Game Details

Date/Time:	TBA
Location:	TBA
Score:	4-1
Winner:	1948 Indians

GAME 1 at Municipal Stadium: Carl Hubbell takes a 2-0 lead and a one-hitter into the eighth. Eddie Robinson singles with one out, and after Jim Hegan hits into a force play, pinch-hitter Joe Tipton came through with a base hit. Dale Mitchell then singled, scoring Hegan, and another pinch-hitter, Wally Judnich, doubled into the gap against reliever Hi Bell, scoring the tying and go-ahead runs. Bob Feller (seven hits, six strikeouts) gave way to Satchel Paige, who walked and balked the tying run into scoring position before escaping the jam. Tribe wins 3-2.

GAME 2: More eighth-inning magic in Cleveland. This time it's 1-1, as Hal Schumacher and Bob Lemon duel. Lou Boudreau leads off with a triple, Joe Gordon walks and Ken Keltner blasts a three-run homer. Sam Zoldak and Paige preserve the 4-1 victory.

GAME 3: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants hope to change their fortunes, sending Freddie Fitzsimmons to the hill against Gene Bearden. It was all Mel Ott. After Larry Doby homered in the Indians' 1st, Ott hit a two-run shot in the Giants' half. He added solo shots in the fourth and seventh and Fitzsimmons did the rest, stopping the Indians on seven hits, 4-2. Bearden gave up just five hits but couldn't stop Ott.

GAME 4: Feller and Hubbell back to the mound, and this time Cleveland didn't wait until the eighth to solve the Meal Ticket. Mitchell led off the game with a homer, and after an error by shortstop Blondy Ryan, Keltner hit a two-run shot to make it 3-0. Another Ryan error gave the Indians a run in the third, but the Giants scored twice in the sixth to get back into it. But Doby and Robinson added homers and Feller, with help from Zoldak, gave Cleveland a commanding 3-1 series lead with a 7-3 victory.

GAME 5: Another first-inning Tribe homer, this one by Boudreau, was all the support Lemon needed. He fired a three-hitter, walking two, and Keltner later drove in another run for a 2-0 final and the series win. Schumacher gets his second hard-luck loss of the series, giving up just four hits in eight innings.

Doby was the leading hitter for the series at .316, while Keltner (.294) matched Doby's pair of homers and knocked in a series-high six runs. Ott drove in four, all in Game 3, for the Giants, whose top hitter for average was third baseman Johnny Vergez at .273. Cleveland's pitchers held New York to 10 runs, and Lemon (0.57 ERA) and Feller each won twice.