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| 1916 | In front of a record crowd of 43,620 fans at Braves Field, Red Sox right-hander Ernie Shore three-hits the Robins in Game 5 of the World Series, 4-1, to capture the team's fourth World Championship in the 13-year history of the Fall Classic. As it did last season, Boston plays its Fall Classic home games in their crosstown National League rival's larger ballpark, allowing more fans to attend the game than if played at Fenway Park. |
| 1920 |
At Cleveland's League Park, the Indians' hurler Stan Coveleski blanks the Robins on five hits, 3-0, to win the franchise's first World Championship. The Tribe gives up only eight runs in the Fall Classic, taking the best of nine series five games to two.
(Ed. Note: An expectant first-time mother, Kathleen Daly Chapman, whose husband, Ray, was fatally hit by a pitch during the season, received a full World Series share from the club. In 1928, the shortstop widow died from ingesting poison, predeceasing the couple's daughter, Rae-Marie, a victim of a measles epidemic the next year while living with her grandmother.- LP) |
| 1948 | The Yankees surprise their fans and a skeptical press when they name Casey Stengel to replace Bucky Harris as the team's manager. In his previous stints as the skipper with the National League's Braves and Dodgers, the 'Old Perfesser' had never finished higher than fifth place. |
| 1949 | Vin Scully, working his first broadcast ever, does the play-by-play when Maryland defeats Boston University at Fenway Park, 14-13. The football assignment marks the start of a 67-year career in the broadcast booth for the Hall of Fame baseball announcer, who becomes the iconic voice of the Dodgers. |
| 2018 |
Brandon Woodruff becomes the first southpaw-swinging reliever to hit a postseason home run off a left-handed pitcher when he drives a Clayton Kershaw fastball 407 feet over the centerfield wall in the Brewers' 6-5 win over the Dodgers Game 1 of the NLCS. The 25-year-old right-hander, the first Milwaukee pitcher to homer in a postseason game since Lew Burdette accomplished the feat against the Yankees in the 1958 World Series, throws two perfect innings of relief for the victory in the Miller Park contest.
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