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Five unearned 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...
...Page got the victory yesterday, but the Dodgers didn't give up without a fight. Behind 4 to 1 in the ninth, Luis Olmo and Roy Campanella homered off Page's offerings. But the third successive time, one team came out one run too short...
Page entered the last half inning with a three run lead, and once again a Coleman insurance run proved necessary. With none out, Olmo drove a homer into the left field stands. Page disposed of Snider easily, but Roy Campanella lofted a high fly which just cleared the top of the left field wall to make the score...
There is an obscure baseball rule that no batter may deliberately make an out, so the Dodger hitters all assumed peculiar chop swings. Roy Campanella, who has not hit a ball on the ground since Bill Cunningham denounced the Red Sox, suddenly bounced to third. After Antonelli walked six foot five inches Newcombe on a series of high outside pitches, Reese proceeded to deliberately hit the most beautiful double play ball to shortstop Ryan that could be imagined, a soft line drive on one bounce...
...newest of three Negro regulars now on the Dodger roster, Newcombe is also the hardest of the three to handle. On the road, Catcher Roy Campanella and Second-Baseman Jackie Robinson take turns sharing the big, moody rookie as a roomie. When he is his normal, placid, taciturn self, they needle him up to ballfield pitch. They soothe him when he gets upset and threatens to get out of line...