Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-09

run on sacrifice hoist to Combs
and the, stands were in another up
roar.
The Pirates were making a gallant
comeback and the fans, whether or
not the majority were there to root
the Yankees in, gave the Corsairs as
big, a hand as they ever got in their
home town.
Perhaps the crowds reaction was
more because the Pirates were the
underdogs fighting seemingly
hopeless fight but more likely it
was typical of Gothams impartiality
and desire for enthusiasm, whatever
the cause.
At any rate, the Pirates seemed to
take on new lease in their base
ball life, even if it was coming
trifle late. They were displaying
more dash and confidence than they
had in any of the previous three
games, but, as it turned out, the
final flash was not enough, and the
Pirates lost at the end, as they had
from the start, chiefly on their own
lapSes.
3-3 tie in the eighth inning, as did
the Yankees, but the rival pitchers,
Miljus and Moore, each struck out
with two men on bases.N 1t looked
like questionable strategy by Mama
ger DOME Bush to send MiljuS to.
bat in the eighth, with men on first
and second and two out. A pinch
hitter there, Cuyler, perhaps, might
have put the CorSairS into the lead.
It looked like the spot to throw all
available resources into the battle,
but Bush gambled with his pitcher
and lost.
The Yankees outhit and outplayed
the Pirates, except for their Surprls-
ing seventh inning lapse, the only
time the New York infield defense
cracked in the entire series, but it
was Babe Ruth's bat that dealt the
mightiest blows for the American
league champions. Yesterday the
Babes homer was more artistic than
essential. Today, as it turned out,
his second circuit clout saved the
game, enabling the Yankees to hold
the Pirates TO tie, until the fateful
ninth.
Ruth brought Combs home in the
first inning with the first Yankee
run, after Earle had singled and ad-
vanced on Koenig's one-base blow.
Combs, who helped himself to three
hits during the afternoon, was again
conveniently on base when the Babe
landed his mighty stroke in the
bleachers in the fifth.
Again in the ninth, Ruth was up
there swinging his mace with me-
nacing gestures, with two runners on
base, but this time caution was the
better part of valor for the Pirates,
and Milius Intentionally passed the
Babe on orders from Manager Bush.
The sight, Of the Babe perhaps was
partly responsible for Miljus' first
wild pitch, moving Combs and koe-
mig up base.
It was just as well that Ruth was
hitting them, for the rest OF the
Yankee sluggers,, outside Of Combs,
Koenig and Collins, did nothing to
distinguish themselves at bat. Lou
Gehrig, who gave the Babe a hot
chase for home run honors during
the season, not only failed to con-
meet in this series for more than a
triple, but he famed twice in the
pinches today. :,
In the first inning, Gehrig, as well
as Meusel and Lazzeri, struck out on
HilPs slow curves or floaters, and III
the ninth, Columbia Lou beat the
air as he followed the Babe to bat
with the bases full and none out.
It was a great chance for Gehrlg
to inject a finishing wallop, but he
was unable to seize it, as M1lJus
fooled him with curves. 1t was the
same story for Meusel, mex. tup, VINO
struck out for the second time IN
the game and for the fifth time IN
two days.
1t was a tragic finale for Ml!Jus
to undo this fine work with Wlio
pitch, but it was typical, in a DIS
appointing fashion, of the Wobply
And uncertain work of the Pirates
from the start of the series. A lew
moments of the battle were the
Corsairs, tired by their hard pennant
fight able to match their powerful
foes in hitting, fielding skill or
pitching. While the Yankees mace
only one pitching substitution, that
in the first game, the Pirates saw
every one of the four starting tWlrl-
ers-Kremer, Aldridge, Meadows ana
Hill-fade from the picture before
the finish of any game.
The following play by play OF the
worlds series by by Carl S. Brade-
bury, Associated Press sports writer
Under the darkening skies it looked
as if the fourth game of the world
series between the New York Yankees
and the Pittsburgh Pirates would find
the rival pitchers dominating the sit
uation.
Low visibility made it hard to fol-,
low the speed of the pitchers as they
warmed up. @
Both Wiley Moore and Carmen Hill
mixed UP a fast ball with their other
wares. Tt was apparent that the bat
tiers would see more fast ball pitching
today than in any other, except that
in which George Pipgras hurled
against the Pirates in the second
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