1963 World Series

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The 1963 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1963 season. The 60th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and two-time defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers swept the Series in four games to secure their second World’s championship in five years, and their third in franchise history. Dodgers starting pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Johnny Podres, and ace reliever Ron Perranoski combined to give up only four runs in four games. The dominance of the Dodgers pitchers was so complete that at no point in any of the four games did the Yankees have the lead. New York was held to a .171 team batting average, the lowest ever for the Yankees in the postseason. Koufax, who pitched 2 complete games with a 1.50 ERA and 23 strikeouts, was named the World Series Most Valuable Player. Koufax was the first player since the introduction of the award in the 1955 Series to be named league MVP and World Series MVP in the same calendar year. Coincidentally, the 1955 World Series was also won by the Dodgers. This was the first time in their history that the Yankees were swept in a World Series in four straight games — the 1922 World Series had one tie. Of the Dodgers' nine World championships to date, this remains the only one clinched in their home ballpark (although their 2020 title was won as the designated "home team" as part of that year's neutral-site World Series in Arlington, Texas). This series was also the first meeting between teams from New York City and Los Angeles for a major professional sports championship. Eight more such meetings...