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04/19/1954 |
Fenway Park |
Boston Red Sox |
Chuck Stobbs |
Right-handed |
3rd |
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Yankees 5,
Red Sox 0
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Description:
Mickey got off to a
slow start in 1954 mainly due to off-season knee surgery and rehab. The
first surgery in November 1953 was to remove torn cartilage from his right
knee - the same knee he'd injured in the 1951 World Series. Mickey wasn't
fully dedicated to his rehabilitation - he later said he had been "lazy and
sloppy" about his program - and re-injured himself in a basketball game. He
had a second surgery just before spring training to remove a fluid-filled
cyst from behind his knee, which prevented him from participating in most of
spring training. His bad knee particularly hampered his left-handed batting
- he couldn't step into pitches properly because his right knee would buckle
- and in some instances rode the bench against right-handed pitchers.
Mickey's first homer of the 1954 season come in the second game of a
"Patriot's Day" morning/afternoon doubleheader in Boston where the Red Sox
won the first game 2-1. In that game Mickey struck out four times, the last
time on three pitches with the bases loaded in the ninth inning. In the
second game Mickey hit a solo shot for his first homer of the 1954 season. |
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| 059 |
04/23/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Boston Red Sox |
Leo Kiely |
Right-handed |
3rd |
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Yankees
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Red Sox 1 |
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Description: Mickey
hit a solid solo home run into the right-field bleachers at Yankee Stadium. |
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| 060 |
05/07/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Philadelphia A's |
Morrie Martin |
Right-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 2,
Athletics 0
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Description: Mickey
rocketed a towering home run high over the 402-foot sign in left-field that
came down past the double row of box seats. |
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| 061 |
05/21/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Boston Red Sox |
Frank Sullivan |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Red Sox 6, Yankees
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Description:
Mickey struck out three straight times before coming
to the plate with a runner on and the Yankees down 6-1. This time he crushed
a drive that flew over the auxiliary scoreboard in right field, landing in
the right field bleachers. |
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| 062 |
05/22/1954 |
Fenway Park |
Boston Red Sox |
Ted
Clevenger |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 7, Red Sox 0
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Description: Mickey
obliterated his early season slump by going 4-for-5
with 4 rbi, a stolen base, a triple and a home run. The Mick used all of his
offensive weapons in this game: his blazing speed to beat out a grounder to
first for an rbi single in the third, his power to crush a two-run homer
into the right-field bleachers in the sixth, and both in the seventh when he
cracked an opposite-field rbi triple - his near-home run bounced off the top
of the railing in left-field. It was early enough in the season for him to
raise his average 37 points in this one game, taking his average above .250.
He also drove in ten runs in this three-game series with Boston, more than
doubling his season total from 7 to 17. By the end of May he was batting
.311, going 21-for-45 - a .467 average! - for the month of May. |
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| 063 |
05/23/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Boston Red Sox |
Bill Henry |
Right-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Red Sox 10,
Yankees 9
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Description: Mickey
tied the game in the third by clouting a long three-run home run into the
left-field seats. He also hit an rbi single but struck out to end the game. |
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| 064 |
05/25/1954 |
Griffith Stadium |
Washington
Senators |
Sonny Dixon |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 9,
Senators 3
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Description: Mickey
beat out two infield hits for singles, walked and
homered over the right-field wall in the eighth inning. He also struck out
twice. |
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| 065 |
05/29/1954 |
Fenway Park |
Boston Red Sox |
Sid Hudson |
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3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 10,
Red Sox 2
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Description: Mickey
rocketed a homer into the netting above the "Green Monster" in left-field.
He had a ten-game hitting streak and brought his average above .300. |
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| 066 |
05/30/1954 |
Fenway Park |
Boston Red Sox |
Willard
Nixon |
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3rd |
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Red Sox 3,
Yankees 1
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Description: Mickey
homered into the right-field bullpen to tie the game but the Yankees
couldn't score again and lost 3-1. His hitting streak was extended to 11
games. |
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| 067 |
06/18/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Baltimore Orioles |
Don
Larsen |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 5,
Orioles 2
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Description: Mickey's
first home run against the Orioles - formerly the St. Louis Browns - came
off Don Larsen, who later became Mickey's teammate and pitched the only
perfect game in World Series history. Mickey punched his homer into the
right-field stands. |
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| 068 |
06/10/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Detroit Tigers |
Ralph Branca |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 9,
Tigers 5
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Description: Mickey
went 2-for-5 with a homer, two runs scored and two rbi
and the Yankees beat the Tigers 9-5 in NY. |
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| 069 |
06/20/1954 |
Comiskey Park |
Chicago White Sox |
Don Johnson |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 16,
White Sox 6
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Description: Mickey
reached base five times, scored four times and drove
in two runs with a two-run homer. |
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| 070 |
06/26/1954 |
Municipal Stadium |
Cleveland Indians |
Bob Hooper |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 11,
Indians 9
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Mickey made a bad throw early in the game to help the
Indians take a 2-1 lead. However, his two hits - an rbi double and a solo
home run - gave them a 7-5 lead and the Yankees went on to win 11-5. |
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| 071 |
06/30/1954 |
Fenway Park |
Boston Red Sox |
Willard Nixon |
Left-handed |
3rd
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Red Sox 6,
Yankees 1
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Description: Mickey
gave the Yankees their only run with an opposite-field homer launched into
the net above the "Green Monster" in left. |
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| 072 |
07/01/1954 |
Fenway Park |
Boston Red Sox |
Frank Sullivan |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 8,
Red Sox 7
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Description: Mickey
crushed a two-run homer, drove in three runs and made a spectacular catch to
help the Yankees to a one-run victory over the Red Sox, 8-7. |
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| 073 |
07/03/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Washington
Senators |
Bob Porterfield |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 3,
Senators 2
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Description: Mickey
smashed a 440-foot opposite field homer into the
left-field seats and drove in all three Yankee runs to carry them to a 3-2
win over the Nats. He had a 12-game hitting streak and raised his average to
.320. |
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| 074 |
09/01/1954 |
Connie
Mack Stadium |
Philadelphia A's |
Arnie
Portocarrero |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 7,
Athletics 4
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Description: Mickey
hit a back-to-back homer after Joe Collins to help the Yankees sweep a
doubleheader from the A's in Philadelphia. It was their first doubleheader
sweep of the season after splitting their first ten twinbills. |
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| 075 |
07/07/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Boston Red Sox
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Tom Brewer |
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3rd |
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Yankees 17,
Red Sox 9
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Mickey hit his twelfth left-handed homer in a row,
going 3-for-4 with four runs scored and two rbi. |
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| 076 |
07/19/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Detroit Tigers |
Ted Gray |
Right-handed |
5th |
CF |
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Yankees 8,
Tigers 0
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Description: Mickey
broke his streak of consecutive left-handed homers
with a high drive that landed deep in the lower deck seats in left-field,
his first righty homer since May 23rd. |
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| 077 |
07/22/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Chicago White Sox |
Don Johnson |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF/SS |
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Yankees 4,
White Sox 3
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Description: Mickey
goes 4-for-9, with a 10th inning game winning
home run, 4 rbi and 3 runs scored in a doubleheader sweep of the White Sox
in NY. The Mick even played shortstop for the final two innings before his
walk-off home run.
Manager Casey Stengel used four pinch-hitters in the eighth inning - he got
a homer and a walk from them - giving Mickey the chance to score Bill
"Moose" Skowron from second with a two-out, game-tying single. Stengel was
then forced to shuffle his players in the field, shifting Irv Noren from
right to center, moving Mickey to shortstop (a position that had challenged
him greatly early in his career) and putting Gil McDougal in at second for
the first time in his career. Fortunately Mickey didn't get a single
defensive chance in his two innings at short. |
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| 078 |
07/28/1954 |
Comiskey Park |
Chicago
White Sox |
Jack Harshman |
Right-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Yankees 7,
White Sox 5
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Description:
Mickey belted another game-winning homer in the
ninth-inning to give the Yankees a 7-5 win over the White Sox. A rain delay
stopped play for over an hour and when play resumed Mickey smashed a
three-run homer into the lower left-centerfield seats. |
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| 079 |
08/05/1954 |
Municipal Stadium |
Cleveland
Indians |
Early Wynn |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Description:
Another two-homer game for The Mick. This first home
run in the fourth inning off Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn staked the
Yankees to a 1-0 lead. Mickey's two solo home runs against the first-place
Indians help keep the Yankees in the pennant race. |
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08/05/1954 |
Municipal Stadium |
Cleveland
Indians |
Ray Narelski |
Left-handed |
3rd |
CF |
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Mickey's second home run of the game, a tremendous
500-foot shot into the upper deck in right field, was Mickey's response to a
taunt from Joe Collins. Mickey was getting a lot of press about his long
home runs ever since his monster shot at Griffith Stadium in Washington in
April 1953. Collins was batting second in front of Mickey. When Collins
batted in the eighth inning he drove a Ray Narelski 475-feet into the upper
deck in right field. As he crossed the plate he said to Mickey, "Go chase
that!"
On the first pitch from Narelski Mickey walloped the ball deep to
right-field in the same direction as Collins' homer. But Mickey's shot went
about twenty-five feet further toward center and several rows deeper into
the same upper deck seats as Joe's homer went. Mickey's homer went nearly
five-hundred feet!
When Mickey got back to the dugout he headed to the water fountain by
Collins. As he took a sip he asked, "What did you say, Joe?"
Collins replied, "Aw, go sh#* in your hat!" |
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Quotes & Comments: "Go
chase that!" - Joe Collins to Mickey after pounding a 475-foot homer into
the upper deck.
"What did you say, Joe?" - Mickey to Joe Collins after his back-to-back
500-foot homer on the first pitch following Collins' homer.
"Aw, go sh#* in your hat!" - Collins to Mickey. |
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07/28/1954 |
Briggs Stadium |
Detroit Tigers |
Billy Hoeft |
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Mickey's two-run homer helped the Yankees come back to
tie the game at eight, but it wasn't enough and the Yankees lost 10-8.
Mickey just-missed clouting a tremendous home run late in the game.The ball
shot over the right-field roof but hooked foul just before reaching the foul
pole. It would have been his second homer of the game. |
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| 082 |
08/12/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Philadelphia A's |
Arnie
Portocarrero |
Left-handed |
3rd |
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Yankees 5, Athletics 4
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Mickey's solo home run in the eighth inning gave the
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08/15/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Boston Red Sox |
Hal Brown |
Left-handed |
3rd |
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Description:
Mickey reached base five times with three walks. He
scored three runs and drove in two. Mickey put to rest his early concerns
about his performance against Boston and became a Red Sox killer: this solo
home run was his eleventh of the season against them. He went 32-for-85, a
.376 batting average, scored 26 runs and drove in 28 runs. |
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| 084 |
09/02/1954 |
Yankee Stadium |
Cleveland Indians |
Bob Lemon |
Left-handed |
1st |
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Description:
Mickey had gone into a late season slump so Casey
Stengel decided to bat him in the leadoff spot against right-handed
pitchers. Leading off the sixth inning Mickey absolutely crushed Bob Lemon's
first pitch deep into the upper deck in right-field, about 100 feet above
the 344-foot sign at field level. The Yankees victory keeps them in the hunt
for the pennant but ten days later they lost a doubleheader to Cleveland and
fall out of the race. The Indians end the season with a record 111 wins,
with the Yankees in second place.
Mickey ended the season right at .300, with 102 rbi, 129 runs scored and 27
homers. His slow start and late season slump may have cost him the Triple
Crown. |
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