Major League Baseball Season Recap 1965 World Series – Los Angeles Dodgers NL over Minnesota Twins AL 4 games to 3 World Series MVP – Sandy Koufax Babe Ruth Award – Sandy Koufax Awards – Major League Cy Young Award Sandy Koufax MVP Awards – NL Willie Mays AL Zoilo Versalles Major League Rookie of The Year – NL Rookie…
1965 – Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted National League Rookie of the Year.
October 14, 1965 – Game 7 1965 World Series. Sandy Koufax throws a 3 hit shutout on 2 days rest. After walking 2 in the 1st he tells catcher John Roseboro my arm is sore I can’t throw the curve. We’ll just blow them away.. Dodger manager Walt Alston was torn between starting…
In Game 5, a 7-0 victory over the Twins at Dodger Stadium, Willie Davis becomes the second player to steal three bases in a World Series game. The L.A. center fielder joins Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner, who accomplished the feat on the same date 56 years ago against Detroit in Game 3 of the 1909 Fall Classic.
Sandy Koufax declines to pitch the first game of the World Series against the Twins because the scheduled game occurs Yom Kippur, the most sacred of the Jewish holidays. As the Dodger southpaw attends shul and fasts on the Day of Atonement, Don Drysdale gives up seven runs in three innings in the team’s 8-2 loss at Minnesota’s Metropolitan Stadium.
Los Angeles clinches the National League pennant on the next to last day of the season at Dodger Stadium when Sandy Koufax gets his 26th victory, defeating the Braves in the clincher, 3-1. The Dodgers, winning 14 of their last 15 games, finishes the campaign with a 97-65 record, two games ahead of the second-place Giants.
October 1, 1965- In front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 50,813, Denny Lemaster pitches a complete game five-hitter as the Braves win 2-0. The Dodger loss brings their lead in division down to 2 with 2 games to go over the Giants. Tomorrows game the Dodgers will trot out Sandy Koufax, he has 25…
1965 – Don Drysdale (23-12) pitches a 3-hitter and blanks the Braves 4 – 0. Los Angeles has now won 13 straight games, seven by shutouts.
The Braves overcome Juan Marichal to beat the Giants, 3 – 2. Don Drysdale shuts out the Cards, 1 – 0, topping the 200 mark in strikeouts for a National League-record 6th straight season. The Giants and Dodgers are now deadlocked with seven games to play.
Sept. 22, 1965. The Milwaukee Braves’ last game in County Stadium. A crowd of 12,577, heartsick that the Braves would move to Atlanta, saw them lose, 7-6, to the Dodgers in 11 innings. Eddie Mathews was nearing the end, too. He hung around until 1968, when he won a second World Series ring with the…
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