The Chicago press had questioned the decision and printed that Grimm was making a serious mistake by using Borowy who was going on one day of rest after pitching the final four innings of Game 6. They finished no better than 4th the next six years before finding the right combination in 1945.The Cubs won their final five games of the season, all on the road, to end St. Louis’s streak of three straight pennants. - unknown, for minors Passeau followed his opponent to the dugout in the seventh after Detroit managed to score twice. After the Cubs answered with two runs in their half of the inning, it was 7-3, Chicago. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. The streak was snapped, but at least until further notice, the curse lives on." The Chicago Cubs finally made it back to the World Series after a seven year absence thanks to the timely pitching of Henry Borowy. The well-rested Newhouser went the distance for the 9-3 victory, allowing ten hits and striking out ten Cubs. Then, in the bottom of the twelfth, with two out and Billy Schuster at first base as a pinch-runner (for Frank Secory, who had come through with a pinch single), Hack hit a drive to left field that took a weird bounce and bounded over Greenberg.
Four days earlier, on the final day of the American league schedule and in a game that marked Trucks' only appearance of the regular season, Greenberg smashed a pennant-clinching, grand slam in the ninth inning against the defending American League champion St. Louis Browns.In Game 3, Chicago's Claude Passeau tossed a one-hitter in which Rudy York singled to left field with two out in the second and led the National Leaguers to a 3-0 triumph. Future Hall of Famers Hank Greenberg and Hal Newhouser led Detroit, while the Cubs enjoyed the services of Phil Cavaretta, Stan Hack and Andy Pafko.
- Paul Sullivan in the Chicago Tribune (1994)
Suddenly Manager Steve O'Neill's Tigers were in a position to close out the Cubs in six games.
We present them here for purely educational purposes. 1945 World Series The Chicago Cubs finally made it back to the World Series after a seven year absence thanks to the timely pitching of Henry Borowy. Detroit's 4-1 triumph, fashioned on Dizzy Trout's five-hit pitching set the tone for the rest of the contest. The Tigers were shooting for their second World Series crown; their only previous Series title had come in 1935, against the Cubs. Acquired on waivers in late July after he had compiled a 10-5 record for the New York Yankees, the "newbie" proceeded to win eleven of thirteen decisions and helped Chicago fight off the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League pennant race. The 1945 World Series is remembered as the last war-time Fall Classic, and thus as one devoid of stars, but both the Tigers and Cubs featured some fine players. The Cubs were eyeing their third Series championship; their two titles came in 1907 and 1908 at the Tigers' expense.Borowy had more than earned the start for Game 1 and he proved himself again and again as he held the Tigers to six singles and was a 9-0 victor as the Cubs bombed twenty-five-game winner Hal Newhouser. Virgil Trucks, a sixteen-game winner for Detroit in 1943 (and only recently discharged from the United States Navy), pitched a seven-hitter in Game 2 and won, 4-1, as midseason service returnee Hank Greenberg unloaded a three-run homer in the fifth. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. Greenberg continued to perform at the plate and slugged three more doubles for the Tigers.Trucks and Passeau went at it for Game 6 and both dominated the other's line-up for over four innings.
1945 World Series The 1945 World Series is remembered as the last war-time Fall Classic, and thus as one devoid of stars, but both the Tigers and Cubs featured some fine players.
Many thanks to him. Trucks blinked first and was routed in the Cubs' four-run fifth which featured Stan Hack's bases-loaded single. * - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? "The Billy Goat Curse (a Chicago bar owner named Billy Sianis brought his goat to Wrigley during Game 4 and was denied admission so he put a 'hex' on the team) was removed twice by Sianis' nephew, Sam. Then one month ago a 'ringer' goat from Wisconsin was paraded around Wrigley Field after a record twelve-game home losing streak.
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