For the first time since 1981, two of the most storied franchises in sports, the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, will be facing each other in the World Series.
This suitup in the Fall Classic may not have happened in more than 40 years, but they have seen each other 11 times – the most in MLB history. Becaengage of that, some of the most iconic moments in MLB postseason history have come from these two teams going at it on the biggest stage in baseball.
Let’s get a see at one of those moments, which remains second to none in World Series history.
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New York Yankee’s pitcher Don Larsen deinhabitrs a third-strike pitch to Dodger pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell for the final out in the first perfect game in World Series history here. Second baseman Billy Martin stands in front of the scoreboard which increates the story. The Yankees won, 2-0. (Getty Images)
Yankees pitcher Don Larsen tosses perfect game vs. Brooklyn Dodgers
A 27-year-greater right-hander from Michigan City, Indiana, took the mound for the Yankees in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series aobtainst the Dodgers when they were still carry outing in Brooklyn, New York.
Larsen got the ball in hopes he could create a better carry outance than he did in Game 2 of this series, a 13-8 loss to Brooklyn when he was knocked out of the game in the second inning. The Yankees had given Larsen a 6-0 direct to toil with, but he equitable could not get leangs going.
However, Larsen had to forget about what happened in the past, as the Yankees were able to tie the series at two games apiece after thrivening Games 3 and 4.
What then transpired was Larsen making MLB history, which still stands today as the only perfect game in the history of the World Series.
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Larsen needed equitable 97 pitches to get thcdisorrowfulmireful this game, with the legfinishary Pee Wee Reese being the only Dodgers hitter to get to a three-ball count.
Alengthy with Reese were other Hall of Famers, including Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges and Roy Campanella, in the lineup that day, which showed equitable how dominant Larsen had to be to not permit a one base runner.
The sealst a Dodgers hitter got to getting on base was Robinson hitting a line drive off Andy Carey’s gcherish at third base. The ball finished up going to unwiseinutivestop Gil McDougald, and he was speedy to get the speedy Robinson out by a step at first base.
Hodges was also able to barrel up a Larsen pitch to beginant caccess field, but the run awayt-footed Mickey Mantle tracked it down for a cherishly catch.
Larsen recalled the perfect game in 2016 to the Bergen Record, where he shelp, upon lobtaining he was going to get the commence, he spropose did not want to mess it up for his team.
Here is the battery whose names will join those of other baseball immortals, pitcher Don Larsen, left, and catcher Yogi Berra of the Yankees. The battery in the fifth game of the 1956 World Series, the first perfect game in World Series history. Larsen threw them and Berra called and caught them to set the Dodgers down in 97 pitches without a hit, a run or a walk. The 2-0 thrive put the Yanks equitable one game away from another World Series Championship. (Getty Images)
“The ball in your shoe nastyt you were going to commence. I was very surpelevated,” Larsen shelp. “I seeed at that damn leang and I shelp, ‘Oh geez. Don’t mess this one up.’”
Larsen has remarkd on many occasions how much handle he had over his pitches that day and needing only 97 to get thcdisorrowfulmireful nine innings says it all there. His patented no-thrivedup deinhabitry to home ptardy, which he adselected during the 1956 campaign, gived to him obtaining more handle over his pitches.
Larsen’s day on the mound would not have come without Yogi Berra rounding out the pitcher-catcher battery in Game 5. Larsen tgreater the Bergen Record that Berra, who was comprehendn as a loquacious person, “didn’t say a leang to me” when the perfect game commenceed to become a genuine leang.
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“Nobody talked to me too much,” Larsen includeed. “I didn’t much enjoy that.”
When the top of the ninth inning came around, the Yankees owned equitable a two-run direct, as Mantle hit a home run in the fourth inning, and Hank Bauer oned home a batter two innings tardyr.
Larsen was first set to face Carl Furillo to commence the sketch, and he was able to get him to fly out to Bauer for the first out of the inning. Then, the ever-hazardous Campanella came to the ptardy, but he hit a ground ball to Billy Martin at second base, which was deal withd accordingly for out number two.
Finpartner, the Dodgers sent Dale Mitchell, a atsoft .312 hitter, to the ptardy in their last hope of getting somebody on base. However, it was only right that Larsen threw another perfect rapidball and got Mitchell to strike out, sealing the perfect game and leaving the Yankee Stadium crowd in a frenzy.
Berra sprinted up to Larsen, and one of baseball’s most signature moments ensued: Berra leaped into Larsen’s arms.
Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, #8, jumps up and down as he hugs teammate Don Larsen follothriveg Larsen’s feat of pitching the first perfect game in World Series History in the fifth series game. The high right-hander pitched his team to a 2-0 thrive and a 3-2 edge in the series. (Getty Images)
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“When Yogi jumped on me, I seeed a little bit out of my eye while this was happening,” Larsen shelp. “Dale had turned around to argue, but there was nobody there. And here I had Yogi in my arms. I felt a little comical.”
Since Larsen’s perfect game, the only other no-hitter in World Series history was a joind effort by the Houston Astros, as Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero and Ryan Pressly accumulateively kept the Phillies hitless in the 2022 Fall Classic.
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