IN THE NEWS: The Series opens in Cincinnati, and the Reds lose 7–2, the 10th straight World Series loss for a National League team. The Tigers bunch five singles, a walk, and an error in the 2nd off Paul Derringer to score five runs. Bruce Campbell adds a 2-run home run, and Bobo Newsom rations eight hits and only one walk. Bobo's father, visiting from South Carolina, dies in a Cincinnati hotel the next morning.
IN THE NEWS: Bucky Walters gives the National League its first Series game victory since Carl Hubbell beat the Yankees in 1937. Jimmy Ripple's 2-run home run in the 3rd provides the margin. Walters gives up only three hits, but is lucky to escape a jittery first inning.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit bombs nine hits for 19 bases in the 7th and 8th innings off Jim Turner and successors to win 7–4 in the first game at Briggs Stadium. Tommy Bridges gives up 10 hits but goes the distance.
IN THE NEWS: Paul Derringer, who had lost four World Series starts going back to 1931, finally breaks his jinx. His 5-hitter and Jim Ripple's 3rd-inning double, which knocks Dizzy Trout from the mound, provide a 5–2 win.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit regains the advantage with Bobo Newsom pitching even better than he had in the first game. Newsom's 8–0 three-hit whitewash is the first Detroit shutout in the World Series since 1909.
IN THE NEWS: Back in Cincinnati, Bucky Walters evens the Series for the Reds with a 4–0 shutout, scattering five hits. Walters also becomes the first pitcher in 14 years to hit a home run in the Series.
IN THE NEWS: With only one day's rest, Bobo Newsom comes back for the Tigers and nearly has enough to win. Detroit gets an unearned run off Paul Derringer in the 3rd, and Newsom holds the Reds scoreless through six innings. In the 7th, however, Frank McCormick and Jimmy Ripple hit consecutive doubles, and Ripple later ambles in from 3B on Billy Myers' sac fly. Derringer gives up seven hits in the first six innings but sets the Tigers down in order in the final three frames. Old Jimmy Wilson catches six of the seven games, hits .353, and has the only SB of the Series. The Reds' share is $5,803 and the Tigers get $3,532.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit slugger outfielder Hank Greenberg is named the MVP in the American League with 292 points. Greenberg won the MVP honors in 1935 as a first baseman. Bob Feller is 2nd with 222 points.
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