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...admitted, "and that's to win. It doesn't much matter what else you do, or how people feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...
...crept over the stadium, then opened up with a still hopping fast ball, retired 17 of the last 18 batters in fashioning a two-hit 3-0 shutout. Gloated Spahn: "Somebody got the impression that I can't throw anything but junk. Well, somebody is misinformed." Shortstop Tony Kubek let in the first Milwaukee run with an error, and Outfielder Norm Siebern played three fly balls into base hits...
...Schoendienst set up the Braves' first score in the sixth with a booming triple to center and scored when Johnny Logan's grounder went through Tony Kubek's legs for an error...
...these are, as Burdette himself said, "the breaks." Had not Kubek made a high throw, Larsen might have escaped injury; and Burdette would have been far less of a hero if Bill Skowron's bases-loaded drive had not gone within reach of Eddie Mathews...
...with two out and nobody on base in the ninth, the Yankees had bounced back to tie the score on Elston Howard's three-run homer. The Yankees forged ahead in the top of the tenth on Hank Bauer's triple, following an infield single by Tony Kubek...