1966 Los Angeles Dodgers season
Major League Baseball season
The 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 77th season for the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB), their 9th season in Los Angeles, California, and their 5th season playing their home games at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles California. The Dodgers won the National League championship with a 95–67 record (1+1⁄2 games over the San Francisco Giants), but were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.
Regular season
Sandy Koufax became the first pitcher to win three Cy Young Awards in a career.
Season recap
The defending World Series champion Dodgers relied upon the same model that brought them the championship in 1965; great pitching, tight defense, and speed. However, pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale held out nearly all of spring training due to a contract dispute, finally signing just before the start of the regular season. Drysdale had a sub par season going 13–16 with a 3.42 E.R.A. Koufax went 27–9 with a 1.73 E.R.A. Claude Osteen had his best season to date, winning 17 games with a 2.85 E.R.A., and rookie Don Sutton replaced Johnny Podres in the rotation, chipping in with 12 wins and a 2.99 E.R.A. Phil Regan had a good season, going 14–1 with 21 saves.
The National League race was a 4 team affair between the Dodgers, Giants, Pirates, and Phillies, with all but the Phillies taking their turn in 1st place during the summer. The Dodgers vaulted to the top with an 8-game win streak in mid-September. However, the pennant was still not decided until the final day of the season. The Giants, who had eliminated the Pirates by beating them on the next to last day, needed to beat the Pirates again in the season's final game, and then hope the Dodgers would lose both games of a double header in Philadelphia to the Phillies.
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