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Show New York Rips Bums 10-6 in Final Game By Jack Band ' ' " BROOKLYN, Oct 10 CW The New York Yankees, 01' Casey Stengel's 'Invalids of destiny." won the world series from the startled Brooklyn Dodgers for several reason rea-son but the most important was the Reynolds-Page bull-pen combination.' com-bination.' Because he had the right relief men when he needed them most, Stengel led his assorted cripples to the winners' share of the Jackpot 45884 for each Yankee. - Pitching usually tells the story -of a short series. It was no different differ-ent In the five-game 1949 set Only -this time it was the relief work of i '.Alii Reynolds and Fireman Joe ' . Page that stood out after the Yanks 'ana Dodgers swapped 1-0 shutouts In the first two record-breaking 'tames. Other Man send Ed Lopat after the Brooks last Wednesday. He shifted to Reynolds the day before the game. Not even the dream books can do that good. Allle threw his two-hitter, 1-0, In nullifying Don Newcombe's 11 strikeouts with nine of his own. Preacher Roe blanked the Yanks' Vie Raschl the next afternoon. Then the bull-pen corporation took over. It was Page with a 5 3-3-lnnlng "stopper" after Tommy Byrne went bad In the third game. Reynolds Reyn-olds bailed out Lopat by retiring the last 10 men In succession in the fourth. Things ended normally at Ebbets field Sunday afternoon, with Page ambling In to finish what Raschl started. Working with only a two-day two-day rest like Newcombe in Saturday's Satur-day's sad effort Raschl crumbled in the Dodger seventh. A 10-2 lead melted to 10-4. . ' Certainly there were other stars Bobby Brown for his .500 batting average, Johnny Mite for his 1.000 pinch hitting. Tommy Henrtch for .the homer that won the opener, -and little Phil Riszuto for his su- perlatlve shortstop play. " But way out front there were -the two ''big" men of the Yanks . 3 2th series triumph In 16 tries -Reynolds aaa Page. 1 - Page, of course, ran true to form. ' Hadn t he marched from Jhe bull 4en 60 times during the reaMlar , season, 20 of them to save Reyn-.elds? Reyn-.elds? . Reynolds' brilliant performance 'of no runs and only two hits In 12 1-J Innings was a direct right-"about-face. "Old Wahoo" completed but four games In 31 starts. He even got the opening assignment "on sort of a rain check. Originally Stengel expected to There was nobody on when Page walked In. Normally the joint Is jumping. But Gil Hodges had just unloaded a three-run homer as a parting shot to Raschl. The Fireman Fire-man was all alone. Boas Burt Shot-ton Shot-ton tent up Luis Olmo. A right-handed right-handed batter, for Dodger Marv Rackley, a left-hander. Three hopping hop-ping fast balls and the side was Just Fast Balk) Nobody knew It until Page told rrafter the gamer but smoky-Joe was throwing only fast balls because be-cause he Injured his hand Friday. It didn't make much difference. The high hard one was plenty hard. Pinch-hitter Bruce Edwards singled with one gone in the eighth. The next batter, Pee Wee Reese hit a comeback ball to Page, who started a double play. Page didn't let up in the ninth. He ended matters with a flourish. Following a menacing pinch double by Eddie Mlksis, he whiffed Duke Snider, the most striking man in the series, and fanned Jackie Robinson. Rob-inson. He lost Gene Hermanskl on a walk. Gil Hodges worked the count to 3-2 and beat the breeze on the next. That was alL It was all over but the post mortems. They war brief, too. "That last week was tough for both clubs," said Stengel in the clubhouse, "they had to beat the Phillies; we had the Red Sox. We had Just enough to last five games more, that's all." Shotton was philosophical about the whole thing. Most of the Dodgers Dodg-ers seemed glad It was all over. "They have got a little bit more what you need in a world series," said Shotton. "but we'll be better when we meet them next fall." The consensus was that the Dodgers would have to be better by next fall If they're going to win. They gave It plenty of hustle, but their pitching Just wasn't deep enough. - ' r |
