$Unique_ID{BAS00063} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1886} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1886 St Louis Browns Chicago White Stockings} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1886 Frederick Ivor-Campbell St. Louis Browns (AA), 4; Chicago White Stockings (NL), 2 GAME 1 AT CHI OCT 18 ---------------------------------------- STL 000 000 000 0 5 3 CHI 200 001 03X 6 10 4 Pitchers: FOUTZ vs CLARKSON Attendance: 6,000 GAME 2 AT CHI OCT 19 ---------------------------------------- STL 200 230 50 12 13 2 CHI 000 000 00 0 2 10 Pitchers: CARUTHERS vs McCORMICK Home Runs: O'Neill-STL (2) Attendance: 8,000 (Game called at end of eighth, darkness) GAME 3 AT CHI OCT 20 ---------------------------------------- CHI 200 112 32 11 11 2 STL 010 002 01 4 9 7 Pitchers: CLARKSON, Williamson (8) vs CARUTHERS Home Runs: Kelly-CHI, Gore-CHI Attendance: 6,000 (Game called at end of eighth, darkness) GAME 4 AT STL OCT 21 ---------------------------------------- CHI 300 002 0 5 6 4 STL 011 033 X 8 7 4 Pitchers: CLARKSON vs FOUTZ Attendance: 8,000 (Game called in seventh, darkness) GAME 5 AT STL OCT 22 ---------------------------------------- CHI 011 100 00 3 3 3 STL 214 003 0X 10 11 3 Pitchers: WILLIAMSON, Ryan (2) vs HUDSON Attendance: 10,000 (Game called in eighth, darkness) GAME 6 AT STL OCT 23 ---------------------------------------- CHI 010 101 000 0 3 6 2 STL 000 000 030 1 4 5 3 Pitchers: CLARKSON vs CARUTHERS Home Runs: Pfeffer-CHI Attendance: 8,000 It was a winner-take-all Series, with the club that won four games pocketing the entire proceeds. Attendance, very good for those days, averaged over 7,000 per game and brought the victorious Browns about $14,000. The first three games were played in Chicago. The White Stockings won the opener on a sparkling five-hit shutout by their ace John Clarkson. But St. Louis' Bob Caruthers improved on Clarkson's performance the next day, blanking Chicago on just two singles as his Browns turned thirteen hits and thirteen Chicago errors into twelve runs (in a game shortened by darkness to eight innings). The White Stockings improved their fielding in the next game (which was also called after eight innings), and this time their bats came alive. With eleven hits (including home runs by Mike "King" Kelly and George Gore) combining with seven St. Louis errors, they regained the Series advantage with an easy 11-4 win. When the venue shifted to St. Louis, though, the Browns battled back. In a back-and-forth battle in Game Four, Chicago tied the game at 5-5 with a pair of runs in the sixth, but St. Louis scored three final runs a half inning later, winning when darkness ended play in the middle of the seventh. Game Five repeated Game Two's innovation: two umpires (instead of the usual one), plus a "referee" who stood between the pitcher and second base. The umpiring satisfied everyone, but Chicago, handicapped by their scheduled pitcher's sore arm, lost when they sent shortstop Ned Williamson and right fielder Jimmy Ryan into the box. In the 6 1/2 innings before dark, St. Louis got to Williamson and Ryan for eleven hits and ten runs as their Nat Hudson held Chicago batters to three hits and three unearned runs. The finale proved to be the Series' best-played and closest game. Chicago's Clarkson shut out the Browns through seven innings as his mates built a three-run lead--one of them scored on Fred's Pfeffer's homer in the fourth. Rain (and a rowdy crowd which poured onto the field) halted play for a while in the fifth. But the game resumed and the rain subsided. In the last of the eighth, Charlie Comiskey scored the Browns' first run on a single, errant throw and run-scoring fly out, and Arlie Latham tripled home two more runners later in the inning to tie the game. The score remained 3-3 into the last of the tenth, when the Browns' Curt Welch singled (for only the fourth St. Louis hit), went to second on an infield hit, and took third on a sacrifice. Welch then attempted to steal home but catcher Kelly had smelled out the play and called for a pitch out. Clarkson's delivery was poor and bobbled by Kelly, allowing Welch to steal home with a "$15,000 slide" for the Browns' triumph. STL (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Doc Bushong, c .188 6 16 4 3 1 0 0 2 4 5 0 Bob Caruthers, p-3,of-3 .250 6 24 6 6 1 2 0 5 1 4 1 Charlie Comiskey, 1b .292 6 24 2 7 1 0 0 2 0 4 0 Dave Foutz, p-2,of-2 .200 4 15 2 3 1 1 0 3 0 3 0 Bill Gleason, ss .208 6 24 3 5 0 0 0 5 1 3 0 Nat Hudson, p-1,of-1 .167 2 6 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 Arlie Latham, 3b-6,c-1 .174 6 23 4 4 0 1 0 3 3 4 2 Tip O'Neill, of .400 6 20 4 8 0 2 2 5 4 5 2 Yank Robinson, 2b .316 6 19 5 6 1 1 0 3 2 3 2 Curt Welch, of .350 6 20 7 7 2 0 0 1 3 4 2 TOTAL .262 191 38 50 7 8 2 29 19 38 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Caruthers 2 1 2.42 3 3 3 0 1 26.0 18 7 6 12 Dave Foutz 1 1 3.60 2 2 2 0 0 15.0 16 6 6 7 Nat Hudson 1 0 2.57 1 1 1 0 0 7.0 3 2 3 3 TOTAL 4 2 2.81 6 6 6 0 1 48.0 37 15 15 22 CHI (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cap Anson, 1b-6,c-2 .238 6 21 3 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 Tom Burns, 3b-6,of-1 .286 6 21 2 6 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 John Clarkson, p-4,of-1 .067 4 15 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 Abner Dalrymple, of .190 6 21 2 4 1 1 0 2 0 5 1 Silver Flint, c .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 George Gore, of .174 6 23 4 4 0 0 1 2 3 3 0 King Kelly, c-5,ss-2 .208 6 24 4 5 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 Jim McCormick, p .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fred Pfeffer, 2b .286 6 21 7 6 0 0 1 4 2 1 2 Jimmy Ryan, of-6,p-1,ss-1 .250 6 20 4 5 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 Ned Williamson, ss-6,p-2 .056 6 18 2 1 0 1 0 3 4 5 1 TOTAL .195 190 28 37 5 3 3 18 15 22 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Clarkson 2 2 2.01 4 4 3 0 1 31.1 25 7 12 28 Jim McCormick 0 1 6.75 1 1 1 0 0 8.0 13 6 2 4 Jimmy Ryan 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 5.0 8 5 4 4 Ned Williamson 0 1 4.50 2 1 0 0 0 2.0 4 1 1 2 TOTAL 2 4 3.69 8 6 4 0 1 46.1 50 19 19 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------