Find out more. Three batters later, Yankees third 1951 | 4=denotes a character who was a POV for four volumes 1973 | 1922 | 1939 1906 | Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? 2007 | We present them here for purely educational purposes. † denotes a deceased character. Pete McGill concluded that the game was sealed for Yankees, and correctly predicted that the 3-0 lead this gave them in the World Series would be insurmountable by the Chicago Cubs.

Their opponents, the 2x-defending champion Yankees were still dominating things on the American League side. 1947 | 1938: Yankees over Cubs. 1948 | 1905 | Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Copyright © 2000-2020 Sports Reference LLC. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only.

The 1938 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs, with the Yankees sweeping the Series in four games for their seventh championship and record third straight (they would win 4 in a row this time, and 5 in a row later from 1949-53). After a ninth-inning, 6-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates (who had led the National League for 2½ months) on September 28th, the Cubs managed to hold onto first place while winning the pennant by a mere two games.

Joe Marty's sac fly in the first and two-run double in the third, Dean Ahead two-games-to-none with the Series shifting to Yankee Stadium, the New Yorkers seemed to be a lock. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. 2017 | 1961 | Join our linker program. Subscribe to our Free Newsletter, This Week in Sports ReferenceFind out when we add a feature or make a change. 2000 | All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. 1968 | The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 5, 1938 at Wrigley Field.

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Baseball Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Bill Lee and Clay Bryant were the staff pitching aces with twenty-two and nineteen victories. Bill Dickey went four-for-four against him; scoring a run and driving home another as the Yankees pulled ahead with a "predictable" 3-1 triumph. Dean's luck ran out in the late innings of Game 2, as Frank Crosetti and Joe DiMaggio hit two-run home runs off Dean in the 8th and 9th innings, respectively, to send the Cubs to New York down two games to none in the Series. 1949 1972 | 1962 | 1926 | 1950 | 1927 | could boast three in the last three seasons. Swinging at the first pitch, the unlikely hero sent a shockwave through the stands with a bomb over the left-field wall. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine.

The Cubs did not win a meaningful game against the Yankees until a regular-season interleague series in 2003. The Cubs' defeat extended their championship-less drought to thirty years. 1934 |

As of this writing, that streak has lasted 104 years and counting. 5=denotes a character who was a POV for five volumes George Selkirk added the Yankees' fourth hit as the leadoff man in the eighth, but two force-outs left Dean in a position to escape with one more out. 1970 |

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The 1938 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs, with the Yankees sweeping the Series in four games for their seventh championship and record third straight (they would win 4 in a row this time, and 5 in a row later from 1949-53). Rip Collins led the team in homers with thirteen, and outfielder Augie Galan topped the Cubs in runs batted in with sixty-nine. 2013 |

1983 | pitch into the left-field bleachers. 1937 | In New York for Game 3, after a day off, the Yankees didn't collect their Game 1 winner Red Ruffing went nine innings to gain the 8-3,

Find out more. 2006 | 1938 World Series - New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4-0) series statistics and schedule. 1957 | - Eleanor Gehrig (wife, on Gehrig's progressing yet-to-be-diagnosed ALS affecting his play), 1938 World Series Official ProgramNew York Yankees Version, 1938 World Series Official Program Chicago Cubs Version. Yankees defeat Cubs. 2014 | 1978 | Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. York Yankees (4) vs. Chicago Cubs (0).

Did you know that with this World Championship the New York Yankees became the first team in Major League history to win three consecutive Fall Classics? ), Total attendance: 200,833   Average attendance: 50,208 was New York 6, Chicago 3. 1938. 1997 | copyright=new Date(); He had been obtained from the St Louis Cardinals in April 1938, and had won 7 of 8 decisions in the regular season, relying on finesse rather than his now-gone fastball. The World Series opened in Chicago, where the fans in Wrigley Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. 1943 | After New York Yankee Joe Gordon went 2-4 with a home run and three RBI, Sgt. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. 1937; 1939. 1938 | Of these eleven, it was the final World Series in the careers of four of them: Lazzeri, Billy Herman, Dizzy Dean, and Lou Gehrig, who would abruptly retire in the middle of the next season due to an as-yet undiagnosed case of the terminal disease ALS. Dean had tried to come back too soon after his 1937 All-Star Game toe injury, favoring the toe and hurting his arm in the process. 2011 | first base hit until the fifth inning, when Joe Gordon drove a Clay Bryant This was the first World Series at Wrigley Field since the bleacher reconstruction of 1937 which had significantly shortened the left-center field power alley. Dean would give up 6 earned runs in 8 1/3 innings pitched overall and take the loss in Game 2.

This was the first World Series at Wrigley Field since the bleacher reconstruction of 1937 which had significantly shortened the left-centerfield power alley, and led to the phrase "the friendly confines" of Wrigley Field, AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL Chicago Cubs (0), Wednesday, October 5, 1938 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, Thursday, October 6, 1938 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. 1933 | This bit of home came as some comfort to the Americans, as Europe and Asia were engulfed in war. October 5, 1938 Box Score. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Dean and his teammates stood in disbelief and were unable to answer the call in the ninth as the Yankees held on for the 6-3 victory. 1988 | the eighth. The 1938 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs, with the Yankees sweeping the Series in four games for their seventh championship. 2018 | Oct 5, 1938, Attendance: 43642, Time of Game: 1:53. 1964 | The Oakland Athletics matched the three-straight accomplishment from 1972 through 1974.). Red Ruffing led the American League in victories with twenty-one, followed in the rotation by Lefty Gomez (eighteen wins), Monte Pearson (sixteen wins) and Spud Chandler (fourteen wins). 1986 |

second, the Cubs scored once in the third, the Yanks a single run in the eighth, Frank Crosetti touched Dean for a two-run homer, and one inning 1932 | 1924 | After a six-year hiatus, the Chicago Cubs managed to top the National League, despite making it there by the slimmest of margins. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. 1966 | He also tied the World Series record for innings pitched and shattered the record for most hits allowed in a four-game Series.

1979 Dizzy Dean, who had helped carry the Cubs to the National League pennant despite a sore arm (had W-L record of 7-1 in limited action) ran out of gas in the Series as the Yanks crushed the Cubs again, as they had in 1932. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Game 2 matched Yankee ace Lefty Gomez against Dizzy Dean, bereft of