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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 ...
[30] After winning the pennant, the Giants lost to the Yankees in the World Series four games to two. [31] The Brooklyn Dodgers rebounded to win the National League pennant in 1952, but lost the 1952 World Series to the Yankees four games to three. [32] The three games counted statistically as regular season games.
The Giants had trained in Phoenix since 1947. In 1951, the team swapped spring training sites with the New York Yankees, with the Yankees moving to Phoenix and the Giants training at Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was a one-year arrangement and the Giants would return to Phoenix in 1952. [2]
The moment was immortalized by Giants play-by-play announcer Russ Hodges's excited multiple repetitions: "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" Waiting in the on-deck circle to hit behind Thomson was rookie Willie Mays. [6] The Giants' season ended, however, at the 1951 World Series; the Yankees swept the last three games to ...
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).
On October 3, 1951, Hodges was on the microphone for Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World". It was Hodges who cried, "The Giants won the pennant! The Giants won the pennant!" This famous moment in sports broadcasting was nearly lost. This was in an era before all game broadcasts were recorded.
The team with the best record to win the NL pennant was the 1906 Cubs, who won 116 of 152 games during that season [15] and finished 20 games ahead of the New York Giants. [16] The best record by a pennant winner in the Championship Series era is 108–54, which was achieved by the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 [ 17 ] and the New York Mets in 1986 ...
The Giants went on to win the Central League pennant 19 times in the next 23 years, including nine in succession (1965–73). October 22 – The third-place Boston Red Sox , who lost 12 of their last 13 games to finish 87–67 in 1951, replace veteran manager Steve O'Neill with infielder Lou Boudreau , who has just completed his first season in ...