World Series History: Bill Mazeroski’s Home Run to Win 1960 World Series
The first six games of the Series proved to be (perhaps) the strangest of any World Series ever played. Eventually ending with a 3-3 split forcing a Game 7, the Yankees blew the Pirates out with three of the most lopsided scores in the history of the Series. Following a Game 1 victory by Pittsburgh by a 6-4 score, the Yankees stormed back to win the second game 16-3. The game featured two massive home runs by Mickey Mantle. But it did not go unnoticed that the Pirates managed to get 13 hits off Yankees pitching.
70,001 fans attended the third game at the old Yankee Stadium. Behind the shutout pitching of Whitey Ford and another home run by Mantle, the Yankees cruised to another 10-0 lopsided victory over the Pirates to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
But in a squeaker played on a Sunday afternoon, Vern Law followed his victory in Game 1 with another win by a score of 3-2. Mantle did not hit another home run, nor did any other Yankee as the Series continued its all-or-nothing box score line for the Bombers.
The teams split the next two games with the Pirates winning Game 5, earning a chance to put the Yankees away when the Series returned to Pittsburgh, only to have the Yankees blow them away again in the sixth game by a 12-0 margin. Whitey Ford tossed yet another shutout.
This would set the stage for a decisive seventh game…