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By September 20, the Dodgers had ten games left to play while the Giants had seven, and the Dodgers had a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 game advantage, making a pennant win appear imminent. [6] However, the Giants won their last seven games, and the Dodgers needed to defeat the Phillies in the final game of the season to force a playoff; they did so by winning 9 ...
The 1951 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the New York Giants, who had won the National League pennant in a thrilling three-game playoff with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the legendary home run by Bobby Thomson (the Shot Heard 'Round the World).
The Shot Heard 'Round the World: Dotted line represents the approximate track of Thomson's game-winning line drive home run. In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL ...
Welcome to the Dodgers' golden era, with the franchise's big spending paying off in its greatest World Series championship run, Bill Plaschke writes.
This game was the third of a three-game playoff series resulting from one of baseball's most memorable pennant races. The Giants had been thirteen and a half games behind the league-leading Dodgers in August, but under Durocher's guidance and with the aid of a sixteen-game winning streak, caught the Dodgers to tie for the lead on the last day ...
That was followed by Dodgers wins in Game 2 (13.8 million viewers, the most-watched Game 2 since 2018 and up 65% from 2023) and Game 3 (13.6 million viewers, the most-watched Game 3 since 2018 and ...
A 7-6 Game 5 victory, a 4-1 conquest of the Yankees and the club's first World Series title since 2020 and first in a full season since 1988. DODGERS WIN WORLD SERIES: Celebrate with this ...
The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants, 4–3, in Game 6 of the World Series to win their third consecutive Series championship and 14th overall. The Yanks' Eddie Lopat goes 2–0 ( 0.50 ) with two complete games, and Gil McDougald drives in seven runs for the victors, while Monte Irvin (11 hits, .458 ) and Alvin Dark (ten hits, .417 ...