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(1936) NY Yankees 4, NY Giants 2

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 matches.

Screwball pitcher Carl Hubbell mastered the Yankees in Game 1, scattering seven hits in nine innings for a 6-1 victory. The outcome was in doubt until the bottom of the eighth, when the Giants scored four times. This was the Yankees first World Series without Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio.

The slugging Yankees lived up to their reputation in Game 2, hammering five different Giants hurlers for 17 hits and 18 runs. Bill Dickey and Tony Lazzeri each drove in five runs, four of Lazzeri's RBI, Runs Batted In, coming on his third-inning grand slam, only the second in Series history. Lefty Gomez went the distance to gain credit for the 18-4 blowout.

Game 3, in the Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig homered in the bottom of the second inning, Jimmy Ripple homered in the top of the fifth, and after seven-plus innings the score was still tied at one. In the bottom of the eighth, the Yankees scored on Frank Crosetti's single off the glove of starter Freddie Fitzsimmons and Pat Malone pitched a scoreless ninth to save the American Leaguers' 2-1 victory.

The Bombers made it three straight with a 5-2 win in Game 4, with Monte Pearson going nine innings to beat Hubbell. In Game 5, the Giants went up 3-0, on a trio of RBI singles in the first inning, but Yankees starter Red Ruffing evened the score at 4-4 after six innings. In the top of the 10th, player-manager Bill Terry gave the Giants a 5-4 edge with a sacrifice fly to center field. The game ended when Yankee pinch-runner Bob Seeds was thrown out trying to steal second base. Hal Schumacher was the winner, pitching all 10 innings.

In Game 6, back in the Polo Grounds, the Yankees clinging to a 6-5 lead after eight innings. Then the Bombers bombed away in the ninth, scoring five runs before the Giants could record a single out, and they wound up with seven in the inning. The final score: 13-5, with the Yankees winning yet another World Series.

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