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1954 World Series (4–0): New York Giants (N.L.) over Cleveland Indians (A.L.). 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960s: 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964. The 1953 World Series by Baseball Almanac with a detailed description, complete rosters, cumulative statistics, and box scores! The 1953 World Series matched the four-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers in a rematch of the 1952 Series.
World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. World Series. Dates: September 2.
October 2. Television: NBCTV announcers: Jack Brickhouse and Russ Hodges. Radio: Mutual. Radio announcers: Al Helfer and Jimmy Dudley. Umpires: Al Barlick (NL), Charlie Berry (AL), Jocko Conlan (NL), Johnny Stevens (AL), Lon Warneke (NL: outfield only), Larry Napp (AL: outfield only)Hall of Famers: Umpires: Al Barlick, Jocko Conlan. Giants: Leo Durocher (mgr.), Monte Irvin, Willie Mays, Hoyt Wilhelm. Indians: Al LГіpez (mgr.), Larry Doby, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn, Hal Newhouser. The 1. 95. 4 World Series matched the National League champion New York Giants against the American League champion Cleveland Indians.
The Giants swept the Series in four games to win their first championship since 1. Indians, who had won an AL- record 1. New York Yankees (1.
Seattle Mariners (1. Chicago Cubs for the most wins ever). The Series is perhaps best- remembered for "The Catch", a sensational running catch made by Giants center fielder Willie Mays in Game 1, snaring a long drive by Vic Wertz near the outfield wall with his back to the infield. It is also remembered for utility player Dusty Rhodes' clutch hitting in three of the four games, including his walk- off hit for Monte Irvin that won Game 1, probably the best- known hit to be described as a "Chinese home run", since it barely cleared the 2. Polo Grounds. Giants manager Leo Durocher, who had managed teams to three National League championships, won his first and only World Series title in his managerial career. After moving West, the San Francisco Giants would not win a World Series until the 2. This was the first time the Cleveland Indians had been swept in a World Series and the first time the New York Giants had swept an opponent without qualification.
They had won four games without a loss in the 1. World Series, but there was also one tie. Game 2 was the last World Series and playoff game at the Polo Grounds, because the Giants did not win another pennant until after their move to San Francisco and because the Mets did not reach the postseason until after they moved to Shea Stadium. Game 4 was the last World Series and playoff game at Cleveland Stadium; the Indians did not return to the World Series or playoffs until 1. Jacobs Field opened.
As a result, this World Series held the distinction of being the most recent World Series to host the final World Series game of its two venues, a distinction it lost to the 1. World Series after the original Comiskey Park closed down at the end of the 1.
Major League Baseball season and Dodger Stadium opened in 1. Background[edit]The Indians, by winning the American League pennant, kept the Yankees from having a chance to win their sixth straight series. The last time the Yankees had not won the series or pennant beforehand was 1. Indians kept them out (although that year, they won the Series). It was also the only World Series from 1. Yankees. The Indians easily won the 1.
American League's top pitching staff, leading the AL in team ERA at 2. Pitchers Early Wynn (2. ERA) and Bob Lemon (2. ERA) were in top form, with solid contributions from Mike Garcia (1.
Art Houtterman (1. Bob Feller, at age 3. Cleveland also had potent hitting, leading the AL in home runs (1. Bobby ГЃvila led the offense with 1. Larry Doby (. 2. 72 avg, 3. HRs, 1. 26 RBIs) and Al Rosen (.
HRs, 1. 02 RBIs) provided the power. Defensively catcher Jim Hegan made only four errors in 1. The New York Giants entered the World Series with a top flight pitching staff as well, with Johnny Antonelli (2. ERA), Rub. Г©n GГіmez (1. Sal "The Barber" Maglie (1. The Giants relied more heavily on relief pitching with Hoyt Wilhelm (1.
Marv Grissom (1. 0–7, 2. NL in team ERA at 3. Manager Leo Durocher used a solid, consistent lineup with all his starters, except for the catching position, playing in at least 1. Willie Mays (. 3. HRs 1. 10 RBIs) led an offense that also featured Don Meuller (.
Al Dark (. 2. 93, 9. Hank Thompson (2. HRs, 8. 6 RBIs) and pinch- hitter extraordinaire Dusty Rhodes (. Summary[edit]NL New York Giants (4) vs.
AL Cleveland Indians (0)Game. Date. Score. Location. Time. Attendance 1. September 2. 9Cleveland Indians – 2, New York Giants – 5 (1. Polo Grounds (IV)3: 1. September 3. 0Cleveland Indians – 1, New York Giants – 3.
Polo Grounds (IV)2: 5. October 1. New York Giants – 6, Cleveland Indians – 2. Cleveland Stadium. October 2. New York Giants – 7, Cleveland Indians – 4. Cleveland Stadium.
Matchups[edit]Wednesday, September 2. Polo Grounds (IV) in Manhattan, New York. Cleveland got on the board first and fast. Leadoff man Al Smith was hit by a pitch, Bobby ГЃvila singled and Vic Wertz brought home both with a triple to right. Bob Lemon gave two back in the third on singles by Whitey Lockman and Alvin Dark, a walk to Willie Mays and a Hank Thompson single. And that was that until the 1.
Mays saved the day in the eighth after leadoff singles by Larry Doby and Al Rosen led to starting pitcher Sal Maglie being lifted for Don Liddle. Wertz's drive to deep center field would have scored both if not for Mays's memorable catch. Lemon went all the way for Cleveland, losing it in the 1. Dusty Rhodes, pinch- hitting for Monte Irvin with two Giants on base, hit a walk- off home run. Dusty Rhodes of the New York Giants rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the seventh inning of the second game of the 1. World Series. Thursday, September 3.
Polo Grounds (IV) in Manhattan, New York. Once again, the visitors started quickly, then couldn't hold onto their lead. Smith's leadoff homer off Johnny Antonelli put Cleveland up 1- 0 before a lot of Polo Grounds fans had settled into their seats. Early Wynn preserved that lead until the fifth inning, but after Mays and Thompson singles, once again Rhodes pinch- hit for Irvin and came through, this time an RBI single. Antonelli himself got the go- ahead run home against his counterpart, scoring Thompson on a groundout. Antonelli was a little wild on the mound, walking six, but also struck out nine.
New York got just four hits all day, but Rhodes delivered the game- winner again, a solo home run leading off the seventh. Friday, October 1, 1. Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. A huge crowd, 7. 1,5. Cleveland get its first win, but things did not go well for the home team.
It trailed 1- 0 quickly when Whitey Lockman singled, took second on a groundout and scored on a hit by Mays. The clutch hitter of the series, Rhodes, had a two- run single pinch- hitting in the third, and an error by the pitcher, Mike Garcia, gave the Giants another run to make it 4- 0. Gomez gave up just four hits, with knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm mopping up for the save. New York was now a win away from the championship. Saturday, October 2, 1. Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland's slim chances at a comeback took a beating as it fell hopelessly behind 7- 0.
Almost everything went wrong from the start, a pair of errors resulting in two New York runs in the second. A single by Mays in the next inning scored another run. Then the game broke wide open in the fifth. Lemon loaded the bases and was pulled.
Hal Newhouser replaced him but got nobody out, giving up a walk to Thompson and single to Irvin. A brief glimmer of hope for the home team came in the bottom of the fifth with a couple of Giant errors and a Hank Majeski three- run pinch homer. But except for a meaningless RBI single by Rudy Regalado in the seventh off Don Liddle, the Indians got nothing more as Wilhelm and Game 2 starter Antonelli came on in relief and the Giants completed a four- game sweep. Composite box[edit]1. World Series (4–0): New York Giants (N. L.) over Cleveland Indians (A.
L.)Team. 12. 34. 56. RHENew York Giants. Cleveland Indians. Total attendance: 2. Average attendance: 6.
Winning player's share: $1. Losing player's share: $6,7. Records[edit]Hank Thompson set a World Series record for bases on balls received during a four- game series with seven and Bob Lemon set a World Series record for bases on balls given up during a four- game Series with eight. References[edit]Cohen, Richard M.; Neft, David S. The World Series: Complete Play- By- Play of Every Game, 1.
New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0- 3. 12- 0. Hano, Arnold (2. 00. A Day in the Bleachers. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0- 3. 06- 8.
X. The author, who later wrote Mays' biography, described sitting in the left- center field bleachers at the Polo Grounds for Game 1. An entire chapter was devoted to "The Catch". Reichler, Joseph (1. The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.). Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0- 0. 2- 5. 79.
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World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. World Series. Dates: October 1–5. Television: NBCTV announcers: Mel Allen and Vin Scully. Radio: Mutual. Radio announcers: Al Helfer and Gene Kelly.
Umpires: Bill Grieve (AL), Bill Stewart (NL), Eddie Hurley (AL), Artie Gore (NL), Hank Soar (AL: outfield only), Frank Dascoli (NL: outfield only)Hall of Famers: Yankees: Casey Stengel (mgr.), Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Mize, Phil Rizutto. Dodgers: Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Dick Williams‡.
The 1. 95. 3 World Series matched the 4- time defending champions New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers in a rematch of the 1. Series, and the 4th such matchup between the two teams in the past seven seasons.
The Yankees won in 6 games for their 5th consecutive title—a mark which has not been equalled—and their 1. Billy Martin recorded his 1.
Series scoring Hank Bauer in Game 6. Summary[edit]AL New York Yankees (4) vs.
NL Brooklyn Dodgers (2)Game. Date. Score. Location. Time. Attendance 1. September 3. 0Brooklyn Dodgers – 5, New York Yankees – 9.
Yankee Stadium (I)3: 1. October 1. Brooklyn Dodgers – 2, New York Yankees – 4. Yankee Stadium (I)2: 4. October 2. New York Yankees – 2, Brooklyn Dodgers – 3.
Ebbets Field. 3: 0. October 3. New York Yankees – 3, Brooklyn Dodgers – 7. Ebbets Field. 2: 4. October 4. New York Yankees – 1. Brooklyn Dodgers – 7. Ebbets Field. 3: 0.
October 5. Brooklyn Dodgers – 3, New York Yankees – 4. Yankee Stadium (I)2: 5. Matchups[edit]Wednesday, September 3. Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York. Before a full house of New Yorkers, a four- run first inning put Yankee fans in a good mood right off the bat. Brooklyn starter Carl Erskine didn't last past the first.
A pair of triples by Hank Bauer and Billy Martin were the big blows, and the Dodgers pinch- hit for Erskine in the top of the second. They didn't score off Allie Reynolds until the fifth, though, on a Jim Gilliam solo homer. Yogi Berra matched it in the bottom of the fifth with a homer of his own, and the Yankee lead looked safe until homers by Gil Hodges and pinch- hitter George Shuba chased Reynolds in the sixth.
Brooklyn tied it an inning later against Johnny Sain with singles by Roy Campanella, Hodges and Carl Furillo. A homer by unsung first baseman Joe Collins proved the game- winner, with winning pitcher Sain providing two more runs himself in the eighth off Ben Wade with a surprise two- base hit. Thursday, October 1, 1.
Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York. He looked shaky in the first, walking three and hitting a batter, but Brooklyn's Preacher Roe settled down after that and engaged Eddie Lopat in a complete- game pitching duel. Billy Cox's two- run double in the fourth put the Dodgers up 2- 1. Billy Martin's leadoff homer off Roe in the seventh tied the score. The game- winning blast came from Mickey Mantle, a two- run shot to left field in the bottom of the eighth. Brooklyn got two runners aboard in the ninth, but Lopat was able to retire Duke Snider on a game- ending grounder to second base.
Friday, October 2, 1. Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Although the Yankees won the Series, Brooklyn had at least one shining moment, as pitcher Carl Erskine set a new Series record by striking out 1. Yankees in Game 3. That broke Howard Ehmke's 1.
Ersk's record would stand until Sandy Koufax got 1. In that same game, Yogi Berra was hit twice by Erskine, making him the first American League player in World Series history to be a hit- batsman twice during the same game. After the game became tied at 2- 2 in the eighth on an RBI single by the Yankees' Gene Woodling, the decisive blow came in the bottom of the inning when Vic Raschi surrendered a Roy Campanella home run. Saturday, October 3, 1. Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. The home team won for the fourth consecutive time.
Whitey Ford lasted just one inning as the Yankees' starter, giving up a Duke Snider two- run homer in the first. Brooklyn's lead was cut in half in the fifth when Billy Loes gave up a two- run homer to Gil Mc.
Dougald. But the Dodgers pulled away with Snider driving home runs in the next two innings. Mickey Mantle's bases- loaded single ended the game, Billy Martin being thrown out trying to score from second base.
Sunday, October 4, 1. Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Yankees manager Casey Stengel gave the ball to unheralded pitcher Jim Mc. Donald for Game 5 and, while he gave up a dozen hits, he got them a win. Brooklyn starter Johnny Podres was jolted by a Gene Woodling home run to begin the game. Podres was chased in a five- run third, and the first man his replacement Russ Meyer would face, Mickey Mantle, greeted the reliever with a grand slam home run.
The Yankees were coasting 1. Mc. Donald tired and gave up a three- run Billy Cox homer. He was relieved by Bob Kuzava, and in the ninth, Allie Reynolds was brought in to retire Jackie Robinson for the final out.
Monday, October 5, 1. Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York.
Down 3–1 in the ninth, Brooklyn rallied back on a Duke Snider walk and a Carl Furillo homer. However, Yankee second baseman Billy Martin—who made a game- saving catch in Game 7 of the 1. World Series—again ruined the Dodgers' dreams of a championship. In the bottom of the ninth, with a runner on second base, Martin drilled a Clem Labine sinker up the middle for a Series- winning RBI single. Aftermath[edit]Dropping their seventh Series without a victory, the Dodgers terminated manager Chuck Dressen's contract; Dressen was demanding two more years. Walter Alston took his place and managed the Dodgers for the next 2.
World Series championships in 1. Tommy Lasorda who would manage the team for twenty years himself (1.
Lasorda would lead the Dodgers to a pair of World Series championships in 1. Composite box[edit]1. World Series (4–2): New York Yankees (A. L.) over Brooklyn Dodgers (N. L.)Broadcasting[edit]The Series was broadcast on NBC television, with Yankees announcer Mel Allen and Dodgers announcer Vin Scully describing the action; and on Mutual radio, with Al Helfer and Gene Kelly announcing. Red Barber, Vin Scully's senior on the Dodgers' broadcast crew, was originally selected to work with Allen on NBC, but was removed from the Series due to a salary dispute with Gillette, which sponsored the broadcasts. Scully, at the age of 2.
World Series game (a record that stands to this day). References[edit]Cohen, Richard M.; Neft, David S. The World Series: Complete Play- By- Play of Every Game, 1. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0- 3. 12- 0. Reichler, Joseph (1.
The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.). Macmillan Publishing.
ISBN 0- 0. 2- 5. 79. External links[edit].