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Johnny Podres
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Birthdate: 9/30/1932
Height / Weight: 5' 11" / 192 lbs.
Place of Birth: Witherbee, NY, USA
Bats / Throws: L / L

Baseball Historian Biography

April 23, 1955   

One of the leading pitchers of the 1950s, Johnny Podres won 148 major league games,however he's best remembered for his excellent pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1955  World Series win over the New York Yankees. One of the 'Dodgers Boys of Summmer'

1953 Review -Backing it up a little, as a 21-year old rookie,  Johnny Podres went 9-4 in 1953, completed 3 of 18 starts, plus 15 relief appearances to help the Dodgers win the NL pennant. In the 1953 World Series he was tagged for a upper deck, bases loaded home run by Yankee legend Mickey Mantle, the only World SEries game Johnny Podres would ever lose.

1955 - He got revenge as he pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to its only World Championship in its 67 years of baseball. In GAme 3 Johnny Podres pitched a complete game 8-3 win over the New Yorkers, despite a solo homer by Mickey Mantle. Then, with the Series tied at 3 games to 3, Johnny Podres pitched a complete game 2-0 shutout for a Dodgers Championship.  In the Series he had 10 strikeouts, and a 1.00 ERA.

After the game Podres said, 'When the game began I had the Yankees  looking for my change up. I established early in the game that I was going to throw it, and then as the shadows of the evening began to come in, I went to my fastball and hard curve. In the last 4 or 5 innings, I threw only one change up, the last pitch of the game.'

 

Johnny Podres was named World Series MVP and Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated.

 


Pitching Statistics
Year Team G GS W L SV CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WP HBP BK ERA
1953 BRO (NL) 33 18 9 4 0 3 1 115.0 126 62 54 12 64 0 82 2 1 0 4.23
1954 BRO (NL) 29 21 11 7 0 6 2 151.2 147 77 72 13 53 0 79 3 1 0 4.27
1955 BRO (NL) 27 24 9 10 0 5 2 159.1 160 80 70 15 57 2 114 5 4 0 3.95
1957 BRO (NL) 31 27 12 9 3 10 6 196.0 168 64 58 15 44 1 109 3 1 0 2.66
1958 LAD (NL) 39 31 13 15 1 10 2 210.1 208 96 87 27 78 8 143 4 2 3 3.72
1959 LAD (NL) 34 29 14 9 0 6 2 195.0 192 93 89 23 74 7 145 8 3 0 4.11
1960 LAD (NL) 34 33 14 12 0 8 1 227.2 217 88 78 25 71 9 159 7 1 1 3.08
1961 LAD (NL) 32 29 18 5 0 6 1 182.2 192 81 76 27 51 2 124 8 4 0 3.74
1962 LAD (NL) 40 40 15 13 0 8 0 255.0 270 121 108 20 71 14 178 4 3 0 3.81
1963 LAD (NL) 37 34 14 12 1 10 5 198.1 196 91 78 16 64 13 134 5 3 4 3.54
1964 LAD (NL) 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.2 5 5 5 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 16.88
1965 LAD (NL) 27 22 7 6 1 2 1 134.0 126 57 51 17 39 4 63 6 2 0 3.43
1966 LAD (NL) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0.00
1966 DET (AL) 36 13 4 5 4 2 1 107.2 106 48 41 12 34 3 53 4 1 0 3.43
1967 DET (AL) 21 8 3 1 1 0 0 63.1 58 29 27 12 11 2 34 3 1 0 3.84
1969 SDP (NL) 17 9 5 6 0 1 0 64.2 66 34 31 7 28 3 17 3 1 0 4.31
16 years   440 340 148 116 11 77 24 2265.0 2239 1026 925 242 743 70 1435 66 28 8 3.68
Batting Statistics
Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS IBB HBP SH SF AVG OBP SLG
1953 BRO (NL) 34 36 5 11 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 .306 .324 SLG
1954 BRO (NL) 38 60 7 17 3 1 0 4 5 5 0 0 0 0 3 2 .283 .328 SLG
1955 BRO (NL) 32 60 9 11 2 0 0 5 4 5 0 1 0 0 4 0 .183 .234 SLG
1957 BRO (NL) 35 72 6 15 4 0 0 4 2 5 0 1 0 0 3 0 .208 .230 SLG
1958 LAD (NL) 42 71 5 9 0 0 0 4 2 17 0 0 0 0 4 2 .127 .147 SLG
1959 LAD (NL) 34 65 4 16 1 0 0 4 6 13 0 0 0 0 3 1 .246 .306 SLG
1960 LAD (NL) 34 66 3 9 0 0 0 3 5 15 0 0 0 1 10 1 .136 .205 SLG
1961 LAD (NL) 32 69 3 16 2 0 0 7 2 8 0 0 0 0 4 1 .232 .250 SLG
1962 LAD (NL) 40 88 6 14 2 0 1 5 2 8 0 0 0 1 5 0 .159 .187 SLG
1963 LAD (NL) 37 64 6 9 2 0 1 8 1 11 0 0 0 0 3 3 .141 .147 SLG
1964 LAD (NL) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .0 .1000 SLG
1965 LAD (NL) 27 45 1 8 0 0 0 2 1 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 .178 .196 SLG
1966 DET (AL) 36 30 5 7 3 0 0 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 .233 .281 SLG
1966 LAD (NL) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .0 SLG
1967 DET (AL) 21 20 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100 .100 SLG
1969 SDP (NL) 17 16 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 .63 .59 SLG
16 years   462 762 61 145 19 1 2 50 32 108 1 2 0 4 43 11 .190 .224 .SLG



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