| 1907 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 8–12 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | West Side Grounds (Chicago) Bennett Park (Detroit) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Hank O'Day (NL) Jack Sheridan (AL) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Hank O'Day Cubs: Mordecai Brown Frank Chance Johnny Evers Joe Tinker Tigers: Sam Crawford Ty Cobb Hughie Jennings (manager) | |||||||||
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The1907World Series was the championship series inMajor League Baseball for the1907 season. The fourth edition of the World Series, it featured the defendingNational League championChicago Cubs and theAmerican League championDetroit Tigers. The Cubs won the Series four games to none (with one tie) for their first championship.
The series had been scheduled for two games in Chicago, three games in Detroit, and one game in Chicago (games beyond the first four, only if necessary).[1] Had a seventh game been necessary, its location was to be decided by the league office. After the first game ended in a tie, the series did not move to Detroit until Game 4.
The Cubs came back strong from their shocking loss in the1906 World Series. The Tigers' young starTy Cobb came into the Series with the first of his many league batting championships. With pitching dominance over the Tigers and Cobb, the Cubs allowed only three runs in the four games they won, while stealing 18 bases off the rattled Tigers.
Each game was umpired by the two-man crew ofHank O'Day andJack Sheridan.
This was the last time the Tigers were swept in the World Series until2012.
NLChicago Cubs (4) vs. ALDetroit Tigers (0)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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| 1 | October 8 | Detroit Tigers – 3, Chicago Cubs – 3(12) | West Side Grounds | 2:40 | 24,377[2] |
| 2 | October 9 | Detroit Tigers – 1,Chicago Cubs – 3 | West Side Grounds | 2:13 | 21,901[3] |
| 3 | October 10 | Detroit Tigers – 1,Chicago Cubs – 5 | West Side Grounds | 1:35 | 13,114[4] |
| 4 | October 11 | Chicago Cubs – 6, Detroit Tigers – 1 | Bennett Park | 1:45 | 11,306[5] |
| 5 | October 12 | Chicago Cubs – 2, Detroit Tigers – 0 | Bennett Park | 1:42 | 7,370[6] |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Detroit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Tigers scored three runs, largely due to three Cuberrors, in the eighth inning and held a 3–1 lead going into the bottom of the ninth inning. The Cubsloaded the bases on a single, walk and infield error with one out. Detroit conceded a run on a ground ball for the second out, and Cub player-managerFrank Chance thenpinch hitDel Howard forJoe Tinker.Wild Bill Donovan (25–4 in the regular season) struck him out, but theball got away from catcherBoss Schmidt, allowingHarry Steinfeldt to score the tying run. Donovan got the next hitter, but the damage had been done. The teams then played three scorelessextra innings before the game was called on account of darkness and declared a tie, a World Series first.
Donovan struck out 12 Cubs in the game. Although that matchedEd Walsh's total in Game 3 against the Cubs in 1906, Walsh had done so in nine innings while Donovan only struck out 10 batters in the first nine innings of the game.
This was the closest the Tigers came to winning a game in this, their first Series. The Cubs committed five errors and struck out 12 times in the game, but ninestolen base attempts (seven successful) and fivebunts (two for hits) set an aggressive offensive tone pressuring the Tigers for the rest of the series.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Detroit | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Jack Pfiester (1–0) LP:George Mullin (0–1) Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Mullin, who both won and lost 20 games for Detroit in the regular season, and who had walked over 100 batters in each of his last five seasons, issued a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the second, matching the Tiger run in the top of the inning and tying the score at 1–1. Chicago scored two more in the fourth on a single, sacrifice bunt,RBI single, stolen base and double to take a 3–1 lead.Jack Pfiester, while allowing ten hits, benefited from two double plays and three caught-stealings by battery-mateJohnny Kling and was the winning pitcher for the Cubs.Joe Tinker scored a run and drove in another in Game 2 after being pinch-hit for in the ninth inning of Game 1.
Hughie Jennings was the recipient of the firstejection issued in World Series history when he argued a caught stealing call byHank O'Day againstGermany Schaefer.[7]
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Detroit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Ed Reulbach (1–0) LP:Ed Siever (0–1) Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cub pitcherEd Reulbach scattered six hits as Chicago jumped on Tiger starterEd Siever for four runs on seven hits in only four innings en route to their second win.Johnny Evers had three hits, including two doubles, as the Cubs took a 2–0 lead in the Series.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chicago | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Orval Overall (1–0) LP:Wild Bill Donovan (0–1) Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In their first World Series home game, the Tigers took a 1–0 lead on a triple by their 20-year-old batting championTy Cobb and an RBI single byClaude Rossman in the bottom of the fourth, shortly before a rain delay in the top of the fifth. Soon after play resumed in the same inning, two Cubs reached base on an error and a walk. AfterJoe Tinker sacrificed, pitcherOrval Overall drove both runners home on a single to right. The Cubs scored three more in the seventh without the ball leaving the infield, on four bunts (two for hits) and two ground balls. Regular-season 23-game winner Overall was masterful after the rain delay, allowing only one hit in Detroit's final five innings, giving his Cubs a commanding 3–0 lead in the Series.
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chicago | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Mordecai Brown (1–0) LP:George Mullin (0–2) Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chicago wrapped up the series with a 2–0 victory on "Three-fingered"Mordecai Brown's seven-hit shutout. The Cubs scored a run in the top of the first on a walk, stolen base and RBI single byHarry Steinfeldt and scored again in the second on an error, a single, a double-steal and a groundout to drive in the last run of the Series. Detroit had runners on second and third with one out in the last of the fourth, but left them there and never seriously threatened after that.
This Series was the closest to a four-game sweep until the first true Series sweep in1914, whenGeorge Stallings' "miracle"Boston Braves surged from last place in mid-July to win the NL pennant and upsetConnie Mack'sPhiladelphia Athletics in the Series.
Frank Chance remains, at 30, the youngest manager to win a World Series title, breaking the mark set byJohn McGraw who won the1905 World Series with theNew York Giants at the age of 32. Since then only one other manager has won a World Series under the age of 40,Tom Kelly of theMinnesota Twins won the1987 World Series at the age of 37.
1907 World Series(4–0–1):Chicago Cubs (N.L.) overDetroit Tigers (A.L.)
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Chicago Cubs | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 42 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit Tigers | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 37 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total attendance: 78,068 Average attendance: 15,614 Winning player's share: $2,143 Losing player's share: $1,946[8] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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