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1956 World Series Game 5 box score between the New York Yankees (2) and Brooklyn Dodgers (0), by Baseball Almanac.
Don Larsen Perfect Game. October 8, 1956. Play by Play.) After having been knocked out after one and two-thirds innings of the second game of the 1956 World Series, Don Larsen was something of a surprise started in Game Five on Monday October 8 at Yankee Stadium.
David Cone Perfect Game Box Score. David Cone was simply perfect on a day when perfection was in attendance. The original battery of the 1956 World Series perfect game were on hand as it was Yogi Berra Day in Yankee Stadium. Batterymate Don Larsen was on hand to throw out the first pitch of the game and Cone provided the fireworks for Berra ...
Baseball Almanac is pleased to present this play-by-play account of the Don Larsen perfect game courtesy of Retrosheet. "In 100 years of World Series play, there has been only one day when a pitcher was perfect.
Don Larsen's gem during the 1956 World Series was the first and only perfect game to occur during the postseason / World Series AND the entire box score, as well as quotes, video, historical data, and more research, is on Baseball Almanac.
Did you know that shortly after the Perfect Game was tossed by Don Larsen, a band named Red River recorded a song in tribute called The Ballad of Don Larsen?
The last perfect game thrown in Yankee Stadium was by Don Larsen who attended the same high school, Point Loma High in San Diego, as David Wells. Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today.
We have box scores from every World Series game in history, line scores, Series rosters, composite team stats, trivia, a sample program, and a detailed written account of the actual Fall Classic.
On October 8, 1956 during game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, Don Larsen and his pinstriped teammates took the field against their rival Brooklyn Dodgers. After 97 pitches, the Yankee pitcher had mowed down the Dodgers 27 straight times and tallied a perfect game.
Don Larsen pitched in 28 Major League games during the 1965 regular season. The chart below is a comprehensive analysis of the games Larsen pitched in, specifically relating to his 1965 pitching statistics.