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...other American League game, the Kansas City Athletics met their first defeat in history when Steve Gromek and the Detroit Tigers trimmed them by a 10 to 2 score...
Cleveland (Gromek) 10, New York...
Boston (Nixon) 11, Chicago 2 Clevelaud (Gromek) 1, New York 0 St. Louis (Pillette) 5, Philadelphia 1 Washington (Marrcro) 5, Detroit...
Cleveland (Gromek) 7, St. Louis...
Silent Bats. It went on like that for four days: good pitching and terrible hitting. Cleveland's brilliant southpaw Rookie Gene Bearden, shutting out the Braves (2-0), only twice let the count go to three balls on any Boston batter. Knuckle-bailer Steve Gromek, who out-pitched Sain in the fourth game (2-1), gave only one base on balls. The 1948 World Series was in danger of being remembered only for precision pitching. Grantland Rice called it the Series of silent bats. Disgusted fans and sportwriters complained that it was the dullest World Series in memory. What...