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attest. He hit his 2eth in the
eighth inning to snap a 6-6 tie
and sink the hopes Of 1880
Chicago fans who had seen
their team overcome a SO
deficit. The crowd put the
White Sox home attendance
over the million mark for the
seventh straight season.
Stengel was his old jovial
self in the dressing room. my
pitching has been a little OF. !"
he conceded. but maybe well
straighten out now. I got Lar
sen all rested up for the next
one, but then I might use
Shantz If his hand is okay.
Eyes sir, we're in pretty good
shape now"
The White Sox are not ready
to hold a wake yet. We're
not out of 1t YET" manager AL
Lopez said. Il said before the
game that II they win one or
two they won't knock us out
and II we won three we
wouldn't have the pennant won.
Clouted KnuckIer
Lopez says he'll call on Dick
Donovan $3.50 for the final
tomorrow.
Berra, who had a pair of
singles and a double to 60 with
his homer. said it was a knuck-
Ter he tore into for the big one.
It was the first pitch on Re-
lever Paul LaPalme, the fourth
of five Chicago pitchers. En0s
Slaughter and Mickey Mantle
each got singles of Bill Fischer
before Berra delivered.
The Yankees used four pitch
ers-Al Ditmar. Whitley Ford,
who had been ailing: Bob Grim.
who won his 18th, and Bob
Turley. Turley came on in the
eighth with the bases loaded
and two out and struck out
Minnie MinoSo.
Fox Leads White Sex
Nellie Fox was Chicago's big
gun. He tripled during the
three-run uprising in the third
and scored the tying run In the
seventh after hitting a single.
The Yankees scored two in
the FIRST on Hank Bauer's single,
walks to Mantle and Berra and
Bill Skowron's single. They got
three more in the second on
singles by Bobby Richardson
and Enos Slaughter. another
walk to Mantle. a two-run
single by Berra and an infield
hit by Skowron.
The White Sox routed Ditmar
in the third on Fred Hatfield's
double. a single by Luis Apart
clio, Fox's Triple and a single by
MinoSo. An unearned run in
the fourth gave the Yankees a
6-3 margin. but Walt Dropo's
pinch-hit. two-run single in the
sixth made 1t 6-5 and sent Ford
to the showers. Ford was max
ing his first appearance since
August IA. The Sox tied it in
the seventh when Fox singled
and went around on q sacrifice,
wild pitch and Minoso's intield
out.
The Yankees outhit the White
Sox. 1879. with Mantle going
l-for-4 and slipping to .376 in
his battle with Boston's Ted
Williams.
Williams was 2-for-4 to raise
his average to $50. smacking
his Sind homer and the 45Oth
Of his career as the Red Sox
battled back from a 80 deficit.
Williams walked to open the
decisive 18th and scored the
winning run on Dick Gernert's
two-run single. Duke Mas
was the loser while Ike O'clock
won it with four innings of one
hit relief.
Braves Are Outhit
Don McMahon's relief pitch
ing-a perfect two-inning job
saved Lew Burdette's 14th
victory as the Braves, outhit
Ill. rode in on home runs by
Red Schoendienst, Ed Mathews
and Frank Tore that scored
all the runs.
Bob Friends five-hitter jolted
the Cardinals. Singles by Bob
Skinner and Bill Mazeroski
plus a wild pitch and an in
field out. scored the clincher
for the Pirates in the eighth
on Won Mcdaniel. now ia.
Stan Musial extended his
National League record for
consecutive games played to
S95 by getting into the lineup
OF the suspended game, which
was resumed in the ninth.
The string now ofiicially ex-
tends from the first day OF
the 1852 season to last Friday,
when he was sidelined by a
shoulder injury. The old mark
OF 822 was set by Pittsburgh's
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