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...runs in the eighth inning gave Brooklyn the decision in the first game. The Braves took a 4 to 1 lead in the nightcap, but homers by Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson and a key double by Campanella provided the margin of victory. Carl Erskine was the winner, Vern Bickford the loser...
Bunched back of the Phillies were the Brooklyn Dodgers, who started off like runaways and then, with mediocre pitching, became the season's biggest disappointment; the fast-moving Boston Braves, supported by outstanding pitching from Warren Spahn, Johnny Sain and Vern Bickford; the St. Louis Cardinals, held down by too many batting slumps; the New York Giants, who had surprised everybody by winning 17 out of 18 games, then abruptly dropped three out of four to the Dodgers last week...
...guilty," he said. That night the aroused Dodgers went out and beat the Boston Braves, to end a four-game losing streak. The next night, even Rickey's needling didn't help. There was nothing complacent about the way the Dodgers were swinging at Vernon Bickford's pitches, but for the life of them they could...
...seventh inning the crowd began edging up on their seats; no hits yet, and Bickford was still clipping the corners of the plate with tantalizing sliders and sinkers and a fast-breaking curve. Bickford had walked Dodgers in the fourth and fifth innings, but otherwise his control had been perfect...
...ninth inning the strain began to tell. Bickford walked two Dodgers. "I was really nervous," he admitted later. Then, with two men on base and one out, Dodger Outfielder Duke Snider banged into a double play, ending the game and giving Bickford his no-hitter.* Final score: Boston 7, Brooklyn...