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Home > Baseball > World Series History > (1928) NY Yankees 4, St. Louis Cardinals 0
(1928) NY Yankees 4, St. Louis Cardinals 0
The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions and the Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff.
It was another World Series or one can say that it was another sweep for the Murderers' Row. The Series opened in Yankee Stadium, and the Bronx Bombers took a 4-1 decision behind a complete-game three-hitter by Waite Hoyt. George Pipgras was not nearly as sharp in Game 2, but he did not need to be as the Yanks team scored eight runs in the first three innings off Grover Cleveland Alexander and rolled to a 9-3 victory. Lou Gehrig started the scoring with a long three-run homer in the first inning.
With two runs in the first inning of Game 3, the Cardinals team grabbed their first lead of the Series. But Gehrig made it 2-1 with a towering home run in the top of the second and he gave the Yanks team the lead in the fourth with a two-run, inside-the-park homer that just eluded Saint Louis center fielder Taylor Douthit. The Cardinals team scored once in the fifth to tie, but the Bombers took advantage of sloppy Saint Louis fielding in the sixth, scoring three runs on their way to a 7-3 triumph.
The Cardinals team boasted a 2-1 lead through six innings in Game 4. But Babe Ruth led off the seventh with a home run, and when Gehrig followed with his fourth round-tripper of the Series, the Yankees team owned a 3-2 edge. The Yankees team piled on in the eighth, as Cedric Durst homered and Ruth blasted his third of the game. Saint Louis scored once in the bottom of the ninth, but it was not nearly enough as Hoyt closed out the Yankees teams' 7-3, Series-clinching victory. The New York Yankees defeating the Saint Louis Cardinals by a score of 4-3 won the world series of 1928.
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