$Unique_ID{BAS00065} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1888} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1888 New York Giants St Louis Browns} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1888 Frederick Ivor-Campbell New York Giants (NL), 6; St. Louis Browns (AA), 4 GAME 1 AT NY OCT 16 ---------------------------------------- STL 001 000 000 1 3 5 NY 011 000 00X 2 2 4 Pitchers: KING vs KEEFE Attendance: 4,876 GAME 2 AT NY OCT 17 ---------------------------------------- STL 010 000 002 3 7 4 NY 000 000 000 0 6 1 Pitchers: CHAMBERLAIN vs WELCH Attendance: 5,575 GAME 3 AT NY OCT 18 ---------------------------------------- STL 000 000 011 2 5 5 NY 200 100 10X 4 5 2 Pitchers: KING vs KEEFE Attendance: 5,780 GAME 4 AT BRO OCT 19 ---------------------------------------- NY 104 010 000 6 8 2 STL 001 000 020 3 7 4 Pitchers: CRANE vs CHAMBERLAIN Attendance: 3,062 GAME 5 AT NY OCT 20 ---------------------------------------- STL 003 001 00 4 5 5 NY 100 000 05 6 9 2 Pitchers: KING vs KEEFE Attendance: 9,124 (Game called at end of eighth, darkness) GAME 6 AT PHI OCT 22 ---------------------------------------- NY 000 103 35 12 13 5 STL 301 000 01 5 3 7 Pitchers: WELCH vs CHAMBERLAIN Attendance: 3,281 (Game called at end of eighth, darkness) GAME 7 AT STL OCT 24 ---------------------------------------- NY 030 002 00 5 11 3 STL 000 300 04 7 8 3 Pitchers: CRANE vs KING Attendance: 4,624 (Game called at end of eighth, darkness) GAME 8 AT STL OCT 25 ---------------------------------------- NY 103 100 006 11 12 2 STL 000 100 110 3 5 6 Pitchers: KEEFE vs CHAMBERLAIN Home Runs: Ewing-NY, Tiernan-NY Attendance: 4,865 (New York wins best of 10 series, 6 to 2) GAME 9 AT STL OCT 26 ---------------------------------------- STL 140 020 202 3 14 15 4 NY 035 000 120 0 11 14 5 Pitchers: King, DEVLIN (4) vs GEORGE Home Runs: O'Neill-STL Attendance: 711 GAME 10 AT STL OCT 27 ---------------------------------------- STL 010 505 421 18 17 3 NY 310 000 021 7 13 8 Pitchers: CHAMBERLAIN vs TITCOMB, Hatfield (5) Home Runs: George-NY, O'Neill-STL, McCarthy-STL Attendance: 412 St. Louis, AA champions for the fourth straight year, battled the Giants closely through several games, but blowout losses in Games Six and Eight undid them. The first three games were played in New York. In a splendidly pitched opener, Brown ace Charles "Silver" King held New York to two hits and a walk while Giant ace Tim Keefe limited the Browns to three hits and a walk, striking out nine on his way to a narrow 2-1 win. St. Louis evened the Series in Game Two behind the shutout pitching of Elton "Icebox" Chamberlain. Tommy McCarthy scored the Browns' first run in the second inning when, after singling, he moved around to third on two passed balls by Giant catcher Buck Ewing and came home on Ewing's failed attempt to throw out a runner stealing second. Two more runs in the ninth gave St. Louis more than enough insurance for the win. The Giants scored twice in the first inning of Game Three, and increased their lead to 4-0 before allowing St. Louis a pair of harmless runs in the final innings. They also scored first and led all the way in Game Four (played in Brooklyn) as another St. Louis rally fell short. The Browns took a 4-1 lead into the bottom of the eighth in Game Five (in New York), but a five-run Giant rally reversed the lead--and the outcome--as the game was called for darkness with St. Louis at bat in the ninth. Giant Mickey Welch hurled a three-hitter (in Philadelphia) the next day, but St. Louis, capitalizing on walks and a questionable "safe" call at home, carried a 4-1 lead into the sixth inning. New York exploded in the late innings for 11 runs, however, and when darkness ended the game after eight the Giants were just one win away from the title. The final four games were played in St. Louis. The Browns spoiled New York's hope of quick victory in Game Seven, coming from behind to tie the score with three runs in the fourth, and--after New York had scored twice in the sixth--recovering again with a four-run eighth for a 7-5 lead before darkness again halted play after eight innings. But the Browns' win only delayed the inevitable. The Giants hammered Icebox Chamberlain for twelve hits in Game Eight (including home runs by Buck Ewing and Mike Tiernan) to clinch their first world championship with an 11-3 win. The final two games meant nothing to the outcome, and both clubs used reserve pitchers in Game Nine. But St. Louis rewarded the small crowd with a two-run rally in the ninth to tie the game at 11-all and scored three more runs in the tenth to win it. The finale the next day again featured heavy hitting on both sides, including a trio of home runs (one of them Tip O'Neill's second in two days) and an 18-7 St. Louis romp. NY (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Willard Brown, c .375 2 8 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Roger Connor, 1b .304 7 23 7 7 1 2 0 3 4 0 4 Ed Crane, p .143 2 7 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 Buck Ewing, c-6,1b-1 .346 7 26 5 9 0 2 1 6 1 3 5 Bill George, p-1,1b-1 .333 2 9 2 3 1 0 1 4 0 2 0 George Gore, of-2,3b-1 .455 3 11 5 5 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 Gil Hatfield, .250 2 8 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 p-1,2b-1,ss-1 Tim Keefe, p .091 4 11 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 Pat Murphy, c .100 3 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Jim O'Rourke, .222 10 36 4 8 0 0 0 1 4 2 3 of-7,1b-2,ss-1 Danny Richardson, 2b .167 9 36 6 6 2 0 0 6 3 5 3 Mike Slattery, of-10,2b-1 .205 10 39 6 8 2 0 0 5 0 5 6 Mike Tiernan, of .342 10 38 8 13 0 0 1 6 8 2 5 Ledell Titcomb, p-1,of-1 .500 1 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 Monte Ward, ss .379 8 29 4 11 1 0 0 6 1 0 6 Mickey Welch, p .286 2 7 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Art Whitney, 3b-9,of-1 .324 10 37 7 12 0 1 0 12 1 4 2 TOTAL .277 339 64 94 10 5 3 55 27 30 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ed Crane 1 1 2.12 2 2 2 0 0 17.0 15 4 6 12 Bill George 0 1 7.20 1 1 1 0 0 10.0 15 8 3 4 Gil Hatfield 0 0 12.60 1 0 0 0 0 5.0 12 7 3 2 Tim Keefe 4 0 0.51 4 4 4 0 0 35.0 18 2 9 30 Ledell Titcomb 0 1 6.75 1 1 0 0 0 4.0 5 3 2 2 Mickey Welch 1 1 2.65 2 2 2 0 0 17.0 10 5 9 2 TOTAL 6 4 2.97 11 10 9 0 0 88.0 75 29 32 52 STL (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Boyle, c-4,of-1 .438 4 16 4 7 0 1 0 4 2 2 3 Icebox Chamberlain, p .000 5 13 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 Charlie Comiskey, .268 10 41 6 11 1 1 0 3 1 1 4 1b-10,of-1 Jim Devlin, p .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ed Herr, of .091 3 11 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 Silver King, p .067 5 15 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Arlie Latham, 3b .250 10 40 10 10 0 0 0 3 5 6 11 Harry Lyons, of .118 5 17 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 Tommy McCarthy, of .244 10 41 10 10 1 0 1 9 0 0 6 Jocko Milligan, c-8,1b-1 .400 8 25 5 10 2 1 0 4 3 3 0 Tip O'Neill, of .243 10 37 8 9 1 0 2 11 6 3 0 Yank Robinson, 2b .250 10 36 7 9 2 1 0 7 6 12 2 Bill White, ss .143 10 35 4 5 1 0 0 4 3 6 1 TOTAL .227 330 60 75 8 4 3 46 32 52 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Icebox Chamberlain 2 3 5.32 5 5 5 0 1 44.0 52 26 16 13 Jim Devlin 1 0 2.57 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 5 2 2 5 Silver King 1 3 2.31 5 5 4 0 0 35.0 37 9 9 12 TOTAL 4 6 3.87 11 10 9 0 1 86.0 94 37 27 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------