$Unique_ID{BAS00089} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1919} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1919 Cincinnati Reds Chicago White Sox} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1919 Frederick Ivor-Campbell Cincinnati Reds (NL), 5; Chicago White Sox (AL), 3 GAME 1 AT CIN OCT 1 ---------------------------------------- CHI 010 000 000 1 6 1 CIN 100 500 21X 9 14 1 Pitchers: CICOTTE, Wilkinson (4), Lowdermilk (8) vs RUETHER Attendance: 30,511 GAME 2 AT CIN OCT 2 ---------------------------------------- CHI 000 000 200 2 10 1 CIN 000 301 00X 4 4 2 Pitchers: WILLIAMS vs SALLEE Attendance: 29,690 GAME 3 AT CHI OCT 3 ---------------------------------------- CIN 000 000 000 0 3 1 CHI 020 100 00X 3 7 0 Pitchers: FISHER, Luque (8) vs KERR Attendance: 29,126 GAME 4 AT CHI OCT 4 ---------------------------------------- CIN 000 020 000 2 5 2 CHI 000 000 000 0 3 2 Pitchers: RING vs CICOTTE Attendance: 34,363 GAME 5 AT CHI OCT 6 ---------------------------------------- CIN 000 004 001 5 4 0 CHI 000 000 000 0 3 3 Pitchers: ELLER vs WILLIAMS, Mayer (9) Attendance: 34,379 GAME 6 AT CIN OCT 7 ---------------------------------------- CHI 000 013 000 1 5 10 3 CIN 002 200 000 0 4 11 0 Pitchers: KERR vs Ruether, RING (6) Attendance: 32,006 GAME 7 AT CIN OCT 8 ---------------------------------------- CHI 101 020 000 4 10 1 CIN 000 001 000 1 7 4 Pitchers: CICOTTE vs SALLEE, Fisher (5), Luque (6) Attendance: 13,923 GAME 8 AT CHI OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- CIN 410 013 010 10 16 2 CHI 001 000 040 5 10 1 Pitchers: ELLER vs WILLIAMS, James (1), Wilkinson (6) Home Runs: Jackson-CHI Attendance: 32,930 In the bottom of the first inning of Game One, White Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte hit the first batter to face him, a prearranged signal to gamblers that "the fix was on"--that the Sox would throw the Series. The eight Chicago conspirators--pitching aces Cicotte and Lefty Williams, outfielders Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, and infielders Chick Gandil, Buck Weaver, Fred McMullin and Swede Risberg--received no more than a fraction of the $100,000 promised them but "honored" their end of the deal. Cicotte (winner of 29 regular-season games, with a 1.82 ERA) gave up seven hits and six runs in the opening innings of Game One en route to a 1-9 loss, and Williams, though he held the Reds to four hits in Game Two, uncharacteristically walked six and fanned only one, a performance bad enough for a 2-4 loss. Dickie Kerr, Chicago's third-best pitcher and not in on the fix, won Game Three with a three-hit shutout. But although Cicotte pitched well in Game Four, Chicago lost a third time as the Reds' Jimmy Ring hurled a three-hit shutout of his own (all three hits coming, ironically, off the bats of conspirators Jackson, Felsch, and Gandil). Cincinnati's Hod Eller beat Chicago in Game Five with the Series' third successive three-hit shutout. Loser Lefty Williams once again yielded only four hits, but three came in a four-run sixth inning which also saw a walk and a throwing error by Felsch. (The win, the Reds' fourth, did not decide the Series, which had been expanded to the best five of nine in the exuberance which followed the end of the Great War.) Chicago exerted itself to win the next two games. In Game Six, Kerr's second win depended on crucial hits by Jackson and Gandil in the tenth inning; and in Game Seven Cicotte held the Reds to one run as Jackson and Felsch drove in all the Sox' four. But in Game Eight, Williams gave up two singles and two doubles before being pulled with only one away in the first. Jackson homered in the third. And he doubled and Gandil tripled to drive in three Chicago runs in the eighth. But by then the Reds had scored ten runs on their way to an easy win and their tainted world title. CIN (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Daubert, 1b .241 8 29 4 7 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 Pat Duncan, of .269 8 26 3 7 2 0 0 8 2 2 0 Hod Eller, p .286 2 7 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 Ray Fisher, p .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Heinie Groh, 3b .172 8 29 6 5 2 0 0 2 6 4 0 Larry Kopf, ss .222 8 27 3 6 0 2 0 3 3 2 0 Dolf Luque, p .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Sherry Magee, ph .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Greasy Neale, of .357 8 28 3 10 1 1 0 4 2 5 1 Bill Rariden, c .211 5 19 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 Morrie Rath, 2b .226 8 31 5 7 1 0 0 2 4 1 2 Jimmy Ring, p .000 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Edd Roush, of .214 8 28 6 6 2 1 0 7 3 0 2 Dutch Ruether, p-2 .667 3 6 2 4 1 2 0 4 1 0 0 Slim Sallee, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jimmy Smith, pr .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ivey Wingo, c .571 3 7 1 4 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 TOTAL .255 251 35 64 10 7 0 34 25 22 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hod Eller 2 0 2.00 2 2 2 0 1 18.0 13 4 2 15 Ray Fisher 0 1 2.35 2 1 0 0 0 7.2 7 2 2 2 Dolf Luque 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 5.0 1 0 0 6 Jimmy Ring 1 1 0.64 2 1 1 0 1 14.0 7 1 6 4 Dutch Ruether 1 0 2.57 2 2 1 0 0 14.0 12 4 4 1 Slim Sallee 1 1 1.35 2 2 1 0 0 13.1 19 2 1 2 TOTAL 5 3 1.63 12 8 5 0 2 72.0 59 13 15 30 CHI (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eddie Cicotte, p .000 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Eddie Collins, 2b .226 8 31 2 7 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 Shano Collins, of .250 4 16 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Happy Felsch, of .192 8 26 2 5 1 0 0 3 1 4 0 Chick Gandil, 1b .233 8 30 1 7 0 1 0 5 1 3 1 Joe Jackson, of .375 8 32 5 12 3 0 1 6 1 2 0 Bill James, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Dickie Kerr, p .167 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nemo Leibold, of .056 5 18 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 Grover Lowdermilk, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Byrd Lynn, c .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Erskine Mayer, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fred Mc Mullin, ph .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eddie Murphy, ph .000 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Swede Risberg, ss .080 8 25 3 2 0 1 0 0 5 3 1 Ray Schalk, c .304 8 23 1 7 0 0 0 2 4 2 1 Buck Weaver, 3b .324 8 34 4 11 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 Roy Wilkinson, p .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Lefty Williams, p .200 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 TOTAL .224 263 20 59 10 3 1 17 15 30 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eddie Cicotte 1 2 2.91 3 3 2 0 0 21.2 19 7 5 7 Bill James 0 0 5.79 1 0 0 0 0 4.2 8 3 3 2 Dickie Kerr 2 0 1.42 2 2 2 0 1 19.0 14 3 3 6 Grover Lowdermilk 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 1 1 0 Erskine Mayer 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 1 0 Roy Wilkinson 0 0 1.23 2 0 0 0 0 7.1 9 1 4 3 Lefty Williams 0 3 6.61 3 3 1 0 0 16.1 12 12 8 4 TOTAL 3 5 3.42 13 8 5 0 1 71.0 64 27 25 22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------