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12 THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTS, Pridey, October 11, 1987 om YOGI'S HOMER WAS BIG BLOW IN SIXTH CONTEST Above Is shown the scene as Yogi Berea hit his two-run homer on Wednesday, the blow that gave N.Y, Yankees the win | they needed to tie up the World Series al three games aplece Yogl Is shown bresking from the plate after blasting the first piteh by Bob Buhl, into The ower right-fleld stands, Enos Slaughter was on 1st base when Yogl clicked with this big one, 7 SPORTS MENU By Geo. H. Campbell BPORTS EDITOR ol. By ED CORRIGAN od ' Wal | YORK (AY) r aah i "w ), Lew urdette hought he Everything From Soup To Nuts {had made the New York Yan Ce rhs | koos "I gave up only ong run in 19 THE NATIONAL LEAGUE triumphed yesterday, Just when it innings of exhibition ball," the looked as if the powerful and venerable N.Y, Yankee machine !!hree-game world series winner was due to win once morv, Milwaukee's triumph was a great|[SMinisced before taking off for thing for baseball the world over, Bure, in the heart of Wis: Mi Waukee Thursday night, oonsin, where "NB" stands for Baseball, Braves and Beer, the git But 4 Jou now what Casey triumph in the World Series classic was bound to be a great Suniel oi ad yell if thing but actually, all across the country, for somebody to knock wan'ed me. That spring he haal off the Yankees, right in thelr own backyard that was really leyes only for Tom Morgan, Tom something | Yesterday the Braves outhil the Yankees and on|was his boy and he didn't ever top of thal, they got the breaks, Stern critics of the Milwa kee|see me." team could point out that thy Braves didn't deserve any of their| Burdette had worked his way first four runs = the inning should have ended with a double.|Vp through the Yank ehain start play, previous to the scoring, Kubek's bad throw to 3nd base|!D¥ In 1047. But he didn't make put the Yankees (n trouble and the Braves cashed in, On the|/¢ PE club. In fact, he pitched other hand, Crandall overslid Srd base later on and would have NA ay inning, gave up bree been & cinoh to score on a subsequent outfield fly while a saeris d one run fioe fly would have advanced and "protected" a runner, later on, he bitter about? I'm on top of Yankees Had Burdette, But Traded Him Off! he} By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK (AP) Milwau« kee's miracle is complete, The miracle man Is Fred (Merlin) more world | series A lorious pages istory. The 80-year-old righthander not only became the Jim arte Haney with Lew Burdette his Sines Clovalands Fh _Coveier. magic wand, series, but he also became the Just five years after the base: | first hurler in 62 years to turn ball franchise shift from Boston lin {wo shutouts. The last one was to what Thursday must have the immortal Chrisly Mathewson been the most hysterical baseball [who blanked the = Philadelphia sy dn ¥ wend, i Athletics three times in 1905, organized seventh-place team fo ONE EXTRA-BASE HIT a powerful world champlonship outfit with a future ax bright as the new Russian satellite, Make no mistake about it, This was A standout team that came from behind repeatedly and over: came erippling handicaps to de- {hrone a good New York Yankee team in seven sizzling world ser- los games, This was a youn team, too, The starting Braves nine that shut out the Yankees 540 Thurs lay behind the remarkable seven hit JHohing of Burdette averaged 20.4 years to 31.4 for the American League champions, GAIN CONFIDENCE The confidence gained in d {feuting the storied and highly | in appre Whomboh story of Burdette's fruly remark. able pitching performance, The tall righthander walked only one batter--and that was intentional, He was rarely behind the hitters as only four Yankees reached the three ball cownt, Not until two out in the ninth inning did a Yan- kee runner reach third, With the exception of Hank Bauer's lead. off double, no extra base hit was made off him, Burdette wound up with 24 con. secutive scoreless innings against the American League champs, All this with only two days' rest, No wonder his agent disclosed to " day that the rubber-armed ved. head, whose 10567 salary was only Cold figures don't tell half the [* with a home run into the left field stands, SURPRISINGLY STRONG It was the staunch Braves' de- fence, however, that surprised Yankees the most, "The scouting) reports had led them to believe) that Braves were a slow, clumsy, Iack-lustre outfit in the field, de. void of fire and imaginallon, The Braves proved they were any- thing but that, Mathews played spectacular third base from start to finish, Logan's short fielding was not as sensalional but squalty effective. Johnny sc- cepted 38 chances flawlessly, sev. eral of them of the spectacular variety. He participated in hall of the 10 Milwaukee double plays. Covington proved the defensive surprise of the series, Saddled with a good-hit, nofleld reputa- tion, the young left fielder left the Yankees gasping with two glittering catches and a fre. of hi run double, Then Aaron and Cov. ington singled and Torre drove in another run with a grounder and Milwaukee had a waukee's other score came in 'he drive Byrne over head into the left field stands. Byte was New York's (iff pitcher. TWO SHAKY INNINGS the first and ninth, After Bauer's openin; two-ou forced Gil MeDougald to raise a Lew Burdette's Third W Gives Braves World Series with an easy inning-ending double play in #h second, forein, off the bag from an awkward posilion was too late to get Logan at first, puny Pd to Mathews to end t threat. In the ninth Burdeiie relired singled {, threw too high ¥ Byrne sing) d to fill the beses. Bill Skowron, who returned to first base In the fifth 8) a viclous grounder tow. third. Mathews, who Brevieusly had made two fine f) & plays, turned in his best of the after. noon with a backhanded stab of the ball and leap to the base io retire Coleman and the Mathews followed with hig two lead, Mil hih when Crandall boomed a off lefthander Tommy Enos Slaughter"s game Stengel pulled out all the stops, th Besides 'restoring the Injured Skowron to first, he played Mickey Mane the whole in centre field, Nothing helped, however, Mantle's best was a harmless single nthe sixth, Bobby Shantz, Art Ditmar and Tom Sturdivant also saw action on the mound, Burdette had two shaky innings double and an intentional pass to Yogi Berra got m in. a hole In the first, he mendous throw that cut off at least four runs, Crandall was the rock of Gib | raltar behind the plate and his | sirong throwing arm mowed down all threg would-be Yankee #15,000, stands to earn around $20,000 in personal appearances and endorsements during the coming winter VINE FIELDING SUPPORT Burdette was not the whole show, however. He received mag nificent flelding support from his teammates, especially Math ows al third base, He received timely hitting support from Aaron, Hazle, Cranda | and Math ows Mathews, a batting bust in the first three games, delivered the! key hit, It was a third4inning| double to rightfield off starte: und loser Don Larsen which drove In the first two Milwaukee rung, Aaron hit safely In every game, drove In a run Thursday and wound up leading hitters on both teams with 499, It was Hazle, who started the crushing four-orun rally in the third with a hi', his first of the weries. And it was Crandall, who unlimbered the coup de grace respected Yankees, especially in! thelr own ball park, Is immeas- urable. Braves always had the horses. What they lacked was ox- perience and confidence, They've got both now, Including a chip on the shoulder that comes from {the knowledge that they are | ehamplons of the world, In addition, Braves are a» highly efficient organization, | boasting one of the strongest {minor league farm systems and | owning some of the outstanding {young players in the country, I It is not difficult to view the Braves as a champlonship team rs lo come, Henry Aaron, It was Yogi's 10th homer In World Series play In his 03 World Series game A new record AP Wirephoto | Boston Braves, along with #50, 000 for Johnny Sain, He's been|lor yea a Brave ever since {whom Haney has described as The six-footdwo Burdette 1% another Rogers Hornsby, Is only 28, Wes Covington Is 26, Eddie probably the most controversial] h p ) Pe Napa pitcher In the National League | Mathews Is 26, Bo Is Frank Torre Fine and again he has been ao The Injured Bill Bru'on, Bob Hazle, and Del Crandall are 27 cused of throwing spit balls, but ' 04 'el \ 2, J J no one ever has proved a thing [Fe Ix Mantilla is 23, Johnny Lo by wan and Joe Adcock, who have and he shrugs It olf been around for a long time, are 'Let them think I'm throwing only 80, Among the pilchers, only spliters," he sald, "Then 1 know Warren Spahn, at 80, can be sometimes errant throws, ( Practically everybody expected the Braves' defence to crack, In- stead, it was the Yankee flelding which collapsed, The team as a whole made six errors, twice as many as Milwaukee. Three of the miscues came Thursday and one of them opened the gates to the four Milwaukee runs in the third, As luck would have if, the eul- prit was Tony Kubek the 20-year. base stealers, "Torre, a fancy dan | around first base, saved his in-| field mates embarrassment with | his dirt-scooping pickups of thelr | | old "Nwaukee boy who had put Best Quality STOVE OIL GAL, TELEPHONE RA 5.1109 ® Prompt Delivery ® Reasonable Price 21: VIGOR OIL CO. LIMITED 78 BOND ST. W. OSHAWA himself forever in bad with his townfolk when he hit two home runs and drove In four runs in Yankees' 1248 rout of Braves In Milwaukee last Saturday, This time, Lady Luck frowned (upon Kubek, After Hazle had eracked a one-out single off Lar: sen In the third, Logan rapped a hard grounder to the versatile lyoungster at third base, Kubek, I've got them worrying and when| called old and he appears In they're worr 'ng, I've got them | destructible beaten,' i fh Ihursda game g TWO DAYS REST dette a string of 24 scoreless Ins] Oddly enough, it was Spahn's nings and put his neme on the| illness (hat gave his room male, | reoord book with six great pl eh-| Burdette, an opportunity to pitch ers who have won three games| his third game of the series in| of a seven-game world series, He|the finale, and his second in four also in the first to toss two shut. days outs in the series since Christy] How Burdette fared In the final) Mathewson threw three against| game, and in the en'ire series, | the Philadelphia As for New York! for that matter, is one of the| EVERY SKAT "Bitter? Ha, What's there to] Just before Crandall belted his homer The fact remains that Lew Burdette went in and pliched anotber shutout for the Milwaukee Braves, Frankly, we think that because Whitey Ford warmed up for a couple of innings the day before was weak excuse for him not going In the Tih and deoclding game, We suspect, we'll learn subsequently, thet Ford had a sore arm or the equivalent, Burdeile des serves all the eredit that oan be heaped upon him, He won three games In one World Series, a remarkable feat in (his modern age of baseball play, The Braves also had thelr hitting stars and thelr folding stars, Wank Aaron lived up to his position as top clubber in the National League while Eddie Matthews came along well In closing games, Wes Covinglon must be accepled as one of the sensations of the Beries, BRIGHT BITS) Now that the World Berles 1s {the world now. Anyway, it's all par! of the game." Yanks recalled Burdette in 1081 and promplly dealt him to the| Casey Stengel Is All Ready To Carry On NEW YORK (AP)--Caney Sten {dette and the Milwaukee Braves over, who 'had beaten his New York sport fans across the country will get into the winter-whirl now, Yankees in the world series with football in high gear and hockey ready to break loose with| full power , West Coast OSHAWA TONY'S leave tonight for Sudbury They'll meet "Mill Mines" in the finals for the Ontario Senior | "RB" softball ehamplonship, this week-end, with the first game tomorrow and second on Sunday game for the Ontario Pee Wee softball crown Bombers play Electric in the third game for Ontario Inter honors, up at Woodstock tomorrow night while Brooklin Steven son Motors are off to Capreol this week-end for the All-Ontario ONTARIO COUNTY nocoer Inter, "C" ohamplonship finals, action holds the spotlight at the Kinsmen Stadium tomorrow, "Well, are we going to get bet: | , BASEBALL, In both the American and National [ter now?" he asked of nobody in| Leagues, will produce a few major trades or sales, before the [Particular sbring season has ended but in the meantime, the fans are going along with the Dodgers and Giants, even as they go along to the "Or are we going tol ol worse? Give the victors their | ue and then figure how to gel back in it again--or you'll never hear of these players or mana ger again "I've gol to look ahead. Now SIMCOE AND Belleville (I've got a pretty good idea, just Pee Ween play here tomorrow at Bathe Park, dvd and deciding | between you and me, about what! BROUGHAM [we've gol In Denver and Righ.! up imond (the top Yankee farms) "One thing, don't worry about that boy (Tony Kubek), He's going to stay on this ball elub What If he did throw one a little ! high?" [Giants back in 1008 Even the haughty Yanks were suspicious of Burdette's delivery and the umpires examined the ball severe! times but, an usual found nothing : "The ball was awful dirty," he sald wi'h an impish grin, "But you ean be sure I wasn't throw ing spitters, Come to think of it I had wu lot of fun with all that commation. on the spl'ter this year" nor LAST NIGHT'S STARS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Jean Beliveau, Montreal scored two goals to pace Canadiens fo | "Andy Mobenton, New York, | the Rangers . the winnin Hoar in thelr 4'win over Dotrolt, | HOCKEY CLUB WANTED FOR OSHAWA MERCANTILE LEAGUE or Phone Contact Marry Dyas, 467 Richmond St, Bast (Buteh's Bar) RA 5.3497 IMMEDIATELY ! ! LEAGUE COMPETITION TO BEGIN SUNDAY OCT, 20. Eleven Records Were Broken In This Series NEW YORK (AM Elev records were hroken in the fh world series, Including marks for series attendance and nel re Say... OSHAWA WOOD PRODUCTS celpts Yog! Berra of the Yanks wet | four. 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