$Unique_ID{BAS00133} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1963} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers New York Yankees} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1963 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Los Angeles Dodgers (NL), 4; New York Yankees (AL), 0 GAME 1 AT NY OCT 2 ---------------------------------------- LA 041 000 000 5 9 0 NY 000 000 020 2 6 0 Pitchers: KOUFAX vs FORD, Williams (6), Hamilton (9) Home Runs: Roseboro-LA, Tresh-NY Attendance: 69,000 GAME 2 AT NY OCT 3 ---------------------------------------- LA 200 100 010 4 10 1 NY 000 000 001 1 7 0 Pitchers: PODRES, Perranoski (9) vs DOWNING, Terry (6), Reniff (9) Home Runs: Skowron-LA Attendance: 66,455 GAME 3 AT LA OCT 5 ---------------------------------------- NY 000 000 000 0 3 0 LA 100 000 00X 1 4 1 Pitchers: BOUTON, Reniff (8) vs DRYSDALE Attendance: 55,912 GAME 4 AT LA OCT 6 ---------------------------------------- NY 000 000 100 1 6 1 LA 000 010 10X 2 2 1 Pitchers: FORD, Reniff (8) vs KOUFAX Home Runs: F.Howard-LA, Mantle-NY Attendance: 55,912 The Yankees won the American League pennant by 10 1/2 games, but in the Series they were overwhelmed by Dodger pitching. The opener pitted two all-time greats against each other: Yankee Whitey Ford (24-7 that season) and Sandy Koufax (25-5). For an inning it was close. Ford fanned two of the first three batters to face him, and Koufax struck out the side. But in the top of the second the Dodgers' Frank Howard doubled with one out, and before Ford could record the second out, two singles and John Roseboro's home run had put four Dodger runs across. Koufax ran his consecutive Ks to five and had tied the Series single-game record of 14 by the time Tom Tresh tagged him for a two-run homer in the eighth. That was New York's only scoring, and Koufax ended the game with a new-record fifteenth strikeout an inning later. Veteran Johnny Podres pitched shutout ball through 8 1/3 innings of Game Two as his Dodgers built him a four-run lead (one of the runs a homer by ex-Yankee Bill Skowron). New York scored a run in the last of the ninth, but it was not enough to keep the Dodgers from returning to Los Angeles with a 2-0 Series advantage. A first-inning walk, a wild pitch, and a single moved Dodger Jim Gilliam around the bases for the only scoring in Game Three as Yankee Jim Bouton hooked up in a duel with Don Drysdale. Bouton left after seven innings for Yankee relief ace Hal Reniff, who held Los Angeles hitless through the final frames. When Drysdale completed his shutout, only three singles had been hit against him, and he had struck out nine. Ford and Koufax tangled again in the fourth game. Ford pitched much more impressively than he had in the opener, walking just one and yielding only two hits in seven innings. One of the Dodger hits was Frank Howard's solo homer in the fifth inning, but Mickey Mantle evened the score with a home run off Koufax in the seventh. But in the last of the seventh, Yankee first baseman Joe Pepitone lost sight of a throw from the third baseman for an error that sent batter Jim Gilliam all the way to third, and Willie Davis followed with a fly to center that scored Gilliam with the go-ahead run. No one else scored against Ford (or Reniff, who relieved him in the eighth), but no other Yankee scored against Koufax either, and the Dodgers, with just two hits, captured the game and the Series. LA (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tommy Davis, of .400 4 15 0 6 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 Willie Davis, of .167 4 12 2 2 2 0 0 3 0 6 0 Don Drysdale, p .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Ron Fairly, of .000 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 Jim Gilliam, 3b .154 4 13 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 Frank Howard, of .300 3 10 2 3 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 Sandy Koufax, p .000 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Ron Perranoski, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johnny Podres, p .250 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johnny Roseboro, c .143 4 14 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 4 0 Bill Skowron, 1b .385 4 13 2 5 0 0 1 3 1 3 0 Dick Tracewski, 2b .154 4 13 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 Maury Wills, ss .133 4 15 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 TOTAL .214 117 12 25 3 2 3 12 11 25 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Drysdale 1 0 0.00 1 1 1 0 1 9.0 3 0 1 9 Sandy Koufax 2 0 1.50 2 2 2 0 0 18.0 12 3 3 23 Ron Perranoski 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1 0 0.2 1 0 0 1 Johnny Podres 1 0 1.08 1 1 0 0 0 8.1 6 1 1 4 TOTAL 4 0 1.00 5 4 3 1 1 36.0 22 4 5 37 NY (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yogi Berra, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johnny Blanchard, of-1 .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jim Bouton, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Clete Boyer, 3b .077 4 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Harry Bright, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Al Downing, p .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Whitey Ford, p .000 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Steve Hamilton, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Elston Howard, c .333 4 15 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 Tony Kubek, ss .188 4 16 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Phil Linz, ph .333 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Hector Lopez, of-2 .250 3 8 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle, of .133 4 15 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 5 0 Roger Maris, of .000 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Joe Pepitone, 1b .154 4 13 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 Hal Reniff, p .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bobby Richardson, 2b .214 4 14 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 Ralph Terry, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tom Tresh, of .200 4 15 1 3 0 0 1 2 1 6 0 Stan Williams, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL .171 129 4 22 3 0 2 4 5 37 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Bouton 0 1 1.29 1 1 0 0 0 7.0 4 1 5 4 Al Downing 0 1 5.40 1 1 0 0 0 5.0 7 3 1 6 Whitey Ford 0 2 4.50 2 2 0 0 0 12.0 10 6 3 8 Steve Hamilton 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 1 Hal Reniff 0 0 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 3.0 0 0 1 1 Ralph Terry 0 0 3.00 1 0 0 0 0 3.0 3 1 1 0 Stan Williams 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 5 TOTAL 0 4 2.91 10 4 0 0 0 34.0 25 11 11 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------