The1930 World Series was thechampionship series ofMajor League Baseball for the1930 season. The 27th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that pitted theAmerican League champion (anddefending World Series champion)Philadelphia Athletics against theNational League championSt. Louis Cardinals. The Athletics defeated the Cardinals in six games, 4–2. Philadelphia's pitching aceLefty Grove, andGeorge Earnshaw, the No. 2 man in Mack's rotation, won two games apiece. Earnshaw also pitched seven scoreless innings as Game 5 starter, but ended up with a no-decision as Grove relieved him in the eighth and took the win on Jimmie Foxx's two-run homer in the top of the ninth for the game's only scoring.

The Cardinals led theNational League in runs scored and averaged six runs per game in the regular season, but could manage only two runs per game in this World Series.

This was the Athletics' fifth World Series championship win (following1910,1911,1913 and1929), and their last in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then Oakland in 1968—where they have since won four more World Series titles (1972,1973,1974, and1989). Their win this year tied them with theBoston Red Sox for most World Series wins as of that point (five) until1937, when theNew York Yankees surged ahead of both in World Series wins and have gone on to amass 27 World Series championships as of 2025.

The city of Philadelphia would have to wait 50 years untilits next World Series championship, when thePhillies defeated theKansas City Royals and thus became the last of the "Original Sixteen" MLB franchises to accomplish the feat.

This World Series also marks the beginning of the Cardinals run of dominance in the National League in the early 1930s. They would win the pennant three times between 1930 and 1934 and the World Series in1931 and'34.

This would also be the final World Series where both teams uniforms did not have numbers.

ALPhiladelphia Athletics (4) vs. NLSt. Louis Cardinals (2)

The A's managed only five hits off of Grimes in Game 1, but all were for extra bases and each produced a run in five different innings. Al Simmons and Mickey Cochrane hit solo home runs for the A's, helping Lefty Grove to a 5–2 win. The A's struck first in the bottom of the second whenJimmie Foxx tripled and scored onBing Miller's sacrifice fly. The Cardinals loaded the bases in the third on three straight leadoff singles, thenTaylor Douthit's lineout andSparky Adams's sacrifice fly scored a run each. Simmons's home run in the fourth tied the game. In the sixth,Max Bishop walked with one out and scored onJimmy Dykes' double. Next inning,Mule Haas tripled with one out and scored onJoe Boley's groundout. Cochrane's eighth inning home run gave the A's their last run of the game.

George Earnshaw allowed six hits and walked one, putting the A's ahead 2–0. The Athletics scored six runs in the first four innings to put the game out of reach.Mickey Cochrane's two-out home run in the first gave the A's their first run. AfterAl Simmons singled,Jimmie Foxx's RBI double made it 2–0 A's. George Watkins's home run in the second gave the Cardinals their only run of the game. In the third, Cochrane reached on an error and scored on Simmons's double. After an intentional walk,Bing Miller's RBI single made it 4–1 A's. Philadelphia added two more runs next inning onJimmy Dykes's double.

After the A's loaded the bases in the top of the first, Hallahan settled down and pitched a shutout. Philadelphia left a total of 11 men on base. The Cardinals scored the game's first run onTaylor Douthit's home run in the fourth, then next inning hit three consecutive one-out singles, the last of which byCharlie Gelbert scoring a run. In the seventh,Bill Shores allowed three consecutive leadoff singles, the last of which byJimmie Wilson scoring two runs. Next inning, the Cardinals added another run off ofJack Quinn on back-to-back one-out doubles byJim Bottomley andChick Hafey.

An error byJimmy Dykes in the fourth inning allowed the Cardinals to score two runs. Haines did not allow a hit after the third inning. The A's got on the board in the first onAl Simmons's RBI single, but the Cardinals tied the game in the third whenCharlie Gelbert tripled and scored onJesse Haines's single. In the fourth,Chick Hafey hit a two-out ground rule double and scored on Dykes's error onRay Blades's ground ball. Blades then scored on Gelbert's RBI single.

George Earnshaw dueled Burleigh Grimes scoreless through seven innings before Lefty Grove took over for Earnshaw in the eighth. In the top of the ninth, Grimes walked Mickey Cochrane and then coughed up a home run ball to Jimmie Foxx. It must have been a patented Foxx blast, for Grimes said later, "he hit it so hard I couldn't feel sorry for myself."

Earnshaw earned his second win on just one day of rest, pitching a five-hitter; it would be88 years before another pitcher would start consecutive games in the postseason. Just like in Game 1, the A's seven hits came in five different innings, leading to two runs in the first and fourth innings, and single runs in the third, fifth, and sixth innings. As in Game 1, all the A's hits wereextra-base hits, includinghome runs byAl Simmons andJimmy Dykes.

Although the A's hit only .197 (35–for–178) in the six game set, 18 of their hits went for extra bases, outscoring the Cardinals, 21–12. St. Louis only managed a .200 batting average in the series.

The A's struck first in the first on RBI doubles byMickey Cochrane andBing Miller, both after walks. Simmon's home run in the third off ofSyl Johnson made it 3–0 A's, then Dykes's home run after a walk in the fourth increased their lead to 5–0. The A's added to their lead next inning whenJimmie Foxx hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a bunt groundout and scored onMule Haas's sacrifice fly. the A's scored their last run of the game in the sixth off ofJim Lindsey on Cochrane's sacrifice fly. The Cardinals scored their only run of the game onChick Hafey's RBI double in the ninth.

1930 World Series(4–2):Philadelphia Athletics (A.L.) overSt. Louis Cardinals (N.L.)

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