Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ninth inning behind, 4 to 1, getting one run across, standing Alvin Dark on third (in place of Don Mueller, who injured himself reaching that position the last time) and Whitey Lockman on second. Bobby Thomson was supposed to let one strike go by and hit the next pitch into the left field seats. But Bob Kuzava failed to take the role of Ralph Branca seriously. His first pitch was a ball, and Bob Thomson couldn't find his place. With appalling inability to ad lib, Thomson lifted a fly to left and Dark scored, but it wasn...
Third string catcher Sal Yvars, the only Giant who had not yet appeared in the series (not counting Mueller), walked nervously in from the bullpen. He dumped the first pitch into the unpatrolled sector behind second base...
...added pitch-and-pass sequences to his assortment of wingback, tailback, fullback, and even single-wing quarterback passes...
Chuck Dressen, Dodger manager, lifted Newcombe and put in Branca to pitch to Thomson. The Staten Island Scot took hold of Branca's second pitch and knocked it into the left field stands to win the ball game for the Giants...
Scarcely had Bobby Thompson slammed Ralph Branca's ninth-inning pitch into the left field stands yesterday before managers Leo Durocher of the Giants and Casey Stengel of the Yankees began to work on today's line...