Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1960 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1960 season. The 57th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates against the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees .
Roy Face retired the final eight batters in order. The Pittsburgh Pirates' 3–2 win evened the 1960 World Series. In Game 5, Bill Mazeroski starred again. His two-run double to left field off Art Ditmar scored Don Hoak and Gino Cimoli. This staked Harvey Haddix to a 3–0 lead in the fourth inning. Roy Face was called on once more for another ...
October 13 – In a 9–9 tie, Bill Mazeroski leads off the last of the ninth inning and hits what is arguably the most dramatic home run in WS history, off Yankees Ralph Terry, to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 10–9 win and the World Series Championship. The drama of Mazeroski's home run was heightened by the excitement that preceded the home ...
The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the team's 79th season. The team finished with a record of 95–59, seven games in front of the second-place Milwaukee Braves to win their first National League championship in 33 seasons.
This was also the second time in New York Yankees franchise history which they lost a postseason series on a walk off home run, their first was the home run hit by Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series and it was the second time to hit the series-clinching dinger in the Houston Astro franchise history since ...
The Pittsburgh Pirates 3–2 win evens the 1960 World Series. October 10 – Bill Mazeroski stars again. His two-run double stakes Harvey Haddix to a 3–0 lead. Roy Face is called on once more for another hitless effort to preserve a 5–2 win over the Yankees and 3–2 World Series lead for the surprising Pirates.
Mazeroski and Roberto Clemente were the last two players from the 1960 Pirates World Series team that were part of the Pirates' next World Series team in 1971. And Danny Murtaugh was the Pirates' manager for both of those victorious World Series teams. Mazeroski had also hit a home run in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the Series.
On October 13, 1960, Pirates second baseman William Stanley Mazeroski was the batter in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 7 of the World Series at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates were still battling the New York Yankees and the Series was tied at three games apiece. The score was tied 9-9.