Hello everyone this is Vin Scully back with you, going into the bottom of the 2nd. The Dodgers have brought in Big Jim Hughes to start the 2nd after Carl Erskine was lit up for 4 in the first. Hughes will face 9,1 and 2. Reynolds, SO, McDougald GO, Collins, PO. No runs in the 2nd. We head into the 3rd, Bauer SO (looking), Berra SO, Mantle 1B. Mantle out stealing. End of the inning. No runs. We head into the 4th, Woodling FO, Martin bunt single, throwing error (Hughes) Martin to third. Rizzuto GO, Reynolds BB McDougald GO. No runs. We go into the 5th, Collins FO, Bauer FO, Berra HR, Mantle GO. 1 run. Hughes out of the game. 1 run, 3 hits 3 So, 1BB and 0-1 batting (SO).
Yes, it was 70 years ago today my Uncle pitched in the '53 World series.
Not a bad outing. He did not pitch again due to some personal reasons.
Walter Alston said the biggest decision he had to make was to let Jim Hughes go home.
"If he was here for the whole series we would have won," he said. As you know the Dodgers lost the series 4-2.
Always looking for Blackhawk hockey, Notre Dame Football, White Sox and Bears Stuff. I have a plaque in my card room that says, "I could have been a millionaire but my mom threw out my baseball cards". How apropos!!! Collecting Chicago Blackhawks Hockey, Doug Wilson Hockey, Chicago Bears Older, Notre Dame Football in their college jerseys and Chicago White Sox.
