$Unique_ID{BAS00085} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1915} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1915 Boston Red Sox Philadelphia Phillies} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1915 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Boston Red Sox (AL), 4; Philadelphia Phillies (NL), 1 GAME 1 AT PHI OCT 8 ---------------------------------------- BOS 000 000 010 1 8 1 PHI 000 100 02X 3 5 1 Pitchers: SHORE vs ALEXANDER Attendance: 19,343 GAME 2 AT PHI OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- BOS 100 000 001 2 10 0 PHI 000 010 000 1 3 1 Pitchers: FOSTER vs MAYER Attendance: 20,306 GAME 3 AT BOS OCT 11 ---------------------------------------- PHI 001 000 000 1 3 0 BOS 000 100 001 2 6 1 Pitchers: ALEXANDER vs LEONARD Attendance: 42,300 GAME 4 AT BOS OCT 12 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 000 010 1 7 0 BOS 001 001 00X 2 8 1 Pitchers: CHALMERS vs SHORE Attendance: 41,096 GAME 5 AT PHI OCT 13 ---------------------------------------- BOS 011 000 021 5 10 1 PHI 200 200 000 4 9 1 Pitchers: FOSTER vs Mayer, RIXEY (3) Home Runs: Hooper-BOS (2), Lewis-BOS, Luderus-PHI Attendance: 20,306 Boston's five runs in Game Five were the most scored by either team in a Series characterized by outstanding pitching. It was also one of the most closely contested Series: the deciding run was not scored until the ninth inning in three of the games, and only in Game One was the margin of victory as much as two runs. Grover Cleveland Alexander pitched the opener for the Phillies, and while the Red Sox tagged him for eight hits, they were all singles, and not until the eighth inning did one manage to drive a runner home. Boston's Ernie Shore pitched just as well, giving up only five singles and four walks. But two Phillie hits produced a run in the fourth, and an alternating pair of walks and infield hits in the eighth broke the tie with two runs for the Phillies' only win. The next three games were 2-1 Boston victories. Rube Foster held the Phillies to three hits in Game Two, and led his team at the bat, going 3 for 4, including a double in the fifth. But it was his single in the ninth with a man on second that produced what proved to be the winning run as he retired the side in the bottom of the ninth to preserve his win. Dutch Leonard duplicated Foster's three-hit pitching two days later as the Series moved to Boston's spacious new Braves Field for Game Three. Before a new Series record crowd of 42,300, Leonard defeated the great Alexander, as the Sox' Duffy Lewis--with his third hit of the game--singled over second base to score Harry Hooper from third with two out in the bottom of the ninth. Ernie Shore returned to the mound for Boston in Game Four, and although he gave up more hits (seven) than he had in Game One, his Sox had scored their two runs before the Phillies put across their one in the eighth. Rube Foster was not as effective in Game Five as he had been in Game Two, twice giving the Phillies a two-run lead as Phillie first baseman Fred Luderus drove in three runs with a double and a home run. But from the fifth inning on, Foster held Philadelphia scoreless on two hits, while Duffy Lewis evened the score with a two-run homer in the eighth, and Harry Hooper (who had tied the score earlier with a home run in the third) won the game and the Series with a second homer in the top of the ninth. BOS (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Barry, 2b .176 5 17 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 Hick Cady, c .333 4 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 Bill Carrigan, c .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Rube Foster, p .500 2 8 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 Del Gainer, 1b .333 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Larry Gardner, 3b .235 5 17 2 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 Olaf Henricksen, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dick Hoblitzel, 1b .313 5 16 1 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 Harry Hooper, of .350 5 20 4 7 0 0 2 3 2 4 0 Hal Janvrin, ss .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dutch Leonard, p .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Duffy Lewis, of .444 5 18 1 8 1 0 1 5 1 4 0 Babe Ruth, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Everett Scott, ss .056 5 18 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Ernie Shore, p .200 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Tris Speaker, of .294 5 17 2 5 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 Pinch Thomas, c .200 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL .264 159 12 42 2 2 3 11 11 25 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rube Foster 2 0 2.00 2 2 2 0 0 18.0 12 4 2 13 Dutch Leonard 1 0 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 3 1 0 6 Ernie Shore 1 1 2.12 2 2 2 0 0 17.0 12 4 8 6 TOTAL 4 1 1.84 5 5 5 0 0 44.0 27 9 10 25 PHI (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete Alexander, p .200 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Dave Bancroft, ss .294 5 17 2 5 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 Beals Becker, of .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ed Burns, c .188 5 16 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 Bobby Byrne, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 George Chalmers, p .333 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Gavvy Cravath, of .125 5 16 2 2 1 1 0 1 2 6 0 Oscar Dugey, pr .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Bill Killefer, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fred Luderus, 1b .438 5 16 1 7 2 0 1 6 1 4 0 Erskine Mayer, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Bert Niehoff, 2b .063 5 16 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Dode Paskert, of .158 5 19 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 Eppa Rixey, p .500 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Milt Stock, 3b .118 5 17 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 Possum Whitted, of-5,1b-1 .067 5 15 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 TOTAL .182 148 10 27 4 1 1 9 10 25 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete Alexander 1 1 1.53 2 2 2 0 0 17.2 14 3 4 10 George Chalmers 0 1 2.25 1 1 1 0 0 8.0 8 2 3 6 Erskine Mayer 0 1 2.38 2 2 1 0 0 11.1 16 3 2 7 Eppa Rixey 0 1 4.05 1 0 0 0 0 6.2 4 3 2 2 TOTAL 1 4 2.27 6 5 4 0 0 43.2 42 11 11 25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------