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1952 World Series Game 6 in Brooklyn 8th inning off Billy Loes. Proved to be the winning run in a 3-2 Yankee win.
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1952 World Series Game 6 in Brooklyn 8th inning off Billy Loes. Proved to be the winning run in a 3-2 Yankee win.
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1952 World Series Game 7 in Brooklyn 6th inning off Joe Black. Solo home run giving the Yankees a 3-2 lead, they would go on to win 4-2 giving thew the 1952 championship.
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1953 World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium 8th inning off Brooklyn's Preacher Roe. The 2 run home run broke a 2-2 tie and enabled the Yanks to win 4-2 and take a 2-0 lead in the series.
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1953 World Series game 5 at Ebbets Field Brooklyn 3rd inning off Russ Meyer, grand slam. Mantle's first and only World Series grand slam home run. Helped the Yanks to an 11-7 win and a 3-2 lead in the series. They would close the series out in game 6 winning the series 4 games to 2.
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1955 World Series Game 3 Ebbets Field Brooklyn, 2nd inning off Johnny Podres solo home run. Mantle played only in game 3 & game 4 with a pinch-hit ab in game 7, 10 total ab's in the series, due to a strainedd hamstring.
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1956 World Series game 1 Ebbets Field Brooklyn 1st inning off Sal Maglie, 2run home run.
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1956 World Series game 4 at Yankee Stadium 6th inning off the Dodgers Ed Roebuck, solo home run.
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1956 World Series game 5 at Yankee Stadium 4th inning off the Dodgers Sal Maglie, solo home run. This was Don Larsen's perfect game.
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1957 World Series Game 3 at Milwaukee County Stadium 4th inning off the Braves Gene Conley.
In the first inning of game 3 Mantle drew a walk and advanced to second on a walk to Yogi Berra. Braves pitcher Bob Buhl attempted to pick Mantle off second, but threw wildly into centerfield. Mantle dived headfirst back into second as Braves second baseman Red Schoendienst fell onto Mantle's right shoulder with the full force of his weight. There were no broken bones, but a stiffness developed limiting his playing time in the remaining games of the series. He missed game 5 & game 6 entirely and managed only a single in the deciding game 7.
The injury to his shoulder hampered his swing from the left side of the plate for the remainder of his career. Yankee manager Casey Stengel explained that "Mantle reacted to the pain by developing a hitch in his swing. He lost his almost perfect level swing." Looking back at the injury, in all probability it cost Mantle a career .300 bating average.
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1958 World Series Game 2. Both home runs came in game 2 in Milwaukee and both were off the Braves Lew Burdette. The first was a solo shot in the 4th inning, the second came in the 9th inning with one runner aboard. They both went for naught as the Braves won 13-5.
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1960 World Series game 2 at Forbes Field Pittsburgh 5th inning off the Pirates Fred Green, 2 run home run.
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1960 World Series game 2 at Forbes Field Pittsburgh 7th inning off the Pirates Joe Gibbon, 3 run home run. This was a line shot that zipped over the head of Gibbon, increasing in altitude and landing some 470 feet over the ivory covered center field wall.