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Damn Yankees
Page 31
Before Game 3 at Ebbets Field, Stengel was called upon to introduce his surviving teammates from the 1916 pennant winning Brooklyn club, which he did emotionally. The tensions continued in the third game as both teams remained locked in a 1-1 stalemate through the eighth. Former National League slugger Johnny Mize, purchased in August from the New York Giants, knocked a bases loaded single off Dodger starter Ralph Branca in the top of the ninth for the 3-1 Yankee lead and Jerry Coleman followed with a run scoring single off reliever Jack Banta.
New York's Joe Page, having pitched 4 2/3 innings of scoreless relief since taking over for Tommy Byrne in the fourth, shouldered that lead into the Dodgers' half of the inning. Page