Because the uniform numbers were only on the back of the jersey, photos of Koufax at UC don't show his number. I have all of his stats and a story that was written on him, but nowhere can I find a jersey number. The late Buzzie Bavasi was with the Dodgers from to UC has two retired baseball jerseys with former coaches Glenn Sample No.
In his next start, on July 19, he struck out eleven in seven innings, but got a no decision. On September 29, Koufax became the last man ever to pitch for the Brooklyn Dodgers before their move to Los Angeles , by throwing an inning of relief in the final game of the season. Over the next three seasons, Koufax was in and out of the Dodger starting rotation due to injuries. He started the season strong by going 7—3 through July, but ended up spraining his ankle in a collision at first base.
He finished the season with an 11—11 record, leading the league in wild pitches. In June , Koufax struck out 16 Philadelphia Phillies to set the record for a night game. Two months later, he broke that record in Los Angeles, against the Giants, tying Bob Feller's major league record with 18 strikeouts. Game One was in Chicago , where Koufax made his first World Series appearance, pitching two perfect innings of relief in an 11—0 loss.
Alston gave him the start in Game Five. The game was played at the Los Angeles Coliseum in front of 92, fans. Koufax and the Dodgers lost 1—0 when Nellie Fox scored on a double play. By the end of , Koufax was ready to quit baseball and devote himself to his electronics business. After the last game of the season, he tossed his gloves and spikes into the trash.
Nobe Kawano, the clubhouse supervisor, retrieved the equipment to return to Koufax the following year or to somebody else if Koufax did not return to play. Domination Koufax showed up for the season in better condition than he had in previous years. Over the winter, he decided to start working out and running more.
Koufax also decided to find out just how good he could be. During a spring training trip to Orlando, a Dodger scout eating with Koufax and catcher Norm Sherry the night before the game discovered a hitch in Koufax's windup: he'd rear back far enough that, in his release, his vision was somewhat obstructed by his lead arm and he often couldn't see the full strike zone. Sherry translated it for Koufax in the same words that many others had used in the past: Sandy, you don't have to throw so hard.
He also convinced Koufax not to pull so far back in his windup. In the first inning of the game in Orlando, Koufax walked the bases loaded on 12 straight pitches. Again, Sherry told him to take something off the ball to get better control. Koufax finally listened and struck out the side. By the time he came out of the game after seven innings, Koufax had struck out eight batters, walked five and given up no hits.
Koufax finally broke into the starting rotation permanently. On September 15, , he surpassed the previous record of strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher in the National League with his rd strikeout.
On September 27, Koufax broke the National League record for strikeouts in a season, surpassing Christy Mathewson's year-old mark of , set in Koufax finished the year 18—13, with strikeouts versus 96 walks.
During the two All-Star games, Koufax pitched two and one-third innings without giving up a run. The Dodgers moved to Chavez Ravine, their new stadium, in It was designed to be a pitcher-friendly park, with large foul territory and a terrible hitting background.
Pitching in this park, Koufax lowered his home ERA from 4. He also broke the year NL drought following Dazzy Vance's achievement of the feat, the longest stretch between accomplishments. With the no-hitter and a 1. While batting against the San Francisco Giants on July 8, Koufax's index finger on his left hand was injured, but he did not tell anybody. Koufax pitched in several more games while his finger slowly developed gangrene. After seeing a vascular specialist, it was determined that Koufax had a crushed artery in his palm.
Luckily, ten days of experimental medicine successfully reopened the artery. Koufax finally was able to pitch again in September, when the team was locked in a tight pennant race with the Giants. Trying to get back into shape after the long layoff, Koufax was ineffective in three appearances as the Giants caught the Dodgers at the end of the regular season.
The night before the National League playoffs, Manager Walter Alston asked Koufax if he could start the first game on the next day. With an overworked pitching staff, there was no one else, as Don Drysdale and Johnny Podres had pitched the prior two days. Koufax obliged.
As Koufax later said, "I had nothing at all. After winning the second game of the series, the Dodgers blew a 4—2 lead in the ninth inning of the deciding third game, losing the pennant. Koufax came roaring back in Koufax ended up walking Ed Bailey on a 3-and-2 pitch, but preserved the no-hitter, his second in as many years, by closing out the ninth.
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He died of ALS in Fairly's three-run double high lighted a four-run eighth for the Dodgers. Koufax won two of the four games. No-Hitter 3. June 4, The third no-hitter by Sandy Koufax had special significance, and it wasn't only because it was the only no-hit game he hurled on the road. Koufax had struggled through much of the early season in because of a strained pitching arm and faulty mechanics. Not only did Koufax, 28, toss his third no-hitter in three years while again beating a first place club as he had the year before, but he also served notice that his arm was fully recovered.
The hard-throwing lefthander would win 14 of his next 15 decisions, finishing the season with a glittering record. Against the Phillies, who remained in first place until the end of the season when they staged one of the great collapses in baseball history by blowing a six and one-half game lead with 12 games left to play, Koufax was nearly perfect. Mixing bullets with his awesome curve, he faced the minimum 27 batters, throwing just 97 pitches while striking out 12 and walking one.
Koufax struck out every Phillies batter in the startling lineup at least once except Cookie Rojas. Only four balls were hit to the outfield. Frank Howard supplied Koufax with all the runs he needed with a three-run homer onto the roof in left-center that broke a scoreless tie in the seventh. The blow followed singles by Jim Gilliam and Tommy Davis.
Koufax was strong from start to finish. The only runner to reach base against Koufax was Allen , who drew a two-out walk on a fastball that just missed the plate in the fourth inning. Allen was quickly rubbed out when he tried to steal second, and was gunned down by catcher Doug Camilli with cleanup hitter Danny Cater at bat.
Allen also gave the Dodgers defense its only difficult chance when he hit a high chopper toward third in the seventh inning. Gilliam charged the ball, and fired to first just in time to beat the speedy Allen. The hardest-hit ball of the game came off the bat of Cater in the eighth inning.
It was a solid line drive that Wes Parker pulled down in right field. Koufax faced the bottom of the Phillies' order in the ninth. He struck out Taylor on a pitching leading off the inning. Amaro swung at the first pitch and lofted a pop-up behind first that Ron Fairly gloved with ease. Bobby Wine was then sent to the plate as a pinch-hitter. During the at-bat, there was a slight delay when a foul tip by Wine bounced up and smacked umpire Ed Vargo in the throat.
The umpire was shaken up, but soon resumed his stance behind the plate. And Koufax resumed his mastery of the Phillies, blowing away Wine on four pitches.
With the gem completed, Koufax joined Bob Feller as the only modern pitchers with three no-hitters. No-Hitter 4. September 9, Of his four no-hitters , Sandy Koufax saved his finest for last. It was a record setting, perfect bame masterpiece in a game that ranks as one of the greatest pitching duels in big league history. Not only did the year-old lefthander become the first pitcher to hurl four major league no-hitters — doing it in four consecutive years — his mound opponent, Bob Hendley , almost tossed a no-hitter too.
Hendley allowed just one hit, while walking one against the second place Dodgers.
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