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Second Game. What started as a southpaw pitching duel between Brooklyn's Preacher Roe and the Yankee's Eddie Lopat blew up in a Yankee victory in the eighth, when Mickey Mantle slammed a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie. The Dodgers outhit the Yanks nine hits to five, but then left ten men stranded on the bases. Score: Yankees, 4; Dodgers...
...Dodgers gave Pitcher Erskine a second chance. Erskine brought Brooklyn back into the Series, struck out 14 Yankees (Mickey Mantle four times) to set a Series record. Catcher Campanella, bothered by a swollen hand that had been hit by a first-game pitch, suddenly recovered. His eighth-inning homer beat the Yanks...
Fifth Game. Mickey Mantle made up for his strikeouts. In the third inning, with the bases loaded and the score tied 1-1, he hit a soaring grand-slam homer into the upper leftfield stands. The Dodgers rallied, but the final score was Yankees 11, Dodgers...
...pitch the Dodgers to a win, after only two days of rest, but he lasted only four innings. It was a close one, with the Yankees leading 3-1 going into the ninth. Dodger Carl Furillo then gave Brooklyn fans a foretaste of paradise by poling a two-run homer into the stands. Then the Yankees struck back; in the last of the ninth, with runners on first and second, Billy Martin drove a line single through the infield. It was his twelfth hit of the series. More important, it scored Hank Bauer with the run that made the Yankees...
Targets for Democrats: ¶Homer Ferguson: A few months ago, Democrats were confident of toppling Ferguson. Now they are not so sure. Fence-mending his way through 46 of Michigan's 83 counties, he has dropped his ponderous, fault-finding manner and shown friendly skill as a campaigner who appears at wedding receptions, fraternal meetings and county fairs...