Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1950 — Page 30
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Old Joe Is Sill The ¥
By OBCAR FRALEY, United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, Oct. 8-—The big guy still was the Yankee Clip:
per today.
Joe DiMaggio, his brilliant ‘career threatened ¥n recent years ~ by a shackling chain of ailments and injuries, demonstrated fully as the shadows settled over the second game of the World Series
yesterday that even on the down grade he still is one of baseball's all-time greats,
The score was tied at one-all between the Yankees and the a strapping youngster with a blazing fast ball which had held the Yankees even through nine full innings, showed no signs of weakening as he strode to the
fighting Phillies. Robin Roberts,
“mound in the 10th,
And up to face him eame the nemesis of many a pite her, but
a man they have been whispering was going down hill, and fast. Old Joe can't run ‘any more, they say, and he can't throw. And, in this series, Be badn't been hitting.
EIGHT "Times previously the Clipper had gone "to the plate.
Four times in the first game, when he popped ur twice and walked
Mie Reynolds David and Goliath?
Did Not See DiMag’s Homer
Heard Announcement
On Clubhouse Radio,
Wanted to See Score
By ALLIE REYNOLDS As Told to the United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6 I
heard about it on the radio. Honest, I heard about DiMag's homer on the radio. God bless Joe DiMaggis! If he
hadn't hit it, I'd probably still be pitching yet. But I never saw Joe hit it. I had gone into eur clubhouse for a few minutes while we were hitting and I heard the radio announcer say DiMaggio hit the ball into the left field stands. I never felt so good about anything in my. life, although I still wanted to go put-and see that one run on the score board, As for my pitching, I had the same trouble out on the mound that Vic Raschi had the day befire. It was so cold that I oduldn’t get my curve working too vell, So T relied mostly on fast balls. Another thing that bothered me was getting a decent grip on the ball. My fingers were so black from resin after the game that it looked like I was digging coal. Just to keep the Phillies off balance, once in a while I mixed in a few sliders. Let me tell you, « T have plenty of respect for that Philadelphia club, especially Granny Hamner,
two times more. And Roberts, the kid who pitched sarrhalin to their first- National League pennant in 35 years, had proved alréady that he wasn't to be beaten by a reputation. Roberts showed that by beating thé Dodgers for the pennant. J He had proved_it too, by getting DiMaggio to pop up weakly four
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Series Box Score
SECOND GAME NEW YORK AMERICANS
ABRH O A Woodling, If “en . 5 02 2 0 Rizzuto, ss Fann : : % 2 3 err 3 PE ‘ Petre Ci sdiisd By TOMMY HENRICH Mize, 1b 3 3 : i : 0 3 New York Yankee Veteran johnson b 0 2 y > : Brown 3b 402000 NEW YORK, Oct. 6 If this is Hopp, 1b renee 8 3 3 0 the way the World Series is gouer I . 9 Coleman, 2b 3118 8 oing to be decided, on pitching as Reynolds, p-...v..peied 0 1 1 2 04g heen 80 far, then I would say Totals '..40 2103011 0 we'll continue to have an edge. +; HLADELPHIA RATIONAL . g The Yankees are better fixed for Waitkus 4 ER 9 9 pitchers than the As hburn s 2 - er it ‘300 300 Phils figure to Eons xt ‘400300 . J 5, Jb . 0 3 Hamper. 382238 Maybe Joe Seminic. 0 . 2 Caballero 00 00% 0°0 showed the boys Bilvestri .0 0.0 1 0 0 a how ‘with that Whitman .0 0 0 0 0 0 SH ome run vesters Lopats 4 ’ $ 3 0 : some run yes io. { : Roberts 2000 0 0 jday. That must Mare S339%34¢¢ thave been a Totals . 7 ¥ Caballero ran for Seminick in seventh drive; all right. Whitman walked r Silvestri in ninth. ; Mayo walked for Roberts in h I say m ust (10 Innings) have heen beNew York 010 000 600 1 rr “cause; believe it Philadelphia 000 010 000 0-1 ; oF not. I didn't: Runs batted in—-Woodling. Ashburn, Di- Henrich | ) Maggio. Two-base hits—Ashburn, Walitkus see if. 1 was at
Coleman. Hamner. Three-base hit-—Ham- Qhihe Park, but I turned sissy.
3 Home Jun-_DiMaggio. Stolen base Hamner Sacrifices Robe 4 I“ phuisdeighia I got so cold sitting outdoors that ses—New Yor e + a hace pails off ~Roberts 3 - I went into the clubhouse as the
8. Bas : ut—By Reynolds 6, pL Double Diays—Johnaon to Coun 10th inning started, hoping to get
opp; Rizzuto to San 1 n to pitcher warmed up in there, and just then y er 8. 08 Foss, Pn es McGowan (A). pia N Joe connected. - I got warm ‘n a { A), 9: Colan ¥ ', Bo lok pA and Me Kinley (AJ, i hurry after that. x lines. Time 3.06. Attendance— 32.660. Allie Reynolds certainly aid a — job, didn’t he? Here was another game - where the pitching: was nar Table 8 Solun practically everything and for the Mino? Major Minor Major Second straight time we were 1415 . %: fu lucky enough to-have the pitcher
2 308 sisi who was just a- little stronger. 142 1lies Roberts pitched a beautiful game, ; $28 11:80; but it wasn’t quite good enough. 7:00 . 1:10 Allie’'s was almost perfect. Time)
; The run. they got off him was “|Theap, on that hit. that took a bad bounce over Coleman's head.
Allie go{” the hit that led to our
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helped himself with a couple of, great plays in’ the field. Both! were on bunts. In the fifth, the inning the Phils got their run, they might have had THNE exept for Allie’s co-ordination. ‘Roberts | |bunted a sort of blooper over the! { mound. Allle was charging in| {with the pitch, and he had to re(verse himself and leap back to {eatch the ball. Somehow he was {able to twist around and get it. {If he'd missed, it would have been {a hit because there was no one fete near the ball, In’ the eighth, of course, Allie, ite cette ht rear et emma]
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treacherous spot, about four feet|
‘a hole, and all outfielders have
first. run, you remember, and he’ _
Odds o on Yanks Jump to 15-1
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Clipper befoie? The pudgy Robin wound up once and fired it over the plate. It was a strike. He wound up twice more, looking for
the corners, and missed to push the count to two and one, #.8 8" : * = = : THEN he set himself again and leaned into a low slider that streaked toward the plate. That's when the Clipper uncoiled with all that old grace and rhythm-and the ball rocketed up and out, into the upper left field stands, . To the Yankees, a business-as-usual outfit jntent on flattening the Phillies in four straight if they can, it wasn't anything about
look for that kind of action. To them it was simply Joe's seventh homer in nine trips to the series.
hit in the World Series.”
Not because it won a game ih extra innings. Not because | it gave the Yankees their second straight victory over the Phillies.
You knew, looking at Joe, that to him it meant the days of glory |
| weren't over yet. : . »_.8 , "ow = GRAY now flecks the hair which once was coal black. There are lines in his face which weren't there when the streamlined
“ Itahan boy came out of San Francisco in 1936 to undying fame
as a Yankee. And, marred by aches and pains, Joe knows that sometime the end is inevitable.
But that day isn’t here yet,
The Clipper proved that in the 10th, and the Yankees were exultant with the quiet pride of champions, As Allie Reynolds said, almost as if speaking for them all:
“God bless Joe Plage!”
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Composite Series Box Snare
FIRST TWO GAMES
NEW YORK YANKEES G AB R H 2B JB HR TBRBISOBBSB Pct. O A E Pet Woodling, If 2 8 0 3 0 0 oo 3 1 0 2 0 3715 3 0 0 1.000 izzuto, ss 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 O0 1 0 .143 2 3 0 1.000 Berra, c 2 9 0 1 06 0 0 1 0 1 © 0 11,14 O 0 1.000} DiMageio, of 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 1 0 2 0 143 6 0 0 1.000 Mize, 1b 2 8 0 1 0 0 o 1 0 1 0 0 125 13 0 © 1.000 Hopp, 1b 2 1 oO 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 6 0 o 1000 Brown, 3b 2 8 1 3 1 ¢ 0 4 0 0 0 0 375 0 oo. 0 1.000 Johnson 3b 2 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 oO 1 0 0 000 0 2 0 1.000 uer 2 9 0 2 6 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 22 6 0 0 1000 Coleman, 2b 2-7 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 143 6 8 0 1.000 Raschi, p . 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 333 0 3 0 1000 Reynolds, p .... 1 3 0 1 oO 0 o 1 0 2 1 0 333 1 2 0 1.000 Totals 703 15 2 0 1.20 3 5 7 0 .211 87 18 © 1.000 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES G AB R H 2B IB HR TBRBISOBBSH Pct. O A E Pct Waitkus, . 1b «3 7 0 2 1 oO 0 3 oo o 1 0 28 17 2 0 1000 2 9 0 2 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 222 6 0 0 1.000 -2 9 0 0 0 0 0 00 4° 0 O00 000 6 0 oO ) 2 . 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 000 5 0 0.1000 . 2 7 0 1 o 0 0 1 0 14 0 0 .143 7 3 Vy 809 2 6 0 2 1 1-0 5 0 0 1 1 333 2 3 © 1.000 .32 8 0 .1 8 ¢ 0 .F ¢ 2 1 0 200 6 1 0 1.000 a | oO oo 06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 1 0 © 1.000 1 oO 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 O06 0 O0 000 1 O0 0 1000 . 2 7 1 1 0 0 0 1 oo 1 0 0 143 5 4 "0 1.000’ +12 0°0"0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 000. 1 © 0 1000 a | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 GO i 0 1.000 1 3-060 9-6 0.0 0°} 0 0 000 0 0 0 .000 . 2 1 0 0 oO 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 000 0 0 0 .000 | oO 0 0 0 oO 0 0 oo o 1 0 000 0 0 0 000 1 0 0 0 © 0 0 0 0 0 0 O00 000 O0 0 O .000 Totals . 62 1 9 3 1 0 14 1 11 5 1 .145 57 14 1 986 Caballero, pinch runner Whitman, pinch hitter
COMPOSITE SCORE BY INNINGS
New York Paadeivhia
Yanaana 010 100 000 1-3 000 010. 000 0-1
BCH es NEW Sotk. Rizzuto, Raschi: ow k 20, Philadelphia 11. Bases
rned runs—New York 3, Philadelphia 1. Philadelphia Roberts, Valtkus Jett 0 on balls—Off New York, Rashi 1. Rernolds 4: Philade
Meyer 1 in 1, Roberts 10 in 10. Double plays—New York. Johnso Hopp, Rizzuto to Coleman to Hopp. Games won-—New York, Raschi, “Reynolds. Games lost—Philadelphia, Konstanty, Roberts, Um cGowan (A), Boggess IN), 2 Tr ley (A), Bariick (Ni. 08. Attendance—Pirst game, 30,746;
Baseball NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (UP)—The Calendar
WORLD SERIES (Best of seven)
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made the play of the game. Ash- 1 was impressed with Robin| burn had just beat out a bunt and! Roberts, of course. I'd never seen | then Sisler tried to sacrifice. The him: before, except for a couple]
bunt came back to the mound and of innings in the All-Star game. | |
with Ashburn running, one of the, He's very ‘cool for a young fastest men in haseball, most pitcher and my guess is his ball pitchers automatically * would is-a lot faster than it looks. He have plaved it safe and thrown to didn’t look particularly fast to first. ; me, but the hitters were popping But Allie had the uts. He Up and fouling. And that's usuwheeled and threw a _ ally a sign that the ball is comand I'm telling you he didn't 18 J there quicker than- they throw any change of pace—and '2iP tis. he got the force on Eh To Didnt the Phils go without an me that was the key play of the assist until the eighth inning? day. If he'd missed he'd have had Roberts had our hitters lifting the ball right along: Until Joe lifted one a little too high and far. Most of the game, though, Robrunner, Sisler, on first base. Plus ets Be avy Jos sumer one out. out, too. But at the same time, Another blg play was the catch Reynolds was stopping their pow-| DiMaggio made on Ennis in the er, Sisler, Ennis and Jones. sixth. This was a long, well-hit (Copyrignt, ball that Joe had to chase almost to the wall in right center. - From playing out - there, 1 know that there is a very
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