Greatest American League
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The 1937 Yankees and 1962 Yankees split a wild six game series that went back and forth. The '37 Yankees remained 10 games over .500 at 41-31 while the '62 Yankees stay four games under .500 at 43-47.
Game One was a scoreless tie for eight innings until Mickey Mantle hit a bases-clearing triple with two outs, made possible by a Tony Lazzeri error to give the '62 Yankees a 3-0 lead. The '37 Yankees came back in the 9th with a two run homer by George Selkirk but fell short in the end 3-2. It would not be the last game Selkirk impacted. He went 3-5 with two homeruns and four RBI in Game Two as the '37 Yankees won 9-2. The '62 Yankees trailed 6-3 in Game Three but scored four runs in the seventh, a three-run homer by Tom Tresh followed by a solo shot by Mantle for a come-from-behind 7-6 win. The '37 Yankees won Game Four 9-4 to tie the series, but the '62 Yankees retook the advantage in the series with a 6-3 win in Game Five; Mantle went 2-3 with two homeruns and four RBI. The '37 Yankees earned the split with a final barnburner that featured eight homeruns. Bill Dickey opened the game with a homerun, part of a four run first inning. The '62 Yankees countered with six runs in the 2nd. to take a 6-4 lead. The '37 Yankees followed with four in the 4th to retake the lead 9-7. Moose Skowron blasted a three-run dinger, his second homer of the game, to put the '62 Yankees back in front 10-9. The '37 Yankees provided the final bit of fireworks in the bottom of the 9th as Dickey closed the game with a walk-off three-run blast for a 12-10 win.
Lou Gehrig leads the team in hitting at .333 with 22 homeruns, 59 RBI, 71 runs scored and a 1.177 OPS. Selkirk hit .480 in the series with five homeruns and 11 RBI to raise his overall average to .330 with 17 homeruns and 48 RBI. Joe Dimaggio is hitting .285 with a team leading 25 homeruns and 80 RBI. Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing have identical 2.26 ERAs; Gomez is 6-3 while Ruffing is 9-2.
Bobby Richardson’s average dropped to .303, still tops on the '62 Yankees. Mantle hit .333 in the series with three homers and eight RBI to raise his average to .279 with 27 homeruns, 63 RBI and a 1.041 OPS. Marshall Bridges picked up three saves to give him 26 for the season; he also blew a save in the final game of the series and picked up his eighth loss. The '62 Yankees will battle the 14-10 1951 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1951 Yankees won their series against the 1962 Yankees four games to two after winning the first four games. The '51 Yankees improved their record to 18-12 while the '62 Yankees dropped to 45-51.
The '51 Yankees shut down the ‘62 Yankees’ offense in the first four games, allowing only three runs combined. Ed Lopat pitched a no-hitter in Game Two and scored the only run in a 1-0 victory. They won 3-2 in Game Three in 12 innings thanks to Jerry Coleman who singled in Joe Dimaggio who had doubled. Joe Ostrowski pitched a four hit shutout in Game Four as part of a 6-0 win. Dimaggio and Yogi Berra combined to go 7-9 at the plate with five RBI. The offense for the '62 Yankees somewhat broke out in Game Five with a 5-2 win. Mickey Mantle drove in all five runs while going 3-4 at the plate with two homeruns.
Berra is hitting .288 for the '51 Yankees with six homeruns and a team-high 28 RBI. Lopat’s no-no improved his record to 5-1 with a 2.96 ERA. Ostrowski as the closer and his two starts combined has no earned run in 21 2/3 innings with a 2-0 record and 6 saves.
Mantle raised his average for the '62 Yankees to .280 with 29 homeruns, 68 RBI and a 1.048 OPS. Marshall Bridges picked up two more saves to give him 28 for the season. The '62 Yankees will take on the 21-15 1956 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1956 Yankees beat the 1962 Yankees four out of six games to improve their record to 25-17. The '62 Yankees fell to 47-55.
The two teams traded wins in the first four games. The '56 Yankees won Game One 6-1; Mickey Mantle drove three of the runs. The '62 Yankees evened the series with a 5-2 win in Game Two. The '56 Yankees won Game Three in dramatic fashion. They trailed 4-2 in the 9th when Billy Hunter hit a two-out, three-run pinch hit homerun off closer Marshall Bridges for a come-from-behind 5-4 win. The '62 Yankees rebounded in Game Four with a dramatic win of their own. They trailed 5-1 early until Bill Skowron tied the game with a grand slam. The game went 13 innings when Roger Maris hit the go-ahead homerun for a 7-6 win. The '56 Yankees dominated the final two games, winning 12-2 and 6-0. Half of their runs scored in Game Five were unearned thanks to three errors by the '62 Yankees. Johnny Kucks pitched a six-hit shutout in the final game.
Yogi Berra leads the '56 Yankees in hitting at .325 and 42 RBI. Mantle is close behind at .321 with a team-high nine homeruns. Kucks allowed just one run in two complete game starts to improve his record to 5-2 with a 2.96 ERA. Whitey Ford is also 5-2 with a 2.54 ERA.
Mantle hit two more homeruns in the series for the '62 Yankees to give him 31 for the season while hitting .282 with 71 RBI. Maris hit his 20th homerun to go with 67 RBI but is hitting just .229. Bridges up and down season continues as he picked up two saves and another loss; he is now 1-9 with 30 saves and a 3.79 ERA. The '62 Yankees will battle the 22-14 1936 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1936 Yankees won their series against the 1962 Yankees four games to two by winning the final three games of the series. The '36 Yankees improved their record to 26-16 while the '62 Yankees dropped to 49-59.
The '36 Yankees won Game One 7-2 on the strength of Lou Gehrig and George Selkirk who combined for two homeruns and five RBI. Gehrig would do a lot more damage later in the series. The '62 Yankees evened the series in Game Two with a 3-2 comeback win. Tom Tresh and Mickey Mantle hit back-to-back homeruns in the 6th to take the lead for good. Bill Stafford pitched a complete game in Game Three and scored two runs to give the '62 Yankees a 2-1 lead in the series with a 5-1 win. Gehrig took over from there. In Game Four, The Iron Horse hit three homeruns with four RBI and four runs scored in a 13-3 blowout. Game Five was drunk. The '36 Yankees scored 16 unanswered runs with two runs in the first and second innings and six runs in the third and fourth innings. Gehrig was 4-4 with two doubles and two homeruns, including a grand slam, with seven RBI. The '62 Yankees clawed back with 13 runs of their own between the 5th and 8th innings, only to fall short 16-13. Gehrig homered again in the final game, a 5-2 win.
Gehrig was stupid good in this series: .455, seven homeruns, 17 RBI. Gehrig raised his average to .329 with 23 homeruns, 56 runs scored and 64 RBI in just 42 games. Five starters are hitting over .300, led by Bill Dickey at .356 with eight homeruns and 44 RBI. Red Ruffing won both of his starts to improve his record to 8-2 with a 3.96 ERA. Pat Malone picked up his 10th save in 12 appearances with a 2.77 ERA.
Mantle raised his average slightly to .284 and hit two homeruns in the series to give him 33 for the season with 75 RBI. Whitey Ford won his start to give him his 10th win of the season with a 3.50 ERA. The '62 Yankees will take on the 26-16 1932 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1932 Yankees swept the 1962 Yankees in their six game series. The '32 Yankees improved their overall record to 32-16 while the '62 Yankees plummeted to 49-65.
Despite the dominance, most of the games were close; four of the wins were by two or fewer runs. Lou Gehrig hit two homeruns and drove in three RBI in Game Two for a 4-2 win. Game Three turned out to be a crazy shootout as they jumped out to a 6-0 lead and barely held off the '62 Yankees for a 7-6 win. Elston Howard led the comeback in the 7th with the first of two two-run homeruns followed by taters by the next two batters, Clete Boyer and Johnny Blanchard to cut the lead to 6-4. Howard’s second two-run dinger came into the 9th as the comeback fell just short. They won a strange game in Game Five 3-1 in which they had more runs than hits (two).
Babe Ruth is hitting an insane .381 with 21 homeruns, 57 RBI, 52 runs scored, and a 1.285 OPS. Tony Lazzeri is hitting .358 with 51 runs scored and a 1.053 OPS. Gehrig is hitting .344 with a 1.002 OPS. Wilcy Moore picked up four saves in the series to give him 10 on the season with a 5.99 ERA.
Mantle’s average dropped three points to .281. He did not add to his homerun and RBI total, 33 and 75 respectively. Blanchard hit four homeruns in the series to give him 19 for the season. The '62 Yankees will face the 15-9 1923 Yankees in the next series.
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After winning the first two games of their series with the 1923 Yankees, the 1962 Yankees dropped the final four games to lose another series and fall to 51-69. The '23 Yankees improved their record to 19-11.
The '62 Yankees won the first two games 2-1 and 7-1. In Game Two, they scored all seven of their runs in the first inning, capped off by a Johnny Blanchard grand slam. The '23 Yankees came back with their pitching and key hits. They trailed 1-0 in Game Three when Babe Ruth tied the game with a solo homerun and Joe Dugan cracked a go-ahead two-out RBI double for a 2-1 comeback win. Waite Hoyt and Herb Pennock pitched shutouts in the next two games, leading to 2-0 and 4-0 wins. The two teams battled in a slugfest in the final game when The '62 Yankees took an early 5-0 lead. The '23 Yankees battled back and tied the game 8-8 in the 8th with four runs, capped off by a Ruth three-run homer. Joe Bush, who came into the game as a relief pitcher in the 9th, led off the 10th with a triple and scored on Wally Schang’s walk-off single for a 9-8 series-clinching win.
Ruth is carrying the offense for the '23 Yankees over the first 30 games, hitting .350 with 15 homeruns, 43 RB, 32 runs scored, and an absurd 1.460 OPS. Hoyt’s shutout improved his record to 4-0 with a 1.20 ERA while Pennock is now 4-2 with a 3.39 ERA.
While Mickey Mantle maintained his solid batting average at .283, he failed to add to his homerun and RBI total (33 and 75) for the second series in a row. Blanchard became the third player on the '62 Yankees to hit 20 homeruns. Ralph Terry and Whitey Ford have a combined record of 20-13. The rest of the pitching staff is 31-56. The '62 Yankees will take on the 19-11 2009 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1962 Yankees won three of their first four games with the 2009 Yankees but dropped the final two games to split the series. The '62 Yankees remain 18 games under .500 at 54-72 while the 2K9 Yankees stay eight games over at 22-14.
After losing the first game 3-1, the '62 Yankees won the next three games starting with a 15-1 blowout in Game Two; Moose Skowron hit a triple and a grand slam with six RBI while Johnny Blanchard went 3-4 with two homers and five RBI. The '62 Yankees had a chance to close out the series in Game 5 with a 4-2 lead in the 9th and two outs. But Johnny Damon blasted a solo homerun off Marshall Bridges, Melky Cabrera singled, and Nick Swisher hit a walk-off two run blast for a 5-4 come-from- behind victory. It was Bridges 10th loss. CC Sabathia pitched a complete game gem in the final game, a 7-1 win with 12 strikeouts.
Derek Jeter leads the 2K9 Yankees in hitting at .317 and homeruns with 10. Jorge Posada is hitting .267 and leads the team in RBI with 32. Sabathia has completed five of his nine starts; he is 6-3 with a 2.39 ERA.
Mickey Mantle finally got off the power slump; he hit his 34th homerun of the year and drove in five runs in the series to give him 80 for the season. He has scored 89 runs. Bridges picked up two saves in addition to the Game 5 meltdown to give him a 1-10 record with 34 saves and a 3.92 ERA. The '62 Yankees will battle the 12-6 1950 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1962 Yankees salvaged a six game split with the 1950 Yankees after losing three of the first four games of the series; the '62 Yankees remain 18 games under .500 at 57-75 while the '50 Yankees stay six games over .500 at 15-9.
The '50 Yankees overcame a 3-0 deficit in Game One with a five-run rally in the 7th inning to win 5-3. Yogi Berra tied the game with a three-run jack and Johnny Mize followed with a two-run blast. The '50 Yankees won Game Two 7-5. Roger Maris and Moose Skowron powered the '62 Yankees to their first win of the series in Game Three 9-3; Maris went 2-5 with a double, triple and four RBI while Skowron was 3-5 with a double and three RBI. The '50 Yankees took a 3-1 lead in the series in Game Four with an 8-4 win despite two homeruns and four RBI by Mickey Mantle; Johnny Hopp led the '50 Yankees at the plate, going 3-5 with two doubles and four RBI. Maris struck again in Game Five, a 9-6 win for the '62 Yankees, as he went 4-5 with two homers and five RBI. The '62 Yankees earned the split with a 7-4 win in the final game.
Mize is hitting .322 and leads the team in homeruns (10) and RBI (25). Ed Lopat is undefeated in his four starts at 4-0 with a 2.62 ERA.
Mantle’s average remains consistent at .285 and added two homers and six RBI in the series to give him 36 and 86 for the season. He also has scored 96 runs. Maris hit .375 in the series with two homeruns and 12 RBI. He raised his average to .232 with 24 homeruns and 88 RBI. Ralph Terry picked up his 13th win, against nine losses, with a 3.59 ERA. The '62 Yankees will take on the 16-8 1927 Yankees in the next series.