SIMMONS HOMERS TWICE AS HARLEM WINS 6-3. FELLER STRIKES OUT 11.
Al Simmons homered twice as Harlem overcame an eleven
strikeout performance by Bob Feller to take a
commanding 3-0 lead in the World Series, beating St
Louis 6-3.
St Louis needed a win desperately, and put their fate
in the hands of Bob Feller. Feller, the nineteen-year
old phenom, is coming off a 19-win season and his
second season of well-over 200 strikeouts. He was
going up against Cliff Melton, who struggled at times
for the Knights this year.
St Louis got on the board first when Cecil Travis lead
off the first with a double and scored to batters
later on a Bill Dickey fly ball. The lead was short
lived, as in the top half of the second inning, Al
Simmons homered to left, his second homer of the
series.
In the third inning, Ival Goodman added another solo
home run off of Feller to give Harlem the 2-1 lead.
The Knights added another run in the sixth, and St
Louis matched it with a Bob Johnson home run in the
bottom of the frame. But the ninth inning was the
point where Harlem blew it open with 3 runs, including
the second of the game by Al Simmons. The Plague went
down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth as Harlem won
6-3 and took a commanding 3-0 lead in the Series.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1938 Knights 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 6 10 0 6 0
1938 Plague 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 8 0 7 0
Knights AB R H BI AVG Plague AB R H BI AVG
Gehringer 2b 5 0 2 1 .214 Travis ss 4 1 1 0 .167
Walker rf 4 1 0 0 .077 Myer 2b 4 0 1 0 .455
Goodman cf 4 1 1 1 .077 Dickey c 3 0 0 1 .273
Greenberg 1b 4 0 1 0 .462 Foxx 1b 4 0 0 0 .091
York c 4 0 1 1 .400 Johnson cf 4 1 3 1 .417
Simmons lf 4 2 3 2 .727 Chapman rf 4 0 2 0 .417
Cronin ss 3 1 0 0 .500 Klinger p 0 0 0 0 .000
Higgins 3b 4 1 2 0 .545 Radcliff lf 4 0 0 0 .167
Melton p 3 0 0 0 .000 Rolfe 3b 3 0 1 0 .222
35 6 10 5 Feller p 3 0 0 0 .000
Lazzeri rf 1 0 0 0 .500
34 2 8 2
Knights INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Melton W 1-0 9.0 8 2 2 1 7 121 81 2.00
9.0 8 2 2 1 7 121 81
Plague INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Feller L 0-1 8.0 8 5 5 2 11 135 80 5.63
Klinger 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 21 13 9.00
9.0 10 6 6 2 11 156 93
STL: Lazzeri inserted at rf in the 9th
2B-Travis, Johnson. HR-Goodman(1), Simmons 2(3), Johnson(1). K-Gehringer,
Walker, Goodman, Greenberg 3, York, Cronin 3, Higgins, Johnson, Chapman 2,
Radcliff, Feller 2, Lazzeri. BB-Walker, Cronin, Rolfe. SH-Goodman, Melton.
SF-Dickey. PB-Dickey. BALK-Klinger.
GWRBI: Goodman
Temperature: 73, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from right at 15 MPH.