1938 World Series
| 1938 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 5–9 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Wrigley Field (Chicago) Yankee Stadium (New York) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Charley Moran (NL), Cal Hubbard (AL) Ziggy Sears (NL), Lou Kolls (AL) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Cal Hubbard Yankees: Joe McCarthy (manager) Bill Dickey Joe DiMaggio Lou Gehrig Lefty Gomez Joe Gordon Red Ruffing Cubs: Dizzy Dean Gabby Hartnett Billy Herman Tony Lazzeri | |||||||||
| Broadcast | ||||||||||
| Radio | NBC (Red and Blue) CBS Mutual | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | NBC Red: Red Barber Tom Manning George Hicks NBC Blue: Johnny O'Hara George Higgins Rosey Rowswell CBS: John Harrington Pat Flanagan France Laux Bill Dyer Mel Allen Mutual: Bob Elson Quin Ryan David Driscoll Stan Lomax | |||||||||
The 1938 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1938 season. The 35th edition of the World Series, it matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs. The Yankees swept the Series in four games for their seventh championship overall and record third straight (they would win four in a row from 1936 to 1939, and five in a row later from 1949 to 1953).
Dizzy Dean, who had helped carry the Cubs to the National League pennant despite a sore arm, ran out of gas in the Series as the Yanks crushed the Cubs again, as they had in 1932. Yankee starting pitcher Red Ruffing won two games, although he allowed 17 hits in 18 innings pitched. After Game 2 of the Series, the Bronx Bombers would not return to Wrigley Field for nearly 65 years until a three-game interleague series with the Cubs beginning June 6, 2003.
This was the first World Series played at Wrigley Field following the bleacher reconstruction of 1937, which had significantly shortened the left-center field power alley.
Summary
[edit]AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL Chicago Cubs (0)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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| 1 | October 5 | New York Yankees – 3, Chicago Cubs – 1 | Wrigley Field | 1:53 | 43,642[1] |
| 2 | October 6 | New York Yankees – 6, Chicago Cubs – 3 | Wrigley Field | 1:53 | 42,108[2] |
| 3 | October 8 | Chicago Cubs – 2, New York Yankees – 5 | Yankee Stadium | 1:57 | 55,236[3] |
| 4 | October 9 | Chicago Cubs – 3, New York Yankees – 8 | Yankee Stadium | 2:11 | 59,847[4] |
Matchups
[edit]Game 1
[edit]| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| New York | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Red Ruffing (1–0) LP: Bill Lee (0–1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 1 of the Series matched the Yankees' Red Ruffing, who had won 21 games during the season, against the Cubs' 22-game winner Bill Lee. In the top of the second inning, Lou Gehrig walked and moved to third on a single by Bill Dickey. George Selkirk then reached on an error by Cub second baseman Billy Herman scoring Gehrig, and Joe Gordon drove Dickey in with a single for a 2–0 Bomber lead.
In the bottom of the third, the Cubs cut the lead in half when Ripper Collins singled to lead off and moved to second on a groundout by Lee. Stan Hack's single to right scored Collins, Hack taking second on the throw home. But when he attempted to score on an infield single by Herman, he was gunned down at home. The top of the sixth saw New York extend its lead to 3–1 when Tommy Henrich belted a double to right and scored on a Dickey single. The Cubs could muster nothing further off Ruffing, who scattered nine hits over the course of the game, and the Yankees held on for the win and a 1–0 lead in the Series.
Game 2
[edit]| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| New York | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Lefty Gomez (1–0) LP: Dizzy Dean (0–1) Sv: Johnny Murphy (1) Home runs: NYY: Frankie Crosetti (1), Joe DiMaggio (1) CHC: None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 2 pitted the Yankees' Lefty Gomez against former St. Louis Cardinals ace Dizzy Dean, who had been traded to Chicago in April and won seven of his eight regular-season wins for his new team on finesse after having lost his fastball by changing his pitching motion to avoid putting weight on the toe he had fractured during the 1937 All-Star Game (on a low line drive back to the mound by Earl Averill). Game 2 of the 1938 Series thus became known as "Ol' Diz's Last Stand".
The Cubs gave Dean a 1–0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Hack singled, advanced to third on a single by Frank Demaree and scored on Joe Marty's fly ball. But the Bronx Bombers took the lead in the next half-inning when a Gordon double scored both