$Unique_ID{BAS00126} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1956} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1956 New York Yankees Brooklyn Dodgers} $Log{ Larsen, Don (with audio: Larsen's perfect 1956 World Series game)*0033801.scf,51220044.aud} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1956 Frederick Ivor-Campbell New York Yankees (AL), 4; Brooklyn Dodgers (NL), 3 GAME 1 AT BRO OCT 3 ---------------------------------------- NY 200 100 000 3 9 1 BRO 023 100 00X 6 9 0 Pitchers: FORD, Kucks (4), Morgan (6), Turley (8) vs MAGLIE Home Runs: Mantle-NY, Robinson-BRO, Hodges-BRO, Martin-NY Attendance: 34,479 GAME 2 AT BRO OCT 5 ---------------------------------------- NY 150 100 001 8 12 2 BRO 061 220 02X 13 12 0 Pitchers: Larsen, Kucks (2), Byrne (2), Sturdivant (3), MORGAN (3), Turley (5), McDermott (6) vs Newcombe, Roebuck (2), BESSENT (3) Home Runs: Berra-NY, Snider-BRO Attendance: 36,217 GAME 3 AT NY OCT 6 ---------------------------------------- BRO 010 001 100 3 8 1 NY 010 003 01X 5 8 1 Pitchers: CRAIG, Labine (7) vs FORD Home Runs: Martin-NY, Slaughter-NY Attendance: 73,977 GAME 4 AT NY OCT 7 ---------------------------------------- BRO 000 100 001 2 6 0 NY 100 201 20X 6 7 2 Pitchers: ERSKINE, Roebuck (5), Drysdale (7) vs STURDIVANT Home Runs: Mantle-NY, Bauer-NY Attendance: 69,705 GAME 5 AT NY OCT 8 ---------------------------------------- BRO 000 000 000 0 0 0 NY 000 101 00X 2 5 0 Pitchers: MAGLIE vs LARSEN Home Runs: Mantle-NY Attendance: 64,519 GAME 6 AT BRO OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- NY 000 000 000 0 0 7 0 BRO 000 000 000 1 1 4 0 Pitchers: TURLEY vs LABINE Attendance: 33,224 GAME 7 AT BRO OCT 10 ---------------------------------------- NY 202 100 400 9 10 0 BRO 000 000 000 0 3 1 Pitchers: KUCKS vs NEWCOMBE, Bessent (4), Craig (7), Roebuck (7), Erskine (9) Home Runs: Berra-NY (2), Howard-NY, Skowron-NY Attendance: 33,782 The 1956 Series was a mirror image of 1955. With both teams repeaters as league champions, the Yankees this year followed Brooklyn's winning pattern of the previous Series: losing the first two games, winning the next three, then splitting the final pair. Sal Maglie outlasted Yankee ace Whitey Ford in the opener. Maglie gave up nine hits and three runs (on homers by Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin), but struck out ten and took the win as Jackie Robinson and Gil Hodges contributed homers for four of Brooklyn's six runs. Dodger ace Don Newcombe was blown out by six Yankee runs (capped by Yogi Berra's grand slam) in the first two innings of Game Two. But Brooklyn came back with six unearned runs in their half of the second (three of them on Duke Snider's homer) and proceeded to run through seven Yankee pitchers for a 13-8 win and a two-game Series edge. Whitey Ford tried again in Game Three, and this time held on for a complete-game 5-3 win, supported by Billy Martin's game-tying solo homer in the second and forty-year-old Enos Slaughter's go-ahead three-run shot in the sixth. Tom Sturdivant duplicated Ford's effectiveness and success the next day with a six-hit 6-2 win to even the Series. Sal Maglie pitched Game Five for Brooklyn and improved on his winning performance of Game One, yielding only two runs and holding New York hitless until Mantle's two-out homer in the fourth inning. But no one was a match for Yankee pitcher Don Larsen that day. There was a close out on a deflected Dodger liner in the second inning, and center fielder Mantle made a fine running catch to prevent a hit in the fifth. But Larsen retired the rest routinely, and when Dale Mitchell fanned in the ninth Larsen had his perfect game--a feat still unique in World Series history. Brooklyn reliever Clem Labine was started in Game Six against Yankee fastballer Bob Turley. No runner scored for either side until the last of the tenth inning when, with two out, Jackie Robinson lined a Turley pitch over the head of the left fielder, scoring Jim Gilliam from second and forcing New York into a seventh game. The finale proved an anticlimactic disaster for Brooklyn. Once again Dodger starter Newcombe was driven out--this time by Yogi Berra's two two-run homers and Elston Howard's solo shot. By the time it was over, Bill Skowron had increased the Yankee run total to nine with a grand slam, and Yankee starter Johnny Kucks had shut Brooklyn out on three singles. For New York it was world title number seventeen. NY (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hank Bauer, of .281 7 32 3 9 0 0 1 3 0 5 1 Yogi Berra, c .360 7 25 5 9 2 0 3 10 4 1 0 Tommy Byrne, p-1 .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Andy Carey, 3b .158 7 19 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Bob Cerv, ph 1.000 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gerry Coleman, 2b .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joe Collins, 1b-5 .238 6 21 2 5 2 0 0 2 2 3 0 Whitey Ford, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Elston Howard, of .400 1 5 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 Johnny Kucks, p .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Don Larsen, p .333 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle, of .250 7 24 6 6 1 0 3 4 6 5 1 Billy Martin, 2b-7,3b-1 .296 7 27 5 8 0 0 2 3 1 6 0 Maury Mc Dermott, p 1.000 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gil Mc Dougald, ss .143 7 21 0 3 0 0 0 1 3 6 0 Tom Morgan, p 1.000 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Norm Siebern, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bill Skowron, 1b-2 .100 3 10 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 3 0 Enos Slaughter, of .350 6 20 6 7 0 0 1 4 4 0 0 Tom Sturdivant, p .333 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Bob Turley, p .000 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 George Wilson, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 TOTAL .253 229 33 58 6 0 12 33 21 43 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tommy Byrne 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0.1 1 0 0 1 Whitey Ford 1 1 5.25 2 2 1 0 0 12.0 14 7 2 8 Johnny Kucks 1 0 0.82 3 1 1 0 1 11.0 6 1 3 2 Don Larsen 1 0 0.00 2 2 1 0 1 10.2 1 0 4 7 Maury Mc Dermott 0 0 3.00 1 0 0 0 0 3.0 2 1 3 3 Tom Morgan 0 1 9.00 2 0 0 0 0 4.0 6 4 4 3 Tom Sturdivant 1 0 2.79 2 1 1 0 0 9.2 8 3 8 9 Bob Turley 0 1 0.82 3 1 1 0 0 11.0 4 1 8 14 TOTAL 4 3 2.48 16 7 5 0 2 61.2 42 17 32 47 BRO (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sandy Amoros, of .053 6 19 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 Don Bessent, p .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Roy Campanella, c .182 7 22 2 4 1 0 0 3 3 7 0 Gino Cimoli, of .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Roger Craig, p .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Don Drysdale, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carl Erskine, p .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Carl Furillo, of .240 7 25 2 6 2 0 0 1 2 3 0 Jim Gilliam, 2b-6,of-1 .083 7 24 2 2 0 0 0 2 7 3 1 Gil Hodges, 1b .304 7 23 5 7 2 0 1 8 4 4 0 Ransom Jackson, ph .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Clem Labine, p .250 2 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 Sal Maglie, p .000 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Dale Mitchell, ph .000 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Charlie Neal, 2b .000 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Don Newcombe, p .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pee Wee Reese, ss .222 7 27 3 6 0 1 0 2 2 6 0 Jackie Robinson, 3b .250 7 24 5 6 1 0 1 2 5 2 0 Ed Roebuck, p .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Duke Snider, of .304 7 23 5 7 1 0 1 4 6 8 0 Rube Walker, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL .195 215 25 42 8 1 3 24 32 47 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Bessent 1 0 1.80 2 0 0 0 0 10.0 8 2 3 5 Roger Craig 0 1 12.00 2 1 0 0 0 6.0 10 8 3 4 Don Drysdale 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 2 1 1 Carl Erskine 0 1 5.40 2 1 0 0 0 5.0 4 3 2 2 Clem Labine 1 0 0.00 2 1 1 0 1 12.0 8 0 3 7 Sal Maglie 1 1 2.65 2 2 2 0 0 17.0 14 5 6 15 Don Newcombe 0 1 21.21 2 2 0 0 0 4.2 11 11 3 4 Ed Roebuck 0 0 2.08 3 0 0 0 0 4.1 1 1 0 5 TOTAL 3 4 4.72 16 7 3 0 1 61.0 58 32 21 43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------