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Then, in the ninth, the Giants' castoff Johnny Mize (sold to the Yankees last August) returned to haunt the National League. At bat as a pinch hitter with two out and the bases loaded, he connected with his second pinch hit of the Series, a line drive to the right-field fence. When Jerry Coleman singled a moment later, the Yankees...
...Should he do otherwise, Lewis and Reuther will be on his neck. If he does follow this course, industry and the public will go after him. It looks like a rough month for him either way--but the squeeze from his own people must be more compelling than the pinch from industry...
...York Yankees paid an estimated $40,000 to transport 215 pounds of first baseman across the Harlem River August 22. John Mize paid it all back in Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon with a ninth-inning, bases-loaded pinch hit single that beat the Dodgers...
...Mize, pinch-hitting for Mapes, knocked in two runs with a single, Branca headed for the showers, and Jack Banta came in to pitch to Gorry Coleman, whose base-clearing Texas League double had provided the three runs that gave the Yanks the pennant Sunday...
Bruce Edwards, pinch hitting for Banta, looked at a third strike and Page's sixty-second appearance of the year ended in victory...