Word: branca
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Brooklyn (Branca) 3, New York...
Brooklyn (Branca) 9, St. Louis...
...Friday, when the Series moved to Ebbets Field, the fans were ready for Brooklyn's usual wide-open, slambang style of play. Instead, for eight innings, the game jogged right along in the pattern : a pitching exhibition between Brooklyn's usually erratic Ralph Branca, who settled down to retire 14 batters in a row and New York's ace-in-the-sleeve Relief Pitcher Joe Page, who replaced Tommy Byrne in the fourth inning...
Mize, pinch-hitting for Mapes, knocked in two runs with a single, Branca headed for the showers, and Jack Banta came in to pitch to Gorry Coleman, whose base-clearing Texas League double had provided the three runs that gave the Yanks the pennant Sunday...
...record-minded, Rizzuto equaled a series mark by getting no fielding chances at shortstop during a nine inning game. Ralph Branca was the second successive Brooklyn pitcher to strike out three times. Preacher Roe did it Thursday...