Harlem - Bobo Newsom was aided by a big home run by Hank Greenberg as the Knights beat St Louis, 5-3, to win their third-straight DBS title.
The Knights got on the board first off of Whitey Moore on Jim Tabor's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second inning. The Plague tied it up in the top of the fifth on Ben Chapman's fielder's choice.
Harlem hit it big in the bottom of the fifth, with a pair of doubles with Gehrigner and Keller. Greenberg then homered to put the Knights up 4-1. They added one more, which they gave back the next inning.
Up 5-2, Newsom continued to pitch his game, holding Red Rolfe hitless, which no one has done since August. St Louis got one more in the ninth, but the rally fell well short as the Knight won 5-3.
Despite the loss, the season was an amazing success for the Plague, who rallied from 12 games down in August to win the pennant by 5 games.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1939 Plague 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 6 1 8 2
1939 Knights 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 x 5 10 2 10 0
Plague AB R H BI AVG Knights AB R H BI AVG
Rolfe 3b 5 0 0 1 .320 Selkirk cf 5 0 0 0 .087
Cramer cf 5 0 1 0 .292 Gehringer 2b 5 1 2 0 .385
Dickey c 4 0 1 1 .100 Keller lf 4 1 3 1 .524
Foxx 1b 4 0 1 0 .353 Greenberg 1b 3 1 1 2 .227
Johnson lf 4 1 1 0 .182 Goodman rf 2 2 1 0 .308
Travis ss 4 0 1 0 .348 York c 3 0 0 0 .043
Chapman rf 4 1 1 1 .150 Cronin ss 3 0 0 0 .304
Myer 2b 2 0 0 0 .286 Tabor 3b 3 0 1 1 .238
Lanning p 0 0 0 0 .000 Newsom p 4 0 2 0 .333
Padgett ph 0 0 0 0 .333 32 5 10 4
Page p 0 0 0 0 .000
West ph 0 0 0 0 .000
Moore p 1 0 0 0 .000
Wilson p 0 0 0 0 .000
Lazzeri 2b 2 1 0 0 .200
35 3 6 3
Plague INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Moore 3.2 3 1 1 4 0 68 34 2.19
Wilson L 0-1 0.1 3 4 3 1 0 20 11 81.00
Lanning 2.0 3 0 0 1 1 31 19 7.36
Page 2.0 1 0 0 0 1 23 16 0.00
8.0 10 5 4 6 2 142 80
Knights INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Newsom W 1-1 9.0 6 3 2 3 4 147 96 3.38
9.0 6 3 2 3 4 147 96
STL: Lazzeri inserted at 2b in the 5th
Padgett batted for Lanning in the 7th
West batted for Page in the 9th
E-Rolfe, Greenberg, Cronin. 2B-Johnson, Gehringer 2, Keller. HR-Greenberg(2).
SB-Chapman(1). K-Foxx, Johnson 2, Myer, Greenberg, Cronin. BB-Lazzeri,
Padgett, West, Keller, Greenberg, Goodman 2, York, Cronin. SH-Tabor.
PB-Dickey.
GWRBI: Keller
Temperature: 66, Sky: clear, Wind: in from center at 21 MPH.