day's play as only he can.
Well, it's the last half of the ninth inning, and the Indians have just three outs to get back into this game
and to get into the World Series.
They have yet to post a victory.
The Giants holding the lead two games to none and leading this game by four runs, six to two.
The Giants have collected 10 hits off Indian pitching, five of them coming off Scott of Garcia,
two off Art Hodderman, who relieved in the fourth.
Naleski gave up one hit, and Marcy gave up two, however the Giants failed to score against Marcy
in the one inning that he worked.
Hank Majeski will lead off for the Indians.
Bottom half of the batting order is up.
Hort Wilhelm, the knuckleball hurler, pitches a strike.
Worst pitch was right in their waist high.
Majeski is looking for his first hit today, his 0 for 3.
Down it out twice and fouled out.
Wilhelm pitches a strike to the inside corner, and there's that knuckleball.
Boy, that's a tough one.
Indian batters have really been silent.
Ruben Gomez giving up only four hits.
Wilhelm coming on in the eighth inning to put out the far.
Getting Doeby and Worst, two left-hand batters.
There's ball one inside, and low to Majeski.
The count moves to ball one and strike two.
The outfield around Todd Left, Wilhelm takes his time with Kechua Weston.
One and two pitch.
Ball two outside, and low with a curveball.
Ball two and strike two.
71,555 fans in today's ballgame, bringing the total to 183,405
for the three games of the 1954 series.
All right, the two-two pitch.
Majeski takes strike three to the inside corner.
He's struck him out.
Went away.
Well, the Indians have used four pitchers today.
They can sure use a pair like Dizzy and Paul Dean, right?
Remember, they pitched and won all four games of the 34 World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Information like this gives you more baseball pleasure,
and the deluxe World Series record book is filled with it.
One out.
Dave Filiers up.
Flames on the first pitch.
It's a ground ball to the second base.
A knockdown by Williams.
The third of first, and Filiers out on the close play.
There's that hustle in that giant infield, and it'll pay off every time.
When the dice used to say, stop them with your chest, your knee, your elbow, or anything,
but go and get them and throw that batter out.
Filiers outing out, second to first, four-three.
They're two gone, and we're getting a pinch hitter.
Dave Pope batting for George Strickland.
Up and two down for the Indians here in the ninth, the Giants lead by a serve, six to two.
Pope is the left-hand batter.
First pitch, he swings on it.
A ground ball to the right side of the infield.
Williams covers up a pass up at the, but go to first, and on a pretty play.
Filiers out, Pope grounding out, Williams to first, and the Indians bite the dust.
One, two, three.
No runs, no hits, nothing is crossed.
And the final score, New York, six runs, ten hits, one error.
Even two runs, four hits, and two errors.
The winning pitcher, Ruben Gomez.
The losing pitcher, Mike Garcia.
Now in just a moment, Bill Corum will review the highlights of today's game for you.
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Well, these players stop the questions and lead all news, I guess,
of this third World Series game here in beautiful municipal stadium in Cleveland
before this great crowd this afternoon was that the Indians finally got Bessie Rhodes up.
In fact, they got him out twice, Ray Norlesky finding and then Don Morse.
Last time he was advanced in the ninth inning, the last out the Giants.
Before that happened, the dusty one had driven in two more runs
to bring his total up to that point up to seven,
and the record for four games is only nine held by Lou Gehrig.
So he was still in there swinging when he went up to pick it, and in this season
and in this series as a pink hitter he's gone 18-448, and that is some pink hitting.
And Ruben Ruben, I've been thinking that Gomez was quite a picture out there this afternoon.
I don't know for sure that when the Indians put on their little serve there in the eighth inning,
De Roche would have had to take him out, but of course he's got such a tremendous bullpen,
and that one fellow particularly with the way to go ball that finished up,
nobody gets him when he's like that much. Tony Cucinelli was over in Brooklyn
sitting with Tom Kean scouting the Giants, one of those teams over in Brooklyn,
and Hart came in, Wilhelm, and Presto Thompson, some of them sitting there,
and they were watching this ball, and if you ever notice it and see Weston try to catch it,
you have to jump at it, I think. That knuckleball just goes everywhere and anywhere.
So Thompson said to Cucinelli, said, Tony, maybe you better not knock that starting picture out.
That's the way Wilhelm finished up here this afternoon for Gomez.
It was a laughing game for the Giants, you might say, and right now it would look very much
as if they have the Indians well on the run, even here in their home to feed.
You know, in mid-rump, they didn't look very good. Their pitching wasn't too strong.
Mike Garcia, the big bear, just didn't have it this afternoon, and after Roche came in
and he's daily act, replacing Irving at the bat and made his big pinch hit, driving in the two runs.
Well, that was pretty much the ball game. Of course, Dick West finally found out how to get a ball
over Willie May's head. He hit it over the fence for a tremendous home run.
The ball was really tattooed, and that's one way the Indians can keep from leaving men on bases.
As things stand now, they've left more men on bases in this series than some armies have told us.
They have loaded them up and two on and one on right through the series,
but it seems almost impossible for them to get the big hit when they need it.
And they needed it badly this afternoon because the Giants had their hitting close on.
Right down the line, they were whacking that ball solidly.
Little Willie Mays came up with three rousing hits, good, clean hits, and Darks and all the gang,
Mueller, the whole bunch, were hitting that ball very well, Whitey Loughlin and West West from driving in the run.
And it was a team victory for the Giants with a very fine-picking job by Gomez.
And of course, now tomorrow, DeLotra can do put near anything.
He's got some other pretty good pitchers in there, and he could use them two or three at a time
or anything he wants to now. I don't know when an American League team,
I mean, a National League team ever won four straight from an American League team in the World Series.
I would have to go back to 1914, the Athletics and Braves, so it probably has happened since,
but it's been a long time. Now this broadcast is authorized under broadcasting rights
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