Even with stealing the Brooklyn Dodger catcher signs when playing at home in the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants were shutout at home in the first 15 innings of the two final games of the 1951 regular season. The Giants scored a single run in the 7th inning of the final game, then four more in the bottom of the 9th, three on the legendary pennant winning walk off home run by Bobby Thomson, who had also homered in game one in Brooklyn off the same pitcher.
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Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca, who had just relieved starter Don Newcombe, to win the pennant in the third of three extra games played in 1951 between the Giants and Dodgers after they finished in a tie. Roy Campanella caught for the Dodgers in the first game but Rube Walker caught games 2 and 3...
The bottom of the 9th went single, single, pop out, double by first baseman Whitey Lockman scoring a run.
So it was Dodgers 4, Giants 2 with Giants on second and third with one out. Branca relieved Newcombe to face Thomson. Did Dodger catcher Rube Walker use complex signs with Lockman on second base? ...
Maybe it was because the cheating became known much later but Bobby Thomson was not vilified like some of the Astros are today, including Jose Altuve.
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Attendance: 30,707
Venue: Ebbets Field
Game Duration: 2:39
Day Game, on grass
Giants 3, Dodgers 1
HR: Bobby Thomson (31, off Ralph Branca, 4th inn, 1 on, 2 outs to LF-CF); Monte Irvin (24, off Ralph Branca, 8th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to LF).
HR: Andy Pafko (29, off Jim Hearn, 2nd inn, 0 on, 2 outs to LF-CF).
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | New York Giants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
 | Brooklyn Dodgers | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| WP: Jim Hearn (17-9) • LP: Ralph Branca (13-11) | |||||||||||||
Attendance: 38,609
Venue: Polo Grounds V
Game Duration: 3:25
Day Game, on grass
Dodgers 10, Giants 0
HR: Jackie Robinson (19, off Sheldon Jones, 1st inn, 1 on, 2 outs to LF); Gil Hodges (40, off George Spencer, 6th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to LF); Andy Pafko (30, off Al Corwin, 7th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to LF); Rube Walker (4, off Al Corwin, 9th inn, 1 on, 2 outs to RF).
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Dodgers | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 2 |
| New York Giants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 |
| WP: Clem Labine (5-1) • LP: Sheldon Jones (6-11) | |||||||||||||
Attendance: 34,320
Venue: Polo Grounds V
Game Duration: 2:28
Day Game, on grass
Giants 5, Dodgers 4
HR: Bobby Thomson (32, off Ralph Branca, 9th inn, 2 on, 1 out to Deep LF).
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Dodgers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| New York Giants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| WP: Larry Jansen (23-11) • LP: Ralph Branca (13-12) | |||||||||||||
| Winning Run scored with 1 out | |||||||||||||
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