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Home > Baseball > World Series History > (1938) NY Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0
(1938) NY Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 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 matches.
The Yankees, cruised to the American League pennant, the Cubs, courtesy of Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett, hit the immortal, the Homer in the Gloamin' with two outs in the bottom of the ninth for first place and eventually the National League pennant.
The World Series opened in Chicago, The Yanks scored a pair of runs in the second, the Cubs scored once in the third and the Yanks scored a single run in the sixth, Red Ruffing went the distance and scattered nine hits to earn the for a 3-1 Yankees victory with Bill Lee taking the loss.
Game 2 matched Yankee ace Lefty Gomez against Dizzy Dean. And thanks to center fielder Joe Marty's sac fly in the first and two-run double in the third, Dean was nursing a 3-2 Chicago lead after seven frames. But in the top of the eighth, Frank Crosetti touched Dean for a two-run homer, and one inning later Joe DiMaggio did the same. Gomez, with help from reliever Johnny Murphy, didn't allow the Cubs to score after the third, and the final score was New York 6, Chicago 3.
In New York for Game 3, the Yankees collected their first base hit in the fifth inning, when Joe Gordon drove a Clay Bryant pitch into the left-field bleachers. Three batters later, Yankees third baseman Red Rolfe singled home Yankees starter Monte Pearson to give New York a 2-1 lead. The Bombers scored another pair in the sixth on Gordon's two-run single, and Pearson went nine innings for the 5-2 victory.
Crosetti lined a bases-loaded triple into the left-field corner in the second inning of Game 4, and the Cubs hung around for a while, but the Yankees put the game away with four runs in the bottom of the eighth. Red Ruffing went nine innings to gain the 8-3, Series-clinching decision. That made six straight Series losses for the Cubs, while the Yankees could boast three in the last three seasons. Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win three consecutive World Series titles. Bill Dickey and Joe Gordon led the Yankees with a .400 average.
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