$Unique_ID{BAS00068} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1892} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1892 Boston Beaneaters Cleveland Spiders} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1892 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Boston Beaneaters, 5; Cleveland Spiders, 0; tie, 1 GAME 1 AT CLE OCT 17 ---------------------------------------- CLE 000 000 000 00 0 4 1 BOS 000 000 000 00 0 6 0 Pitchers: YOUNG vs STIVETTS Attendance: 6,000 GAME 2 AT CLE OCT 18 ---------------------------------------- BOS 101 010 010 4 10 2 CLE 001 100 001 3 10 2 Pitchers: STALEY vs CLARKSON Attendance: 6,700 GAME 3 AT CLE OCT 19 ---------------------------------------- CLE 200 000 000 2 8 0 BOS 110 000 10X 3 9 2 Pitchers: YOUNG vs STIVETTS Attendance: 5,000 GAME 4 AT BOS OCT 21 ---------------------------------------- CLE 000 000 000 0 7 3 BOS 002 002 00X 4 6 0 Pitchers: CUPPY vs NICHOLS Home Runs: Duffy-BOS Attendance: 6,547 GAME 5 AT BOS OCT 22 ---------------------------------------- CLE 060 010 000 7 9 4 BOS 000 324 30X 12 14 3 Pitchers: CLARKSON vs STIVETTS Home Runs: Clarkson-CLE, Tucker-BOS Attendance: 3,466 GAME 6 AT BOS OCT 24 ---------------------------------------- CLE 003 000 000 3 10 5 BOS 002 211 11X 8 11 5 Pitchers: YOUNG vs NICHOLS Home Runs: Bennett-BOS Attendance: 2,300 Interleague squabbling prevented a World Series in 1891, and the AA folded before the next season. Four AA clubs were taken into the NL, expanding the NL to twelve teams. To create a postseason championship series, the regular season was divided in half, with first-half winner Boston meeting second-half victor Cleveland for both the league and world titles. The first game, in Cleveland, was a pitching and fielding classic. Boston's Jack Stivetts and Cleveland's Cy Young blanked the opposition for eleven innings before darkness halted the game. Young yielded just six hits and Stivetts four--all singles. Just as remarkable in an era when errors were commonplace, Cleveland committed only one and Boston none; several outstanding plays were made in the field. Boston center fielder Hugh Duffy was the offensive and defensive star of Game Two. He drove in three of the Beaneaters' four runs (with a fly out, a triple, and a double), and scored the fourth himself after tripling a second time. And in the bottom of the ninth he snared a leadoff liner with a great running catch. As it was, Cleveland scored once in the inning to pull within a run of a tie; Duffy's catch prevented a certain tie and a possible Cleveland win. Game Three was just as close. Pitchers Stivetts and Young each gave up two early runs, but then blanked their foes until the seventh inning, when Boston's Tommy McCarthy singled in Stivetts (who had doubled) with what proved the winning run. The Series moved to Boston for the next three games. In Game Four, Boston ace Kid Nichols shut out the Spiders, scattering seven hits and fanning eight. Cleveland's Nig Cuppy yielded only six hits, but one was a home run ball to Hugh Duffy for two runs in the third inning, and another was a two-run single to Joe Quinn in the sixth. Cleveland pitcher John Clarkson helped his own cause the next day with a three-run homer in the Spider's six-run second inning. But Boston pitcher Jack Stivetts--with the score now 7-5 Cleveland in the sixth--tripled in a run and scored the tying run. In the seventh, Stivetts scored Boston's twelfth (and final) run after singling, while holding Cleveland scoreless through the final four innings. Two days later the Beaneaters brought the Series to an end with their fifth straight win. The Spiders scored first, with a three-run third, but pitcher Kid Nichols held them scoreless after that and singled home Boston's tying and go-ahead runs himself as the Beaneaters tagged Cy Young for eight runs over the final six innings. BOS (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Charlie Bennett, c .286 2 7 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 Hugh Duffy, of .462 6 26 3 12 3 2 1 9 1 0 3 Charlie Ganzel, c .500 2 8 1 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 King Kelly, c .000 2 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Herman Long, ss .222 6 27 4 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Bobby Lowe, of .130 6 23 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 Tommy McCarthy, of .381 6 21 2 8 2 0 0 2 6 1 3 Billy Nash, 3b .167 6 24 3 4 0 0 0 4 2 3 2 Kid Nichols, p .286 2 7 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 Joe Quinn, 2b .286 6 21 2 6 1 1 0 4 1 2 0 Harry Staley, p .000 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Jack Stivetts, p .250 3 12 3 3 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 Tommy Tucker, 1b .261 6 23 2 6 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 TOTAL .265 211 25 56 7 4 3 28 12 19 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kid Nichols 2 0 1.00 2 2 2 0 1 18.0 17 2 4 13 Harry Staley 1 0 3.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 10 3 1 0 Jack Stivetts 2 0 0.93 3 3 3 0 1 29.0 21 3 7 17 TOTAL 5 0 1.29 6 6 6 0 2 56.0 48 8 12 30 CLE (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jesse Burkett, of .320 6 25 3 8 1 0 0 1 0 2 4 Cupid Childs, 2b .409 6 22 3 9 0 2 0 0 5 1 0 John Clarkson, p .250 2 8 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 Nig Cuppy, p .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 George Davis, 3b-2 .167 3 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Jimmy McAleer, of .182 6 22 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 Ed McKean, ss .440 6 25 2 11 0 0 0 6 1 3 0 Jack O'Connor, of .136 6 22 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 Patsy Tebeau, 3b .000 5 18 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Jake Virtue, 1b .125 6 24 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 Cy Young, p .091 3 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 Chief Zimmer, c .261 6 23 2 6 1 1 0 2 0 3 0 TOTAL .230 209 15 48 2 3 1 13 12 30 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Clarkson 0 2 5.29 2 2 2 0 0 17.0 24 10 5 9 Nig Cuppy 0 1 1.13 1 1 1 0 0 8.0 6 1 4 1 Cy Young 0 2 3.00 3 3 3 0 1 27.0 26 9 3 9 TOTAL 0 5 3.46 6 6 6 0 1 52.0 56 20 12 19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------