<P> The Yankees and Dodgers faced each other in the 1956 World Series . Behind Sal Maglie, the Dodgers defeated the Yankees in Game 1 . Casey Stengel, the manager of the Yankees, selected Larsen to start Game 2 against the Dodgers' Don Newcombe . Despite being given a 6--0 lead by the Yankees' batters, he lasted only ​ 1 ⁄ innings against the Dodgers in a 13--8 loss . He only gave up one hit, a single by Gil Hodges, but walked four batters, which led to four runs in the process, but none of them were earned because of an error by first baseman Joe Collins . The Yankees won Games 3 and 4 to tie the series at two games apiece . </P> <P> With the series tied at two games apiece, Larsen started Game 5 for the Yankees . Larsen's opponent in the game was Maglie . The Yankees scored two runs off Maglie, as Mickey Mantle hit a home run and Hank Bauer had a run batted in single . Larsen retired all 27 batters he faced to complete the perfect game . </P> <P> Larsen needed just 97 pitches to complete the game, and only one Dodger batter (Pee Wee Reese in the first inning) was able to get a 3 - ball count . In 1998, Larsen recalled, "I had great control . I never had that kind of control in my life ." The closest the Dodgers came to a hit were in the second inning, when Jackie Robinson hit a line drive off third baseman Andy Carey's glove, the ball caroming to shortstop Gil McDougald, who threw Robinson out by a step, and in the fifth, when Mickey Mantle ran down Gil Hodges' deep fly ball . Brooklyn's Maglie gave up only two runs on five hits and was perfect himself until Mantle's fourth - inning home run broke the scoreless tie . The Yankees added an insurance run in the sixth as Hank Bauer's single scored Carey, who had opened the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second by Larsen . After Roy Campanella grounded out to Billy Martin for the second out of the 9th inning, Larsen faced pinch hitter Dale Mitchell, a . 312 career hitter . Throwing fastballs, Larsen got ahead in the count at 1--2 . On his 97th pitch, Larsen struck out Mitchell for the 27th consecutive and final out . Mitchell tried to check his swing on that last pitch, but home plate umpire Babe Pinelli, who would retire at the end of this World Series, called the last pitch a strike . Mitchell, who only struck out 119 times in 3,984 at - bats (or once every 34 at - bats) during his career, always maintained that the third strike he took was really a ball . </P> <P> In one of the most iconic images in sports history, catcher Yogi Berra leaped into Larsen's arms after the final out . With the death of Berra on September 22, 2015, Larsen is the last living player for either team who played in this game . </P>

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