1913 World Series
Team (Wins) Managers Season Philadelphia Athletics (4) Connie Mack 96–57, .627, GA:6+1⁄2 New York Giants (1) John McGraw 101–51, .664, GA:12+1⁄2
Dates	October 7–11
Venue(s)	Brush Stadium (New York) Shibe Park (Philadelphia)
Umpires	Bill Klem (NL),Tommy Connolly (AL) Cy Rigler (NL),Rip Egan (AL)
Hall of Famers	Umpires: Bill Klem Tommy Connolly Athletics: Connie Mack (manager) Frank Baker Chief Bender Eddie Collins Herb Pennock (DNP) Eddie Plank Giants: John McGraw (manager) Rube Marquard Christy Mathewson
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The1913World Series was the championship series inMajor League Baseball for the1913 season. The tenth edition of the World Series, it matched theAmerican League (AL) championPhiladelphia Athletics against theNational League (NL)New York Giants. The Athletics won the Series four games to one.

The A's pitching gave the edge to a closer-than-it-looked Series in 1913.Christy Mathewson lost his Seriesswan song in the final game to an old college rival and eventual fellowBaseball Hall of Fame member,Eddie Plank. With previous victories in1910 and1911, the Athletics became the first team to win three World Series.

The Giants, meanwhile, became the firstNational League team since theChicago Cubs (1906–1908) to win three consecutive pennants. They were also the second club (following theDetroit Tigers1907–1909) to lose three consecutive World Series; and remain the last to do so.

The Series itself was a face-off between two teams that later becamecrosstown rivals in Oakland and San Francisco. The Oakland A's won again in a four-game sweep in the1989 World Series, famous for theearthquake that struck before Game 3, which is the last World Series victory for the A's.

ALPhiladelphia Athletics (4) vs. NLNew York Giants (1)

V.I.P.'s attend Game 2 at Shibe Park

Pennsylvania governorJohn Kinley Tener and his wife, Harriet

Baseball execsEd McKeever (Brooklyn NL),Ben Shibe (Phila. AL),Garry Herrmann and Joseph Flanner (Cincinnati NL) (Front, L–R)

In the opener,Home Run Baker drove in three runs with three hits for the A's, including a home run.Eddie Collins went 3-for-3 and scored three runs. Despite giving up four runs and 11 hits,Chief Bender held on for a 6–4 win. The Giants struck first in the bottom of the third whenFred Merkle hit a leadoff single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, and scored onLarry Doyle's single, but in the fourth,Eddie Collins hit a leadoff triple and scored on Baker's single. After a fielder's choice and double,Wally Schang's triple scored two more runs. Baker's two-run home run after a walk in the fifth made it 5–1 Philadelphia. The Giants cut the lead to 5–4 in the bottom of the inning when after two singles and a groundout, an error Doyle's ground ball,Art Fletcher's RBI single, andGeorge Burns's groundout scored a run each. The A's got an insurance run in the eighth off ofDoc Crandall onStuffy McInnis's RBI double.

Mathewson and Plank matched craft and guile. In the bottom of the ninth inning of a scoreless game, the Giants put on a stirring baseball version of the "goal-line stand". With none out, the A's hadAmos Strunk on third andJack Barry on second. The next batter,Jack Lapp, grounded to first, whereHooks Wiltse, a pitcher, was filling in. Wiltse made a good stop and threw home to nab Strunk. With Barry on third now and Lapp on first, Plank grounded to Wiltse and Hooks fired home again, getting a sliding Barry. Mathewson retired the next hitter, and the game went into extra innings. In the top of the tenth the Giants broke the ice with three runs, with Mathewson singling in the winning run after a leadoff single and sacrifice bunt and then completing the extra-inning shutout by retiring the A's in their half of the tenth. After Mathewson's single, an error and hit-by-pitch loaded the bases beforeArt Fletcher drove in two insurance runs with a single.

Eddie Collins had three hits and three RBI, andBullet Joe Bush threw a five-hitter to put the A's ahead in the series. Jeff Tesreau allowed three straight one-out singles in the first, the last of which toHome Run Baker scoring a run. After a double steal and strike out, and error onAmos Strunk's ground ball scored two more runs. The A's made it 5–0 next inning onEddie Collins's two-run single. The Giants got on the board in the fifth whenRed Murray drew a leadoff walk, stole second, moved to third on an error and scored onLarry McLean's single. The A's added to their lead in the seventh when Collins's triple andHome Run Baker's single scored a run each. The Giants scored their last run of the game in the bottom of the inning whenTillie Shafer hit a leadoff double and scored onRed Murray's single.Wally Schang's home run in the eighth off ofDoc Crandall closed the scoring at 8–2 A's.

The home team won for the first time in the series, although the visiting Giants made it close in the late innings.Wally Schang had four RBI for the A's, they now had a 3–1 series lead. Just like in Game 1, Bender struggled but went the distance for his second win of the series. The A's struck first in the bottom of the second whenStuffy McInnis hit a leadoff single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored onJack Barry's double. In the fourth,Wally Schang's single scored two and an error onChief Bender's ground ball scored another. Next inning, after a two-out walk and double off ofRube Marquard,Wally Schang's two-run double made it 6–0 A's. The Giants were kept off the scoreboard untilFred Merkle's three-run home run in the seventh. They cut Philadelphia's lead to 6–5 next inning whenGeorge Burns's double andTillie Shafer's triple scored a run each, but could not score again.

Plank led the Athletics to victory, allowing the Giants only two hits, but his own error in the fifth inning cost him a shutout. The A's scored a run in the first onHome Run Baker's sacrifice fly with runners on first and third, then scored two more in the third on Baker's single andStuffy McInnis's sacrifice fly. The Giants avoided a shutout in the fifth onLarry McLean's RBI single.

This was the A's third series title in four years. They had also won in1910 and1911.

1913 World Series(4–1):Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.) overNew York Giants (N.L.)

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