$Unique_ID{BAS00135} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1965} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers Minnesota Twins} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1965 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Los Angeles Dodgers (NL), 4; Minnesota Twins (AL) 3 GAME 1 AT MIN OCT 6 ---------------------------------------- LA 010 000 001 2 10 1 MIN 016 001 00X 8 10 0 Pitchers: DRYSDALE, Reed (3), Brewer (5), Perranoski (7) vs GRANT Home Runs: Fairly-LA, Mincher-MIN, Versalles-MIN Attendance: 47,797 GAME 2 AT MIN OCT 7 ---------------------------------------- LA 000 000 100 1 7 3 MIN 000 002 12X 5 9 0 Pitchers: KOUFAX, Perranoski (7), Miller (8) vs KAAT Attendance: 48,700 GAME 3 AT LA OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- MIN 000 000 000 0 5 0 LA 000 211 00X 4 10 1 Pitchers: PASCUAL, Merritt (6), Klippstein (8) vs OSTEEN Attendance: 55,934 GAME 4 AT LA OCT 10 ---------------------------------------- MIN 000 101 000 2 5 2 LA 110 103 01X 7 10 0 Pitchers: GRANT, Worthington (6), Pleis (8) vs DRYSDALE Home Runs: Killebrew-MIN, Parker-LA, Oliva-MIN, Johnson-LA Attendance: 55,920 GAME 5 AT LA OCT 11 ---------------------------------------- MIN 000 000 000 0 4 1 LA 202 100 20X 7 14 0 Pitchers: KAAT, Boswell (3), Perry (6) vs KOUFAX Attendance: 55,801 GAME 6 AT MIN OCT 13 ---------------------------------------- LA 000 000 100 1 6 1 MIN 000 203 00X 5 6 1 Pitchers: OSTEEN, Reed (6), Miller (8) vs GRANT Home Runs: Allison-MIN, Grant-MIN, Fairly-LA Attendance: 49,578 GAME 7 AT MIN OCT 14 ---------------------------------------- LA 000 200 000 2 7 0 MIN 000 000 000 0 3 1 Pitchers: KOUFAX vs KAAT, Worthington (4), Klippstein (6), Merritt (7), Perry (9) Home Runs: Johnson-LA Attendance: 50,596 The Twins (bringing the World Series to Minnesota for the first time ever) featured heavy hitting, while Dodger hopes rested on great pitching and speed on the bases. For a while it looked as if batting power would triumph as the Twins took the first two games at home. They drove out Dodger starter Don Drysdale with seven runs in the first three innings of the opener--including home runs by Don Mincher and Zoilo Versalles--on the way to a convincing 8-2 win, and followed up with a 5-1 triumph the next day over Dodger ace Sandy Koufax (who had declined to pitch Game One on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year) and star reliever Ron Perranoski, who was tagged for three of the Twins' runs. But when the Series moved to Los Angeles, Dodger pitching began to assert itself. Claude Osteen held Minnesota to five hits and no runs, while Los Angeles bunched seven of their ten hits in the middle three innings for four runs. Drysdale evened the Series in Game Four, avenging his first-game pounding with a second Dodger five-hitter. Twins Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva tagged him for a pair of solo homers, but that was Minnesota's only scoring--more than balanced by seven Dodger runs, including homers by Wes Parker and Lou Johnson. In Game Five the next day, Koufax avenged his earlier loss, carrying Los Angeles to its first Series lead with a shutout in which he allowed only four singles and a walk, while fanning ten Twins. Speedster Willie Davis stole three bases and Maury Wills stole another as the Dodgers parlayed fourteen hits into a 7-0 victory. Back in Minnesota for Game Six, the Twins rallied, using the long ball to even the Series again with a 5-1 win. Bob Allison opened the scoring with a two-run shot off Dodger starter Claude Osteen in the fourth, and Minnesota pitcher Mudcat Grant insured his own win with a three-run blast two innings later. In the finale, though, the visiting team won for the only time in the Series. Koufax again struck out ten men, stopping the Twins on three hits for his second shutout. Lou Johnson's second Series homer (a fourth-inning solo shot to left off Twin starter Jim Kaat that was barely fair) was all the Dodgers needed for their fifth world championship, but Ron Fairly followed Johnson with a double and Wes Parker singled home an insurance run that drove Kaat out and concluded the Series scoring. LA (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Brewer, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Willie Crawford, ph .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Willie Davis, of .231 7 26 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 Don Drysdale, p-2 .000 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Ron Fairly, of .379 7 29 7 11 3 0 2 6 0 1 0 Jim Gilliam, 3b .214 7 28 2 6 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 Lou Johnson, of .296 7 27 3 8 2 0 2 4 1 3 0 John Kennedy, 3b .000 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sandy Koufax, p .111 3 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 Jim Lefebvre, 2b .400 3 10 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Don Le John, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Bob Miller, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wally Moon, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Claude Osteen, p .333 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wes Parker, 1b .304 7 23 3 7 0 1 1 2 3 3 2 Ron Perranoski, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Howie Reed, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johnny Roseboro, c .286 7 21 1 6 1 0 0 3 5 3 1 Dick Tracewski, 2b .118 6 17 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Maury Wills, ss .367 7 30 3 11 3 0 0 3 1 3 3 TOTAL .274 234 24 64 10 1 5 21 13 31 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Brewer 0 0 4.50 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 3 1 0 1 Don Drysdale 1 1 3.86 2 2 1 0 0 11.2 12 5 3 15 Sandy Koufax 2 1 0.38 3 3 2 0 2 24.0 13 1 5 29 Bob Miller 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 Claude Osteen 1 1 0.64 2 2 1 0 1 14.0 9 1 5 4 Ron Perranoski 0 0 7.36 2 0 0 0 0 3.2 3 3 4 1 Howie Reed 0 0 8.10 2 0 0 0 0 3.1 2 3 2 4 TOTAL 4 3 2.10 14 7 4 0 3 60.0 42 14 19 54 MIN (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Allison, of .125 5 16 3 2 1 0 1 2 2 9 1 Earl Battey, c .120 7 25 1 3 0 1 0 2 0 5 0 Dave Boswell, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mudcat Grant, p .250 3 8 3 2 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 Jimmie Hall, of .143 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Jim Kaat, p .167 3 6 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 Harmon Killebrew, 3b .286 7 21 2 6 0 0 1 2 6 4 0 Johnny Klippstein, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jim Merritt, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Don Mincher, 1b .130 7 23 3 3 0 0 1 1 2 7 0 Joe Nossek, of-5 .200 6 20 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Tony Oliva, of .192 7 26 2 5 1 0 1 2 1 6 0 Camilo Pascual, p .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jim Perry, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bill Pleis, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Frank Quilici, 2b .200 7 20 2 4 2 0 0 1 4 3 0 Rich Rollins, ph .000 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Sandy Valdespino, of-2 .273 5 11 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 Zoilo Versalles, ss .286 7 28 3 8 1 1 1 4 2 7 1 Al Worthington, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jerry Zimmerman, c .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL .195 215 20 42 7 2 6 19 19 54 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Boswell 1 0 3.38 1 0 0 0 0 2.2 3 1 2 3 Mudcat Grant 2 1 2.74 3 3 2 0 0 23.0 22 7 2 12 Jim Kaat 1 2 3.77 3 3 1 0 0 14.1 18 6 2 6 Johnny Klippstein 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 2.2 2 0 2 3 Jim Merritt 0 0 2.70 2 0 0 0 0 3.1 2 1 0 1 Camilo Pascual 0 1 5.40 1 1 0 0 0 5.0 8 3 1 0 Jim Perry 0 0 4.50 2 0 0 0 0 4.0 5 2 2 4 Bill Pleis 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 1 0 0 Al Worthington 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 4.0 2 0 2 2 TOTAL 4 4 3.15 17 7 3 0 0 60.0 64 21 13 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------