Ringo bracket: 1924 Robins defeat 1961 Giants in six games

Game 1: Giants 16, Robins 6
WP: Sanford (2-0)
LP: Grimes (0-3)
HR: Mays (2), Griffith (1)

Game 2: Robins 2, Giants 1
WP: Ruether (1-1)
LP: McCormick (1-1)
Save: Doak (1)

Game 3: Robins 2, Giants 1
WP: Vance (4-0)
LP: Marichal (0-1)
HR: Mays (3)

Game 4: Robins 3, Giants 2
WP: Grimes (1-3)
LP: Loes (0-1)
HR: McCovey (2), Cepeda (1)

Game 5: Giants 3, Robins 2
WP: Sanford (3-0)
LP: Doak (1-1)
Save: Miller (3)
HR: Fournier 2 (4), Mays (4)

Game 6: Robins 4, Giants 0
WP: Vance (5-0)
LP: McCormick (1-2)

The series opened with a slug fest, but the pitchers dominated the rest of the way, and Dazzy Vance dazzled again.

The Giants opened the series in Ebbets Field by lambasting Burleigh Grimes for 10 runs in three-plus innings, three of them unearned. Every one of San Francisco's starters scored at least once, and Orlando Cepeda scored three times. The Giants picked up 19 hits, including four doubles, one triple and one homer. Tommy Griffith scored three times for Brooklyn. Winner Jack Sanford was pulled after three of the first four men in the seventh to reach.

The Robins even the series behind a strong start from Dutch Ruether, who didn't allow a hit until Jose Pagan tripled to open the sixth inning (and advanced no further). Bill Doak entered in the ninth with two on, a run in and no outs and escaped the jam.

The series shifted to San Francisco and Candlestick Park for the next three games. Willie Mays homered in Game Three's first inning, but Vance allowed just one other hit in his complete game win. The Robins got seven hits off Juan Marichal and converted the two extra base hits -- a double by Griffith and a triple by Zach Wheat -- into runs.

The Giants went early long ball again in Game Four, with Willie McCovey and Orlando Cepeda hitting back-to-back homers in the first off Grimes. But as with Vance in the previous game, Old Stubblebeard kept the Giants off the scoreboard the rest of the way, scattering five hits in the next eight innings. The Robins scored a run off Toothpick Sam Jones in the seventh to chase him, then peppered Billy Loes for two runs on four hits in the eighth to take the lead, which Grimes held onto despite Ed Bailey's leadoff double in the ninth.

Sanford got the ball facing elimination in Game Five and came though for the Giants despite surrendering a homer to Jack Fournier. HarveyKuenn walked twice, stole a base off Bill Doak and scored twice, the second time on Mays' tie-breaking homer. Stu Miller gave up a ninth-inning homer to Fournier but no further damage and got the save.

That sent the series back to Brooklyn for Game Six. Vance threw the Robins' fourth straight complete game. He wasn't as overwhelming as in his Game Two two-hitter, but the Giants couldn't score on him despite loading the bases in the first and getting a pair of doubles from Mays. Brooklyn scored single runs in four separate innings off Mike McCormick.

Player of the series: Dazzy Vance

Projected rotation: Grimes-Vance-Doak-Grimes-(Vance)-(Ruether or Ehrhardt)-(Grimes)