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...count was two and two. Spraddle-legged in the batter's box, Yankee Shortstop Gil McDougald figured he was going to have to swing on the next one. In the split second that it takes a ball to travel 60 ft. 6 in. from the pitcher's mound to the plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone...
...Batter McDougald, thrown out at first by the Cleveland third baseman who retrieved the ball, raced back to help. Score's face was already blackening, his nose was broken, a dangerous hemorrhage was clouding his eyeball. Even before they examined him in a hospital, specialists were wondering whether they could save his sight. At 23, already one of the fastest and potentially one of the finest pitchers in the history of the game, Herb Score seemed finished with baseball...
...Batter: Hoak, Cincinnati...
...Batter: Williams, Boston...
Repetto solved his own problem, however. When the next batter hit to the same spot he again dove for the ball, rolling over several times, but as he went over he flipped the ball to Simourian at first. When the next batter grounded to third, the inning was over. B.C. did not get a man on base again...