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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 ...
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 ...
Freddie Freeman hit a two-run single to tie the Series record of 12 RBIs, set by Bobby Richardson over seven games in 1960, and was voted Series MVP. With the Dodgers one out from losing Friday ...
Yankees cut lead in half: Dodgers 2, Yankees 1. Alex Verdugo and the New York Yankees cut the lead in half with a fielders choice in the bottom of the second of Game 4 of the World Series.
The pennant was presented to the team with the best win–loss record each year through the 1968 season, [1] after which the AL Championship Series (ALCS) was introduced to decide the pennant winner. [2] The first modern World Series was played in 1903 and, after a hiatus in 1904, has taken place every season except 1994, [2] when a players ...
That was not the case in World Series Game 4. The Yankees torched Honeywell for four hits and five earned runs, most notably on Gleyber Torres’ three-run homer and Aaron Judge’s first run ...