QUARTERFINALS: A roller-coaster series finally went New York’s way, but it took a nail-biting finish in game seven that lasted 13 innings. The Yankees took what looked to be an insurmountable 3-1 lead and had the ideal pitching matchup in game five, but the Senators got a come-from-behind, walk-off homer in extra innings to extend the series. Washington then evened it up in game six behind Walter Johnson’s second win. Six of seven games were decided by one or two runs, including the finale.
Pre-Expansion Greats Tournament
Game 1: New York 4, Washington 3
Game 2: New York 5, Washington 4
Game 3: Washington 4, New York 3
Game 4: New York 7, Washington 0
Game 5: Washington 7, New York 5 (10 innings)
Game 6: Washington 5, New York 3
Game 7: New York 2, Washington 1 (13 innings)
Series MVP: Babe Ruth, New York
Ruth hit six home runs and batted a team-best .370 (10-for-27). He scored nine runs, four more than any other player. He was the only player in the series to hit better than .300. Ruth also hit two doubles and drove in eight runs.
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Game 1: New York 4, Washington 3
Babe Ruth homered twice, and Lou Gehrig broke a 3-3 tie with a solo shot in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Yankees the win. Ruth put the Yankees ahead 2-0 with his first blast in the first inning, though the Senators tied it on a two-run homer by Harmon Killebrew in the top of the fourth. Ruth put the Yankees ahead with a solo bomb in the bottom of the fifth. Washington evened it up again in the top of the eighth on a two-out RBI single by Joe Cronin. Gehrig led off the eighth with what turned out to be the game-winning homer. Both he and Mickey Mantle went 3-for-4.
00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (3) AT 00 NEW YORK YANKEES (4) 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI Sam Rice 3 0 0 0 Tony Lazzeri 5 0 1 0 Joe Cronin 4 0 1 1 Joe DiMaggio 4 0 0 0 Goose Goslin 3 1 1 0 Mickey Mantle 4 1 3 0 Harmon Killebrew 3 1 1 2 Babe Ruth 4 2 2 3 Roy Sievers 4 0 0 0 Lou Gehrig 4 1 3 1 Heinie Manush 4 0 1 0 Yogi Berra 4 0 0 0 Mickey Vernon 4 0 0 0 Roger Maris 3 0 0 0 Buddy Myer 2 1 1 0 Red Rolfe 2 0 1 0 Jake Early 3 0 0 0 Phil Rizzuto 4 0 1 0 TOTALS 30 3 5 3 TOTALS 34 4 11 4 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 000 200 010 -- 3 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 200 010 01x -- 4 LOB--00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 4, 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 9. 2B--Heinie Manush, Buddy Myer, Mickey Mantle, Red Rolfe. HR--Harmon Killebrew, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth (2). SB--Lou Gehrig. 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS IP H R ER BB SO HR Jim Shaw [L] 7.67 11 4 4 3 0 3 Tom Zachary 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 NEW YORK YANKEES Jack Chesbro [W] 9.00 5 3 3 4 4 1 WP--Jim Shaw. SO--Jake Early, Heinie Manush, Goose Goslin, Joe Cronin. BB--Goose Goslin, Buddy Myer, Sam Rice, Harmon Killebrew, Red Rolfe (2), Roger Maris.
Game 2: New York 5, Washington 4
The Yankees eked out another one-run victory to go up 2-0 in the series. The Senators struck first, with an RBI single by Buddy Myer and an RBI double by Jake Early in the second inning. Babe Ruth hit his third homer in two games, a solo shot, in the bottom of the second to cut the deficit to 2-1. Joe DiMaggio launched a three-run homer in the third inning to put New York ahead to stay. Mickey Mantle drove in the fifth run with a single in the fifth inning. Washington countered with two more runs in the top of the sixth, as Heinie Manush doubled with one out, and he was followed by a Mickey Vernon double and a Myer RBI single. Washington’s last best chance came in the eighth when Vernon got to third base with two out, but he was stranded there.
00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (4) AT 00 NEW YORK YANKEES (5) 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI Sam Rice 5 0 0 0 Tony Lazzeri 3 2 1 0 Joe Cronin 4 0 0 0 Joe DiMaggio 3 1 1 3 Goose Goslin 4 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle 4 0 1 1 Harmon Killebrew 3 0 0 0 Babe Ruth 4 1 3 1 Roy Sievers 4 0 0 0 Lou Gehrig 4 0 0 0 Heinie Manush 4 2 3 0 Yogi Berra 4 0 0 0 Mickey Vernon 4 1 1 1 Roger Maris 3 0 1 0 Buddy Myer 4 1 2 2 Red Rolfe 3 0 1 0 Jake Early 3 0 1 1 Phil Rizzuto 3 1 1 0 TOTALS 35 4 8 4 TOTALS 31 5 9 5 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 020 002 000 -- 4 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 013 010 00x -- 5 LOB--00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 7, 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 4. ERR--Phil Rizzuto. 2B--Jake Early, Heinie Manush, Mickey Vernon, Red Rolfe. HR--Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio. HBP--Tony Lazzeri. SB--Goose Goslin. 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS IP H R ER BB SO HR Alvin Crowder [L] 7.00 8 5 5 1 4 2 George Mogridge 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 00 NEW YORK YANKEES Whitey Ford [W] 6.00 8 4 4 2 4 0 Waite Hoyt 2.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joe Page [S] 1.00 0 0 0 1 1 0 WP--Waite Hoyt (2). SO--Jake Early (2), Joe Cronin, Roy Sievers, Harmon Killebrew, Mickey Mantle, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig, Roger Maris. BB--Jake Early, Joe Cronin, Harmon Killebrew, Joe DiMaggio.
Game 3: Washington 4, New York 3
A three-run homer by Goose Goslin and a solid pitching performance by Walter Johnson got the Senators back into the series. The Yankees’ Tony Lazzeri led off the game with a home run, but Washington countered in the bottom of the first when Sam Rice singled and later scored on a Goslin sacrifice fly. Goslin’s blast in the third inning put the Senators ahead 4-1. The Yankees got a solo homer from Joe DiMaggio in the sixth. They got within one run in the ninth when Lou Gehrig walked and later scored on a groundout. But New York couldn’t do anything with the tying run at the plate.
00 NEW YORK YANKEES (3) AT 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (4) 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI Tony Lazzeri 3 1 1 1 Sam Rice 4 2 2 0 Joe DiMaggio 4 1 1 1 Joe Cronin 4 0 0 0 Mickey Mantle 4 0 1 0 Goose Goslin 3 1 2 4 Babe Ruth 4 0 0 0 Harmon Killebrew 4 0 0 0 Lou Gehrig 3 1 1 0 Roy Sievers 4 0 0 0 Yogi Berra 3 0 1 0 Heinie Manush 4 0 0 0 Roger Maris 4 0 0 1 Mickey Vernon 3 0 1 0 Red Rolfe 4 0 0 0 Buddy Myer 2 0 1 0 Phil Rizzuto 3 0 0 0 Jake Early 2 1 0 0 TOTALS 32 3 5 3 TOTALS 30 4 6 4 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 100 001 001 -- 3 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 103 000 00x -- 4 LOB--00 NEW YORK YANKEES 5, 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 5. ERR--Phil Rizzuto. 2B--Mickey Mantle, Goose Goslin. HR--Tony Lazzeri, Joe DiMaggio, Goose Goslin. SACF--Goose Goslin. SB--Lou Gehrig, Buddy Myer, Sam Rice. 00 NEW YORK YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO HR Lefty Gomez [L] 8.00 6 4 4 2 5 1 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS Walter Johnson [W] 9.00 5 3 3 3 8 2 SO--Mickey Mantle, Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth (2), Roger Maris (2), Joe DiMaggio, Joe Cronin, Sam Rice, Harmon Killebrew (3). BB--Tony Lazzeri, Yogi Berra, Lou Gehrig, Jake Early, Buddy Myer.
Game 4: New York 7, Washington 0
The first rout of the series went to the Yankees, as Jack Chesbro tossed a five-hit shutout and New York hit four home runs. Babe Ruth hit a two-run blast in the first inning, and Roger Maris and Joe DiMaggio followed with solo shots in the second and third innings, respectively, to make it 4-0. DiMaggio led off the eighth with a double and scored on an RBI single by Yogi Berra, making it 5-0. Tony Lazzeri hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth for the final scoring. Chesbro only allowed Washington to put runners in scoring position in the fifth and eighth innings. The Senators had a runner thrown out at the plate in the eighth.
00 NEW YORK YANKEES (7) AT 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (0) 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI Tony Lazzeri 5 1 1 2 Sam Rice 4 0 0 0 Joe DiMaggio 4 2 3 1 Joe Cronin 3 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle 3 1 0 0 Goose Goslin 4 0 0 0 Babe Ruth 2 1 1 2 Harmon Killebrew 4 0 0 0 Lou Gehrig 4 0 1 0 Roy Sievers 4 0 1 0 Yogi Berra 4 0 1 1 Heinie Manush 3 0 1 0 Roger Maris 4 1 1 1 Mickey Vernon 4 0 0 0 Red Rolfe 3 0 0 0 Buddy Myer 3 0 0 0 Phil Rizzuto 3 1 1 0 Jake Early 3 0 2 0 TOTALS 32 7 9 7 TOTALS 32 0 5 0 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 211 000 012 -- 7 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 000 000 000 -- 0 LOB--00 NEW YORK YANKEES 7, 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 7. ERR--Red Rolfe, Phil Rizzuto. 2B--Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio (2), Jake Early. HR--Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio. SB--Babe Ruth, Joe Cronin. 00 NEW YORK YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO HR Jack Chesbro [W] 9.00 5 0 0 2 4 0 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS Jim Shaw [L] 7.33 6 5 5 8 3 3 Mickey Haefner 1.67 3 2 2 1 1 1 SO--Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Roger Maris (2), Goose Goslin, Mickey Vernon, Harmon Killebrew (2). BB--Mickey Mantle (2), Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth (3), Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Heinie Manush, Joe Cronin.
Game 5: Washington 7, New York 5 (10 innings)
New York had a chance to end the series after taking a 5-4 lead after the top of the 10th, but Washington’s Roy Sievers hit his second home run of the game, a three-run blast, to give the Senators a walk-off victory. Sievers’ first homer, a solo shot, had put the Senators ahead 3-1 after four innings. New York tied it in the seventh on a two-run Joe DiMaggio homer, and went ahead 4-3 in the top of the eighth when Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig had back-to-back doubles. The Senators’ Goose Goslin tied it in the bottom of the eighth with a home run. New York went back ahead 5-4 in the 10th on another RBI double by Gehrig. But after the first out in the top of the 10th, Goslin doubled, Harmon Killebrew walked and Sievers homered to right field to extend the series.
00 NEW YORK YANKEES (5) AT 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (7) 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI Tony Lazzeri 4 0 0 0 Sam Rice 5 1 1 1 Joe DiMaggio 4 1 1 2 Joe Cronin 5 0 1 1 Mickey Mantle 5 0 0 0 Goose Goslin 5 2 2 1 Babe Ruth 4 3 2 1 Harmon Killebrew 2 1 0 0 Lou Gehrig 4 0 2 2 Roy Sievers 4 2 2 4 Yogi Berra 5 0 1 0 Heinie Manush 4 0 0 0 Roger Maris 5 0 0 0 Mickey Vernon 3 0 0 0 Red Rolfe 4 0 2 0 Buddy Myer 4 1 2 0 Phil Rizzuto 4 1 1 0 Jake Early 4 0 1 0 TOTALS 39 5 9 5 TOTALS 36 7 9 7 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 000 100 210 1 -- 5 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 002 100 010 3 -- 7 LOB--00 NEW YORK YANKEES 8, 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 6. ERR--Joe Cronin. 2B--Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig (2), Babe Ruth, Goose Goslin, Joe Cronin, Buddy Myer (2). 3B--Phil Rizzuto. HR--Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Goose Goslin, Roy Sievers (2). 00 NEW YORK YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO HR Whitey Ford 7.67 5 4 4 3 4 2 Bob Shawkey 1.33 2 0 0 1 0 0 Joe Page [L] 0.33 2 3 3 1 0 1 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS Alvin Crowder 7.00 7 4 4 3 2 2 Tom Zachary [W] 3.00 2 1 1 1 1 0 SO--Mickey Mantle, Tony Lazzeri, Roger Maris, Mickey Vernon, Buddy Myer, Sam Rice, Harmon Killebrew. BB--Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Vernon, Roy Sievers, Harmon Killebrew (3).
Game 6: Washington 5, New York 3
Walter Johnson kept the Yankees’ bats at bay for the second time in the series to push things to a seventh game. New York went up 1-0 on a Joe DiMaggio RBI double in the first, but Washington took a 2-1 lead in the fourth as Goose Goslin homered and Mickey Vernon provided an RBI double. Yogi Berra homered for New York in the bottom of the fourth to tie it. Both teams scored once in the sixth, as Buddy Myer drove home a run for the Senators with a single, and Babe Ruth his sixth home run of the series for Yankees. Washington took the lead for good in the seventh on a two-run homer by Harmon Killebrew, which concluded the game’s scoring.
00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (5) AT 00 NEW YORK YANKEES (3) 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI Sam Rice 4 0 2 0 Tony Lazzeri 2 1 0 0 Joe Cronin 4 1 1 0 Joe DiMaggio 4 0 2 1 Goose Goslin 5 1 1 1 Mickey Mantle 4 0 1 0 Harmon Killebrew 3 2 2 2 Babe Ruth 4 1 1 1 Roy Sievers 4 0 0 0 Lou Gehrig 4 0 0 0 Heinie Manush 4 1 2 0 Yogi Berra 3 1 1 1 Mickey Vernon 4 0 2 1 Roger Maris 4 0 0 0 Buddy Myer 4 0 1 1 Red Rolfe 4 0 2 0 Jake Early 4 0 0 0 Phil Rizzuto 4 0 0 0 TOTALS 36 5 11 5 TOTALS 33 3 7 3 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 000 201 200 -- 5 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 100 101 000 -- 3 LOB--00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 7, 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 6. ERR--Red Rolfe. 2B--Heinie Manush, Mickey Vernon (2), Joe Cronin, Harmon Killebrew, Joe DiMaggio. HR--Goose Goslin, Harmon Killebrew, Yogi Berra, Babe Ruth. HBP--Joe Cronin. SB--Sam Rice (2). 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS IP H R ER BB SO HR Walter Johnson [W] 9.00 7 3 3 3 5 2 00 NEW YORK YANKEES Lefty Gomez [L] 7.00 10 5 5 2 0 2 Ed Lopat 2.00 1 0 0 0 1 0 SO--Jake Early, Mickey Mantle, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig, Roger Maris, Phil Rizzuto. BB--Sam Rice, Harmon Killebrew, Tony Lazzeri (2), Yogi Berra.
Game 7: New York 2, Washington 1 (13 innings)
Red Rolfe led off the bottom of the 13th inning with a single, stole second, was sacrificed to third and scored on a wild pitch to give the Yankees the walk-off series-clinching victory. The pitchers’ duel saw both teams get six hits each. Jack Chesbro (10 innings, four hits) and Waite Hoyt (three innings, two hits) didn’t allow a single earned run, as Washington’s only run of the contest came in the top of the first after a New York error. The Yankees tied the game in the second when Babe Ruth doubled and scored on Yogi Berra’s sacrifice fly. No runs were scored for the next 10 innings. Washington didn’t get another runner to second base until the 13th inning. The Yankees left runners in scoring position five times before finally breaking through in the 13th.
00 WASHINGTON SENATORS (1) AT 00 NEW YORK YANKEES (2) 00 WASHINGTON SENATO AB R H BI 00 NEW YORK YANKEES AB R H BI Sam Rice 6 0 0 0 Tony Lazzeri 3 0 0 0 Joe Cronin 6 1 3 0 Joe DiMaggio 5 0 0 0 Goose Goslin 6 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle 5 0 1 0 Harmon Killebrew 4 0 0 0 Babe Ruth 5 1 1 0 Roy Sievers 5 0 0 0 Lou Gehrig 4 0 0 0 Heinie Manush 4 0 0 0 Yogi Berra 3 0 1 1 Mickey Vernon 5 0 1 0 Roger Maris 5 0 0 0 Buddy Myer 5 0 0 0 Red Rolfe 5 1 1 0 Jake Early 4 0 1 0 Phil Rizzuto 4 0 2 0 TOTALS 45 1 6 0 TOTALS 39 2 6 1 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 100 000 000 000 0 -- 1 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 010 000 000 000 1 -- 2 LOB--00 WASHINGTON SENATORS 8, 00 NEW YORK YANKEES 7. ERR--Joe DiMaggio. 2B--Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Babe Ruth. SACF--Yogi Berra. SACB--Tony Lazzeri (2), Phil Rizzuto. SB--Joe Cronin, Red Rolfe. 00 WASHINGTON SENATORS IP H R ER BB SO HR Jim Shaw 10.00 3 1 1 2 5 0 Firpo Marberry [L] 2.33 3 1 1 0 1 0 00 NEW YORK YANKEES Jack Chesbro 10.00 4 1 0 3 5 0 Waite Hoyt [W] 3.00 2 0 0 0 2 0 WP--Firpo Marberry. SO--Jake Early, Heinie Manush, Sam Rice (2), Harmon Killebrew (3), Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth (2), Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto. BB--Jake Early, Heinie Manush, Harmon Killebrew, Yogi Berra, Lou Gehrig.
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