Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spitball pitching of St. Louis' ageing Burleigh Grimes who allowed Philadelphia but two hits in the third game, blanked them for eight innings in the seventh...
...made two hits in the third; made the only two hits for St. Louis in the fourth; knocked in four runs with three hits, one of them a homerun in the fifth; was passed in the pinches in the sixth but managed to steal a base in the seventh. He tied the World Series record for total number of hits (12). He also made 10 putouts, no errors in the series...
...highly pleased with himself and the World Series. Interviewed by fuzzy-headed Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who said he would like to change places with him, Pepper Martin retorted: "O. K. ... If you'll swap your $50,000 a year for my $4,500."* When St. Louis won the seventh and deciding game last week, it was the first time a National League team had won the World Series since 1926, when St. Louis beat the New York Yankees. It was a series notable, with the exception of Pepper Martin's exploits, for brilliant pitching rather than sensational batting. When...
...Captain and Second Baseman Frankie Frisch had made a two-base hit, Pepper Martin smashed a homerun into the left field grandstand. In the eighth he singled, scoring Rightfielder Watkins. He was then, for the first time, put out trying to steal second. Philadelphia made a run in the seventh inning, St. Louis made another run in the ninth...
...Pitcher Derringer walked the next two batters, forcing in another run. The batter who followed them, Jimmy Foxx, sent a single into dead center field that scored two runs. It was the hit that won the game, making Simmons' home-run, with a man on base in the seventh inning, superfluous. For the next six innings, Grove let St. Louis hit, but not in the pinches; the score at the end was Philadelphia 6, St. Louis...