The 1962 San Francisco Giants removed all of the drama, putting together two big innings to score 10 runs, topping the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates four games to one to advance to the World Series. Thanks to Billy Pierce, they only needed one of those runs. Pierce allowed just 4 hits and walked one, shutting out the Pirates and improving to 2-0 in the Tournament. Bob Friend was scheduled to start for the Pirates after failing to make it through 4 innings in his last two starts against the Giants. But Friend was a late scratch after suffering an injury during his warmup pitches. Harvey Haddix stepped in, but couldn’t contain the San Francisco offense. The Giants had three straight RBI base hits with 2 outs in the 2nd to take a 4-0 lead. In the 8th, Haddix gave up 3 hits to lead off the inning. Roy Face came in to contain the damage, but gave up a grand slam to Harvey Kuenn with two outs to make it 10-0, which was the final score. The Giants will ride the dominating victory into the World Series to face the 1961 New York Yankees.

’62 Giants @ ’60 Pirates – 10/11/25

Dick Stuart gave the Pittsburgh Pirates an early lead, but the San Francisco Giants scored 6 runs on 17 hits against Vinegar Bend Mizell, holding off a late rally to put them one win away from the World Series. Jack Sanford had allowed just one run on 5 hits entering the 8th inning. Sanford walked Dick Groat, and Bob Skinner singled before Stuart slugged his 15th home run of the Tournament, a 3-run blast that made the score 6-4. Don Hoak made things interesting when he tripled to lead off the 9th against Stu Miller, but Miller retired the next three hitters, picking up his 5th save in the 6-5 win. Despite recording 17 hits, it was the 1st game of the Tournament in which the Giants didn’t hit a home run. Only 3 of the 17 hits were for extra bases. Down 3-1 in the series, the Pirates have no margin for error as they head into their last game at home tomorrow.

’62 Giants @ ’60 Pirates – 10/10/25