Word: bessent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tension was clearly too much for the home team. Starting Pitcher Sandy Koufax walked four men in one inning and was sent to the showers. Reliever Don Bessent let a man steal home. The Dodgers were losing to Cincinnati 6-0 when the public address system sputtered: "Attention, ladies and gentlemen. The vote on Proposition B, returns from the first 58 precincts, shows: yes, 3,844 votes; no, 3,557 votes." The crowd hooted. "Can I change my vote to no?" roared a first-base fan. "I wanna send these bums back to Brooklyn...
...Fourth Game found Casey Stengel still saving his veteran pitchers while Alston was forced to work his best. They were more than good enough. Carl Erskine lasted only three innings, but Don Bessent and Clem Labine teamed up behind him to hold the Yankees off. Snider, Campanella and Hodges all homered, and Snider was superb in the field. The Yanks got scant consolation from McDougald's wasted first-inning home run. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...been off form all year; Billy Loes and Johnny Podres are just too erratic to be counted on. Clem Labine, right-handed relief artist, the pitcher who did most to keep the Dodgers in front, will be a busy man in the bullpen. On the brighter side, Don Bessent, called up from St. Paul in midseason, has the speed and control to become rookie sensation of the series...
This year the Dodgers did everything right. Their big battery, Newcombe and Campanella, accounted for 20 games and 39 home runs between them. Somehow the right man was always on the bench when needed. Pitchers Roger Craig and Don Bessent came up from the minors to take over when the rest of the staff faltered. Even Bullpen Catcher Rube Walker was able to take over for Campanella when Roy was out with a bad knee...
...Campy is back in shape. For two weeks the Dodgers fretted while he recovered from a loose bone spur in his knee; now he functions with his old, Buddha's efficiency. Last week he was back behind the plate to help a couple of rookie pitchers, Don Bessent and Roger Craig, hold off the opposition and give the Dodgers' sore-armed veterans a rest. At bat, he is once more teaming up with Centerfielder Duke Snider to make one of the toughest one-two hitting combinations since Ruth and Gehrig. Campy settles into the batter...