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FINAL SERIES
The Game We All Love
Yankees Culminate Comeback To Become Greatest
Yankee Stadium - It is most likely appropriate that any tournament to determine the greatest baseball team would end with a Yankee team on top. The 1953 Yankees celebrated on their home field after reversing a series that seemed lost, winning four games in a row to win the final series against the 1906 Cubs. The Yankees won the greatest tournament of all time and survived the vigors of so many games and trials to shine at the game that we all love.
Somewhere in the air everyone expected the Yankees to finish things. After the fight they showed to win three in a row and tie the series the ending seemed to be a foregone conclusion. Whitey Ford and Three Finger Brown were as determined as ever to bring their side the win, and the Cubs once again held a lead late and were breaths away from claiming victory.
Manager Frank Chance doubled in the 5th inning to give the visitors a two run lead and give Brown the cushion the Hall of Famer would need. A Johnny Kling home run extended the lead to three runs as the hole for the Yankees grew but the team responded quickly.
The Yankees loaded the bases in the bottom of the 6th and after a ground out scored a run, Billy Martin singled to score Mickey Mantle and cut the Cubs lead to one. Brown kept fighting with the one run lead and got out of a trickey 7th inning. In the 8th he had two outs and the light hitting Billy Martin coming to the plate, the Cubs were only four outs away.
Martin has the focus and competitive edge to be perfect in these moments. On a 1-2 count the crack and sound of the bat said it all. Martin hot one over the left field wall about 400 feet away and the Yankees had tied the game. Martin hit 64 home runs in his career, he wasnt exactly the power source that anyone expected, yet few were shocked that Martin came through in such a spot.
Cubs heads dropped but the fight went on and as would be expected the game went into extra innings after little produced in the 9th other then both starters were pulled from the game.
In the 10th against Orvall Overall, Mickey Mantle drew a leadoff walk. Andy Carey then flew out to center field. Bobby Brown then harmlessly flew out to left field. Then the Yankees got a break they needed when Overall threw a wild pitch moving Mantle to scoring position. Don Bollweg then came to the plate as a pinch hitter. Bollweg singled in the hole in right and the ball was through.
Mantle beat the throw to the plate by a few feet and the Yankees walked off with the championship. A complete turnaroudn from a 3-0 series disadvantage, when all thought they were lost the Yankees came through.
Congratulations to Casey Stengal and the 1953 Yankees, the greatest baseball team of all time!
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Game 7
53 Yankees win series 4-3
| GAME ID: 1240 - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 1953 - GAME LOG | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
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| Chicago Cubs 1906 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | | New York Yankees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
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| | CHICAGO BATTING LINESCORES | | NEW YORK BATTING LINESCORES |
| a - F. Schulte substituted for D. Gessler in the 8th
b - P. Moran substituted for M. Brown in the 10th
BATTING
Doubles: F. Chance (1, 5th Inning off W. Ford, 1 on, 1 out) J. Evers (2, 3rd Inning off W. Ford, 1 on, 0 outs)
Home Runs: J. Kling (1, 6th Inning off W. Ford, 0 on, 0 outs)
Total Bases: M. Brown , J. Kling 5 , F. Chance 2 , J. Evers 2 , D. Gessler , J. Sheckard 2
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: , M. Brown 2 , H. Steinfeldt 2 , D. Gessler 2
Team LOB: 10
BASERUNNING
SB: F. Chance (7) , H. Steinfeldt (4)
FIELDING
Errors: J. Evers (3) , J. Tinker 2 (5)
Double Plays: 1 (Brown-Tinker-Chance) |
| | a - G. McDougald pinch hit for W. Ford in the 8th
b - I. Noren pinch hit for B. Martin in the 10th
c - D. Bollweg pinch hit for J. Sain in the 10th
BATTING
Doubles: B. Brown 2 (2, 2nd Inning off M. Brown, 0 on, 2 outs; 4th Inning off M. Brown, 0 on, 2 outs)
Home Runs: B. Martin (1, 8th Inning off M. Brown, 0 on, 2 outs)
Total Bases: Y. Berra 2 , B. Brown 4 , H. Bauer , B. Martin 5 , D. Bollweg
2-out RBI: , B. Martin 2 , D. Bollweg
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: W. Ford , J. Collins , M. Mantle , B. Martin
GIDP: Y. Berra
Sac Bunt: A. Carey
Team LOB: 11
BASERUNNING
CS: A. Carey (1) |
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| | CHICAGO PITCHING LINESCORES | | NEW YORK PITCHING LINESCORES |
| | | | Player | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | PI | PS | ERA |
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| W. Ford | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 120 | 72 | 2.25 | | J. Sain W (1-1) | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6.23 |
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| | GAME NOTES | Player of the Game: Billy Martin
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium
Weather: Partly Cloudy (57 degrees), wind blowing out to left at 22 mph
Start Time: 7:05 pm EST
Time: 3:02
Attendance: 65860 |
Last edited by Nick Soulis; 11-07-2012 at 12:11 PM.
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