# 1913 New York Giants season

The 1913 New York Giants season was the franchise's 31st season. It involved the Giants winning the National League pennant for the third consecutive year. Led by manager John McGraw, the Giants dominated the NL and finished 12½ games in front of the second place Philadelphia Phillies. They were beaten by the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.
Ace pitcher Christy Mathewson went 25–11 and led the NL with a 2.06 ERA. Rube Marquard and Jeff Tesreau also won over 20 games, and the Giants easily allowed the fewest runs of any team in the league.
Taken together with the 1911 and 1912 pennant winners, this team is considered one of the greatest of all-time. The roster was basically unchanged from 1912.

## Regular season
### Season standings

vteNational League :
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
| New York Giants | 101 | 51 | .664 | — | 54‍–‍23 | 47‍–‍28 |
| Philadelphia Phillies | 88 | 63 | .583 | 12½ | 43‍–‍33 | 45‍–‍30 |
| Chicago Cubs | 88 | 65 | .575 | 13½ | 51‍–‍25 | 37‍–‍40 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 78 | 71 | .523 | 21½ | 41‍–‍35 | 37‍–‍36 |
| Boston Braves | 69 | 82 | .457 | 31½ | 34‍–‍40 | 35‍–‍42 |
| Brooklyn Dodgers | 65 | 84 | .436 | 34½ | 29‍–‍47 | 36‍–‍37 |
| Cincinnati Reds | 64 | 89 | .418 | 37½ | 32‍–‍44 | 32‍–‍45 |
| St. Louis Cardinals | 51 | 99 | .340 | 49 | 25‍–‍48 | 26‍–‍51 |

### Record vs. opponents

1913 National League recordvte Sources: :
| Team | BOS | BR | CHC | CIN | NYG | PHI | PIT | STL |
| Boston | — | 10–10–1 | 9–13 | 8–14 | 8–14 | 7–15–1 | 11–10 | 16–6–1 |
| Brooklyn | 10–10–1 | — | 9–13 | 9–13 | 8–14 | 8–13–1 | 8–14–1 | 13–7 |
| Chicago | 13–9 | 13–9 | — | 13–9–1 | 7–14 | 13–9 | 13–9 | 16–6–1 |
| Cincinnati | 14–8 | 13–9 | 9–13–1 | — | 5–17 | 5–17–1 | 8–13–1 | 10–12 |
| New York | 14–8 | 14–8 | 14–7 | 17–5 | — | 14–8–3 | 14–8–1 | 14–7 |
| Philadelphia | 15–7–1 | 13–8–1 | 9–13 | 17–5–1 | 8–14–3 | — | 9–11–2 | 17–5 |
| Pittsburgh | 10–11 | 14–8–1 | 9–13 | 13–8–1 | 8–14–1 | 11–9–2 | — | 13–8–1 |
| St. Louis | 6–16–1 | 7–13 | 6–16–1 | 12–10 | 7–14 | 5–17 | 8–13–1 | — |

### Notable transactions

* September 15, 1913: Rule 5 draft
** Ben Dyer was drafted by the Giants from the Decatur Commodores.
** Hank Ritter was drafted by the Giants from the Wilmington Chicks.

### Roster
## Player stats
### Batting
#### Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Pos | Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
| C | Chief Meyers | 120 | 378 | 118 | .312 | 3 | 47 |
| 1B | Fred Merkle | 153 | 563 | 147 | .261 | 3 | 69 |
| 2B | Larry Doyle | 132 | 482 | 135 | .280 | 5 | 73 |
| SS | Art Fletcher | 136 | 538 | 160 | .297 | 4 | 71 |
| 3B | Buck Herzog | 96 | 290 | 83 | .286 | 3 | 31 |
| OF | Fred Snodgrass | 141 | 457 | 133 | .291 | 3 | 49 |
| OF | Red Murray | 147 | 520 | 139 | .267 | 2 | 59 |
| OF | George Burns | 150 | 605 | 173 | .286 | 2 | 54 |

#### Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
| Tillie Shafer | 138 | 508 | 146 | .287 | 5 | 52 |
| Moose McCormick | 57 | 80 | 22 | .275 | 0 | 15 |
| Art Wilson | 54 | 79 | 15 | .190 | 0 | 8 |
| Larry McLean | 30 | 75 | 24 | .320 | 0 | 9 |
| Jim Thorpe | 19 | 35 | 5 | .143 | 1 | 2 |
| Claude Cooper | 27 | 30 | 9 | .300 | 0 | 4 |
| Josh Devore | 16 | 21 | 4 | .190 | 0 | 1 |
| Eddie Grant | 27 | 20 | 4 | .200 | 0 | 1 |
| Grover Hartley | 23 | 19 | 6 | .316 | 0 | 0 |
| Milt Stock | 7 | 17 | 3 | .176 | 0 | 1 |
| Heinie Groh | 4 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 |
| John Merritt | 1 | 0 | 0 | ---- | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Evers | 1 | 0 | 0 | ---- | 0 | 0 |

### Pitching
#### Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
| Christy Mathewson | 40 | 306.0 | 25 | 11 | 2.06 | 93 |
| Rube Marquard | 42 | 288.0 | 23 | 10 | 2.50 | 151 |
| Jeff Tesreau | 41 | 282.0 | 22 | 13 | 2.17 | 167 |
| Al Demaree | 31 | 199.2 | 13 | 4 | 2.21 | 76 |
| Bunny Hearn | 2 | 13.0 | 1 | 1 | 2.77 | 8 |

#### Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
| Art Fromme | 26 | 112.1 | 11 | 6 | 4.01 | 50 |
| Red Ames | 8 | 41.2 | 2 | 1 | 2.16 | 30 |
| Rube Schauer | 3 | 12.0 | 0 | 1 | 7.50 | 7 |

#### Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |
| Doc Crandall | 35 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2.86 | 42 |
| Hooks Wiltse | 17 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.56 | 25 |
| Ferdie Schupp | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 | 2 |

## 1913 World Series
### Game 1

October 7, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Philadelphia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| New York | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| W: Chief Bender (1–0) L: Rube Marquard (0–1) |||||||||||||
| HR: PHI – Frank Baker (1) |||||||||||||

### Game 2

October 8, 1913, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
| New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| Philadelphia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| W: Christy Mathewson (1–0) L: Eddie Plank (0–1) ||||||||||||||

### Game 3

October 9, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Philadelphia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 1 |
| New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| W: Bullet Joe Bush (1–0) L: Jeff Tesreau (0–1) |||||||||||||
| HR: PHI – Wally Schang (1) |||||||||||||

### Game 4

October 10, 1913, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| Philadelphia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| W: Chief Bender (2–0) L: Al Demaree (0–1) |||||||||||||
| HR: NYG – Fred Merkle (1) |||||||||||||

### Game 5

October 11, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Philadelphia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| W: Eddie Plank (1–1) L: Christy Mathewson (1–1) |||||||||||||