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OCTOBER 3, 1955
WORLD SERIES, GAME FIVE
Boston Red Sox (1-3) at Chicago Cubs (3-1)
1:05 PM -- Wrigley Field ... Attendance: 39,303
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 59 Degrees, Wind blowing in from center, 10 miles per hour
BOSTON STARTER: Willard Nixon (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 10.0 IP, 1 K, 0.50 WHIP)
CHICAGO STARTER: Hy Cohen (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 7.2 IP, 7 K’s, 0.65 WHIP)
It’s a rematch today of the pitcher’s duel from game one in Boston, Cohen vs. Nixon Round II. Boston got on the board in the top of the second, a Milt Bolling flyout to center leading to a run scoring when Crandall couldn’t make the tag on Andy Seminick at the plate in time, Boston 1, Cubs 0. Daniel Howard got robbed of a homer by the wind blowing in at left, but Del Crandall got a base hit off an infield ball that bounced just shy of the pitcher’s grasp, giving us two men on and just one out in the bottom of the second. Too bad Lynch and Cohen couldn’t make anything happen. But we retook the lead in the bottom of the third, with a two-out double by Al Rosen that drove in a pair of runs and got our crowd hyped up as we took a 2-1 lead into the top of the fourth. Al Kaline walked the bases loaded in the bottom of the fourth with just one out, and Lynch scored a run on a Banks flyout to right, making it 3-1 Cubs! Willie Mays batted in another with an RBI single, and Robinson hit another RBI single to make it 5-1! Al Rosen re-loaded the bases with a walk, and two more scored on a Daniel Howard line drive to center, as the Red Sox dugout started to look like a wake. By the time Crandall flew out to center to end the fourth inning we’d turned this into a 7-1 blowout. Daniel Howard batted in a run with a single in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 8-1, and Cohen struck out the side in the top of the seventh. He stayed out there to finish the game and we completed the 8-1 victory, WINNING THE WORLD SERIES 4 GAMES TO 1 OVER THE RED SOX! THE CURSE IS BROKEN! THE CURSE IS BROKEN!
Cohen won his first-ever playoff game in his second season making a World Series appearance, pitching a stunning one-hitter with 10 K’s and one walk, giving him an 0.54 ERA through two appearances in this year’s Fall Classic! We absolutely blasted the Red Sox in this one, hitting 14 times as we left no doubt which team was the best. Mays had three hits for two runs and an RBI, Al Rosen added three hits and two walks for a run and two RBIs, and Howard, Crandall and Lynch each had a pair of hits to keep the bottom of the order popping!
It took us 37 years, but the Cubs finally have our third championship! Willie Mays was named MVP of the series, hitting .478 in the five games with four homers and nine RBIs.
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