Ron Darling started for the Mets and Bruce Hurst started for the Red Sox. The Red Sox won Game 1, 1-0.
Yogi Berra hit the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history, off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in Game 3 of the 1947 World Series.
Yogi Berra hit the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history, off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in Game 3 of the 1947 World Series.
The Brooklyn Dodgers.
Bobby Richardson
Old-time pitcher Pud Galvin had 364 lifetime wins, but his career ended 11 years before the first World Series game was ever played. Robin Roberts had 286 career victories, but never appeared in a World Series. Nolan Ryan had 324 victories in his career, including seven no-hitters, but his only World Series appearence was as a reliever -- at the START of his career with the NY Mets!
Ron darling
Cy Young started for Boston against Deacon Phillippe of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pittsburgh won the first ever World Series game by a score of 7-3. Young was the losing pitcher.
The first World Series MVP award was given to pitcher John Podres of the Brooklyn Dodgers after the 1955 World Series won by the Dodgers, 4 games to 3, over the New York Yankees. Podres started and won two games in the Series, including pitching a shutout in Game 7.
The first World Series MVP award was given out in 1955. It was won by Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, Johnny Podres.
There was no MVP award given in the 1903 World Series, the first the Sox played in, so I will give the MVP to pitcher Bill Dinneen who started four games, winning three, with an ERA of 2.06 and two shutouts.
Burleigh Grimes
The first left-handed pitcher to achieve three wins in one World Series was John Tudor of the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1985 World Series against the Kansas City Royals. Tudor won Games 1, 4, and 7 of the series.
Old-time pitcher Pud Galvin had 364 lifetime wins, but his career ended 11 years before the first World Series game was ever played.
Babe Ruth for the Boston Red Sox in Game 5 of the 1918 World Series against the Chicago Cubs ... he was the starting pitcher and batted 6th.
Jim Bagby of the Cleveland Indians hit the first home run by a pitcher in Game 5 of the 1920 World Series.
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