| 1916 World Series | ||||||||||
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 The Red Sox' World Series winning roster | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 7–12 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Braves Field (Boston) Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Tommy Connolly (AL), Hank O'Day (NL) Bill Dinneen (AL), Ernie Quigley (NL) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Tommy Connolly Hank O'Day Red Sox: Harry Hooper Herb Pennock (DNP) Babe Ruth Robins: Wilbert Robinson (mgr.) Rube Marquard Casey Stengel‡ Zack Wheat ‡ elected as a manager | |||||||||
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The 1916 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1916 season. The 13th edition of the World Series, it matched the American League champion Boston Red Sox against the National League champion Brooklyn Robins. The Red Sox won the Series four games to one, capturing their record-setting fourth World Series title. It was the first World Series meeting between the teams.
Casey Stengel shone on offense for the Robins in the 1916 Series, but the Red Sox pitching corps ultimately proved too much for the denizens of Flatbush. The Sox's Babe Ruth pitched 13 shutout innings in Game 2, starting a consecutive scoreless innings streak that would reach 29 in 1918. As with the 1915 Series, the Red Sox played their home games at the larger Braves Field, and it paid off as they drew a then-record 43,620 people for the final game.
Brooklyn fielded some strong teams under their manager and namesake Wilbert Robinson in the late 1910s. The Robins, also interchangeably called the Dodgers, would win the pennant again in 1920, but the American League teams were generally stronger during that interval. It would be 39 years before the Dodgers would win their first World Series title in 1955.
The two franchises met again in the postseason for the first time in 102 years in the 2018 World Series, 60 years after the Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles. The record for most innings played in a World Series game, set by Game 2 in 1916, at 14, was broken by Game 3 in 2018, at 18.[1] Just like their first matchup in the World Series, the Red Sox would eventually go on to defeat the Dodgers in five games to win their ninth World Series championship overall and fourth World Series championship since 2004.
- ^ Simon, Andrew; Randhawa, Manny (October 27, 2018). "18 amazing facts from marathon Game 3 of WS". MLB.com. Retrieved October 27, 2018.