There was no pressure on me. I was 9-10 (during the season). Who expected me to beat the Yankees twice?
"John Joseph "Johnny" Podres" was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers/Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers. He is perhaps best remembered for being named the World Series MVP Award/Most Valuable Player of the 1955 World Series, pitching a shutout in Game 7 against the New York Yankees to help bring the Dodgers their only World Series title in Brooklyn before their move to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. He later led the National League in earned run average and shutouts in 1957, and in win (baseball)/winning percentage in 1961.
More Johnny Podres on Wikipedia.Not if I was pitching a shutout.
That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.
That was the best fastball I've ever thrown in my life. He swung and missed. I remember walking off the field, with everybody in Yankee Stadium standing up, and I said to myself there was no way I could let the game get away from me.
A ground ball to Pee Wee, and they weren't Bums anymore.
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