NOTE: The Chicago Cubs won the actual 1908 World Series over the Detroit Tigers 4 games to 1. This replay uses as played lineups.
Orvall Overall vs Bill Donovan 10/15/1908, @, Bennett Park
SHECKARD’S MUFF HANDS TIGERS THE VICTORY.
Jimmy Sheckard lead the NL in home runs in 1903 with 9, while playing for Brooklyn. Sheckard also lead the NL with 67 steals that season. After some crack research on my part, I could find only 2 other players that lead the league in home runs and steals in the same season. Ty Cobb did it in 1909 with 76 steals and 9 home runs, and surprisingly the only other player was Chuck Klein in 1932. He lead the league with 38 home runs and just 20 steals. Did I miss anybody?
A lead off walk to Matty McIntyre in the 13th inning started the game winning rally. Losing pitcher Chick Fraser caught McIntyre leaning the wrong way on a pick off attempt, but McIntyre hustled to 2nd and beat the relay throw for a key stolen base. After an infield groundout moved McIntyre to 3rd, the Cubs intentionally walked Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb to load the bases. Claude Rossman popped a lazy fly ball into left field, Jimmy Sheckard settled under it and proceeded to drop the ball, allowing McIntyre to score the winning run.
It was a game of missed opportunities for the Cubs. 5 hits in the 1st 2 innings off starter Bill Donovan lead to no Cub runs, thanks to the inability to get 2 sac bunts down, and an inning ending double play in the 1st.
Orvall Overall struck out 11 Tigers and didn’t allow a walk. The only run allowed came from a booming 2 out double off the bat of Sam Crawford in the 3rd.
The Tigers lead this series 3 games to 2.
10/15/1908, ChN08-Det08, Bennett Park
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1908 Cubs 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1908 Tigers 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 R H E LOB DP
1908 Cubs 0 1 13 2 10 1
1908 Tigers 1 2 9 2 11 3
Cubs AB R H BI AVG Tigers AB R H BI AVG
Sheckard lf 5 0 1 0 .227 McIntyre lf 5 2 3 0 .444
Evers 2b 6 1 1 0 .500 O’Leary ss 6 0 0 0 .095
Schulte rf 5 0 1 1 .235 Crawford cf 5 0 2 1 .478
Chance 1b 6 0 4 0 .300 Cobb rf 5 0 0 0 .273
Steinfeldt 3b 6 0 0 0 .130 Rossman 1b 6 0 0 0 .391
Hofman cf 5 0 2 0 .273 Schaefer 2b 5 0 0 0 .095
Tinker ss 5 0 1 0 .364 Schmidt c 5 0 3 0 .353
Kling c 5 0 1 0 .217 Coughlin 3b 5 0 1 0 .167
Overall p 3 0 1 0 .250 Donovan p 4 0 0 0 .000
Zimmerman ph 1 0 1 0 1.000 Thomas ph 1 0 0 0 .222
Fraser p 0 0 0 0 .000 Willett p 0 0 0 0 .000
47 1 13 1 47 2 9 1
Cubs INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Overall 11.0 8 1 1 0 11 150 103 0.60
Fraser L 0-2 1.1 1 1 1 3 0 25 13 3.18
12.1 9 2 2 3 11 175 116
Tigers INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Donovan 12.0 13 1 1 0 3 136 95 1.80
Willett W 1-0 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 16 11 1.69
13.0 13 1 1 0 4 152 106
ChN: Zimmerman batted for Overall in the 12th
Det: Thomas batted for Donovan in the 12th
E-Sheckard, Evers, Schmidt, Donovan. 2B-Chance(3), Overall(1), Crawford(2).
3B-Evers(2). RBI-Schulte(1), Crawford(2). SB-McIntyre(1). K-Schulte, Chance,
Hofman, Tinker, McIntyre, O’Leary 2, Cobb 2, Rossman 2, Schaefer 2,
Donovan 2. BB-McIntyre, Crawford, Cobb. SH-Sheckard, Overall. SF-Schulte.
Temperature: 55, Field: wet, Sky: clear, Wind: out to left at 12 MPH,
Rain Delays: 36 minutes.
