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Scarce Hits. To the stadium's pitching mound for the finale, Brooklyn's Manager Walter Alston sent 23-year-old Johnny Podres, a slender (6 ft. 170 Ibs.) lefthander who had spent most of the season on the Dodger bench. Alston's logical starter, 2O-game winner Don Newcombe, was down with a sore arm. Podres, who "won only nine games in the regular season, had not lasted a full nine innings in league play since June 14. In late summer, the Dodger front office thought of shunting him to the disabled list and bringing...
...Campanella, First Baseman Gil Hodges and Shortstop Pee Wee Reese bunched scarce base hits to score single runs in the fourth and sixth innings. The Yankees came clawing back every time, getting men on the bases and bringing the potential tying or winning run to the plate. Once the Dodgers were saved by a brilliant running catch by Left Fielder Sandy Amoros. But their best defense was Podres' zipping fast ball, carefully assorted with well-disciplined slow curves that kept the Yankees swinging off balance throughout the afternoon's siege. Finally, a gentle grounder rolled to Dodger Captain...
...like old times-a subway series, the Yanks and the Dodgers again, scrapping for the baseball championship of the world. But in Brooklyn at least, fans had a feeling that, this once, things might be different. Seven times since the turn of the century the Dodgers, winning a pennant, had lost the World Series. Five times the Yankees had knocked them off. This once, Dodger fans figured to be backing a winner...
...Second Game saw the Dodgers still suffering from the Stadium jitters. Aging (35) Southpaw Tommy Byrne, a rehabilitated major-league castoff, kept them in check all the way. At bat in the fourth inning, he won his own game by knocking in two runs. Starting with volatile Billy Loes, Dodger Manager Walter Alston used four pitchers keeping the score down to Yankees 4, Dodgers...
...Fifth Game rang to the sound of Dodger bats. In the second inning little Sandy Amoros homered with one on; Snider hit homers in the third and fifth-his eighth and ninth in series play. Still Casey Stengel stuck with his starting pitcher. Bob Grim. In the seventh, the Yanks began to rough up Dodger Rookie Roger Craig; Pinch Hitter Bob Cerv reached him for a home run and Dodger Manager Alston brought in Clem Labine. Casey countered with Bob Turley and Berra contributed a home run. It was not enough. The Dodgers scored once more in the eighth...