Bud Daley, whose relief in Game 5 of the 1961 World Series lifted the New York Yankees to a victory over the Cincinnati Reds, died Tuesday, the Yankees announced. He was 92.

During a 10-year Major League career, Daley played for the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and the Yankees. He pitched for two World Series-winning Yankee teams, in 1961 and 1962, and was an All-Star for Kansas City in 1959 and 1960 – a period when the American and National Leagues hosted two All-Star games each year.

Daley’s finest hour came on October 9, 1961. Needing one win to clinch a championship, Ralph Terry started for the Yankees and allowed three runs and six hits in 2.1 innings against the Cincinnati Reds. Daley took over in the third inning at Crosley Field and remarkably finished the game himself.

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Thanks to Daley’s 6.2 innings, in which he allowed just two runs (none earned), the Yankees defeated the Reds 13-5.

Daley returned the following year and played 43 games for the Yankees. In the World Series, he made one relief appearance against the San Francisco Giants and did not allow a run in Game 2 at Candlestick Park.

Daley went 60-64 with a 4.03 ERA in 248 career games (116 starts) from 1955-64.

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Born in Orange, California, Daley grew up in a rural area near San Diego. He never played in an organized baseball game until he attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, but by his senior year he was a standout in the outfield (.450 batting average) and on the pitcher’s mound (11-1 won-lost). file).

Scouted by 14 of the 16 Major League teams. Daley chose to sign with the Cleveland Indians because Indians pitcher Bob Lemon, a future Hall of Famer, also graduated from Wilson High.

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Daley spent parts of five seasons in the minor leagues (1951-55) before reaching the majors with Cleveland in September 1955. He split the next two seasons between Cleveland and their Triple-A Indianapolis affiliate.

In 1958, the Indians traded Daley and outfielders Dick Williams and Gene Woodling to the Baltimore Orioles for Larry Doby and Don Ferrarese. But Daley made just one spring training appearance for the O’s before being traded to Kansas City two weeks later for right-handed pitcher Arnie Portocarrero.

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Daley would go 39-39 with a 3.93 ERA in Kansas City. He made both AL All-Star teams in 1959 (when he went 16-13) and 1960 (16-16), before being traded to New York for Art Ditmar and Deron Johnson in June 1961.

Daley would later say he learned he was being traded when a teammate accidentally overheard a phone conversation between A’s owner Charlie Finley and Yankees GM Roy Hamey who orchestrated the deal.

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Daley moved to Wyoming in 1975. He is survived by his wife Dorothy, four children, eight grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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