$Unique_ID{BAS00106} $Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1936} $Subtitle{} $Author{ Ivor-Campbell, Frederick} $Subject{World Series 1936 New York Yankees Giants} $Log{} Total Baseball: The Highlights of the Game Postseason Play: World Series 1936 Frederick Ivor-Campbell New York Yankees (AL), 4; New York Giants (NL), 2 GAME 1 AT NY -N SEPT 30 ---------------------------------------- NY-A 001 000 000 1 7 2 NY-N 000 011 04X 6 9 1 Pitchers: RUFFING vs HUBBELL Home Runs: Bartell-NY (N), Selkirk-NY (A) Attendance: 39,419 GAME 2 AT NY -N OCT 2 ---------------------------------------- NY-A 207 001 206 18 17 0 NY-N 010 300 000 4 6 1 Pitchers: GOMEZ vs SCHUMACHER, Smith (3), Coffman (3), Gabler (5), Gumbert (9) Home Runs: Dickey-NY (A), Lazzeri-NY (A) Attendance: 43,543 GAME 3 AT NY -A OCT 3 ---------------------------------------- NY-N 000 010 000 1 11 0 NY-A 010 000 01X 2 4 0 Pitchers: FITZSIMMONS vs HADLEY, Malone (9) Home Runs: Gerhig-NY (A), Ripple-NY (N) Attendance: 64,842 GAME 4 AT NY -A OCT 4 ---------------------------------------- NY-N 000 100 010 2 7 1 NY-A 013 000 01X 5 10 1 Pitchers: HUBBELL, Gabler (8) vs PEARSON Home Runs: Gehrig-NY (A) Attendance: 66,669 GAME 5 AT NY -A OCT 5 ---------------------------------------- NY-N 300 001 000 1 5 8 3 NY-A 011 002 000 0 4 10 1 Pitchers: SCHUMACHER vs Ruffing, MALONE (7) Home Runs: Selkirk-NY (A) Attendance: 50,024 GAME 6 AT NY -N OCT 6 ---------------------------------------- NY-A 021 200 017 13 17 2 NY-N 200 010 110 5 9 1 Pitchers: GOMEZ, Murphy (7) vs FITZSIMMONS, Castleman (4), Coffman (9), Gumbert (9) Home Runs: Moore-NY (N), Ott-NY (N), Powell-NY (A) Attendance: 38,427 The Giants managed to win two games, but this first Series between the cross-river rivals in thirteen years was really no contest. Babe Ruth was gone, but Lou Gehrig was still there, and Joe DiMaggio had arrived. The Yankees outhit the Giants by 56 percentage points and outscored them by 20 runs. Giant ace Carl Hubbell, who had won his final 16 decisions of the regular season, continued his streak in the Series opener. The Yankees scored first on George Selkirk's third-inning homer, but Giant shortstop Dick Bartell homered to even things in the fifth. Hubbell held the Yankees to that one run, but the Giants roughed up Red Ruffing for five more runs, to give the Polo Grounders a brief Series advantage. Game Two was a Yankee blowout, as the Yankees hammered five Giant pitchers for 18 runs--four of them on Tony Lazzeri's grand slam in the third--to give Lefty Gomez an easy win. By contrast, Game Three was a pitchers' duel. Although the Giants touched Bump Hadley and Pat Malone for 11 hits, only Jimmy Ripple's fifth-inning homer produced a run. Giant Freddie Fitzsimmons was much more stingy with hits, yielding only four. But one was Gehrig's home run in the second inning, and another was Frank Crosetti's game-winning RBI single in the eighth. Gehrig homered again in the third inning of Game Four to give the Yankees an insurmountable lead--and Hubbell his first loss in months. Down three games to one, the Giants struggled back in Game Five. They took a first-inning 3-0 lead, but the Yankees clawed their way back, and by the end of six the score was 4-4. There it stayed until the tenth, when a double, sacrifice, and fly to center put the Giants ahead by a run. Hal Schumacher, who had pitched the whole game, held the Yankees scoreless one more time for the win. Fitzsimmons, who had pitched so well in his third-game loss, didn't last four innings in Game Six. Though the Giants scored first, Yankee Jake Powell (who led all Series hitters at .455) tied the game with a two-run homer in the top of the second. Two more runs in the fourth drove out Fitzsimmons, but the game stayed close until the top of the ninth, when five Yankees singles and three walks produced seven runs and a Series-ending 13-5 rout. NY (A) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frankie Crosetti, ss .269 6 26 5 7 2 0 0 3 3 5 0 Bill Dickey, c .120 6 25 5 3 0 0 1 5 3 4 0 Joe Di Maggio, of .346 6 26 3 9 3 0 0 3 1 3 0 Lou Gehrig, 1b .292 6 24 5 7 1 0 2 7 3 2 0 Lefty Gomez, p .250 2 8 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 Bump Hadley, p .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Roy Johnson, ph .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Tony Lazzeri, 2b .250 6 20 4 5 0 0 1 7 4 4 0 Pat Malone, p 1.000 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Johnny Murphy, p .500 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Monte Pearson, p .500 1 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jake Powell, of .455 6 22 8 10 1 0 1 5 4 4 1 Red Rolfe, 3b .400 6 25 5 10 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 Red Ruffing, p-2 .000 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 Bob Seeds, pr .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 George Selkirk, of .333 6 24 6 8 0 1 2 3 4 4 0 TOTAL .302 215 43 65 8 1 7 41 26 35 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lefty Gomez 2 0 4.70 2 2 1 0 0 15.1 14 8 11 9 Bump Hadley 1 0 1.13 1 1 0 0 0 8.0 10 1 1 2 Pat Malone 0 1 1.80 2 0 0 1 0 5.0 2 1 1 2 Johnny Murphy 0 0 3.38 1 0 0 1 0 2.2 1 1 1 1 Monte Pearson 1 0 2.00 1 1 1 0 0 9.0 7 2 2 7 Red Ruffing 0 1 4.50 2 2 0 0 0 14.0 16 7 5 12 TOTAL 4 2 3.33 9 6 2 2 0 54.0 50 20 21 33 NY (N) ============================================================================== PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dick Bartell, ss .381 6 21 5 8 3 0 1 3 4 4 0 Slick Castleman, p .500 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dick Coffman, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Harry Danning, c-1 .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Kiddo Davis, ph .500 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Freddie Fitzsimmons, p .500 2 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Frank Gabler, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Harry Gumbert, p .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carl Hubbell, p .333 2 6 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Travis Jackson, 3b .190 6 21 1 4 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 Mark Koenig, 2b-1 .333 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Hank Leiber, of .000 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 Sam Leslie, ph .667 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gus Mancuso, c .263 6 19 3 5 2 0 0 1 3 3 0 Eddie Mayo, 3b .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jo-Jo Moore, of .214 6 28 4 6 2 0 1 1 1 4 0 Mel Ott, of .304 6 23 4 7 2 0 1 3 3 1 0 Jimmy Ripple, of .333 5 12 2 4 0 0 1 3 3 3 0 Hal Schumacher, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 Al Smith, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bill Terry, 1b .240 6 25 1 6 0 0 0 5 1 4 0 Burgess Whitehead, 2b .048 6 21 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 TOTAL .246 203 23 50 9 0 4 20 21 33 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slick Castleman 0 0 2.08 1 0 0 0 0 4.1 3 1 2 5 Dick Coffman 0 0 32.40 2 0 0 0 0 1.2 5 6 1 1 Freddie Fitzsimmons 0 2 5.40 2 2 1 0 0 11.2 13 7 2 6 Frank Gabler 0 0 7.20 2 0 0 0 0 5.0 7 4 4 0 Harry Gumbert 0 0 36.00 2 0 0 0 0 2.0 7 8 4 2 Carl Hubbell 1 1 2.25 2 2 1 0 0 16.0 15 4 2 10 Hal Schumacher 1 1 5.25 2 2 1 0 0 12.0 13 7 10 11 Al Smith 0 0 81.00 1 0 0 0 0 0.1 2 3 1 0 TOTAL 2 4 6.79 14 6 3 0 0 53.0 65 40 26 35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------