$Unique_ID{BAS00075} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1905} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1905 New York Giants Philadelphia Athletics} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1905 Frederick Ivor-Campbell New York Giants (NL), 4; Philadelphia Athletics (AL), 1 GAME 1 AT PHI OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- NY 000 020 001 3 10 1 PHI 000 000 000 0 4 0 Pitchers: MATHEWSON vs PLANK Attendance: 17,955 GAME 2 AT NY OCT 10 ---------------------------------------- PHI 001 000 020 3 6 2 NY 000 000 000 0 4 2 Pitchers: BENDER vs McGINNITY, Ames (9) Attendance: 24,992 GAME 3 AT PHI OCT 12 ---------------------------------------- NY 200 050 002 9 9 1 PHI 000 000 000 0 4 5 Pitchers: MATHEWSON vs COAKLEY Attendance: 10,991 GAME 4 AT NY OCT 13 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 000 000 0 5 2 NY 000 100 00X 1 4 1 Pitchers: PLANK vs McGINNITY Attendance: 13,598 GAME 5 AT NY OCT 14 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 000 000 0 6 0 NY 000 010 01X 2 5 1 Pitchers: BENDER vs MATHEWSON Attendance: 24,187 After a year's gap caused by the Giants' refusal to play the American League champion Boston Pilgrims, the World Series--now established on an official and permanent basis--resumed with a pitching classic. Even though the A's ERA league leader Rube Waddell had ostensibly injured his shoulder and could not pitch in the Series--rumor had it that gamblers had reached him--the Philadelphia staff recorded a Series ERA of only 1.47. But the Giants' staff--led by Christy Mathewson's three shutouts--registered a matchless ERA of 0.00, permitting only three unearned runs to score in their only Series loss. Every victory in the Series was a shutout. Mathewson, a 31-game winner in the regular season, continued his winning ways in the Series opener. Though three of the four hits he yielded were doubles, he permitted no more than one hit in any inning, and stopped the only scoring threat, fielding a squeeze bunt to throw out the runner at the plate in the sixth inning. The A's came back to tie the Series the next day. This time it was Chief Bender's turn to hurl a four-hit shutout. Joe McGinnity also pitched well for the Giants, but New York errors in the third and eighth innings let in three unearned runs--the only runs, as it turned out, to be scored against the Giants in the Series. Mathewson, pitching with only two days' rest in Game Three, once again permitted only four hits (all singles this time), and Philadelphia's flawed fielding let in seven unearned runs to help give Matty an easy 9-0 win. In Game Four, McGinnity, the hard-luck loser of Game Two, tried again. This time the Giants supported him almost flawlessly, while he gave up only five singles on his way to victory in the Series' tightest game. An A's error led to a single Giant run, and a loss for Eddie Plank, who had pitched even better than McGinnity, giving up only four hits while fanning six. Chief Bender, the A's winner in Game Two, pitched a five-hitter in Game Six, but he also yielded three walks, all of which contributed to the two Giant runs. Mathewson, though he gave up six hits, walked none, retiring the final ten batters to conclude his record third shutout--and the Series. NY (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Red Ames, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Roger Bresnahan, c .313 5 16 3 5 2 0 0 1 4 0 1 George Browne, of .182 5 22 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 Bill Dahlen, ss .000 5 15 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 3 Art Devlin, 3b .250 5 16 0 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 3 Mike Donlin, of .263 5 19 4 5 1 0 0 1 2 1 2 Billy Gilbert, 2b .235 5 17 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 Christy Mathewson, p .250 3 8 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Dan Mc Gann, 1b .235 5 17 1 4 2 0 0 4 2 7 0 Joe Mc Ginnity, p .000 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Sam Mertes, of .176 5 17 2 3 1 0 0 2 2 5 0 Sammy Strang, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 TOTAL .203 153 15 31 7 0 0 13 15 26 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Red Ames 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 1 1 Christy Mathewson 3 0 0.00 3 3 3 0 3 27.0 14 0 1 18 Joe Mc Ginnity 1 1 0.00 2 2 1 0 1 17.0 10 0 3 6 TOTAL 4 1 0.00 6 5 4 0 4 45.0 25 0 5 25 PHI (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chief Bender, p .000 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Andy Coakley, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Lave Cross, 3b .105 5 19 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Monte Cross, ss .176 5 17 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 Harry Davis, 1b .200 5 20 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 Topsy Hartsel, of .294 5 17 1 5 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 Danny Hoffman, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Bris Lord, of .100 5 20 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 Danny Murphy, 2b .188 5 16 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 Eddie Plank, p .167 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Mike Powers, c .143 3 7 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ossee Schreckengost, c .222 3 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Socks Seybold, of .125 5 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 TOTAL .161 155 3 25 5 0 0 2 5 25 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chief Bender 1 1 1.06 2 2 2 0 1 17.0 9 2 6 13 Andy Coakley 0 1 2.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 8 2 5 2 Eddie Plank 0 2 1.59 2 2 2 0 0 17.0 14 3 4 11 TOTAL 1 4 1.47 5 5 5 0 1 43.0 31 7 15 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------