$Unique_ID{BAS00088} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1918} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1918 Boston Red Sox Chicago Cubs} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1918 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Boston Red Sox (AL), 4; Chicago Cubs (NL), 2 GAME 1 AT CHI SEPT 5 ---------------------------------------- BOS 000 100 000 1 5 0 CHI 000 000 000 0 6 0 Pitchers: RUTH vs VAUGHN Attendance: 19,274 GAME 2 AT CHI SEPT 6 ---------------------------------------- BOS 000 000 001 1 6 1 CHI 030 000 000 3 7 1 Pitchers: BUSH vs TYLER Attendance: 20,040 GAME 3 AT CHI SEPT 7 ---------------------------------------- BOS 000 200 000 2 7 0 CHI 000 010 000 1 7 1 Pitchers: MAYS vs VAUGHN Attendance: 27,054 GAME 4 AT BOS SEPT 9 ---------------------------------------- CHI 000 000 020 2 7 1 BOS 000 200 01X 3 4 0 Pitchers: Tyler, DOUGLAS (8) vs RUTH, Bush (9) Attendance: 22,183 GAME 5 AT BOS SEPT 10 ---------------------------------------- CHI 001 000 002 3 7 0 BOS 000 000 000 0 5 0 Pitchers: VAUGHN vs JONES Attendance: 24,694 GAME 6 AT BOS SEPT 11 ---------------------------------------- CHI 000 100 000 1 3 2 BOS 002 000 00X 2 5 0 Pitchers: TYLER, Hendrix (8) vs MAYS Attendance: 15,238 Although both clubs had lost key players to military service, so had other major league teams, and after a season shortened by a month because of the war, the Red Sox and Cubs found themselves opponents in an early-September World Series. In the opener, Babe Ruth pushed his string of consecutive scoreless World Series innings to 22, holding the Cubs to six singles as he went the distance. The Cubs' Hippo Vaughn pitched just as well, but two of the five singles he yielded followed a leadoff walk in the fourth and produced the game's only run. Chicago evened the Series in Game Two, bunching four of their seven hits after a walk in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead. Successive triples in Boston's ninth spoiled Lefty Tyler's shutout but not his victory. Hippo Vaughn lost another close one in Game Three when he gave up two runs in the fourth inning on a hit batsman and a succession of singles. The Cubs got him one run back in the fifth, but the Sox' Carl Mays held Chicago to that one run as he hurled Boston back into the Series lead. Ruth pushed the Sox farther ahead the next day in another squeaker. As he continued his mastery over Cub hitters, he drove Boston into the lead with a two-run triple in the fourth inning (his only Series hit). But in the eighth a run-scoring ground out ended his record setting string of scoreless innings at 29 2/3, and a single drove in another run to tie the game. The Sox, though, scored a third run on a Chicago error in the last of the eighth, and reliever Bullet Joe Bush shut down a threat in the ninth to save Ruth's win. Vaughn, in his third start, finally found what was needed for victory--a shutout, on five hits, as the Cubs added hits to walks from Boston's Sad Sam Jones in the third and eighth to push across their three runs. But in Game Six the Sox scored two unearned runs on a dropped line drive to right in the third inning. It was their only scoring off Lefty Tyler, but Boston's Carl Mays was on his way to a one-run three-hitter that brought the Red Sox their fifth world championship in five tries. To date, although they have tried four more times, they have not won a sixth. BOS (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sam Agnew, c .000 4 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joe Bush, p .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Jean Dubuc, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Harry Hooper, of .200 6 20 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 Sam Jones, p .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Carl Mays, p .200 2 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Stuffy Mc Innis, 1b .250 6 20 2 5 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Hack Miller, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Babe Ruth, p-2,of-2 .200 3 5 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 Wally Schang, c .444 5 9 1 4 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 Everett Scott, ss .095 6 21 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Dave Shean, 2b .211 6 19 2 4 1 0 0 0 4 3 1 Amos Strunk, of .174 6 23 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 Fred Thomas, 3b .125 6 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 George Whiteman, of .250 6 20 2 5 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 TOTAL .186 172 9 32 2 3 0 6 16 21 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joe Bush 0 1 3.00 2 1 1 1 0 9.0 7 3 3 0 Sam Jones 0 1 3.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 7 3 5 5 Carl Mays 2 0 1.00 2 2 2 0 0 18.0 10 2 3 5 Babe Ruth 2 0 1.06 2 2 1 0 1 17.0 13 2 7 4 TOTAL 4 2 1.70 7 6 5 1 1 53.0 37 10 18 14 CHI (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turner Barber, ph .000 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Charlie Deal, 3b .176 6 17 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Phil Douglas, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Max Flack, of .263 6 19 2 5 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 Claude Hendrix, p-1 1.000 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Charlie Hollocher, ss .190 6 21 2 4 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 Bill Killefer, c .118 6 17 2 2 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 Les Mann, of .227 6 22 0 5 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 Bill Mc Cabe, ph .000 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fred Merkle, 1b .278 6 18 1 5 0 0 0 1 4 3 0 Bob O'Farrell, c-1 .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dode Paskert, of .190 6 21 0 4 1 0 0 2 2 2 0 Charlie Pick, 2b .389 6 18 2 7 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 Lefty Tyler, p .200 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 Hippo Vaughn, p .000 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 Chuck Wortman, 2b .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rollie Zeider, 3b .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 TOTAL .210 176 10 37 5 1 0 10 18 14 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Douglas 0 1 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 0 Claude Hendrix 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 Lefty Tyler 1 1 1.17 3 3 1 0 0 23.0 14 3 11 4 Hippo Vaughn 1 2 1.00 3 3 3 0 1 27.0 17 3 5 17 TOTAL 2 4 1.04 8 6 4 0 1 52.0 32 6 16 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------