October 3, 1951
It was on this day in 1951 that
the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants played the third and final game of
their tie-breaking series to determine the National League Championship and the
game that would finish with Giants’ second baseman Bobby Thomson hitting the
walk off home run that would later be labelled “The Shot Heard Round The World.”
The Giants and Dodgers finished with
96-58 records. After the Giants took the first game 3-1 at Ebbets Field in
Brooklyn, the Dodgers stormed back in game two at the Polo Grounds, winning
10-0.
The third game was also held at
the Polo Grounds and the Dodgers held a 4-1 lead heading into the bottom of the
ninth. Alvin Dark led off for the Giants with a single and Don Mueller also
singled. After a foul out, Whitey Lockman doubled into the gap in left-centre
to drive in one run and cut the lead to 4-2. Brooklyn pitcher Ralph Branca was
brought in to face Thomson who hit a line drive over the left field wall for
the pennant-clinching three run home run.
The Giants would lose the World
Series to the New York Yankees four games to two.
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