1909 World Series
1909 World Series Team / Wins Manager Season Pittsburgh Pirates(4) Fred Clarke(player/manager) 110-42, .724, GA: 6½ Detroit Tigers(3) Hughie Jennings98-54, .645, GA: 3½The 1909 World Series featured the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Tigers. The Pirates won the Series in seven games to capture their first championship of the modern Major League Baseball era, but their second championship in the club's history.
The Tigers might have finally won the Fall Classic in their third try had it not been for Babe Adams. A rookie pitcher for Pittsburgh that year, manager Fred Clarke started him, on a hunch, in Game 1. Adams won that game and two more.
The Detroit Tigers thus became the first American League team to win three consecutive pennants, and the first team to lose three straight World Series (the New York Giants would lose three straight Series during 1911-1913).
Ty Cobb had a fairly quiet Series, going 6 for 26 with 2 stolen bases and 1 caught stealing. There is a long-standing legend that Cobb, standing on first base, called the German-ancestored Honus Wagner "Krauthead", told him he was going to steal second, and was not only thrown out but that Wagner tagged him in the mouth, ball in hand, drawing blood from the Georgia Peach's lip. However, an examination of the play-by-play does not indicate that such a play occurred. In the one "caught stealing" charged to Cobb, during the first inning of Game 4, he was actually safe at second due to a throwing error by first baseman Bill Abstein.
The Pirates, meanwhile, ran at will against the weak catching corps of the Tigers, stealing 18 bases overall.
For the first time, four umpires were used at the same time, with the standard plate umpire and base umpire along with two outfield umpires.
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Summary
NL Pittsburgh Pirates (4) vs. AL Detroit Tigers (3)
Game Score Date Location Attendance 1 Detroit Tigers - 1, Pittsburgh Pirates - 4 October 8Forbes Field29,264[1]2 Detroit Tigers - 7, Pittsburgh Pirates - 2 October 9Forbes Field30,915[2]3 Pittsburgh Pirates - 8, Detroit Tigers - 6 October 11Bennett Park18,277[3]4 Pittsburgh Pirates - 0, Detroit Tigers - 5 October 12Bennett Park17,036[4]5 Detroit Tigers - 4, Pittsburgh Pirates - 8 October 13Forbes Field21,706[5]6 Pittsburgh Pirates - 4, Detroit Tigers - 5 October 14Bennett Park10,535[6]7 Pittsburgh Pirates - 8, Detroit Tigers - 0 October 16Bennett Park17,562[7]Matchups
Game 1
Friday, October 8, 1909 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Detroit 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 4 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 X 4 5 0WP: Babe Adams (1-0) LP: George Mullin (0-1)
HRs: PIT – Fred Clarke (1)
Game 2
Saturday, October 9, 1909 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Detroit 0 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 9 2 Pittsburgh 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 1WP: Bill Donovan (1-0) LP: Howie Camnitz (0-1)
Game 3
Monday, October 11, 1909 at Bennett Park in Detroit, Michigan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 10 2 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 6 11 5WP: Nick Maddox (1-0) LP: Ed
Summers (0-1)
Game 4
Tuesday, October 12, 1909 at Bennett Park in Detroit, Michigan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 Detroit 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 X 5 8 0WP: George Mullin (1-1) LP: Lefty Leifield (0-1)
Game 5
Wednesday, October 13, 1909 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Detroit 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 4 6 1 Pittsburgh 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 1 X 8 10 2WP: Babe Adams (2-0) LP: Ed
Summers (0-2)
HRs: DET – Davy Jones (1), Sam
Crawford (1) PIT – Fred
Clarke (2)
Game 6
Thursday, October 14, 1909 at Bennett Park in Detroit, Michigan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 1 Detroit 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 X 5 10 2WP: George Mullin (2-1) LP: Vic
Willis (0-1)
Game 7
Saturday, October 16, 1909 at Bennett Park in Detroit, Michigan
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 8 7 0 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3WP: Babe Adams (3-0) LP: Bill Donovan (1-1)
Composite Box
1909 World Series (4-3): Pittsburgh Pirates (N.L.) over Detroit Tigers (A.L.)
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Pittsburgh Pirates11 4 1 3 2 4 4 2 3 34 50 12 Detroit Tigers3 4 3 5 3 3 4 1 2 28 56 17 Total Attendance: 145,295 Average Attendance: 20,756 Winning Player’s Share: – $1,825 Losing Player’s Share – $1,275[8]Notes
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 1 - Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 2 - Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 3 - Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 4 - Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 5 - Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 6 - Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
- ^ 1909 World Series Game 7 - Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers. Retrosheet. Retrieved on 2008-05-07.
References
- Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. The World Series. 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 27-31)
- Reichler, Joseph, ed. (1982). The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.), p. 2117. MacMillian Publishing. ISBN 0-02-579010-2.
- Forman, Sean L.. 1909 World Series. Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information.. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
External links
- 1909 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com
- 1909 World Series at WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)
- 1909 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com
- 1909 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org
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