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1907 Chicago Cubs (#3) 4, 1978 New York Yankees (#62) 3
MVP: Jack Pfiester (ChC 1907) 3-0, 1.67 ERA, 27.0 IP, 13 K, 3 BB, 18 HA
Neither team could pull away from the other in this series, as they mostly traded wins, with there being only one point where a team won 2 in a row. The Yankees held the Cubs scoreless in Game 1 until the 9th inning, and the one run they scored only served to ruin the shutout. The Cubs came back in a tight, low-scoring Game 2 to tie the series. Game 3, the 3rd in a row started by 3-Finger Brown and Ron Guidry, was a 5-hit shutout by Guidry that the Yankees won easily. The Cubs tied the series again in Game 4, mainly on the strength of their 6-run 5th inning. Chicago then took their first series lead by crushing the Yankees in Game 5, scoring all of their runs in the 4th-6th innings. Game 6 was a pitching marvel. Ron Guidry threw 12.0 innings and 3-Finger Brown threw 14.0, and neither one of them gave up a run. The Cubs nearly ended it before extra innings, when Johnny Kling led off the bottom of the 9th with a triple. But they just couldn't bring him home. The Yankees became the first (and only) team to score in the top of the 16th, when Willie Randolph hit a single off of Ed Reulbach to score Lou Pinniella, sending the series to 7 games. The Cubs were the clear winners of the series in Game 7, behind the 1-hit shutout masterpiece from MVP Jack Pfiester.
Scores:
NYY 5 ChC 1
ChC 2 NYY 1
NYY 7 ChC 0
ChC 9 NYY 4
ChC 10 NYY 2
NYY 1 ChC 0 (16)
ChC 5 NYY 0
The 1907 Cubs' next opponent will be the winner of the 1917 White Sox / 1950 Yankees matchup.
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