***** LAST TEAM STANDING *****
At Busch Stadium, St. Louis
GAME TWO
One pitcher had his good stuff. The other didn’t. Unfortunately for the 1944 Cardinals, Mort Cooper was on the wrong side of the comparison. When Al Simmons led off the top of the second with a screaming double off the top of the right-field wall and later scored on a sacrifice fly, it was only the beginning.
The 1929 Athletics added to their 1-0 lead with four more runs in the fourth inning—on a solo home run by Simmons, three singles, two walks, and two errors—and then four more in the sixth, capped by Mickey Cochrane’s two-run blast off reliever Blix Donnelly.
Meanwhile, Philadelphia righty George Earnshaw was mowing the Cardinals down. In fact, they never came close to scoring.
Earnshaw turned in one of his best performances of the tournament:
9 IP, 0 R, 4 H, 1 W, 9 strikeouts.
For the first time in this tournament,
the 1944 Cardinals have lost two games in a row. Now they must find a way to regain their mojo on the road.
FINAL: Athletics 9, Cardinals 0