A young Brooklyn fan can be seen climbing the right field fence to retrieve a home run ball off the bat of the Dodgers Pee Wee Reese. His solo homer in the bottom of the 6th inning tied the game at 1-1 against the Philadelphia Phillies. It was the last game of the season and the first-place Phillies hold a precarious one-game lead over the Dodgers after leading them by 7.5 games just two weeks ago. A Brooklyn win would force a three-game playoff starting the next day.
But the reeling Phillies, or the “Whiz Kids”, would gut out the win in the 10th inning when Dick Sisler’s 3-run home run off Don Newcombe would put them up for good 4-1. From there Robin Roberts, who had started four of the last nine Phillies games, would shut down Brooklyn in the bottom of the tenth inning for his 20th win of the season and secure the Phillies first National League pennant in 35 years, their last one coming in 1915.
