Early Wynn Jr. (January 6, 1920 – April 4, 1999), ... He made two other starts in the Series but failed to pitch past the fourth inning in either, as the Los Angeles Dodgers won the series in six games. Towards the end of his career, Wynn began to rely more heavily on the knuckleball, as the velocity of his pitches declined. ...

Mar 17, 2003 · Tired of temporizing with the hard-fighting but overmatched and punchless White Sox, the Dodgers set up Early Wynn for the kill in the third inning. They flattened Wynn and Dick Donovan with a devastating blast in the fourth inning and romped to a 9 to 3 victory which gave them the world’s championship, four games to two.

Jan 4, 2012 · The White Sox faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1959 World Series, and Early pitched seven shutout innings in the opening game, teaming with reliever Jerry Staley to defeat the Dodgers by an 11-0 score. However, he struggled in the fourth contest, played at the Los Angeles Coliseum before 92,650 fans.

James Sherman Wynn (March 12, 1942 – March 26, 2020), nicknamed "the Toy Cannon", was an American professional baseball player. He played 15 seasons as a center fielder ; he spent ten of his fifteen seasons with the Houston Colt .45s / Astros before playing 2 All-Star seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers and then two more seasons with three ...

Oct 25, 2020 · In 1959 Chicago’s Comiskey Park saw its first World Series since the ill-fated Black Sox of 1919. The Go-Go Sox faced the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were just two years earlier domiciled in Brooklyn. In their first year in Los Angeles, …

Apr 6, 1999 · Early Wynn, who won the Cy Young Award at age 39 and earned his 300th and last victory four years later, died Sunday night. He was 79.

Oct 30, 2009 · Trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers two games to one, Chicago White Sox manager Al Lopez called upon his Game One starter, Early Wynn, for Game Four. He thus again bypassed his long-time ace Billy...

In fact, Wynn started the pennant-clinching game and the opener of the World Series, in which he pitched seven shutout innings as Chicago beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-0. But Wynn's arm stiffened in the cold and when he returned in Game Four, …

Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox (9-3). Oct 8, 1959, Attendance: 47653, Time of Game: 2:33. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability

Aug 1, 2020 · In the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wynn started three games, but the wear of a long season showed, as he did not make it out of the fourth inning in his final two starts. As he closed in on 300 career wins, Wynn struggled to maintain the durability that was his trademark throughout his career.