The 1912 Boston Red Sox won their final three games against the 1915 Philadelphia Phillies, including a season-ending walk-off home run by Heinie Wagner, to end up the year at .500 (16-16). The Phillies (10-22) cemented their place in the cellar. Tris Speaker hit .500 (8-for-16) to raise his season average to .380 for the Red Sox. Fred Luderus batted .533 (8-for-15) for the Phillies, helping him to end up with a team-best .310 average.
Game #1: Philadelphia 5, Boston 4
Boston built a pair of two-run leads, but couldn’t keep them. Duffy Lewis put the Red Sox ahead 4-2 in the top of the seventh with a two-run double. But the Phillies tied it in the bottom half of the frame on Beals Becker’s sacrifice fly and Bert Niehoff’s run-scoring single. Then, in the eighth, Dave Bancroft reached base on an error, was sacrificed to second, and scored on Fred Luderus’ single, giving the Phillies their first lead of the game. George McQuillan pitched a 1-2-3 ninth and got the win in relief.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX (4) AT 1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (5)
1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1915 PHILADELPHIA PH AB R H BI
Harry Hooper 5 1 1 0 Dave Bancroft 5 1 1 0
Larry Gardner 5 1 1 0 Gavvy Cravath 3 0 0 0
Tris Speaker 5 1 2 0 Fred Luderus 5 1 3 1
Duffy Lewis 5 0 2 2 George Whitted 5 1 2 0
Jake Stahl 3 1 1 1 Beals Becker 4 1 1 1
Forrest Cady 1 0 0 0 Bert Niehoff 4 1 2 2
Bill Carrigan 2 0 1 1 Bill Killefer 3 0 2 1
Steve Yerkes 3 0 0 0 Bobby Byrne 3 0 0 0
Heinie Wagner 3 0 0 0 Al Demaree C 2 0 0 0
Hugh Bedient BYZ 3 0 0 0 George Paskert 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 35 4 8 4 TOTALS 35 5 11 5
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 002 000 200 -- 4
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 000 200 21x -- 5
LOB--1912 BOSTON RED SOX 10, 1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 12.
ERR--Tris Speaker (2), Steve Yerkes, Jake Stahl, Fred
Luderus, Bobby Byrne. 2B--Duffy Lewis, Harry Hooper, Bert
Niehoff. 3B--Jake Stahl. HBP--Bill Killefer. SACF--Beals
Becker. SACB--Bill Carrigan, Steve Yerkes, Gavvy Cravath, Al
Demaree C. SB--George Whitted (2).
1912 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Hugh Bedient BYZ [L] 8.00 11 5 4 2 9 0
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
Al Demaree C 7.00 7 4 2 3 3 0
George McQuillan BZ [W] 2.00 1 0 0 1 0 0
Game #2: Boston 9, Philadelphia 2
The Red Sox had three multi-score innings in the first five to leave no doubt in this one. Larry Gardner had an RBI single, followed by a Tris Speaker triple and a Duffy Lewis sacrifice fly, to make it 3-0 in the first inning. After Speaker hit his second triple in the third inning, Lewis hit a two-run homer. Steve Yerkes had a two-run single in the fifth inning to make it 7-0, and Bill Carrigan had an RBI single in the seventh to make it 8-0. The Phillies avoided a shutout thanks to Gavvy Cravath’s two-run homer in the eighth inning.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX (9) AT 1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (2)
1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI 1915 PHILADELPHIA PH AB R H BI
Harry Hooper 5 1 1 0 Dave Bancroft 3 0 0 0
Larry Gardner 5 2 3 1 Gavvy Cravath 5 1 1 2
Tris Speaker 4 3 3 1 Fred Luderus 4 0 2 0
Duffy Lewis 4 2 2 3 George Whitted 4 0 0 0
Bill Carrigan 5 1 2 1 Beals Becker 4 0 0 0
Steve Yerkes 4 0 2 2 Bert Niehoff 3 0 0 0
Heinie Wagner 4 0 0 0 Bill Killefer 3 0 0 0
Forrest Cady 4 0 1 0 Bobby Byrne 2 0 0 0
Ray Collins BZ 3 0 0 0 George Paskert 1 0 0 0
Ed Burns 0 0 0 0
Erskine Mayer BYZ 1 0 0 0
Milt Stock 2 1 2 0
TOTALS 38 9 14 8 TOTALS 32 2 5 2
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 302 030 100 -- 9
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 000 000 020 -- 2
LOB--1912 BOSTON RED SOX 5, 1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 9.
2B--Harry Hooper, Fred Luderus (2). 3B--Tris Speaker (2).
HR--Duffy Lewis, Gavvy Cravath. HBP--Bill Killefer.
SACF--Duffy Lewis. SACB--Ray Collins BZ. SB--Milt Stock.
1912 BOSTON RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Ray Collins BZ [W] 9.00 5 2 2 5 4 1
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
Erskine Mayer BYZ [L] 5.00 9 8 8 1 2 1
Ben Tincup B 2.00 4 1 1 0 1 0
Stan Baumgartner BXW 2.00 1 0 0 0 4 0
Game #3: Boston 8, Philadelphia 3
Boston again got off to a good start, going up 2-1 in the first inning on Duffy Lewis’ RBI single and Bill Carrigan’s sacrifice fly. Gavvy Cravath homered for the second straight game and the Phillies went up 3-2 in the fourth inning on Eppa Rixey’s RBI single. But Boston scored in every inning from the fifth to the eighth. Tris Speaker had an RBI single and Lewis drove in two with a single to put Boston back ahead 5-3 in the fifth. Forrest Cady and Lewis had RBI singles in the sixth and seventh innings, respectively, and Heinie Wagner led off the eighth with a solo homer.
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (3) AT 1912 BOSTON RED SOX (8)
1915 PHILADELPHIA PH AB R H BI 1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI
Dave Bancroft 5 0 1 0 Harry Hooper 5 2 2 0
Gavvy Cravath 5 1 1 1 Larry Gardner 3 2 2 0
Fred Luderus 2 0 1 0 Tris Speaker 3 2 1 1
George Whitted 4 0 1 0 Duffy Lewis 4 0 3 4
Beals Becker 4 2 2 0 Bill Carrigan 2 0 0 1
Bert Niehoff 2 0 0 0 Steve Yerkes 4 0 1 0
Bill Killefer 4 0 1 1 Heinie Wagner 4 2 2 1
Bobby Byrne 3 0 0 0 Forrest Cady 4 0 2 1
Eppa Rixey BY 2 0 1 1 Buck OBrien B 4 0 0 0
Milt Stock 1 0 0 0
George Paskert 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 32 3 8 3 TOTALS 33 8 13 8
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 110 100 000 -- 3
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 200 031 11x -- 8
LOB--1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 8, 1912 BOSTON RED SOX 5.
ERR--Fred Luderus. 2B--Fred Luderus, Harry Hooper, Heinie
Wagner. HR--Gavvy Cravath, Heinie Wagner. HBP--Tris Speaker.
SACF--Bill Carrigan. SACB--Bert Niehoff (2). SB--George
Whitted, Tris Speaker, Heinie Wagner.
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Eppa Rixey BY [L] 6.00 9 6 6 1 2 0
George Chalmers BY 2.00 4 2 2 1 1 1
1912 BOSTON RED SOX
Buck OBrien B [W] 9.00 8 3 3 4 3 1
Game #4: Boston 2, Philadelphia 1
Philadelphia took a 1-0 lead in the fourth as Gavvy Cravath singled, stole second, and scored on Fred Luderus’ hit. Boston tied it in the sixth as Larry Gardner led off with a single, moved to third after two groundouts, and scored on Jake Stahl’s single. It stayed 1-1 until the bottom of the ninth when Heinie Wagner hit a one-out, walk-off home run, his second tater in two games.
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (1) AT 1912 BOSTON RED SOX (2)
1915 PHILADELPHIA PH AB R H BI 1912 BOSTON RED SOX AB R H BI
Dave Bancroft 4 0 0 0 Harry Hooper 4 0 0 0
Gavvy Cravath 4 1 1 0 Larry Gardner 4 1 1 0
Fred Luderus 4 0 2 1 Tris Speaker 4 0 2 0
George Whitted 3 0 0 0 Duffy Lewis 4 0 0 0
Beals Becker 4 0 2 0 Jake Stahl 4 0 2 1
Bert Niehoff 3 0 1 0 Bill Carrigan 3 0 1 0
Bill Killefer 4 0 1 0 Steve Yerkes 4 0 0 0
Bobby Byrne 3 0 0 0 Heinie Wagner 3 1 1 1
Grover C Alexander A 2 0 0 0 Smoky Joe Wood AKZ 2 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 1 7 1 TOTALS 32 2 7 2
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 000 100 000 -- 1
1912 BOSTON RED SOX 000 001 001 -- 2
LOB--1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 7, 1912 BOSTON RED SOX 8.
2B--Fred Luderus, Bert Niehoff. HR--Heinie Wagner. HBP--Bill
Carrigan. SACB--Grover C Alexander ACXYZ, Bert Niehoff.
SB--Gavvy Cravath, Tris Speaker, Bill Carrigan, Jake Stahl.
1915 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Grover C Alexander A [L] 8.33 7 2 2 2 7 1
1912 BOSTON RED SOX
Smoky Joe Wood AKZ [W] 9.00 7 1 1 2 4 0
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