Knotted up at two games apiece, Game Five was to be the final series game at Yankee Stadium for 1960. Stengel went back to his Game One starter Ditmar, and again the Yanks' winningest pitcher of the season exited early. He didn't survive the second inning, giving up three hits and three runs in that frame, although two were unearned due to a costly error by McDougald. The big blow was a Mazeroski double down the left field line that scored both Burgess and Hoak. Down 3-0 going into the bottom of the second, New York got on the board on a Kubek ground out that scored Howard. Pittsburgh came right back with an RBI single by Clemente off reliever Luis Arroyo, and Stengel then brought in Bill Stafford. Maris slugged a towering solo homer into the third deck in right field off of Pirates lefty Harvey Haddix in the third inning, and the score would remain 4-2 until the top of the ninth. Young Stafford went five innings without giving up a run, and Stengel was reportedly furious at himself for not starting him over Ditmar. The team's most effective starter during the season, Ditmar's performance in the '60 Series was a bitter disappointment.

With one out in the seventh, Haddix gave up back-to-back singles, and Murtaugh again went to Face. Just as he did the day before, Face hurled 2 2/3 innings relief. Before the game, Face had sent a World Series program over to the Yankee clubhouse to be autographed, and it came back without a single signature. Some wondered if this had given him the extra incentive to bear down a little harder.

With Hoak adding an RBI single in the ninth, the game ended 5-2 with the Pirates now heading back home with a three games-to-two edge. The Series resumed on October 12, and the 38,580 that filled Forbes Field was the largest crowd of the four games that would be played there. Bob Friend took the mound for the Pirates, Ford for New York, though he didn't know he was starting until two hours before game time. When Ford drove in Berra with an infield single in the first, it was actually all New York needed, though they would tack on many, many more. Friend was pulled before the first out of the third inning was recorded, having hit a batter, then giving up three straight hits. He was charged with five earned runs in his brief outing, and his series performances were nearly as disappointing to Pittsburgh as Ditmar's was to New York. The Yankees continued to pile it on, adding two runs each in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. Ford meanwhile, pitched most of the game with a blister on his finger, yet never allowed a runner past second base. He gave up a total of seven hits in the 12-0 shellacking for his second complete-game shutout of the series, and he had done it on just three days' rest. Richardson continued his torrid hitting with three more RBI, which established a still-standing World Series record of 12 for one series. Kubek chipped in on his 24th birthday by scoring two runs. Remarkably, in the three games that Pittsburgh lost, they were outscored 38-3.

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