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The 1963 Dodgers won four of six games this week 60 years ago, with Johnny Podres taking a no-hitter into the ninth inning in Houston, Sandy Koufax winning both starts including his 10th shutout, and Tommy Davis heating up at the plate.
Tony Gonsolin pitched into the eighth inning for the first time in his career, helping the Dodgers wait out Blake Snell, who was dominant but only for five innings. Los Angeles feasted on the San Diego bullpen to win their third game in a row.
The Dodgers called up pitcher Michael Grove to make his major league debut, the second starting pitcher to debut in the last five days for Los Angeles.
Mitch White made numerous trips back-and-forth between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City in 2021.
Origin At the beginning of 1962, the Los Angeles Dodgers were poised to become the premier team in baseball’s National League, just as their forebears in Brooklyn had been in the years between the end of World War II and the team’s move to California (1946-57). Having shed of most of the stars from their glory days in Brooklyn, and ensconced themselves in Dodger Stadium, a brand-new ballpark that favored pitching over slugging, the Dodger squads of the early 1960s seemed ideally suited to their news environment. Indeed, over the next five years, led by the pitching duo of Sandy Koufax...