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Thursday, September 29, 1955, Brooklyn @ New
York - Yankee Stadium
CAREY AND RIZZUTO RALLY YANKEES IN eighth FOR 8-7 WIN,
TAKE 2-0 SERIES LEAD
Andy
Carey drove in three runs, including two that tied the game with a single in
the eighth inning, and
Phil Rizzuto followed with the game-winning hit, to lift the Yankees to a
come-from-behind 8-7 victory over the Dodgers, and take a 2-0 lead in the
Series.
For much of
the game, it looked like the Dodgers could score at will, and were destined to
even up the Series, but the eighth inning
heroics by Carey and Rizzuto, combined with another big blow from Mickey Mantle
turned all that upside down.
The Dodgers
scored in each of the first six innings of the game, starting with one in the
first inning on a two out
run-scoring single by Carl Furillo off Yankee starter Bob Turley.
Gil
McDougald evened things up quickly in the bottom of the first with a lead-off homerun off Carl
Erskine.
With clear
skies and a prevailing wind favoring the hitters, the runs continued to mount. Another two out run, this one on Jim Gilliam’s base hit to
plate Sandy Amoros, put
Turley,
quite simply, self-destructed in the third, as four walks and a hit batter
handed the Dodgers two more runs and a 4-1 lead, despite the Dodgers only
putting one ball in play, and that for an out, the entire inning. It also meant an early exit for Turley. Johnny Kucks came on and struck out Amoros and Erskine with the bases loaded to keep it 4-1,
and once again, limiting the damage would prove fortuitous for the Yankees.
Kucks
yielded a solo blast to Duke Snider in the fourth, a run the Yankees quickly got back on Carey’s
first hit of the game in the bottom of the frame, scoring Yogi Berra from third
with two out.
Kucks ran into further trouble in the fifth, again
wildness playing the central role. Jackie
Robinson coaxed a one-out walk, and advanced to third base on an Amoros single. Tom Sturdivant replaced Kucks, and struck out Erskine for the
second out, but then issued back-to-back walks to Gilliam and Pee Wee Reese to
force in another run, the third the Dodgers put on the board without touching
the ball.
Up 6-2, the
Dodgers seemed well on their way, until Mantle struck his big blow in the
bottom of the fifth. Jerry Coleman led off
with a pinch single off Erskine, and was joined on the bases by McDougald who
singled for this third hit of the contest. After Irv Noren flied to center
field, Mantle got a ball up in breeze, and watched it carry over the wall in
right field for a three-run homerun. The Dodger lead was down to one, at 6-5, and the Yankee fans
were back into the game.
The Dodgers
continued their string of run-scoring innings in the top of the sixth with
a double by Roy Campanella and single by Carl Furillo, giving them a 7-5
advantage. The Yankees finally
shut off the Dodgers spigot in the seventh, but trailed by two runs heading into the eighth.
With Clem Labine having retired nine in a row in relief of Erskine,
Hank Bauer broke up the string with a base hit, then Joe Collins following with
a booming double that just missed clearing the fence in right-center field. Don Bessent then
relieved Labine, but provided little relief. Carey grounded Bessent’s
second pitch into the hole between short and third to score both baserunners, and the Yankees were back even, 7-7. Rizzuto followed with a ground ball that
squeezed through the middle of the diamond to score Carey, and the Yankees had
their first lead of the afternoon.
Jim Konstanty retired the
Dodgers in order in the ninth, and it was all over, the Yankees had the game
and a 2-0 Series lead.
1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 R H
E LOB DP
Brooklyn 1 1
2 1 1
1 0 0
0 7 10 0
12 1
New
York 1 0
0 1 3
0 0 3
x 8 13 0
5 0
Dodgers AB R H
BI AVG Yankees AB R H
BI AVG
Gilliam 2b
5 0 1
1 .222 McDougald 2b
5 2 3
1 .444
Reese ss
3 1 1
1 .286 Noren lf 4
0 0 0 .143
Snider cf 3
3 1 1
.167 Mantle cf 4
1 1 3 .250
Campanella c
4 1 3
0 .500 Berra c
3 1 1
0 .143
Furillo rf
4 0 2
3 .333 Bauer rf
4 1 2
0 .250
Hodges 1b
5 0 0
0 .000 Collins 1b
4 1 1
0 .250
Robinson 3b
3 1 0
1 .000 Carey 3b
4 1 2
3 .500
Amoros lf 4 1
2 0 .500
Rizzuto ss 4
0 1 1 .375
Erskine p
3 0 0
0 .000 Turley p
0 0 0
0 .000
Labine p
1 0 0
0 .000 Kucks p
1 0 1 0
1.000
Bessent p
0 0 0
0 .000 Sturdivant p
0 0 0
0 .000
Spooner
p 0
0 0 0 .000 Coleman ph 1
1 1 0 1.000
Meyer p
0 0 0
0 .000 Larsen p
1 0 0
0 .000
Shuba ph 1
0 0 0
.000 Robinson ph 0
0 0 0 1.000
36 7 10 7 Howard ph 1
0 0 0 .000
Konstanty
p 0 0
0 0 .000
36 8 13 8
Dodgers INN H R ER
BB K PCH STR ERA
Erskine 4.1 9
5 5 1
2 74 47 10.38
Labine
3.0 2 2
2 0 0
34 21 6.00
Bessent BS 1, L 0-1 0.0
2 1 1
0 0 5 3
99.00
Spooner 0.1 0
0 0 0
0 4 2
0.00
Meyer 0.1 0
0 0 0
1 6 3
0.00
8.0 13 8
8 1 3 123
76
Yankees INN H R ER
BB K PCH STR ERA
Turley 2.1
3 4 4
6 2 74 36
15.43
Kucks 2.0 3
2 2 1
2 31 20
9.00
Sturdivant 0.2 0
0 0 2
1 17 7
0.00
Larsen W 1-0 3.0
4 1 1
0 1 40
25 3.00
Konstanty
S 1 1.0 0
0 0 0
1 9 6
0.00
9.0 10 7
7 9 7 171
94
Brk: Shuba batted for Meyer in the ninth
NYA:
Coleman batted for Sturdivant in the fifth
Robinson batted for Larsen in the eighth
Howard batted for Robinson in the eighth
2B-Campanella,
Collins. HR-Snider(1), McDougald(1), Mantle(2). SB-Amoros(1).
CS-Gilliam.
K-Gilliam, Hodges, Amoros, Erskine 3, Shuba,
McDougald, Mantle,
Bauer.
BB-Gilliam, Reese 2, Snider 2, Furillo, Robinson 2, Amoros,
Berra.
HBP-Campanella.
HB-Turley.
GWRBI:
Rizzuto
Temperature:
46, Sky: clear, Wind: out to right at 10 MPH.