“DIARY OF A WINNER”


 

BACK-TO-BACK WORLD SERIES CHAMPS
The Tigers win in the ninth inning

August 26, 1916 ... The Tigers outlasted the Red Sox at Fenway Park by a 2 to 1 score  For seven innings the fielding was sharp and the pitching of Carl Mays and Bill James was air tight.  Not a player had reached second base.  Then in the eight, Sam Crawford was passed by Mays.  Mays, seeing Crawford with a big lead off first base, threw one that got past Hobby, letting Crawford reach third base.  Ralph Young, with a single to center, scored Crawford.

In the ninth, with Weldon Wyckoff now pitching, the Tigers took added to their the lead with another run.  In the bottom of the ninth, Babe Ruth came in as a pinch hitter and walloped the ball off the left field wall for two bases and scored on a single by Hobby, but that was it.  The Sox lost when Hick Cady was called out on strikes.  The win gave the Tigers their first series win against the Sox this year.
 

FENWAY PARK

 

BATTER

  

 

0
STRIKES

0
BALLS

0
OUTS

  
 
 

P

C

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

  

R

H

E

  
     

DETROIT TIGERS

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

    

2

5

2

  
     

BOSTON RED SOX

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

    

1

4

1

  

 

 W-Bill James (8-8)
L-Carl Mays (14-8)
Attendance - 23,321		 2B-Ruth (Bost)
 3B-Vitt (Det)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AB

R

H

AVG

 

 

Harry Hooper

rf

 4 0 0 .262  

 

Jack Barry

2b

 4 0 0 .203  

 

Duffy Lewis

lf

 3 0 0 .253  

 

Babe Ruth

ph

 1 1 1 .302  

 

Dick Hoblitzell

1b

 3 0 2 .291  

 

Tilly Walker

cf

 4 0 1 .271  

 

Larry Gardner

3b

 3 0 0 .297  

 

Everett Scott

ss

 2 0 0 .213  

 

Olaf Henriksen

ph

 1 0 0 .204  

 

Hick Cady

c

 1 0 0 .206  

 

Pinch Thomas

c

 2 0 0 .255  

 

Hal Janvrin

ss

 0 0 0 .233  

 

Carl Mays

p

 0 0 0 .231  

 

Chick Shorten

ph

 1 0 0 .255  

 

Mike McNally

pr

 0 0 0 .173  

 

Weldon Wycoff

p

 0 0 0 .286  
               
    IP H ER BB SO  

 

Carl Mays

8

 4 0 1 4

 

 

Weldon Wyckoff

1

 1 1 0 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS

 

 

BOSTON RED SOX

70

49

-

 

 

Detroit Tigers

67

56

5

 

 

New York Yankees

65

55

5 1/2

 

 

Chicago White Sox

66

56

5 1/2

 

 

St. Louis Browns

66

57

6

 

 

Cleveland Indians

65

57

6 1/2

 

 

Washington Nationals

57

61

12 1/2

 

 

Philadelphia Athletics

26

91

43