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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.
Dodgers, 1 [1] Post-season history. 1889 World Series Giants won, 6–3. 2021 NL Division Series: Dodgers won, 3–2. The Dodgers – Giants rivalry is regarded as one of the fiercest and longest-standing rivalries in American baseball, with some observers considering it the greatest sports rivalry of all time. [6] [7] It dates back to the late ...
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 ...
How to watch the Dodgers vs. Giants. Radio: 570 AM (KLAC); 1020 AM (KTNQ) Spanish. Betting odds and lines: Dodgers -146. San Francisco +124.
Baker, 74, announced his retirement Thursday after 26 years as a manager. He was the .320-hitting left fielder on the Dodgers' 1981 World Series championship team, but it took him 41 years to win ...
Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) The 1951 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series that extended Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1951 regular season to decide the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played on October 1, 2, and 3, 1951, between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.
The 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the fifth for the team in Southern California, and the 73rd for the franchise in the National League. After spending the previous four seasons at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, they began the season by opening Dodger Stadium, the team's new ballpark. The stadium opened on April 10 with a game against ...
On April 15, 1958, the Giants played their first game in San Francisco, defeating the former Brooklyn and now Los Angeles Dodgers, 8–0. The Giants played for two seasons at Seals Stadium (from 1931 to 1957, the stadium was the home of the PCL 's San Francisco Seals ) before moving to Candlestick Park in 1960 .