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128 Team MLB Tournament - Round One, Region Two Series 1-2

Friday, June 5, 2020

Region 1, Series 7-8 is here





Region 1, Round 1 is done.  We move to Region 2 where the top overall seed still alive kicks us off.

2. 1927 New York Yankees v. 127. 1967 St Louis Cardinals

Ages/OPS+(ERA+) WAR (cross comparative, 4 different WAR calculations)  (OPS+ captures hitting, ERA+ captures pitching, WAR captures everything, higher number is better; 100 OPS+/ERA+ is average, 8 WAR is an MVP quality season). Age is first, OPS+ or ERA+ is next, WAR is last.  Probably this is the extent of the statistics.

Game One

Cardinals - Red Schoendienst
LF Brock (28)     127    4.9
CF Flood (29)     128     4.8
1B Cepeda (29)   164    7.0
C McCarver (25) 136    6.3
RF Maris (32)      116    2.9
2B Javier (30)      105    2.2
3B Shannon (27)  93     .2
SS Maxvill (28)   67      2.2
P Hughes (29)      123   3.9

Yankees - Miller Huggins
CF Combs (28) 141    6.3
2B Lazzeri (23) 125    5.8
RF Ruth (32)     225    11.6
1B Gehrig (24)  220    11.3
LF Meusel (30) 135    3.6
C Collins (30)   116      2.3
3B Gazella (31) 115   .8 
SS Koenig (22)  83     2.1
P Hoyt (27)       148    5.2

A couple of World Series Champions hooking it up here in Round One - according to WAR, each team has 4 position players better than their opposite number, and the Yankees have the better pitcher.

Once again, neither of us know the result of the game.

1st: Waite Hoyt won 22 for the Yanks, both pitchers are right handed - Lou Brock hits the first pitch of the game for a double to left center - and two outs later Tim McCarver drives him home with a base hit - and just like that, the top remaining seed in this tournament is down 1-0.
1st: The Cards have a couple of Hall of Famers in their rotation, but their best pitcher this year is 16 game winner Dick Hughes and he gets the call.  He sets down the Yanks in order - it's our first look at Babe Ruth in the tournament, he hit a sky high pop up to third.

2nd: Hoyt sets the Cards down in order
2nd: Hughes strikes out Gehrig and then gets the next two Yankees as well.  

3rd: With one out, Brock walks and then steals second. And then he steals third.  That's the first steal of third in the tournament.  Hoyt strands him there, however.  
3rd: Hughes is through the mighty '27 Yankees without a scrach.  

4th: With one out Roger Maris (yup, Maris against the Yankees) and Julian Javier hit back to back singles to put runners on the corners. Hoyt again buckles down and again St Louis is kept off the board.
4th: 12 up, 12 down. Ruth grounding out to short.

5th: Easy inning for Hoyt.
5th: Gehrig becomes New Yorks first baserunner on a throwing error by Maxvill; two out later Mike Gazella (getting the start ahead of Joe Dugan) walks, but New York is still without a base hit.

6th: Orlando Cepeda opens up with a single, but that's all.
6th: 3 up, 3 down.  Through 6 innings, the 1927 Yankees do not have a hit.  

7th: 3 up. 3 down.
7th: After Babe Ruth hits a ball to the track in left - Lou Gehrig laces a single right up the middle to break up Dick Hughes' bid for a no hitter.  He settles down however and that's the extent of the damage.

8th: Schoendienst decides to let Hughes hit - he flies out, Brock grounds out - Curt Flood gets an infield single when he beats out Mark Koenig's throw from deep short - Hoyt throws over to first multiple times to try to keep Flood honest -- but Flood steals second anyway and then scores on a Cepeda single to right center and now it's 2-0 Cardinals.  
8th: Yanks down 2-0 -- Hughes sets them down right in order.  Man oh man.  

9th: Hoyt walks Maris to lead off the inning, Javier grounds out to the right side to advance him a bag, Mike Shannon gets a base hit to left - the Cards aggressively send Maris and he scores the third run which sure looks like it's going to be enough in this one.  
9th: Hughes completes the 1 hitter; 3 up 3 down - Ruth making the last out with a routine fly to right.

Final:
Cards 3
Yankees 0
WP Hughes
LP Hoyt

Well.  Imagine that.  Dick Hughes one hits the 1927 Yankees in Yankee Stadium and the Cards take Game 1 3-0. Cepeda gets a couple of hits for the winners. Dick Hughes threw 101 pitches, gave up one single, one walk, and shut out the mighty '27 Yankees.

We head to St Louis where the Cards will turn to Steve Carlton to try to eliminate the Yanks who counter with Urban Shocker.

Game 2

Yankees - Miller Huggins
LF Meusel (30) 135    3.6
2B Lazzeri (23) 125    5.8
RF Ruth (32)     225    11.6
1B Gehrig (24)  220    11.3
C Collins (30)   116      2.3
CF Combs (28) 141    6.3
3B Gazella (31) 115   .8 
SS Koenig (22)  83     2.1
P Shocker (36)  137   3.3

Cardinals - Red Schoendienst
LF Brock (28)     127    4.9
CF Flood (29)     128     4.8
1B Cepeda (29)   164    7.0
C McCarver (25) 136    6.3
RF Maris (32)      116    2.9
2B Javier (30)      105    2.2
3B Shannon (27)  93     .2
SS Maxvill (28)   67      2.2
P Carlton (22)     110    3.5

Over to Busch Stadium for Game 2 - the veteran Shocker spent most of his career in St Louis with the Browns, he returns to town trying to keep the '27 Yankees alive.  

1st: 22 year old Steve Carlton's first full year in the Cards rotation, he won 14 games and here he is trying to eliminate the 1927 Yankees. He gets them in order.
1st: 36 year old Urban Shocker is in effectively his last season; he pitches in one game in '28. He gets the Cards in order.

2nd: Earle Combs hits a two out double to left; Schoendienst decides to put Gazella on intentionally to have Carlton pitch to Koenig, it works out as he grounds to first.
2nd: 3 up, 3 down.

3rd: After an out, Bob Meusel's on with a one out walk, Tony Lazzeri singles to right center to put runners on the corners for the Babe --- who remains hitless when Carlton strikes him out on 3 pitches. Gehrig picks him up, however, drives a single to right center and the Yankees are on the board. 
3rd: Shocker's through in order again.

4th: Combs singles to open up the inning - but that's all for the Yanks.
4th: Brock and Flood open up with the first two hits of the game for St Louis - both singles, Cepeda hits a slow roller to third, Gazella has to charge and makes a nice throw to get him, but both runners move up.  Shocker's pitching carefully now  and walks McCarver and that brings Roger Maris to the plate with the bases loaded and one out.  Shocker strikes him out and then gets Javier to end the inning.

5th: Shocker helps himself with a single to lead off the fifth; two outs later Ruth is at the plate -- and he hits one a million miles to the upper deck in center field and its 3-0 Yankees.  
5th: Mike Shannon leads off with a single - Maxvill grounds to third; Gazella decides to try to get the force play at second -- but controversially, Shannon is called safe - and everybody is safe with nobody out.  Carlton lays down a bunt - Shocker's able to field it and get the runner at second.  Men on the corners with one out.  Brock grounds to Gehrig, the Yanks were playing at double play depth, so there's no play at the plate, Gehrig flips to second to get Carlton.  Two away and it's now 3-1. 

6th: With two out, Gazella and Koenig get back to back singles - that brings Shocker to the plate and he gets his second hit of the day. scoring Gazella and it's 4-1. Bob Meusel follows with his own single - that scores Koenig and it's 5-1.  
6th: 3 up, 3 down.

7th: Ron Willis is a 23 year old right hander; he's on now for the Cards; he gets Ruth but Gehrig singles. That's it, however.
7th: Shocker gets the first two but Maxvill singles to left; Eddie Bressoud hit .134 on the year, he comes on to pinch hit - and grounds to short.

8th: Al Jackson's a 31 year old lefty and he comes on now for the Cards - as they did in the 6th, Gazella and Koenig open up with singles, Shocker bunts them over - Jackson gets Meusel to pop up but can't get Lazzeri, he singles to left and now it's 7-1 Yankees and probably that's a wrap on game 2. Ruth singles to right -- and then Lou Gehrig hits an absolute laser beam 3 run home run to dead center. New York takes a 10-1 lead and it's time to start thinking about Game 3.  Jim Cosman is probably the last man in the Cardinal pen, he enters and the inning ends.  
8th: Flood singles with one out, and then Cepeda walks and McCarver singles.  Bases loaded - Roger Maris - Shocker pops him up and that ends his day. New York brings on 29 year old right hander Myles Thomas - and he ends the inning.

9th: With one out, Gazella's on again, this time by way of walk, probably the best decision would be to just let Cosman eat the rest of the inning - but instead they turn to their best reliever, 23 year old Nelson Briles who won 14 games and he gets out of the inning.  
9th: With one out, Maxvill doubles, Dave Ricketts pinch singles him home for the Cards second run, that's it though and 10-2 is the final score.

Homers for both Ruth and Gehrig, Gehrig had 4 RBI; five other Yankees had two hits each including Urban Shocker, who went back to St Louis and gave up only one run in 7 2/3. 

Final
Yankees 10
Cards 2
WP Shocker
LP Carlton


Winner take all game 3 in Yankee Stadium.  The Yankees will send their 19 game winning lefty Herb Pennock to the hill -- and he'll be countered by 31 year old Bob Gibson with his 2.98 ERA.


Game Three

Cardinals - Red Schoendienst
CF Flood (29)     128     4.8
LF Brock (28)     127    4.9
1B Cepeda (29)   164    7.0
C McCarver (25) 136    6.3
RF Maris (32)      116    2.9
2B Javier (30)      105    2.2
3B Shannon (27)  93     .2
SS Maxvill (28)    67      2.2
P Gibson (31)      110     3.7

Yankees - Miller Huggins
CF Combs (28) 141    6.3
2B Lazzeri (23) 125    5.8
RF Ruth (32)     225    11.6
1B Gehrig (24)  220    11.3
LF Meusel (30) 135    3.6
C Collins (30)   116      2.3
3B Gazella (31) 115   .8 
SS Koenig (22)  83     2.1
P   Pennock (33) 130  3.1

Winner take all from Yankee Stadium - let's see who becomes the first team to move on in Region 2.

1st: 33 year old Herb Pennock won 19 games and takes the hill in a must win spot for New York. He gives up a two out single to Orlando Cepeda but that's all.
1st: Bob Gibson is a year away from his legendary 1968; this season he wins 13 and he faces down the great '27 Yankees in a winner take all spot. Earle Combs opens with a single to right; Tony Lazzeri follows with a single to right to put men on the corners for Babe Ruth.  Gibson gets him to ground to the right side, Lazzeri is forced at second but Ruth is aboard and the runner scores.  1-0 Yanks.  Gibson walks Gehrig - each pitch inside, really looking to gain control of the inside of the plate - Bob Meusel hits a slow grounder to short - Maxvil doesn't have a play at any base and they are loaded up, still with just one out.  Gibson bears down and escapes it.  Yanks 1-0.

2nd: After an out, Julian Javier singles to left and then Mike Shannon drives a ball off the top of the wall in left - Javier comes...all...the way...around to score.  Shannon's at second with a stand up double and it's 1-1. An out later - Bob Gibson helps himself, punching a single to right, Shannon scores and look what we have here, the Cards are up 2-1.  Curt Flood follows with a single but that's all.
2nd: Koenig opens with a base hit - but it is erased on a double play; Combs gets his second hit of the game and then Tony Lazzeri hits a two out, two run homer that just barely scraps the center field wall - and the Yanks are back in front 3-2. 

3rd: Cepeda hits the first pitch over the wall in left -- we have one here today in Yankee Stadium; it's 3-3. McCarver singles to center on the next pitch but is erased on a double play.  Two out - Javier doubles to left center, but that's all for the Cards.
3rd: Gibson settles down and gets the Yanks in order.  Still 3-3, headed to the 4th.

4th: Perfect inning for Pennock.
4th: Mike Gazella opens up the 4th with a single to left center but that's all for the Yankees.

5th: Cepeda gets his third hit of the game, a one out single, but that's it for the Cards.
5th: Tony Lazzeri gets a one out walk, but that's it for the Yanks.  Still 3-3.

6th: Javier opens up with a single,his third hit, Pennock gets an out, then walks Maxvill - Schoendienst lifts Gibson for a pinch hitter, Bobby Tolan, the top bat on his bench, with a man in scoring position and just one out in a tie game, that's really the only move, even with Gibson having really settled down since the tough start. Pennock strikes out Tolan - but with two out, Curt Flood (moved to leadoff for this one) singles to right, Javier scores the go ahead run. That's it for Pennock, the Yankees top bullpen arm is Wilcy Moore, he actually threw for more innings than anyone on the entire staff except Hoyt and won 19 games. He gets Brock to ground slowly to third --- but Brock beats the throw, that loads the bases.  Still 2 out. Cards up 1.  Cepeda - already with 3 hits including a home run - comes to the plate.  Moore is super careful....too careful...he walks Cepeda and now it's 5-3. McCarvers next - he singles to right center, two runs score and now it's Cards 7-3 and the Yanks are in desperate, desperate trouble. 
6th: 23 year old right hander Ron Willis enters for the Cards; he gives up a one out walk to Pat Collins, an out later Koenig gets his second hit of the day to put men on the corners - but that's all. 

7th: Moore gets the Cards in order.
7th: Combs leads off with a walk and the Cards go back to the pen; 31 year old Al Jackson comes on. He's met by a Lazzeri single; and now he's in the jackpot - here come Ruth and Gehrig with nobody out, two on, Cards up 7-3 -- you've got to believe if this Yankee squad is going to get it done, they get it done now. Ruth pops up.  Gehrig grounds out, Meusel grounds out and the Cards are out of it unscathed and its time to wheel the champagne into the visitors clubhouse.

8th: Moore again gets the Cards in order. 
8th: Koenig is aboard again with a two out single. the Yankees go to their top bench bat, right handed Ben Paschal, but Jackson strikes him out and the 1927 Yanks are 3 outs from elimination.

9th: 36 year old right hander Bob Shawkey comes out of the Yankee pen; he has an easy inning and we head to the bottom of the 9th.
9th: 30 year old right hander Jack Lamabe is on to shut the door -- and he does.  With two out, Ruth singles, but Gehrig flies out to the track and once again, the top remaining seed in the tournament has been eliminated.  Another great Yankee club headed home.

Final:
Cards 7
Yankees 3
WP Gibson
LP Pennock

Javier and Cepeda had 3 hits each in this one, Cepeda hit that home run. Flood and McCarver each had two hits.  For the series, Flood had two hits in game 2 - Cepeda two hits in game 1 - but the Series MVP is Dick Hughes for that one hitter in Game 1.  


The '67 Cards move on - they'll face the winner of our next series - featuring our only appearance for Willie Mays.





63. 1948 Cleveland Indians v. 66. 1954 New York Giants

age...OPS+/ERA+....cross comparative WAR

Giants-Leo Durocher
RF Mueller (27)   109      1.7
LF Rhodes (27)    181      2.1
CF Mays (23)       175      9.8
3B Thompson (28)  125   3.7
SS Dark (32)         98        3.7
C Katt (27)           93         .7
1B Hoffman (28) 99          .2
2B Williams (26) 56         .2
P Gomez (26)      142        2.9

Indians-Boudreau 
CF Doby (24)      134       3.6
SS Boudreau (30) 165     10.2
2B Gordon (33)   135       6.2
3B Keltner (31)   146       6.5
LF Mitchell (26)  119       2.9
1B Robinson (27) 91        .9
RF Tucker (30)    86         .9
C Hegan (27)       94         2.8
P Lemon (27)      144        7

Some interesting decisions made for Game 1; the biggest by Durocher is sitting three of his regulars - Monte Irvin got swapped out for Dusty Rhodes with the right handed Lemon going for Cleveland; there's an expectation that Irvin will see action when Cleveland goes with a lefty. And Whitey Lockman and Wes Westrum just got benched and they might not see much playing time in the series.  Cleveland is likely to platoon Thurman Tucker and Allie Clark.  By WAR - the Giants are really swimming upstream; their only advantages at center and right.

Couple of World Champions about to hook it up - winner to advance and meet the '67 Cardinals. 

1st: Bob Lemon won 20; he gets the call here, the lefty Gene Bearden probably had a better season and Bob Feller is also on this staff. Don Mueller opens the game with a base hit, but that's it for the Giants - Willie Mays debut in the tournament is a flyout to center.
1st: 17 game winner Ruben Gomez goes for the Giants; the lefty Johnny Antonelli had a stronger season, but Durocher decided to go with his right hander in game one. Larry Doby leads off with a walk, but that's it.

2nd: 3 up, 3 down.
2nd: Dale Mitchell leads off with a base hit - and then Eddie Robinson hits a two run homer to right center and the Indians are up 2-0. 

3rd: With two out, Mueller singles again, but that's all.
3rd: Doby's back on base, opening with a single, Lou Boudreau then walks - Gomez gets Gordon to fly to left, but then Ken Keltner singles to right to score Doby and it's 3-0 Tribe - Mitchell singles again and it's 4-0. 

4th: 3 up, 3 down.
4th: With one out, Lemon and Doby single back to back - everyone moved up on a Boudreau groundout and then everyone scored on a Joe Gordon base hit.  It's 6-0 Indians. 

5th: Ray Katt opens up with a walk but that's all.
5th: Gomez sets them down in order.  Still 6-0.

6th: With one out, Mueller gets his third hit of the day - and then Dusty Rhodes laces a double to right center - Mueller comes all the way around and the Giants are on the board with Mays coming to the plate. Lemon strikes him out and the Giants get no more.
6th:  Jim Hegan singles to start it off but that's it.  

7th: Ray Katt hits a one out homer to cut the lead to 5-2; Bobby Hofman got the start at first over Whitey Lockman, he lines a double to left -- and then Davey Williams, the worst hitter in either lineup - hits a 2 run homer to left center and my, oh, my - the Giants have cut the lead to 6-4.  
7th: With one out, Gomez walks Joe Gordon, and then a second out later, he walks Dale Mitchell. Durocher goes out to the mound...but decides to leave his young right hander in the game and he gets out of the inning.  2 to play...6-4 Cleveland.

8th: 3 up, 3 down, it looks like a hitless debut for Mays.
8th: The Giants have some strong bullpen arms - the best is Hoyt Wilhelm, 31 year old right hander - he comes on now and gives off a leadoff single to Thurman Tucker -- Boudreau decides to leave Lemon in the game to hit for himself (Lemon can handle the bat) and after an out, he singles to right to put men on the corners. Doby grounds to short...but the runners were going on the pitch and the only play is at first.  7-4 Indians. Wilhelm then walks Boudreau and Gordon to load the bases - but he gets Keltner to ground out and we go to the ninth inning, 7-4 Cleveland.

9th: With one out, Katt singles- but Hoffman goes 6-4-3 and it's over.

Giants 4
Indians 7
WP Lemon
LP Gomez

2 hits each for Mitchell, Doby and Lemon - and Eddie Robinson hit that homer. For the Giants Mueller had 3 hits and Katt had two including the homer. 0-4 for Mays.  

We head to the Polo Grounds for game 2 - battle of lefthanders - Johnny Antonelli looking to extend the series for the Giants and Gene Bearden trying to send Cleveland forward

Game 2

Indians-Boudreau 
SS Boudreau (30) 165     10.2
2B Gordon (33)   135       6.2
3B Keltner (31)   146       6.5
CF Doby (24)      134       3.6
LF Mitchell (26)  119       2.9
RF Clark   (25)    117       1.3
C Hegan    (27)       94      2.8
1B Robinson (27) 91        .9
P Bearden (27)    168       5.0

Giants-Leo Durocher
RF Rhodes (27)    181      2.1
LF Irvin (35)        108      2.6
CF Mays (23)       175      9.8
SS Dark (32)         98        3.7
3B Thompson (28)  125   3.7
C Katt (27)           93         .7
1B Hoffman (28) 99          .2
2B Williams (26) 56         .2
P Antonelli (24)   178      6.6

As expected, Boudreau moves Clark into the lineup against the lefty Antonelli; Durocher does play Irvin - but decides to sit Mueller and let Rhodes stay in the lineup against the left handed Bearden.  Must win game for the Giants.

1st: 21 game winner Johnny Antonelli takes the hill for the Giants in a must win spot; he gives up a leadoff single to Lou Boudreau, but that's all.
1st: Gene Bearden went 20-7 for the Indians and he looks to close the Giants out; Dusty Rhodes got an unexpected start against a lefty - Durocher playing a hunch - and Rhodes hits a bomb on the first pitch of the game, a solo shot to right field to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. Alvin Dark adds a single a couple of outs later, but that's it.  Giants 1 Indians 0

2nd: Dale Mitchell leads off with a base hit but that's all for the Indians.
2nd: With one out, Bobby Hoffman walks, he moves to scoring position on a ground ball, but that's it.

3rd: Leadoff walk to Eddie Robinson; Cleveland's had the leadoff man reach each inning, Bearden bunts him over, but that's all.
3rd: With one out, Monte Irvin, in the lineup against the lefty, singles to right center and then Willie Mays gets his first hit of the series; a scalding double that rattles around the left field corner -- the 35 year old Irvin comes...all...the way...around to score, just beating the Hegan tag, and it's 2-0 Giants. Dark drops a surprise bunt - the Indians don't have a play and there are runners on the corners. Thompson hits a bullet - that is right at the first baseman Robinson - Dark is just able to scramble back to the bag but there are two away. Ray Katt punches a single to left, Mays scores and now the Giants have a third run. Giants 3 Indians 0

4th: Antonelli walks Ken Keltner and the Indians again have the leadoff man aboard; Larry Doby then doubles to right center - Keltner stays at third but now Cleveland's got two in scoring position and nobody out.  Mitchell hits a sharp grounder to Thompson at third - he decides to throw home -- Keltner is called safe; Durocher explodes out of the dugout, really furious with the call - he gets ejected from the game - the result is everyone is safe; men on the corners and still nobody out and now it's 3-1. Allie Clark got the call today against the lefty Antonelli and he rewards Boudreau with a run scoring single to make it 3-2 - and an out later Eddie Robinson hits a sac fly to tie the score.  Giants 3 Indians 3
4th: 3 up, 3 down

5th: With two out Keltner doubles off the wall in right and then Doby drives him home with a single to right center - Cleveland has taken the lead.  Giants 3 Indians 4
5th: Dark gets a two out walk, but thats it.  

6th: Antonelli sets them down in order.
6th: Hoffman singles with one out and then Davey Williams doubles over Doby's head - Hoffman comes all the way around and the Giants have tied the score. Antonelli is taken down for Don Mueller, he grounds to the right side to move the runner to third - and then Dusty Rhodes fists a ball into left - Williams scores and the Giants have retaken the lead.  Giants 5 Indians 4

7th: 31 year old right hander Hoyt Wilhelm comes on; he's got the best ERA on the Giants staff and they're looking for a real shutdown job here. Boudreau walks with one out but thats it.
7th: Mays leads off with a sharp single through the box; after an out - Bearden walks both Thompson and Katt - Boudreau decides to stick with his lefty - but he then walks Hoffman and it's 6-4. Williams hits a grounder to short - Cleveland gets the force at second but isn't able to turn two and so it's 7-4 Giants.  Giants 7 Indians 4

8th: Doby's aboard again, leading off with a single, Dale Mitchell then doubles down the right field line; Doby comes around to score and Cleveland's sliced one off the lead. Two outs later Robinson doubles - that brings Mitchell around and now it's 7-6.  Wally Judnich is sent up to hit for Bearden -- the Giants bring in their 36 year old closer, Marv Grissom - who induces an easy grounder and the Giants hold that narrow lead.  Giants 7 Indians 6
8th: 29 year old right hander Steve Gromek comes on for Cleveland - after two out, Mays has his third hit of the day, a single to right, but that's it.  We head to the 9th.

9th: Boudreau leads off with a walk and the Indians have the tying run on. Joe Gordon then hits one on the screws a 2 run shot to left -- Cleveland has flipped the game and now leads 8-7 in front of a stunned Polo Grounds.  An out later Ken Keltner homers to right -- and Cleveland's hit two 9th inning homers off Grissom and leads 9-7. That's it for Grissom, Al Corwin is an average 27 year old right hander and he gets the ball. He gives up a single to Mitchell, then gets the second out and walks Hegan. The Giants bring in Larry Jansen, a 33 year old right hander who was not good in '54, he grounds to Thompson...who kicks it...and the Indians have loaded the bases. Hank Edwards, a lefty, enters to pinch hit - but Jansen gets him to end the inning.  Giants 7 Indians 9
9th: Cleveland's closer is 30 year old right hander Russ Christopher and he closes the Giants out.

Giants 7
Indians 9
WP Gromek
LP Grissom

That ends Willie Mays's tournament - Gordon hit a big 2 run homer in this one; Doby also homered, doubled and singled twice; Mitchell had 3 hits - Mitchell and Doby each had two hits in game 1; they each walked, each added an RBI - that's enough to make them co MVPs.





The '48 Indians move on to face the '67 Cardinals in Round 2.  Next time - Speaker, Clemente, Mantle and the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers all battle for two more round 2 spots.


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