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Mathewson also had Red Sox in scoring position in his first two frames and worked free both times. Bedient had to pitch around errors on two-out steal attempts in each of his first two innings, but kept New York off the board. The game belonged to the pitchers early, though not easily. Mathewson was still a great pitcher and fan favorite, but his three-shutout masterpiece in the 1905 Series was starting to seem like a long time ago. He faced Christy Mathewson, who had pitched the 11-inning tie in Game Two and took a 2-1 defeat in Game Five. Wood had started and lost Game Seven, so Hugh Bedient pitched for Boston. The boycott produced 18,000 empty seats–and perhaps 18,000 regrets for missing this classic. They were backed by an honorary member: Boston mayor John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald (grandfather of John Fitzgerald Kennedy). Their protest of their treatment held up the game, and afterward they declared a boycott of Game Eight. Trouble had erupted the previous day when the Royal Rooters, a famous Red Sox cheering troop, had been denied their usual section at Fenway.
Boston had graced the inaugural season of Fenway Park with a runaway flag-winning performance, highlighted by pitcher Smoky Joe Wood’s epochal 34-5 season.Ī Game Two tie stretched the best-of-seven series to an eighth game, amazingly played before a half-empty house. John McGraw’s Giants, winning their second straight pennant, met the World Series newcomer Red Sox. With no further ado, here are the candidate statements. The vote total should be interesting, but the debate really ought be. If the comments section ends up more compelling than my game summaries, that’s fine. (Theoretically, you’ll vote based on the summaries, not on recency bias or nostalgia or such.) After you vote, you get to comment. (This is about your opinions, not mine.) I’ve concentrated on the actual gameplay, but I do note some other narratives that affect how the games would have been seen by contemporary fans.Īfter I’m done, you get to vote. I held myself to an exact total of 800 words apiece (or something very close to it), so I wouldn’t bias you by inadvertently writing longer about a game I found more compelling. Four minutes of the 1924 game were recently unearthed.) To put them on a level playing field, I will give summaries below of each of the games. We cannot re-watch all six candidate games in the same detail, mainly because we cannot watch the earliest two at all. So I’m posing it here: Which great all-the-marbles game was the greatest? Now that the initial glow of the recent Series has dimmed, I thought I’d like to see what fans, or the subset of fans who read The Hardball Times, think of the question. The theoretically objective WPS numbers do pick one of those games as the best, but that certainly isn’t definitive.