Starting Game 7 on just two days rest, Lew Burdette pitches the Braves to a World Championship as he blanks the Bronx Bombers at Yankee Stadium, 5-0. The 30 year-old right-hander, named the Series MVP, tosses 24 consecutive scoreless innings and posts a 0.64 ERA in his three Fall classic victories.
October 7, 1957 At County Stadium With the opposing teams’ top pitchers, Whitey Ford and Lew Burdette, facing each other, Game 5 was expected to be a low-scoring affair. However, the game started out with the Yankees looking to score in the first inning. After a leadoff single by Hank Bauer and a…
On October 3, 1957 – In Game 3 of the World Series, Lew Burdette wins the first of his three decisions against the Yankees. Burdette and the Milwaukee Braves beat Bobby Shantz, 4 – 2. Hank Aaron led off the second inning with a triple, then made it safe at home on Joe Adcock’s…
P Lew Burdette of the Braves hits his first two home runs and beats the Redlegs, 12 – 4. Clemente’s 1st and 2nd-inning HRs,
Full Radio Broadcast of the July 14 1957 – Milwaukee Braves at Brooklyn Dodgers . . .The stars are out in this game Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Lew Burdette, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Sal Maglie, and so many more for this Ebbets Field Classic. Lew Burdette pinch runs for Frank Torre, and scores…
August 20, 1956 – Red’s manager Birdie Tebbetts proclaimed that Lew Burdette violates “every rule in the book. . . .He spits on the ball, he spits on his glove, he spits on his hand, he rubs resin on his glove, and he rubs the ball on his uniform.” Then he added, “Mind you, I’m…
At Milwaukee‚ the Cards’ Herm Wehmeier stages a one-man attack‚ hurling a four-hitter and driving in the winning run in the 10th to win‚ 3 – 2. He singles off Lew Burdette’s glove. He also stops Hank Aaron’s hitting streakof 25 straight games. The Braves win the lidlifter easily‚ 10 – 1, behind homers by Johnny Logan‚ Del Crandall and 2 by Joe Adcock.
August 1, 1956, At Ebbets Field, in the bottom of the 8th, Jackie Robinson Is safe at second after a single off Lew Burdette and a Bobby Thompson error allowed him to go to second. Robinson will score the go-ahead and winning a run on a Dale Mitchell pinch-hit single with 2 outs. Hank Aaron…
October 28, 1954 – Ace lefty Warren Spahn underwent surgery in an Oklahoma City hospital to repair his damaged left knee. The previous day, Spahn’s partner in crime Lew Burdette went under the knife in Milwaukee to fix a hernia.
8/3/1953: Duke Snider lost a homer to the rain in Milwaukee. The blow came as he led off the eighth inning with Lew Burdette pitching for the Braves. The game was called with the Dodgers leading 2-0 during the bottom of the eighth. The records reverted back to the end of the seventh and a 1-0 Dodgers win.
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