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DiMaggio assists Yanks in doubleheader sweep
- Updated: June 1, 2016
CLEVELAND, June 1, 1941 — Something special just might be happening with this year’s New York Yankees.
Joe McCarthy’s club, which has been playing a lot better of late, waited out the previous day’s rain and entered Sunday’s doubleheader in Cleveland with a chance to halve the Indians’ lead in the American League standings to two games.
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Then they took the field at Cleveland Stadium and capitalized on it with a two-game sweep. New York took advantage of the brilliant pitching of Red Ruffing to win the opening game, 2 to 0, and made good on Lefty Gomez’s fine work in the nightcap with a 5 to 3 victory that now has them two games out of first place.
A boisterous crowd of more than 52,000 couldn’t have liked the results, but the Yankees are building some momentum as the calendar flips to June.
The Indians simply couldn’t solve Ruffing, who scattered eight singles throughout his nine innings, did not walk a batter, struck out one and got the tidy job done in all of one hour and 57 minutes.
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