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New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 2 · 1953-09-30 to 1953-10-05 · 6 games · attendance 307,710 · season overview

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Champion · 16th title

New York Yankees
Manager Casey Stengel

Runner-up

Brooklyn Dodgers
Manager Chuck Dressen

Ballparks

Ebbets Field
Yankee Stadium I

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	1953-09-30	Brooklyn Dodgers 5 at New York Yankees 9	1–0	Yankee Stadium I	69,734	Johnny Sain	Clem Labine
2	1953-10-01	Brooklyn Dodgers 2 at New York Yankees 4	2–0	Yankee Stadium I	66,786	Eddie Lopat	Preacher Roe
3	1953-10-02	New York Yankees 2 at Brooklyn Dodgers 3	2–1	Ebbets Field	35,270	Carl Erskine	Vic Raschi
4	1953-10-03	New York Yankees 3 at Brooklyn Dodgers 7	2–2	Ebbets Field	36,775	Billy Loes	Whitey Ford	Clem Labine
5	1953-10-04	New York Yankees 11 at Brooklyn Dodgers 7	3–2	Ebbets Field	36,775	Jim McDonald	Johnny Podres	Allie Reynolds
6	1953-10-05	Brooklyn Dodgers 3 at New York Yankees 4	4–2	Yankee Stadium I	62,370	Allie Reynolds	Clem Labine

The players

New York Yankees

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Billy Martin	6	24	5	12	1	2	2	8	1	2	1	.500
Mickey Mantle	6	24	3	5	0	0	2	7	3	8	0	.208
Joe Collins	6	24	4	4	1	0	1	2	3	8	0	.167
Gil McDougald	6	24	2	4	0	1	2	4	1	3	0	.167
Hank Bauer	6	23	6	6	0	1	0	1	2	4	0	.261
Yogi Berra	6	21	3	9	1	0	1	4	3	3	0	.429
Gene Woodling	6	20	5	6	0	0	1	3	6	2	0	.300
Phil Rizzuto	6	19	4	6	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	.316
Whitey Ford	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333
Eddie Lopat	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Johnny Mize	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Jim McDonald	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	.500
Allie Reynolds	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.500
Johnny Sain	1	2	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	.500
Don Bollweg	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Vic Raschi	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Tom Gorman	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Bob Kuzava	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Irv Noren	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Eddie Lopat	1	1	1–0	0	9.0	9	2	2	4	3	0	2.00
Allie Reynolds	3	1	1–0	1	8.0	9	6	6	4	9	4	6.75
Vic Raschi	1	1	0–1	0	8.0	9	3	3	3	4	1	3.38
Whitey Ford	2	2	0–1	0	8.0	9	4	4	2	7	0	4.50
Jim McDonald	1	1	1–0	0	7.2	12	6	5	0	3	1	5.87
Johnny Sain	2	0	1–0	0	5.2	8	3	3	1	1	1	4.76
Tom Gorman	1	0	0–0	0	3.0	4	1	1	0	1	0	3.00
Art Schallock	1	0	0–0	0	2.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	4.50
Bob Kuzava	1	0	0–0	0	0.2	2	1	1	0	1	1	13.50

Brooklyn Dodgers

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Jim Gilliam	6	27	4	8	3	0	2	4	0	2	0	.296
Jackie Robinson	6	25	3	8	2	0	0	2	1	0	1	.320
Duke Snider	6	25	3	8	3	0	1	5	2	6	0	.320
Carl Furillo	6	24	4	8	2	0	1	4	1	3	0	.333
Pee Wee Reese	6	24	0	5	0	1	0	0	4	1	0	.208
Billy Cox	6	23	3	7	3	0	1	6	1	4	0	.304
Gil Hodges	6	22	3	8	0	0	1	1	3	3	1	.364
Roy Campanella	6	22	6	6	0	0	1	2	2	3	0	.273
Carl Erskine	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250
Billy Loes	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667
Preacher Roe	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Dick Williams	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.500
Wayne Belardi	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Clem Labine	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Johnny Podres	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
George Shuba	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.000
Jim Hughes	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Russ Meyer	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Bobby Morgan	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Carl Erskine	3	3	1–0	0	14.0	14	9	9	9	16	0	5.79
Preacher Roe	1	1	0–1	0	8.0	5	4	4	4	4	2	4.50
Billy Loes	1	1	1–0	0	8.0	8	3	3	2	8	1	3.38
Clem Labine	3	0	0–2	1	5.0	10	2	2	1	3	1	3.60
Russ Meyer	1	0	0–0	0	4.1	8	4	3	4	5	2	6.23
Jim Hughes	1	0	0–0	0	4.0	3	1	1	1	3	1	2.25
Johnny Podres	1	1	0–1	0	2.2	1	5	1	2	0	1	3.38
Ben Wade	2	0	0–0	0	2.1	4	4	4	1	2	0	15.43
Bob Milliken	1	0	0–0	0	2.0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0.00
Joe Black	1	0	0–0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	2	1	9.00

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