“DIARY OF A WINNER”


 

MARTY KAVANAUGH

BACK-TO-BACK WORLD SERIES CHAMPS
Indians stop the Red Sox, White Sox and Tigers win

September 24, 1916 ... Marty Kavanaugh's grand slam home run in the fifth inning grabbed the lead for the Cleveland Indians and they held on to beat the Red Sox 5 to 3.  The White Sox beat New York and the Tigers beat the Nationals, so the Red Sox number to clinch remains at "four".

Dutch Leonard got the ball for the Sox and he had one bad inning.  Without that fourth inning, he would have pitched a great ball game.  He gave up four hits, but they all went for extra bases.  Sensational fielding by Everett Scott robbed the tribe of at least three more hits. 

The two run lead that Cleveland got off him, caused Dutch to toil even harder, but the Sox bats were quieted by Jim Bagby, who pitched the last four innings.  Joe Boehling started and was in trouble every inning.  The Red Sox had men on base in seven innings, but failed to capitalize.  It was Kavanaugh, who pinch hit for Boehling, when he hit the home run.

 

at Dunn Field (Cleveland) ...

R

H

E

BOSTON RED SOX

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

1

 

3

6

2

CLEVELAND INDIANS

0

0

0

0

4

0

0

1

x

 

5

4

0

W-Jim Bagby (16-16)
L-Dutch Leonard (17-12)
Attendance – 12,500

2B-Speaker (Clev), Wambsganss (Clev), Gandil (Clev)
HR-Kavanaugh (Clev)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AB

R

H

AVG

 

 

Harry Hooper

rf

 4 0 2 .272  

 

Hal Janvrin

2b

 5 0 0 .223  

 

Tilly Walker

cf

 3 0 0 .268  

 

Chick Shorten

cf

 0 0 0 .287  

 

Del Gainor

1b

 2 0 0 .223  

 

Dick Hoblitzell

1b

 1 0 0 .259  

 

Duffy Lewis

lf

 3 1 1 .270  

 

Larry Gardner

3b

 2 1 1 .309  

 

Mike McNally

pr

 0 1 0 .168  

 

Everett Scott

ss

 3 0 1 .217  

 

Olaf Henriksen

ph

 0 0 0 .208  

 

Bill Carrigan

c

 2 0 1 .267  

 

Pinch Thomas

c

 1 0 0 .259  

 

Jimmy Walsh

pr

 0 0 0 .222  

 

Dutch Leonard

p

 3 0 0 .212  

 

Babe Ruth

ph

 1 0 0 .270  
               
    IP H ER BB SO  

 

Dutch Leonard

8

 4 4 1 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS

 

 

BOSTON RED SOX

86

60

-

 

 

Chicago White Sox

85

64

2 1/2

 

 

Detroit Tigers

85

65

3

 

 

New York Yankees

76

70

10

 

 

St. Louis Browns

78

73

10 1/2

 

 

Cleveland Indians

76

73

11 1/2

 

 

Washington Nationals

72

73

13 1/2

 

 

Philadelphia Athletics

33

113

53

 
     
 

Number to clinch - 5