GAME 1 - Oct. 5 (at Brooklyn)
Brooklyn 2,
New York 1
A walk-off home run by Roy Campanella in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted
the Dodgers to a 2-1 win. The game-winning round-tripper was Campanella’s
second hit of the afternoon and came off of Yankees reliever Johnny Sain.
Sain had taken over for starter Vic
Raschi who was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning. Raschi and
Dodgers starter Carl Erskine had been locked in a 1-1 duel since the fourth inning
when Gil Hodges’ sac fly tied the score after Yogi Berra had homered to give
New York the lead in the top of the inning. The Yankees threatened in their half of the ninth, loading the bases
with two out, before Billy Martin grounded out to end the inning. Erskine, a 19-game winner during the regular
season, turned in another pitching gem, scattering four hits while striking out
nine to earn the victory.
(Dodgers lead series 1-0)
GAME 2 - Oct. 6 (at Brooklyn)
Brooklyn 6,
New York 4
Consecutive home runs by Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Andy Pafko in the
bottom of the seventh inning broke open a 3-3 tie and sent Brooklyn to a 6-4
win. The three home runs came off of Yankees starter Eddie Lopat, who had
singled and scored the tying run in the top half of the inning. The
Dodgers had led from the first inning when Gil Hodges doubled with the bases
loaded, clearing the sacks. The Yankees narrowed the margin to 3-1 on Hank
Bauer’s leadoff home run in the fourth before tying it in the seventh on Phil
Rizzuto’s two-run single. Dodgers
southpaw Preacher Roe, 12-8 during the regular season, went the distance to get
the win, striking out 12 along the way.
(Dodgers lead series 2-0)
GAME 3 - Oct. 7 (at New York)
New York 2,
Brooklyn 0
Trailing in the series, 2 games to none, the Yankees sent their ace, 20-game
winner Allie Reynolds, to the mound to stop the bleeding. Reynolds was equal to
the task, shutting out the Dodgers on two hits. In a surprise move, Dodgers
manager Charley Dressen started rookie phenom Joe Black (4-5, 1.78), who had
saved 19 games for Brooklyn during the regular season in a relief role. Black
had allowed only three hits, one of them a first-inning home run by Joe
Collins, when he left the game for a pinch hitter in the eighth. A bases-loaded
walk to Hank Bauer in the eighth inning by Dodgers reliever Johnny Rutherford
accounted for the second Yankees run.
(Dodgers lead series 2-1)
GAME 4 - Oct. 8 (at New York)
Brooklyn 3, New
York 2
With drama reminiscent of Game 1, the Dodgers came up with two runs in their
half of the ninth inning to upend the Yankees, 3-2, and take a commanding 3-1
lead in the series. With New York on the verge of evening the series, Dodgers
slugger Gil Hodges tied the score with a leadoff home run in the ninth off of
Yankees starter Ewell Blackwell that silenced the Stadium crowd. Two outs
later, Pee Wee Reese, sitting on a fast ball, took Blackwell deep to put
Brooklyn on top. Ben Wade, a starter most of the season for Brooklyn, came out
of the pen in the ninth and set the Yankees down in order to seal the win. Like
Blackwell, who pitched an outstanding game until the ninth, Dodgers starter
Billy Loes did likewise, striking out 11 in six innings of work while serving
up two mistakes of his own -- solo home runs to Joe Collins and Yogi Berra.
(Dodgers lead series 3-1)
GAME 5 - Oct. 9 (at New York)
New York 5,
Brooklyn 4
It was the Gene Woodling show at Yankee Stadium as the Yankees’ outfielder
nearly single handedly beat Brooklyn to keep New York’s hopes for a comeback
alive. With New York trailing 3-0 in the eighth inning, Woodling turned on a
Ken Lehman fastball, sending it into the right field seats for a three-run
homer that tied the score. After Brooklyn went ahead again in their half of the
10th, Mickey Mantle homered off of Ralph Branca to tie it at 4-4. Woodling then
won it in the bottom half of the 13th inning with a solo home run off of
Dodgers reliever Chris Van Cuyk.
(Dodgers lead series 3-2)
GAME 6 - Oct. 10 (at Brooklyn)
Brooklyn 9, New
York 8
This one had the makings of a slugfest early as Andy Pafko and Duke Snider
connected for back-to-back home runs in the third inning and two more, by
pitcher Ben Wade in the fourth and Gil Hodges in the sixth, gave Brooklyn a 6-3
lead. After narrowing the margin to 6-5, the Yankees loaded the bases in the
eighth before Hank Bauer cleared the sacks with a triple off of Chris Van Cuyk,
putting New York up 8-6. Brooklyn then scored twice in the ninth -- on a
fielders choice by Pee Wee Reese and a ribbie single by Roy Campanella -- to
tie the score before Pafko delivered the game-winner -- a two-out, ribbie
single off of Yankees reliever Johnny Sain.
(Dodgers win series 4-2)