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The Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field for a Thursday afternoon game on May 30th, 1957.
Brooklyn was starting off the season well, entering this game with a 22-13 record and just a game behind the NL-leading Cincinnati Reds.
The Dodgers were looking to make it back to the World Series for the third consecutive season under manager Walt Alston.
The Pirates were managed by Bobby Bragan and had been a below 500 team for over a decade.
They entered this game already 15 games below 500.
This audio recording is from the Dodgers Radio broadcast featuring announcers Vince Cully, Jerry Doggett, and Al Helfer.
Well thank you, Dorothy Collins. And hi everybody, this is Vince Cully, along with Al Helfer and Jerry Doggett here at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
We're about to bring you the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates in their holiday doubleheaders.
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Well, on Memorial Day, we certainly hope things are just fine for you wherever you may be.
Get yourself a nice cozy corner, light up a Lucky, and just spend the afternoon with us.
If you want to kick off your shoes, well you go right to it. It's your day.
And for you folks who might be listening and at the same time having to work today,
well we're trying to lessen the burden and get your mind off some of the big problems and concentrate on what happens with the Dodgers and the Pirates.
In the first game, it will be Sal Magley and Vernon Law.
Magley is one and one with the league, one and all against Pittsburgh, and lifetime 23 and 5.
Magley's last start on May the 10th, when he lost on a Friday night to Ruben Gomez at the Polar Grounds 2-1.
He has pitched only once since that time, two innings in relief.
In his only game against Pittsburgh this year, Magley was very good.
He pitched a complete game 6-1 victory.
And as we said, he has a 23 and 5 lifetime record against Pirates.
For Sal Magley, this Memorial Day, he has many a memory of course in his long and illustrious career in baseball.
And Magley can just look to exactly one year ago today, made his first start for Brooklyn,
pitched four innings against Philadelphia with no decisions.
So Sal Magley warming up right now for Brooklyn and for the Pirates, Vernon Law.
Law is two and one against the league.
If you remember, he started against Brooklyn back in April, pitched only one inning due to a pulled muscle,
then had to give way to Bob Perky.
And Perky went on to pitch a brilliant ball game.
He needed some relief in the ninth inning, but Perky got the win.
We'll see Bob Perky in the second game today.
As far as Law is concerned against Brooklyn, in 1956 he made five unsuccessful starts against the Dodgers.
And lost three times.
His last win against Brooklyn is July of 1955.
And he defeated Brooklyn 4-1 here at Pittsburgh.
Law two and one with the league.
No record with Brooklyn this year and lifetime five and seven.
This will be the tenth meeting between the two clubs.
The Dodgers have taken five out of nine.
However, here at Forksfield in Pittsburgh, the Pirates have done very well against Brooklyn.
They have taken three of five.
So this will be the tenth and the eleventh meetings between the two clubs on this Memorial Day.
Marking the halfway point in their own private duel during the year.
Twenty-two games played, and they will have gotten eleven down by the time the sun sets tonight.
For the Brooklyn lineup, the Dodgers having won yesterday one to nothing,
now trail the league-leading Cincinnati Redlegs by a game and a half.
For Brooklyn, Jim Gilliam leads off at second base.
Gino Somoli in left field, and Duke Snyder batting third in center.
Carl Perillo in the cleanup spot and right.
Gil Hutt is at first base.
Roy Campanella back of the plate.
Peewee Reese at shortstop batting seven.
Don Zimmer at third base, and the pitcher is Sal Magley.
If you notice how quiet it is here at the ballpark,
the entire crowd standing now as a prayer is being said on this Memorial Day.
However, these ceremonies are so far away from our microphones that we cannot pick them up.
So if you wish, on this special day you have certain people that you'd like to remember in your prayers,
or this might be a very good time for you to just take a minute out now
and think about them and say what you wish in your mind.
It has been done here at the ballpark, and the crowd now settles back and waits for the color guard,
and we might very well have the national anthem at any moment.
Until we do have the announcement, however, we'll continue now and give you the Pittsburgh Pirate lineup.
For the Pirates, Bill Mazurowski opens up at second base.
Dee Fondy batting second at first, and Bob Clemente will be in right field batting third.
Frank Thomas, who kind of wore the horns at the yesterday's ball game,
Thomas playing first base yesterday, booted the ball and went right through his legs
despite the fact he was down on his right knee, and that turned out to be the pivotal play
for some only got the base hit to drive it in.
Brooklyn went on to win one to nothing.
Well, Frank Thomas, in the lineup in the cleanup spot, will find himself in left field,
at least for this first game.
Gene Baker will be at shortstop.
Gene Preeves at first.
Bill Burton batting seventh in center field.
Hank Foyle's the catcher, and Vernon Law the pitcher.
Two and one with the league, no record with Brooklyn, lifetime five and seven.
A note came out of yesterday's ball game, which we will pass along to,
and since we were talking about the play concerning Frank Thomas, let's go back to it.
No score in the ball game in the eighth inning, and with two out,
Jim Gilliam had a bouncing ball to Frank Thomas at first.
He went down on his right knee, tried to get his glove down to the ground.
Somehow the ball squirted through and went on out into right field for a two-base error.
Then, Gene Osemole had a big high bouncer over the mound, and back of the bag at second.
Bill Mazurowski went over and tried to make a stab at the ball, just missed it by an inch or two.
It went out into center field, and the Dodgers won it one to nothing.
When the ball game was over, Bobby Bregan held a meeting in the Pirate Clubhouse,
locked the door, and here's what he said to the boys in substance,
I don't mind a man making an error, especially Frank Thomas, whom I could tell right away,
out in his mind the one thing I'm not going to do is let the ball go through my leg.
As we said, Thomas went down on his right knee and tried to block the ball.
Nevertheless, it did get through.
He said, but what I do mind is when a ball player does not think.
And then he turned to second baseman Bill Mazurowski, and he said,
you, Bill, with a situation like that, with a potential winning run at second base and two outs,
on a bouncing ball so close to you, had you thought earlier,
you should not have just tried to strain and grab the ball, you should have at least dove at it and knocked it down.
If you had knocked it down, which would have been an easier play for you,
you might not have gotten a batter, but the run certainly could not have scored.
And so, Bill Mazurowski, I find you $25.
And that's what happened yesterday, a painful defeat for Ronnie Klein.
He's now 0-7, a very pleasant and brilliant victory for Johnny Padres.
The rifle fire in the background enables SunnerGuard right now,
firing off into the sky on this Memorial Day.
As we told you earlier, we're trying to turn our back to the pregame ceremonies.
Just the opposite, we'd love to pick them up for you.
However, our facilities here at Pittsburgh, which is a rather spacious ballpark,
prohibits any clear pickup by our microphones, so we'll just continue
and every now and then try and explain what's going on down at the field.
As of this moment, the Naval Reserve Color Guard at home plays, along with six veterans,
and we're waiting now for the announcement.
The crowd is standing.
There'll be a moment of silence here at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
Might be a good chance to say your prayer right now.
The National Anthem.
All across the nation today in every ballpark, both major and minor leagues,
folks taking time out, and a good time it is on Memorial Day to remember those folks
who have since departed and the great heroes who have laid down their lives
in all of our country's wars.
Now the Naval Reserve Color Guard starting to leave the field,
along with the six veterans who are out there carrying the actual colors,
and in just a few minutes we'll be getting the first of two games underway.
As of this moment, however, there has not been a pregame meeting at home play.
The umpires are poised on the steps in front of a pirate dugout, and now they come out,
and Peewee Reese, of course, will leave the Dodger dugout and bring up the batting card,
and we'll have the exchange.
The Navy is in Pittsburgh in the first game of a double header.
The four umpires, Frank Secori, the plate umpire.
The round of applause in the background now as the Naval Reserve starts to march off.
Frank Secori, the plate umpire.
Stan Landis will be at first.
Bill Baker will be at second, and Frank Daskoly at first.
In the second ballgame today, Bob Perkey and Sandy Koufax,
and that should be an interesting duel.
Koufax with 45 strikeouts is really fun to watch, where he can rare back and fire.
He's tied for the National League lead with Luis Arroyo.
Arroyo is due to pitch tomorrow.
However, he will be held, I'm sure, for any spot relief against left-hand batters today.
As far as Koufax is concerned, he started against the pirates twice, both in 1955.
He pitched the shutout at Brooklyn and had a no-decision ballgame here at Forbes Field.
He has not pitched at Pittsburgh since losing in relief in September of 1955.
And now the Pittsburgh Pirates take the field.
The Dodgers have played only one other doubleheader this year, and it was with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Remember, they played that one at Brooklyn.
Well, the Pirates won the first ballgame 6-3, and the Dodgers came back to win the nightcaps 7-4.
We'll set the Pirates defensively for you.
Out on the mound in this first game, Vernon Law, back of the play, Hank Foyles.
At first, Dee Fonby with a badly bruised hand, but he's in there.
At second, Bill Mazurowski, $25 lighter at the yesterday's game.
At short, Gene Baker and the third baseman, Gene Freed.
In the outfield, Frank Connorson left.
Please center fielder Bill Burton and the right fielder, Bob Clemente.
Going down to his first base coaching box, Jake Kutler, and over his third, Billy Herman.
So we're just a minute away from the beginning of the Memorial Day doubleheader for the Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Lucky Strike, the best tasting cigarette you ever smoked, made by the American Tobacco Company.
And remember, tobacco is our middle name.
Well, Lucky Strike blowing smoke rings to you from Forksfield in Pittsburgh,
saluting our honor hospital, the Veterans Hospital at Lyons, New Jersey.
So to all you folks at the other end, wherever you may be, have a great day today.
Hope things go just right for you.
And now for Lucky Strike, in the play-by-play on a big day in baseball, here's Al Helper.
Thank you very much, Ben. Hi, everybody. Big day it is.
And Jim Gilliam steps up, batting a 2-5-6.
Vernon Law, Big Saw Fitzberg right-hander is ready to go.
Kicks off the first pitch and it's swung on.
There's a fly ball hit into left center field.
Bill Burton has gone over. He's under it now.
And takes it for the out.
And now the Memorial Day doubleheader here at Forksfield in Pittsburgh has begun.
One away in the top half of the first inning in Gino Simoli, who has hit out a 400-slip.
In the six games he has played in since his return to the Brooklyn lineup.
Coming up to the plate.
The left fielder, Gino Simoli.
Gino Simoli, whose bat has really been ripping.
Hitting a 3-36. He has five home runs and 16 runs batted in.
Needless to say, Frank Thomas in left field goes deep for Gino Simoli,
and the left side of the infield plays deep.
Gene Freeh just off third base in the event Simoli might be trying to find his way off.
Law pickers, the curve is in at the knees first strike.
The plate umpire here this afternoon for this first game of the doubleheader is Frank Sikori.
Landis at first, Baker at second, and Frank Descoli, the senior umpire.
The group is down at third.
Law delivers a change-up curve at the outside.
Simoli's count is one ball and one strike.
Throughout this big afternoon, right from the Lucky Strike scoreboard,
we'll keep you advised as to starting pickers and the progress of the other ball games
both in the national and in the American League.
Law is ready again. Delivers the curve ball.
It's in under the letters right off the hands.
One ball and two strikes to count on Simoli with one out, no baserunners.
Top of the first, the first game of today's doubleheader.
As Vinnie told you, we have quite a day for it here in Pittsburgh.
Temperature in the 80s, a lot of bright, brilliant sunshine.
Curve ball is swung on and hop back to the screen foul.
Every now and then, however, a wandering gray cloud comes across the sky
and will obscure the sunlight for the moment,
but I don't think you need to worry much about it.
What little praise we do have blowing in is blowing in from center field.
Taught home plate.
Law is ready now. One-two, the plate, Simoli leans back, takes a high curve inside off the chin.
Two balls and two strikes on Gino Simoli.
He'll be followed by Duke Snyder.
And if anyone else is needed in the top half of the first inning, Carl Purlo, the lead-up man, will be up there.
Star kicks, throws, Simoli swings and bounds it in the hole at third and through into left field for base hit.
So Simoli continues to hit that ball, gets the first stage hit of the afternoon, bounding single into left field.
Coming up to the plate now with the sun beaming brilliantly is Duke Snyder.
Duke batting at 267 as eight home runs and 17 runs batted in.
That's quite a nice crowd at Pittsburgh. It's not a capacity crowd, but there are quite a few people here.
Simoli leads it out first.
Soft curve as far as Snyder and he's way out ahead of it. Strike one.
After he moves and he awes from the crowd.
Snyder waiting. Law checks up with Simoli at first base.
Delivers the play, another soft curve and Snyder hits it from down the third.
Freeds up with it, goes back to Madurovsky, second for one to throw to first.
There's the double play.
So we are like our first thousand lucky for our VA hospital at Lyons, New Jersey.
Big double play. Erases everything here and they top half the first inning.
Around the horn affair, five to four to three.
So that's it in the first inning. Nothing crossed for Brooklyn.
The runs, one hit, no error.
Nobody left on. Scorky end of half an inning. The Dodgers nothing. The Pittsburgh Pirates have nothing.
Sure, light up a lucky right now as we go to the bottom of the first inning.
We had the same kind of a first inning today as yesterday.
Both Gilliam yesterday and today flied up and Simoli followed with a single.
And both yesterday and today Duke Snyder hit into a double play.
So the first inning the same.
Now to the bottom of the first inning, Bill Mazurovsky coming up against Sal Magley.
It's been a long time between lucky for Sal.
Twenty days since his last start. So let's get right back down and find out how he does.
All ready to go to Bill Mazurovsky who is hitting a 2-0-5. He had two home runs and four runs batted in.
Mazurovsky, right-hand hitter, stands just off the plate.
Dirt ball to him, swung on and dribbled down the third base line.
Zimmercharges picked up close the first and Mazurovsky is out.
Mazurovsky one ball hitting. Gives Sal Magley his first out in the ball game.
One away for the Pirates, last half of the first. No matter, it's Dee Fondy.
Dee Fondy still suffering with that right hand, although it's well enough now to be back in regular lineup.
It's the outside part of his right hand that's been giving him trouble.
Magley curves him and gets it over for a strike.
Dee Fondy, tall left-hand hitter batting at 3.36.
That's his one home run as 11 runs batted in.
Magley works to one again as a soft curve.
Gets down and through the hole between first and second in the right field.
Fondy is on.
Oh, like yesterday's ball game. Again, the Pittsburgh Pirates get a man on the point out.
Roberto Clemente coming up.
Yesterday afternoon the Pirates had Mazurovsky ground out in the first inning.
Then Fries got a front single, then Clemente hit into a double play.
Magley stretches. Delivers the play.
Clemente swings, hits a long drive deep to the left field.
It curves foul and goes into the bleacher.
Long outstrike for Bob Clemente batting at 2.86.
Three home runs and 19 runs batted in.
Dee Fondy stepping off at first base. One out, no score.
Magley checked up at first and delivers a play curve ball in their first strike.
Clemente started to go and then checked up and took it.
Nothing in two is to count on the Pittsburgh right fielder.
Following Clemente will be Frank Thomas if he's needed.
Joe Magley scowling down from the mound, gets a sign from Campanella.
Delivers the side armor and trying to get away from it.
Clemente steps that ball right back to the mound.
Magley's got it, fires to first base, that's it for Clemente.
And Fondy moves down to second base.
Actually Bob Clemente was trying to get away from a high inside curve ball.
Twisted all the way around.
That's the second half of Pittsburgh here in the last half of the first inning and the batter now will be Frank Thomas.
Thomas batting at 3.21. Four home runs and 19 runs batted in.
Dee Fondy, who is a great deal faster than one would believe for watching him run, leads off to second base.
Frank Thomas, right-hand hitter, holds that bat way down by the notch, stands off the plate, mid-wind batter's ball.
Magley comes in with a crossfire and that's low and outside.
One ball and no strike.
Lucky strike, very happy to be sending it to you from Orpsfield in Pittsburgh.
Hope you have plenty of luckies on hand for this big holiday and for over the weekend.
Curve ball, Thomas after it, it's a high pop foul off the third base side.
There goes Zimmer over to the roll of Canvich.
The bat ball fades into the crowd out of play.
One ball and one strike.
Be out driving this afternoon listening to the ball game at the same time.
Hope that your gloves compartment contains a carton of Lucky Strike.
Number one and number two, that you'll take it real easy.
Obey all the traffic rules.
Come home safely.
Sidearm curve ball, under the letter is good.
Strike two, one ball, two strikes on Frank Thomas.
Two down, one on, D. Fondy at second base.
There is no score.
We're in the last half of the first inning.
The Pirates at bat for Thomas up there.
Magley taking time.
Hides that ball behind his right knee as he leans forward to take his time.
Checks back over the right shoulder looking at Fondy at second and delivers the plate.
Curve ball swung on, loops out over first base.
If that's fair, double except foul.
Looping fly ball, foul by a couple of feet out back of first base when no one could get to it.
Fondy all the way around third, digging for the plate as the Ritchie Ritchie steps.
Move back second.
Thomas lunging on that one, broke his bat.
Oh, he's back to the Pittsburgh bat rack to get another one.
Bobby Bregan running his ball club from the coaches box third.
He's got his hands together, wants Frank to get a hold of one.
Danny Murtagh yelling words of encouragement down from his first base coaches box.
Thomas with a new war club standing in to count on him as one ball and two strikes.
Two down, Fondy at second.
Magley ready, delivers the plate, sidearm fixed at low and outside.
Two balls and two strikes.
Sonny of baseball this afternoon all over the major leagues.
Bagglet blows on the fingers of his pitching hand, sort of a nervous gesture.
Now he's ready.
Two to pick side armor.
The curve is just high, ball three.
Three balls and two strikes.
Frank Secore working to plate here as the umpire and chief in the first game.
Looking right over the left shoulder of Roy Campanella.
Back in the sunlight, direction off the sun.
Now gets down to pump the sign.
Magley with a look back at Fondy, taking a short lead at second.
Now he stretches set.
The plate to pitch in there and swung on.
There's a high pop-up and foul ground off to the left of the plate.
Roy Campanella sort of toe-dancing around under it and he's got it.
So that's all in the last half of the first inning.
Thomas, one of the big seed guns, fouls up and out to Roy Campanella.
For the Pirates, no runs. They had one base hit.
They left a runner and there were no person errors.
The score at the end of one inning of play.
It's the Dodgers nothing, the Pirates nothing.
The big thing all of us have been waiting for is help from Duke Schneider's best.
Duke has never been a good spring hitter.
I can think of only one season which Duke got off to a good start in the spring.
However, in the last couple of games, the big guy has come alive.
In Philadelphia on Monday night, he had one of the longest home runs of his career.
And on Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, Duke got three hits.
Yesterday, Duke didn't get any hits, but he did hit the ball well that went for us.
Luckily for us, we have been going pretty good without the Dukes hitting.
Thanks to Carl Perillo and Gil Hodges.
Now with Schneider hitting again, I think we're about ready to make our move.
Well spoken, Captain Reese.
Say, friends, I have a suggestion for you before we focus back on the ball game.
Friends, light up a lucky and enjoy the genuine pleasure of a genuine cigarette.
You'll say a lucky is the best tasting cigarette you ever smoked.
No score on the ball game at the end of one inning.
Carl Perillo is coming up to start inning number two against Vernon Law.
So let's get right back to Al.
Carl Perillo is still holding down the cleanup spot for the Brooklyn Dodgers,
hitting in the number four slot.
He's batting at 329, has five home runs and 33 runs batted in.
At age for the moment, Carl has lost the leadership in the RBI department of the Major Leagues,
and rest assured that Carl will be back there battling for it.
Vernon Law delivers to him and Carl's after.
Hits a bounding ball to second base.
Mazarski charges up with a post to first base and Diamond Perillo is up.
So Carl, if their first ball hitting, comes the first out to second inning.
The Dodgers send up Gil Hodges now, a big right-hand hitting first baseman,
who has filtered them safely now in 12 consecutive ball games.
Gil's batting average still hanging around at 340.
He's hitting at 338, has five home runs and 20 runs batted in.
Hags for it, down above the sign to right-hander Vernon Law.
Hodges gets his spikes ground in.
Law can do a little overhand curve ball, and that's a sweeper that's outside and low for ball one.
Law sets, delivers one and all.
Soft curve floats in and over into the letters.
Count is one ball and one strike.
We have verification on just one ball game after the American League.
The Yankees at Washington, ball game has already started.
The Yankees fail to score on the top of the first.
LC cuts to the Yankees and it's first foul for Washington.
Thank you, Allen.
Fix is hung on by Gil Hodges and hammered down into the ground foul.
He's a second strike.
One ball and two strikes.
News comes in now that Washington did not score in the last half of the first inning,
so that first game between the Yankees and Washington, 0-0.
LC cut, and Commedial puts foul to opposing pitches.
Now Hodges, after having stepped away from the plate to get himself squared away, moves back in.
One out for the Dodgers, top of the second, there's no score.
Just getting underway nicely here in the first game off today's double header,
Forbes, Field, and Fitzburg.
Lucky strike, very happy to be profaned to you from Steel City.
Overhand fastball, ripped down to the right side, Montrasky along the rim of the grass,
reaches down, picks up, blows to first.
That's not good.
Two down as Montrasky has been a busy guy here in the top of the second inning.
Moving up to the plate now, Roy Campanella.
Can't be fighting a 2-42, has six home runs and 21 runs slatted in.
Right hand hitter, up the bend a little bit at the knees.
Waits for Vernon Law, the tall right-hander, to cut the first pitch loose.
Humps one time, kicks and throws, an overhand curve, and Camp is striding in, takes it high for ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
Law comes right back to him and Campanella takes that sweeping curve ball,
and it's at the knees on the outside corner for strike one.
One ball and one strike, two down, no baserunners, top of the second.
The Dodgers at back, Campy up there, there is no score.
Law pitches him a fastball and Campanella feels it foul off to the right of the plate.
That'll go to the crowd out of play.
One ball, two strikes.
Campy stand right in batter's box, weaving that chaleli back and forth.
Law throws the fastball and fires it right through for a double strike three.
So that winds it up for Brooklyn here in the top of the second inning.
Campanella, it's all out on strikes.
That'll be the first strike out for Law and his twelfth this year.
Oh, nothing across for Brooklyn in the second inning.
So at the end of an inning and a half, it is the Dodgers nothing, the Pittsburgh Pirates nothing.
But you've got something, Ben, what is it?
Well, we have the correct time here in Pittsburgh, 1.25, or as we say in New York, 25 minutes after one.
There, that means it's light up time, time to enjoy the best tasting cigarette you ever smoked.
Lucky strikes.
Yes sir, every time you light up a Lucky, you can expect just that, better taste.
And the reasons? Well, they're easy.
A Lucky's all cigarettes, all fine tobacco.
Naturally mild tobacco that's good tasting to begin with.
And then it's toasted to taste even better.
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No doubt about it, that's why you'll say a Lucky's the best tasting cigarette you ever smoked.
Get a station break in right now, we'll pause the station identification.
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Alright, station break has been disposed of so we can continue now.
Last of the second inning, no score on the ball game.
Sal Magley and Ernie Law.
Dean Baker coming up and here's Al.
Baker's hitting number five in the Pittsburgh order this afternoon at short start.
Starting at 268.
He has two home runs from 16 runs batted in.
He's a choke hitter, backs him a very severe crotch,
a big wide spread apart and has his chin right down over the rubber of home play.
Magley's fastball is cracked through there and Baker takes it for a strike.
He's in a very small strike zone here, Ernie.
Boy, he leans over.
Magley ready to go.
Delivers a soft curve.
It sits right down on one half at third base and it's hollow.
Baker, not believing the call by Daskoly down at third base.
Charges right down to first.
Made he turn.
Shots in the second.
Like the fact that first base on fire, Landon tried to stop him.
Finally, Baker, Bill Baker, second base on fire.
With the halftrees forward, charged down at second.
Baker comes all the way back.
Counted his no balls with two strikes.
Now the crowd settling back.
They thought Baker had drilled one just outside third.
Could have been foul-boarded quarter-cell.
Magley's ready, comes down, oh, two with a curveball that drives Baker back.
One ball and two strikes.
Baker will be followed by Freeze, who is on deck right now.
Curveball, hit down on two halfs for Reese.
He's up with it, throws to first and Baker is out.
Went away for the Pirates in the last half of the second inning.
Here will be King Freeze hitting number six in the pirate order.
The percentage stands at 235.
He has one home run and seven runs batted in.
His right-hand hitter plants his right foot first and then gets the rest of his body set in just about a straightaway stand.
Works up on the handle of the wood a couple of inches.
Magley's curve finds its way in off the fifth, good on the inside corner for strike one.
Don Zimmer expecting Freeze may try to punt, as he did yesterday, going up shallow at third.
Magley's set.
Getting right to fetch, Freeze after.
It's a hot fly ball to left field, Geno Somoli gliding around under that there and holds it down.
Part number two, second inning.
Tractor still empty and Bill Burton, who has been dropped down to hit in the number seven slot.
Moving on, left-hand hitting center fielder.
Burton batting a 204.
He's really having a time of it.
Last year, batting percentage rose quite high.
This year he's been having trouble getting the bait hit.
Magley comes into him with a soft curve and Burton promptly hits it on a couple of hops for second.
Gilliam charges, picks up, snaps his throw to first.
Burton is out and throws a pirate.
All very quickly, buckhoes go.
Nothing across, caught at the end of two.
Hits the Dodgers nothing, but Pittsburgh Pirates have nothing.
Finney?
Well friends, here it is Memorial Day and of course that means in less than a month there will be thousands of youngsters heading into their summer vacation.
Many of them will be going to summer camp.
How about that youngster of yours, mom and dad, huh?
Does he like a camp where sports are highlighted?
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Wouldn't mind kind of walking along that Bureau Beach sand right now, just looking out at the ocean like the most big white cat's break.
Let that wet sand go to ooze through your toes.
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Stepping up to the plate now in the top half of third inning, D.W. Reese is the last third of the Brooklyn batting order.
Brennan Law comes in with the first pitch.
The Reese has slammed down the shortstop on two big hops.
Gene Becker's got it, fires the first base.
Blondie and that's all for Reese.
One up, one down.
This ball game, especially the double header here this afternoon, seems to be sort of following the script of yesterday's ball game, which was so finely pitched between Klein and Pundress.
Don Zimmer coming up for his first whack out this afternoon.
With one out, nobody on in the third inning.
Each side has just one base hit, neither team has been able to score.
Actually there hasn't been a run of the third.
The curve ball is good. Zimmer for strike one.
Fires from the first inning, has defunded, moved down to second base.
That's as far as anybody's been able to get.
Top curve, swung on by Zimmer and Mist.
He takes the low one.
Strike two.
No balls, two strikes.
Fires fast ball and Zimmer promptly hits it through the hole.
Going first and second in the right field for a single.
That's second hit for the Dodgers.
Now with Zimmer at first base and one out, the batter is Sal Magley.
We're waiting for Sal to come out of the Dodger Dugout.
Magley has a batman this year that's had just one base hit in eight tries.
He's had no runs batted in.
Batting at 125.
Had quite a kick out of Magley.
He doesn't swing it.
Well that batty sort of chops or tomahawk to the pitch.
I asked him about that one time.
He said just saw it falls behind the infield.
He said that one's in pretty good shape.
He bumps this pitch however and defunding.
Makes a sliding stop as he comes in.
Picks up and throws back to his second base for Masurowski.
Covering, the sacrifice works.
Zimmer goes down to second base.
Bondi has to strike himself and slide along the grass to stop up.
Second out in the top third.
Zimmer second now and we go to the top of the batting order to pick up Jim Gilliam.
Jim flies to center in the first inning to Burden.
So he's all for one.
Gilliam 254 looking for his 41st base hit of the year.
Lahr checks up with the runner at second.
Delivers and Gilliam takes a lot of fastball low and outside to ball one.
Gilliam waving at Wood around as a left hand hitter against this right hand pitcher.
Delivers.
There's a pitch low to Gilliam.
Ball two.
Two balls and no strikes.
Don Zimmer who runs the bases pretty well is on his second in pretty good scoring position.
They're two down.
The Dodgers are batting atop the third of the scoreless ball game.
Lahr going against Sal Magley.
Lahr kicks the pitch loose.
Gilliam after it with another high fly ball.
This one's to left center field.
Frank Thomas coming over.
He's under it and he takes it.
So that's all for Gilliam and the Dodgers and the Thread in the third inning.
The runs one hit.
The Dodgers lead their first man.
And the score at the end of two and one half innings of play.
Remains the Dodgers nothing.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have nothing.
Speaking to us, Ben Schuller.
Well friends, when does a batter call a pitcher an iron mic?
Well, it's when the pitcher's having an off day.
When he's easier to hit than iron mic, the pitching machine.
But you know, after the ball game, both pitcher and batter have the same name for genuine smoking enjoyment.
For a genuine cigarette.
And that of course is lucky strike.
Why luckies?
Well, here's why.
You see, a lucky is all cigarettes.
All fine tobacco.
Mild, naturally, good tasting tobacco that's toasted to taste even better.
Cleaner, fresher, smoother.
Have you tried a lucky lately?
Well friends, if you haven't, you try one right now.
And you'll say, like all of us say, it's the best tasting cigarette you ever smoked.
Just breezing along here in Pittsburgh.
No score at the end of two and a half innings of play.
Sal Magley and Vernon Law.
Second game, it'll be Sandy Kovacs and Bob Perkins.
Now to the bottom of the third, here's Al.
The number eight hitter in the Pittsburgh order, catcher Hank Foyles.
Will be coming up to the plate, batting a 266.
He has three home runs for the year and has ten runs batted in.
Following Foyles, we'll have the pitcher Vernon Law, and then we'll skip off to the top of the pirate batting order to pick up Del Mazurostro.
Sal Magley, ready to go to work here in his 80 degree temperature, and it's a sandy day here in Falks Field in Pittsburgh.
Go wherever you are, just as pretty and just as pleasant.
Sidearm curved, and Foyles, the right-hand hitter, is outside, football one.
Magley takes his time.
Over his head he goes, delivers, another curve ball.
This one's hit on two hops, down to short.
Reese waits for it to come to him, then fires over to first and plenty of time and Foyles is up.
One away in the last half of the third inning.
The batter now will be Vernon Law.
As the batsman, Law is hitting at 400.
He has four, four tens.
He has no home runs.
He has two runs batted in.
He flipped that ball pretty well for you.
All slender right-handers.
As he steps up to the plate, he looks down to third base to see what Bobby Bregan might have in mind.
Magley already has his sign, ready to go to work, as Zimmer crawls in from third.
The pitch is under the knees to Vernon Law for ball one.
Following today's doubleheader with Pittsburgh Pirates, the sidearm curve.
That's over to the knees for strike one.
Following this doubleheader, the Crookman Dodgers will climb on a rattle tonight and be headed to Philadelphia for tomorrow night's game,
on Browning Mac Stadium.
Sidearm pitch at the knees good for strike two.
Count on Law as one ball and two strikes.
Then on Saturday night, the Dodgers play the Phillies again.
That game will be TV'd right back to New York over Channel 9.
Sidearm pitch swung on.
There's a slow-bounding ball down to a third.
Haring is on.
Zura picked up, goes underhand, and it's just in time.
Law is out.
Second out here in the last half of third inning.
The bases are empty and Bill Mazurowski comes up to the plate.
Sunday afternoon, ball game between Philadelphia and Brooklyn and on Monday night,
there will be another TV'd right back to New York.
Channel 9, one of the 25 road games being sent back, two fine co-sponsors.
Sidearm pitch to Mazurowski is a little high and a little outside for ball one.
Every time the ball games in Philadelphia, one to be televised, will be 7.55.
That will be on Saturday night and Monday night.
Magley's sidearm pitch drives Mazurowski back to the plate.
So Bill's count is ball two.
Magley's taking plenty of time between pitches.
The thing about this veteran, he really knows how to pace himself.
Mazurowski waits.
Sidearm pitch is outside, ball three.
Magley hasn't walked anybody, but he's in danger of passing Bill Mazurowski here in the third inning with two down and the bases empty.
Scoreless ball game is Magley fires low, ball four.
So the leadoff man walks.
That's the first base on balls given up by Magley.
That will be the tenth one he's put in the books this year.
Coming up to the plate now will be Dee Fondy, who has the only hit given up by Magley.
In the first inning with one out, Fondy hit a ball through the hole between first and second and into right field for a single.
Head up to his batting percentage to 3.41.
Left-hand hitter, feet wide, spread apart, stands about midway in batter's box all the way around.
Magley checks his runner, Mazurowski, delivers the play, Fondy takes the pitches outside, the ball one.
Mazurowski playing it right close to the vest for a space.
Just holds the inside corner on him.
Magley gets his sign and glares over it first.
Mazurowski takes his lead. Magley to his set position, delivers, Fondy swings and bounces it far down to the right of the plate.
One ball and one strike on first baseman Dee Fondy.
Headlong talk with Dee just before the ball game started, sitting down on the pirate's bench.
He likes it here in Pittsburgh.
He gives Pittsburgh his vote over Chicago.
Big fella pumps that bat around.
Likeable guy this Fondy.
Fetch to end the swing on, there's a land drive in the right field, it's in for a base hit.
Mazurowski moves down to second and holds on as Ferrello's flow comes in to get him.
So Fondy is 2 for 2. And with 2 down the Pirates now have runners at first and second.
And the batter is Bob Clemente.
So the partisan Pittsburgh crowd here for field.
Jumping up and figuring maybe the Pittsburgh Pirates have something to do.
Bob Clemente coming up for his second at bat in the afternoon. In the first inning he tried to get away from a high inside curve ball.
The ball hit the bat and tapped it back to the left of the mound and Sal Magley threw him out.
Bob's hitting a 2.84. Swim to right hand stickers.
Mazurowski leads off at second base, Fondy first.
Fetch Clemente swings, hits it tight back to second base.
Gilliam up with it, throws to reach on the short hop and it's got Fondy.
So that retires the side.
Clemente forcing up, Fondy at second base.
From Gilliam to reach.
Over the Pirates, a threat and that's it.
No runs, one hit. Coupled with the watch, two men were left on and there were no errors.
The score at the end of three innings of play.
The first game of the double header at Forksfield in Pittsburgh.
The Dodgers nothing, the Pirates nothing.
Gino Somoli has the only base hit given up so far by, correction, he has one of the two base hits given up by Vernon Law.
Zimmer has the other.
Gino Somoli leading it off, he got the first base hit of the ball game.
Gino batting at 3.42, takes a high curve ball off the shoulder for ball one.
Somoli, Snyder and Ferillo in that order in the top half of the fourth inning.
Scoreless ball game and quite a pitching duel so far between Vernon Law on the Mount Mount for Pittsburgh and Sal Magley.
Curve ball hit just inside third base, hits headed to the left field corner.
Gino Somoli is digging fast first, he's on his way to second with those long strides.
Thomas Oppy still comes into third.
Somoli has doubled.
That ball was hit just there inside third base.
Law's given up his third base hit. Somoli has two of them.
Duke Snyder coming along.
Nobody out, top of the fourth, Somoli leading off with a double.
Ripped past third and down into left field corner.
Duke Snyder hit into a double play in the first inning, he's 0-1 batting at 2.65.
Law delivers to him a soft curve and it comes right up the middle in the center field for a base hit.
Somoli comes to third, Herman says keep on going boy and Somoli comes in to score the first one.
Snyder singles to center field driving the first run of the ball game.
Gino Somoli coming across.
That will be hit number four, run number one off Law and the Dodgers now lead it one to nothing.
The batter is Carl Ferrello.
For Snyder, there at first base, he has his 18th run batted in this year.
One to nothing Brooklyn, top of the fourth inning.
Carl Ferrello is 0-1. He started the second inning rolling out to the right side.
23-27, leans back from a fast ball and takes it off the chest for ball one.
Lucky strike sent into the action, fourth field.
And when it comes right up time for you, let's hope you're enjoying our lucky.
Fast ball hit down to the right side, Masurowski's got it, clips over to Baker for one and he returns for the first for double play.
That's the second double play, the Pittsburgh Pirates come up with, that'll boost their total now to 36
and that'll send a thousand luckies to our VA hospital at Lions, New Jersey.
Four to six to three on the double play if you're keeping score with us.
The other two down in the fourth inning, the bases are now empty.
Coming up to the plate is Gil Hodges.
One to nothing favor Brooklyn.
Somoli let off of the double, Snyder single him in.
The pitch is swung on, there's a high foul ball hit off to the left side of the plate.
That'll fade to the crowd and go out of play.
Strike one on Gil.
Hodges was thrown out, his first setback by second baseman Bill Masurowski.
He has a 12-game hitting streak on the line this afternoon, batting in 3-36.
Now he sets some pitches, high and outside.
One ball and one strike.
In rides the next pitch, a fastball, a little outside, a little low.
Hodges started to go and changed his mind.
Two balls and one strike.
O'Brien an infielder is down in the Pittsburgh bullpen throwing.
Maybe that he'll come into the ball game for Pittsburgh.
Somebody from the bench apparently has given Frank Shikora plate umpire a little jockeying.
He pulls his mask off and turns around and looks into the Pittsburgh dugout.
Now we're ready to count if two balls one strike on Gil Hodges.
Two down, the bases empty, one to nothing Brooklyn.
O'Brien and Law bends that right soup bone, curve a swing on and missed for a strike two.
Two balls and two strikes.
All right back to Hodges, swings on the pitch and sends a high bounder to second base.
Masurowski charges, grabs, flips, first.
Hodges is out, metric, eyes aside.
The fourth inning produces one run for the Brooklyn Dodgers on a double and a single hit back to back.
Somoli leading it off and trying to get him in.
There were no errors.
Nobody left on thanks to the double play.
Score at the end of three and a half innings.
First game it is the Dodgers one, the Pittsburgh Pirates have nothing.
Last of the fourth inning, one nothing Brooklyn, Frank Thomas coming up right back to Al.
Thomas has been up once today.
He retired to third in the first inning following up to Roy Campanella.
Big right hand hitter, likely with one run to go on delivers and Thomas swings on it.
Get a hold of it, there's a long jolt going deep to the floorboard in left field.
Frank Thomas hits his fifth home run of the year, drives in his 20th run and he really pulled like Suttman.
All up over the clock, left floorboard in straight away left field.
All the way out on the Schinley oval.
Right out into the park.
Oh that's the second hit in the first run.
Off back lead, it's all tied up at one of B.
Here's Baker up there backing off from a curve ball that flips in an over first strike.
Baker over one.
All tied at one of B.
Overhand curve is outside and low.
Baker's count one and one.
And to the great leveler, the home run.
The great equalizer.
Magnet comes down again, Baker starts to chase a little curve and then decides to take it. Ball two.
Two balls in one strike.
Baker hitting a 266.
Magnet scowling down from the mound, looks at this choke hitter.
Delivered him a curve, that's low.
Baker again started to go.
Changed up in time.
Two balls in one strike.
Frank Thomas home run.
Here marks another thousand lucky for our VA hospital at Lyons.
Back lead sidearm curve, reach ball and foul shift.
That's strike two.
Two strikes.
Down in the Brooklyn bullpen.
Right hander, Eddie Roebuck up and throwing.
Magnet delivers three-two.
Fitch is swung on and hit down the reach.
Oh, it's too hot.
The captain's got it.
Whistles and throw to first base.
Baker is out.
What a way in the last half of the fourth inning of the tie-up ball game.
Gene Fries coming up for his second at-back.
In the second he flies to left field to Gino Somoli.
Fries batting at 232.
I guess you just hooked up with it.
The Brooklyn Dodgers had things break their way in the top half of the fourth when Somoli doubled past third in the left field corner.
Snyder's single to get him home as they fix to Fries high inside, ball one.
And Perillo hit into a double play and Rogers rolled out to the right side.
Going into the last half of the fourth inning, the Dodgers had a one-run ball.
Frank Thomas proceeded to lift one high and deep over the left field wall scoreboard and clock to tie it up.
Inside curve ball off the knee is McAdams two balls and no strikes now to Gene Fries.
Fries waiting fashionably.
Maggley ready to work to him.
The two-nothing delivery.
Soft curve in there for the strike.
Two and one.
One out, the base is empty.
Last half of the fourth inning.
The Pittsburgh Pirates hit back.
Here in the first game of the doubleheader at fourth field in Pittsburgh.
Maggley sidearm fastball.
Swung on, hit back foul.
What a catch made by a young lady sitting right down to the right of the screen.
Two balls, two strikes.
Down on Gene Fries.
Bill Burton hanging around to hit next.
Maggley ready.
Red herring pump step one time.
Delivers an overhand curve.
It's swung on the mid-foot strike three.
It's Maggley's first strike out.
Two down for the Pirates.
Last half of the fourth inning and the batter will be Bill Burton.
A pounding ball to kill him in the second inning, closed up things for Pittsburgh and for him, so he's up there now.
Batting at two oh two.
Left hand hitter.
Maggley works down to this young fellow.
Burton leans and doesn't offer and a pitch is in there anyway.
No balls and one strike.
Philadelphia and New York.
Nothing, nothing.
First inning of their first game.
Pitch, fix the corner.
Knee high on the outside.
Back strike two.
No balls, two strikes.
Lucky strike.
Very happy to be sending it to you from Pittsburgh.
Looker, swung on the mid strike three.
That's the second strike out.
Maggley closes up shop for Pittsburgh in the fourth inning, but not before they pick up a run to tie up the ball game on Thomas' home run.
That was a hit in the inning.
No errors and nobody was left on.
So the score at the end of four full innings of play.
It's the Dodgers one.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have won.
The FNM Schaeffer day, we move into the top half of the fifth inning with Campanella coming up.
Stepping up for the FNM Schaeffer Brewing Company for the play by play, Vince Gulley.
Thank you.
Hi everybody.
Campanella checks his swing and the curve ball bites off the outside corner for a strike.
Owen Wanderoy who struck out in the second inning batting 240.
A 1-1 tie in the fifth inning.
We're all back with a slow curve.
This cut on a high foul, spinning back towards Dinette.
And goes back into the crowd and a young fellow in a striped portrait makes a one-hand catch.
Going through the count.
Campanella, Reese, and Zimmer.
The way Bretman comes up here in the fifth inning of a 1-1 tie in the first game of two.
Law comes right back, 0-2.
Canby belts it to left center field.
Going over is Frank Thomas and Phil Verdon is going to bounce over into the ivy up against the light tower.
Verdon bobbles the ball momentarily.
Campanella goes to second and then holds there.
Dean Baker runs the relay back towards the infield.
So Campanella rips one to deepest left center.
Well over 400 feet away as it bounced against the ivy and then right into the corner where the light stanchion is.
Tell you how far away it is.
They usually put the batting cage out there, figuring it will not be in the way.
And that ball was only about 20 feet to the left of the cage.
Campanella, long double to left center.
Hit number five off Vernon Law.
Nobody out on the batter, Peewee Reese.
Peewee hitting 195, bounced out short to first in the third inning.
He's 0-1.
The outfield on Reese about straight away.
Clemente is up a step or two and right.
Law checks second and delivers and Reese has to shy away from a pitch high and inside for one.
Giants leading the Phillies at the end of two innings, one to nothing.
Andre Rodgers hits a home run.
He's probably playing third base.
That was Bill Rigney's idea.
Move out the verge of the left field.
One-0 pitch to Reese's slice foul, way down the right field.
Line bangs off the upper deck facade and nestles down below.
Washington with their three-game winning streak and I imagine they should be proud of it.
Gee, things have been going pretty miserable for Cookie, Lavagetto and crew.
Well they won three straight and they lead the Yankees 2-0 at the end of three innings.
The Moleys red-sots 2-0 at the end of one inning.
No report of the other two games out west, Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City and Detroit.
The 1-1 pitch to Reese, a slow curve outside and low, ball through, 2-1.
Cause of the time difference, nothing to report to you about the Cubs and Milwaukee and Cincinnati and St. Louis.
We'll duck them in all day for you.
2-1 to Reese, Campanella at second base, nobody out on the fifth inning of a 1-1 tie.
Law comes to the plate and Reese takes low, ball three, 3-1.
Peewee just waiting at the plate, Law gonna make him wait.
Campanella hands on his hip, pinching away off second base.
Law ready, now the 3-1 pitch to Reese, caught on a hot one to the hole and through for a face hit.
Campanella goes to third, Clemente Guns is thrown, he'll hold him at third.
A one-pouncer to the plate by Bob Clemente.
So Billy Herman, wisely holding Campanella at third.
So Reese a single to right, Campanella goes to third and holds there.
Reese in going down the line might have pulled a muscle in his leg.
And he's giving way to Charlie Neal at first base.
And Reese showing disgust with the breaks of the game, gonna reaches down and picks up some grass and with his head down pops off the field.
So Peewee pulled a muscle, he's not limping too much but you know it's there.
And he seems to be on the disgusted side as he comes back to the dugout.
So Charlie Neal takes over running for Peewee Reese.
So Reese is out hurting his leg if we get any further report.
He did not limp coming off but apparently he pulled something, he felt something give.
Now that run is at first and third, nobody out, Don Zimmer the batter who promptly swings and runs your back foul, 0-1-1.
So Peewee having a very bad spring, started late before he could get into the lineup due to injuries.
And now here at Forbes Field, a finally pulled a muscle in his leg and gives way to Charlie Neal.
The strike one pitch to Zimmer, he half waves at an outside pitch but just does check his swing.
One ball, one strike.
They could move that infield around a bit, we're waiting to see how they do it.
A couple of possibilities with Reese out, one and one to Zimmer.
For Pitch now, Don swings and fouls that one away, one and two.
It could be that Neal would play second base, Gilliam would play third and Zimmer play short.
Neal last year, you remember, played a little bit of shortstop so he could just take over for Reese.
We're waiting to see.
Nobody out running at first and third in the fifth inning of a 1-1 tie.
Neal inching off the bag at first, Campanella from third.
The pitch to Zimmer in the dirt and blocked nicely by Hank Foyles.
Two and two.
We owe a station break so after Zimmer has had his hat back, we'll duck it in.
Hope you've ducked in plenty of cheaper beer in the refrigerator to keep it nice and cold.
Two-two pitch to Don Zimmer, cut on a fly ball into fairly shallow right center.
Flametti going over, Campanella tags, Flametti with the ball, here comes Campanella.
Here comes the throw to the plate, he flies, he saves.
The ball is backed up with the plate by Vernon Law and down to second goes Charlie Neal.
Hank Foyles tried to block the plate and Campanella ripped right under him.
The ball squirted away and the lurch fielding by Vernon Law prevented Neal from taking an extra base.
So Zimmer, a fly ball into right center to Bob Flametti for the outs.
Campanella tags up and brings in the run and Neal advances to second base.
So gives Zimmer an RBI, the run comes over.
Added his two-to-one Brooklyn, no error on the play.
Let's get that station break in.
This is the Brooklyn Dodgers radio network.
And your Brooklyn Dodgers station for the capital district, WOKO, first in Albany, 1460 on your dial.
Out in Indianapolis at the end of eight laps, 200 miles down the drain of the 500-mile race,
Sam Hanks is leading out there for the 500-mile race crown today.
Now back to baseball.
Magley sacrificed in the third inning, swings it a pitch and doesn't get it on one.
Magley batting 125, he has one hit.
For a double, a single, and a scoring fly ball, and Brooklyn breaks the tie and takes the lead 2-1.
Fifth inning, one out.
Law checks his signs with Hank Foyle.
Now it comes to the plate and a sharp curve, cut on and missed on two.
On that, Jim Gilliam.
Foyle has everything in his way now to Magley, no balls and two strikes.
Vernon Ready and delivers. Sal takes outside, ball one, one and two.
Lovely day today here in Pittsburgh.
Warm but comfortable.
Nice crowd on hand watching the beginning of a big double header.
Foyle Ready, Foyle settles low back of the plate.
One and two pitch to Magley, a curve ball outside, two and two.
Brooklyn two runs on six hits, the Pirates one run on four hits, one run on three hits, excuse me.
The two-two pitch now to Magley, cut on as a fly ball to right field,
Clemente with shallow has to go back and leap in the air and grab it, and Charlie Neal holds on at second base.
Magley hits the ball well and lines out to Bob Clemente in right field.
Two down, Charlie Neal holding at second base and a batter Jim Gilliam.
Jim started off the spring roaring, got up his highs in the 400 category, started to skid down to the 240s.
Then out West picked up, he had seven hits and 14 at bats, got his average back up to about 280s,
and he's starting to skid down again, he's batting 252.
So Junior really rides the elevator, especially early in the year.
May is not a particularly good month for Gilliam, however if he follows his pattern,
he'll start to really get his base hits again in June.
Junior takes a strike on one.
Gilliam with ten runs batted in, that's fly to center, fly to left, 0 for two.
Law comes set, a peek at Charlie Neal, the pitch to Gilliam, a little high, one ball, one strike.
Meeting number ten between these two.
The Dodgers haven't taken five out of nine, but the Pirates have taken three out of five here at Ford Field.
The 1-1 pitch to Gilliam, cut on hit off the thumbs and foul down the left-fielder line upstairs, one and two.
Junior didn't get around on a fastball, and they count one ball, two strikes.
Lerner, Law, and Sal Magley in this first game.
Sandy Kovacs and Bob Perky tab to do the work in the second.
One and two pitch to Gilliam, high ball, two, two and two.
We'll leave Pittsburgh tonight at about 11 o'clock or thereabouts, spend the night on the train going to Philadelphia.
Play Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday afternoon, and Monday night.
Two, two pitch to Gilliam.
Jim swings and hooks her foul way down the right-field line that goes in the upper deck.
Holding count, two and two.
Two and two.
Gilliam is moving that bat back and forth.
Law comes set, looks to Charlie Neal at second, and delivers just inside, ball three.
Four-all's a mild dispute with plate on fire, Frank Secori.
Hook out now to Jim Gilliam.
Charlie Neal running for Peewee Reese, who hurt his leg.
Charlie down at second base.
Two out, Brooklyn two, fire is one in the fifth inning.
Four-all's wigwagging signs out now.
Law gives him a reading, picks off the one that he wants.
Three, two, pitch to Jim Gilliam.
Cut on is a high fly ball into shallow left.
It's an easy play for Frank Thomas, just standing there waiting and takes it.
In the fifth inning for Brooklyn, they put together a double, a single, and a scoring fly ball.
One run, two hits.
Leave one man.
There were no pirate errors until the score at the end of four and a half innings of play.
Brooklyn two, Pittsburgh one.
We're ready now for the last half of the fifth inning and the infield changes for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Neal will go to third base, and Don Zimmer will move over to the shortstop taking on where Reese leaves off.
So that's it for the last half of the fifth inning.
Foyles comes to the plate now for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Dodgers lead it two to one.
Let's get right back to the inning.
Well, Katja Hang Foyles batting 263, bounced out short the first in the third inning.
He's 0 for one.
Maggley ready, hooks him, and if it's just cut on, a high foul to the left of the plate.
He'll go back into the crowd.
4-1.
Foyles has three home runs, ten runs ratted in.
The crowd gets a few giggles out of the race for that foul ball.
Memorial Day 1957 here at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
Strike one pitch to Hang Foyles.
Cut on, slice now foul on the upper deck or first base.
0-2.
End of three innings and the only other ballgame we can report on in the National League.
Giants 1, Phillies nothing on Andre Rogers' home run.
They'll do the games in the American League starting.
Washington leading the Yankees 2-0 at the end of three.
Baltimore 2, Red Sox nothing at the end of two.
Curved ball low and outside to Hang Foyles.
One ball, two strikes.
We're in the bottom of the fifth inning, Brooklyn 2 and the Pirates 1.
The Dodgers two runs on six hits and the Pirates one run on three hits.
The big hit, Thomas' home run in the fourth inning.
One and two pitch for Foyles, swings and nubs your foul to the left of the plate.
Cattle's one and two.
Memorial Day, a day of memories.
I bet you can probably think on a lighter side, baseball wise.
It happened on Memorial Days in the past.
Also that 500-mile saucer at Indianapolis will get a workout today.
The one and two pitch now, Magley slides it in and it whacks right on by Charlie Neal and down the left of your line.
Gino Somoli chasing it into the corner.
Hang Foyles on his way with a stand-up double.
Oh, Hang Foyles, ripped one by Charlie Neal just inside third and down the line.
So the Dodgers leading 2-1 in the lead in jeopardy.
Foyles at second base with nobody out and Vernon Law the batter.
The Dodger bullfinns, swings into action, Eddie Robuck up right away.
Vernon Law is a pretty good hitting pitcher.
His average shows 364.
He has two runs batted in.
When Law first joined the Pirates a few years ago,
and the Dodgers of course always have a habit prior to a ballgame like every other club
of watching the opposing team take batting practice.
The day that Vernon Law first pitched against Brooklyn when he hit with the regulars,
boys on the bench were really impressed with him.
He's a rangey fellow and slightly at the knees, but he's no automatic out up there, not by a long shot.
Neal comes inside the bag at third as Magley comes to the plate.
The pitcher's smothered up towards first.
Cabanela's going to let the ball roll and pitch it up relatedly towards the first just in time.
Roy started to go after the ball and then it started to spin away,
and for a moment you could just about read Cabanela's mind.
Maybe it's just too good a front. Maybe you ought to let it roll foul.
Then the ball hugged the chalkmine and Cabanela figured, uh-oh, better make the play, and he just did.
So the sacrifice works.
2-4 from Roy Cabanela to Jim Gilliam.
Fank Foyles advancing to third.
One out, the tying run at third base, and the batter Bill Mazurowski who has bounced out and walked.
Mazurowski batting 2-0-2 in the Dodgers, now crowd home plate.
The infield moves in.
That's as Hodges, Gilliam, Zimmer, and Neal.
Magley looks over at third.
It's Hank Foyles now works to Mazurowski, a curve that stays high and inside, ball one.
The second baseman has hit two home runs, and he has four runs batted in.
Magley trying to rub a couple of wrinkles into that baseball now while he turns and looks over at third.
2-1 Brooklyn, bottom of the fifth, one out, Foyles at third.
The 1-0 pitch to Mazurowski, low and inside, ball two, 2-0.
Mazurowski waiting, 2-0 to count.
Magley takes his full windup.
The 2-0 pitch to Mazurowski, cut on a huck one to Neal who holds his runner,
throws over to first for the out, and then Hodges comes right back towards the infield to make sure Foyles remains.
Mazurowski bounce out third to first, two down, Foyles holding at third base, and the batter D. Fondy who is two for two.
Fondy both times, singling to right.
D batting 3-47.
He hurt Newcomb and Brooklyn the other night when as a pinch hitter he blew the single to center to drive in a big run that tied it up.
The Pirates eventually won it in 11 and increased it to two.
The second batter, Magley ready to come to him, and the curve is cut on in this first fight.
4-1.
I think if you pulled the Dodgers they would say about as fast a man in the league going from home plate to first base as this D. Fondy.
Time called momentarily, Frank Secori the plate umpire points out to the left field corner.
Joe Becker going over to receive a baseball that got loose from the Brooklyn bullpen.
Two out, Hank Foyles at third, bottom of the fifth inning, 2-1 Brooklyn.
Fondy waiting with the count 0-1.
Magley ready and comes to him, curve out of the plate, 0-2.
0-2 to Fondy, Magley taking time now, it's a big spot.
Sal Wines on the strike, two-pitch to Fondy outside, 4-1.
1-2.
The infield of course was two out back into normal depth.
The outfield and in particular Duke Schneider, very deep.
Schneider's away out there.
Magley Wines, a 1-2 pitch to D, taken outside again, ball two.
So, Deuce is wild here in the fifth inning.
Two balls, two strikes, two out, Brooklyn leads 2-1.
Hank Foyles holding at third.
Magley ready, now the 2-2 pitch to D, Fondy, cut on, fouled away.
Count holes, 2-2.
Magley just kind of wandering around out there at the mound, looks to his outfield, now turns around.
Sal looks over third, now ready.
The 2-2 pitch to D, Fondy, cut on, is a high fly ball to left.
Dino Somolius right there, it's an easy play, waxes glove and takes the ball for the out.
So the Pirates are turned away empty handed in the fifth inning.
No runs, one hit, they leave a man at third base.
And the score at the end of five innings of play, Brooklyn 2 and the Pirates 1.
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All right, sixth inning, 2-1 Brooklyn and Somoli takes a strike.
Dino has a single and a double batting 3.48.
Dino prior to today in his sixth game since returning to the lineup, hit at a 400 clip.
Swinged now and is a high fly ball to center.
Burden charging it, still coming on, she dropped in for a base hit.
So as the ball players say, Dino's living right, gets his third hit, a looping single to center.
That is hit number seven off Vernon Law.
Brooklyn leading 2-1.
So Somoli with a single, a double, and now a blue single to center.
That brings up Duke Snyder who is hit into a double play and single to center to drive in around Duke batting 2.71.
Law comes set, checks Somoli and delivers and Snyder takes way high, ball one.
First of two games, second game it will be Sandy Koufax and Bob Perkey.
Law throws over to first, Somoli did not have a big lead, gets right back.
One ball, no strikes, the counter Snyder.
Law again throws over there and Dino's back.
Snyder takes a look at a balloon that's way high, ball two.
Two and all to Snyder, sixth inning, Brooklyn two, Pirates one.
Vernon Law comes set, looks to Somoli, delivers, Snyder way out in front of that change up.
Boy he almost came out of his uniform, two balls one strike.
Giants one, Phillies nothing at the end of three, only other game underway in the National League.
Duck in what we have in the American League.
Washington two, Yankees nothing at the end of four.
Baltimore two, Red Sox nothing at the end of three.
The 2-1 pitch to Snyder, another pitch is Pellet high and deep to right field.
They're going to go over and out, a home run for Snyder over the right field screen and back into the crowd.
So the Duke has listed one, his ninth home run.
He now has 20 runs batted in and the Dodgers lead four to one.
So Law after changing up and making Snyder look so badly came back with another change up.
The Duke was waiting.
It's 300 feet down the right field line here at Forbes Field,
and they have not only the wall but a high screen atop it.
Snyder's drive cleared everything and went right down an exit gate.
The Duke's second hit, three RBIs for him in this ball game.
Brooklyn four, Pirates one in the sixth inning and the batter Carl Perillo was bounced out and hit into a double play batting 325.
Law delivers and Carl takes the strike on one.
The Braggley will have a little bit of breathing room now for one Brooklyn.
Law right back again on one and the breaking ball is low, one ball one strike.
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One runner is cut on and fouled away, one and two.
I think on holidays, especially a day like today or July 4th or Labor Day,
it's not growing in the background of park policemen chasing a foul.
I think with so many people off, we ought to tip our hats especially to the policemen and state police
and Florida authority men that do such a great job on tangling those traffic jams, huh?
One and two feet is way high if all too soon to farm in those fellows who are stuck in the Lincoln Tunnel,
the Battery Tunnel, or Holland Tunnel on the George Washington Bridge.
They do a great job.
Really need them on a day like today.
Two two-fits now to Brillo, cut on, there's a high fly ball to left center, it's pretty deep and in the middle.
Over goes Verdon on the run, crisscrossing is Thomas and it's Verdon for the catch.
So Brillo a long out to left center.
One down.
The batter Gil Hodges, who twice, since the pirates are pitching outside to him,
tried to go to right and twice he's bounced out to Maseroski.
Gil batting 333 and one of the big reasons why he's been hitting so well is his almost newfound ability
to consistently hit that outside pitch.
Already in delivers, Hodges takes a half swing and checks to pitch up high, ball one, one and oh.
Gil so many times would get in trouble up there if he played by taking the outside pitch on the corner,
but now he's going after it and doing very well.
One oh pitch, Gil runs up and bunts and hits a sharply foul outside of third, one and one.
So Hodges coming back to hit again.
One out here in the sixth inning, two runs are over for Brooklyn thanks to Snyder's home run, his ninth.
And the Dodges lead four to one.
Hodges just waiting at the plate on Degroy Campanella.
The one one pitch to Hodges now, full swing on a curve ball, he doesn't get it, one and two.
Brooklyn four runs on eight hits, no errors. The Pirates one run on four hits, no errors.
The Dodges have had a home run hit by Snyder and Frank Thomas at one for Pittsburgh.
One and two pitch to Hodges, curve cut on and hits slowly wide at third over into the hole,
comes Baker's hurried throw is not in time. So Hodges legs one out for a base hit into the hole at short.
That is hit number nine on Vernon Law.
One out of the batter Roy Campanella who has struck out and doubled, can be batting 247.
Law comes to Campanella who swings late and hits it in the up deck boxes on top of the roof, four and one.
Brooklyn four, Pirates one, two runs over here in the sixth inning.
One out, Hodges at first and the count to Campanella, no balls, one strike.
Already in comes the plate and Campy takes two low, a puff of dirt, signals it was in the dirt, one and one.
Campy has six home runs, 21 runs batted in.
First sign of the summer, a little ladybug come flying in the booth.
Two and one, pitch to Campy now, down low ball two, turn one.
Two balls, one strike.
Law comes set, takes a peek at Hodges, now delivers and Campanella takes low and outside, ball three.
Vernon Law in trouble, trailing four to one to Brooklyn, Hodges at first with one out and he is falling behind to Campanella.
Three and one, there goes Hodges, a hot one down to Maserachi who is over to cover the bag,
feeds to Baker, high throw to first, is still out as D. Fondy makes the tag on Campanella.
Oh they get the double play, Maserachi was breaking the cover as Hodges was going on the pitch and the ball was hit right at Maserachi.
He fed to Baker and Baker's high throw to Fondy was still alright as D made the slight tag, four to six to three.
So the Pirates now come up with three double plays thus far in six innings.
For Brooklyn, two runs, three hits, a big blow tonight as home run with Somalia Boyd, nobody left on.
At the end of five and a half innings of play, Brooklyn four and Pittsburgh one.
Down to the last half, inning number six, the Brooklyn Dodgers are leading at four to one.
Clemente coming up for the Pirates, has already been.
All set out, before the play gets back in though, before it interferes with it,
seeing that ladybug, remember when you were a kid, let's see now you weren't supposed to step on an ant because it would make it rain, remember?
That's right.
We had another one in the city that if you stepped on the cracks in the sidewalk you'd break the devil's dishes.
That was a really quite bad way.
Yeah that was a New York thing for kids.
Okay bottom of the sixth here's Clemente, Magley's curve is caught on little looper right near the bag at second.
Magley is there to take it and quickly one out.
Summers coming in.
Just thinking about that, thinking about Dodgetown came for boys too, all the fun that youngsters have down there.
You can drop us a line at 215 Montague Street.
Boy what a spot for youngsters.
Frank Thomas the batter has fouled out and hit a home run.
As Al pointed out he really jolted it, over the scoreboard and over the clock.
Frank takes a slow curve in for the strike on one.
Frank has five home runs, 20 runs batted in and an average of 324.
One out, bottom of the sixth.
4-1 Brooklyn.
Magley comes back and a curve is grounded wide a third, a nice stab by Charlie Neal who makes his play.
Charlie not only had to cover ground going to his left but the ball did not come up for him at the last second.
He really had to short hop it, digging it out of the dirt.
Two down.
If you've just joined us and you say is Charlie Neal a third?
Well that's right, Don Zimmer's a short.
For Peewee Reese who started the ball game, got a face hit in the fifth inning and pulled a muscle in his leg and had to give way.
Two out, here's Gene Baker, twice he has grounded out.
Swings with a high fly ball into left field.
It's high but not too deep.
Simoli's there shading his eyes and takes it for the out.
A rather easy inning for Sal Magley.
Touch them down one, two, three and at the end of six innings of play Brooklyn four and the Pirates one.
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All right, seventh inning, Charlie Neal the batter.
Vernon Law spins the pitch and gets it high for one.
Neal coming up for his first at bat now.
He's batting 273 as a home run and four runs batted in.
Law right back again, Charlie checks and the pitch is down low ball two, two and old.
Charlie Neal followed by Don Zimmer and pitcher Sal Magley.
We're in the seventh inning, Brooklyn for Pirates one.
Vernon Law winds and the two-oh pitch, Neal swings and fouls her back two and one.
Law checking signs.
Neal just waiting.
Vernon winds and the two-one pitch to Charlie Neal, cut on and fouled away.
Two and two.
Brooklyn with a run in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth.
The Pirates run came in a home run by Frank Thomas in the fourth inning.
Two-two pitch to Charlie Neal, cut on, a bounce there slowly to second.
Mazurowski up with it, throws to first in time and Neal is retired four to three.
One up, one away.
In the second inning we'll see Sandy Koufax and Bob Purkey.
Don Zimmer has single to right and a scoring fly ball to right, one for one after a get down and away from a high inside fastball, ball one.
In the second inning, two-thirty-seven, four home runs, eleven runs batted in.
Law back to him one-oh, Zimmer swings and misses one and one.
Don using a bit lighter bat now, he had a new set made.
Bats now weigh around thirty-two, thirty-three ounces.
In one pitch, slow curve, cut on, is a high fly ball into left center.
It's an easy play for Burton right there waiting and takes it.
Two up, two away.
And we're waiting now for Sal Magley to make his way.
Sal puts on his helmet, out he comes.
He sacrificed in the third inning and hit the ball well and lined out to Bob Clemente in right field in the fifth.
It's a round of applause as he comes up.
Magley batting one-eleven, one for nine.
Vernon Law ready and comes to Magley and the pitch is cut on and missed like one.
When the Pirates bat in the bottom of the seventh inning, they'll have Gene Fries, Bill Burton, and Hank Foyles.
Law right back again, Magley swings and pops it up.
Third baseman Gene Fries calling, waiting, takes it.
So quiet seventh inning for Brooklyn, one-two-three.
Sure now, the end of six and a half innings to play in this first game of two today, Brooklyn four and the Pirates one.
And they are standing here at Forbes Field for the bucks when they come up to bat.
But right now let's all sit quietly and listen to Al.
Oh, is that Dixieland Jive again, Mr. Sculley?
Oh, those not links.
Yes, sir. Take me down to Basin Street and cool me off.
Boy, I've heard take me out of the ballgame a lot of ways, but I've never heard of Dixieland. It's wake you up.
It'll do something to you. I don't know what, but it'll do it.
Well, we find out about the last of the seventh now. Gene Fries the batter, tries to punch in the air, it drops foul on touch, 0-1.
Gene flying to left and struck out batting 229.
Now the Washington Senators with their three-game winning streak and their leading four to nothing at the end of five innings got a tough break.
Fischer out seek out of the Yankees, hit one back and hit pitcher Camellio Pasquale.
Pasquale had to leave the ballgame, relieved by Buck Byerly in the sixth inning.
Strike one pitch to Gene Fries, cut out a miss, 0-2.
And the thought of a pitcher being hit by a batted ball reminds us of the pictures in the newspapers of Herb Scorer being out of the hospital.
Certainly wish him well. Boy, he must be quite a fella, huh?
0-2 pitch to Gene Fries, cut on and lined down the left of your line, it's starting to hook and go foul.
0-2, the count to Gene Fries.
They don't expect Herb Scorer to be in uniform for quite a while as yet.
It'll be another week, 10 days before he'll even try uniform. They don't expect him to pitch for about a month.
But at least the big fella's out and around.
Brooklyn four, fire is won, bottom of the seventh inning. Gene Fries, Bill Verdon, Hank Foyles.
Magli ready in the 0-2 pitch, Fries swings and a bouncing ball, staff backhanded by Maglio throws him out.
Nice play by Sal, going sharply to his right.
So Fries retired, 1-3.
Bill Verdon, the center fielder for Pittsburgh, has bounced out and struck out. Bill's average is really shrinking now, he's down to 2-0-1.
Bill O'Fienn-Hillier, had a great year last year, much I guess to the embarrassment of the St. Louis Cardinals.
A couple getting squared around, he has one of them run 12 RBIs.
Magli bends at the knees, gets a sign. Now Sal ready and comes to the plate, and the change is just low, ball one.
Magli giving you the impression he's just pushing it up there.
1-0.
Sal back again, 1-0. The pitch is grounded right at Gilliam. Jim up with it easily after going on his right knee and throws him out.
Bill Verdon goes down, 4-3, two up, two away.
Catcher Hank Foyles bounced out and double sharply to left. Got around as far as third in the fifth inning and that's where he's saved.
Ruppen leading 4-1 in the seventh inning, two out. Foyles batting 2-71.
Here he swings and fouls the first pitch back, strike one.
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Strike one, Fitz to Foyles, in there, oh and two.
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Strike two, Fitz, Foyles cuts on it, there's a high fly ball into shallow right.
Frillo coming over, still over to his left some more now and takes it for the out.
About 20 feet fair inside the right field foul line.
So Mr. Sam Magley is starting to get the range now, he's retired nine men in a row since Foyles doubled to open up the fifth.
And at the end of seven, Brooklyn four and Pittsburgh one.
It's to the top half of the eighth inning, and the first Brooklyn Dodger up will be Jim Gilliam.
Score standing, the Dodgers four and the Pittsburgh Pirates one in this first game of the doubleheader from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
Vins already, so let's pick up the action.
Jim Gilliam, the lead it off, is all for three, fly balls to center and twice to left.
Junior batting 251, Lars Passball below his knees, ball one.
This for Big Vernon will probably be his last inning of work.
He's due up first when the Pirates come to bat in the bottom of the eighth.
Law ready and the one oh pitch.
Junior takes inside, ball two, two and oh.
Gene Fries playing on the grass inside third.
Brooklyn four, Pirates one, we're in the eighth inning.
Vernon Law winds and the two oh pitch to Gilliam, taken for the strike, two and one.
Brooklyn up to this moment, four runs on nine hits and no errors.
The Pirates one run on four hits, no errors.
Law back again, Gilliam swings and fouls it away, two and two.
Control has been very good on both sides today.
Vernon Law has not walked a man, Sal Magley walked one.
The beauty yesterday, Johnny Padres and Ronnie Klein, Brooklyn won that one nothing.
Law flicking his glove at foil signs, now he's ready, two, two pitch, cut on is a hot one on a bounce right to Mazuracki, stays with it, makes his play.
So Gilliam hits the ball sharply but right at the second baseman, one out on the eighth.
Zeno Somoli with three hits today, three for three, two singles and a double.
And the present young man from the San Francisco Bay area now has a three fifty three batting average.
Zeno with that overly close stance, just waiting, Law ready and delivers and Somoli shies away, the pitch is inside, ball one.
Somoli waiting, now the one oh pitch to Zeno, cut on is a hot one, grabbed nicely by Gene Freeze, his throw to first is in time.
Oh I guess the scales always balance out, Somoli got a base hit on a little looping fly ball to center in the sixth inning.
This time he ripped one but right at third baseman Freeze and he goes out.
Two down in the eighth inning and the batter, Duke Schneider.
Schneider hit into a double play in the first inning, single to center to drive in Somoli in the fourth and hit a home run to deep right field with Somoli aboard in the sixth.
Schneider batting two seventy-six.
Law delivers, Schneider swings a high drive way out into right center field, that's hit a mile, Clementi to the wall and grabs it and that's over four hundred feet away.
Boy that's a long out.
So Mr. Dick Schneider who is of a specially happy frame of mind the last few days with his lovely wife Beverly making this little trip with him,
goes two for three and jolts one to deepest right center that Bob Clementi holds down right at the base of the wall.
So Brooklyn goes out one, two, three in the eighth and at the end of seven and a half, Brooklyn four, Pittsburgh one.
Sitting over here visualizing, oh I got an imagination.
Well Paul Smith coming up now batting for Vernon Law tries to run and fouls the first pitch away on one.
Paul Smith, SMI-TH, two of the outfielders, left hand batter.
Hitting for Vernon Law, bottom of the eighth, Brooklyn four, Pirates one.
Smitty batting two seventy-nine. Magni ready, right back to him with a curve and misses high, one and one.
Those will be Paul Smith and Bill Maszeroski and Dee Fondy.
Magni getting a sign from Roy Campanella, foul straightens up, comes to the plate one-one.
The curve cut on and missed, one and two.
Smith stumbled and hit his back, spikes caught so plate umpire Frank Sicori polishing off home plate.
Magni winds and one and two pitch to Paul Smith outside two and two.
The one-one tie at the end of six innings, the Phillies and the Giants, no score at the end of one inning, the Cubs and Milwaukee.
McCartnoughs are leading Cincinnati, one to nothing at the end of an inning and a half.
The American League, Washington leading the Yankees, four nothing at the end of five.
Magni ready and delivers, Smith swings a hot one to the hole over there as Zimmery's up with it, his long throw in time.
And Paul Smith is retired, six to three.
Detroit leading Kansas City, one to nothing at the end of one inning.
And Baltimore making things rough for the Red Sox, Baltimore five and Boston one at the end of four.
No report yet, Cleveland and the White Sox.
Further report at the end of two innings, the Cardinals two, Cincinnati nothing.
Dodges trailing Cincinnati by a game and a half.
Bader Maszeroski and Bill takes a pitch down low, ball one.
Maszeroski batting 200.
Picey is bounced out and walks.
Magni comes back one-oh, Maszeroski takes low again, ball two, two and oh.
Big day of baseball, everybody in the majors playing double-headers,
so we'll be keeping a close check on all the scorers throughout the afternoon.
Two and oh pitch to Maszeroski, that's high, ball three, three and oh.
Walter Austin sitting in front of the Dodgers dugout on the top step right next to the bat rack,
watching Magni's every move.
A three and oh pitch to Maszeroski down the pipe, three and one.
Pitch to the plate in there, full count.
Three and two to Bill Maszeroski on deck, D'Fondi, one out, bases empty,
bottom of the eighth inning, Brooklyn four, Pittsburgh one.
Sal Magni ready in the three-two pitch, curve cut, high fly ball to deep left,
Simoli going back, away back to the Ivy wall, turns and grabs it, right at the wall.
And I'll tell you, Simoli had an idea all the way, just kept looking at the wall with his back to home plate,
then turned at the very fringe of the black dirt track that goes around the ballpark,
caught it right against the wall, long out.
Magni gave you the impression that time that he's just not going to walk, Maszeroski,
he came right in with it, left a little second baseman, hit it just about as far as he could.
Two out, here's D'Fondi batting three-forty-four, D is two to three.
Magni's change up is outside for one.
Fondi twice, single to right and fly to left.
On Dagbar Clementi, the one-oh pitch to Fondi at the knees for a strike, one and one.
Magni bends at the waist to get it signed.
Now the one-one pitch to D'Fondi, cut on is a hot one up the middle at the clean base hit.
That is the first hit for Pittsburgh.
The batting foils doubled in the fifth inning. Magni in that time had retired eleven men in a row.
Now Fondi singles to center with two out and here's Bob Clementi.
Clementi, quite a favorite here at Pittsburgh.
He's kind of on the spectacular side.
On any fly ball, he kind of runs around out there like a kid chasing a bee.
You get a big kick out of him. With the bat, he's hitting two-eighty.
Hit back to the box, hit into a forced play and popped up.
Fondi at first, two out.
Magni set, comes to the plate and Clementi takes a strike on one.
The Dodger bullpen, Clem LeVine, begins to loosen up.
Brooklyn four, Pirates one, bottom of the eighth.
Magni comes set.
Now the strike one pitch, Clementi swings right through it, oh and two.
Clementi turns and serves something to Frank Secori, now gets back in.
Magni in no hurry, he's waited a long time for this start, he's making the most of it.
The oh and two pitch to Clementi outside, ball one.
One and two.
Magni's last start, twenty days ago on May the 10th, you remember a Friday night against the Giants,
he pitched four innings, lost to Ruben Gomez, two to one.
Sal turns on the rubber, takes a peek at first and comes set.
One and two pitch, breaking ball just outside, Clementi overmined a swing check.
Two and two.
Big Frank Thomas on deck.
Gilliam has over shifted way over to his right, so there's a big gap on the right side of the infield.
Two and two.
Magni delivers, Clementi takes outside, ball three, that one's backhanded by Campanella.
So Magni now, after retiring eleven men in a row, with two out on the eighth inning,
Fondy singles. He has now gone to a full count on Bob Clementi.
Clementi gets on, Magni has to face Frank Thomas who hit a home run in the fourth inning.
Magni's set, three-two-fifth there goes Fondy and it's fouled back.
Brooklyn, four runs on nine hits. The Pirates, one run on five hits.
Clementi walks out of the batter's box, wants a towel to dry off his hands.
It's a pleasant day here in Pittsburgh, blue skies and white clouds.
The breeze has picked up a bit, blowing from right center, slanting across the left field foul line.
Clementi might very well have gotten something in his eye.
Now the on deck hitter, Frank Thomas, takes a towel and kind of looks at the orb.
O-R-B means eye. Yep.
All right, Bob's all right. Here he comes. Full count to Bob Clementi.
Fondy holding on at first, two out on the eighth. Brooklyn, four, Pittsburgh, one.
Magni, stirred in, Campanella wigwag the sign out to him, Sal's ready.
Fondy will be going. There he goes, the three-two is caught on his line drive.
Slicing to right field, that's going to be high and off the screen.
Fondy is heading for third. Brillo throws in to second.
Here comes Fondy, comes to the plate and scores on a double by Clementi.
Bob Clementi sliced a line drive halfway up the screen in right field.
That cased in Fondy. Clementi sliding into second with his double and it is now
the fourth inning for the Pirates, two. Still two out on the eighth inning and
the batter, Frank Thomas.
So Magni has now given up two runs, six hits and he has the two out blues here
in the eighth. Smith had bounced out, Majorovski had flied out, then Fondy
singled and Clementi doubled him in.
And here's Thomas. Thomas fouled out, hit one over the scoreboard and the clock
in the fourth inning for his simple run. Last time up bounced out third to first.
Fondy with the ropes here in the stands waking up and a little hand clapping in
the background. Magni comes set. Now delivers to Thomas who slings a hot one
into the hole through for a base hit. Clementi at the round third will score.
Slowly closing the second and it's getting better.
So Sal Magni is now in a jam after breezing along through seventh and two
third innings. With two out on the eighth, gives up a single to Fondy, a double to
Clementi, a single to Thomas and it is four three Brooklyn. Walter Austin going
out to the mound as Gene Baker will be the batter. LeBine continues to throw in
the bullpen and it could be that Magni will be taken out right now. Sal just
breezing along and Kabloom, the Pirate, starts to whack away at him. Austin looks
to the bullpen, looks again and says now I want LeBine. So while LeBine comes in
to relieve Magni, Dodgers leading four to three, closing out, tells us about all
the other ball games on our shape of scoreboard.
Alright then, the Philadelphia Giants, their first game of the doubleheader at
the end of seven innings all tied at one apiece. Simmons for Philadelphia and
for the Giants it is Ruben Gomez. Boucher and Rogers have each hit home runs in
that first game. Cincinnati and St. Louis at the end of two and one half innings
of play. St. Louis two and Cincinnati has one. Joe Nuxall pitching for the
Cincinnati Reds. Willard Schmitt going for St. Louis. Thurman had a home run in
the third with the bases empty for Cincinnati. Chicago and Milwaukee at the
end of an inning and a half, there's no score. It's Blutt going for Chicago and
thrown for Milwaukee. Round of applause here as Sal Magni comes off the hill.
Now over in the American League, Yankees in Washington at the end of six innings
of their first game of the doubleheader. Washington has a total of five runs.
The Yankees nothing. Elsie got started for the Yankees. Terry came on in the sixth
inning as well, Terry. And Washington fast well started, was out of there, hit by
a battered ball and firely relieved in the sixth. Remen a home run in the fifth with
one on for Washington. It's six of the year. Cleveland and Chicago at the end of
an inning and a half. It is nothing and nothing. For Cleveland daily, for Chicago
it is done of it. Baltimore and Boston at the end of four and one half innings of
play. It is five to one. Baltimore over Boston. Mark Caccarelli for Baltimore.
Stone started for Boston. Porterfield in the fifth. Cal a home run in the first
with nobody on. It's fourth of the year for Baltimore. Kansas City, Detroit, their
first game of a twin bill. At the end of one inning, Detroit leads. Kansas City
one to nothing. Frank's to Harvey Keene's home run in the first with nobody
aboard. That's the second of the year. Tommy Morgan going for Kansas City. For
Detroit it's Duke Monk. Well, that's everything right up to the minute. We have
some changes here. Let's get back to this. Ray Mejias is a speed merchant down at
first base running for Frank Thomas. Ray, your left hand batter, Bob Skinner is
coming up to hit for Gene Baker as Clem LeBine takes over for Magley with two
outs. And time calls for a moment as Frillo is receiving a ball in right field that
got away in the Pirate's bullpen where both O'Brien and also Fase are loosening
up. Buddy Pritchett now loosens up. He's a young shortstop. He'll be taking over
for Baker. Four-three Brooklyn. Two out on the eighth inning. Mejias at first.
LeBine in relief of Magley. Bob Skinner batting 314. He has one home run, five
runs batted in. So what was a pleasant seven and two-third innings for Magley.
Finally exploded and he had to come out. LeBine comes out, looks to first and
delivers and the curve is outside, ball one. LeBine has three wins and no defeats
against the league. He has saved five. He is asked to save a sixth. This is his
18th appearance this year. Clem LeBine, back of him, Don Vesson in the bullpen.
LeBine set on the 1-0 pitch. Skinner takes the curve down low ball two, 2-0.
It's a very quiet beginning of the eighth inning. Smith batted for low and bounced
out and Majorski flied out. Then Fondy singled the centers. Clemente doubled off
the screen and right to chase in Fondy. And Thomas singled the left to chase in
Clemente. So it's Brooklyn four, Pirate three, still two out. LeBine turns and
throws to first to keep Mejias near the bag.
LeBine comes set. The 2-0 pitch to Bott Skinner. Curve over for the strike,
2-1. So the elusive final out in the eighth inning has been tough to come by.
Considering that Magley had not pitched in 20 days, she did surprisingly well
today. Ran out of gas with two out in the eighth.
LeBine set. Clem delivers two and one to Skinner. A sinker, cut on and missed,
two and two.
Deuces wild with two out and so will the Pirates. They've scored two in the eighth.
Brooklyn four, Pittsburgh three in the first of two. Sandy Koufax and Bob
Corky in the second game. LeBine comes set. The 2-2 pitch. Curve ball low,
ball free. After Skinner comes third baseman, Dean Cleaves.
Elroy Cleaves going in the Pirate Bowl pen, as we said, best in the Dodger pen.
LeBine squeezing that ball, trying to age it. Bob Skinner batting for Dean Baker.
Three and two, two out. Throw to first, Mejias ready to go, has to get back to
the bag. We'll have a cold shaper and stay right with us. This one's still in the
air. LeBine set. Mejias goes. The 3-2 is cut on and grounded foul, right by
first base coach Danny Murtaugh.
Magley works seven and two third innings, gave up seven hits. He walked just one
man and struck out two. Mejias at first base is Magley's responsibility. LeBine
set, takes a peek. Mejias goes. A 3-2 cut on, fouled away again, so the tension
mounts.
LeBine looking over at first. Hodges not holding with the left hand batter up
and with a count three and two. He's directly back of the bag and ready to jump
back to a normal depth. Big Skinner waiting. Three and two the count. LeBine
comes set. The 3-2 pitch, Mejias goes. It's cut on, it's a high fly ball to
right field. Frillo going back to the wall, turns and grabs it. And Adams
standing here at Forksfield as Bob Skinner flies deep to right and Frillo
halts it in near the wall. In the eighth inning for Pittsburgh, two runs, all
with two out on three consecutive hits. A single, a double, and a single. One man
left off. So at the end of eight innings of play, the score, Brooklyn four, the
Pirates three. Change for the Pittsburgh Pirates as we go to the top of the ninth
inning. Frillo will be the first batter. Taking up the changes, they'll get them all
to it. Well Paul Smith, who batted for Vernon Law, is now in left field. Ray
Mejias started to go out. He got past the infield and they called him back. So Paul
Smith remains in the ninth spot in the lineup and in left field. Walter Olson
going out to check with Frank Secori to see how Bobby Bregan going to play his
men. Smith of course, having hit for the pitcher, must remain in ninth spot. Buddy
Pritchard has taken over at short and the pitcher is Elroy Face. Now what Olson
wants to find out is whether Pritchard will hit after Face or before him. And he
has found out. It has not been announced over the public address system. We'll
take a little guess and say that Pritchard will hit in the shortstop spot and
that Face would hit ahead of him. Maybe we can find out now. Here's the
announcement. Yes, there it is and we get correctly. First time this year. Face
will be in the clean up spot, then Pritchard fifth and Smith ninth.
Carl Furlow, then Gil Hodges and Roy Campanile in the ninth inning, Brooklyn
four and the Pirates three. Elroy Face delivers and Furlow takes a strike on one.
Carl batting three twenty-two. So if you're keeping score, your lineup should read
this way. Mazurowski, Fondy, Clemente, Face, Pritchard, Freese, Verdon, Foyles
and Smith. For strike one pitch, DeFrillo is cut out and fouled away. Oh and two.
When the Pirates bat in the bottom of the ninth inning, they're due to send up
Freese, Verdon and Foyles. So Vernon Law pitched eight innings, gave up four runs,
nine hits. Did not walk a man, struck out one. Face's replacement comes back oh
and two and the pitch is cut on as a high fly ball to deep left field. Starting to
go foul, Paul Smith over in the corner, leans up against the wall and grabs it
for the out. Paul Smith going beyond the Dodger bullpen, right into the corner, up
against the base of the bleacher wall to grab it. DeFrillo fouls out to the left
of the batter, one out. Gil Hodges twice bounced out and single to short. Gil batting
three thirty-eight.
Face winds and delivers to Gil who takes his strike on one. The Dodgers saw a face
the other night in that eleven inning ball game when the Pittsburgh Pirates
defeated Brooklyn three-two. Face was a winner. It's two and three with the lead.
Elroy back on one, the pitch cut on and missed oh and two. Big Hodges going all
the way around. Brooklyn four, Pirates three, ninth inning and the first of two.
Face winds a strike two pitch. Hodges takes low and outside, ball one. Don Vesson
continues to fire away in the bullpen in the event that LaFine might stagger,
pitching to the Pirates in the bottom of the ninth. Face delivers one and two.
Hodges checks his swing and the curve is low, two and two. Two balls, two strikes.
Face getting a sign now from Hank Foyles. Two two-pitch to Hodges, cut on and
missed strike three.
It's all face strikes out of man. The Dodgers have gotten on the quiet side as far as
their bats are concerned. Last nine men have gone out in order since Hodges
singled in the sixth. Campanella hit into a double play and then one two three.
So with two out on the ninth inning, Brooklyn leading four to three. The batter is Roy
Campanella. He struck out, doubled, hit into the double play. Campy batting two forty-five.
Face delivers, curve low, ball one. So there'll be a lot of noise in the bottom of the
ninth so get your cold shaker, stay comfortable if you can and we'll find out about this one.
The one-oh pitch to Campanella. Curve cut on and bounce down to Majaroski. He's up with it
cleanly, turns and makes his play.
Okay the last ten Dodgers in a row have gone out. The end of eight and a half innings.
Brooklyn four, Pirates three. We'll find out about Mrs. Fries, Ferdinand Foyles in just a minute or so.
But right now let's see what Al has on his mind.
There'll be a ball game going here too huh? Last half of the ninth inning. Ben, you all ready?
Well we'll see now. Brooklyn four and the Pirates three. Clem LaFide who has not been
feeling too well of late has a big assignment now to keep the Pirates quiet in the bottom of the ninth
inning trying to save this one for Sal Magley who pushed very well for seven and two third innings
and then ran out of gas. Magley allowed three runs and seven hits, walk one and struck out two.
LaFide had to get the last out in the eighth inning and is now taking dead aim on the ninth.
He'll be pitching to Gene Fries, then Bill Burton and the catcher Hank Foyles.
Fries has flied to left, struck out and hit back to the box. Gene batting two, twenty-five.
Okay the last of the ninth is here. Four three Brooklyn.
LaFide goes to his wind up now. Fries waiting. The first pitch is sinkered down low, ball one.
And this crowd which had to more or less sit quietly through seven innings really had something to cheer
about on the eighth and they're not kind of quiet in anticipation here on the ninth.
The one-one pitch to Gene Fries. Curveball in for the strike, one and one.
This is the first of two. The second game it will be Sandy Koufax pitted against Bob Perkey.
The outfield swung around towards left. Charlie Neal is up a step, just about even with the bag at third.
The one-one pitch to Fries. Fastball a line drive at Hodges.
Fries at the line drive right at Hodges left hip. Gill just snares it for the out, one down.
That brings up center fielder Bill Verton who has bounced out second to first, struck out and bounced out again.
Bill batting two hundred.
The fine wines comes to the plate. Sinker cut on and fouled away.
Oh and one.
Jay Fribeard delighted to send you all the excitement from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn for Pittsburgh three.
Third tenth meeting of the year.
For Dodgers having taken five of nine.
Fries have taken three out of the five played here.
Oh and one.
The bind was lined up to strike one pitch. Cut on and squirted away foul right off the end of Verdon's stick.
Oh and two.
Bill with one home run. Twelve runs batted in.
The bind ready. Now the strike two pitch to Bill Verton. Cut on and bounce it down to second baseman Gilliam who is up with it cleanly and makes his play.
Two out on the bottom of the ninth.
So Bill Verton in this series with Brooklyn thus far and he is the man the Pirates count heavily upon to get those base hits.
Verton against Brooklyn went all for eleven. The only time he get on base they gave him an intentional was.
So it's a big man to keep quiet.
Two out of the ninth. Here's Hank Foyles who has bounced out doubled and flied to right.
Foyles batting two sixty-eight. Two out bottom of the ninth. Brooklyn four Pirates three.
The bind ready and delivers and Foyles takes a strike on one.
The end of three innings Cardinals two Cincinnati one at the end of two innings no score Cubs and Milwaukee.
The end of nine innings a one one tie the Phillies and the Giants.
The bind ready to strike one pitch Foyles swings a high slicing fly ball going foul down the right field line and back into the stands.
Good edge in standing here oh and two.
The American League the White Sox leading Cleveland two nothing at the end of two innings a one one tie Kansas City and Detroit at the end of two.
It is five to one Washington over the Yankees at the end of seven and five to four.
Baltimore over the Red Sox at the end of five.
Oh and two the count to Hank Foyles.
The bind trying to nail it down for Magley comes sidearm with a curve and there's a high pop fly into shallow right field.
Gilliam backing out turns grabs it to the out and the Dodgers win it four to three.
So the bind saves his sixth ball game of the year in relief saving this one for Sal Magley.
The Dodgers win it four to three.
They'll be about a 15 minute intermission boys.
Have your cold shaver light up a lucky and now to get the totals from now let's jump right over to him.
Here are the totals for the Dodgers to win it four runs nine hits no errors they had two men left on.
Big home run hit by Duke Snyder his ninth of the year in the sixth inning.
He's driven in three runs he drove in two with that home run.
Magley wins it his record is now two and one.
And as far as Pittsburgh can turn this year two wins no loss.
The Pittsburgh Pirates had three runs seven hits no errors they had five men left on.
The losing pitcher is Vernon Law whose record is now two and two.
And he's 0 and 1 now with the first and Dodgers.