After being swept in week one, the 1906 Chicago Cubs bounced back with a sweep of their own, taking all four games from the 1912 Boston Red Sox. The series began with a pair of one-run games, followed by two Chicago routs. Harry Steinfeldt led Chicago (4-4) by hitting .417 (5-for-12) with four extra-base hits. Duffy Lewis went 5-for-14 (5-for-14) to pace Boston (2-6).
Game #1: Chicago 1, Boston 0
A great pitchers’ duel between the Cubs’ Ed Reulbach and the Red Sox’s Hugh Bedient was decided by a single unearned run. Reulbach tossed a one-hitter while Bedient only gave up four hits. In the fourth, Frank Chance reached base on a two-out error, and scored on Harry Steinfeldt’s double. That was it as Boston only got a single from Tris Speaker in the first inning, as well as one walk.
1906 CHICAGO CUBS (1) AT 1912 BOSTON RED SOX (0)
1906 CHICAGO CUBS AB R H BI 1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI
Jimmy Slagle 4 0 0 0 Harry Hooper 4 0 0 0
Jimmy Sheckard 4 0 1 0 Steve Yerkes 3 0 0 0
Frank Schulte 4 0 0 0 Tris Speaker 3 0 1 0
Frank Chance 4 1 2 0 Duffy Lewis 3 0 0 0
Harry Steinfeldt 3 0 1 1 Larry Gardner 3 0 0 0
Joe Tinker 3 0 0 0 Jake Stahl 3 0 0 0
Johnny Evers 4 0 0 0 Heinie Wagner 3 0 0 0
Johnny Kling 2 0 0 0 Bill Carrigan 3 0 0 0
Ed Reulbach AYW 2 0 0 0 Hugh Bedient BYZ 1 0 0 0
Forrest Cady 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 30 1 4 1 TOTALS 27 0 1 0
1906 CHICAGO CUBS 000 100 000 -- 1
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 000 000 000 -- 0
LOB--1906 CHICAGO CUBS 6, 1912 BOSTON RED SOX 1. ERR--Hugh
Bedient BYZ. 2B--Harry Steinfeldt, Frank Chance. SACB--Ed
Reulbach AYW. SB--Frank Chance.
1906 CHICAGO CUBS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Ed Reulbach AYW [W] 9.00 1 0 0 1 4 0
1912 BOSTON RED SOX
Hugh Bedient BYZ [L] 9.00 4 1 0 3 2 0
Game #2: Chicago 5, Boston 4
The Cubs went up 3-0 on Johnny Kling’s three-run homer in the fourth inning. The Red Sox rallied to tie the game in the sixth innings with three runs on no hits as Chicago starter Carl Lundgren fell apart and walked five while hitting one. Boston then took a 4-3 lead on Duffy Lewis’ home run in the eighth. But in the top of the ninth, Jimmy Sheckard came through with a two-out, two-run double to put the Cubs back ahead for good.
1906 CHICAGO CUBS (5) AT 1912 BOSTON RED SOX (4)
1906 CHICAGO CUBS AB R H BI 1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI
Jimmy Slagle 4 0 0 0 Harry Hooper 4 1 0 0
Jimmy Sheckard 5 0 1 2 Steve Yerkes 4 0 1 0
Frank Schulte 5 0 2 0 Tris Speaker 3 1 0 0
Frank Chance 3 0 0 0 Duffy Lewis 3 2 1 1
Harry Steinfeldt 3 1 1 0 Larry Gardner 3 0 0 1
Joe Tinker 4 1 1 0 Jake Stahl 3 0 0 1
Johnny Evers 3 0 0 0 Heinie Wagner 3 0 0 1
Pat Moran 1 1 1 0 Bill Carrigan 4 0 0 0
Johnny Kling 2 1 2 3 Ray Collins BZ 2 0 0 0
Carl Lundgren BXW 2 0 0 0 Forrest Cady 1 0 0 0
Solly Hofman 0 1 0 0
TOTALS 32 5 8 5 TOTALS 30 4 2 4
1906 CHICAGO CUBS 000 300 002 -- 5
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 000 003 010 -- 4
LOB--1906 CHICAGO CUBS 7, 1912 BOSTON RED SOX 6. ERR--Harry
Steinfeldt, Joe Tinker. 2B--Jimmy Sheckard. 3B--Harry
Steinfeldt. HR--Johnny Kling, Duffy Lewis. HBP--Harry
Steinfeldt, Tris Speaker. SACB--Solly Hofman, Johnny Kling.
1906 CHICAGO CUBS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Carl Lundgren BXW 5.33 1 3 3 6 6 0
Jack Taylor BR [W] 2.67 1 1 1 0 1 1
Orval Overall CXW [S] 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 BOSTON RED SOX
Ray Collins BZ [L] 9.00 8 5 5 4 4 1
Game #3: Chicago 5, Boston 1
Boston scored first, but Chicago went ahead in the third inning as Frank Schulte drove in two with a base hit. It stayed 2-1 until the eighth inning when the Cubs padded their lead, as Johnny Evers drove in two with a triple and scored on Johnny Kling’s sacrifice fly. Mordecai Brown scattered four hits in the win.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX (1) AT 1906 CHICAGO CUBS (5)
1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1906 CHICAGO CUBS AB R H BI
Harry Hooper 4 0 0 0 Jimmy Slagle 3 1 0 0
Steve Yerkes 4 0 0 0 Jimmy Sheckard 3 0 2 0
Tris Speaker 3 0 0 0 Frank Schulte 4 0 2 2
Duffy Lewis 4 0 2 0 Frank Chance 4 0 0 0
Larry Gardner 3 0 0 0 Harry Steinfeldt 2 1 0 0
Jake Stahl 2 0 0 0 Joe Tinker 3 1 1 0
Heinie Wagner 4 1 1 0 Johnny Evers 4 1 1 2
Bill Carrigan 4 0 1 0 Johnny Kling 2 0 1 1
Buck OBrien B 2 0 0 1 Mordecai Brown ACXZ 4 1 0 0
Forrest Cady 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 1 4 1 TOTALS 29 5 7 5
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 010 000 000 -- 1
1906 CHICAGO CUBS 002 000 03x -- 5
LOB--1912 BOSTON RED SOX 8, 1906 CHICAGO CUBS 7. ERR--Frank
Chance. 2B--Duffy Lewis, Bill Carrigan, Heinie Wagner.
3B--Johnny Evers. HBP--Harry Steinfeldt. SACF--Buck OBrien
B, Johnny Kling. SB--Jimmy Sheckard.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Buck OBrien B [L] 8.00 7 5 5 5 2 0
1906 CHICAGO CUBS
Mordecai Brown ACXZ [W] 9.00 4 1 1 4 6 0
Game #4: Chicago 9, Boston 4
Chicago took an early 4-0 lead with the help of Harry Steinfeldt’s RBI triple in the second and Frank Chance’s two-RBI single in the third. With a 5-2 lead, the Cubs put the game out of reach in the eighth as they opened the inning with five straight hits and had six in total.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX (4) AT 1906 CHICAGO CUBS (9)
1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1906 CHICAGO CUBS AB R H BI
Harry Hooper 3 1 0 0 Jimmy Slagle 4 2 2 1
Steve Yerkes 3 1 0 0 Jimmy Sheckard 5 1 2 1
Tris Speaker 4 1 2 0 Frank Schulte 3 0 0 0
Duffy Lewis 4 1 2 1 Frank Chance 4 2 3 2
Larry Gardner 4 0 0 1 Harry Steinfeldt 4 2 3 2
Jake Stahl 4 0 0 0 Joe Tinker 4 1 1 1
Heinie Wagner 4 0 0 1 Johnny Evers 3 1 1 1
Bill Carrigan 4 0 2 1 Johnny Kling 3 0 1 1
Smoky Joe Wood AKZ 1 0 0 0 Jack Pfiester AXYZ 4 0 0 0
Forrest Cady 1 0 0 0
Clyde Engle 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 33 4 6 4 TOTALS 34 9 13 9
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 000 101 002 -- 4
1906 CHICAGO CUBS 022 100 04x -- 9
LOB--1912 BOSTON RED SOX 5, 1906 CHICAGO CUBS 5. ERR--Jack
Pfiester AXYZ. 2B--Duffy Lewis, Harry Steinfeldt, Joe
Tinker. 3B--Jimmy Sheckard, Harry Steinfeldt. SACF--Johnny
Kling. SACB--Smoky Joe Wood AKZ, Frank Schulte. SB--Tris
Speaker.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Smoky Joe Wood AKZ [L] 7.00 7 5 5 2 3 0
Charley Hall BY 1.00 6 4 4 0 1 0
1906 CHICAGO CUBS
Jack Pfiester AXYZ [W] 9.00 6 4 3 2 8 0
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