Damn Yankees by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Damn Yankees

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Things changed dramatically in Game 3, as it was the Dodgers besting the Yanks on the phenomenal arm of Carl Erskine. Brooklyn's leading ace set a World Series record of his own with fourteen strikeouts and regular season MVP Roy Campanella finished the job with a tie breaking homer in the eighth that lifted Brooklyn to a 3-2 victory. Hitting was the decisive factor for the Dodgers in Game 4 as the ever present Duke Snider contributed two doubles and a homerun along with Gilliam who had three doubles of his own for the 7-3 victory. Unfortunately, that was all they could muster and the Yankees would have little resistance for the rest of the contest.

Game 5 once again belonged to Billy Martin and Mickey Mantle who both knocked one out of the ballpark on the way to an 11-7, twenty-five hit blowout. Mantle's was a grand slam. Game 6 was a closer effort, but unbelievably, it would be Martin again who

would seal his second Series victory in a row with the game winning run in a 4-3 triumph. The combative second baseman had tallied a record twelve hits, two homeruns, eight RBIs and a staggering .500 average against the Dodgers.

"The New York Yankees had done it again. And so, too, had the Brooklyn Dodgers. Casey Stengel's Bronx Bombers had won the

World Series for a record fifth consecutive time. The Dodgers