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...knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees...
Branca got rid of Tomy Henrich in the top of the ninth, but then he walked Yogi Berra. After Joe DiMaggio fouled out, Bobby Brown singled to right, and Woodling walked on a 3-2 count to lead the bases...
...Tommy Henrich's home run in the ninth inning broke up a brilliant pitching duel between Allie Reynolds and don Newcombe and gave the New York Yankees a 1 to 0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the opening game of the World Series yesterday afternoon in the Yankee Stadium...
...double in the third and a single in the sixth. Johhny Lindell hit one of Newcombe's two slow pitches of the afternoon for a single in the second, and Gerry Coleman doubled in the eighth for the only other Yankee blows. No Yankee had reached third base until Henrich came...
...only other time that a homer produced the one run in a World Series game was in 1923. Present Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit it while playing for the New York Giants, and it landed in almost exactly the same spot in the Yankee Stadium as Henrich...