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The New York Yankees faced the Cleveland Indians at Cleveland Stadium for a Sunday afternoon game on May 25, 1958.
The Yankees were off to a brisk start in 1958, entering this game with a 24-6 record.
They were managed by Casey Stengel and had been to the World Series in the previous three seasons, having lost to the Braves in 1957.
The Indians went to the World Series in 1954 under the momentum of their historic 111-win season, but manager Al Lopez left Cleveland two years later to lead the White Sox.
The Indians then fell below 500 in 1957 for the first time in 11 years.
They then decided to give the managerial reins to Bobby Bragan for the 1958 season.
Bragan was recruited away from Pittsburgh, where he managed under Branch Rickey, his long-term protege dating back to his playing days in Brooklyn.
This audio recording is from the New York Radio broadcast featuring announcers Phil Rizzotto and Mel Allen.
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For Cleveland, Ray Narleski out there on the hill.
Leading off are the New York Yankees, Harry Simpson coming out of the Yankee dugout, Yogi Berra moving into the on-deck circle, and shortstop Tony Kuback will bat third.
Stadium.
Ray Narleski has won five and lost three. Through the years, he's been one of the mainstays of the Cleveland Indians Relief Corps, but he has had to be pressed into service as a starter.
When such pitches as Bob Lemon came up with a bad arm, Herb Score was injured, and Bob Lemon was put on the disabled list. Lemon was just put back on the active list yesterday.
Bob has been working out, and he's ready to go.
And now, as we get ready to go here in the top of the first inning, Harry Simpson stepping up, leading off for the New York Yankees.
Simpson batting an even 200. Been up just 15 times with three base hits, one triple, one run batted in.
Harry's right wrist just starting to get strong again. He had it broken in spring training.
Ray Narleski checks the sign from Dick Brown. Here's the windup, and the first pitch is strike one over the outside corner, and the ball game's underway.
And it looks like we're going to have a real good crowd here today. Coaching at third, Frank Crisetti down at first base, Ralph Houch.
Narleski ready. The pitch to Simpson has occurred low, ball one, one-on-one.
The municipal stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
One of the biggest fields in the big leagues. Of course, you can't say the biggest anymore because Los Angeles Coliseum is bigger.
There's a foul back on a play strike two, high on the upper deck.
One ball, two strikes to count on Harry Simpson.
This park is so tremendous, they had to put a temporary fence running from left field all the way over to right field to make it possible to hit a few more home runs.
We'll give you the dimensions in just a moment. One ball, two strikes to count on Harry Simpson.
Narleski checking the sign from Dick Brown.
Here's the windup, and the slow curve is hit over the mound. Shortstop, Billy Harrell coming in up with it.
Fires to first, and it's one away.
Harry Simpson bounces out short to first, and the batter will be Yogi Berra.
And the fans greet Yogi with mixed emotions. Yogi has always had real good days here at Cleveland.
He's really worn out this Cleveland pitching staff, when it was at its best, too.
Yogi's batting 218, just starting to shake the slump he's been in most of the year. He has four doubles, four homers, 13 runs batted in.
First pitch is strike one on the inside corner.
Down the left field and right field lines at 320 feet.
And in left center and right center is 365, and dead center, 410.
The pitch to Yogi is outside, ball one, one-on-one.
There have been some tremendous home runs hit in this park. I remember one Johnny Lindell hit deep into the bleachers, which is 465 feet away in left center field.
And one Luke Easter hit here in the upper deck in right center field. Must have gone about 500 feet.
The one-one pitch to Yogi is outside, low ball two, two and one.
On deck, Tony Kubek.
This has always been one of the best kept-up fields in the big leagues.
Their ground crew is terrific, just like they are at Yankee Stadium.
Keeps the field immaculate, the infield free of as many pebbles as they can.
The infielders love to play here at Municipal Stadium. Very few bad hops.
Here's the two-one pitch, a ground foul wide at first.
And almost all the ballparks now have installed these ball boys sitting down the right field and left field line, and it speeds up the game.
As they can chase the foul ball, and keep the outfielders in their position.
For Cleveland, they have Mnoso on left, Marathons center, Carlavito in right.
Harris-Gillett third, Harrell is short, Avila is second, Ward at first, Brown catching. Now let's keep pitching.
The foul is just over our heads.
And the count holds at two and two.
We're going to get them an ace. Be ready.
Two balls, two strikes to count on Yogi Berra.
One man out here on the top of the first, no score in the ball game.
Narleski, full right-hander ready.
The pitch to Yogi is another foul, just to our left and out of play.
Wayne Narleski is six feet, one inches tall, 175 pounds. Born in Camden, New Jersey, now lives in Palmer Heights, Ohio.
Last year he won 111 and lost five.
Had a 2.94 earned run average.
And has always been one of the Indian's most effective pitches.
Here's the two-two pitch.
Brown balls.
Shorts up, Billy Harrell up with it.
By at the first. Not in time. Yogi falls as he crosses first base.
He fell heavily to the ground, but he gets up now. Ralph Houch gets him up.
Yogi with that long, last lunge at first base, tripped over the bag.
And Billy Harrell, at shortstop, took a little bit too much time getting rid of that ball.
He had it in plenty of time.
And took a couple of extra steps, and that's what enabled Yogi to beat it out for an infield single.
Here's the first hit of the ball game, and it brings up Tony Kubek.
Tony batting 323, four double-six runs batted in.
Preston Ward holding first base against Farah. The first pitch is inside, ball one.
On deck, Mickey Mantle.
Yankee dug out on the third base side. Cleveland over on the first base side.
The stretch by Nalewski. The pitch is a high fly to straightaway center field.
Roger Maris with the glasses down under it and takes it for out number two.
Two away, and here comes Mickey Mantle.
Mickey batting 306. Eight doubles, four home as 14 runs batted in.
Mantle has still not hit his stride.
Last year, Nalewski won twice over the Yankees and didn't lose at all.
He has a 4-1 lifetime record against the Yankees.
And is one of the few American League pitchers with a winning mark against the Bronx Bombers.
The first pitch to Mantle, strike one, swing and a miss.
Yogi Berle leading off first base. Preston Ward playing in back of Yogi now with two away.
Top of the first, no score on the ball game.
The pitch to Mantle is another swing and a miss, strike two.
Nalewski put a little extra on that fastball and was up around Mickey's letters.
On deck, Gail McDougall.
Nothing into the count on Mantle.
The pitch, a little bit low, ball one, one ball and two strikes.
Brian Oleski, cleaning off the mound a little bit, habit that most pitchers have,
kicking the dirt around from one spot to another.
Just a little nervous habit. One ball, two strikes on Mantle, two away.
Here's the stretch. The pitch is a ground ball at second base.
Ward cuts in front, takes it, throws to Oleski, covering, he's safe at first.
Preston Ward, cut in front of Bobby Avila, took the ball back in and had it tossed to Oleski,
covering and Mickey Mantle beat the play. It's a base hit for Mickey.
Another infield single for Mickey Mantle.
Sends Yogi Berra down to second base and with two away, the batter Gail McDougall.
McDougall batting 369. Six doubles, five homers and 17 runs batted in.
That was a tough play as Ward had to cut to his right backhand of the ball
and had to throw back across his body to Oleski.
He grabbed it with one hand and reached for the bag, but Mickey was across first.
Berra at second, Mantle at first, two away.
The stretch, the pitch to McDougall is a curve, a low, ball one.
On deck, Jerry Lumpy.
Here's the stretch. Pitch is fouled at the plate, strike one, one, one.
And here at Municipal Stadium, the photographers also are allowed to be on the field,
like they are in Detroit.
And they are right close to the plate and it's a very dangerous spot.
Any fouled ball that hits sharply off the bat, they'd never have a chance of getting out of the way.
We've seen a lot of cameras ruined out here.
The pitch to McDougall is nine, ball two, two and one.
Two balls, one strike, two men out.
We're in the top of the first inning of this first game of a double head-up.
No score in the ball game.
Now, that's the stretch. The pitch to McDougall is high, ball three, three and one.
Three balls and one strike.
And this has been a familiar pattern in the last nine or ten games with Baron Mantle on base and McDougall at bat.
One moment please.
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The first batter for the Cleveland Indians will be Billy Harrell, the shortstop, and he'll be facing Whitey Ford.
Whitey has won four and lost two this year with an earned run average of 1.75.
Whitey's lifetime record against Cleveland, he's won 11 and lost seven.
Harrell last year was with San Diego and Cleveland, most of the year with San Diego.
Harrell's pitch is a curve. It hits Harrell on the right foot.
And he's hit by a pitch ball. Yogi Farah is claiming that the ball didn't hit him.
And Harrell is hit by a pitch ball.
And on that play, played on fire Ed Hurley did not even ask to see if the ball had any shoe polish on it.
He would show positive that the ball hit Harrell on the foot, and he's right on the play.
Harrell, 6'1.5, 180 down at first base. The batter, Bobby Avila.
Harrell was batting 239, still is. Here's Avila batting 282.
The first pitch is a fly ball right field.
Nelson Howard over near the line takes it for out number one.
That's Bobby Avila trying to go to the opposite field. One away.
And here's Minimanoto.
Although he's been a great favorite around the leagues, at Chicago he was the darling of the White Sox fans.
Here at Cleveland he's won them over already.
Minis batting 263, two doubles, six homers, 19 runs batted in.
Whitey Ford into a stretch position. The pitch to Minoso is strike one, a fair ball on the outside corner.
Minis by 10, 175 pounds.
Born in Montanjas, Cuba. Lives in Mariano, Cuba.
Last year batted 310 with 12 homers and 103 runs batted in.
Mark Throneberry holding first base against Billy Harrell.
Here's the stretch.
Another curve high outside, ball one, one-on-one. Yankees line up with Harry Simpson in left, Mickey Mantle in center, Elston Howard in right.
Jerry Lumpy at third, Tony Kubek at short, Gil McYogle at second, Mark Throneberry at first.
Yogi Berkacchi, Whitey Ford on the mound in a stretch position.
One-one pitch is a curve outside, ball two, two and one.
On deck, Preston Rores.
Curve ball is set on the ground in short step. Kubek to McYogle for one, back to first.
Not in time, not in time.
The throw beat Minosso to the bag, but Throneberry had to come off the bag to get the low throw by McYogle, so it goes to the fourth play.
From six to four, a racing Billy Harrell starting in a second, but Minosso's safe at first.
And with two out, here's Preston Moore at the first base.
Ward is off to a real fine start.
He's batting 371, two doubles, two homers, nine runs batted in.
Here's a stretch by Whitey Ford.
Minosso leads off first.
The pitched award is a fly ball, Kubek going back at short stop, flips the glasses back under it, takes it for out number three.
Well, the Indians in the last to the first.
No runs, no hits, no Yankees.
There is one man left to score at the end of one full inning of play.
The Yankees nothing and the Indians nothing.
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In the scoreboard, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, post-Paul Grahame, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh, two games.
We'll get to the others in a moment.
Nelson Howard leading off, batting 343, still.
The triple-two home is eight runs batted in.
Now let's get ready. The right-hander's first pitch to Howard is outside ball one.
Howard stands deep in the batter's box, a right-hand batter, close stance.
Pitch is hit deep down the left-field line.
Minosso going over, and the ball is just fouled.
It was far enough for a home run and bounced into the left-field seat that hit the top of the world.
And bounced into the left-field seat, I'd say fouled by about five or six feet.
And even though he didn't even move from his left-field spot, he knew he had no chance to get that ball.
And his best shot was a caram off the wall, if it did hit the wall.
One strike and a long one on Nelson Howard.
Now let's get ready.
One-one pitch is a little bit outside ball two, two and one.
On Jack Marv Throneberry.
Here's a two-one pitch to Howard.
Curveball popped in the air foul and back of the play.
Dick Brown coming over and Preston Ward.
And Dick Brown makes the grab as he presses lightly against the front of the wall in front of the box seat
just to the right of the Indian dugout.
Nice play by Dick Brown.
Always a tough play when you're chasing a foul ball near the stands.
And here's Marv Throneberry.
The first baseman for the New York Yankees batting 227.
Throneberry has three doubles, two home as four runs batted in.
The first pitch is a change-up hit down the right-field line and foul.
Slow curve that Throneberry got out in front of but hit the ball well.
And he's been having a little bit of trouble with that slow step.
One strike to count on Marv Throneberry.
Right-hander ready kicks delivers a fastball swing and a miss strike two.
Nothing in two to count on Marv Throneberry.
On deck, Harry Simpson with whitey Ford due to hit next.
Whitey resting in the dugout.
Here's a pitch high, ball one.
One ball, two strikes.
One ball, two strikes, one out.
Marv Throneberry has been playing first base since the moose Bill Scowron was injured at Yankee Stadium.
Happy to hear Scowron coming along very well.
Here's the pitch, a swing and a foul back.
Out holds a one ball and two strikes.
Ahead Hurley to play on pirates with some more baseballs and the attendant runs out with him.
Now we're ready to go.
Marv Throneberry steps back in the batter's box.
Drain Oleski into his wind-up.
The slow curve is fouled just to our right.
Nice play by Hal Ebowitz.
Perfect catch right at him.
He's got big enough hands to catch him, I'll tell you that.
Puts it in his pocket and Hal's got a nice souvenir.
Getting a lot of foul balls hit back here today.
Here's the pitch, a foul back against the screen.
Count holds a one ball and two strikes.
Quite a few of the writers have a wire screen in front of them because there are times when they're bending down writing something
and if a foul ball's ever hit, you could really get creamed.
Now let's get ready again.
Here's the one ball, two strike pitch to Throneberry swinging a missed strike three.
First strikeout for Drain Oleski.
Two away here in the top of the second, no score in the battle, Whitey fourth.
Whitey batting 125, two for 16, he has one double.
Here's the wind-up, the first pitch to Whitey is high outside ball one.
Frank Crocetti coaching at third, Ralph Hough down at first.
The one-upting pitch is strike one, a fastball right down the middle, Whitey taking all the way.
Here's the one-one pitch, a foul just to our left.
Strike two, one ball and two strikes.
And again, Ed Hurley needs some new baseball.
There have been an awful lot of foul balls this early in the ball game.
Oleski now steps back off the mound, opening up that new baseball, close to the rosin bag.
Two men out here in the top of the second, nobody on.
One ball, two strikes to count on, Whitey fourth.
Here's the wind-up, the pitch is strike three, swinging on a high fastball.
Strikeout number two for Ray Noleski for the Yankees in the top of the second, no runs, no hits.
No Indian errors and nobody left on base, the score at the end of an inning and a half.
The Yankees nothing and the Indians nothing.
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San Francisco at Pittsburgh in the first game, Gomez for the Giants, Schmitz catching,
Vernon Law on the slab for the Pirates, Travis the backstop.
The end of three innings, it's tied 1-1.
Warm up features, starting for St. Louis, Brosnan recently traded from the Cubs.
For Cincinnati, it'll be Robbie.
St. Louis, Cincinnati a doubleheader.
In Chicago, Milwaukee two games today.
Boston, Chicago against the White Sox a doubleheader.
Washington, Detroit a twin bill.
It's a doubleheader here at Cleveland at a single game, Baltimore, Kansas City.
Right now, bottom of the second inning, Nick Brown the catcher, Carascal and Colabito.
Bill?
The first pitch is outside ball one.
Nick Brown was with Cleveland, Omaha and Mobile last year.
The slow curve is high for ball two.
With Omaha, he batted 261 in 46 games.
In 34 games with the Indians, he batted 263.
And in 40 games for Mobile, he batted 312.
First ball is a swing and a miss, strike one.
Two balls and one strike.
24 years old from Shinston, West Virginia.
The 2-1 pitch is a curveball popped in the air back of the mound.
Gil McDougal right there under it and takes it for out number one.
As Whitey Ford hits young Dick Brown on the fist with a curveball.
And here's Chico Carascal.
Chico has been switched to third base as manager Bobby Bregan feels that Billy Harrow can cover a little more ground than Carascal is short.
Chico is batting 238, four doubles, two homers, 17 runs batted.
And there's a high foul over by the Indian dugout, Throneberry chasing it and makes the grab.
Makes the grab.
Shining away from the wall, he backhanded the ball for out number two.
Shining away and the bat of Rocky Colavito.
Colavito batting 253, has four doubles, two homers, 12 runs batted.
And Rocky got off to a real good start.
Was up there leading the league for a while, then got into a slump.
The first ball is in there, strike one call.
A boy named Rocco Colavito born in the Bronx, now lives in Temple, Pennsylvania.
He's 6'3", 190 pounds.
The first ball is in there, strike two.
Nothing is true on Rocky.
Rocky has tried to model his style of play with that of the great Joe DiMaggio.
And as a matter of fact, he resembles Joe spatially and in his build.
The third ball is a swing and a miss, strike three.
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And as we told you, this is our first look at the season at the revamped Cleveland Indians
who have been the surprise of the league so far.
The Yanks and Indians were rained out of a three game set at the stadium earlier this month.
So you'll have your first look at such prominent newcomers as Mudcat Grant, Carol Hardy,
Gary Geiger and others next month.
And veteran Bob Lemon and Speedy Herb's score are expected back in action by then too.
So you'll be seeing Bobby Breger's new club near full strength.
The Indians, always a popular attraction in New York, will be stadium visitors the first weekend of June.
The Yanks and Tribes hang under the lights on Friday, June the 6th.
A ladies day game on Saturday, June 7th.
And a make-up doubleheader on Sunday afternoon, June the 8th.
For best choice of seats, we suggest you get your tickets as quickly as possible.
The Stadium Advance Ticket Office will be open for your convenience this afternoon until 5 p.m.
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The Troy Buick Roundup follows this game.
Here's Harry Simpson up for his second time.
He bounced out short to first in the first inning.
The curve is a little bit high, ball one.
Yogi Beron-Dek.
Best ball is ball two, a little bit high. Simpson started off with that pitch and just did hold up.
Two balls, no strikes on Harry Simpson.
Perfect day for baseball here at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.
The curve is inside, ball three, three and nothing.
And Nalewski is behind the first batter here in the top of the third.
Harry Simpson, three balls and no strikes.
Nalewski checks the sign from Dick Brown.
Here's the windup and the three-nothing pitch is low outside, ball four, he lost them.
He's got four pitches, Nalewski walks his second man and here's Yogi Beron.
He'll beat out an infield single in the first inning.
And then as he beats a throw to first base, he tripped and fell heavily on the ground.
But he's all right.
A little embarrassed, but feeling all right.
Preston Ward holding first base against Harry Simpson.
The Indian infield and outfield shifted around towards right.
Here's the first pitch to Yogi, strike one as Yogi squared around to bunt, took the pitch.
Chico Taraskela, third, is playing in front of the bag near the edge of the infield grass.
Billy Harrell at shortstop, two steps close to second base.
Avila in the hole between first and second.
And Ward holding the bag against Harry Simpson.
Here's the stretch, Simpson leads away.
The pitch is a fly ball to short right field.
Avila back, Colabito in, Colabito called for it, takes it for out number one.
One away as Yogi pops through Colabito and short right and here's Tony Kuback,
who flies to center field in the first inning.
The Yankee player sitting on the edge of the bench, soaking up some of the sunshine.
And we've really had real fine weather so far on this Western trip.
Here's the stretch by Naliski.
The pitch to Kuback is bunted down to third base line, a good one, that's going to be a base hit.
No throw at all, a beautiful punt by Tony Kuback.
He caught, Taraskela flat-footed and Taraskela came in, picked the ball up, did not even throw the ball.
That's how perfect a bunt it was.
And now the Yankees have runners at first and second.
Kuback at first, Simpson at second, one away.
And Mickey Mantle will beat out an infield single in the first inning to run his consecutive game hitting streak to 13 in a row.
Mick's not satisfied with the way he's hitting, even though he's hitting over 300.
He says he's getting too many of these leg hits.
He wants to hit them where they don't have to run.
The first pitch is a low foul ball down the left field line, but curving into the seats.
And out of play.
As a matter of fact, that ball just went on the playing field, not in fair territory.
And Manoso now looking over at the spot.
He either had a long run, I doubt if he could have got to the ball.
He plays Mickey a little over and lets set up.
But it fell in among the ground crew who were sitting just where the lower grandstand ends.
Here's the pitch to Mickey outside ball one, one-on-one.
And there is a low fence in front of the ground crew, which the ball landed in back of.
And so the wind, very little wind today, but when it gets above the stadium there is some wind blowing as we can see the flags.
The curve ball is low inside, ball two, two and one.
And Pappy Durkin just hands me the temperature and the wind velocity at 62 degrees and a 20 mile per hour wind.
Now of course in this vast stadium we don't feel it.
We are completely covered by the stands and the walls and back of us.
But above the stadium the flags are flying and that foul ball when it got above the stadium was affected by the wind.
Pitch to Mickey outside ball three, three and one.
Three balls, one strike, one hour and the top of the third no score in the ball game.
Harry Simpson is down at second base over at first.
Tony Kubek, the batter Mickey Mantle and on deck Gail McDougal.
Joe Ripley just got some information on that foul ball and I'll pass it along right after this pitch.
As Naleksi steps off the rubber we can tell you now Joe said that it is a separate box and it is not in play.
In other words the ball hit there is not in play even if you should catch it.
The player cannot go in there to catch the ball.
He can lean over the front as you do on any foul ball but you cannot go in in back of the seat.
Okay Joe, thank you. Here's the stretch.
The 3-1 pitch is a foul out of play this time definitely going back into the seats in the upper deck.
Full count on Mantle now three and two and let's see how manager Casey Stengel works this whether he'll have the runners going on a 3-2 pitch with only one out or whether he'll be playing it safe.
Frank Crisetti coaching at third gives some signs to Simpson and Kubek down at second and first.
Ralph Popover at first base.
Here's the stretch.
They don't go the ball is swinging in the midst Frank Crisetti.
Ray Naleksi comes through with a very important strike out but that time Casey Stengel's strategy did work.
He did not have the runners going and Simpson would have been thrown out.
Not definitely but he did not take a big lead at second base and had he been running with Mickey striking out it could have been a double play.
So now it's two out. Naleksi has three strikeouts on the day so far and here's Gil McDougall who walked in the first inning.
Naleksi stretches. Pitch to Gil is a swing and a foul back off the chest protector of plate umpire Ed Hurley.
Ben Ricochet back and hit Dick Brown on the back of his head.
Dick rubs his head gently.
These foul balls are dangerous today.
One strike on McDougall on deck Jerry Lumpy.
Stretch by Naleksi. The pitch is inside as Gil started to step in and then had to really lean out of the way of that high inside fastball.
One on one.
Yankee bullpen and Cleveland bullpens are deep in left center field and right center field and back of the temporary fence.
There's a curve outside ball two, two and one.
And they have a car here at municipal stadium. They always have had.
When a relief pitcher is due to come in the car goes and picks them up although the Yankees do not use it.
The Cleveland Indian pitchers use it in right center field.
Big cinder path runs all around the park.
Pitch to Gil is high ball three, three and one.
Naleksi thought he had that pitch.
Little put out out there on the mound.
Three balls one strike on McDougall. Two out top of the third no score.
Yankees have runners at first and second.
Elston leads off second. Kubek off first.
Naleksi into a stretch position.
Three one pitch is high ball four. He lost them.
And the bases are loaded.
Walk number three issued by Ray Naleksi.
And here's Jerry Lumpy who bounced out with the bases loaded in the first inning, second to first.
On deck Elston Howard.
Simpson at third. Kubek at second. McDougall at first. Two away.
First pitch to Lumpy. Is it swing and a line drive to left field.
Minimanoto back under it. Takes it for half number three.
And for the Yankees in the top of the third no runs one hit.
No Indian errors and three men left on base.
The score at the end of two and a half innings.
The Yankees nothing and the Indians nothing.
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Bottom of the third inning. First game of a Sunday double header.
Cleveland Indians entertaining the New York Yankees.
The Yankees are in the top of the third no runs.
The game continues.
The Yankees are hit next. Curved ball is fouled at the plate as he tries to check his swing.
The ball just hit the end of his bat. One and one.
Maris is 6 feet tall, 197 pounds from Hibbings, Minnesota. Now lives in Fargo, North Dakota.
Last year about a 235.
The sidearm fastball is a swing and a miss and the let go of the bat.
And it hits a double hit. It hits Ed Hurley in the right hand and Yogi Berrin back of the head.
Roger Maris let go of that bat. I've never quite seen that before.
I've seen players let go of bats and they've sailed into the stands or into the clubhouse or into the dugout.
But this one he let go of follow through.
It came all the way back, hit Ed Hurley in his right hand, ricocheted off Yogi's head.
Fortunately it hit Yogi in the head.
If it hit him any other place he might have been hurt.
It's a one ball two strike pitch outside ball two, two and two.
I'm only kidding though.
Yogi in his head.
That's if his wife's listening and it hit Ed Hurley right on the forefinger of his right hand.
Here's a two-two pitch. Curved ball low, full count, three and two.
That's the strike finger hit that Joe.
Now Roger Maris wants some rosin.
Reminds me of Dominic DiMaggio who always let go of the bat, not always but more often than any other player.
Dominic always carried a rosin bag in his back pocket.
All right here's the payoff pitch to Maris.
A foul down the left field line and out of play. Count holds it three and two.
Different players use different methods of getting a good grip on that bat.
Some of them use a little tar and rosin to make it sticky.
Some of them use oil and rosin.
That's what Joe D used to use, oil mixed with rosin.
Side on fifth, well it's hit on one hop to shortstop Kovac.
Nice play by Tony. Throw to first for out number one.
A nice play by Tony Kovac who caught that ball on a short hop right against his stomach.
He blocked the ball well and then threw to first for the out.
One away and here's Ray Naleski.
Head early showing his finger to Yogi Berrin and showing where it hit off his chest protector
and bounced and hit Yogi up the back of his head.
One man out here in the last of the third, no score.
Nothing, nothing in the ball game.
Naleski, right-hand hitter, takes a curve in there, strike one.
Naleski is batting 0-59, he's one for 17.
Another curve is hit slowly down to third.
Jerry Lumpy on one big hop takes it.
By at the first, that's out number two.
Two away and a bat of Billy Harrell who was hit by a pitch ball on his right foot in the first inning.
Now we'll hear from Norristown, Pennsylvania, now lives in Troy, New York.
Right-hand hitter, first pitch by Yogi Ford is a curve, strike one on the outside corner.
On deck, Bobby Avila.
Eddie Stanky coaching at third, red crest down at first.
Curve ball is strike two.
He started to swing check it but he went far enough.
Eddie the Brat Stanky down at third base.
Here's a two-strike pitch to Harrell.
Low ball, one, one ball, two strikes.
Two out, nobody on here in the last of the third.
Whitey Ford into the windup, fast ball is hit on the line into center field for a base hit.
And that's the first base hit off Whitey Ford, a solid single at center field.
That's Billy Harrell down at first base.
And here's Bobby Avila who flied to right field in the first inning.
Roberto Francisco Avila, born at Veracruz, Mexico.
In 1954 led the American League in hitting with an average of 3.41 since then.
He has not regained his batting eye.
Right-hand batter wearing a golf glove on his left hand.
Takes a curve high outside ball one.
Lots of players have been doing that now wearing golf gloves on their right hand hitting their left hand,
a left hand hitting their right hand.
Keeps them from getting these big calluses and also if they have a tender hand absorbs some of the shock.
Pitch to Bobby, the curve hits foul down the third base line, just foul.
Little ball boy kicks the ball around a little bit down the left hairline.
One ball, one strike.
That's a big thrill for these youngsters to be ball boys at any big league park.
They have a regular Cleveland uniform on.
Sit on a little stool down the right field corner and left field corner.
Here's the 1-1 pitch.
Fastball hit.
Foul, just foul.
Oh man, that ball was fouled by a quarter of an inch.
It actually hit the foul line about a foot in front of third base and just kicked to the left of the bag.
Now a ball does not have to hit on the ground in back of third base to be a fair ball.
If that ball had hit in fair territory and then just went over a corner of the bag and still landed in foul territory,
it would have been a fair ball.
But Joe Papparello, the third base umpire, standing right on the line, had perfect view of the ball,
saw that the ball did not go over any part of the bag before it hit in foul territory.
Called it right away.
One ball, two strikes on Avella.
Court stretches.
Howell leads off first.
There goes the runner.
The pitch is swung and a missed strike.
Three.
And that howell can go down that line.
It's a strikeout.
Strikeout number two for Whitey Ford for the Indians in the last of the third.
No runs.
One hit.
No Yankees errors.
One man left.
The score at the end of three full innings.
The Yankees nothing and the Indians nothing.
And let's take another look at the scoreboard.
All the other games start later in the American League.
Washington at Detroit a double header.
Baltimore at Kansas City a single game.
And Boston at Chicago a double header.
They start just a little bit later on.
In the National League, St. Louis at Cincinnati in the first of two, nothing, nothing at the end of one.
Brosnan against Harabi.
Chicago at Milwaukee a double header.
The starting pitches in the first game, Phillips against Trowbridge.
Trowbridge Phillips a former brave now with the Cubs.
LA at Philadelphia have not started.
And San Francisco at Pittsburgh at the end of four.
Pittsburgh two to Giants one.
Gomez against Lowe.
Now we're ready to go here in the top of the fourth inning in this nothing, nothing ball game,
a pitches duel between Ray Narleski and Whitey Ford.
And for the Yankees, Elston Howard who popped to the catcher in the second inning leading off.
First pitch to Howard is inside ball one.
The fastball is fouled at the plate.
Strike one, one ball one strike.
Correction on the pronunciation of the pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, it's Rabe.
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That was courtesy of Til Ferdinand of the Journal American.
There's a foul in the upper deck.
The Yankees didn't try to check his swing but the ball hit his back and just ricocheted back into the seats.
One ball two strikes on Howard.
On deck Mark Throneberry.
The Yankees and the Indians here at Big Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
Right off Lake Erie, the lake right in back of us.
There's a curveball just outside ball two, two and two.
One of the reasons this is such unusual weather, being so close to the lake at this time of the year we usually get real cold weather.
But it is a beautiful day here at Municipal Stadium.
Here's a two-two pitch.
Another foul back.
Now it holds at two and two.
I wonder if they got any statistics for a record number of foul balls hit in one game.
I doubt it why they'd want to keep it except the owners to see how many baseballs they lose.
So far in three full innings we've had an awful amount.
More than I've ever seen in such short time.
Ray Norlesky ready now.
The pitch to Howard is a grind ball, a high hop, a harrow coming in a short.
Throws the first in time for the out.
That was a nice play by Billy Harrell.
It was a high Baltimore shot.
Harrell had it come charging in and the dead run.
Pick it up and fired a first.
Just didn't hit.
Elston Howard went away.
Here's Mark Throneberry who struck out in the second inning.
The slow curve is hit.
Between first and second out to right field a base hit for Mark Throneberry.
Rocky Colavito up with the ball.
And Throneberry is on with a single.
And that's hit number four for the Yankees, Orton Norlesky.
He went away with Mark Throneberry at first base and the battle Whitey Ford.
And now they're looking into the Yankee dugout as Casey Stengel jumped up in the top step and hollered something.
Casey Stengel is pointing down to first base.
The Indian infield on the alert for a possible sacrifice attempt.
Whitey takes a pitch on the outside corner strike when he is squared around and is owed a bunt.
And they're taking something that was, perhaps Houch had, it could be Harry Simpson's glasses.
That's just what it is.
Simpson when he gets on base gives his glasses to Houch and he forgot to retrieve them the last time after he had gone out to the outfield.
So Harry doesn't want to go up there at a disadvantage.
He sees better with the glasses and you've got to take all the breaks you can get.
All right the runner leaves away at first.
Whitey swings at the ball and sends a base hit between third and short.
Throneberry holds his second and Whitey's safe at first on a crossed up base hit.
Let me tell you what happened there.
Chico Carrasco was charging in at third.
Billy Harrell at short was coming in at the edge of the infield grass and Whitey faked a bunt and then just punched the ball.
What Casey Singel calls a put your boy swing between third and short out to left field for a base hit.
And the Yankee pitchers have really been crossing up the opposition this year.
That's about the fourth or fifth time that Casey has let the pitcher hit away when a bunt seemed to be in order.
And now the Yankees have runners at first and second with one away here in the top of the fourth in the bat of Harry Simpson.
Harry bounced out short to first and walked.
The stretch point I left here to Pitcher Simpson is strike one a slider on the outside corner on deck Yogi Berra.
The stretch and a change up curve is in this strike two.
Beautiful change up curve nipped the inside corner.
Nothing in two to count on Harry Simpson with one away in the top of the fourth no score in the ball game.
Marv Throneberry down at second base Whitey forward at first.
You can tell it's a beautiful day Whitey didn't even ask for his jacket to put on.
The stretch the two strike pitch is swinging amidst strike three.
And I want to tell you you can see Narleski when he's in trouble put that little extra on that fastball.
Man he really fires it.
That's strike out number four for Narleski.
And it brings up Yogi Berra who beat out an infield single in the first inning and flying to right in the third.
Two away now with runners at first and second.
Narleski into a stretch position.
This Yogi is a high fly deep to right field way back.
Narleski and it's a hard run for Yogi Berra.
And as Yogi saw the ball go over the fence he jumps up in the air and threw his arms up in the air.
The way Yogi's been going he figured Colavito was going to catch that ball.
Yogi Berra hits a three run home run off Ray Narleski with two out here in the top of the fourth inning.
And the Yankees now lead in the ball game three to nothing.
Colavito came close to catching that ball.
He went as far back as he could to the temporary fence that runs from left field over to right field.
Leaped high in the air and the ball just went over his glove.
Here's Tony Kubek.
Tony fouls the first pitch back out of play strike one.
Kubek fly to center and beat out a bunch one for two.
Frank Ricetti runs in a third and picks up an orange that fell down on the field.
One strike to count on Tony Kubek.
Narleski ready.
Foul just below a strike two.
And Joe Trimble gets one of the easiest fouls I've ever seen.
It hit the screen, bounced back up into the seats and rolled back.
Just missed John Jorberges head.
Two strike pitch inside, ball one, one ball and two strikes.
Wind up.
And the curveball foul just below it.
One ball and two strikes.
Yeah, they're shooting at us today, I tell you.
All balls are coming back hot and heavy.
Another supply for pay them fire out early.
One ball and two strikes.
The pitch is inside ball two, two and two.
Narleski checking the sign from Dick Brown.
The pitch is a slow curve, hits into left field, Mennie Minoso over to his right under it.
Takes it for number three and for the Yankees in the top of the fourth, three runs on three hits.
No Indian errors, nobody left the score at the end of three and a half innings.
The Yankees three and the Indians nothing.
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Yankees spring to the lead three to nothing.
Yogi's home run into right field.
Last to the fourth, Minosso, Preston Ward and Dick Brown, the third, fourth and fifth hitters in the order.
Swings in, misses at a curve ball, strike one.
Minosso with that open stance of his, his right foot almost in back or home plate. Another curve, this one bounces away from Barra for ball one, strike one.
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On deck, Preston Ward.
The 2-1 pitch, a slow curve hit in left field, a line drive base hit.
Harry Simpson on one hop grabs it.
As Minie Minosso took that high slow curve right in his eyes and lined it in the left field.
Hit number two of Whitey Ford and here's Preston Ward who popped the short in the first inning.
Preston Ward a left hand hitter.
Stretched by four. Best ball is high, ball one.
Minosso leads off first. Sidearm first, well hit in the ground.
Mark Thornberry's got McDougall, throws to Ford for the out. A nice play by Gil McDougall, that play goes from three to four to one.
As Mark Thornberry got his glove on the ball.
He gets an assist on that play and Preston Ward is out and Minosso moving down to second base.
And the batter, Dick Brown who popped to McDougall at second base in the second inning.
Dick Brown a right hand batter.
Slightly open stance, not as much as Minosso but with his left foot back from his right foot, sort of facing the pitcher.
Curve is inside ball one. McDougall has given many a hard time on his second running him back.
Minosso's a real good base runner.
Here's a stretch by Whitey.
The curve is hit through the middle out to center field, a base hit. Here's Minosso around third and he scores.
Dick Brown hits a single up the middle out to center field, scoring many Minosso from second base.
It's now a 3-1 ball game in favor of the Yankees.
And with one away, Dick Brown at first is Chico Carrasqueda who popped to first base in the second inning.
Brown looks like a pretty good hitter.
He's got four home runs already this year.
Since the Chico has hit, off fourth league and it's a base hit for Chico Carrasqueda.
That was a hot shot right back to the mound. Before Whitey could get his bat down, he hit him on the inside part of his left foot
and ricocheted over to third base. And before Lumpy could come up with the ball, Carrasqueda passed first down to second.
Dick Brown and the Indians have runners at first and second.
One man is out here in the left. To the fourth they have one run in. The Yankees lead 3-1.
Rocky Colavito, the boy from the Bronx, he's got a lot of power.
Third ball is outside in high ball one.
Here's a stretch. And the pitch, the curve is hit. Oh, down the left field line.
Back in the seat out play. Man, that was a vicious foul ball.
It looks like we're going to have a little action in the Yankee bullpen.
Art Ditmar gets the call. Start limbering up.
Three solid base hits off Whitey and so K.P. Stengel taking no chances.
Curve is in the dirt. Yogi blocks it nicely. Ball two, two and one.
Man, we not only got a big crowd today, we got a noisy crowd here.
They're really whooping it up.
The ball stretches. A 2-1 pitch. Low curve hit.
Trev and McDougal up with it.
First to first in time to get Colavito. A nice play.
Rocky hit that ball right off the end of his bat and it's squibbed by Ford.
McDougal playing it back at second. Had a run in. Scoop it up and throw to first.
Both runners advanced. There are men at second and third.
Two out in the bat of Roger Maris. Maris bounced out short to first in the third inning.
Roger Maris, a left hand hitter. Whitey, Ford on the mound. Into his windup.
And the curve ball is strike one as Maris stepped out of the way of the curve and it broke over.
Again, Ford into his windup. Curve is a little outside ball, 1-1-1.
There's action in the Indian bullpen too.
It's Joe Ripley's got to put the glasses on him. They're a mile away from here.
Here's the windup. Sidearm curve is low outside. Ball through 2-1-1.
Grant and Faresi warming up. Grant the right hander, Faresi the left hander.
Two balls and one strike to count on Roger Maris.
Here's the 2-1 pitch. Low outside, ball three, 3-1.
Rod Dittmar warming up all alone in the Yankee bullpen.
And Jim Mudcat Grant, a right hander. And Don Faresi, a left hander, warming up for the Indians.
Here's the windup. The 3-1 pitch. Outside, ball four, he lost them.
The first walk given up by Whitey Ford and the bases are loaded.
Maris is down at first base. Kara Skellig second. Dick Brown over third.
And they're getting somebody from out of the bullpen.
Gary Geiger is running out to the bullpen.
And coming in from the bullpen, as a pinch hitter.
And J.W. Porter is coming on to pinch hit for Ray Lalesky.
J.W. Porter, who was with the St. Louis Browns or Detroit Tigers.
He is a catcher and an outfielder, a right hand batter.
He's batting 250 so far for Cleveland. He's been up just four times with one base hit.
He has one run battered in.
J.W. Porter, a right hand hitter, comes on to pinch hit for Ray Lalesky.
And for Lalesky, he went four innings, giving up six hits, walk three, struck out four, and allowed three runs.
So here's Porter digging in with the bases loaded and two out.
The Yankees leading 3-1 here in the last of the quarter.
The curve is hit on the ground and shot.
Go back to McGoogle for out number three for the Indians in the last of the fourth.
One run on three base hits. No Yankee.
Eris Freeman left the score at the end of four.
The Yankees three, the Indians one, and now Joe Ripley.
Okay, Phil, let's run down the scores.
The American League first, a single game, Baltimore, Kansas City has not yet got underway.
Boston at Chicago, a double header, first game it will be Bauman against Dunovan.
Two games in Detroit, Washington in Detroit, first game Kemmerer against Bunning, no score there yet.
In the National League, St. Louis plays a double header at Cincinnati,
and in the first game at the end of an inning and a half,
for St. Louis 2, Cincinnati nothing, Brosnan and Raid.
Chicago at Milwaukee playing two games.
First game, Batteries Phillips for Chicago and Crowbridge for Milwaukee.
The Dodgers play Philadelphia, nothing there yet.
And San Francisco plays a double header at Pittsburgh.
Second game, at the end of five full innings, it's all tied up 2-2.
Gomez going for San Francisco and Law going for Pittsburgh.
Now that will be over in just a moment.
Give you the play-by-play here at Municipal Stadium Cleveland.
Beautiful day, still sunshiny, bright, warm, blue sky.
Weatherman this morning had said something about the weather turning rainy,
but so far there's certainly no sign of that here.
First batter up for the Yankees, who lead by a score of 3-1.
The first batter will be Mickey Mantle.
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Don Floresse coming in to pitch for the Indians.
The left-hander that went to the ninth inning once against the Yankees
with a no-hitter in his grasp and lost it then.
Mickey Mantle, one for two,
standing right-handed against the left-handed pitching, Floresse.
The left-hander throws and it's in there for a strike.
In comes the next pitch and it's over, strike two.
There is nothing in two, this is his eighth appearance.
No balls, two strikes and the pitch.
Swung on it, missed, strike three.
One away.
And here's Gil McDougal, who twice has walked.
Jerry Lompe to follow.
Three to one, New York, first half of the fifth inning.
Don Floresse delivers, McDougal takes it inside, ball one.
The next pitch is inside, ball two.
A do-nothing pitch to Gil, right over, strike one.
Raynard Lesky worked the first four innings, allowed six hits and three runs.
Walked three and strike out four.
Buried a three-run homer with two out in the fourth inning.
Next pitch, swung on and missed, strike two, two-two.
The two-two pitch, ball three inside.
Ferressi had an 11-5 record for Vancouver last year and won one in Baltimore.
Now the delivery.
It's low inside for ball four and McDougal walks for the third straight time.
Into the plate comes Jerry Lompe, who grounded the second and lined the left.
Alston Howard on deck.
The delivery to Jerry, swung on, it's a high fly ball to the center.
Ferressi getting back, flips the glasses down and makes the catch.
McDougal, a little better than a half-way to second, retreats to first.
Two men down and Alston Howard steps in, fouled out the catcher and grounded a short.
Three to one New York, it's the fifth inning.
Ferressi checks with Dick Brown.
The pitch is a little outside, ball one.
Left hander ready, in comes the pitch, swung on, it missed, strike one, one and one.
The pitch is over the inside corner, strike two, one and two.
The ball two strikes.
Here's the pitch, swung on, it missed, strike three.
And down Ferressi turns in a fine bit of pitching here in the fifth inning in relief.
No runs, no hits, no errors and one man left on.
At the end of four and a half innings, the score remains the Yankees three and the Indians one.
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It's the last half of the fifth inning and the top of the Indian order, Billy Harrell, Bobby Avila and Manny Minoso.
Harrell's at one for one, the pitch is outside, ball one.
What a bunt to bring Lumpy in a little.
Forward into the windup and the pitch is low, ball two.
Whitey has not been too sharp today.
The two-nothing delivery is high, ball three.
The three-nothing pitch inside ball four.
Harrell walks.
Out of the plate comes Bobby Avila who flied to right and struck out.
Indian fans start that rhythmic applause again.
The three forward ready and the pitch, it's high, ball one.
Whitey's fighting out there to regain his control touch.
The left-hander sets, delivers inside, ball two.
Six straight pitches that have failed to hit the strike zone.
And Turner signals to the bullpen for our dip mar to get up again.
Two balls, no strikes and the pitch, it's over two and one.
And the next delivery, over, strike two, two-two.
Two balls, two strikes.
Curve ball is looped out in the right field for a face hit.
There goes Harrell stopping at second.
He rounded it and then came right back quickly as Howard threw in.
And the Indians have runners on first and second, nobody out.
And Mindy Minoso coming up.
Art Ditmar warming up for the Yankees.
Preston Ward's on deck, Dick Brown to follow.
Minoso grounded to short and single to left.
Two on, nobody out.
Forward to the stretch, pitch to Minny, outside, ball one.
Throneberry is in close at first.
Here's the delivery and it's in there for a strike, one and one.
And now Minoso has another look at Eddie Stanky.
The take was on on the last pitch.
One ball, one strike.
Billy Harrell on second, Vilon first.
They've got speed on the bases and power at the plate.
Three to one New York, fifth inning.
Ford again to the stretch.
Throw to second and the runner's back.
Pickoff effort.
White hit it, whirled and threw to the bag.
McDougall jumped over and grabbed it.
He was deployed over toward the bag with a full hitter up.
Again the stretch by Ford.
Here's the pitch.
He's sprung on and bowled back out of play.
Strike two.
One ball, two strikes.
Casey backs Throneberry up now.
A one-two count on Minny.
Ford into the stretch and the pitch.
Swung on, hit bowled on the first baseline.
Count remains one and two.
Again the stretch by White.
The two runners lead away.
Here's the pitch.
Minosa takes high.
Slow curve, two-two.
The stretch by Ford.
Here's the delivery.
Swung on, it's a pop-up to third.
And the infield fly rule is called.
The batter is automatically out.
The umpire has had a delay a little bit on the call
because so close to the line,
it must be a fair ball for an infield fly rule to be invoked.
If it's a foul, the infield fly rule does not prevail.
The rule of course which says,
this is for the newer fans and with runners on first and second
or first, second and third,
less than two out if the batter hits a pop-up,
which in the judgment of the umpires can be handled by an infielder,
the batter is automatically out.
But it must be a fair ball, that's why they had to wait.
Here's Preston Ward.
Left-hand batter takes high and inside, ball one.
Ward flying to left and grounded to McDougall.
Carroll on second, Avila on first.
Whitey Ford's pitch, curve, is swung on foul, back out of play.
A one-one count on Preston Ward.
One ball, one strike.
Ward to the stretch, a look around, and the pitch.
Outside, ball two, two and one.
A two-one count on the first baseman.
Ward again to the stretch, a look around to two runners, and the pitch.
Swung on, a looping foul, a third, and it's out of play.
A two-two count.
McDougall's two strikes went out, Carroll leads off second, Avila off first.
Whitey Ford pitches, Preston Ward swings and misses, strike three.
Two men out, and Dick Brown coming up.
He's at one for two.
He's a good hitter.
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New York, two out, two on.
Whitey into the stretch, and the pitch, swung on and missed, strike one.
Dick Brown at the plate, Aron on second, Avila on first.
Forward to the stretch, and here's the delivery.
Swung on, a bouncer hits the third, Lumpy takes it, steps on third for the four-side of Harrell, and the side's retired.
No runs, one hit, no errors, two men left on.
And at the end of five innings of play, the Yankees three runs, six hits, no errors, seven left on.
The Indians one-one-five hits, no errors, and seven men left on base.
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And on the Valentine scoreboard, no report Baltimore-Candace City is yet one game.
Chicago leads Boston one-to-nothing, ten to the first inning.
Donovan against Bauman.
Washington leads Detroit one-to-nothing, ten to the first inning.
Kemmerer and Funning, they're playing double-headers.
Washington will be at the stadium Friday for the holiday double-header.
National League, Cardinals four, Cincinnati one, ten to three innings, Brosnan and Rabe.
Chicago, Milwaukee, no score, end of two innings, Phillips and Trowbridge.
And they're playing double-headers.
Los Angeles and Philadelphia, rained out, single game.
San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 2-2 at the end of six innings.
As for San Francisco, a lot for Pittsburgh, but Blackburn has come on in the seventh.
As we move into the sixth inning, Marv Throneberry hitting eighth in the orders,
24 to follow, and then Harry Simpson, who's in the leadoff spot.
And Don Foresse, a left-hander who relieved Nileski at last inning,
into the windup and the pitch to Throneberry is in there for a strike.
The outfield playing Throneberry straight away, well spread out,
protecting the foul lines as much as possible, and the pitch, it's high, ball one, one and one.
One ball, one strike.
And the one-one pitch, look out, high and inside, gets away from Brown to the screen.
A 2-1 count on Throneberry.
Foresse into the windup, in comes the pitch, Throneberry swings and fouls it on the ground
over to the right of the plate near the Indian dugout.
A 2-2 count.
Two balls, two strikes.
Foresse pitches and Throneberry takes it outside into the dirt.
Ball bounces back to the screen, 3-2.
Full count on Marv.
New York 3, Cleveland 1, sixth inning.
Three balls, two strikes.
Don Foresse checking with Dick Brown.
Swings to the windup, around comes the left arm, the pitch is inside for ball four.
Throneberry walks.
That's the second pass given up by Foresse.
And Whitey Ford wanders up to the plate, struck out and single to left.
It helped to keep a rally alive.
It was climaxed in the fourth inning by Yogi Berra's three-run homer.
Throneberry had singled his run out in the fourth.
Ford singled and with two down, Berra hit the home run.
Whitey has his look at Frank Presetti.
Chico Kairoskala, third, moves in close.
Preston Moore holding against Throneberry.
Foresse pitches, Ford takes it inside for ball.
He almost offered at it.
And the delivery, Bunt it, and Ward will make his play to second base.
For one, they throw back to first and he gets away from Abela and in the Indians' dugout,
and Ford goes down to second.
Carroll threw the ball away, trying to double up Ford at first with Abela covering.
And Bunt, for the attempted sacrifice, it resulted in a force out at second.
Throneberry wore it to Harrell, whose throw then to Abela, covering, to try and double Ford,
was low, bounded by Abela and an Indian dugout, and the ground rule prevailed,
and Ford was motioned on to second.
Here's Harry Simpson, who grounded a short, walked, and struck out.
Don Foresse to the stretch, the pitch to Simpson, high and inside.
So the effect of the attempted sacrifice actually took place,
but with Ford on second instead of Throneberry, they'd rather have had Ford in the dugout resting.
And to there, Bridget Simpson, inside, ball two.
And here's the pitch to Harry, and it's over for a strike, two and one.
Two balls, one strike, and the pitch, swung on, there's the loop over short to left for a base hit,
but Ford, Ford's being waved in and he couldn't pick the ball up and throws too late.
And Ford scores.
It was a single to short left, but Noera is charged on the play,
although many had trouble picking the ball up, and Ford was going to stop at third and then throw-waved him on.
Now right of it, double check. Noera. Noera.
Ford to one, New York.
Yogi Berra steps in, he's at two for three, a single and a three-run homer.
Feressi's pitch, low, ball one, Yogi checked his swing.
And the pitch, swung on, hit by first to right field for a base hit, but Simpson stops at second.
Colabito cuts loose with his good throw, cut off by Billy Harrell.
Berra gets his third hit, single to right.
Tony Kubek steps in, fly to center, beat out of front to third, fly to left.
The Indian bullpen gets the call.
Don Feressi, ready to work to Tony Kubek.
Another pitch, outside, ball one.
Next pitch is swung on and fouled off. Bob Lemmon's up and throwing.
Kelly and Lemmon warming up. Bob Kelly and Bob Lemmon. Lemmon was reinstated yesterday, he'd been on the disabled list.
Gerald Hardy was put on the disabled list after suffering attack of appendicitis.
One ball, one strike on Kubek. One run in on the sixth inning, 4-1 New York. Simpson on second and Berra on first.
Don Feressi to the stretch. And the 1-1 pitch, swung on, hit foul, back a third out of play.
One ball, two strikes.
Feressi's pitch, curve ball low outside, 2-2.
A 2-2 count.
Don Feressi into the stretch once more. Here's the pitch to Kubek, swung on, hit back to the box. Feressi throws to Harrell for one, back to first double play.
And the side's retired. One run, two hits, one error, and one left on. And the score's down to five and a half innings of play. The Yankees four, the Indians one.
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It's the crisp refresher. Last half of the sixth inning. Chico Carrascau, Rocky Colabito, and Roger Maris, first three men up. Six, seven, eight positions in the order.
Bob Lemma and Bob Kelly continue to warm up, so there's always the possibility of a pinch hitter for Foresse, who is fourth up in this inning if somebody gets bored.
The Yankees will be home on Friday for the holiday doubleheader. After that, a two-game visit to Boston and back to New York to open a stand against the West starting Monday night, a make-up game of the Chicago White Sox, Monday night, June 2nd, Tuesday night, June 3rd, Wednesday afternoon, June 4th, and a doubleheader, June 5th, for the White Sox.
A doubleheader with these Indians awake from the day, or two weeks from today, rather, at the stadium. Board pitching now to Carrascau. Fast ball is high, ball one.
A whine into the wind up delivers. Curve ball, and it's a little high, ball two, two and nothing.
A two-nothing pitch to the right-hand hitter. Carrascau takes high and away, ball three. Whitey's been laboring out there today. His three-nothing pitch. It's inside, ball four, and Carrascau walks.
Now Rocky Colabito moves up to the plate, and is struck out and grounded to second.
Third walk, issued by Ford. He's been having trouble ever since the third inning.
A pitch over the inside corner, strike one.
Although he's only given up one run and five hits, he's been in frequent trouble.
Check for the runner. A pitch inside, ball one, one and one.
And now the Yankee bullpen gets called, and Ryan Duren gets up.
Whitey delivers, swung on. There's a drive in the center, a manhole going over, and makes the catch in left center, a high liner. One down.
Roger Marist comes to bat, grounded to short and walk, left-hand hitter.
Colabito walking in the Indians' dugout, slams the water cooler.
Last of the sixth, the Yanks for Indians one. Carrascau moves off first. A pitch to Marist, curve ball over, strike one.
Casey's got Elston Howard playing way over to the right field line.
Marist goes in the right center. Simpson almost straightaway left, leaving a big gap in left center.
Whitey pitches, Marist takes fastball outside, and accounts one and one.
Ball one, strike. Whitey to the stretch. Carrascau leading away, and the pitch. Curve ball way outside, ball two, two and one.
Whitey's been behind a lot of these batters, which in itself is proof he's not on his game, because when he's sharp, as most pitches are, they stay ahead of those hitters.
Here's the delivery, swung on and grounded foul over toward the Indians' dugout.
Count two, two now. Mann leaned over to try to get the ball, and hit just below his hand, and he missed it. Zick ricocheted back to the playing field.
Two balls, two strikes. Whitey into the stretch, then steps off the rubber. Marist steps out for a moment.
Now he's back in, Whitey is back on, and Carrascau's back off of first.
A stretch by Ford, a look over Carrascau, the pitch is swung on, high fly ball to right. Elston Howard's under it and makes the catch.
Carrascau retreating to first, two down, and Don Faresi is the scheduled batter.
Lemon and Kelly still warming up in the bullpen, and Mickey Vernon is going to come up to hit for Don Faresi.
Vernon's batting 371.
Forty-year-old Mickey Vernon, an outstanding performer through the years. Ford's pitch, curve ball is over, strike one.
Billy Harrell, the leadoff man on deck. It's the last of the sixth inning, four to one, New York.
Carrascau moves off first, Ford delivers, and Vernon swings and fouls it to the left of the plate, out of play.
Two, he's trying to punch that one to the opposite field.
Ryan Duren continues to loosen up for New York.
Either Bob Lemon or Bob Kelly will be coming on.
Here's the pitch, and it's in there for golf strike three, curve ball, retiring the side.
Four runs, no hits, no errors, and one left on, the end of six innings.
The Yankees, four runs, eight hits, no errors, and eight left on.
Cleveland, one run, five hits, one error, and eight men left on.
And Bob Lemon, already getting a hand, gets into the automobile that swings around from beyond the right field fence where the Indian bullpen is located.
And he'll be coming in to pitch. He just reinstated after being put on the disabled list, and he'll get a hand. Bob Lemon, listen.
Lemon gets out of the car, walking the mound, and the fans continue applauding. A great ball player.
Lemon made two appearances this year, a record of nothing in one, worked only three in the third innings.
He had his arm operated on last winter, and he acted up on him, and he was put on the disabled list.
He just reinstated yesterday, North Carol Hardy, being taken off the roster for the nephandectomy.
So Bob Lemon's coming on, a six-foot, 190-pound, 38-year-old right-hander, and not quite 38, who will be in a couple of months.
Bob, last year, had a 6'11 record, developing that sore arm.
He has a lifetime record of 207 wins, 128 losses. Seven times he was a 20-game winner.
He started pitching for the Indians in 1946. One of the all-time greats in my book.
The first man he faces, Mickey Mantle, first of the seven. The pitch, swung on, supply ball hit the left.
Manosa getting back for it, right near the fence, and makes the catch.
Went away in the seventh. Mantle, one for four. Gail McDougall has walked three times.
11 to the wind. Up around comes the right arm. The pitch is inside, ball one.
The Indians are wearing pinstripe uniforms this year, a la the Yankees. They used to always have just plain white.
Now the delivery. It's over there for a strike, one and one.
The next pitch, over, strike two, one and two. Got a fastball over the inside corner.
Don Perezzi worked two innings, allowed two hits, walked two, struck out two, gave up one run.
Ray Naleski, who started, worked the very first four innings.
Next pitch, DeGale swung on and popped up toward third.
Tarasco moves in on the infield grass, makes the catch, two down.
And out of the plate comes Jerry Lumpy, who grounded the second, lined the left, and flied the center.
Lemon has a good sinker in his repertoire of pitches, which include, of course, good fastball and curve and slider.
Lemon's pitch to Lumpy's bun it, and missed, strike one.
Four to one, New York, seven pinning.
Johnny Cooks and Vic Tominak are the pitchers for the second game.
Lemon's one strike offering. It's over, strike two, nothing and two.
Two strike pitch. It's low outside, one and two. Ball gets away from Vic Brown.
Now the one-two pitch on its way to the left-hand hitter. It's low inside, two-two.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs.
Lemon to the windup, around comes the right arm, the pitch, and Lumpy takes it just outside, ball three, three and two.
A full count on Jerry.
Lemon studies the sign given to him by Vic Brown. He's ready as the windup, the payoff pitch, swung on him, missed, strike three.
No runs, no hits, no errors, no one left on.
And the score, they have a six and a half innings. The Yankees four, and the Indians one.
And Lemon gets a hand. He comes in after being reinstated from the disabled list and pitches a fine inning.
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Jimmy Harrell was hit by a pitched ball, single to center, and walked.
4-1 New York, last for 7. Whitey Ford's pitch is high and inside, ball one.
One ball, more strikes.
And the delivery. It's in there, strike one, winning one.
One ball, one strike.
On to the windup, in comes the pitch, swung out, lined to third.
Hot slider, head high, Jerry Lumpy grabbed it.
Bobby Avila, lined to right, struck out, and single to right. He's at one out of three. Miniminosa on deck.
Board into the windup, and the pitch is curved, swung on, and fouled off over toward the Yankee dugout.
Bobby's a one-time American League batting champion.
From Veracruz, Mexico, the one-strike pitch, it's inside, ball one.
Avila's wearing a golfer's glove on his left hand, a little tender.
Here's the one-one pitch, swung on, it's a high drive to left.
Simpson getting back near the barrier and makes the catch about five feet from the fence.
Two men away, and the last of the seventh.
Now coming up is Miniminosa, grounded to short, single to left, and popped to third.
Open stance, the rear foot in close to the plate, the front foot, left foot, pulled away.
Half-paces the pitcher head-on. The delivery is high outside, ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
Board into the windup, and the pitch on its way. Curve is in there, strike one, slow curve.
One ball, one strike.
Two-one pitch, the right-handed, curve in tight, ball two. He started to swing and held up, Whitey, broke the curve ball in on the best of the hitter.
Two-and-one, the count on Miniminosa, and leans over that plate in the pit of the crouch.
And the two-one pitch, fast ball, hit to the box. Whitey grabs it on the hop, throws on over the thrown barrier, and the side is retired.
No runs, no hits, no errors, no one left on. At the end of seven-inning supply, the Yankees lead four to one. Four runs, eight hits, no errors. To one run, five hits, one error.
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In the meantime, Joe Ripley will run down the scores for you.
Okay, well, the batteries, the game between Baltimore and Kansas City.
Going for Baltimore and Garber for Kansas City. First of two, Boston and Chicago. At the end of three full innings, Boston three, Chicago one.
Second with two on. And a double header between Washington and Detroit. First game at the end of two and a half. Washington two, Detroit nothing.
The camera again is running. Blues, home run for Washington in the third. In the National League, St. Louis and Cincinnati playing two games. First game at the end of four and a half innings.
St. Louis four, Cincinnati one. Brosnan for St. Louis. Rafe started for Cincinnati, relieved by Acker in the fourth.
Chicago and Milwaukee playing a double header. At the end of four full innings, the first game, Chicago one, Milwaukee zero. Phillips against Trollpreech.
Los Angeles to Philadelphia, rained out. San Francisco defeated Pittsburgh first of two, five, fifteen, three. Pittsburgh two runs nine, hits one error. Here's the pitch and Phil.
Austin Howard hits the first pitch to shortstop the third of first in time for the out. One away as Ellie Howard is now 0-4 on the day.
Yeah Joe, you got some help? I just want to say Gomez was the winning pitcher and Law the losing pitcher in the first game San Francisco. Okay Joe. Here's Marv Throneberry who is one for two, struck out, single a right and walked.
Bob Lemon on the mound. The fastball is on the outside corner, strike one. Bob Lemon will receive such a thunderous ovation on his first start since being on the disabled list. Curveball is low inside, ball one, one and one.
Lemon is one of the top pitchers in the big leagues. Walk in as an infielder outfielder. Will Bejoe switched him over to pitching. Here's the one-one pitch. Curve low inside, ball two, two and one.
When Lemon is right, which means when he's got his good stuff, he's as tough to hit as anybody in the big leagues. Never gives you the same pitch twice. Ball's always doing something, never a straight ball, curve, sliders, sinkers, knuckle balls, change of places.
The two-one pitch is just outside low ball three, three and one.
Lemon ready. The three-one pitch is outside ball four. He lost him. Down to first base goes Marv Throneberry. And coming to the bat, Whitey four.
Whitey struck out in the second and he singles a left field in the fourth. And reached on an error by the shortstop in the sixth inning. One for three.
And with one away, the Indian infielder looking for the front. This is the third time that Whitey is up with a bunt situation in order. He does that same play and singles the center field. Exactly the same play as he pulled in the fourth inning when he squared around his other bunt and then turned around and just punched the ball into center field.
The first hitter, Bob Lemon, and man, Whitey Ford has got that play down perfectly. He squares around his other bunt. As the pitch comes in, he just steps back and punches at the ball, not hard.
And so the Yankees have runners at first and second, one away in the bat of Harry Simpson. Harry's one for three. Bounced out short to first, Warf struck out single to left. First pitch is low outside ball one.
And that Whitey will have plenty to talk about tonight. And on that ride to Kansas City. A stretch and a pitch to Simpson low inside ball two, two or nothing. Those pitchers like to get their base hits.
Two balls, no strikes. One away here in the top of the eighth. Yankees lead four to one.
Tomorrow at the plate, strike one, two balls and one strike.
Lemon stretches. A 2-1 pitch is fouled back out of play, strike two, two and two.
Two balls, two strikes and one out. Another big game coming up after this one.
Throneberry leading with second base, four to first. Two and two to count on Simpson. Here's the stretch by Bob Lemon.
And the pitch is low in the dirt ball three, three and two as Bob tries to get that sinker down around his knees.
Full count now on Harry Simpson. Lemon stretches, gets the sign. The pitch is.
And to run from first to home might have tired him out. And any time a pitcher gets tired running the bases, it shows in the next inning.
His control isn't quite as good and his fast ball isn't quite as fast and as a result he could be hit pretty hard.
For Presetti very wisely, has them up and now they're going to walk Yogi Berra to load the bases and pitch to Tony Cooper.
Here's Lemon giving an intentional pass to Yogi Berra and Yogi's had himself quite a first game here. He singles a deep short, fly to right, home it over the right field wall and then line the single in the right field.
Three for four on the day and as ball four Yogi gets an intentional pass and it brings up Tony Kubek.
He throws one for four, fly to center, beat out a bunt, fly to left and hit into a double play.
One man out and the base is loaded here in the top of the eighth.
First pitch by Bob Lemon is low outside ball one.
Bob Kelly gets up in the Indian bullpen.
Wind up and the pitch to Kubek is a slow ground ball to second base. A run will score but Kubek is out at first base and Tony gets himself an RBI.
And it's now a six to one ball game as Whitey Ford comes across the score and here's Mickey Mantle.
And now let's see if they're going to walk Mantle to pitch to McDougal.
Dick Brown is looking in towards the Cleveland dugout to see what they're going to do and they're putting him on.
They're going to put Mantle on. Mickey says he doesn't need the helmet but he's got a bat up there with the helmet.
Ed Hurley is telling Mickey that he's got to put the helmet on. Mickey saw the sign to pass him intentionally so he said to Ed,
he threw the helmet away and told Hurley that as long as they weren't going to pitch to him he didn't need the helmet.
But the rules say that you have to wear the helmet when you're at bat.
And now Ralph Hough has had the helmet on down at first base. You see what the batters do.
When they get to first base, when they get to first base they take the helmet off, they wear it right over their regular cap,
and throw it to Ralph Hough coaching and Ralph puts it on his head to save time.
And now we're ready to go.
And they're walking Mickey intentionally.
The fans are booing. Of course they want to see Mantle hit but the strategy of the ball game is to walk Mantle with the base open
and pitch to the next batter who is a right-hand hitter, Gil McDougal,
where the percentage of a right-hand pitcher getting a right-hand batter out is greater than of getting a left-hand hitter out.
There's ball four. Mickey walks.
And here's Gil McDougal. Gil has walked three times and popped a third.
Go for one.
The bases are loaded with two out here on the top of the eighth. The Yankees lead six to one.
Pitch to McDougal is a curve outside ball one.
Here's the one-up and pitch to Gil. They foul back out of play.
Strike one, one-on-one.
The seminars walk three men in this inning, two of them intentionally. They walk better to load the bases and then Mantle will walk the bases.
To load the bases.
One ball, one strike on McDougal.
Two outside, two outside. Two curve low outside. Ball two, two and one.
Two balls, one strike and two out. Frank Crisetti coaching a third. Ralph Hock over at first.
Pitch is outside ball three, three and one.
The Yankees are getting ready now to three-one pitch. A line drive to right three and Rocky Calavita over 100. Takes it for a round number three.
And so for the Yankees in the top of the eighth, two runs on two base hits. No Indian errors and three men left on base.
Seven and a half innings. The Yankees six and the Indians one. And now here's a song about Ballantine beer, the crisp refresher.
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All right, here we go back at municipal stadium for the last half of the seventh inning. The Yankees are leading the ball game six to one.
Righty-pulled all the way for the Yankees. The Indians have three pitches so far. Ray Nalewski started, Don Foresse, and Bob Lennon.
And here's Creston Moore, the first baseman who's over three. Popped his short, bounced out to second base, and struck out.
First pitch is a fast-forward strike one on the outside corner. One-nothing pitch is a curved swing and a missed strike two.
Bob Kelly continues to warm up in the Indian bullpen because Bob Lennon is making his first appearance since being put on the disabled list,
and they might let Bob go with a two-winning job to sort of strengthen his arm, maybe not give him too much work the first time out.
One-one pitch is hit in the right field, a base hit. It looked like he was pulling on the curve, just struck his bat out and sent a liner between first and second off the right field.
That's hit number six for the Indians, and here's Dick Brown, the catcher, who popped a second single at center to drive in the only run for the Indians so far and popped a third base.
Rather he hit it grounded at third and lucky grabbed it and stepped on third to the unassisted course play.
The best ball of ground ball is short. Kubek to McDougall. To Thornberry, he's safe as McDougall's throw pulled him off the bag.
Tony Kubek almost took that double play himself, and he could have. He was that close to second base at the last second decided to flip it to McDougall.
The first throw to first base was a little high, pulled Thornberry off the bag, so it's a force play. Six to four, and here's Rocky, now Chico Carascale.
Chico's one for two, popped a third single, and walk. Service high outside for one.
That's why he stretches. First ball is hit on the line in left center field. Maddlin over, Howard over, and Maddlin makes the grab over his shoulder.
That was Maddlin Simpson chasing that ball. Howard is out in right field. Mickey Maddlin makes the grab in left center field.
And here's Rocky Colavito. Rocky struck out, bounced out second of first, and lined Maddlin's center field.
He's out here in the last of the eighth, the first pitch to Colavito outside ball one.
Here's Rocky Colavito, right hand hitter. Forth stretches. Curve is hit in the air to short left center. Pull back back, Simpson in, and Simpson makes the grab.
So the Indians in the last of the eighth, no runs, one hit. No Yankees, there is one man left. The score at the end of eighth full innings, the Yankees six and the Indians one.
Take another look at the scoreboard in the American League in a single game. Baltimore at Kansas City at the end of one half inning of play.
Baltimore nothing, Kansas City at that. Compass against Garver. Boston leads Chicago five to one at the end of four in their first game.
Bauman for Boston. Donovan started. Forth is in the fourth. Lepsio had a home in the second with two on.
Washington at Detroit tied two-two at the end of four and a half. Kemmer against Bunning. Blue is the home in the third.
In the National League, Cardinals lead Cincinnati four to one at the end of five and a half. Bosnian for St. Louis. Graves started for Cincinnati.
Acker in the fourth. Nuxhole in the sixth. Chicago leads Milwaukee one and nothing at the end of five and a half. Phillips against Trowbridge.
Los Angeles at Philadelphia postponed because of rain. And the Giants defeated the Pirates in the first game for double out of five to two.
Gomez the winner. Schmidt and Relief in the eighth. Law the loser. Blackburn in the seventh. Porterfield in the eighth.
And they have another game to go and starting pitch is Monzant for the Giants. Raiden for Pittsburgh.
And as there are no pitchers coming in for Cleveland, we'll pause for station identification.
W. O. Kill, 1460 on your dial. First in Albany. The Troy Buick baseball roundup follows the game.
Bob Kelly comes in to take over for Bob Lemon. On the air he's one-none and lost one. Has no record against the Yankees.
His first appearance against the Yankees. This is his seventh appearance of the year. He started three games. This will be his fourth Relief appearance.
So Bob Lemon while he was in there worked two full innings. He gave up two hits. Walked through two of them intentionally. He struck out one and allowed two runs.
So Bob did very well. Bob Lemon, that is not Bob Neal, on the mound. Very happy to see Bob Neal again. He's been on a diet, very slim.
Didn't even recognize him. Oh, Pappy Durkin and I didn't recognize him as he walked in. And Bob Kelly on the mound for the Cleveland Indians pitching to Jerry Lumpy as we get ready to go here in the top of the ninth inning with the Yankees leading 6-1.
Lumpy's 0-4. Hits a ground ball to second base. Off of Heeler's leg in a short right field. And Lumpy's safe at first base and that will be an error.
And error charged to Bobby Avila. That was a hot shot but right at Bobby and he lifted his glove a little too soon and went underneath and hit him on the left leg, hopped in a short right field.
And that will bring up Elston Howard who was 0-4, popped in a catcher, bounced out short to first twice and struck out.
Preston Ward holding the bag against Jerry Lumpy.
Here's the stretch by Bob Kelly. The pitch is a line drive to right field. Rocky Colivito going back under it and takes it for out number one.
And that away is Howard hit a hard shot right out Colivito in right field. And that will bring up Mark Throneberry who's 1-2, struck out single right and walked twice. Scored two runs. Kelly on the mound is a real good palm ball.
Palm ball is a pitch where you hold it with your little finger and your thumb and just let it slide out. It works a little like a knuckleball and change of pace.
There it is, strike one. That Throneberry ducking back on the pitch.
Lumpy leads away. Pass ball is in the dirt ball, one-one-one.
One ball, one strike. Here's the stretch by Bob Kelly. There's a ground ball right out of Villa, up at it to Howard for one. Back to first, double play.
And for the Yankees, in the top of the ninth, no runs, no hits. One Cleveland error and nobody left. A score at the end of 8-1 half innings. The Yankees 6 and the Indians 1.
Well, this is a beautiful day. Now we've got another ball game to go so let's go to the lighter side of baseball. Here's one they tell about a well-known manager.
When he was managing the Cleveland Indians he showed up one day with a bad cold and kept his handkerchief pretty busy. Right from the start every Cleveland Indian who reached first immediately tried to steal second.
After a while the manager was puzzled by this unusual display of larceny until one of his coaches reminded him that his steal time was the handkerchief and advised him to come up with a new signal until he got rid of that cold.
That was a dandy. But now for the lighter side of something else. Let's talk about Valentine beer, the Crisp Refresher.
Man, just lift a glass of Valentine to your lips. So icily light, so smooth and delicious. Precisely right.
And on top of that it's lively, golden, crisply clear. That's the Crisp Refresher Valentine beer.
So make the three ring sign and ask the man for Valentine. Valentine beer.
And now the Indians are down to their last three outs if they want to stay in this ball game. The Yankees lead them by a score of 6 to 1 as we're playing the last of the night.
Whitey Ford has gone all the way so far for the Yankees on the mound.
He'll be facing Roger Maris. Maris is open two, bounce out short to first walk and fly to right field. Left hand hitter, swings at a curve, doesn't get a strike one.
The one strike pitch is taking high ball one, one and one. You can hear those cowbells in the back of the Cleveland fan who's got on an old black derby.
Trying to get a rally started here some way. One, one pitch, a slow curve on the inside corner, strike two, one ball, two strikes.
There's a swing and a miss, strike three. Roger Maris goes down on strikes.
And with the pitcher, Kelly Dunex, Billy Moran comes down to finch it. Moran's batting 160.
He's got a team for 81. He has two doubles and four runs about it and a right hand hitter.
Moran is a fastball lower, ball one. Fastball is inside, ball two, two and nothing.
Two balls and one strike.
Here's the two, one pitch, a slow curve foul, a little by the Yankee dugout.
Two and two to count. On deck, Billy Howell. Well, the bells are ringing.
A two, two pitch, inside ball three, three and two.
Brian Dune is up again in the Yankee bullpen. When he gets around that eighth and ninth inning, he's the man that Casey Stengel has been calling on more than anybody else.
A playoff pitch, a five ball to left field. Harry Simpson over near the line.
Takes the ball in bad territory near the wall for out number two. Two away.
And here's Billy Howell, the leadoff man, who has been on base three times, has hit by a pitch ball, single a center walk and then lined a third baseman, Jerry Lumpy.
And the Indians are down to their lowest out.
Here's the first pitch to Howell, high ball one.
The one nothing pitch. There's a ground ball, a third Lumpy up on a big hop.
The throw to first, the ball game's over and the Yankees win it by a score of six to one.
For the Indians in the last of the ninth, no runs, no hits, no Yankees, nobody left.
And that's all for the first game. For the Yankees, six runs, ten hits, no errors, 11 men left.
For the Indians, one run, six hits, two errors, nine men left.
The winning pitcher, Whitey Ford, who went all the way, his record now five wins and two defeats.
The loser, Ray Nolenski, who started and went four innings, his record now five wins and four defeats.