1963 World Series

The 1963 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Dodgers sweeping the Series in four games to capture their second title in five years.

This was the first time that the New York Yankees were swept in a World Series in four games (the 1922 World Series had one tie).

Starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Johnny Podres and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined to give up only four runs in four games.

1 Summary
2 Matchups
3 Composite Box
4 Popular culture
5 Low scoring
6 Series quotes
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links

[edit] Summary

NL Los Angeles Dodgers (4) vs AL New York Yankees (0)

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	Los Angeles Dodgers - 5, New York Yankees - 2	October 2	Yankee Stadium	69,000^[1]
2	Los Angeles Dodgers - 4, New York Yankees - 1	October 3	Yankee Stadium	66,455^[2]
3	New York Yankees - 0, Los Angeles Dodgers - 1	October 5	Dodger Stadium	55,912^[3]
4	New York Yankees - 1, Los Angeles Dodgers - 2	October 6	Dodger Stadium	55,912^[4]

[edit] Matchups

[edit] Game 1

Wednesday, October 2, 1963 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	9	0
New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	6	0

WP: Sandy Koufax (1-0) LP: Whitey Ford (0-1)
HRs: LAD – Johnny Roseboro (1) NYY – Tom Tresh (1)

Sandy Koufax started it off with a then record 15-strikeout performance in Game 1. It bested fellow Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine's mark in 1953 by 1, and would be surpassed by Bob Gibson in 1968. Koufax also tied a World Series record when he fanned the first five (5) Yankees batters he faced in that game. Since "K" is the time-honored scoring symbol for "strikeout" (Vin Scully once remarked that "Koufax's name will always remind you of strikeouts"), some newspapers' headlines for the game coverage consisted simply of Koufax's surname prefixed by 15 K's.

Clete Boyer was the only Yankee regular not to strike out against Koufax. Mickey Mantle, Tom Tresh and Tony Kubek struck out twice each, and Bobby Richardson struck out three times—something he hadn't done in one game his entire career. (Just that regular season, Richardson had struck out only 22 times in 630 at-bats, without even striking out twice in one game.) Koufax also struck out three pinch-hitters, including Harry Bright to end the game.

Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro's three-run homer in Game 1 was the first and only home run all year that Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford allowed to a left-handed batter.

[edit] Game 2

Thursday, October 3, 1963 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	10	1
New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	0

WP: Johnny Podres (1-0) LP: Al Downing (0-1) SV: Ron Perranoski (1)
HRs: LAD – Bill Skowron (1)

[edit] Game 3

Saturday, October 5, 1963 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Los Angeles	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	1	4	1

WP: Don Drysdale (1-0) LP: Jim Bouton (0-1)

[edit] Game 4

Sunday, October 6, 1963 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	1
Los Angeles	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	2	2	1

WP: Sandy Koufax (2-0) LP: Whitey Ford (0-2)
HRs: NYY – Mickey Mantle (1) LAD – Frank Howard (1)

The World Series Most Valuable Player Award went to Sandy Koufax, who started two (2) of the four (4) games and had two (2) complete game victories.

[edit] Composite Box

1963 World Series (4-0): Los Angeles Dodgers (N.L.) over New York Yankees (A.L.)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles Dodgers	3	4	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	12	25	3
New York Yankees	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	4	22	1
Total Attendance: 247,279 Average Attendance: 61,820
Winning Player’s Share: – $12,794 Losing Player’s Share – $7,874^[5]

[edit] Popular culture

This is the World Series that Jack Nicholson's character R.P. McMurphy lobbies unsuccessfully to watch on television (and subsequently "announces" by imagining the action) in Miloš Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He imagines quite a different scene than what occurred, however, as he describes Bobby Richardson, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and the Yankees knocking Koufax out of the box. In reality, the Yankees never led at any time in the Series, and only once in the entire Series (and that only for a half-inning) were the Yankees and Dodgers tied at a score other than 0-0. Later in the film, a brief clip of Ernie Harwell's NBC Radio broadcast of Game 2 can be heard.

[edit] Low scoring

World Series Teams With Less Than Ten (10) Runs Scored (Through 1963)

World Series         Team                   League   Runs
1954 World Series    Cleveland Indians      (A.L.)    9
1943 World Series    St. Louis Cardinals    (N.L.)    9
1938 World Series    Chicago Cubs           (N.L.)    9
1918 World Series    Boston Red Sox         (A.L.)    9
1939 World Series    Cincinnati Reds        (N.L.)    8
1920 World Series    Brooklyn Dodgers       (N.L.)    8
1914 World Series    Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.)    6
1907 World Series    Detroit Tigers         (A.L.)    6
1950 World Series    Philadelphia Phillies  (N.L.)    5
1963 World Series    New York Yankees       (A.L.)    4
1905 World Series    Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.)    3

[edit] Series quotes

The Dodgers win 2 to 1 and sweep the series in four straight. Never before in all of their wonderful years had the Yankees lost four in a row in the World Series.

—Vin Scully narrated the final out of the World Series from the 1963 World Series highlight film.

I waited seventeen years to bat in a World Series and when it finally happened, everyone was rooting for me to strike out!

—Harry Bright, Yankees' pinch-hitter and 15th strikeout victim of Koufax in the first game. Bright had played in his first professional game when Sandy was 10 years old.

[edit] Notes

^ 1963 World Series Game 1 - Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Yankees. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
^ 1963 World Series Game 2 - Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Yankees. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
^ 1963 World Series Game 3 - New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
^ 1963 World Series Game 4 - New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
^ World Series Gate Receipts and Player Shares. Baseball Almanac. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.

[edit] References

Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. The World Series. 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 298-301)
Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.), p. 2171. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.
Forman, Sean L.. 1963 World Series. Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information.. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.

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