Buck Weaver - 1917 World Series

	1917 World Series
	Chicago White Sox (AL), 4
	New York Giants (NL), 2

GAME 1 AT CHICAGO OCT 6, 1917 R H E

NY 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 1

CHI 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 2 7 1

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GAME 2 AT CHICAGO OCT 7, 1917										R	H	E
NY	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	1
CHI	0	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	X	7	14	1

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GAME 3 AT NEW YORK OCT 10, 1917										R	H	E
CHI	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3
NY	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	2	8	2

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GAME 4 AT NEW YORK OCT 11, 1917										R	H	E
CHI	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
NY	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	X	5	10	1

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GAME 5 AT CHICAGO OCT 13, 1917										R	H	E
NY	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	5	12	3
CHI	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	3	X	8	14	6

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GAME 6 AT NEW YORK OCT 15, 1917										R	H	E
CHI	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	7	1
NY	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	6	3

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Easy winners in their pennant races, the White Sox and Giants traded pairs of victories in the Series before the Sox came up with a second pair to take the title in six games. In the opener, Happy Felsch's solo homer in the fourth inning gave Sox starter Eddie Cicotte the margin he needed to defeat Giant Slim Sallee 2-1, and in Game Two Red Faber went all the way, as his Sox broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning with five runs on six singles for Chicago's second win.

The clubs traveled to New York for Games Three and Four, and Giant pitchers rewarded their fans with a pair of shutouts to even the Series. In Game Three, a triple, double, and single against the Sox' Cicotte in the fourth inning produced the only scoring, as Giant Rube Benton blanked the Sox on five hits, walking none. Giant ace Ferdie Schupp (a 21-game winner during the season) did the honors in Game Four, scattering seven hits, as teammate Benny Kauff, with his first Series hit in the fourth inning, homered inside the park to deep center against Red Faber for the deciding run. Two later runs against Faber and two more in the eighth (on Kauff's second homer) against reliever Dave Danforth made Schupp's win easy.

But Faber, the loser in Game Four, came in to pitch two innings of perfect relief two days later in Chicago for his second win, as the Sox rebounded from a 2-5 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game and three more an inning later to win it.

After a day of rest and a return to New York, Faber was given his third start. He pitched well enough, but his third win and the Series clincher was really the gift of some infamous Giant fielding. In the fourth inning, the first two Sox batters--Eddie Collins and Joe Jackson --reached on a high throw to first and a dropped fly. Happy Felsch, the third man up, reached on a fielder's choice as Giant third baseman Heinie Zimmerman chased Collins across the plate in a botched rundown. Jackson and Felsch scored the second and third unearned runs as Chick Gandil singled off the hapless Rube Benton. The Giants recovered to score two runs an inning later, but Faber shut them out the rest of the way to give his Sox the Series.

CHICAGO (A)

PLAYER- POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB
Eddie Cicotte, p .143 3 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0
Eddie Collins, 2b .409 6 22 4 9 1 0 0 2 2 3 3
Shano Collins, of .286 6 21 2 6 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
Dave Danforth, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Red Faber, p .143 4 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0
Happy Felsch, of .273 6 22 4 6 1 0 1 3 1 5 0
Chick Gandil, 1b .261 6 23 1 6 1 0 0 5 0 2 1
Joe Jackson, of .304 6 23 4 7 0 0 0 2 1 0 1
Nemo Leibold, of .400 2 5 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0
Byrd Lynn, ph .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Fred McMullin, 3b .125 6 24 1 3 1 0 0 2 1 6 0
Swede Risberg, ph .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Reb Russell, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ray Schalk, c .263 6 19 1 5 0 0 0 0 2 1 1
Buck Weaver, ss .333 6 21 3 7 1 0 0 1 0 2 0
Lefty Williams, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL .274 - 197 21 54 6 0 1 18 11 28 6

PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO

Eddie Cicotte 1 1 1.96 3 2 2 0 0 23.0 23 5 2 13

Dave Danforth 0 0 18.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 3 2 0 2

Red Faber 3 1 2.33 4 3 2 0 0 27.0 21 7 3 9

Reb Russell 0 0 INF 1 1 0 0 0 0.0 2 1 1 0

Lefty Williams 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 1 0 3

TOTAL 4 2 2.77 10 6 4 0 0 52.0 51 16 6 27

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NEW YORK (N)

PLAYER- POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB
Fred Anderson, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rube Benton, p .000 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
George Burns, of .227 6 22 3 5 0 0 0 2 2 6 1
Art Fletcher, ss .200 6 25 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
Buck Herzog, 2b .250 6 24 1 6 0 1 0 2 1 4 0
Walter Holke, 1b .286 6 21 2 6 2 0 0 1 0 6 0
Benny Kauff, of .160 6 25 2 4 1 0 2 5 0 2 1
Lew McCarty, c-2 .400 3 5 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Pol Perritt, p 1.000 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Rariden, c .385 5 13 2 5 0 0 0 2 2 1 0
Dave Robertson, of .500 6 22 3 11 1 1 0 1 0 0 2
Slim Sallee, p .167 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
Ferdie Schupp, p .250 2 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Jeff Tesreau, p .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jim Thorpe, of .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Wilhoit, ph .000 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Heinie Zimmerman, 3b .120 6 25 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL .256 - 199 17 51 5 4 2 16 6 27 4

PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO

Fred Anderson 0 1 18.00 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 5 4 0 3

Rube Benton 1 1 0.00 2 2 1 0 1 14.0 9 0 1 8

Pol Perritt 0 0 2.16 3 0 0 0 0 8.1 9 2 3 3

Slim Sallee 0 2 5.28 2 2 1 0 0 15.1 20 9 4 4

Ferdie Schupp 1 0 1.74 2 2 1 0 1 10.1 11 2 2 9

Jeff Tesreau 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 1 1

TOTAL 2 4 3.00 11 6 3 0 2 51.0 54 17 11 28