$Unique_ID{BAS00102} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1932} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1932 New York Yankees Chicago Cubs} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1932 Frederick Ivor-Campbell New York Yankees (AL), 4; Chicago Cubs (NL), 0 GAME 1 AT NY SEPT 28 ---------------------------------------- CHI 200 000 220 6 10 1 NY 000 305 31X 12 8 2 Pitchers: BUSH, Grimes (6), Smith (8) vs RUFFING Home Runs: Gehrig-NY Attendance: 41,459 GAME 2 AT NY SEPT 29 ---------------------------------------- CHI 101 000 000 2 9 0 NY 202 010 00X 5 10 1 Pitchers: WARNEKE vs GOMEZ Attendance: 50,709 GAME 3 AT CHI OCT 1 ---------------------------------------- NY 301 020 001 7 8 1 CHI 102 100 001 5 9 4 Pitchers: PIPGRAS, Pennock (9) vs ROOT, Malone (5), May (7), Tinning (9) Home Runs: Ruth-NY (2), Gehrig-NY (2), Cuyler-CHI, Hartnett-CHI Attendance: 49,986 GAME 4 AT CHI OCT 2 ---------------------------------------- NY 102 002 404 13 19 4 CHI 400 001 001 6 9 1 Pitchers: Allen, MOORE (1), Pennock (7) vs Bush, Warneke (1), MAY (4), Tinning (7), Grimes (9) Home Runs: Demaree-CHI, Lazzeri-NY (2), Combs-NY Attendance: 49,844 Lou Gehrig, who hit .529 and scored nearly a quarter of New York's runs, led both clubs in batting, slugging, hits, runs, and RBIs as the Yankees crushed the Cubs in four games. But the Series is best remembered for Babe Ruth's "called" shot in Game Three, when he pointed his bat atp itcher Charlie Root in the fifth inning and broke the game's 4-4 tie a moment later with a massive home run into the center field bleachers. Debate has raged ever since about whether Ruth intended his gesture as a home run prediction. Whether intended or not, it erased from public memory Gehrig's home run that followed Ruth's (and the homers both men had hit earlier in the game), and made memorable an otherwise undistinguished Series. Chicago scored in the first inning of each game, taking early leads in three of the four, but held no lead beyond the sixth inning. In Game One, the Cubs connected for ten hits to the Yankees' eight, but managed to score only half as many runs as the New Yorkers, who put what had been a close game out of reach with five runs in the sixth (on four walks, two singles, and a ground out) and three more in the seventh (a walk, two singles, a hit batsman, a sacrifice fly, and a wild pitch). Chicago's Lon Warneke walked four batters in Game Two, and three of them went on to score as the Yankees countered single Cub runs in the first and third with pairs of their own on two walks and two singles in each frame. (A fifth Yankee run--on two singles without bases on balls--concluded the scoring for the game.) Game Three featured not only the two homers each by Ruth and Gehrig, but home runs by the Cubs' Kiki Cuyler and Gabby Hartnett. Hartnett's solo shot in the last of the ninth brought Chicago to within two runs of New York for the Series' closest finish. Four first-inning singles, Frank Demaree's three-run homer, and a Yankee error gave the Cubs a 4-1 advantage early in Game Four--their biggest lead of the Series. But by game's end, 19 Yankee hits (including two home runs by Tony Lazzeri and one by Earle Combs) had created 13 Yankee runs, and the world title was theirs. NY (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Johnny Allen, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sammy Byrd, of .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ben Chapman, of .294 4 17 1 5 2 0 0 6 2 4 0 Earle Combs, of .375 4 16 8 6 1 0 1 4 4 3 0 Frankie Crosetti, ss .133 4 15 2 2 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 Bill Dickey, c .438 4 16 2 7 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 Lou Gehrig, 1b .529 4 17 9 9 1 0 3 8 2 1 0 Lefty Gomez, p .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Myril Hoag, pr .000 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tony Lazzeri, 2b .294 4 17 4 5 0 0 2 5 2 1 0 Wilcy Moore, p .333 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Herb Pennock, p .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 George Pipgras, p .000 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 Red Ruffing, p-1 .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Babe Ruth, of .333 4 15 6 5 0 0 2 6 4 3 0 Joe Sewell, 3b .333 4 15 4 5 1 0 0 3 4 0 0 TOTAL .313 144 37 45 6 0 8 36 23 26 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Johnny Allen 0 0 40.50 1 1 0 0 0 0.2 5 3 0 0 Lefty Gomez 1 0 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 9 1 1 8 Wilcy Moore 1 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 5.1 2 0 0 1 Herb Pennock 0 0 2.25 2 0 0 2 0 4.0 2 1 1 4 George Pipgras 1 0 4.50 1 1 0 0 0 8.0 9 4 3 1 Red Ruffing 1 0 4.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 10 4 6 10 TOTAL 4 0 3.25 7 4 2 2 0 36.0 37 13 11 24 CHI (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guy Bush, p .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Kiki Cuyler, of .278 4 18 2 5 1 1 1 2 0 3 1 Frank Demaree, of .286 2 7 1 2 0 0 1 4 1 0 0 Woody English, 3b .176 4 17 2 3 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 Burleigh Grimes, p .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Charlie Grimm, 1b .333 4 15 2 5 2 0 0 1 2 2 0 Marv Gudat, ph .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Stan Hack, ph .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gabby Hartnett, c .313 4 16 2 5 2 0 1 1 1 3 0 Rollie Hemsley, c-1 .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Billy Herman, 2b .222 4 18 5 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 Billy Jurges, ss .364 3 11 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 Mark Koenig, ss-1 .250 2 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 Pat Malone, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jakie May, p .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johnny Moore, of .000 2 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 Charlie Root, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Bob Smith, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Riggs Stephenson, of .444 4 18 2 8 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 Bud Tinning, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lon Warneke, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 TOTAL .253 146 19 37 8 2 3 16 11 24 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guy Bush 0 1 14.29 2 2 0 0 0 5.2 5 9 6 2 Burleigh Grimes 0 0 23.63 2 0 0 0 0 2.2 7 7 2 0 Pat Malone 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 2.2 1 0 4 4 Jakie May 0 1 11.57 2 0 0 0 0 4.2 9 6 3 4 Charlie Root 0 1 10.38 1 1 0 0 0 4.1 6 5 3 4 Bob Smith 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 1 0 1 Bud Tinning 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 3 Lon Warneke 0 1 5.91 2 1 1 0 0 10.2 15 7 5 8 TOTAL 0 4 9.26 13 4 1 0 0 34.0 45 35 23 26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------