The road team managed to win all four games here, as the 1911 Philadelphia Athletics took the first two but the 1912 Boston Red Sox bounced back to win the final two games. After a blowout in the opener, the last three low-scoring contests were all decided by one or two runs. Eddie Collins batted .400 (6-for-15) for Philadelphia (5-3). Boston (4-8) didn’t have anyone hit .300 or with more than four hits in the series.
Game #1: Philadelphia 10, Boston 3
The Athletics’ 10 runs were more than both teams would put up combined in the final three games. Danny Murphy and Rube Oldring both had two-run singles to make it 4-0 Philadelphia in the second inning, though the Red Sox’s Heinie Wagner came back with a three-run homer in the bottom of the second. Philadelphia put the game away with a four-run fifth inning, which included a three-RBI double from Bris Lord.
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS (10) AT 1912 BOSTON RED SOX (3)
1911 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI 1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI
Bris Lord 5 1 2 3 Harry Hooper 5 0 2 0
Rube Oldring 5 1 3 2 Steve Yerkes 4 0 0 0
Eddie Collins 5 2 2 0 Tris Speaker 4 0 1 0
Home Run Baker 5 1 2 0 Duffy Lewis 3 1 1 0
Danny Murphy 5 0 3 4 Larry Gardner 3 1 0 0
Stuffy McInnis 5 2 1 0 Jake Stahl 4 0 0 0
Jack Barry 5 1 2 0 Heinie Wagner 4 1 1 3
Ira Thomas 4 0 1 1 Bill Carrigan 4 0 2 0
Jack Coombs BY 4 2 1 0 Hugh Bedient BYZ 1 0 0 0
Forrest Cady 0 0 0 0
Clyde Engle 0 0 0 0
Les Nunamaker 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 43 10 17 10 TOTALS 33 3 7 3
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 220 040 110 -- 10
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 030 000 000 -- 3
LOB--1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 8, 1912 BOSTON RED SOX 7.
ERR--Home Run Baker, Tris Speaker. 2B--Home Run Baker, Bris
Lord, Duffy Lewis. 3B--Tris Speaker. HR--Heinie Wagner.
HBP--Forrest Cady. SB--Stuffy McInnis, Jack Barry, Danny
Murphy, Bris Lord.
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Jack Coombs BY [W] 9.00 7 3 3 3 3 1
1912 BOSTON RED SOX
Hugh Bedient BYZ [L] 5.00 12 8 6 1 2 0
Ben Van Dyke CYW 2.00 2 1 1 0 1 0
Larry Pape D 2.00 3 1 1 1 1 0
Game #2: Philadelphia 2, Boston 1
The Athletics put up a couple of early runs on the board with Cy Morgan’s sacrifice fly in the second and Danny Murphy’s RBI single in the third. That’s all they would need, as Morgan only gave up one run on an RBI single by Boston’s Jake Stahl in the fourth inning.
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS (2) AT 1912 BOSTON RED SOX (1)
1911 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI 1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI
Bris Lord 4 0 1 0 Harry Hooper 4 0 1 0
Rube Oldring 4 0 0 0 Steve Yerkes 4 0 0 0
Eddie Collins 3 1 2 0 Tris Speaker 4 0 1 0
Home Run Baker 4 0 0 0 Duffy Lewis 4 0 0 0
Danny Murphy 4 0 2 1 Larry Gardner 4 1 2 0
Stuffy McInnis 2 1 0 0 Jake Stahl 4 0 1 1
Jack Barry 4 0 1 0 Heinie Wagner 4 0 0 0
Ira Thomas 3 0 0 0 Bill Carrigan 3 0 1 0
Cy Morgan BXW 3 0 0 1 Ray Collins BZ 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 2 6 2 TOTALS 34 1 6 1
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 011 000 000 -- 2
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 000 100 000 -- 1
LOB--1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 9, 1912 BOSTON RED SOX 6.
ERR--Eddie Collins. 2B--Eddie Collins, Bill Carrigan, Larry
Gardner. 3B--Tris Speaker. HBP--Rube Oldring. SACF--Cy
Morgan BXW. SACB--Stuffy McInnis. SB--Jack Barry, Danny
Murphy, Jake Stahl, Larry Gardner.
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Cy Morgan BXW [W] 9.00 6 1 1 0 5 0
1912 BOSTON RED SOX
Ray Collins BZ [L] 9.00 6 2 2 4 6 0
Game #3: Boston 2, Philadelphia 0
Buck O’Brien was terrific for the Red Sox, tossing a four-hit shutout. He retired the first 14 batters. Philadelphia threatened in the sixth but had a runner thrown out at home plate trying to score. Boston finally broke open the scoreless tie in the eighth as Tris Speaker drove in a run with a double, and Jake Stahl had an RBI single.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX (2) AT 1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS (0)
1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1911 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI
Harry Hooper 5 0 0 0 Bris Lord 4 0 1 0
Steve Yerkes 3 1 1 0 Rube Oldring 4 0 0 0
Tris Speaker 4 1 1 1 Eddie Collins 3 0 0 0
Duffy Lewis 2 0 1 0 Home Run Baker 4 0 0 0
Jake Stahl 4 0 1 1 Danny Murphy 4 0 0 0
Heinie Wagner 3 0 0 0 Stuffy McInnis 3 0 1 0
Bill Carrigan 4 0 1 0 Jack Barry 3 0 0 0
Clyde Engle 2 0 0 0 Ira Thomas 2 0 1 0
Buck OBrien B 4 0 1 0 Eddie Plank AX 1 0 0 0
Jack Lapp 1 0 1 0
TOTALS 31 2 6 2 TOTALS 29 0 4 0
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 000 000 020 -- 2
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 000 000 000 -- 0
LOB--1912 BOSTON RED SOX 8, 1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 5.
2B--Tris Speaker. SACB--Eddie Plank AX. SB--Jake Stahl.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Buck OBrien B [W] 9.00 4 0 0 2 2 0
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS
Eddie Plank AX [L] 8.00 5 2 2 6 4 0
Harry Krause BY 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
Game #4: Boston 3, Philadelphia 1
Boston got on the scoreboard in the first inning on Tris Speaker’s sacrifice fly, and took a 2-0 lead in the fourth when Duffy Lewis singled and later scored on a passed ball. The Athletics cut the deficit in half in the seventh inning on Bris Lord’s sacrifice fly, but Speaker led off the eighth with a home run to restore the two-run lead. Smoky Joe Wood gave up five hits and no earned runs in the win.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX (3) AT 1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS (1)
1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1911 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI
Harry Hooper 2 1 1 0 Bris Lord 4 0 0 1
Steve Yerkes 3 0 0 0 Rube Oldring 4 0 1 0
Tris Speaker 3 1 1 2 Eddie Collins 4 0 2 0
Duffy Lewis 4 1 1 0 Home Run Baker 4 0 1 0
Jake Stahl 4 0 1 0 Danny Murphy 3 0 0 0
Heinie Wagner 4 0 0 0 Stuffy McInnis 4 0 0 0
Bill Carrigan 4 0 0 0 Jack Barry 4 0 1 0
Clyde Engle 3 0 0 0 Ira Thomas 3 1 1 0
Smoky Joe Wood AKZ 4 0 1 0 Chief Bender BXZ 1 0 0 0
Amos Strunk 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 3 5 2 TOTALS 32 1 6 1
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 100 100 010 -- 3
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 000 000 100 -- 1
LOB--1912 BOSTON RED SOX 6, 1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 9.
ERR--Tris Speaker, Bill Carrigan, Home Run Baker. 2B--Smoky
Joe Wood AKZ, Eddie Collins, Jack Barry. HR--Tris Speaker.
SACF--Tris Speaker, Bris Lord. SACB--Steve Yerkes, Chief
Bender BXZ (2). SB--Harry Hooper, Jake Stahl, Eddie Collins,
Home Run Baker.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Smoky Joe Wood AKZ [W] 9.00 6 1 0 2 8 0
1911 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS
Chief Bender BXZ [L] 9.00 5 3 2 3 3 1
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