Word: joes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn hurler limited the Yanks to six hits, with no two coming in one inning, and allowed only one man to reach third. Raschi also gave up only six hits. Joe Page, who pitched the ninth, gave the Brooks, theier seventh...
Raschi was in real trouble only once after the second. Gene Hermanski lined a base hit into right center in the fourth and get a triple when the ball took a freak bounce past Joe DiMaggio. Marv Rackley, the next batter, topped a slow roller toward second. Gerry Coleman raced in, gathered it up, and fired it to catcher Silvera just in time to nip Hermanski in a vicious slide...
Both the experts and the odds favor the Yankees. Although statistics give the Brooklyn club definite offensive superiority the American League champions have such men as Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Phill Rizzuto, John Lindell, and Bill Johnson, who have won themselves reputations as clutch players, especially in the last two weeks...
Ready to follow these gentlemen to the mound in any or all games, lefty Joe Page won 13, lost eight, in a return to the form that gave the Yankees the 1947 world championship...
...Lefty Joe Hatten (18-8) may start game three on the basis of September form...