Greatest American League
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The 2000 Yankees won four out of six games with the 1962 Yankees to even their overall record to 9-9. The '62 Yankees dropped to 17-25, last among all the Yankee teams.
This was a fun series with big offensive and pitching performances. The 2K Yankees won a wild Game One 10-9 in 11 innings, a game that featured five homeruns, two by David Justice, and five lead changes. Every player on both teams except Elston Howard either scored or drove in a run. Derek Jeter won the slugfest with a walkoff double. Game Two was almost as wild; the '62 Yankees won 12-11 despite four more homers by the 2K Bombers, two by Bernie Williams. Mickey Mantle drove in five RBI in the game. The baseballs remained juiced in Game Three as the ‘62 Yankees won 6-5 thanks to Roger Maris’ second tater of the game, a solo shot off 2K closer Mariano Rivera in the 9th. Five total homers were hit in this game. Roger Clemens had enough of the fireworks and shut down the '62 Yankees in Game Four with a complete game and 12 strikeouts in a 5-1 win. The 2K Yankees won the final two games 8-2 and 5-2 in 10 innings.
Jose Canseco, platooning as the DH, is hitting .421 with a 1.605 OPS in 22 plate appearances. Williams is hitting .257 and leads the club in homeruns (4), runs scored (15) and RBI (14) along with Paul O’Neill and Tino Martinez. Clemens and Andy Pettitte are a combined 6-1 with a 2.60 ERA. The other three starters, Orlando Hernandez, Denny Neagle, and David Cone are a combined 1-5 with a 8.81 ERA.
Mantle hit .417 in the series for the '62 Yankees with three homers and 12 RBI to raise his average to .284 with a team leading 11 homeruns and 32 runs scored. Maris still leads the team in RBI with 34 while hitting .245 with nine homers. Ralph Terry continues to be reliable on the mound with a 4-1 record and 2.52 ERA in nine starts. Jim Bouton and Roland Sheldon continue to be winless at 0-6 and 0-4 with ERAs of 3.42 and 6.46 respectively. Marshall Bridges has 11 saves but also three losses with a 4.74 ERA. The 1962 Yankees will play the 1949 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1962 Yankees won five of six games in their series with the 1949 Yankees to boost their record to 22-26. The 1949 Yankees dropped to 11-19, last place in the standings.
The '62 Yankees scored 47 runs in the series, nearly eight runs a game. They started with a bang in Game 1 with three homeruns and five runs in the first inning on their way to a 7-3 win. Elston Howard banged two homers. They hit four more homers in a 15-7 win in Game Two. The '49 Yankees got their only win in Game 3, 19-7, a game with 18 hits and 13 walks! Jerry Coleman and Gene Woodling scored five runs apiece in the game. Mickey Mantle did a little of everything in the '62 Yankees 2-1 win in Game 5; Mantle drove in both runs and threw out '49 Yankees pinch runner George Stirnweiss at the plate to end the game.
Mantle had another monster series for the ‘62 Yankees. Mantle hit .500 with four homers and eight RBI to bring his overall average up to .310. He leads the team in homeruns with 15, runs scored with 41 and OPS at 1.096. Roger Maris’ average dropped to .238 but hit his 10th homer and leads the team in RBI with 36. Ralph Terry picked up his fifth win as his ERA dropped to 2.36.
Tommy Henrich is raking for the '49 Yankees; he leads the team in hitting at .316, homeruns with 10, runs scored with 29 and RBI with 37 in 30 games with a 1.156 OPS. Joe Dimaggio missed a couple of games due to injury but is hitting .290 with a 1.032 OPS. Pitching has been horrific; after 30 games, they have a 5.86 team ERA. Fred Sanford and Tommy Byrne are both 0-5 with ERAs of 9.52 and 9.59 respectively. The '49 Yankees will take on the 1947 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1956 Yankees won four of six games from the 1949 Yankees in a series that featured three games ending in walk-off hits. The '56 Yankees evened their record to 9-9 while the '49 Yankees dropped further below .500 at 15-27.
The '49 Yankees took Game One 5-4 on a walk-off single by Tommy Henrich that scored Joe Dimaggio who had hit a two-out triple. The '56 Yankees won the next four games. In Game Three, they won 11-0; Tom Sturdivant pitched a three-hit shutout while every player either scored or drove in a run. They won Game Four 4-3 in 11 innings on a Hank Bauer walk-off triple. They trailed Game Five in the bottom of the 9th 3-2 with two outs when Bob Cerv hit a pinch-hit homerun to tie the game; Gil McDougald singled and Enos Slaughter walked, leading to a walk-off single by Mickey Mantle for a 5-4 come-from-behind win. The '49 Yankees won the final game 9-1 in which every player either scored or drove in a run.
The 1956 Yankees have three players hitting .300 or better: McDougald .306 with 13 runs scored, Yogi Berra .303 with 19 RBI, and Mantle .300 with 13 runs scored and a .910 OPS. Whitey Ford is off to a great start with a 3-0 record in four starts and a 2.12 ERA.
Dimaggio cooled a little in this series but is still hitting over .300 at .303 with a team-leading 14 homeruns, 36 runs scored, and a 1.068 OPS. Henrich slumped in this series as he dropped to .276 while he still leads the club in RBI with 43. Vic Raschi won both of his starts to boost his record to 5-1 with a 4.61 ERA. The '49 Yankees will take on the 1936 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1936 Yankees won four of six games from the 1949 Yankees to even their record to 9-9. The 1949 Yankees dropped further behind in the standings with a record of 17-31.
The '36 Yankees pounded the '49 Yankees pitching to the tune of 55 run in the six games. They came out of Game One with a bang; Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey each drove in five runs, Gehrig with two homers and Dickey with two triples in a 16-6 win. After dropping Game Two 7-2, the '49 Yankees came from behind in Game Three 8-7; the '49 Yankees trailed 7-5 in the 9th when Yogi Berra tied the game with a two-run single and Mickie Witek won it with a walk-off single. The '36 Yankees pounded the '49 Yankees in Game Four 12-0. Red Ruffing pitched a four-hit shutout and went 2-3 at the plate with three RBI. The '49 Yankees won Game Five 7-4 thanks to another late rally. Trailing 4-3 in the
8th, Berra hit a three-run homer to give them the lead. The '36 Yankees won the final game 9-3 in a game in which they hit nine extra base hits (seven doubles and two homers).Gehrig, Dickey, and Joe Dimaggio are triple mashing it for the '36 Yankees. Gehrig came into the series hitting .457 with a 1.500 OPS and “dropped” to .414 with 10 homeruns, 26 RBI, 27 runs scored and a 1.466 OPS in 18 games. Dimaggio is hitting .383 with six homers and a 1.266 OPS. Dickey is hitting .362 with a 1.003 OPS. Johnny Broacca is 3-1 in five appearances, three starts, with a 2.62 ERA to lead the pitching staff.
'49 Dimaggio missed two games due to injury; he dropped to .299 with 14 homeruns and a 1.050 OPS. Tommy Henrich dropped to .264 but added three RBI to give him a team-leading 46 for the season. He also leads the team in runs scored with 39. Vic Raschi picked up his 6th win; his 4.66 ERA is the lowest on the entire pitching staff except for closer Joe Page (2.82). The '49 Yankees will take on the 1958 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1949 Yankees and the 1958 Yankees split their six game series. The '49 Yankees remain in last at 20-34 while the '58 Yankees stay two games under .500 at 11-13.
Don Larsen who pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, no-hit the '49 Yankees in a 3-0 win. Offense took over the next two games; the '49 Yankees won Game Two 10-3. The '58 Yankees won a wild Game Three 17-8. They jumped out to a 5-0 first inning lead only to see the '49 Yankees take a 7-5 lead in the third. The '58 Yankees scored nine runs in the last two innings to seal the win. After the '49 Yankees won the next two games, the '58 Yankees earned a split with a 7-6 win in 11 innings. Andy Carey tied the game 6-6 with a solo homerun in the 8th and Norm Siebern hit a walkoff double in the 11th to win it.
Hank Bauer leads the '58 Yankees in hitting after 24 games at .316. Mickey Mantle is hitting .274 with a .989 OPS and leads the team in runs scored with 19. Carey leads the team in homers and RBI with 6 and 16 respectively. Despite the no-hitter, Larsen has struggled on the mound at 2-2 with a 5.36 ERA. Whitey Ford has been their most effective starter at 2-2 with a 3.08 ERA.
Dimaggio hit his 15th homerun in the series while raising his average to .303 with a 1.048 OPS. Tommy Henrich hit .333 with two homeruns and 10 RBI in the series to raise his overall average to .272 with 14 homeruns, 56 RBI, 45 runs scored and a .949 OPS. Vic Raschi picked up his 7th win and dropped his ERA to 4.41. Joe Page collected his 11th save in the series while reducing his ERA to 2.55. The '49 Yankees will take on the 1927 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1927 Yankees beat the stew out of the 1949 Yankees in a six game sweep in which they battered the '49 Yankees pitching staff to the tune of 93 runs. The '27 Yankees improved to 12-6 while the '49 Yankees fell further at 18-36.
Despite the awful pitching, the '49 Yankees were competitive in some of the games. In Game One, they came back from a 9-3 deficit with five runs in the seventh inning and took a 10-9 lead on a two-run Tommy Henrich homer in the eighth. The homer capped off a huge game for Henrich who went 5-6 with five RBI. The '27 Yankees tied the game in the ninth on a two-out RBI single by Joe Dugan. They scored five runs in the 10th and held on for a 15-12 win. Game Two was a 26-0 bloodletting. They scored 11 of their runs in the 4th inning alone. Dutch Ruether not only pitched a three-hit shutout but went 4-6 at the plate with a homerun and five RBI at the plate. Tony Lazzeri went 3-4 with a homerun and five RBI. Mark Koenig had SIX hits and five RBI. Lou Gehrig went 2-6 with a homerun and six runs scored. Game Three was another comeback win. They overcame a 7-4 deficit with four runs in the 8th, capped by a three-run homer by Lazzeri for a 8-7 win. Game Four was another blowout. in their 17-4 win, Earle Combs was 5-6 with four runs scored. Bob Meusel was 3-4 with two doubles and seven RBI. Lazzeri was 3-6 with a homerun and five RBI. Game Five was another thriller. The '49 Yankees got off to a quick start with four runs in the first, including a two-run blast by Johnny Mize. The '27 Yankees scored the next seven runs to take a 7-4 lead. The '49 Yankees retaliated with seven runs in the 6th thanks to a pinch hit bases loaded triple by Mikey Witek and a three-run dinger by Joe Dimaggio. The '27 Yankees came right back with three in the 7th and took the lead with a two-run homer by Gehrig in th 8th as they held on for a 12-11 victoryT. The '27 Yankees put their final stamp on this series with a 15-4 smackdown led by Gehrig who went 4-5 with a double, homerun, and seven RBI.
The '27 Yankees offense was absolutely stupid. Six starters are hitting over .320. Babe Ruth hit .600 in the series with four homeruns and 14 RBI. Overall he is hitting .456 with nine homeruns, 28 RBI, 29 runs scored and a 1.583 OPS. Bob Meusel hit .519 in the series with 18 RBI. He is hitting .375 overall with 30 RBI with a 1.202 OPS. Gehrig hit .480 in the series with four homeruns and 14 RBI. Overall, he is hitting .362 with seven homeruns, 26 RBI, 28 runs scored and a 1.297 OPS. Lazzeri hit .482 with five homeruns and 19 RBI! Overall, he is hitting .329 with six homeruns, 25 RBI and a 1.029 OPS. Waite Hoyt picked up his fourth straight win with just a 1.03 ERA in four starts.
Dimaggio and Henrich continue to carry the offense for the '49 Yankees. Dimaggio continues to be consistent, hitting .307 with 14 homeruns, 48 runs scored and a 1.087 OPS. Henrich heated up again, hitting .444 with 12 RBI. He is back up to .295 overall with 16 homers, 64 RBI, 49 runs scored and a .993 OPS. Through 54 games, the pitching staff has a 6.69 team ERA. Every pitcher except closer Joe Page has an ERA of 4.80 or higher. The '49 Yankees will try to get it together in their next series against the 1999 Yankees.
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The 1949 Yankees ended their losing skid by defeating the 1999 Yankees four games to two in their series. The '49 Yankees remain in last place at 22-38 while the '99 Yankees dropped to 8-10.
The '49 Yankees won the first four games of this series thanks to the return of…PITCHING! Vic Raschi pitched a two-out shutout in a 4-0 win in Game Two. Raschi was effectively wild in this game; he walked eight and struck out 13. Eddie Lopat pitched a four-hit shutout in Game Four in a 3-0 win. The '99 Yankees salvaged the last two games including a 16-7 offensive explosion. Chuck Knoblach hit two homeruns, and every '99 Yankee starter either scored or drove in a run. Johnny Mize hit two dingers in a losing cause for the '49 Yankees.
Joe Dimaggio continues to be steady and productive for the '49 Yankees, leading the team in hitting at .308 with 15 homeruns, 42 RBI, 53 runs scored and a 1.088 OPS. Tommy Henrich hit two homeruns in Game One, including a solo shot in the 8th inning that broke a 3-3 tie as the '49 Yankees won 5-4. Henrich dropped to .284 overall but leads the team in homers (18), RBI (67), and runs scored (55). Raschi improved his record to 7-1 and dropped his ERA to 4.46. Lopat’s shutout boosted his record to 3-7 and lowered his ERA to 4.32.
Paul O’Neill leads the '99 Yankees in hitting at .321, but he is homerless in 18 games. Derek Jeter leads the team in runs scored with 14 while hitting .320 but he only has one homer and three RBI despite batting third! Bernie Williams is hitting .290 and leads the team in homeruns (4), RBI (14) and OPS (.944). Orlando Hernandez is off to a great start on the mound at 2-0 with a 1.62 ERA in his first four starts. David Cone and Andy Pettitte, on the other hand, have ERAs over 7. The 1999 Yankees will take on the 1947 Yankees in the next series.
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After dropping three of the first four games, the 1999 Yankees salvaged a split in their six game series with the 1947 Yankees by winning the final two games. The 1999 Yankees remain two games under .500 at 11-13 while the '47 Yankees also remain two under at 8-10.
The '99 Yankees won Game One 8-2 despite committing five errors; Bernie Williams blasted two homeruns in the game. The '47 Yankees won the next three games 7-5, 3-1, and 4-1. Game Four featured a triple play executed by Chuck Knoblauch, not known for his defense. The '99 Yankees won the final two games 4-1 and 11-8.
Joe Dimaggio leads the '47 Yankees in hitting at .268 and runs scored with 13. Billy Johnson leads the team in RBI with 15, despite hitting just .235. Allie Reynolds has a 2.98 ERA in four starts but with a 2-3 record to show for it. Bob Newsom has fared better at 3-1 with a 3.06 ERA. Joe Page picked up three saves in the series to give him seven for seven with a 2.25 ERA.
Derek Jeter raised his average slightly to .323 to lead the team but with not as many empty calories; Jeter hit two homers and drove in seven to give him 3 and 10 respectively for the season. Paul O’Neill dropped to .294 but hit his first homerun of the season. Williams hit three dingers in the series to give him seven for the season along with 21 RBI while hitting .281 with a .993 OPS. Orlando Hernandez lost his first decision but still has a stellar 2.23 ERA. David Cone and Andy Pettitte pitched better, lowering their ERAs to 5.81 and 5.32 respectively. The '99 Yankees will face the 1952 Yankees in the next series.
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The 1999 Yankees won five of their six games over the 1952 Yankees to move back over .500 at 16-14. The 1952 Yankees fell to 9-15.
The '99 Yankees won Game One 3-1 thanks to a bizarre moment; Derek Jeter got ejected in the 5th inning arguing balls and strikes while batting with the bases loaded. Alfonso Siriano took his place and hit a bases clearing double to give the '99 Yankees all the runs they would need in that game. Jeter helped the '99 Yankees to a walkoff 4-3 win by legging out a fielder’s choice that foiled an attempted double play, resulting in the winning run. After bashing the '52 Yankees 12-3 in Game Three, the '99 Yankees won their fourth straight game 3-2. Darrell Strawberry hit a two-out, two-run pinch hit double in the 7th to take the lead. The '52 Yankees won their only game 7-3 in Game Five before losing the last game of the series 4-3.
Ricky Ledee became the new team leader in batting for the '99 Yankees at .298 after Jeter slumped in this series to drop to .297. Chuck Knoblauch leads the team in runs scored with 30 while hitting .271. Bernie Williams continues to blast dingers with three more in this series to give him 10 on the season and nine RBI to give him 30 for the season. Orlando Hernandez won his lone start to boost his record to 3-1 and lowered his ERA to 2.00. Mariano Rivera blew a save but saved several others to give him nine in 14 appearances with a 2.21 ERA.
Mickey Mantle and Hank Bauer continue to rip it at the plate, hitting .366 and .352 respectively. Mantle and Gene Woodling lead the team in runs scored with 20. Joe Collins leads the team in homers (6) and RBI (26) while hitting .281. Allie Reynolds has been stellar in his five starts at 4-0 with a 2.97 ERA. The rest of the starting five has struggled: Eddie Lopat 5.44 ERA, Vic Raschi 5.81 ERA, Bill Miller 7.00, Johnny Sain 7.82 ERA. The '52 Yankees will take on the 1947 Yankees in the next series.