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On Thursday, October 5, 1950, the New York Yankees faced the Philadelphia Phillies at
Shide Park for Game 2 of the 1950 World Series. The Yankees led the series 1-0 after a two-hit
complete game shut out by Vic Rache in Game 1. For Game 2, the Phillies sent their 23-year-old
ace, Robin Roberts, to the mound to try to even the series before heading to New York.
The Yankees countered with veteran Allie Reynolds. This is a partial audio recording of Game 2 that
was edited by the original owner to remove several of the less exciting innings from the nearly
three-hour-long game. The broadcast features announcers Mel Allen and Gene Kelly.
The Yankees have played a game of the past, but have developed a good curve ball this season and
have an amazing change-up, which has held to its effectiveness in winning 20 games.
Right-hander delivering 1-1-6. Strike 2 calls. The two strikes have been changed curves.
Two ball, one ball, two strikes out. Woodling, left-handed batter, they plan straight away toward left.
The infielders' orthodox. It's a beautiful day in Philadelphia. They're all fairly crisp,
and the temperature is in the lower 60. Ready to go. 1-2, swinging a foul for the upper deck
to the left of Odgerlett microphone, and it still went into with a new ball and strike.
One ball, two strikes. There is a larger audience out here than yesterday. There was some touches of
feet and lights and less, which blared open, and in wonderment many thought why the place hadn't been
so good. I imagine that will top the crowd of 30,000. One ball, two strikes. Quickly into the next
pitch. Going, swinging. A slow hit down, ball toward the hole, up with it, Hamner, long throw to first.
Not in drive. That ball was slight between third and short. Jones crossed over, and it goes as a base hit,
incidentally. Hamner behind. But the ball took a high hop. Hamner then was on his own, and his long
throw was not in time. It was low on the dirt, but Woodling is across the back anyway for the leadoff hit.
So in the series now, leadoff man Gene Woodling has two hits. He went 1-3 yesterday.
With a man on first, an infield single to the shortstop Gene Woodling. Nobody else.
Bill Zidow, the Peppelhead shortstop of the New York entry from the American League,
that's when he fast-right handed. He was 1-3 in the first game yesterday, hitting a 3-33 in the World Series.
Robertson the slow set. Going, the runner-break. He swings on the hit and run. It's a high-pushing pop to the left of the
Robertson the slow set. Going, the runner-break. He swings on the hit and run. It's a high-pushing pop to the left of the plate.
That's the first two hard ones that Robbie has delivered.
Robertson the slow set. Going, the runner-break. He swings on the hit and run. It's a high-pushing pop to the left of the plate.
Several Yankee fans who came down for yesterday's opener remarked that the crowd was so Philadelphia that even the five performance of Racky might have gone unnoticed.
But for the fact that those who appreciated the two essence of the struggle, the great jewel which the Yankees won one to nothing, might have been appreciated even more in another ballpark.
He's built fans of hot right now and the girls have fought the dragging one behind. Two and two. The third count picks his side armor and it goes upstairs just under the base of the roof and falls into a lucky fan pond along the first phase line.
He bobbled it for a moment the crowd drawn and angrily him and he held on. Two and two. Robertson now will go consistently to his right hand-flick.
He's got a lot of little nervous habits on the mound and the army enough with thought those to help pace himself. He used to rush to his delivery.
He's throwing hard all the time and then with fire and later innings. Two and two. Run as a first and third lead off.
Ready for the fifth. Throwing, swinging a twister behind second base. Joliet going back in short right field under.
Grabbed it and went out third, shagged up but he doesn't score. So really has cut off my wakers. Woodling has caught off what he says.
He had a slide back into third base head first. On a good cutoff, went over. By the field's inner defense on which Joliet went back some 15 feet off the turtle back of the infield on the grass in short right spreader.
He threw far the plate and Woodling feeling that the ball would go all the way in. Wraped off about 15 or 20 feet down the third base line.
Now the first baseman guarding at the hill cut off the throw but a bit of a delay prevented his throwing Woodling out.
In other words if Wakers would have thrown immediately he thought John Woodling would have been a gone guysling.
He threw safe wiances on the ball from Wakers to Woodley John's third base.
So that means coming out now, going out to second baseman. Having engineered the second put off.
And the batter is John Lies swinging left handed. Always dangerous up there. Went hit with yesterday, running left handed.
Robert Gulliboy, my truck, a 15 foot to the left of the plate. Seminix goes away the mad. Just under. Grabbed it.
My truck stopped for the catcher Andy Seminix and the Yankees are required to slide the threat.
It was a foul clock with no runs. A pair of cringles by Woodling and Yelgi Berra. No field burrows and the aforementioned left off.
So at the end of the Yankees half of the first, visiting Philadelphia in the 1950 World Series. New York nothing, the Phillies nothing.
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Well, some frills on the top of the first. Lead off man Woodling, got one sort of short shot for an infield hit.
And then always double some hit and runner, was good all, was a fine butter, fouled out, the Seminix and Behras, trumped one to left.
Spectus League style. The Maggio popped out to Goliath and only a small relay prevented a dollar's way.
And then the big cat John Lye fouled out to the gadget. So all we had a 30th building for a swimming, and which others came to the floor much in the manner of Consetti at the 30th yesterday.
Now big teeth out of the rentals. Up on the mound. So with right hander facing the lead off man for the Fubi Placus.
12 strike one on the first pitch. Gone about Belvry on the inside corner.
Placus was one of the three men to reach base off Racky yesterday. He drew a pass.
Nothing won. Curve is good for 12 strike two.
Charlie Barry, fouled by Briss, is a pencil-angent and was a great football player at Lafayette.
Really waits no time in calling those strikes down there. A majestic wave of his right arm. And it strikes two. Nothing in two.
It's swinging. A ground ball, slapped the Coleman at second. How about it? Go to first and try. One away.
Second to first to play. One down.
Now Racky Attrest, he played on fire, incidentally, is not Terry. It is Bill McGowan, veteran Bill McGowan of the American League.
Terry is on his second base. Barger to first. And John Cole Conlon, who called him yesterday.
And his fight as injury is out here again today as a third.
Barlich and McKinley baseline on fire. Here's Attrest, cutting up headed.
Reynolds throws him high around the skin inside, ball one.
Attrest went hitless in fourth pitch yesterday. And on the season in 1950, that is three or three for the Phillies.
Take the strike.
Fastball.
Bianchi and Thiel is no different than the way the National League plays at Asperger. It is moved in, particularly on the left side.
They are always looking for the possible run of 10 by this fellow.
So he starts to run like the wind. One on one. Hitting. Right to call. That was a beauty.
You'll note that the early banners of the Phillies are taking Reynolds a great money pitcher.
Has been a true champion with a gift down. Into the motion now on one and two.
Delivering, swinging. A line drive, going foul in the field.
We are told that Reynolds has so much natural stuff in his deliveries that he has had a tendency toward wildness in the past.
And there's the reason why the take has been on so early.
Of all two strikes. One gone. Everybody on. Last of the first no score.
Is it all moving in the shortstop.
And now the one two-fifth coming up. Going swinging. A twisting foul to the left of the plate.
Giving it a try. Farah getting under. But no. It falls into the sand just to our right.
Now there is an important physical element in the construction of this fall play.
In foul territory the upper sand seats jut out just so much that even if they were skimmed past the upper guard rails,
the catcher would still have a fighting chance. But sometimes an unknowing fan will reach out and go for the souvenir.
On a ball that ostensibly might have been caught by the catcher. And there was another one.
It went in however. And of course the twisting foul before caught by Seminick was one.
Again one and two. Outside. Two and two.
Reynolds already has the trade. A crackling curve ball. And an explosive fastball.
He's the same type figure in the general category of racquies.
He picked so excellently yesterday. Even up two and two.
The big one. Swinging. A twist to the right side of the field.
Moving in on the ball is Farah. Running, running, running. And falling down.
There's actually a hit in the second base. He's in there.
He'll give him a double on that. Farah made a great try for the two strings.
He ran for all he was worth to his all right. And it all dropped in there off the heel of his club.
Rolling away. He wasted no time regaining his balance and running for it.
But it starts the fleet after and had a stand-up double for the ease.
That is the first excavated in the World Series for the release.
A runner on at second base. And a humpback line double toward right center.
And the runner is Vic Stisler.
Who of course, you'll recall, was stuck out for the final put-out in yesterday's ball game.
All for four in the World Series. Fighting left handed.
And he'll throw in Vic Stisler high and try. For what?
There was much made in the early part of the season in both leagues about the ball rules.
I know that the American League knocked it off quickly or at least didn't call it.
And the National League eventually didn't call it as often as it had in the first month of the season.
I make that point because Reynolds is a quick motion pitcher. He has a tremendous motion.
Want to know, Antsburn leading off second.
Outside. Wall two. The slow curve.
Big alley Reynolds. Camtenor who originally was secured from Cleveland by the Yankees.
He infielded Schipter's ball to right. Residual is very close to the back as a short step near second base.
Coleman is deep in a second base ball as is Mize at first.
Brown orthodox. Reynolds in the slow stretch. Two-and-nothing. He pitches.
A change outside. Wall three.
At first he fills out his rampant. They know that winning the first game is also important in a short series.
And they feel that if their favorites could move into the stadium, even up, they could bring the series back to Guy Park.
That remains to be seen boys and girls. We've got a long ball game. This is the first inning.
Antsburn 15 foot lead off the back. Pitch for Stisler. Second call.
But three and all in this instance was automatic.
Stake was on the first. Early in the game.
Sawyer the manager coaching a third. And Dusty Cook a formerly Yankee himself coaching a first for the Phillies.
Three ball one strike out. The cripple coming up. Reynolds stretches. Steps off. Stake, Stas, Burns, Dines of the Bag.
And naturally as most fans will do in any ball park, during real box.
Ramon working. Pitching. Swinging method. Strike two.
This fellow Stisler had his real awkward moment early in the season.
You know he broke into the plate as an outfielder and a miner. Then was converted to a first baseman or the Cardinals.
First base last year with the Phillies and left field this season.
No count. Let's watch the winner. The first is open and there's one away.
The big pitch. He swings the middle. He's stuck him out on a high fastball.
Stone inside. Stone tight.
So Stisler, who was the final out, via the strikeout route yesterday, went for a takeoff fastball that was really live and guarding in there.
And there were two gone for the Phillies and the last of the first.
Now Del Innis. The blacksmith as his teammate's clubber.
Starting right handed. He liked most of the other fills and Yanks went hit with yesterday.
He got three times and in the regular season, about a 3-13. Reynolds throws. Del takes outside on a slow curve ball once.
Yogi Berra. One question of lead at a masterful job in handling Rashi yesterday.
Thus far catching Reynolds in that good old fashioned rock and chair.
Impatiently leading off second base. The fleet Richie Ashburn.
And now after Bowers brand effort in an effort to choose fingers.
One and O. Pitching. Right one ball. Overhand chair ball. Delivered at medium speed.
Caught the letters on the inside. Outfield pulled toward the left.
Infield deep toward the left. This fellow can ready to rock at the ball.
Caught left and left center. And of course led the National League and out of the eyes with 126.
The wind is blowing in slightly from left and left center.
The fifth. South off. High honorific along the first base line.
Right two. New ball in play. Berra. Make sure that his picture will take his good old time.
And after getting the new ball from Empire McGowan. Walks out in front of a plate and tosses it back to Big Alley.
No score. Last of the first. Both teams now have presented a threat. The Yankees have two arms.
And the Phillies have had Ashburn on since one away. There were two gone now.
And the Count on an X1 and two. And those peers forward put a big sign.
The big pitch coming up. In the fetch. Going. Swinging. A half flung on foul.
Going to a lot of photographers that should have run along the first base line and out of play.
Not that it means too much. But we know today that there have been more foul balls toward the stands than there were in yesterday's game.
The temperature is about the same. But the sun has been out. And blazing the Count all day long.
It's a beautiful day for ball games. One and two.
And it. Even the box. Swinging impatiently. And it'll set. Delivering.
A side-on curve that never found its mark. It went way inside. The square of the Count even up a 2-2.
You'll be hearing us talk about a similar pitch by Roberts for Sassanone.
It's a cross-up pitch. He came inside on trying to drive him away.
So it's two and two. Two gone and a man on a second.
The right hander sets. Sowing. High inside. Ball free.
Now for the second man in a row. Alley Reynolds has run the Count's ball. The swing has run out.
And he pulled the swing toward on Sussler by Fanningbiss. On a high inside passball.
He is three and two through Del Ennis. The field's leading slugger.
With a runner in scoring position at second base. And two gone.
The big pitch. He's goes. He swings and sends a chopping ground ball behind the mound.
The ball goes over on the grass. Goes to first. In time. A good play and a long stretch by the big catch on Lise.
And under now Coleman had to make that so flat footed. And more or less couldn't get full power behind it.
But he threw him out by a stride and the stride is retired. And it's going down second to first.
So in the first frame for the Phillies. No runs. One hit. A double by Ashburn.
No errors by the Yankees. And one man Ashburn left on.
At the end of the first. The Yankees nothing. The Phillies nothing.
Coleman had a run right behind the bag on that play. And what for the fact that Sauer
witnessed the ball going off the heel of his glove. And trying to shoot the thing Ashburn hit.
To right center. That's just been about the outstanding play thus far.
That's through the middle hole. That's where they usually go for base hits.
And when Ennis is at the base powering that ball. There's a lot of spin on it.
So credit Coleman with the fact that he was fairly close to the bag but did make an excellent play.
And Mice who we talked with this morning. About yesterday's fine play by Johnny Hopps.
Really put the infim on that one. He's stretched for all he was worth. He had to go all and stop.
So a truller for sinning. And it looks like another bandy today.
Both teams are peppery. The initial game never says if there was any at all.
Seems to have worn off. Let's call it similar to heavyweight.
Barring for the first round. And the Yankees out pointing the field by one yesterday.
Now to the top of the second. And Bobby Brown left handed batter who had the big double.
Standing in. Roberts was close to her. There's ball one.
Brown double with Tim. Inside the line. Down toward left field.
After Conscanti had thrown a slider.
Manufacturer Conscanti was kind of amazed that the slider didn't pull Brown.
He uses a choke grip. Open stance deep in the box. One and all. Taking roll.
Ball two. Many Yankees fans have asked me about Roberts's feet.
He's closely capable of throwing one of the fastest balls in the game today.
He was fastballing the opposition to death in the first quarter.
And then as they got wiser he changed a lot. Curved a lot.
And he hasn't thrown too many hard ones thus far.
Two and a half. Jones-Callow at third on Brown.
Ball three. Too close.
Behind Brown the Yankees will offer up Yankees power.
Second base in right field. And second base in Gary Coleman.
No one man in yesterday's game got more than one hit for himself.
But Brown's double. Was the big blow in the fourth inning.
He is now three and all. Here he comes.
Frank Wengal.
Robbie had a bit of a wrinkle on that one.
He complains to Brown about the call.
He's pretty good.
Sprayin' one.
No score. Top of the second. First man up for the Yankees.
Third base in Bobby Brown.
Now the couple bits.
Swinging a line drive for center. Ashburn moving in. Get this.
Swinging up. As it was drilled for left center field.
And Ashburn caught it on a charge in run.
One away. Give it to the center field of Ashburn.
Now Hank Bauer. His two fine catches in right field yesterday.
Helped save the afternoon for the Yankees.
One was off the bat of shortstop Hammer and the other pinch hitter Whitman.
He thought that Whitman was going to position.
Adding right handed. A pitch to him.
Slung on and up high along the third base line.
Going foul. Jones falling forward.
Under it. Squeezes it.
Two gone. Not many pitches being wasted thus far.
Ah there. Two men out.
Roberts apparently is getting his fastball where he wants it.
Or you'll find that if you're keeping score.
Rizzo, Miles and Bauer have all fouled out.
Gary Coleman. Glendor, second base line.
And perhaps one of the most underrated performance in the game today.
He ran into a mid-season slump but pulled out of it.
And it's been a full walk on defense.
That's right handed.
Roberts goes. Coleman takes the strike one ball.
Fastball.
Speaking of fastball. One of the finest in the game.
Kirk Simmons was exhibiting his today.
He's on 10 day leave you know.
From the Army. And with the thing the world series.
Ineligible for play of course.
And again one.
Growing high and wide.
Ball one.
Coleman uses a choke grip.
The throwback of course.
For the old days.
And a lot of Yankee fans of course.
Wondered when these fellow players came up.
They usually hit that long ball.
Dog in. Held about long.
Straight away hitter.
One on one.
Right through ball.
A lot of high outside corner fastball.
Many fans in San Francisco California today.
Routing on a couple of their favorites.
For the Yankees. Brown.
And Coleman who's up there right now.
You might call Coleman a left handed type brown hitter.
One and two.
Right on pitch.
Sound off.
Just beyond the screen to the right.
Along the first baseline.
And on the fly.
And Coleman lost his bat.
Of course number one.
First go citizen in baseball.
San Francisco that is.
Pardon me.
Mr. DiMaggio.
I don't know whether he would be the mayor.
And Dominic would be the assistant mayor.
First Dominic had a great season with a red spot.
One and two.
Two gone.
Right on pitch.
And on the left side.
Of all two.
Melon I was talking about that side on delivery of Robert Seuss before the game.
He invariably uses it on nothing and took out.
And just began mastering it.
At the end of the season.
It has a bit of a wrinkle on it.
Right before the hitter off.
Quick on pitch.
Taking high.
Around the eyes.
Inside.
All three.
Three and two.
Of course filled fans will tell you this.
After Robert Seuss commended performance against the Dodgers on Sunday.
Where Emma filled the points for Venice.
They couldn't expect much more from the chunky right handers.
Three and two.
Full count.
Spring runs out.
He throws.
He takes.
Ball four.
He was about to fight.
Had an ocean check himself.
And it's all one takes to walk.
Draw in the ball game.
The first base on balls.
Logan Staddy.
Class four yesterday.
The Yankees will tell you.
That his control wasn't that bad.
One of the four pieces of free transportation was intentional to the Margio on the third.
And he gave up two to Woodling and another one to Joel.
Now Ali Reynolds.
Batting right at it.
As the hitter in the season was 185.
15 for 81.
Hitch to him.
Line towards right.
In there for a base hit.
Maybe more.
And it's running toward the line.
Reynolds centers five with a single.
But easily.
Count that third.
Is Jerry Coleman.
He's back away to hit for right.
And hold it on a line to right.
And it's had a run well to the line to prevent Reynolds from going any further.
That is the third New York hit.
There is no score.
This was the top of the second.
But the Yankees.
For the second inning running.
Have two men on at first and third.
Coleman on the back at third for the moment.
Reynolds doesn't call for his warm up.
Jacket that was kind of chilly.
And lead off man Woodling who got the first hit.
As lead off man.
In the first inning.
Butting left handers.
Slinges on the curve.
There's a zippering foul.
To the upper stand in right field.
That was really cold.
And it didn't go foul by very much.
As a matter of fact was hit with such.
Preciousness.
That it's just off a fan body out there.
And went.
Over into 20th Street here in Philadelphia.
That's right field territory.
That was about as close for a home runner.
It was fine.
Not far enough serious.
Long strike one.
Runner's on at first and third.
Two gone.
Robert's close strike.
The livery.
Ball one.
Two high.
Test ball.
Woodling has played shift left in the outfield.
Pistler and left has moved ahead of the.
Match that is created by left fielders.
In both leagues you see this is.
Originally the Philadelphia American League Park.
One on one.
Pitching.
Swinging.
A push-pink foul right below our Gillette microphone.
Right through.
We're about three decks up.
And I should say a good 75 feet in the air.
Looking down.
Up on this classic.
Reynolds on at first for the single.
And he in turn.
Moves Coleman around a third after Jerry had walked on three two-picks.
With two men down.
No score.
Top of the second.
One and two to count.
Robert's catchers deliver.
Three high and inside.
Ball two.
And there again.
Roberts goes to his fans legs first the left and the right.
Rushing off his palm all the while.
Even up two and two.
Delivering.
Swinging.
A ground ball hit too deep short.
Go to second not on time to run scores.
It goes as a single and the Yankees lead one to nothing.
So early in the game Woodling is the batting hero.
This single was very similar to the first one he got.
Except that the ball stayed in the air longer and finally dipped down on deep shortstop turf.
Jones leaped in front of the ball.
Partially blocking the view of Hamner who had no play at first for the ball was 2D for him.
He leaped in the air as a quarterback will when he passes a football and threw toward Goliad at second.
But it was too late and the run came across.
Woodling at first Reynolds at second.
The Yankees lead one to nothing.
And the batter Phil Residore all for one.
Roberts delivers.
Phil takes outside ball one.
On this battle you've got to really thread the needle.
There just isn't much to throw to.
And he stands right away from the plate to even cross you up more when you're on that mound.
One and oh.
The pitch.
Slow curve outside ball two.
Now the hurry call goes to the ball pen and again Church of the Phillies starts warming up.
Two ball no strikeout.
Two men gone Yankees still have runners at first and second.
Woodling at first Reynolds at second.
Two gone all of this has happened with two men away.
Double the second one to nothing Yankees.
Roberts said now delivering strike one ball.
Pipping fastball.
What a high.
Two and one.
And the Yankees gets the first RBI of the game of course on that single of his.
One counter residual.
The pitch.
Back to lay by ball three.
Fast in around the chin.
Now three and one.
One is laid off.
Roberts said for the big one delivers swinging a high fly.
But to the short center field.
Ashburn moving in under the ball takes his time.
Gramps for the put out.
Yankees are retired as his little fries out the short center.
So in the second four New York the first run of the game.
On a walk to Coleman and singles to Reynolds and Woodling the latter batting home the run.
No errors by the Phillies and two Yankees left on.
One half innings.
New York one.
The Phillies nothing.
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For the filled half of the second inning.
Both teams have fretted.
Both teams have already shown that they're going to hit the ball perhaps a little bit better than they did yesterday.
And as Willie Jones prepares to step in, let's pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is the mutual broadcasting system.
Today the Coleman-Woodling combination has helped score the first New York run.
Here is Willie Jones.
He got one of the hits yesterday.
He takes a fast strike one.
He and Semonix got one hit a piece of big rashie.
And it came in the same inning.
The fifth.
And the other man to reach base of course with weight goes on a walk.
Big wind up, alley throws.
Wide and high on a medium curve ball.
One ball, one strike.
Nobody on, nobody out.
Last of the second.
Jones to be followed by shortstop Granny Hamner and catcher Andy Semonix.
Jones deep in the box with an open stance.
A big six footer for North Carolina.
One on one.
Swinging missing.
Strike two.
Cause every batter will tell you he likes to hit a fast ball.
But the way Mr. Rashi and Mr. Reynolds have pumped them in there in the last couple of days,
they must be faster than fast.
One on two, throwing, swinging, a slow hit foul bounced off the plate to the left.
He changed on Jones and put a wrinkle on it.
It's still one and two.
New ball and play.
Big number 22, Allie Reynolds.
His effectiveness increased in leaps and bounds after he changed scenery several seasons ago.
The big chief was with the Indians.
Jim Turner helped him, pitching coach of the Anx and of course the new skipper Casey Stengel.
Now ready for one and two, pitching to Woody Jones.
Swinging a foul, upstairs, way over the roof along the first baseline and out of five.
Brown walks out slowly as he characteristically does and whips the ball back to the mound.
Score once and nothing, Bianchi's over the fields.
And of course that was the final tally in the opener here yesterday.
The series moves on to the stadium in New York tomorrow.
For a possible three games.
One ball to Stikes.
Our field pulls through the left on Jones.
Reynolds set, kicks, delivers.
Strike three, what a curveball that was.
That thing came up there just as big as a grapefruit and dipped away.
And Jones took it for a call strike three.
One down and a second strikeout of the ball game registered by Allie Reynolds.
I'm going to have to ask Mel about that curveball.
That looked almost as good as a Constanti slider, Mel.
Here's Daddy Hunter.
Now tell you one thing, he's got one of the best curveballs in the American League.
Here's Hunter.
High inside.
He proved it that time, Mel.
Jones is supposed to be a very good curveball hitter.
One time he was a very good curveball hitter.
He was a very good curveball hitter.
Jones is supposed to be a very good curveball hitter.
One ball, no strikeout on Hunter.
He went hitless yesterday, batting right handed.
Ball two is a cross fire pitch thrown overhand, missing outside.
Rane from Richmond, Virginia, went all for three yesterday.
Twenty-three year old, right handed batting shortstop.
Two and a, one down, nobody on.
Last of the second, Yankees lead, one to nothing.
In the motion, firing, swinging.
A line drive to right center field.
In there for base hit, maybe more.
Hunter rounding first base, cutting for second.
The match goes, catching up with a ball, near the wall, in right center.
And Hunter's going to try for three.
The wheel gets away from Cohen, and he's in there.
That'll go on as a free base hit.
The ball was hit on a dead line, 390 feet away from home plate.
The weather scoreboard is here at Chi Park.
DiMaggio plated off the boards, and has really got away from Cohen.
But then, while the ball was in midair from center field,
to the second base been Cohen, who was out on the grass some 30 feet,
Hunter decided to try for three, and slid in safely with plenty of room to spare.
That is the longest extra base hit thus far, early in the World Series.
So the fields have posted a runner at third.
Incidentally, that's the furthest any field runner has gotten in the series.
The single just today, netted a man at second.
Jones at the Seminix at single.
Here is Seminix.
We got one of the two hits.
Swinging a foul, back on the screen.
The field's ball club, which had not been known as a heavy offensive type game,
finally witnesses the fact that they too will join in the festivities.
The Yankees lead, one to nothing, but of course the tying run is on a third with one man out.
Jones called out on strikes.
Hunter hands on hips, put a two off the bag, Reynolds into the full motion,
going, swinging, missing.
This of course is the key man.
A low percentage hitter is coming up next, Goliath.
On the season, Seminix had hit 288 for 1950 with 24 home runs.
Infield, a play at the plate.
Reynolds takes a lot of time, he's ahead.
One down.
And a move.
Pitching.
Inside low on a whipping fastball, ball one.
Goliath really pumped through the hard one that time.
Outfield, shifted left, Seminix long ball hitter.
Wind right now, blowing in from left field.
Seminix right handed batter.
One and two.
A pitch, high, ball two.
The ball almost got away from chunky Yogi Berra.
Only stretches five feet eight and a half inches high,
so he had to climb the ladder for that one.
It was a curve that never cut off,
blowing away from a right handed batter, and Seminix had a duck under it.
S-E-M-I-N-I-C-K, Seminix.
Even up two ball, two strikeouts.
One and a third, Hemner on his triple, one down.
Now the big pitch, swinging a foul.
Upstairs, right behind the plate and out of play.
Still two and two.
Berra rips up the new ball and rips it out to Big Reynolds.
Most of Oklahoma I should imagine today is trying to root this big fellow home.
He goes to the Rodin.
Last of the second.
Bills have a threat going here with a run at a third and one down.
Seminix and Reynolds in a big battle.
Two and two.
Series of foul balls.
Crowd starts at two other Mickey Plaws in the background,
pounding feet upon concrete.
That all takes time to knot on the side.
And the big motion.
The pitch, high, ball three.
Trying to change up on that one.
The curve ball, and again it blew up just as the previous pitch had.
Three ball, two strikeouts.
Now the Reynolds falls around at the rubber a little bit.
Big pitch now.
The third man he's run full count on.
Hammer, leading off third and field to joke shadow right behind the grass.
In the lineup, showing, swinging, along five ball, he's going left here.
It is foul, foul.
That was it with all the power in Seminix's compact body.
And for a moment, gave the fans a tremendous thrill here.
There have not been any home runs thus far.
But it blew off some 20 feet fouls to the upper deck in left field.
Seminix has an odd way of hitting the long ball.
He'll back up just a bit on the pitch.
But he has such tremendous power in the trunk of his body.
But he's called a little Atlas of the National League.
So it's still three and two.
That's about the closest to home on the field to pass.
Reynolds shakes off once, twice.
God's on the third.
Again, three and two pitch.
Swinging, a ground ball, slapped the Coleman.
He checks the runner at third, throws the first for the put out.
And Hammer has to hold.
Nobody scores.
So the first time on the three and two, apparently Reynolds has thrown something fat.
The second time, he got Seminix to go for a high outside pitch, forcing Addy to chop out to Coleman at second base.
Holding the runner at third, and still two down.
John Mike Gullia, who put in a bit with a long ball yesterday,
sending Woodling back to the gravel protectory in left field.
About five to seven feet shy for the distance.
The young second baseman of the Phillies was over three in the first game.
Yet, with a runner at third, and two gone.
A long second inning.
Bianchi's leading one to nothing.
Gullia batting right handed.
Swinging, a line drive for Center.
DeMargio moving in, Hunter makes it.
The inning is over.
Reynolds comes to the floor with a chips down, and leads Verona.
And leads Verona stranded at third.
Final out to DeMargio and Center.
Well, the Phillies, no runs, one hit, a big triple by Hunter.
No errors by New York, and Hunter left stranded at third.
At the end of two, New York, one run, four hits, no errors, four left.
The Phillies, no runs, two hits, no errors, and two men left on.
The hitters today are not exactly having a field day,
but they are giving evidence of meeting the ball more subtly.
The soaring line drives, either for put outs or fouls,
such as was the case once with Woodling in right, and Semonik in left,
have been hitting that ball crisply.
We have representatives during the World Series that you ordinarily wouldn't see
at any other sports classic.
I know today, Mel and myself are talking with President Tommy Richardson
of Florence Rowland, but one time was a manager and an umpire in the Major Leagues.
And is now President of the Pacific Coast League, and who naturally is anxious
at some time in the future to have his circuit in the Major Leagues.
Many of the men today were talking about the predictions made recently
in a magazine article by Branch Rickey about there being as many as four Major Leagues.
But right now, the World Series is two leagues,
and these two teams battle it out here on the Diamond.
Here is Yogi Berra, out of the third, swings hard and gets a foul
ticked off on the umpire's chest protector, Strike One.
The only bullpen activity thus far in the game was on the part of Sawyer's Fields.
He had rookie church warming up when Roberts was having a bit of difficulty
early in the play.
Nothing in one derailleur has one for one, a single left.
The change is low before the play, for a one.
One-on-one.
These teams seem looser now, a bit more relaxed than they ordinarily are.
The change is a bit high and wide, for a two.
Many men will insist the American League strikes on,
it's short of an international league, and it goes the other way too, two-on-one.
Swinging off up.
And variably, the American League has, it seems,
stronger power-hitting teams, like the Red Sox, the Yankees, Tigers and Cleveland.
Two-on-two.
First man up, top of the third, Yankees leading, one to nothing.
Roberts set, fill the break.
Swinging the same, stuck and off.
Best ball.
And the first strikeout on the game, chopped up by young Robin Roberts.
I noticed that Mel made an interesting note about
Vic Rashi coming from Springfield, Massachusetts, where a famed piece of arms originated.
And yet during the season they've referred constantly to Roberts as the Springfield rifle.
So those in Massachusetts, feel no offense because Mr. Roberts is from Springfield, Illinois.
Here is Joe DeMaggio.
Mr. Roberts on the mound, facing Joe, over one. Swinging misses, strikeout.
Even when he misses, that DeMaggio looks good down there.
There's just one DeMaggio, Joe DeMaggio, that is. Nothing in one.
Backed away by an inside fastball.
Ball one.
Big number five.
Ninth World Series.
0-2 yesterday. Joe was worked twice, you'll recall, once intentionally.
Now the 1-1 pitch, Roberts throws.
Change up. Pop five, behind second base.
Goliath at second base, going back.
30 feet, under it. Grabs it.
Two up, two down.
Top of the third.
Score New York one, but for these nothing.
And again, it seems to have a little bit more pepper and dash than yesterday's contest.
For the supremacy of the opposing pitchers,
Rashi of New York and Constanti of the Phillies, what a big story.
Second time DeMaggio's popped out to second.
Now, my eyes, who fouled out the Seminix to catch it?
Strike one, called. Inside fastball.
Big left-handed swinger, this fella, from Demeris, Georgia.
Two pumps by Roberts, in the motion, throwing.
Inside high.
1-1, throw him tight.
I noticed that throughout the series, thus far, they have thrown.
This tremendous pull hitter, very tight. Inside.
1-1, the pitch swinging, a twister toward right field, and it's moving in, can't get it base hit.
Now, one hopping single to right by Johnny Myers, for his first base hit of the 1950 World Series.
And the fifth, Yankee Bingle.
Woodling has two, Myers has one, and Reynolds has one.
Now, Bobby Rao, who applied to center, in the second inning in his previous trip.
Left-handed batter, deep in the box. Roberts in the stretch.
Throwing. Strike one, called. Got the outside corner, just above the brown ease.
One man on the Yankees have had base runners in every frame.
There have been no errors.
Either hits, or walks. Nothing in one.
Slow stretch by Robin Roberts. Checking. Throwing.
Swinging on a ball, back on the screen. Strike two.
Throwing high.
Brown has played almost the same way that Ashburn or the Phillies has played.
They move in on him, left and center.
The right field has stayed flush.
Playing him straight away.
Score, one to nothing. New York. Cup of the third.
The crowd, this seems a little bit more tipped up today for some reason or other.
Might be the weather.
And of course, a lot of it has to do with the ball game right now.
0-2 on Brown. Two gone. Mies leading off first.
Roberts, pitching.
Inside at the toes. Ball one. Turb wall.
All of the Phillies were blank after Hammer had tripled.
With one away. They noticed they were infield.
Pepper and Dash out there in a constant chatter.
A little bit higher than yesterday. Same thing goes for the Yankees.
One and two.
Pitch, swinging. A twister, a foul.
Upper stand, short left field.
Still one ball, two strikes. Two ball in play.
Seminick will finish the regular National League season with a bad ankle.
Tell me today that his ankle feels better now than it has for the past 10 days.
Or it is still heavily taped by the field trainer, Frank Wiecek.
One and two. Two gone. One on.
Placing Brown. Roberts throws. Change is low.
Inside. Two and two.
The progress of this game, as you have already noted, I'm sure, is much slower than yesterday.
There have been more runners on.
The Yankees have picked up five hits with a walk thrown in.
The Phillies have two hits.
That's the top of the third. Even up two and two.
Big pitch. Picking outside.
Ball three.
Brown had to have a sharp pair of eyes for that one.
He was about to cut.
And he'll go for that outside pitch, you know, he hits to left field invariably.
As he did yesterday with his double.
Full count.
So watch Mies.
He'll be breaking with two down.
Three and two pitch. Swung on. Hit well to our deep center.
When Ashburn moves back with a roll in the time and grabs it.
Further down. Brown flies to deep center.
Third inning for New York.
No runs. A single to right by Johnny Mies.
No field errors and Mies left on.
Two and a half innings for the New York Yankees.
One. The Philadelphia Phillies. Nothing.
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Robert receives an accolade from the Philadelphia audience here.
As we try to do, it's just a bit larger than it was yesterday.
I'm quite certain that we'll have at least 31 or 32,000 registered by the time our broadcast is over.
Robert Roberts batting left handed.
Reynolds set to work on him.
Throws high inside and knocks him down for a while.
Roberts got a key hit in the final victory over the Dodgers.
And season long, he was 12 for 102. Mark of 118.
Bat at home. Six runs.
He bats left handed.
They're all throwing right. One and O.
Spike one ball. Let a high pass ball.
Uses are a very wide open stance.
101.
Set to go. Pitching.
Swinging missing.
Break two.
Nobody out. Nobody on.
Last of the third.
But for these at bat, Yankees leading one to nothing.
They play Robbie straight away toward left.
Infield orthodox.
Big shadow now and can't along the first baseline.
One and two.
Reynolds delivers. Robert swings the misses.
Struck him out.
And for the galley number three in the ball game.
We have an apology to make.
Charlie Berry is not from Pennsylvania.
He went to college and played football there and baseball there.
He's a friend from Phillipsburg, New Jersey because the folks in Phillipsburg have let us know about it.
So we tip our hat to Phillipsburg and a lot of fans of course in New Jersey are over here today.
Here's Eddie Wakers.
Gene, New Jersey is not far from Pennsylvania.
Thank you, Mel Allen.
Eddie Wakers takes the ball. Strike one.
Bounced out. Second baseman Coleman to first.
Spike on the first inning. Opa one.
Hitler's in the series.
Spin on once with a walk.
Nothing in one.
Running left handed. Straightaway header.
And those pitches far.
Eddie swings.
Fly, fly, forward right.
Fair ball.
Right out of line.
Holding to the ball.
Wakers rounding first.
Running for second base.
And he is held up by Sawyer at second.
Residual made a great fake.
And from all of it, Wakers thought that Phil had the ball as the relay came in slowly from right fielder far via second baseman Coleman.
It was right on the chalk mark.
And that time the baseline umpire certainly came in handy.
For either side.
Now Barley.
And there was a new mode, did you see, an umpire set up just a couple of seasons ago.
For that ball was inches from being fouled.
A double to the right fielder bullpen.
With one out.
The Phillies have three hits and may have all been for extra bases.
And Ashburn, who had the first one, a double to right center, which Bauer missed the shoestring, is up there now.
With one down and the man on second.
The strike is taken.
A fast ball on the outside corner.
That was right on the line, that double.
And he's leading one to nothing.
And again, the Phillies pulled the threat for the third straight time.
Nothing one count on Ashburn.
Round moving in at third.
Swinging up all.
Strike two.
That ball went smack dab right back to all the photographers.
Now I had some lenses broken down there.
The umpire, the other, in right, Bauer has been motioned in.
By the Yankee bench headed by Mr. Stangle, the skipper.
And they are playing Ashburn as if they would be playing straight away.
Right handed hitter.
Although they are pushed to left and woodling, particularly in left, is very, very shallow.
No ball to strike count on.
Richie Ashburn.
Reynolds takes a lot of time.
He's setting out for the next pitch.
Delivers are very high.
And Bauer made a great leap for it.
To bring it down, else Wakers easily would have moved on to third base.
Now that's the change up that Reynolds has been having difficulty with.
It has gone very high.
And apparently his wrist is snapping just a bit late when he attempts to put the wrinkle on it.
One and two.
Wakers on at second base.
One fill out.
Last to the third Yankee's leading one to another.
One and two pitch.
High and wide.
Washburn for ball two.
Bauer has picked up a lot of nicknames along his teammates.
Vaughn Hustler Express.
Putt Putt.
Because of his running in the outfield.
Go ahead, Whitey.
And Rick, though his right name is Richie.
Two and two.
Slerkham, Reynolds set throws. Richie swings a twisting top fly left to the plate.
Vera going under it.
Waiting.
Grab it.
He's out.
That was right near the stands.
And again we had to take off our left microphone and lean on over.
We are up so high you see.
That a portion of the field right below this deck is obliterated.
Two gone.
A foul to the catcher and those boys have been busy bees today.
Sarah and Semonick.
Yogi went after one before and couldn't quite make it.
And he's actually one.
Two gone.
Runner on a second.
Reynolds has been supreme with runners on in scoring position.
And now the threat he must get out of there is Sisper who he got on strikes swinging on a full count fastball in the first inning.
Sisper betting left handed.
Change high and wide.
Ball one.
Let up bitch.
At mid season the changeups are getting Sisper a lot of trouble.
So Sawyer worked on a little bit and he started what he calls getting the opposition a battle.
Staying alive.
One on one.
Pull the hand guarding curve way inside the ankles.
Ball two.
At second base, Wacoos.
Two men out.
Last of a third.
Wacoos having doubled.
Right on the line in right field.
Reynolds takes a lot of time now.
Ready?
Pitching.
Swinging.
Fastball has gotten Sisper so far.
Rashi yesterday and Reynolds is today.
As a matter of fact Dick went down twice yesterday.
And the ones today on strikes.
Two balls, one strike.
Two gone.
One on.
Store one to nothing New York.
Last of a third.
Very interesting ball game today.
Lot of action.
Lot of thrill.
In the stretch.
Reynolds delivers.
Ball three.
The curve missed the inside corner.
Fly off with it.
Three and one.
We have at home run bids twice today.
Once by Woodling and once by Sevening.
Otherwise the fields have done the extra base hitting.
Ashburn and Wacoos doubles and a triple by Hammer.
Three and one.
Swinging and getting a foul.
Back on the screen behind the plate.
Full count.
Three and two.
Three and one.
Now for the second time in a row.
Reynolds and Sussler in that battle.
Pitcher versus hitter.
Three and two.
This fellow doesn't have a long swing.
But he has great wrists.
Which are partially impaired.
The right one because of a recent injury.
But he's taken a pretty healthy cut down there.
Three and two.
Reynolds.
Great ball of time.
Ashburn leads over.
In the stretch.
The big pitch.
Swinging.
A slow hit.
Ground ball towards second.
Coleman up with it.
Go to first.
In time.
The sides retired.
And again.
Alley Reynolds comes to the fore with runners on beyond first.
And retires the side without a score.
In the third inning for the Phillies.
No runs.
A one out double by Eddie Wacoos.
No errors by the Yankees.
And Wacoos left stand at it's second.
Three innings.
The Yankees won.
The Phillies nothing.
Now ten seconds for station identification.
This is the Mitual Broadcasting System.
Locket Shy Park in the Quaker City of Philadelphia.
With Mel Allen and Al Helper.
This is Gene Kelly on the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports.
The 1950 World Series.
Moving into the top of the fourth inning.
Of the second game.
The Yankees won yesterday.
Wounded nothing.
And the one run in the ball game.
Was scored by New York.
In the second inning.
When with two outs.
A pass to Jelly Coleman.
The Yankees second baseman.
A surprise right field single by Alley Reynolds.
And another single by Gene Woodley.
The shortstop on which Hunter couldn't make a play.
Scored the one run.
And the second inning.
The Yankees won yesterday.
And the one run in the ball game.
Was scored by New York.
And the second inning.
Scored the one run.
Both pitchers have been hit well.
It's not frequently.
So Roberts has given up five hits.
And the three hits by the fields or fennels.
Have been for the distance.
Or extra bases at least.
Ash Burns and Wakers' doubles.
And a triple by Hamlet.
Now oddly enough.
Those hits came with one out.
So that Reynolds.
Had to call upon his reserve.
To pitch well.
And get out of an inning.
Now.
In the top of the fourth inning.
Hank Fowler.
Who fouled out the third in his first trip.
Batting my head in.
Puts.
And sends a foul.
Back upstairs.
On the screen strike one.
This fellow is a swashbuckling type ball player.
He's the kind of ball player that you like to have around your house.
Nothing in one.
Change.
Is wide.
The ball won.
He tries.
He's hustling all the time.
And he gave evidence of that.
Even when the missed the shoestring on Ash Burns' double.
One on one.
Robert's pitching.
Close for all two.
We first have the opportunity of watching Hank.
Out in Kansas City.
A couple of seasons ago.
And the Yankees wasted no time.
In his second full season with the Blues.
And recalling it.
Up with big cliff mates.
We alternates with occasionally.
In the outfield.
Two in one.
Curve is wide.
Ball three.
Now you'll note.
That in each inning so far.
Robert says either run behind the first man up.
Or else has given up.
I hit.
This is the top of the four.
Three in one.
Swinging.
A lazy hop fly.
Going toward the shortstop post.
Hamner under it.
And takes it.
Hamner affects a Miranda type best pocket.
Remember the immortal rabbit from Miranville.
A tiny fellow that used to put his glove in his hand.
To get it right around the belt buckle.
And he used to hang him on there for the put out.
That's just what Hamner did.
One away.
Jerry Coleman.
The one walk given up by Roberts.
And a very, very important one for New York.
Jerry has scored the one run in the game.
Hottie right handed.
Leans in and sends a.
Locker toward left center field.
It's in there for base hit.
It gets away from Ashburn.
Back up by systemally in the second Coleman.
He overhand the ball.
And they're giving him a double on it.
Ashburn charged.
Onto the ball.
And in trying to grab it.
It skimmed over his left shoulder.
Fortunately for the Phillies.
Cicilla was backing up.
Nevertheless.
Coleman essay too easily.
Stand up.
A double.
First extra base hit of the game for New York.
Leonard on it.
Second one down.
Alley Reynolds.
And the second extra base hit of the series for New York.
Browns double yesterday.
This Coleman likes his doubles.
That's his fourth in World Series competition.
Now with a runner at second.
The batter is Alley Reynolds who is single in the second.
Strike one.
Let's call that a cross strike.
Because Alley didn't take a full cut.
Alparez will tell you the intent is what matters.
When they have swing down there.
He didn't take a real full cut.
Strike one.
Man on second for New York.
One man out and the score.
The Yankees one with the Phillies nothing.
Robertson with slow stretch.
Right hand of fires.
Curve just misses.
Outside and low.
Four one.
It was a well conceived pitch but just missed the strike zone.
Another one.
Stushing.
Sticking.
Delivering.
Strike two called.
Curve caught the corner.
Of the sixth hit that Jerry Coleman has now picked up in World Series play.
Four of them have been doubled.
So he's a man of watch.
Having been at bat 25 times.
One ball two strike down on Reynolds.
Steven the box.
Roberts delivers.
Alley takes outside.
Ball two.
Two and two.
It's a game that has a similar score of yesterday's game but the complexion of it is entirely different.
There have been runners on for New York in every inning now as well as for the Phillies.
Even up two and two.
Big Robbie tugging on the cap.
Brushing his jersey going to the fans leg.
Now whether to work.
Summoning it out of the crotch.
The target set.
The check.
The pitch.
All three.
Roll and away.
Now of course with Reynolds up there having a single sharply to right.
In the second inning Roberts naturally is pitching like there are nine hitters in that batting order.
And well he might.
So he drew over cautious and throwing a fake pitch up there was low and wide.
So the full count is on.
Leading off second.
Long lead.
Coleman.
Pitch.
Wide for ball four.
He lost it.
Second pass by Roberts.
Now invariably in a series such as this.
The base on balls is a big trouble maker.
Roberts was highly effective in becoming the first 20 game winner for the Phillies since Grover Cleveland Alexander did it in 1917 with 30 games.
He has gotten himself in consistent hot water.
He has had one bad inning.
More often than not.
Again young Bubba Church who warms up for the Phills in left field.
The right hander.
There are two Yankees on.
Coleman at second Reynolds at first.
And the batter is Gene Woodling who was two for two with a big RBI batting lieutenant.
Pitching strike one ball.
Pitch fastball. Woodling's singles have been toward the hole between short and third but not quite through it.
Hamner feeling the ball two times but no play.
Nothing in one.
Reynolds now uses the warm up jacket by the way.
It's getting cool.
Nothing in one.
Ready?
A pitch.
Swing.
A high fly going forward left field.
System moving over.
Getting it at try.
Near the stands.
Moving out there and feeling off from his short stop position was Granville Hamner.
And he was ready if Sussler would go off balance on the fly to grab the ball.
Hamner has the best throwing arm on the team.
So that's Coleman held on at second base.
A foul fly grabbed him left by Dick Sussler.
Two down and two on.
Score New York one.
If there is nothing, top of the board.
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Now, Scooter was at all.
Little fill.
Over two.
Fair foul outs.
There's a fill to second and the runner is back in time.
Go to the end.
Steal over.
That's a dangerous throw.
Boy you gotta make that one accurate.
There's nobody backing you up.
Gets away.
And runner goes.
Pitch.
Foul off by a fill.
Strike one.
Scooter.
Foul out to Semonix to catch him in the first and slide.
Lazy lead to center field for the third out on the second over two.
In a series now all told he has one for five.
He got his single just about.
Tiny right handed batter.
Jockey size.
Nothing in one.
Two men on, two gone.
We're stretched by Roberts for pitch.
The swing.
A line drive to right.
Hanging up.
And his header.
So Lazy Lazy stuck back from the pitch and tried a puncher to right.
And well he did but it hung up.
And an anus grab it for the final out.
In the fourth inning with pitching in the clutch.
More than anything else today with a runner's on.
No runs.
A double by Coleman.
A walk thrown in.
No errors by the Phillies.
And two Yankees left on.
Three and one half innings.
The New York Yankees won the Phillies nothing.
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Set to go.
Last half of the four innings.
This, of course, is the big pivotal game.
The opening game naturally has tremendous psychological advantages.
But you see, if the Yankees win this one,
at the two-game margin to work on in their own park,
starting tomorrow at the stadium in the Bronx in New York,
if the Phillies win, well, they're still down
from the home stand percentage standpoint,
because they play in a foreign park,
though they have been a good road club.
Now, Delinus, who with a runner on it's second and two gone in the first,
grounded out to Coleman, second base.
All for one.
Del Hitlis in the series, thus far,
batting right-handed.
Reynolds set to work.
Last strike one.
Boy, he's got a quick motion out there.
He reminds us much of Jim Hearn,
a very effective right-hander secured by DeRosier from the Cardinals.
A very deceptive motion.
And he backs it up for the darting fastball
and a sharp-breaking hook.
Nothing in one.
Wide of the plate for Ball, low on outside.
Outfield on Ennis.
Seized and Margell's pretty deep in left center,
but he hasn't concentrated as sharply as most other centerfielders ordinarily are on Ennis.
However, Woodling in left is deep.
One-on-one.
Pitching, swinging, I say, high fastball.
Ennis complained today.
We talked about Rashi's pitching.
And Del is the author of some articles that have put a LFB newspaper.
He said, he looked good.
I thought I could hit him, but he wouldn't bring that ball in on me.
And right now that's what Reynolds was going to him.
That is still keeping the ball away.
One-on-two.
Score, New York one.
He's nothing last to the fourth.
Nobody on, nobody out.
A big one-two pitch.
Reynolds delivers.
He swings him into it.
He's stuck him out.
Now, oddly enough, the fellows from home you don't expect a long ball have hit it today,
or at least the extra base for the Phillies.
Wake is an Ashburn, who are two straightaway cuts as is Hamden.
He has the triple.
That's the fourth Reynolds strikeout.
One down.
You've got a big man out of there, too.
Here's Jones, who's stuck out in a second.
Inside on a slow curve, or what?
Jones, he was called out on one of the most dazzling curves you'll ever want to see in a world series.
One-on-one.
Third baseman Jones.
Even the box.
Swinging a high, lazy pop fly in the infield, pulling for it,
gunning him high, is 100, and grabs it 15 feet off the bag.
Just parallel to it.
One away.
Therein seems to lie Reynolds' secret.
He's gotten a big man out of there.
Notice that was one out in the first Ashburn double, but he got sister on strikes and Ennis on a lazy ground ball.
In a second, he got Jones out of there, long ball hitter on strikes, Hamner tripled,
but he got Seminick, another long ball slinger, and Goliath.
And now he has Ennis and Jones out of there as he faces Hamner who tripled.
Two down.
Scroll one to nothing.
New York, last half of the fourth.
Filled batting.
Wide and low to Hamner, ball one.
Hamner's triple.
Sword, right below the scoreboard in right center field.
That was his first trip up there.
One for one.
One ball, no strikes.
Pitching.
Side on curve, misses outside.
We might point out that Berra has done a remarkable job today.
Reynolds is a bit wilder than Rashi was yesterday,
but he's climbed up on the ladder a couple of times,
bring down some real wild pitches, victory with runners on.
Two and nothing count, a granny Hamner working carefully on this fellow who belted the triple.
The pitch, high inside, ball three.
Three and all.
He was two and nothing on Hamner last time.
Now the three and nothing pitch is low for ball four.
Now Seminick and the crowd's imagination is wetted a bit
because this fellow really hit the ball although foul to left field last time.
Yankees lead by one, low and run.
That's Reynolds' first pass.
Roberts has two.
But Alley has fan four.
Now he faces Seminick.
I think Mel will agree with me that this fellow has one of the oddest stances he's ever seen.
To throw back to Al Simmons' famous bucket stance.
Swings and misses, went for the high outside fastball.
It's actually a tick with Barra held on, strike one.
On it first, granny Hamner.
Both teams have put runners on in every inning.
Nothing and one count.
Now the Reynolds delivering.
Swinging a foul, threw him tight, got it off the handle, back up on the screen.
Strike two.
While the Phillies have a man on for the fourth straight inning, he has not hit.
They picked up three hits, two doubles and a triple in the first three.
The Yankees have picked up a total of six hits off Roberts.
One for extra bases, Coleman's double, to left center.
Nothing and two.
Two gone, one on.
Potential tying on it first.
One of breaks, high outside and he goes in safely without a throw.
Hamner actually still had pitch on Reynolds.
Reynolds took a long, long time.
And it apparently wasn't cognizant of the fact that Hamner was really digging in hard
and Barra had no chance at all.
Matter of fact by the time Yogi cocked his arm, Hamner was in a slide.
Still in base.
First one of the series.
Time called and sets a runner up in scoring position.
With a count.
One and two, that was a wide, high pitch.
The scoreboard had nothing in it over the time.
Time was full until on Barra McGowan straightened about.
Now one and two.
Change is close.
Of all two.
Now this situation is a dangerous one.
If even the Yankees, Reynolds has not allowed a hit in the setting.
Or the defense was crossed up.
That'll keep you on edge, you see.
Even up two walls, two strikes, two guard, man on second, Grannie Hammer.
Last of the four.
The score Yankees one, fills nothing.
Reynolds set, pitching, change up, swings and misses.
Struck him out.
He had it with a jug handle hook that time.
And again, the curve ball breaking off, gets a fill in a tight situation for Allie Reynolds.
It's all for Allie Reynolds, strikeout number five.
No fourth inning for the Phillies, no runs, no hits for the first time in the game.
A walk thrown in, no errors by the Yankees, and a man left on his second Grannie Hammer.
Four innings, New York one, the Phillies, nothing.
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The way Reynolds is pitching today, is the way that the Jim Kinstady told Mel and myself that he likes to pitch.
It seems as though he welcomes the opportunity to bear down with runners on.
And Mel, I think you might make a point here, about how Allie did during the season on such occasions.
Well Gene Allie has always been a rough guy when the going is toughest.
Frequently it seems that he needed some prodding to really give his very best effort.
Sometimes I like that, not intentionally, but they sort of just go along taking it easy, some of the longest things are easy.
But then when they get in trouble, they really go to work.
Well that's Allie Reynolds, that wraps it up in a nutshell.
Now, top of the fifth, Yogi Berra, coming around as if to bunt, takes the strike.
I don't know whether Berra has ever called upon a bunt very often.
But apparently the take was on from Frankie Crocetti coaching a third for New York, Bill Dickies at first.
Nothing in one, Yogi is one for two.
There's a twisting foul right below our Gillette microphone and for a moment we thought we'd have a world series souvenir.
You should have seen that, Alan.
He was digging in all the way from Birmingham, Alabama.
Looked just like DiMaggio on that one.
Where did that come from?
Nothing in two, Cal.
Robert's pitching high and wide for the chunky backstop.
Four-one.
Yogi Berra.
First man up top of the fifth, Yankees leading one to nothing.
Robert's hurling, swinging a twisting pump shortstop side, getting under 15 feet out in the grass, hammer, and makes the put-out.
Berra pumps out the short, one away.
Berra was asking me about, what's this he hears about, Tommy Graviano at the St. Louis Cardinals putting on an act with his old friend, Giorgio Garagiola.
You see both Yogi and the cards catch Garagiola held in St. Louis.
They ought to get the three of you fellas together and you really have something this winter.
Now for Jover.
Come on, Jo.
Over two, Berra pump flies to second.
Wide curve to big Jo.
Roll one.
One and oh, one gone, nobody on.
Robert's pitching, Jo's swinging.
Another high, very, very high pump fly.
Jones is calling for this one at third, counts the glove, camps under, and grabs.
Pop it up now.
That thing was it, about high enough for a ball of travel for a home run.
That was way up above the roof.
Now where is seated, way up here.
You almost need an oxygen tank.
Johnny wires.
One for two, single right.
Swinging up out.
This fellow is one of the most graceful swingers in the game today and despite the fact that he's one of the oldest campaigners in Major League Baseball
and still swing right back.
Up all is one strike.
High in around the chin.
Roll one.
Johnny fouled out to Seminik to catch it for the third out in the first inning and then with a
two man out for the Yankees in the third.
Got a rightful single to right.
Another foul cut off.
A high at home plate and apparently though they are out of view the fans are scrambling for it.
One ball to strike.
Score one to nothing, New York.
Top of the fifth.
Pitching now is resembling something like yesterday's early.
Roberts takes a lot of time after he gets a new one.
Into the big pumping motion.
The kick, the throw, the swing, the miss.
Stuck in out.
Fastball.
Tight.
Inside.
And for Roberts, his second strikeout victim of the ball game.
For the first time in the ball game by either pitcher the side is retired in order.
No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on.
Four and a half innings, we know your Yankees won.
The Philadelphia Phillies, nothing.
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Side-climbed curve ball on the inside corner, throwing it on the fifth.
The module has come up with one fine play today,
particularly on Emmett's deep drive early in the ball game.
All mounted up at one on one.
Nothing in one pitch, Robert's throws, going away.
Ball one.
The indicator in right field, which borders the God rail of the upper tier,
as well as in left, and a two strike count in the crowd started roaring,
but they quickly changed it to one on one.
Joe is over four. Robert's flying throw. Joe takes high, inside, ball two.
Two balls, one strike.
A pair of pop flies to the second base,
and a pop out to third, and a foul pop to first,
so that Joe hasn't gotten the ball out of the infield of staff and on and forth trips.
Two on one.
Swinging a fly ball before left field, this one may go all the way. It's a home run.
A home run for Joe DeMaggio.
We out there to the upper tier in left center field, a good 375 feet from home plate.
A line drive that took off and stayed hit, and the Yankee flees.
Two to one as DeMaggio, who had been hitless in the World Series,
comes out of his drop with a tremendous drive.
His seventh World Series home run.
And this is his ninth World Series.
So the Yankee could, who had been forced to swing late,
who everybody said couldn't bring that bat around quickly enough,
certainly did that time, and now the Yankees ball into a lead, two to one.
Billy Johnson, the batter, swinging right handed, takes high, inside, ball one.
Of course, in your batting order, Johnson, who was moved in defensively first
before he came to the plate, moved in in my position.
Number five, and hot, who was a pinch runner for Brown, moves down,
cuts the foul, slipping down behind the plate, or strike one.
Well, I don't know how dramatic you baseball fans are,
but I know around the country, are you a Yankee or a Phil Ruder?
They couldn't have him to a better fellow. Joe DeMaggio.
You know, Gene, in establishing the order and that ending, I forgot to put Johnson's name on it,
I said, my eyes was coming up.
Right now, Johnson has just slung on a missed fastball to strike two.
One ball, two strikes.
Ironically, when the field stays off the Dodgers foot on Sunday, they came on a win,
and this time the Yankees, with Reynolds forcing a double play ball to wind up the frame,
the Yankees are doing the same thing. One and two, the pitch.
That swings the misses, strike three, struck him out.
Number five, or Roberts.
Well, that was a home run. I mean, there was nothing tainted about that.
That was a kiss, and at the moment it looks like the kiss of death for the Phil Chulks.
Of course, they still got the last of the tenth, but that home run can take the starch out of a ball club
that is played so tightly all the way.
A left-hander warms up in the bullpen.
The spectacled left-hander, Joe Ostrovsky, who was secured from St. Louis.
Here is John Hupp.
And he takes high and away, ball one.
One down, one run in, Yankees leading.
Two to one, now with a tenth in the first extra-ending World Series game since the opener
between St. Louis and the Boston Red Sox in 1946.
One nothing pitch. In there for called strike one.
Of course, a field threat.
A coup d'etat in that there would be a pinch hitter for Roberts in the last of the tenth
and then the top of the batting order.
But there one down now, you see, it's not a tie game.
One-on-one, swinging a looper to short left field,
Sissler moving in under and makes the grab.
Two down. The Phil Stands, of course, were chilled by the Margeau's mighty jolt.
It went into the upper tier, just clearing the first box out there and was still on the rise.
And when it left the bat, it appeared as though it was a kind of ball.
But it might be called, but it just kept rising and rising to the heights of a current lead.
Two to one, New York.
Savannah, Hank Bauer. Roberts' slow curve misses outside, ball one.
That's a wide irony, the one-on-off Roberts in that magnificent game the other day in Brooklyn
was a home run by Pee-wee Reese.
And the home run ball right now puts him behind.
One-on-nothing to Bauer. Leaning in, sending a zipping ground ball to short.
The camera up with extremely long throw to first. In time by a stride.
At Bauer, shot out of a gun.
So, with Bauer's ground foot out, short to first, the Yankees one run.
The big home run by Jota Margeau. One hit, no errors by the Phillies, and nobody left on.
Nine and one-half innings. The New York Yankees two, the Phillies one.
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Jackie Mayo, who was added to the World Series Active list of the field roster,
and is an Oathard Amher where he played baseball for the well-known Jake Klein
and came up to the field from Toronto in early September, is going to be the pinch hitter for Roberts.
On the season, Mayo didn't have too impressive a consistent hitting record.
He was used in spots, particularly when Sussler was hurt with a sprained wrist.
He was a 222 hitter and played defensively when a field's got a lead late in the game, moving in to replace Sussler.
Fighty-Fortz, staying seated up for Stingel in the right field bullpen, as well as Big Tom Burrick.
Reynolds is set on a motion delivering. Mayo takes high around the chin for a while.
In this 2-1 game, the Yankees leading, last half of the 10th now, Mayo, batting for Roberts,
but Phil's play for the tie first to see, so the pressure is all on them.
Reynolds bearing down, third baseman, Johnson-Shadow, the pitch, inside high, ball two.
The first game was moved beyond 10th.
Reynolds would have another change, Stunel, ball three.
Burrick and Ford get the tie to stop throwing hard. Mayo, of course, if he would get on, would represent the tying run.
Last half of the 10th, we've almost stiked out on Mayo, who can run well, incidentally, batting left handed.
Pitching, like one's balls. He's alive, and Mayo is Reynolds.
It has been a magnificent fissure duel, but a much different type ball game than yesterday.
3-1, pitching, ball four.
The ball pass, issued by Reynolds, and of course one of them was intentional to Whitman,
who was standing in to hit Ford's ill-vesti, and the last of the night.
As you know, LaPata is now in the lineup of the catcher, and the batter is Eddie Wickers,
with a tying run on at first base, and nobody else.
Fakis has two hits, a double and a single and four trips.
Looking for the punt, the infield came in, Eddie brought the hand up on the bat, but took it low, ball one.
Fakis bounced out the second, doubled to right, single and a great play by Coleman at second.
Nice play that is, and then the fly-down, three percent of field of the module.
Want to know, leading off, the pitch, the bat, third base side, up with the ball.
Johnson, one play, first base, in time, and almost off the bag was Jerry Coleman,
the second baseman who covered, but he put his foot down just in time.
Dusty Cook, the first base coach, pointer to the umpire, Fakis down there,
while the next man comes up, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Fakis shy barks, but offense shores up.
Willie Johnson moves in from third, as Richie Ashburn, who beat out a punt for a single,
has a double and four trips.
He has batted home the only run scored by the field back in the fifth inning.
Strike one, ball, fast ball on the outside.
Oddly enough, though, Ashburn has two of the hits made by the Phillies.
He batted home the run on a fly, fairly deep to left, since Woodling had been moved in on him,
just as he is right now. The outfield is a shadow, straight away, pushed toward the left,
helping him one count, Mayo leading off second,
swinging a quick thing foul, first base side, moving over for it, Johnny Hopp,
under it, has it, Mayo takes the run off the bag,
but everybody moves over toward the third base side of the diamond,
and the veteran cotton top hop from Nebraska races in toward the mid-portion of the diamond
to make sure that Mayo has no notion.
Two gone, so it is up as far as the field is concerned to Dick Sissler.
Sissler has fared poorly with a six.
He hasn't been able to put the ball out of the infield, and of course was called upon to punt earlier.
Yesterday he struck out twice, popped up first, then grounded as a pitcher.
Today he has struck out once, foul to first, grounded a second, then punted into a field as choice
on a fine play by Residual on Reynolds' great gamble in the eighth inning.
A game-repeat with all the thrills you could ask for in a world series struggle.
Ford and Virg all the while continue warming up, and of course,
Consetti should the field try it up, and the left field both back.
Runner at second, Mayo. Two gone.
The stretch by Reynolds, he throws. Sissler swings and misses.
Like one. Reynolds, who has possessed a tremendous step, is now calling upon the reserve.
Just as rash he was yesterday, but Reynolds has been in more consistent hot water today.
As true was the case of Robin Roberts before he went out for the pin chitter.
Nothing in one.
Lot of rests on this one better because the Yankees have already beaten one eighth from Satti.
Nothing in one. It's bringing nothing.
Thanks to some of the more discontentless filled fans have already started heading toward the exits.
During World Series Time, the avenues of traffic are a little bit more cluttered up, you see,
than they would be in a sell-out during a regular seasonal game.
32,660 of them.
Nothing in two. Reynolds, a long pause, shakes off one dollar sign, says no on the second.
Mayo impatiently leading off second base. The galley and the stretch fix delivers.
Strike three, call them out.
Call them out. That was a half-fling by Dick Sissler. The ballgame is over, and just as the ballgame wound up yesterday,
it winds up today. Three up, three down, and Sissler goes down on strike.
There's plenty of planning about that one, but on fire McGowan, call him out, and Reynolds pitches a 10-inning victory.
The first 10-inning struggle since 1946.
In the 10-innings for the Phillies, there was one man on, but I met, of course,
that he retired three men in order behind the walk. No runs, no hits, no errors, and one man left on.
Our total's reached for the losing Phillies in 10-innings.
Seven hits, no errors, and the Phillies left seven men on.
The losing pitcher was Robert. For the Victoria's New York Yankees, who have now taken two in a row on excellently hurled games,
they scored two runs, DiMaggio's blasts the court, seeing the equalizer, and the Yankees pick up.
Ten hits, they commit no errors, and two double plays, pull Reynolds out of hot water, and the Yankees leave on the base pass.
Ten men. The winning pitcher is Ali Reynolds. Quite a ball game.
The 10-innings for the Yankees are two-up, and now are odds on favorites this week.