$Unique_ID{BAS00101} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1931} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1931 St Louis Cardinals Philadelphia Athletics} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1931 Frederick Ivor-Campbell St. Louis Cardinals (NL), 4; Philadelphia Athletics (AL), 3 GAME 1 AT STL OCT 1 ---------------------------------------- PHI 004 000 200 6 11 0 STL 200 000 000 2 12 0 Pitchers: GROVE vs DERRINGER, Johnson (8) Home Runs: Simmons-PHI Attendance: 38,529 GAME 2 AT STL OCT 2 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 000 000 0 3 0 STL 010 000 10X 2 6 1 Pitchers: EARNSHAW vs HALLAHAN Attendance: 35,947 GAME 3 AT PHI OCT 5 ---------------------------------------- STL 020 200 001 5 12 0 PHI 000 000 002 2 2 0 Pitchers: GRIMES vs GROVE, Mahaffey (9) Home Runs: Simmons-PHI Attendance: 32,295 GAME 4 AT PHI OCT 6 ---------------------------------------- STL 000 000 000 0 2 1 PHI 100 002 00X 3 10 0 Pitchers: JOHNSON, Lindsey (6) vs EARNSHAW Home Runs: Foxx-PHI Attendance: 32,295 GAME 5 AT PHI OCT 7 ---------------------------------------- STL 100 002 011 5 12 0 PHI 000 000 100 1 9 0 Pitchers: HALLAHAN vs HOYT, Walberg (7), Rommel (9) Home Runs: Martin-STL, Watkins-STL Attendance: 32,295 GAME 6 AT STL OCT 9 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 040 400 8 8 1 STL 000 001 000 1 5 2 Pitchers: GROVE vs DERRINGER, Johnson (5), Lindsey (7), Rhem (9) Attendance: 39,401 GAME 7 AT STL OCT 10 ---------------------------------------- PHI 000 000 002 2 7 1 STL 202 000 00X 4 5 0 Pitchers: EARNSHAW, Walberg (8) vs GRIMES, Hallahan (9) Attendance: 20,805 For the second year in a row, the A's met the Cardinals in the Series, and once again pitchers Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw provided more than 80 percent of the Athletics' pitching, performing splendidly and winning three games between them. But this time Cardinal pitchers Wild Bill Hallahan and Burleigh Grimes outshone them, winning two games apiece to bring St. Louis the world championship. Grove gave up four hits and two runs in the first inning of the opener, but shut out the Cards the rest of the way as the A's scored six off Paul Derringer to take the Series lead. Earnshaw also held St. Louis to two runs the next day--both manufactured by Pepper Martin's daring baserunning. But they were more than enough for Hallahan, who shut out the A's on three singles. The Cardinals took their first Series lead in Game Three, scoring five times off Grove and reliever Roy Mahaffey while Grimes held the A's hitless through seven innings and scoreless through eight before giving up a harmless two-run homer to Al Simmons in the bottom of the ninth. But the A's came back to even the Series the next day on Earnshaw's two-hit shutout. Pepper Martin, the Cardinal hero of Game Two, homered for two runs in Game Five, and drove in two more of St. Louis' five runs with a sacrifice fly and a single. Meanwhile pitcher Hallahan held Philadelphia to a lone run, returning the Series lead to the Cardinals with his second win. Game Six pitted Grove and Derringer against each other again as in the opener, and again Grove emerged the victor, holding the Cardinals to one run and five hits. The Athletics scored four unearned runs in the fifth off the unfortunate Derringer who, after an error put a runner on base to open the inning, gave up two singles and walked four, including two with the bases full, before leaving the game. Four more Philadelphia runs in the seventh (two of them scoring on a dropped fly ball) gave the A's the Series' only lopsided win. In the finale, Grimes once again held the A's scoreless through eight before giving up two runs in the ninth. And once again the runs proved harmless against an early Cardinal lead, as Hallahan came on to retire Max Bishop for the final out. STL (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sparky Adams, 3b .250 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Ray Blades, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Jim Bottomley, 1b .160 7 25 2 4 1 0 0 2 2 5 0 Ripper Collins, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Paul Derringer, p .000 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Jake Flowers, 3b-4 .091 5 11 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 Frankie Frisch, 2b .259 7 27 2 7 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 Charlie Gelbert, ss .261 7 23 0 6 1 0 0 3 0 4 0 Burleigh Grimes, p .286 2 7 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 Chick Hafey, of .167 6 24 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 Bill Hallahan, p .000 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Andy High, 3b .267 4 15 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Syl Johnson, p .000 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Jim Lindsey, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gus Mancuso, c-1 .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pepper Martin, of .500 7 24 5 12 4 0 1 5 2 3 5 Ernie Orsatti, of .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Flint Rhem, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wally Roettger, of .286 3 14 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 George Watkins, of .286 5 14 4 4 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 Jimmie Wilson, c .217 7 23 0 5 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 TOTAL .236 229 19 54 11 0 2 17 9 41 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Derringer 0 2 4.26 3 2 0 0 0 12.2 14 6 7 14 Burleigh Grimes 2 0 2.04 2 2 1 0 0 17.2 9 4 9 11 Bill Hallahan 2 0 0.49 3 2 2 1 1 18.1 12 1 8 12 Syl Johnson 0 1 3.00 3 1 0 0 0 9.0 10 3 1 6 Jim Lindsey 0 0 5.40 2 0 0 0 0 3.1 4 2 3 2 Flint Rhem 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 1 TOTAL 4 3 2.32 14 7 3 1 1 62.0 50 16 28 46 PHI (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max Bishop, 2b .148 7 27 4 4 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 Joe Boley, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Mickey Cochrane, c .160 7 25 2 4 0 0 0 1 5 2 0 Doc Cramer, ph .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Jimmy Dykes, 3b .227 7 22 2 5 0 0 0 2 5 1 0 George Earnshaw, p .000 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Jimmie Foxx, 1b .348 7 23 3 8 0 0 1 3 6 5 0 Lefty Grove, p .000 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 Mule Haas, of .130 7 23 1 3 1 0 0 2 3 5 0 Johnnie Heving, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Waite Hoyt, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Roy Mahaffey, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eric Mc Nair, 2b-1 .000 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Bing Miller, of .269 7 26 3 7 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 Jim Moore, of-1 .333 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Eddie Rommel, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Al Simmons, of .333 7 27 4 9 2 0 2 8 3 3 0 Phil Todt, ph .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Rube Walberg, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dib Williams, ss .320 7 25 2 8 1 0 0 1 2 9 0 TOTAL .220 227 22 50 5 0 3 20 28 46 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ George Earnshaw 1 2 1.88 3 3 2 0 1 24.0 12 5 4 20 Lefty Grove 2 1 2.42 3 3 2 0 0 26.0 28 7 2 16 Waite Hoyt 0 1 4.50 1 1 0 0 0 6.0 7 3 0 1 Roy Mahaffey 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 1 1 0 Eddie Rommel 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 3 1 0 0 Rube Walberg 0 0 3.00 2 0 0 0 0 3.0 3 1 2 4 TOTAL 3 4 2.66 11 7 4 0 1 61.0 54 18 9 41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------