Louis came out with furious combinations in a fight that lasted only two minutes and four seconds, knocking Schmeling down three times. Schmeling’s trainer ended the fight by throwing in the towel after the third knockdown.
There were some complaints of an illegal kidney punch coming from the Germans, but throughout the United States and most of the rest of the world, this fight was seen as a repudiation of the Nazis and their racially charged rhetoric.
5. 10/2/63, Koufax K’s 15 Yanks—Sandy Koufax, baseball’s best left-handed pitcher ever (at least in my book) sets a World Series record for strike outs in a single game by punching out 15 Bronx Bombers in the first game of the 1963 World Series.
Bobby Richardson whiffed three times with Tony Kubek, Tom Tresh, and Mickey Mantle fanning two times each. Pinch hitter Harry Bright was Sandy’s final victim, for the final out in the ninth inning.
Koufax scattered five singles and a home run by Tom Tresh, along with three walks for his complete game victory. The Dodgers Tommy Davis had three singles and Bill “Moose” Skowron had two RBI’s to go with two singles and an intentional walk.
In addition to handling Koufax, Dodger catcher John Roseboro cracked a three run homer in the second inning to help hang the loss on Yankee ace Whitey Ford. The Dodgers go on to sweep the Yankees in the first World Series match-up since the Dodgers made their move to Los Angeles.
4. 7/24/83, George Brett’s pine tar HR—Brett had just drilled a two out two run homer in the ninth inning off Yankee ace Goose Gossage to take a one run lead. So you can’t blame Billy Martin for trying to use an obscure rule to reverse the homer.
After the umpires confer, including measuring the level of pine tar on the bat along the front of home plate, they agree with Martin’s point and call Brett out for using illegal equipment.
The six foot Brett’s maniacal dash out of the dugout to confront six foot six inch umpire Tim McClelland is priceless, and topping the zaniness was the bat being stolen by that well-known manipulator of rules—Gaylord Perry.
In one of the few cases of a protest being upheld, MLB rules the home run valid and orders the game to be resumed at a later date. On August 18th the game resumed with pitcher Ron Guidry in centerfield and lefty first baseman Don Mattingly playing second base.
Different umpires were working the makeup portion of the game, and before play started, Martin protested Brett’s touching of the bases after his homer, figuring they could not have seen whether or not Brett did “touch them all”.
We're going to send you the most entertaining Los Angeles Dodgers articles, videos, and podcasts from around the web.
15 Comments
Loading more comments...
This comment and all replies have been deleted This comment has been deleted Undo delete