Our look back at the 1963 Dodgers sees them sweep the Cardinals in St. Louis in the penultimate week of the season, closing in on the National League pennant.
This week in the 1963 Dodgers, Sandy Koufax broke his own National League strikeout record as the Dodgers try to hold off the hard-charging Cardinals in the National League standings.
This week in 1963, Sandy Koufax won his 20th game for the first time in his career, the first Dodgers left-handed pitcher to win 20 games since Preacher Roe for Brooklyn a dozen years earlier.
Sandy Koufax allowed only one run in each of his two starts this week for the 1963 Dodgers, but didn’t get the run support to earn his 20th win just yet. He pitched 12 innings in one game, and was pulled with two outs in the ninth inning in the other, much to his chagrin.