A thriller of a series has ended with the 1938 Yankees upsetting the 1902 Pirates to continue on their improbable run. They will now move on to the Final Four against the winner of the 1969 Orioles and the 1937 Yankees. They were outscored 24-21 by the Pirates, and outerred the Pirates 21-13, but in the end they were the ones who came out on top.
This series had it all, including an 18-inning game that finished with reserve RF Bill A Miller picking up the save in a 5-2 Pirate win. The opening game was a 10-inning nailbiter, with the Yankees eventually prevailing 3-2. Game 5 was a back and forth affair, with the Yankees going up 4-0 in the third inning on an RBI single by Gehrig, a two-run triple by Henrich, and an RBI groundout by Joe Gordon. In the fifth inning the Pirates would get to within one on a two-run single by Tommy Leach and an RBI single by Claude Ritchey. In the 7th, Leach would triple and score on a wild pitch to Ritchey to knot the score at four. It stayed that way until the bottom of the ninth when Frankie Crosetti led off with a walk, went to third on a single by Red Rolfe and came home with the winning run on a passed ball during Bill Dickey's at bat (Oh, now I see why he was named the MVP...Uh, not
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The AI gave Bill Dickey the MVP (.375/.444/.531, 1 HR, 3 RBI), but if you ask me it was Lefty Gomez. He pitched a CG 3-1 loss in Game 2, in which he allowed no earned runs, a 16.0 inning start (219 pitches!) in Game 4, in which he allowed two unearned runs, and a CG 4-hit shutout in the deciding Game 7, but hey what do I know, I'm just some dork havin' a lot of fun with this new feature.
The boxscore of the crazy 18-inning Game 4, plus its game log, and the Series Recap are below: