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...American League is getting better & better as time rolls on. If so, this will obviously make it even more difficult than it has been in the past for Ted Williams to do what he wants to do every time he comes to bat, i.e., hit the ball into the right-field stand...
...each team had won two games. In the first inning Williams came up wearing a solemn and purposeful frown; he looked at one pitch from Yankee Pitcher Bob Porterfield, found it not to his liking, and swung on the second. The ball took off and sailed over the right-field fence 340 ft. away. Since the Yankees did not score at all, that was the ball game. But Ted Williams did not have a full day, though he had won the game. On his next three times at bat the scorer added a "0" to the Williams line...
...knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees...
...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...
...ball cleared the right-field screen, sailed across Bedford Avenue and came to earth in a parking lot about 415 ft. from home plate. The Cardinals won, 5-3, and there was no joy in Brooklyn. There was still less in the first inning of the second game that day when Musial belted another homer to give St. Louis a two-run lead. Things looked black in Brooklyn, but it turned out to be the darkness before dawn. The desperate Dodgers got down in the dirt, clawing and scratching, and won the second game...