$Unique_ID{BAS00084} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1914} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1914 Boston Braves Philadelphia Athletics} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1914 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Boston Braves (NL), 4; Philadelphia Athletics (AL), 0 GAME 1 AT PHI OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- BOS 020 013 010 7 11 2 PHI 010 000 000 1 5 0 Pitchers: RUDOLPH vs BENDER, Wyckoff (6) Attendance: 20,562 GAME 2 AT PHI OCT 10 ---------------------------------------- BOS 000 000 001 1 7 1 PHI 000 000 000 0 2 1 Pitchers: JAMES vs PLANK Attendance: 20,562 GAME 3 AT BOS OCT 12 ---------------------------------------- PHI 100 100 000 200 4 8 2 BOS 010 100 000 201 5 9 1 Pitchers: BUSH vs Tyler, JAMES (11) Home Runs: Gowdy-BOS Attendance: 35,520 GAME 4 AT BOS OCT 13 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 010 000 1 7 0 BOS 000 120 00X 3 6 0 Pitchers: SHAWKEY, Pennock (6) vs RUDOLPH Attendance: 34,365 The Athletics, easy winners of their fourth pennant in five years, were clear favorites over Boston. But the "Miracle Braves"--who moved from last place to first between July 18 and August 25 and kept going to take the pennant by 10 1/2 games--had the momentum and swept the Series. Boston pitcher Dick Rudolph (who won 27 games during the season) limited the A's to five hits and an unearned run, to take the opener behind the Braves' heavy hitting, 7-1. But the rest of the games were not won so easily. Philadelphia's Eddie Plank held the Braves scoreless through eight innings of Game Two, and gave up only one run in the ninth. But the Braves' Bill James (26-7 during the season) allowed only two hits and no runs at all. Game Three was a seesaw affair not settled until the twelfth inning. Through ten innings, starters Lefty Tyler of Boston and Joe Bush of the A's traded runs. Philadelphia scored one in the top of the first, but Braves' catcher Hank Gowdy doubled in the tying run in the second. The teams traded runs again in the fourth, but no one else crossed the plate until the tenth, when Frank Baker's bases-loaded single drove in two. For the third time, the Braves came back to tie it up. Gowdy opened the last of the tenth with the Series' only home run, and after a walk and single, a sacrifice fly knotted the score. Bill James came on to pitch no-hit ball through the eleventh and twelfth. Bush remained in for the A's, retiring the side in the eleventh. But an inning later Gowdy opened with his third crucial hit of the game, a double. Les Mann replaced him as runner, and after a walk, bunt, and wild throw to third, Mann scampered home with the winning run. Two of Connie Mack's most promising young pitchers, Bob Shawkey and Herb Pennock (who would later find stardom as New York Yankees), shared the A's pitching in Game Four, and gave up only six hits between them. But a walk and an error led to a Boston run in the fourth, and although Shawkey himself doubled in the tying run a half inning later, two more Braves scored in the last of the fifth on Johnny Evers' single. Pennock came on to pitch three innings of shutout relief, but Rudolph held the A's hitless over the final four innings to preserve his second win and the Braves' crown. BOS (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Cather, of .000 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Joe Connolly, of .111 3 9 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Charlie Deal, 3b .125 4 16 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 Josh Devore, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Johnny Evers, 2b .438 4 16 2 7 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 Larry Gilbert, ph .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Hank Gowdy, c .545 4 11 3 6 3 1 1 3 5 1 1 Bill James, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Les Mann, of-2 .286 3 7 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Rabbit Maranville, ss .308 4 13 1 4 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 Herbie Moran, of .077 3 13 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 Dick Rudolph, p .333 2 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Butch Schmidt, 1b .294 4 17 2 5 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 Lefty Tyler, p .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Possum Whitted, of .214 4 14 2 3 0 1 0 2 3 1 1 TOTAL .244 135 16 33 6 2 1 14 15 18 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill James 2 0 0.00 2 1 1 0 1 11.0 2 0 6 9 Dick Rudolph 2 0 0.50 2 2 2 0 0 18.0 12 1 4 15 Lefty Tyler 0 0 3.60 1 1 0 0 0 10.0 8 4 3 4 TOTAL 4 0 1.15 5 4 3 0 1 39.0 22 5 13 28 PHI (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frank Baker, 3b .250 4 16 0 4 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 Jack Barry, ss .071 4 14 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 Chief Bender, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joe Bush, p .000 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Eddie Collins, 2b .214 4 14 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 Jack Lapp, c .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stuffy Mc Innis, 1b .143 4 14 2 2 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 Eddie Murphy, of .188 4 16 2 3 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 Rube Oldring, of .067 4 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 Herb Pennock, p .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eddie Plank, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Wally Schang, c .167 4 12 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 Bob Shawkey, p .500 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Amos Strunk, of .286 2 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Jimmy Walsh, of-2 .333 3 6 0 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 Weldon Wyckoff, p 1.000 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL .172 128 6 22 9 0 0 5 13 28 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chief Bender 0 1 10.13 1 1 0 0 0 5.1 8 6 2 3 Joe Bush 0 1 3.27 1 1 1 0 0 11.0 9 4 4 4 Herb Pennock 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 3.0 2 0 2 3 Eddie Plank 0 1 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 7 1 4 6 Bob Shawkey 0 1 3.60 1 1 0 0 0 5.0 4 2 2 0 Weldon Wyckoff 0 0 2.45 1 0 0 0 0 3.2 3 1 1 2 TOTAL 0 4 3.41 6 4 2 0 0 37.0 33 14 15 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------