1916 World Series

The Red Sox' World Series winning roster
Team (Wins) Manager Season Boston Red Sox (4) Bill Carrigan 91–63, .591, GA: 2 Brooklyn Robins (1) Wilbert Robinson 94–60, .610, GA: 2 1⁄2
Dates:	October 7–12
Umpires:	Tommy Connolly (AL), Hank O'Day (NL), Bill Dinneen (AL), Ernie Quigley (NL)
Hall of Famers:	Umpire: Tommy Connolly, Hank O'Day. Red Sox: Harry Hooper, Herb Pennock (dnp), Babe Ruth. Robins: Wilbert Robinson (mgr.), Rube Marquard, Casey Stengel‡, Zack Wheat. ‡ elected as a manager.
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Paul Joseph Lannin and Dorothy A. Lannin, Ban Johnson, Joseph John Lannin and Hannah Furlong, his wife, at the 1916 World Series

Robins manager Wilbert Robinson with Red Sox manager Bill Carrigan

A scorebook from the 1916 World Series, depicting Red Sox owner Joseph Lannin, Red Sox manager Bill Carrigan, Dodgers owner Charles Ebbets, and Manager Wilbert Robinson

In the 1916 World Series, the Boston Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins (a.k.a. Dodgers) four games to one.

Casey Stengel shone on offense for the Robins in the 1916 Series but the Red Sox pitching core ultimately proved too much for the denizens of Flatbush. The Sox's Babe Ruth pitched thirteen shutout innings in Game 2, starting a consecutive scoreless innings streak that would reach 29 in 1918. As with the 1915 Series, the Red Sox played their home games at the larger Braves Field, and it paid off as they drew a then-record 42,620 people for the final game.

Brooklyn fielded some strong teams under their manager and namesake Wilbert Robinson in the late 1910s. The Robins, also interchangeably called the Dodgers, would win the pennant again in 1920, but the American League teams were generally stronger during that interval. It would be 39 years before the Dodgers would win their first World Series title in 1955. The Series had the longest game in terms of innings (14) in World Series History until Game 3 of the 2005 World Series.

Summary[edit]

AL Boston Red Sox (4) vs. NL Brooklyn Robins (1)

Matchups[edit]

Game 1[edit]

Saturday, October 7, 1916 at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts

Until the ninth, Boston starter Eddie Shore was in control. Holding a comfortable 6-1 lead, a walk, hit batter, error and bases-full walk to Fred Merkle finally forced the Red Sox to call on Carl Mays from the bullpen to preserve a 6-5 win.

Game 2[edit]

Monday, October 9, 1916 at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts

The Robins scored in the top of the first on an inside-the-park home run by Hy Myers, and the Red Sox tied it in the bottom of the third, Ruth himself knocking in the run with a ground ball. The game remanied 1–1 until the bottom of the 14th, when the Red Sox won it on a pinch-hit single by Del Gainer.

Game 3[edit]

Tuesday, October 10, 1916 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York

A seventh-inning home run by Larry Gardner chased Brooklyn starter Jack Coombs and brought Boston to within 3-2. Jeff Pfeffer came through with 2.2 innings of hitless relief to save the victory for Coombs.

Game 4[edit]

Wednesday, October 11, 1916 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn's first three batters reached safely off Dutch Leonard in a two-run first inning, but that's all the Dodgers would get off him. Larry Gardner's second home run in two days was an inside-the-park one to left-center that scored two teammates ahead of him, giving Leonard all he'd need.

Game 5[edit]

Thursday, October 12, 1916 at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts

The final game was over in a snappy 1 hour, 43 minutes. Ernie Shore threw a three-hitter. Boston scratched out a run on a walk, sacrifice bunt, groundout and passed ball. The Red Sox added more in the third, thanks to an error and a Chick Shorten RBI single, and the fifth when Harry Hooper singled and scored on a Hal Janvrin double. Casey Stengel led off the Dodger ninth with a hit, but Shore allowed no more.

Composite line score[edit]

1916 World Series (4–1): Boston Red Sox (A.L.) over Brooklyn Robins (N.L.)

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Cohen, Richard M.; Neft, David S. (1990). The World Series: Complete Play-By-Play of Every Game, 1903–1989. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 61–65. ISBN 0-312-03960-3. 
• Reichler, Joseph (1982). The Baseball Encyclopedia (5th ed.). Macmillan Publishing. p. 2124. ISBN 0-02-579010-2. 

External links[edit]

• 1916 World Series at WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)
• 1916 World Series at Baseball Almanac
• 1916 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com
• The 1916 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet
• History of the World Series - 1916 at The SportingNews. Archived from the original on 2008.

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