Larger and larger grew Larsen s balloon. It was of giant size at the start of the ninth. Broadcaster Bob Wolff added, You can hear the hum of the crowd in the background. Longtime Dodger publicist Irving Rudd was so upset, he jumped up on a table and yelled, Get a hit . . . Reserve Dodger outfielder Ransom Jackson told me, I kept thinking there had to be a hit.
Nobody pitches a no-hitter in the World Series .
Most of what happened in that incredible ninth is difficult to recall. I do remember that after I completed my warm-ups, I turned around and faced center field, and said to myself Good Lord, I ve got one more to go. Please get me through this. I played in more than 2,400 games in the major leagues, but I never was as nervous as I was in the ninth inning of that game, afraid I would do something to mess up Larsen s perfect game. Excerpted with permission.