1916 World Series Title

Lore & Background

Casey Stengel shone on offense for the Robins in the 1916 Series, but the Red Sox pitching corps ultimately proved too much for the denizens of Flatbush. The Sox's Babe Ruth pitched 13 shutout innings in Game 2, starting a consecutive scoreless innings streak that would reach 29 in . As with the Series, the Red Sox played their home games at the larger Braves Field, and it paid off as they drew a then-record 43,620 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 .

Reader's Guide

Game 1: Until the ninth, Boston starter Ernie Shore was in control. Game 2: 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. That mark was equaled in Game 3 of the 2005 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros, and then again in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets, before being broken in an 18-inning Game 3 of the 2018 World Series between the Dodgers and Red Sox.

Game 3: A seventh-inning home run by Larry Gardner chased Brooklyn starter Jack Coombs and brought Boston to within one run. Jeff Pfeffer came through with innings of hitless relief to save the victory for Coombs. Game 4: Brooklyn's first three batters reached safely off Dutch Leonard in a two-run first inning, but that's all the Dodgers would get. Game 5: The final game was over in a snappy 1 hour, 43 minutes.

Ernie Shore threw a three-hitter. For the second straight series, Red Sox pitching dominated, this time holding the Robins to a team .200 batting average, contributing to an easy 5-game victory.

Did You Know?

• The two franchises met again in the postseason for the first time in 102 years in the 2018 World Series.
• This was the second meeting between teams from Boston and New York City for a major professional sports championship, and the last Boston-New York matchup in the Fall Classic until 1986.