Word: roe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season. Their sluggers led by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider and Carl Furillo, had rolled up 208 homers to the Yankees' 139. True, the Yankee pitching staff was rich in veterans with the habit of winning in the World Series, but in Carl Erskine (20-6), Preacher Roe (11-3) and Billy Loes (14-8) Charley Dressen's Brooklyns had a certified crew of winners, too. Growled old National Leaguer Rogers Hornsby: "If the Dodgers don't beat the Yankees this time, they ought to cut their throats...
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...
Mantle's blast broken open a brilliant pitching battle between lefthanders Eddie Lopat of the Yanks and Preacher Roe...
Outhit by the Dodgers, 9 to 5, the rallying Yanks tied the score on Billy Martin's homer in the seventh. Then Mantle's blast, following a single by Bauer, finished Roe...
...Series have leaped to 9 to 5 in favor of the Yanks, and in some places the line is as high as 2 to 1. For the second game, a couple of veteran soft-stuff southpaws are slated to pitch. With Eddie Lepat going for the Yanks and Preacher Roe for the Dodgers, the Brooks are rated 6 to 5 underdogs...