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Cleveland Indians defeat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3
FIRST ROUND: Oddly, the road team won all seven games. Detroit was poised to end that streak in the final game as the Tigers took a 4-0 lead after seven innings, but Cleveland rallied to score five runs in the…
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St. Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2
FIRST ROUND: Boston scored 19 runs in the first two contests to jump out to a 2-0 lead, but St. Louis got its bats going and came back to win the next four. Three of the six games went to…
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Washington Senators defeat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3
FIRST ROUND: A see-saw series saw Washington take what appeared to be an insurmountable 3-0 lead, but Boston came back with three consecutive victories to force a winner-take-all game seven. Walter Johnson was up to the task, shutting out the…
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Philadelphia Phillies defeat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3
FIRST ROUND: Philadelphia headed to Wrigley Field down 3-2 in the series, but won both games 6 and 7 to eliminate Chicago. Over seven games, the Cubs had a better batting average (.242 to .204), hit more home runs (17…
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New York Yankees defeat St. Louis Browns, 4 games to 2
FIRST ROUND: Things looked bleak for the heavily favored Yankees when they went down 2-1 in the series and fell behind 7-0 in game four. But the Yankees came roaring back to win that contest and the next two to…
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San Francisco Giants 5, Oakland Athletics 3
GAME #49 (championship #2): Jerry Martin went 4-for-5 and smacked a two-run double in the top of the ninth, breaking a 3-3 tie and lifting the Giants to the championship, while ending the A’s six-game winning streak. For the second…
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Oakland Athletics 2, San Francisco Giants 1
GAME #48 (championship #1): Shooty Babbit tripled to lead off the top of the ninth and scored on Dave McKay’s sacrifice fly, and the A’s got another strong pitching performance from Rick Langford to force a second championship game. Oakland’s…
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Oakland Athletics 6, Boston Red Sox 1
GAME #47 (losers’ bracket): In the first and only rematch of the tournament, the Athletics avenged their earlier loss to the Red Sox behind another dominant pitching performance by Steve McCatty and a three-hit, three-RBI game by Rob Picciolo. After…
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Oakland Athletics 3, Cincinnati Reds 0
GAME #46 (losers’ bracket): In an elimination game between the two #1 seeds, the Athletics’ Matt Keough fired a one-hit shutout. He walked two and struck out just one. The A’s scored first in the top of the third on…
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