Word: olmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Rackely replaced Carl Furillo, who suffered a groin injury last week, but Marv twisted his back while backing up a forth inning line drive to Duke Snider, and Luis Olmo came in to play left field, Hermanski was stationed in Furillo's right field berth until Carl pinch hit for him in the ninth. Mike McCormick played the spot in the last half inning...
...rubber game, Brooklyn's big Negro righthander, Don Newcombe, silenced Cardinal bats (6-0) with the help of outfielders who chased fly balls like men on bicycles and made "impossible" catches. One smash from Musial's bat would have been a triple if Outfielder Luis Olmo had not bounded high into the air against the left-center-field wall and made the catch-of-the-month...
...rarefied air (altitude at Mexico City: 7,325 ft.). But part of their trouble was not altitude, but attitude. Recently Monterrey, tied with Vera Cruz in the 14th inning, had a man on second. On a safe hit to left, the base-runner held up at third. Ex-Dodger Olmo, dozing in the field, thought the winning run had already crossed the plate. To show his disgust he fielded the ball, then turned and threw it-and the ball game-out of the park...