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Burdette's scoreless inning streak was snapped at 24, after the Yankees scored an unearned run in the first inning. Leading 13-2, he was rocked for three more runs in the ninth, when Mickey Mantle and Hank Bauer hit back-to-back home runs...
...single by Bauer, who now has hit safely in 16 series games, a wild throw by Eddie Mathews and an intentional pass to Mantle had loaded them up. When Elston Howard forced Mantle at second, Bauer came home to snap Burdette's streak...
Billy Bruton opened the Braves' half of the first with a 375-foot homer into the right field bleachers. Red Schoendienst then bounced a double past Bauer to the right field fence. After Turley managed to send a third strike past Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron worked him for a walk, and Wes Covington singled to center, scoring Schoendienst...
...rest of the game was purely incidental. Mantle got his two homers, and Bauer...
Stengel hinted he might not start Bauer, who he said had a slight wrist injury. However, it was not so much the injury as an attempt to find a place for Elston Howard, his catcher-outfielder...