Series result
Pittsburgh Pirates4 wins
New York Yankees3 wins
The Yankees outscored the Pirates by 28 runs in the 1960 World Series. They still lost.
New York won three games by a combined score of 38–3. Pittsburgh won four games by a combined score of 24–17. Baseball counts wins, not runs — so the team that got outscored more than two to one took home the championship.
Total runs scored
New York Yankees55
Pittsburgh Pirates27
Runs scored, game by game
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Yankees
Cumulative runs across the series
Pirates — 27 total, 4 wins
Yankees — 55 total, 3 wins
The Pirates' run differential of −28 is the worst ever posted by a World Series winner. No team has won a title while getting outscored by more across the series. The Yankees won their three games by blowout margins (16–3, 10–0, 12–0); the Pirates won their four by 6–4, 3–2, 5–2, and a 10–9 walk-off in Game 7 — Bill Mazeroski's home run off Ralph Terry, still the only World Series ever to end on a Game 7 walk-off.
It gets stranger: Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson was named the Series MVP — the only time in World Series history a player from the losing team has won it. He batted .367 and drove in a record 12 runs, most of them in New York's three blowout wins.
Same shape as our gerrymandering grid and the bowling pages: when a contest is decided by winning individual rounds rather than adding up every point scored, how your runs are distributed can matter more than how many you get.
Scores, dates, and MVP result: Baseball Reference and the Baseball Hall of Fame's official 1960 World Series records. Run totals (55–27) and the −28 differential are computed directly from the seven official final scores below.