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During the Dodgers championship season of 1965, the Giants went on a 14-game winning streak in early September to take a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2-game lead, but the Dodgers responded with a 13-game winning streak and won 15 of their final 16 games to beat out the Giants by two games. The Dodgers continued the momentum of that winning streak to another World ...
The Athletics–Giants rivalry, formerly termed the Bay Bridge Series, or the Battle of the Bay, was a series of baseball games played between—and the rivalry of— Major League Baseball 's Oakland Athletics of the American League and San Francisco Giants of the National League. The formerly termed Bay Bridge Series took its name from the San ...
Sandy Koufax. Duke Snider. The 1962 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series that extended Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1962 regular season to determine the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played from October 1 to 3, 1962, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants.
Subway Series: New York Mets vs. New York Yankees. The Mets–Yankees rivalry is the latest incarnation of the Subway Series, the competition between New York City's Major League Baseball teams, the AL Yankees and NL Mets. Until interleague play started, the two teams had only met in exhibition games.
World Series. 1963 →. The 1962 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1962 season. The 59th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the defending American League (AL) and World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants.
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 ...
New York Yankees), the Red Line Series (Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox) and the Freeway Series (Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Los Angeles Angels). The Giants and A's enjoyed a limited rivalry at the start of the 20th century before the Yankees began to dominate after the acquisition of Babe Ruth in 1920, when the Giants were in New York and the A ...
Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 1: October 8: Los Angeles Dodgers – 0, San Francisco Giants – 4: Oracle Park: 2:39: 41,934 2: October 9: Los Angeles Dodgers – 9, San Francisco Giants – 2: Oracle Park: 3:27: 42,275 3: October 11: San Francisco Giants – 1, Los Angeles Dodgers – 0: Dodger Stadium: 3:08: 53,299 4: October 12