Rose singled in the first inning and again in the fifth inning to tie Ty Cobb with 4,191 career hits. It marked the sixth straight year Jenkins had won 20 or more games.ġ985 - Cincinnati’s Pete Rose inserted himself into the lineup when the Chicago Cubs named right-hander Reggie Patterson as the starting pitcher. The Angels won 5-3 in 13 innings.ġ972 - Ferguson Jenkins of the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-3, for his 20th victory of the season.
Mize became the first player to hit three homers in one game four times in a career.ġ955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Braves 10-2 to clinch the National League pennant with a 17-game lead.ġ958 - Roberto Clemente tied a major league record by hitting three triples in a 4-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.ġ965 - Bert Campaneris of the Kansas City A’s played all nine positions but had to leave after a ninth-inning collision with Ed Kirkpatrick of the Angels. Louis hit three homers and drove in six runs in a 16-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of a doubleheader. Louis, 20-year-old Bob Feller became the youngest modern-era player to win 20 games.ġ940 - Joe Gordon of the New York Yankees hit for the cycle in a 9-4 win over the Boston Red Sox.ġ940 - Johnny Mize of St. Reds' manager Bill McKechnie became the first manager to win a World Series with two different teams (at the helm of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925, after trailing three games to one against Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators.1939 - With his 12-1 victory over the Browns in St. 353 for the Series and recorded the team's only stolen base. With Lombardi hurting, Wilson did the bulk of the catching against Detroit and hit. Wilson had been one of the Reds' coaches before Hershberger's suicide forced him back onto the playing field as Lombardi's backup. The Reds dedicated the rest of the season to "Hershie." Ironically, one of the stars in the World Series was 40-year-old Jimmy Wilson. And on August 3, Lombardi's backup, Willard Hershberger, committed suicide in Boston a day after a defensive lapse cost the Reds a game against the Bees. The victory culminated a somewhat turbulent season for the Reds, who played large stretches of the season without injured All-Star catcher Ernie Lombardi.
The Reds' win in Game 2 against Detroit snapped a 10-game losing streak for the National League in the Series going back to Game 6 in 1937. It was redemption of sorts for the Reds, who returned to the World Series after being swept by the Yankees squad in 1939. He also hit a home run in Game 6 in the midst of his 4–0 shutout, which sent the Series to a Game 7. Walters hurled two complete games, allowing only eight hits and three runs combined. The Reds' star pitchers Paul Derringer and Bucky Walters won two games apiece, with Derringer winning the decisive seventh game. Called on to start a third time after a single day of rest by Tiger manager Del Baker, he pitched well in Game 7 until the seventh inning, when the Reds scored two runs to take the lead and eventually the game and the Series. Newsom came back to hurl a shutout in Game 5 in his memory. Henry Quillen Buffkin Newsom, the father of Detroit's star pitcher Bobo Newsom, died in a Cincinnati hotel room the day after watching him win Game 1.
Bill Klem worked the last of his record 18 World Series as an umpire. This would be the Reds last World Series championship for 35 years despite appearances in 1961, 1970, and 1972. The 1940 World Series matched the Cincinnati Reds against the Detroit Tigers, the Reds winning a closely contested seven-game series for their second championship 21 years after their scandal-tainted victory in 1919. 1940 Cincinnati Reds World Series Baseball Championship Ring
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