1916 World Series

Boston Red Sox (4) vs Brooklyn Robins (1)

Another World Series newcomer, the Brooklyn Robins (later known as the Dodgers) had paved their way to the 1916 Fall Classic with solid hitting by Zack Wheat and standout pitching from the arm of Jeff Pfeffer, a twenty-five game winner. They also boasted two World Series veteran acquisitions in Rube Marquard and Jack Coombs who had made several postseason appearances with the Giants and A's.

The deck appeared stacked in their favor, but the returning World Champion Red Sox would have something to say about that. Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson felt that starting two lefthanders would give his team an upper hand, so he nominated veteran Marquard and another standout, Sherry Smith for Games 1 and 2 in Boston. Once again, the Red Sox turned to the cross-town Braves Field in favor of Fenway Park to handle to ever-increasing World Series crowds.

The Robins' Marquard went up against the 1915 opener's loser, Ernie Shore in what first appeared to be a standoff. The Red Sox were up 2-1 through six innings with neither pitcher flinching. That was until both clubs started a scoring frenzy. First, the Red Sox knocked Marquard for three runs in the seventh (forcing the veteran to be pulled in favor of Pfeffer) and one more in the eighth. Brooklyn answered back with four runs of their own in the ninth, sending Shore to the showers, but Boston brought in Carl Mays, who cinched the rally and held on for the 6-5 win.

Sherry Smith and another young lefty nicknamed "The Babe" went at it for Game 2 in what has been dubbed as both a "double masterpiece" and a 'hitters nightmare". Through thirteen innings, both had allowed only six hits and one run each. In the bottom of the fourteenth, Dick Hoblitzell set the stage for a dramatic finish by drawing his fourth walk of the game. Duffy Lewis followed suite by sacrificing Hoblitzell into scoring position at second. With all his pieces in place, Red Sox manager Bill Carrigan prepared to checkmate his opponent by sending in Mike McNally as a pinch-runner and Del Gainor as a pinch-hitter. Gainor stepped up and delivered, driving in Hoblitzell and sealing Boston's 2-1 victory.

Robinson turned to another Series veteran for Game 3, but this time he chose a right-hander in Jack Coombs. In the first World Series game ever to be played at the newly constructed Ebbets Field, he combined with relief from Jeff Pfeffer, to pitch a 4-3 triumph that put his team back into play. Boston came back the very next day with a counter attack from Dutch Leonard who threw an eight hitter in a 6-2 reply. Larry Gardner backed him up by adding his second home run in two days with a three run blast.

Series veteran Ernie Shore returned in Game 5 for the Red Sox and shut the door on the Robins with a 4-1, Series deciding victory.

The Beantown Bombers had joined the ranks of baseball's elite as back-to-back World Champions without ever playing a single postseason game in their own house. One of Brooklyn's few standouts, an outfielder named Casey Stengel (who batted a Series leading .364) would go on to become one of the most successful postseason managers in the history of baseball. Unfortunately for Brooklyn fans, it would be with the New York Yankees and four of his wins would be over the Dodgers.

Baseball Almanac Top Quote

"One thing Brooklyn fans did have to cheer about was the play of a 27-year-old outfielder, a man who later would cause the borough considerable grief in his role as an opposing World Series manager. The player's name? Casey Stengel." - The Sporting News (2002)

1916 World Series

1916 World Series Program

1916 Official World Series Program

← 1915 | Boston Red Sox (4) vs Brooklyn Robins (1) | 1917 →
Game 1 Date / Box Score 10-07-1916
Location Braves Field
1st Pitch Dorothy A. Lannin (Daughter, Joseph J. Lannin, Red Sox Owner)
Attendance 36,117
Game 2 Date / Box Score 10-09-1916
Location Braves Field
Attendance 41,373
Game 3 Date / Box Score 10-10-1916
Location Ebbets Field
Attendance 21,087
Game 4 Date / Box Score 10-11-1916
Location Ebbets Field
Attendance 21,662
Game 5 Date / Box Score 10-12-1916
Location Braves Field
Attendance 42,620
1916 World Series Fast Facts

1916 World Series
Game 1

Line Score / Box Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Brooklyn 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 5 10 4
Boston 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 x 6 8 1
Rube Marquard (L)
Jeff Pfeffer (8th)		 Ernie Shore (W)
Carl Mays (S, 9th)
None None

1916 World Series
Game 2

Line Score / Box Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 R H E
Brooklyn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 2
Boston 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 1
Sherry Smith (L) Babe Ruth (W)
Hy Myers (1st) None

1916 World Series
Game 3

Line Score / Box Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 7 1
Brooklyn 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 x 4 10 0
Carl Mays (L)
Rube Foster (6th)		 Jack Coombs (W)
Jeff Pfeffer (S, 7th)
Larry Gardner (7th) None

1916 World Series
Game 4

Line Score / Box Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston 0 3 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 6 10 1
Brooklyn 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 4
Dutch Leonard (W)
-
-		 Rube Marquard (L)
Larry Cheney (5th)
Nap Rucker (8th)
Larry Gardner (2nd) None

1916 World Series
Game 5

Line Score / Box Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Brooklyn 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Boston 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 x 4 7 2
Jeff Pfeffer (L)
Wheezer Dell (8th)		 Ernie Shore (W)
-
None None

1916 World Series

Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox 1916 World Series Composite Hitting Statistics
Hick Cady
Bill Carrigan
Rube Foster
Del Gainer
Larry Gardner
Olaf Henriksen
Dick Hoblitzel
Harry Hooper
Hal Janvrin
Dutch Leonard
Duffy Lewis
Carl Mays
Mike McNally
Babe Ruth
Everett Scott
Ernie Shore
Chick Shorten
Pinch Thomas
Tilly Walker
Jimmy Walsh		 c
c
p
ph
3b
ph
1b
of
2b
p
of
p
pr
p
ss
p
of
c
of
of		 2
1
1
1
5
1
5
5
5
1
5
2
1
1
5
2
2
3
3
1		 4
3
1
1
17
0
17
21
23
3
17
1
0
5
16
7
7
7
11
3		 1
2
0
1
3
0
4
7
5
0
6
0
0
0
2
0
4
1
3
0		 0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0		 0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0		 0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0		 1
0
0
0
2
1
3
6
2
0
3
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
0		 0
1
0
1
6
0
2
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
2
0
1
0		 .250
.667
.000
1.000
.176
.000
.235
.333
.217
.000
.353
.000
.000
.000
.125
.000
.571
.143
.273
.000		 3
0
0
0
0
1
6
3
0
1
2
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0		 0
1
1
0
2
0
0
1
6
3
1
1
0
2
1
2
1
1
2
0		 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Totals 164 39 7 6 2 21 18 .238 18 25 1

1916 World Series

Brooklyn Robins

Brooklyn Robins 1916 World Series Composite Hitting Statistics
Larry Cheney
Jack Coombs
George Cutshaw
Jake Daubert
Wheezer Dell
Gus Getz
Jimmy Johnston
Rube Marquard
Fred Merkle
Chief Meyers
Otto Miller
Mike Mowrey
Hy Myers
Ivy Olson
Ollie O'Mara
Jeff Pfeffer
Nap Rucker
Sherry Smith
Casey Stengel
Zack Wheat		 p
p
2b
1b
p
ph
of-2
p
1b-1
c
c
3b
of
ss
ph
p-3
p
p
of-3
of		 1
1
5
4
1
1
3
2
3
3
2
5
5
5
1
4
1
1
4
5		 0
3
19
17
0
1
10
3
4
10
8
17
22
16
1
4
0
5
11
19		 0
1
2
3
0
0
3
0
1
2
1
3
4
4
0
1
0
1
4
4		 0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0		 0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1		 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0		 0
0
2
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
2
2		 0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
1		 .000
.333
.105
.176
.000
.000
.300
.000
.250
.200
.125
.176
.182
.250
.000
.250
.000
.200
.364
.211		 0
0
1
2
0
0
1
0
2
1
0
3
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
2		 0
0
1
3
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
3
2
1
2
0
0
1
2		 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Totals 170 34 2 5 1 13 11 .200 14 19 1

1916 World Series

Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox 1916 World Series Composite Pitching Statistics
Rube Foster
Dutch Leonard
Carl Mays
Babe Ruth
Ernie Shore		 0
1
0
1
2		 0
0
1
0
0		 1
1
2
1
2		 0
1
1
1
2		 0
1
0
1
1		 0
0
1
0
0		 0
0
0
0
0		 3.0
9.0
5.1
14.0
17.2		 0.00
1.00
5.06
0.64
1.53		 3
5
8
6
12		 1
3
2
4
9		 0
1
4
1
3		 0
4
3
3
4
Totals 4 1 7 5 3 1 0 49.0 1.47 34 19 9 14

1916 World Series

Brooklyn Robins

Brooklyn Robins 1916 World Series Composite Pitching Statistics
Larry Cheney
Jack Coombs
Wheezer Dell
Rube Marquard
Jeff Pfeffer
Nap Rucker
Sherry Smith		 0
1
0
0
0
0
0		 0
0
0
2
1
0
1		 1
1
1
2
3
1
1		 0
1
0
2
1
0
1		 0
0
0
0
0
0
1		 0
0
0
0
1
0
0		 0
0
0
0
0
0
0		 3.0
6.1
1.0
11.0
10.2
2.0
13.1		 3.00
4.26
0.00
5.73
1.69
0.00
1.35		 4
7
1
12
7
1
7		 5
1
0
9
5
3
2		 1
3
0
7
2
0
2		 1
1
0
6
4
0
6
Totals 1 4 10 5 1 1 0 47.1 2.85 39 25 15 18
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baseball almanac fast facts

During Game 2, future outfielder Babe Ruth gave up an inside the park home run to Hy Myers during the first inning of play. During the third inning he helped his own cause when he drove in a game-tieing run then pitched a complete game (14 inning) victory'striking out four (4), walking three (3), and scattering six (6) hits yet allowing only one (1) earned run.

Did you know that this was the first World Series where each team recorded a save? A postseason "feat" (now common to nearly every Fall Classic) not matched again until the 1924 World Series.

CBSSportsLine wrote the following article on June 23, 2002, "But their three-game sweep of the first series between the teams since the 1916 World Series, capped by Sunday's 9-6 victory, put Los Angeles alone atop the NL West for the first time since Aug. 10 of last season, and dropped the Red Sox out of first place in the AL East for the first time since April 15".

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