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Saturday, October 6, 1956, Cleveland @ Milwaukee – County Stadium

BRAVES BATTER LEMON TO TAKE 2-1 WORLD SERIES LEAD

Milwaukee put up six early runs to knock Bob Lemon from the hill after just two innings, and Bob Buhl kept Cleveland largely in check into the eighth inning, as the Braves whipped the Indians 10-4. The win gave the Braves a 2-1 lead in the World Series.

The Braves wasted little time in getting to Cleveland’s 20-game winner, Bob Lemon. In the bottom of the first inning Johnny Logan and Hank Aaron slashed one out singles to put runners at the corners. Eddie Mathews then brought Logan home with a sacrifice fly to left field, his fourth RBI of the series, to put the first run on the board.

The Indians wasted no time in responding. After Al Rosen led off the top of the second with a pop out to short, Rocky Colavito continued wielding his hot bat with a drive over Aaron’s head in right field and up against the wall. When Aaron was unable to find the handle right away to get the ball back into the infield, Colavito continued right on to third on what was scored as a double and an error by the Braves right fielder. Jim Busby followed with an infield single to score Colavito, and the game was quickly tied up 1-1.

The Braves untied it in the home half of the second, and opened the game up for good. Wes Covington led things off with a single to left field. Billy Bruton then chopped a single between short and third moving Covington to second. Del Crandall followed by yanking an inside fastball from Lemon down the third base line for a double. Covington scored easily, Bruton rounded, but held, third base. After Lemon struck out his counterpart Bob Buhl, Danny O’Connell lined a single to left center field scoring both runners, and the Braves were rolling, 4-1. Lemon walked Logan to push O’Connell to second. Aaron followed by legging out a slow ground ball toward Al Rosen at third. Rosen’s throw was in the dirt, but late, and Aaron had a single of the infield variety to load the bases. Mathews brought home the Braves fifth run of the contest on a ground ball that Vic Wertz kicked for an error. Joe Adcock brought home the final run of the frame with a ground ball scoring Logan from third. In the inning, the Braves tallied five runs on five hits, leading to Lemon’s exit when his spot in the lineup came up in the top of the third inning.

Jim Hegan doubled in Chico Carrasquel, who had singled after two were out in the fourth, to make it 6-2, but the Braves got the run back in the bottom of the fourth on a double by Logan, single by Aaron, and fielder’s choice by Mathews.

Milwaukee ultimately put the game out of reach in the seventh with three runs off Don Mossi, two coming on a triple by Bruton, the third on a sacrifice fly from Crandall.

Wertz added a little window dressing for Cleveland in the top of the eighth with a solo homerun off Buhl to make it 10-3. A single by Busby followed by a triple by Carrasquel finished off the Indians scoring as well as Buhl’s day on the hill, 7-2/3 innings, four runs allowed.

Bob Trowbridge registered the last four outs for Milwaukee, much to be delight of a damp crowd of over 44,000, who watched their Braves take a lead in the series, and leave open the chance of winning it all in Milwaukee with two wins in the next two days.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP

Cleveland 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 4 8 1 7 0

Milwaukee 1 5 0 1 0 0 3 0 x 10 14 2 6 0

Indians AB R H BI AVG Braves AB R H BI AVG

Smith,A lf 4 0 1 0 .273 O'Connell 2b 5 1 1 2 .273

Mossi p 0 0 0 0 .000 Logan ss 4 3 3 0 .556

Pope ph 1 0 0 0 .200 Aaron rf 5 0 3 0 .357

Avila 2b 5 0 0 0 .077 Mathews 3b 4 0 0 2 .167

Wertz 1b 3 1 1 1 .364 Adcock 1b 4 1 1 1 .167

Rosen 3b 4 0 0 0 .273 Torre 1b 0 0 0 0 .000

Colavito rf 4 1 1 0 .333 Covington lf 3 1 2 0 .375

Busby cf 3 1 2 1 .375 Thomson ph 1 1 1 0 .400

Carrasquel ss 4 1 2 1 .545 Bruton cf 4 2 2 2 .333

Hegan c 4 0 1 1 .125 Crandall c 3 1 1 2 .143

Lemon,B p 0 0 0 0 .000 Buhl p 4 0 0 0 .000

Caffie ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Trowbridge p 0 0 0 0 .000

Aguirre p 0 0 0 0 .000 37 10 14 9

Ward ph 1 0 0 0 .000

Feller p 0 0 0 0 .000

Woodling ph 2 0 0 0 .000

36 4 8 4

Indians INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA

Lemon,B L 0-1 2.0 7 6 4 1 1 55 32 18.00

Aguirre 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 8 7 0.00

Feller 3.0 3 1 1 0 1 37 27 3.00

Mossi 2.0 4 3 3 0 3 38 21 10.80

8.0 14 10 8 1 5 138 87

Braves INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA

Buhl W 1-0 7.2 8 4 3 2 2 115 64 3.52

Trowbridge 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 19 11 0.00

9.0 8 4 3 2 3 134 75

Cle: Caffie batted for Lemon,B in the 3rd

Ward batted for Aguirre in the 4th

Woodling batted for Feller in the 7th

Woodling moved to lf in the 7th

Pope batted for Mossi in the 9th

Mil: Thomson batted for Covington in the 7th

Torre inserted at 1b in the 8th

Thomson moved to lf in the 8th

E-Wertz, Logan, Aaron. 2B-Colavito(3), Hegan(1), Logan(1), Crandall(1),

Thomson(1). 3B-Carrasquel(1), Bruton(1). HR-Wertz(1). RBI-Wertz(2), Busby(1),

Carrasquel(1), Hegan(1), O'Connell 2(2), Mathews 2(5), Adcock(2),

Bruton 2(3), Crandall 2(2). K-Wertz, Carrasquel, Hegan, Mathews 2, Adcock,

Buhl 2. BB-Wertz, Busby, Logan. SF-Mathews, Crandall.

GWRBI: Crandall

Temperature: 73, Field: wet, Sky: threatening, Wind: left to right at 3 MPH.

Attendance: 44,039

Game Time: 2:24