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...Griffith, owner of the Senators, and the President satisfied tradition by throwing out the first ball of the season.- On his left hand, he wore a fielder's mitt which Griffith handed him. Ike, using an odd type of knuckle grip, threw the ball to Yankee Pitcher Johnny Sain so quickly that some photographers missed it. "One more," they cried, and Ike obliged with a fast one to Rookie Gonzalo Naranjo. "Throw it back," called the President, and Naranjo did. Then, feeling very pleased with himself, Ike pitched the ball once more to Naranjo. Baseball historians agreed that...
...wild and the Yankees knocked him out of the game in the first inning with four runs (on three walks and two triples). By the fifth inning the Dodgers were beginning to straighten out the fastball pitching of Yankee Allie Reynolds, but old National Leaguer Johnny Sain marched in to replace Reynolds and silence the Dodgers while the Yankees piled up more runs. Score: Yankees, 9; Dodgers...
...Dodgers overcame a four-run deflcit, backed Yankoo relief pitcher Johnny Sain against the well, and threatened to break the first game of the 1953 World Series wide open before they fell apart themselves. Sain and the Yanks gained a 9 to 5 victory...
...sooner did the Brooks tie the score at 5-5 than Yogi Berra vaulted a home run into the right field stands in the bottom of the seventh. The Yanks picked up three more in the eighth, but they were superfluous, for reliever Sain recovered from a shaky seventh inning and went on to gain credit...
...sixth, the Dodgers jumped on Reynolds for three runs, on a four-bagger by first-baseman Gil Hodges, a single by Billy Cox, and Shuba's pinch homer. Sain came on to relieve Reynolds, but soon found himself in trouble as the Dodgers put together the game-tying run on successive singles by Roy Campanella, Hodges, and Carl Furillo...