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1953 Red Barber resigns as a Brooklyn Dodger broadcaster and will take the 'catbird' seat with the rival New York Yankees. The 'Old Redhead' reportedly left the team because he was upset with Brooklyn owner Walter O'Malley's refusal to support him when he failed to get a higher fee from Gillette, the sponsor of the 1953 World Series on television.
1981 The Dodgers defeat the Yankees, 9-2, after dropping the first two games of the Fall Classic, to capture the World Championship in six games. The victory at the Bronx ballpark marks the third time this postseason that Los Angeles will come from behind to win a series, having been down 0-2 against the Astros in the five-game strike-necessitated NLDS and 1-2 behind the Expos in the NLCS five-game series.
1981 Entering Game 6 of the World Series in the fifth inning, Yankee right-hander George Frazier, relieving starter Tommy John, gives up three go-ahead runs in the team's 9-2 elimination loss to the Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. The 27-year-old reliever becomes the first pitcher to lose three games in a best-of-seven World Series and the second to drop that many decisions in any Fall Classic, joining White Sox Lefty Williams, the loser of a trio of games in the best-of-nine series played in 1919.
2009 In Game 1, Chase Utley, en route to a record-tying five World Series homers, becomes the first left-handed batter in 81 years to hit two round-trippers off a southpaw in a Fall Classic game. After setting a record by reaching base in 26 straight postseason games with his first-inning walk, he goes deep twice off southpaw CC Sabathia in the Phillies' 6-1 victory at Yankee Stadium, matching Babe Ruth's performance in the fourth and final game of the 1928 series.

(Ed. Note: Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson established the mark when he hit five home runs against the Dodgers in the 1977 Fall Classic, including going deep three times in Game 6.- LP)

2012 Clayton Kershaw, before the start of Game 4 at Comerica Park, receives the Roberto Clemente Award, an honor given to a major leaguer who demonstrates the value of helping others by his actions off the field. The Dodger southpaw and his wife, Ellen, founded the Kershaw Challenge, which includes its cornerstone charity, "Arise Africa," that helps build and sustain an orphanage known as "Hope's Home" in Zambia. 
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