1962 San Francisco Giants season

The 1962 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 80th year in Major League Baseball, their fifth year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their third at Candlestick Park. The team finished in first place in the National League with a record of 103 wins and 62 losses. They finished the season tied with their arch-rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for first place in the league, necessitating a three-game tiebreaker playoff to determine the pennant winner. The Giants won two of the three games to take their first National League title since moving to San Francisco, making the Giants the first NL Champions of the 162-game schedule era. They went on to the 1962 World Series, where they lost in seven games to the New York Yankees. The Giants had 1,552 hits in the regular season, the most in the club's San Francisco era.[1]

1962 San Francisco Giants
National League Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Horace Stoneham
General manager(s)Chub Feeney
Manager(s)Alvin Dark
Local televisionKTVU
(Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons)
Local radioKSFO
(Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill King)
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Offseason

Regular season

Season standings
National League W L Pct. GB Home Road
San Francisco Giants 10362 0.624 — 61–21 42–41
Los Angeles Dodgers 10263 0.618 1 54–29 48–34
Cincinnati Reds 9864 0.605 3½ 58–23 40–41
Pittsburgh Pirates 9368 0.578 8 51–30 42–38
Milwaukee Braves 8676 0.531 15½ 49–32 37–44
St. Louis Cardinals 8478 0.519 17½ 44–37 40–41
Philadelphia Phillies 8180 0.503 20 46–34 35–46
Houston Colt .45s 6496 0.400 36½ 32–48 32–48
Chicago Cubs 59103 0.364 42½ 32–49 27–54
New York Mets 40120 0.250 60½ 22–58 18–62

Record vs. opponents
1962 National League Records

Sources:
Team CHC CIN HOU LAD MIL NYM PHI PIT SF STL
Chicago —4–147–114–148–109–910–84–146–127–11
Cincinnati 14–4—13–59–913–513–58–1013–57–118–10
Houston 11–75–13—6–127–1113–3–11–175–137–119–9–1
Los Angeles 14–49–912–6—10–816–214–410–810–117–11
Milwaukee 10–85–1311–78–10—12–611–710–87–1112–6
New York 9–95–133–13–12–166–12—4–142–164–145–13
Philadelphia 8–1010–817–14–147–1114–4—7–105–139–9
Pittsburgh 14–45–1313–58–108–1016–210–7—7–1112–6
San Francisco 12–611–711–711–1011–714–413–511–7—9–9
St. Louis 11–710–89–9–111–76–1213–59–96–129–9—

Opening Day starters

Notable transactions

Game log and schedule
Legend
 Giants win
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 Postponement
BoldGiants team member
1962 Game Log (102–63) (Home: 61–21; Road: 42–41)

Postseason
1962 Postseason Game Log

Roster
1962 San Francisco Giants
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

= Indicates team leader
Pos. Player G AB R H Avg. HR RBI SB
CTom Haller992725371.26118551
1BOrlando Cepeda162625105191.3063511410
2BChuck Hiller16160294166.2763485
3BJim Davenport14448583144.29714582
SSJosé Pagán16458073150.25975713
LFHarvey Kuenn13048773148.30410683
CFWillie Mays162621130189.3044914118
RFFelipe Alou15456196177.316259810

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Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

Player G AB R H Avg. HR RBI SB
Ed Bailey962543259.23217451
Willie McCovey912294167.29320543
Matty Alou781952857.2923143
Manny Mota4774913.176093
John Orsino1848413.271040
Ernie Bowman464298.190140
Bob Nieman303019.300130
Carl Boles192449.375010
Joe Pignatano7521.200000
Cap Peterson4611.167000
Dick Phillips5310.000010

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Billy O'Dell43280.219143.53195
Jack Sanford39265.12473.43147
Juan Marichal37262.218113.36153
Billy Pierce30162.11663.4976

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Mike McCormick2898.2555.3842
Gaylord Perry1343315.2320

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Stu Miller5958194.1278
Don Larsen4954114.3858
Bobby Bolin417353.6274
Jim Duffalo241203.6429
Bob Garibaldi90015.119
Dick LeMay90117.715

1962 World Series
Main article: 1962 World Series

Game 1

October 4, 1962, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York (A) 200 000 121 6110
San Francisco (N) 011 000 000 2100
W: Whitey Ford (1–0)  L: Billy O'Dell (0–1)
HR: NYY – Clete Boyer (1)

Roger Maris' two-run double in the first inning set up Yankee starter Whitey Ford with a lead, but Willie Mays scored for the Giants in the second, ending Ford's record consecutive scoreless inning streak at 33​2⁄3. Chuck Hiller's double and Felipe Alou's hit in the third tied the game, but the Yankees broke the tie in the 7th on Clete Boyer's HR and scored three insurance runs in the final two innings. Ford's complete game victory was the first of six in the series, four for the Yankees and two for the Giants.

Game 2

October 5, 1962, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York (A) 000 000 000 031
San Francisco (N) 100 000 10x 260
W: Jack Sanford (1–0)  L: Ralph Terry (0–1)
HR: SFG – Willie McCovey (1)

With the Giants protecting a 1–0 lead in the 7th inning, Willie McCovey smashed a tremendous home run over the right field fence to boost 24-game winner Jack Sanford to 2–0 shutout of the Yankees, who managed only 3 hits.

Game 3

October 7, 1962, at Yankee Stadium in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco (N) 000 000 002 243
New York (A) 000 000 30x 351
W:Bill Stafford (1–0)   L: Billy Pierce (0–1)
HR: SFG – Ed Bailey (1)

The Yankees ended a scoreless tie in the 7th, scoring three times. Roger Maris drove a base hit off starter Billy Pierce for two runs batted in, and alert base-running allowed him to score the winning run in a 3–2 Yankee victory. Giants catcher Ed Bailey's 2-run homer in the top of the 9th left the Giants a run short.

Game 4

October 8, 1962, at Yankee Stadium in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco (N) 020 000 401 791
New York (A) 000 002 001 391
W: Don Larsen (1–0)   L: Jim Coates (0–1)
HR: SFG – Tom Haller (1), Chuck Hiller (1)

For the second time in two days, a Giants' catcher stroked a two-run homer when Tom Haller hit his off Whitey Ford in the second inning. After the Yankees tied the score at 2–2, second baseman Chuck Hiller hit the first National League grand slam in World Series history in the 7th, and the Giants went on to win 7–3. The game marked the only appearance in this series of future Hall-of-famer Juan Marichal, who started for the Giants.

Don Larsen was the winning pitcher in relief, six years to the day of his perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

Game 5

October 10, 1962, at Yankee Stadium in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco (N) 001 010 001 382
New York (A) 000 101 03x 560
W: Ralph Terry (1–1)   L: Jack Sanford (1–1)
HR: SFG – José Pagán (1)   NYY – Tom Tresh (1)

Hot hitting José Pagán drove in two runs with a single in the third and a home run in the 5th, but with the score tied 2–2 in the 8th, Tom Tresh walloped what proved to be the winning homer, a three-run shot that scored Bobby Richardson and Tony Kubek in front of him. With the series returning to San Francisco the Yankees had the edge, 3 games to 2, only to have the sixth game delayed four days by rain.

Game 6

October 15, 1962, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York (A) 000 010 010 232
San Francisco (N) 000 320 00x 5101
W: Billy Pierce (1–1)  L: Whitey Ford (1–1)
HR: NYY – Roger Maris (1)

In a battle of left-handed starting pitchers, Pierce out-dueled Ford and tossed a brilliant complete-game 3-hitter as the Giants evened the series at three wins apiece with a 5–2 victory. The Yankees' only runs came on a Maris solo home run in the 5th inning and an RBI single by Tony Kubek in the 8th inning.

Game 7

October 16, 1962, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York (A) 000 010 000 170
San Francisco (N) 000 000 000 041
W: Ralph Terry (2–1)  L: Jack Sanford (1–2)

The only run of this classic game occurred in the 5th inning when Tony Kubek grounded into a double play, with Bill Skowron scoring from third. Ralph Terry, pitching the seventh game instead of Jim Bouton because of the rain delays, had given up Bill Mazeroski's Series-winning walk-off home run two years earlier in Pittsburgh but in his third start completely stifled the Giants' power hitters.

In the bottom of the 9th, pinch-hitter Matty Alou, batting for relief pitcher Billy O'Dell, led off the inning with a bunt base hit after first having a foul ball dropped, but Terry struck out the next two batters, Felipe Alou and Hiller. Mays hit a double into the right field corner, but Maris brilliantly played the carom, then hit cut-off man Richardson with a throw that was relayed perfectly to home. Alou, already aware of Maris' great arm, stopped at third. Facing Willie McCovey with two outs, Terry elected to pitch to him rather than walk the bases loaded and bring up Orlando Cepeda. Terry's inside fastball on the second pitch completely handcuffed McCovey, who nonetheless adjusted his bat in mid-swing to extend his arms and hit what he later claimed was the hardest ball he had ever struck. The line drive appeared at first to be going over the head of a perfectly positioned Richardson, but was in fact sinking from topspin, and Richardson made the catch without leaping to end the game. The Yankees won their 20th World Championship; they would not win another World Championship until 1977.

Awards and honors

1962 All-Star Game

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Tacoma Giants Pacific Coast League Red Davis
AA El Paso Sun Kings Texas League George Genovese
A Springfield Giants Eastern League Andy Gilbert
B Eugene Emeralds Northwest League Bud Byerly
C Fresno Giants California League Sal Taormina
D Salem Rebels Appalachian League Alex Cosmidis
D Lakeland Giants Florida State League Bert Haas and Max Lanier
D Decatur Commodores Midwest League Richie Klaus

Notes
  1. "For Single Seasons, from 1871 to 2020, Playing for SFG, H>=1500, Standard statistics, Sorted by greatest Hits". Stathead. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  2. Joey Amalfitano at Baseball Reference
  3. Hobie Landrith at Baseball Reference
  4. Billy Loes at Baseball Reference
  5. Georges Maranda at Baseball Reference
  6. Bob Neiman at Baseball-Reference
  7. "1962 San Francisco Giants Statistics and Roster – Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2008. Retrieved September 5, 2008.

References
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