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Hello everyone this is Vin Scully back with you, going into the bottom of the 2nd. The Dodgers have brought in Big Jim Hughes to start the 2nd after Carl Erskine was lit up for 4 in the first. Hughes will face 9,1 and 2. Reynolds, SO, McDougald GO, Collins, PO. No runs in the 2nd. We head into the 3rd, Bauer SO (looking), Berra SO, Mantle 1B. Mantle out stealing. End of the inning. No runs. We head into the 4th, Woodling FO, Martin bunt single, throwing error (Hughes) Martin to third. Rizzuto GO, Reynolds BB McDougald GO. No runs. We go into the 5th, Collins FO, Bauer FO, Berra HR, Mantle GO. 1 run. Hughes out of the game. 1 run, 3 hits 3 So, 1BB and 0-1 batting (SO).

Yes, it was 67 years ago today my Uncle pitched in the '53 World series.

Not a bad outing. He did not pitch again due to some personal reasons, as some of you know.

Walter Alston said the biggest decision he had to make was to let Jim Hughes go home.

"If he was here for the whole series we would have won," he said. As you know the Dodgers lost the series 4-2.

Jim Hughes was my Uncle. How cool was that???

Wow, that's so awesome. What a great pitching line against that HOF Yankee lineup. Thanks for sharing.

Appreciate it.

Cool, really cool...

thats neat history for family

Very cool. 

Thats Awesome

I can hear the call in Vin's sweet dulcet tone. Damn that's a cool story. That 1953 team is still, in my opinion, ther best Dodger lineup of all time.

Great story. Do you have any of his memorabilia?