From Los Angeles, Sherry made his debut with his hometown Dodgers on April 17, – just their third game after moving west. Adding to the pressure, the game was played on the road against their hated rivals, the San Francisco Giants, who had also relocated from New York City. Sherry had a brief outing, facing four batters without recording an out, and appeared in only four more games all year. But he returned with a solid season in, winning 7 games with only two losses, with an earned run average of 2.19. He was named MVP of the 1959 World Series, in which the Dodgers defeated the Chicago White Sox in 6 games, and also received the Babe Ruth Award. Sherry completed all four Dodger victories during the Series, winning two of them and saving the two others, and had a 0.71 ERA in innings. In he won a career-high 14 games, finished 38 games, pitched in 57 games, and even received support for MVP, coming in 20th in the voting. In 1961 he was 5th in the NL in saves and games finished, and 9th in games pitched. In 1962 he was 7th in saves and games pitched. Sherry and his brother Norm, a Dodgers catcher from 1959 to 1962, became the first all-Jewish battery in major league history. He was traded to the Tigers for Lou Johnson and cash just before the season, and spent three and a half years with his new club, earning a career-best 20 saves in 1966, 3rd-best in the AL. He was traded to the Houston Astros for Jim Landis for the second half of the 1967 season, and ended his career with three games for the California Angels in. Sherry retired with a record of 53–44, 606 strikeouts, 82 saves and a 3.67 ERA in 416 games and innings. Through 2010, he was 5th all-time in career games, 8th in strikeouts, and 9th in wins among Jewish major league baseball players.
Coaching career
He later coached in the Dodgers' minor league organization. Sherry was a Pittsburgh Pirates coach in 1977 and 1978, and a member of the California Angels coaching staff in 1979 and 1980.
Accolades
In a 1976 Esquire magazine article, sportswriter Harry Stein published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter," consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Larry Sherry was the relief pitcher on Stein's Jewish team. In 1993 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
