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2, pitching a complete game 5 hitter to even the series. The next day the teams moved to the Polo Grounds where the Giants roughed up Vic Raschi and convincingly won by a 6-2 score. The Giants had momentum and the next two home games but fate intervened. It rained, which gave Reynolds a third day of rest (Yes, pitchers pitched every fourth day). The Super Chief pitched a complete game, beating Sal Maglie 6-2.
With the Series tied at two games each, Lopat hurled another complete game 5 hitter in coasting to a 13-1 win. In Game 6, Hank Bauer hit a bases loaded triple, Raschi held the Giants to a single tally in six innings, and the Yankees won the World Series.
The streak was now three straight World Championships. In 1952 the Yankees won their fourth straight pennant. Lopat suffered arm problems in the middle of the season but still managed to win 10 while losing 5 with an ERA of 2.53. The Yankees faced a Dodgers team that many considered the best of all Dodgers team for the World Championship.
The Series went the full seven games. Lopat started Game 3 at home against Preacher Roe and lost, 5-3, which put the Dodgers ahead, two game to one.
With the Series tied at three games each, Lopat started Game 7 in Brooklyn. He pitched effectively against the Dodgers' right handed power packed lineup for the first three innings,, but Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson, and Roy Campanella hit consecutive singles in the fourth to load the bases with no outs.
Stengel brought in Allie Reynolds, who had relieved Vic Raschi in Game 6 and who had pitched a complete game shut out in Game 4, to face Gil Hodges. It makes one wonder why pitchers could work so often and effectively in the past and why today's bigger and stronger pitchers need so much more rest. Or do they?
Reynolds got out of the jam, allowing only one run. The Yankees went ahead 2-1 in the fifth inning on a Gene Woodling home run but the Dodgers promptly tied the game in their half of the inning when PeeWee Reese singled home Billy Cox. Mantle untied the game when he homered in the sixth. The Yankees scored one more run, Billy Martin saved the game with a magnificent catch of Jackie Robinson's bases loaded, wind blown pop up, and the Yankees won
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