1963 World Series
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The 1963 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers sweeping the Series in four games to capture their second title in five years.
Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Johnny Podres combined to give up only four runs in four complete games. Koufax started it off with a 15-strikeout performance in Game 1.
Records: New York Yankees (W: 104, L: 57, Pct: .646, GA: 10.5) - Los Angeles Dodgers (W: 99, L: 63, Pct: .611, GA: 6)
Managers: Ralph Houk (New York), Walter Alston (Los Angeles)
Umpires: Joe Paparella (AL), Tom Gorman (NL), Larry Napp (AL), Shag Crawford (NL), Johnny Rice (AL: outfield only), Tony Venzon (NL: outfield only)
Series MVP: Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles)
Television: NBC (Mel Allen and Vin Scully announcing)
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[edit] Summary
NL Los Angeles Dodgers (4) vs. AL New York Yankees (0)
| Game | Score | Date | Location | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dodgers – 5, Yankees – 2 | October 2 | Yankee Stadium | 69,000 |
| 2 | Dodgers – 4, Yankees – 1 | October 3 | Yankee Stadium | 66,455 |
| 3 | Yankees – 0, Dodgers – 1 | October 5 | Dodger Stadium | 55,912 |
| 4 | Yankees – 1, Dodgers – 2 | October 6 | Dodger Stadium | 55,912 |
[edit] Matchups
[edit] Game 1
October 2: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles (N) | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| New York (A) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| W: Sandy Koufax (1-0) L: Whitey Ford (0-1) | ||||||||||||
| HR: LAD – Johnny Roseboro (1) NYY – Tom Tresh (1) | ||||||||||||
[edit] Game 2
October 3: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles (N) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| New York (A) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| W: Johnny Podres (1-0) L: Al Downing (0-1) S: Ron Perranoski (1) | ||||||||||||
| HR: LAD – Bill Skowron (1) | ||||||||||||
[edit] Game 3
October 5: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York (A) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Los Angeles (N) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| W: Don Drysdale (1-0) L: Jim Bouton (0-1) | ||||||||||||
[edit] Game 4
October 6: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York (A) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Los Angeles (N) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| W: Sandy Koufax (2-0) L: Whitey Ford (0-2) | ||||||||||||
| HR: NYY – Mickey Mantle (1) LAD – Frank Howard (1) | ||||||||||||
[edit] Composite Box
1963 World Series (4-0): Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Yankees
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Dodgers (N.L.) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 25 | 3 | |
| New York Yankees (A.L.) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 1 | |
| Total Attendance: 247,279 Average Attendance: 61,820 | |||||||||||||
| Winning Players' Share: – $12,794 Losing Players' Share – $7,874 | |||||||||||||
[edit] Trivia
- This is the World Series that Jack Nicholson's character R.P. McMurphy lobbies unsuccessfully to watch on television (and subsequently "announces" by imagining the action) in Miloš Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He imagines quite a different scene than what occurred, however, as he describes Bobby Richardson, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and the Yankees knocking Koufax out of the box. In reality, the Yankees never led at any time in the Series, and only once in the entire Series (and that only for a half-inning) were the Yankees and Dodgers tied at a score other than 0-0. Later in the film, a brief clip of Ernie Harwell's NBC Radio broadcast of Game 1 can be heard.
- The four (4) runs scored by the New York Yankees during this Fall Classic were the second lowest total by a team during a Series of any length through 1963.
World Series Teams With Less Than Ten Runs Scored (Through 1963) World Series Team League Runs 1954 World Series Cleveland Indians (A.L.) 9 1943 World Series St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.) 9 1938 World Series Chicago Cubs (N.L.) 9 1918 World Series Boston Red Sox (A.L.) 9 1939 World Series Cincinnati Reds (N.L.) 8 1920 World Series Brooklyn Dodgers (N.L.) 8 1914 World Series Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.) 6 1907 World Series Detroit Tigers (A.L.) 6 1950 World Series Philadelphia Phillies (N.L.) 5 1905 World Series Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.) 3
- The World Series Most Valuable Player Award went to Sandy Koufax who started two (2) of the four (4) games and had two (2) complete game victories. He also fanned the first five (5) Yankees' batters he faced during Game 1!
- This was the first time that the New York Yankees were swept in a World Series in four games (the 1922 World Series had one tie).
[edit] Quote(s)
"The Dodgers win 2-1 and sweep the series in 4 straight, never before in all of their wonderful years had the Yankees lost 4 in a row in the World Series" - Vin Scully narrated the final out of the World Series from the 1963 World Series highlight film.
[edit] External links
- 1963 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com
- 1963 World Series at WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)
- 1963 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com
- 1963 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org
[edit] Reference(s)
Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. The World Series. 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990.
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