FINAL SERIES
The Heart Of A Champion Beats Strong For Yanks
A four run 9th inning Extends Dramatic Series Back To NY
West Side Gtounds - When things look the darkest the best find a way to overcome. The New York Yankees won their second straight game of the series after a dramatic 9th inning rally to extend the series. Many are beginning to believe that the destiny of this Yankee team is to turn this series around as they now take things to Yankee Stadium after a 5-3 game five win.
The Cubs behind starter Jack Pfiester believed that this was the day that they would wrap up the series and be crowned the best team ever to play. Pfiester did his job taking the game into the 9th inning and allowing only one run in the process. Pfiester struck out four and only a Joe Collins home run kept him from being spotless. His arm and his concentration would betray him however in the end.
Chicago got over their game 4 loss and put three runs on the board in the first two innings. Frank Schulte, Frank Chance and Johnny Evers all drove in runs but the Cubs in fact left some runs on the board in those first two innings that would come back to haunt them. With a three run lead Yankee starter Vic Raschi settled down and kept his team in the game holding off the Cubs for 8 innings.
Down two runs in the 9th the Cubs were three outs away from glory. AS often happens the Yankees were given a gift when Johnny Evers made an error on a Joe Collins grounder. Gil McDougald then singled and the Yankees began to believe. Clearly rattled Pfiester threw a wild pitch that scored Collins and move the tying run to second.
With runners on the corners Harry Steinfeld made another crucial error to allow the tying run to score on a Gus Triandos grounder. Gene Woodling then faced reliever Orval Overall as a pinch hitter and tripled; just like that the Yankees had the lead.
Johnny Sain did the work to close down the stunned Cubs in the 9th and the series is on its way back to New York with all the momentum on the side of the Yanks. Could it truly be an improbable comeback in the final series that would determine the champion?
"We have a true fight on our hands" said Johnny Kling after the loss, "but we beat ourselves today." The errors in the 9th will truly haunt the Cubs but they still lead in the series and have won in New York before.
The drama in game six should be a thing to behold. The message is to never count out a champion.
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Game 5
06 Cubs lead series 3-2
| GAME ID: 1238 - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 1953 - GAME LOG | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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| New York Yankees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | | Chicago Cubs 1906 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
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| NEW YORK BATTING LINESCORES | | CHICAGO BATTING LINESCORES |
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a - B. Cerv pinch hit for I. Noren in the 9th
b - Y. Berra pinch hit for V. Raschi in the 9th
c - G. Woodling pinch hit for P. Rizzuto in the 9th
d - B. Brown substituted for B. Cerv in the 9th
BATTING
Doubles: G. McDougald (2, 4th Inning off J. Pfiester, 0 on, 0 outs)
Triples: G. Woodling (2, 9th Inning off O. Overall, 2 on, 2 outs)
Home Runs: J. Collins (1, 4th Inning off J. Pfiester, 0 on, 0 outs)
Total Bases: J. Collins 4 , G. McDougald 3 , B. Cerv , G. Woodling 3
2-out RBI: G. Woodling
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: V. Raschi , J. Brideweser , H. Bauer
Team LOB: 5
FIELDING
Errors: P. Rizzuto (1)
Double Plays: 1 (McDougald-Brideweser-Collins) |
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Triples: F. Chance (1, 1st Inning off V. Raschi, 0 on, 2 outs)
Total Bases: F. Chance 4 , J. Evers , J. Tinker , F. Schulte , J. Sheckard 2
2-out RBI: F. Chance , F. Schulte
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: J. Kling , F. Schulte
GIDP: J. Kling
Sac Bunt: J. Pfiester
Team LOB: 5
BASERUNNING
SB: F. Chance (4)
CS: J. Evers (3)
FIELDING
Errors: J. Evers 2 (2) , H. Steinfeldt (3) |
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| NEW YORK PITCHING LINESCORES | | CHICAGO PITCHING LINESCORES |
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| Player | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | PI | PS | ERA |
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| V. Raschi W (1-1) | 8.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 109 | 74 | 5.65 | | J. Sain SV (1) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 8.10 |
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| GAME NOTES |
Player of the Game: Vic Raschi
Ballpark: West Side Park II
Weather: Partly Cloudy (52 degrees), wind blowing out to right at 20 mph
Start Time: 2:05 pm EST
Time: 2:41
Attendance: 12379 |