The Washington times., 1932-10-04
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BY BABE RUTH

the world series is past and gone,
and we can reflect on it from va
rious angles, I am inclined to
think that the one big factor in
making it such a sweep for the
Yankees has been somewhat over
looked in the maze of home run
hitting and the heavy hitting
which turned the final game into
riot. don't think our pitchers
have been accorded quite as much
credit in the success as they
should have received.
I am not overlooking the fact
that we had some loose pitching
here and there. George "Pipgras
was taken out in the ninth inning
of one game, and Johnny Allen
was batted out the first inning OF
another. But look at it this way,
the Cubs had to battle hard for
the runs they scored and did not
benefit through loose pitching.
The Yankees, on the other hand,
were able to get away to such a
commanding start because the
Chicago pitching was wild and IN
effective.
Only One Big Inning
+ have been looking over the
scoring and I note that the Cubs
had only one real big inning in
the four games. That was in the
first inning of the fourth game
when they buched five hits with
an error and picked up four runs.
In four other innings they scored
two runs, and in seven different
innings they pushed one run
across.
In the four games our pitchers
handed out only II bases on balls
while the Cub pitchers were walk
ing % men. Here again is a big
difference in favor of the pitch
ing on our side. Before the Sc
ries the dope was that Chicago
excelled the Yankees in pitching
and that our hitting was better
than theirs. Well. it took us four
games to prove our case in hit
ting, but there never was a time
when our pitching ran second to
that of the Cubs. Ruffing, Go
mez, Pennock and Moore all
pitched good ball, and George had
done a lot of good pitching be-
fore he was taken out in the
ninth inning of the third game
when the score was close and
two hits popped in a row.
thought Warneke did the best
of the Cub pitchers. At least he
showed us more stuff than any
of the others. He had plenty in
that first game and think you
ran throw out his bad perform
ance in the final game because he
had to come back and make
another effort before he was
rested after the first start.
Gehrig Hitting Hero
1t struck me that Lou Gehrig
was the hitting hero of the series.
and that was not surprising be-
cause Lou had always been a
strong hitter in past series and
also through the regular season.
His hitting was a big factor in
the success of the Yankees. He
led both teams in making home
runs, and he also starred in driv-
ing runs across the plate. think
his work stood out as the best
done by any individual player. |
Gomez was the best of the
starting pitchers, and that also
was in line with his work
through the regular season. r.
was of the opinion that Lefty
hight run into difficulty in try
ing to check the Cubs because
they have so many right-hand
pitchers, but he came through
in fine style. He held them to
the least runs scored by either
team in any game.
Stephenson was the leader of
the Chicago hitters in number
of safe blows but Hartnett had
the greatest number of hits for
extra bases. These two hitterS
gave us no little concern, and
Cuyler showed us in the third
game that he had to be reckoned
with.