The Game 5 win gave the A’s their third consecutive title, the first team to do that since the Yankees won five in a row from 1949-53.

Steve Sax hit .300. Boston’s pitching was just too much for the Robins (named for their manager, Wilbert Robinson). All Rights Reserved. Often voted among the top three moments in Dodger history, this is the only time the Dodgers have won the deciding World Series game at Dodger Stadium. “This year is our year,” manager Dave Roberts said. The Dodgers win the World Series in their second season in Los Angeles. NL Championship Series: Pittsburgh Pirates: Won 3-1: 1966: World Series: Baltimore Orioles: Lost 0-4: 1965: World Series: Minnesota Twins: Won 4-3: 1963: World Series: New York Yankees: Won 4-0: 1959: World Series: Chicago White Sox: Won 4-2: 1956: World Series: New York Yankees: Lost 3-4: 1955: World Series: New York Yankees: Won 4-3: 1953: World Series: New York Yankees: Lost 2-4: … Steve Garvey hit .381 for the Dodgers. The Braves didn’t even swing at a pitch until Marcell Ozuna’s sharp single through the left side of the infield on an 0-1 curveball for a 1-0 lead.
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Memorable moment: Chuck Essegian’s two pinch-hit homers, a World Series record. In the fifth, the Dodgers had runners on first and second with two out when Smith hit another sharp grounder. Batting stars: Snider hit .320 with four homers and seven RBIs. Home runs by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Duke Snider accounted for six of Brooklyn’s eight runs in Game 4 and Snider had two homers in the Game 5 win.

Batting stars: Ron Fairly of the Dodgers hits .370 with two homers and six RBIs. Batting stars: Tommy Davis of the Dodgers hit .400 with two triples. Memorable moment: In the eighth inning of Game 6, Mantle hit the first of his record 18 World Series homers. It is all here. Pitching stars: Burt Hooton had a 1.59 ERA in two starts for the Dodgers while closer Steve Howe went 1-0 with a save. Get our Dodgers Dugout newsletter for insights, news and much more. Batting stars: Mantle hit .345 with two homers and three RBIs, while Yankee first baseman Johnny Mize hit .400 with three homers and six RBIs. Game 1 against the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays is Tuesday night. They lost Game 7 at home three years ago to to the Houston Astros, and then lost in five games to the Boston Red Sox in 2018 when Mookie Betts was the AL MVP and playing against Los Angeles. we grinded all the way through this series,” said shortstop. New York and Brooklyn traded 1-0 wins to begin the Series.

Tampa Bay’s win in Game 7 of the ALCS late Saturday night wiped out the chance for an October rematch with the Astros, whose 2017 World Series victory over the Dodgers has been heavily tarnished by the revelations of Houston’s sign-stealing tactics that season. This Series will always be remembered for Game 5, Yankee pitcher Don Larsen’s perfect game. Batting stars: Joe DiMaggio hit two homers but batted only .231 for the Yankees. Game 2 was also the final game of Sandy Koufax’s career. Duke Snider hit .345 with four homers and eight RBIs for the Dodgers. A USC player filed for unemployment. Or, if you want to ignore the Gibson homer, how about Mickey Hatcher sprinting around the bases after his two homers, like he was afraid they were going to call him out before he got to home plate. Jerry Coleman drove in another run before the third out was made. Batting stars: Martin hit .500 and set a six-game Series record with 12 hits. Pitching stars: Yankee starter Ed Lopat was 1-0 with a 2.00 ERA, while Allie Reynolds won one game and saved another. The Los Angeles Basin - A Huge Bowl of Sand, Postal Zip Code Look-up for Los Angeles County, Court & Vital Records from Orange County, CA, Origin of Name "Dodgers" for Los Angeles Dodgers, Dodger Historical Seasonal Win-Loss Records, LA Dodgers vs. Tampa Bay Rays [Outcome Pending]. This Series featured the only World Series triple play, the first World Series grand slam (Cleveland’s Elmer Smith) and the first World Series home run by a pitcher (Cleveland’s Jim Bagby). The third strike that got away from catcher Mickey Owen of the Dodgers. They held the Yankees to four runs and a .171 team batting average. Swanson became the 14th different player to homer in the series, the most ever in an NLCS.

Thurman Munson hit .320 with two doubles and a homer. Allie Reynolds won the other two games, and earned a save in Raschi’s Game 6 victory. The Dodgers outhit New York in Game 2, and held a 2-1 lead entering the bottom of the seventh, but Billy Martin tied the score with a leadoff homer, and Mickey Mantle won it with a two-run blast in the eighth. Nettles snared it and prevented at least one run from scoring. Carson Wentz threw a touchdown pass to Boston Scott with 40 seconds remaining and the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants 22-21 on Thursday night. Ted Kluszewski of the White Sox hit .391 with three homers and 10 RBIs. 1916: Boston Red Sox 4, Brooklyn Robins 1. In Game 3, Johnny Podres held the Yankees to three runs, one of them a homer by Mickey Mantle, who appeared in only three games because of a leg injury. The complete list of L.A. Times’ endorsements in the November 2020 election.
Three Yankee starters hurled complete-game wins, with each giving the Dodgers only one earned run. Orioles pitching dominated the Dodger offense, which scored only two runs in the whole series, and none after they scored a run in the third inning of Game 1. Game 7 was a disaster for the Dodgers. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Kiké Hernández became the first pinch hitter with a game-tying or go-ahead homer, robbing NL MVP candidate Freddie Freeman of a solo homer, The massive shot to right by reigning NL MVP and 2018 NLCS MVP. The Yankees then easily won Games 4 and 5. Memorable moment: Larsen striking out Dale Mitchell to complete his perfect game.

Memorable moment: “In a year that has been so improbable... the impossible has happened!” — Vin Scully after Gibson’s homer. Receiver Munir McClain, who got money from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, was suspended and his family says they weren’t given an answer as to why. Bevens retired two in the ninth, but walked his ninth and 10th batters (one intentionally), then lost both his no-hitter and the game as Dodger pinch-hitter Cookie Lavagetto doubled home Spider Jorgensen and Eddie Miksis to even the Series at 2-2. For the Dodgers, Gil Hodges hit .304 and drove in eight runs. NFL: Carson Wentz rallies Eagles to win over Giants. Don Drysdale started in his place and gave up seven runs in 2 2/3 innings. Pitching stars: Oakland’s Rollie Fingers appeared in four of the five games and went 1-0 with two saves. Batting stars: Cleveland’s Charlie Jamieson and Steve O’Neill hit .333.

The Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey infield finally won a World Series in their final year together. Pitching stars: Charlie Morton got the Game 7 victory and finished the series with 11 strikeouts in 10 1/3 innings. Don Newcombe gave up two two-run homers to Yogi Berra and a solo shot to Elston Howard. The Dodgers dropped the first two games, but won the next three in Brooklyn. For the Robins, Casey Stengel hit .364. The next batter, Steve Garvey, hit a shot to almost the same place, but Nettles grabbed it and threw to second for the force play and third out. Terry Steinbach hit .364 for the A’s.

A look at California’s November ballot propositions. But Yankee pitching dominated. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The Yankees never had the lead at any point in any game of the Series. The Dodgers built an early 4-0 lead, but the Yankees took the lead in the fourth. Games 3, 4 and 5, played at the Coliseum, are the only World Series games to draw more than 90,000 fans. Casey, who had shut out the Yankees since coming on in the fifth inning, then struck out Tommy Henrich for what should have been the game-ending out. The Yankees won a record fifth consecutive World Series title despite being outhit by the Dodgers, .300 to .279. Billy Martin led the Yankees, hitting .320 with four RBIs. In Game 7, the Yankees won, 5-2. The Dodgers won Games 3 and 4 to even the Series, as Erskine set a record with 14 strikeouts in Game 3, but the Yankees never trailed while winning Games 5 and 6, winning the final game on Martin’s single in the bottom of the ninth. Pitching stars: Spec Shea was 2-0 with a 2.35 ERA in two starts for the Yankees. Jackson proceeds to foul off several pitches before Welch gets him to swing and miss a fastball.