Baseball · 1960 · Pittsburgh, USA
Maz Ends It
In a wild, back-and-forth World Series Game 7 in which the Yankees outscored them badly across the series, the Pittsburgh Pirates still win it all on a single ninth-inning swing.
Pirates 10-9 Yankees
Result
Yankees 55, Pirates 27
Series total runs
Only Game 7 walk-off HR in WS history
Distinction
The 1960 World Series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees was one of the strangest in history statistically, the Yankees outscored Pittsburgh 55 runs to 27 across the seven games and won three of them by lopsided blowout margins, yet the series still came down to a decisive Game 7 at Forbes Field.
That game itself swung wildly, Pittsburgh led 4-0, fell behind 7-4, tied it at 9-9 in the eighth, before Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski led off the bottom of the ninth against Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry. Mazeroski drove Terry's second pitch over the left-field wall for a solo home run, ending the series on the spot.
It remains the only World Series ever decided by a walk-off home run in a Game 7, and the improbable stat line, a team outscored by 28 runs across a series still winning the championship, only adds to how the finish is remembered. Fans stormed the field as Mazeroski rounded the bases waving his helmet, a scene captured in one of baseball's most reproduced photographs.
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