History of the World Series – 1966 The ability to get great pitching certainly was no problem for the Dodgers, who had held the powerful New York Yankees to four runs in the four-game 1963 Series and limited the hard-hitting Minnesota Twins to seven runs over the last five games of the 1965…
The Cubs beat the Reds‚ 6 – 4‚ as Ron Santo hits 2 homers and a single. Deron Johnson makes a great catch to rob Santo of a 4th hit.
The Tigers lose the second of the two skippers who managed the team this season when 51 year-old Bob Swift succumbs to lung cancer. The former major league catcher had taken over as the team’s interim manager in mid-May for Charlie Dressen, who was stricken with a heart attack, dying before the end of the summer.
1966 – In the World Series, Dave McNally of the Baltimore Orioles wraps up a brilliant pitching display, and a World Championship, with a four-hit 1 – 0 victory. Frank Robinson’s home run off Don Drysdale gives Baltimore a surprising sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The 33 consecutive scoreless innings pitched by Baltimore sets a World Series record.
The Orioles managed only three hits off Claude Osteen, but Paul Blair’s fifth-inning 430-foot home run proves to be the difference as Baltimore beats the Dodgers in Game 3 of the World Series, 1-0. Wally Bunker throws a six-hitter to get the victory in the first Fall Classic game ever played in Baltimore.
On October 6, 1966, At Dodger Stadium 20-year-old Jim Palmer becomes the youngest pitcher to throw a shutout in the World Series. The Baltimore Orioles’ ace wins a 6-0 decision over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Willie Davis establishes a World Series record by committing three errors in one game. The center fielder’s blunders come…
1966 World Series Baltimore will sweep the Dodgers – Luis Aparicio & Maury Wills. aparicio goes 4-16 and Wills 1-13.
test On October 5, 1966, Moe Drabowsky of the Baltimore Orioles strikes out 11 batters in relief and earns the victory in Game One of the World Series. Brooks and Frank Robinson hit back-to-back first inning home runs to lead the Orioles to a 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers… The Baltimore Orioles win…
Tigers GM James Campbell announces former Reds and Phillies skipper Mayo Smith will replace the late Chuck Dressen, the team’s manager who died in August following a heart attack. Bob Swift, a Detroit coach who had been named to fill the position on an interim basis, was unable to complete season, after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Cardinals rookie Jim Cosman, making his major league debut on the last day of the season, hurls a two-hit complete-game shutout, blanking Chicago at Busch Stadium, 2-0. The 23 year-old right-hander, who didn’t know of his assignment until twenty minutes before game time, makes his only start of the season, having pitched only in relief in 54 minor league appearances before today’s contest.
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