| Tigers win 1961 "What If?"World Series |
| Detroit hammered the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-2 to win the 1961 "What If?" World Series.Billy Bruton smashed a grand slam homer & Norm Cash hit a 3 run dinger backing the 6 hit hurling of Tiger ace Jim Bunning. Johnny Roseboro's 6 th inning homer & Maury Wills sacrifice fly were all the Dodgers could muster against Bunning. |
| Outs: | 3 | Inning: | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | R | H | E | |
| Away | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Home | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | |||||||
| 1961 Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | |
| Maury Wills | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jim Gilliam | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Willie Davis | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wally Moon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Gil Hodges | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tommy Davis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Frank Howard | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Charlie Neal | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Johnny Roseboro | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | ||
| Don Drysdale | 3.6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Turk Farrell | 2.3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ed Roebuck | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Roger Craig | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1961 Detroit Tigers | |||||||||
| AB | Runs | Hits | 2b | 3b | HR | BB | SO | RBI | |
| Bill Bruton | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Jake Wood | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Al Kaline | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rocky Colavito | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Norm Cash | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Steve Boros | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dick McAuliffe | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dick Brown | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Chico Fernandez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| IP | Hits | Runs | BB | SO | W | L | S | ||
| Jim Bunning | 9 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |