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Sunday, October 7, 1956, Cleveland @ Milwaukee
– County Stadium
TRIBE OUTLASTS SPAHN TO EVEN SERIES
In
a rematch of Game One starters, the Cleveland Indians outlasted the Milwaukee
Braves with a run in the 11th inning for a 2-1 victory.
Early Wynn
and Warren Spahn squared off for the second time in
four days, and once again performed admirably.
In the end, Chico Carrasquel, elevated from the eighth spot in the order
to the number two spot due to his early Series success, delivered the
game-winner with a run-scoring single in the 11th inning.
The contest
started when the Indians finally broke their scoreless streak against Spahn on a Vic Wertz solo homerun in the top of the first
inning. Wynn protected the slim lead
allowing just three hits until the seventh when the Braves first baseman, Joe
Adcock, smashed his first homerun of the series to tie up the game, 1-1.
Wynn’s stint
on the mound ended after eight innings as Cleveland chose to pinch hit for
their ace right-hander to start off the top of the ninth inning, looking to
plate the game winner. Sam Mele drew a
walk in Wynn’s stead, and advanced to third base on a sacrifice by Al Smith and
single by Carrasquel. But a fine play by
Spahn to nail Mele at the plate on a comebacker
struck by Wertz was followed by a strikeout by Al Rosen to end the threat,
ultimately sending the game into extras.
With Wynn
out of the game, the Indians looked to their bullpen to keep pace with Spahn, who continued to look strong into the 10th
inning. Ray Narleski pitched a perfect
ninth, then worked around a one out single by Spahn
in the 10th.
In the top
of the 11th, the Indians finally broke through. Spahn walked pinch
hitter Earl Averill to lead off the stanza.
George Strickland ran for Averill, and moved into scoring position when
Al Smith hit a slow bouncer in front of the mound that Spahn
fielded, and elected to take the out at first base. Carrasquel then stepped in and dropped a
single inside the right field line, easily scoring Strickland with the
tie-breaking tally. Cleveland threatened
to add to their 2-1 lead when Rosen followed with a single up the middle, but Spahn kept his team in the game by retiring Colavito on a
ground ball to close out the inning.
Cal McLish took over for the Tribe to start the bottom of the
11th, needing three outs to finish it, and was immediately greeted
by a single up the middle from Hank Aaron.
However, McLish struck out Eddie Mathews, then
induced a game-ending 5-4-3 double play ball from Adcock to nail down the 2-1
victory.
The Indians
win guaranteed a return of the series to Cleveland with everything knotted up
at 2-2.
1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 R
H E LOB DP
Cleveland 1
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 1 2
6 0 6 1
Milwaukee 0
0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0
0 0 1
7 1 7 1
Indians AB R H
BI AVG Braves AB R H
BI AVG
Smith,A lf 4
0 1 0
.267 O'Connell 2b
5 0 0
0 .188
Carrasquel ss 5
0 2 1
.500 Logan ss 5
0 1 0 .429
Wertz 1b
5 1 1
1 .313 Aaron rf 4
0 2 0 .389
Rosen 3b
5 0 2
0 .313 Mathews 3b
5 0 1
0 .176
McLish p
0 0 0
0 .000 Adcock 1b
5 1 1
1 .176
Colavito rf 5
0 0 0
.235 Covington lf 2
0 0 0 .300
Busby cf 4
0 0 0
.250 Mantilla pr 0
0 0 0 .000
Avila 2b
4 0 0
0 .059 Thomson lf 1
0 0 0 .333
Hegan c
4 0 0
0 .083 Bruton cf 4
0 1 0 .308
Wynn p 2
0 0 0
.333 Rice c 3
0 0 0 .286
Mele ph 0
0 0 0
.000 Tanner ph 1
0 0 0 .000
Narleski p
0 0 0
0 .000 Crandall c
0 0 0
0 .143
Averill ph 0
0 0 0
.000 Spahn p
4 0 1
0 .143
Strickland pr 0
1 0 0
.000 39
1 7 1
38 2 6 2
Indians INN H R ER
BB K PCH STR ERA
Wynn 8.0 5
1 1 2 4
114 72
1.80
Narleski W 1-0 2.0
1 0 0
0 1 22
15 2.70
McLish S 1 1.0 1
0 0 0
1 10 6
4.91
11.0
7 1 1
2 6 146 93
Braves INN H R ER
BB K PCH STR ERA
Spahn L 1-1 11.0
6 2 2
2 4 133 86
0.90
11.0 6
2 2 2 4
133 86
Cle:
Mele batted for Wynn in the 9th
Averill batted for Narleski in the 11th
Strickland ran for Averill in the 11th
Strickland moved to 3b in the 11th
Mil:
Mantilla ran for Covington in the 7th
Thomson inserted at lf
in the 8th
Tanner batted for Rice in the 10th
Crandall inserted at c in the 11th
E-Mathews.
2B-Logan(2), Mathews(1). HR-Wertz(2), Adcock(1).
RBI-Carrasquel(2),
Wertz(3), Adcock(3). K-Carrasquel 2, Wertz, Rosen,
Logan
2, Aaron, Mathews, Rice, Spahn. BB-Mele, Averill,
Aaron, Covington.
SH-Smith,A.
GWRBI:
Carrasquel
Temperature:
49, Sky: clear, Wind: in from right at 2 MPH.
Attendance:
43,755
Game
Time: 2:11