Editor’s note: The 1948 Tournament games are being played with Strat-o-Matic cards and dice. Injuries will only be used during the game when they occur. For this tournament, the rules include a three-man pitching rotation using the best lineups available. The first and second round series will be the best two of three games. The semifinals are best of five, while the championship series is the best of seven.
Schoolboy Rowe was looking for some redemption after a game one loss. He earn it.
Rowe (3-1) gave up five hits as he led the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth contest in the best of seven championship series of the 1948 Tournament.
With the win, the Phillies have evened the series at two games apiece with the fifth affair in Shibe Park.
Dutch Leonard (3-0) is set to start for the Phillies, while Harry Brecheen (3-0) gets the ball for the Cardinals. Both hurlers were starters in the second game of the series, but neither had a decision in the 5-3 contest won by the Cardinals.
The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fourth when Del Ennis broke it open with a RBI single St. Louis starter Murry Dickson (3-1). Andy Seminick added a sacrifice fly and it was 2-0.
In the fifth and St. Louis error led to a sacrifice fly by Eddie Miller, which turned out to be the final tally of the contest.
Rowe went the distance for the Phillies with just one strikeout, but he was able to keep the Cardinals off balance allowing only one runner to reach third.
Dickson worked eight frames surrendering four hits with two each by Harry Walker and Ennis.
1948 Tournament
Championship Series
G1 – (N2) St. Louis Cardinals 11, (N6) Philadelphia Phillies 6
G2 – (N2) St. Louis Cardinals 5, (N6) Philadelphia Phillies 3
G3 – (N6) Philadelphia Phillies 8, (N2) St. Louis Cardinals 5
G4 – (N6) Philadelphia Phillies 3, (N2) St. Louis Cardinals 0
G5 – (N2) St. Louis Cardinals at (N6) Philadelphia Phillies
G6 – (N6) Philadelphia Phillies at (N2) St. Louis Cardinals
G7 – (N6) Philadelphia Phillies at (N2) St. Louis Cardinals
Semifinal Results
(N1) Boston Braves vs. (N6) Philadelphia Phillies
Phillies win series 3-1; 0-8, 8-4, 3-2, 4-0.
(N8) Chicago Cubs vs (N2) St. Louis Cardinals
Cardinals win series 2-1, 5-8, 4-3, 4-0, 2-0
Second Round Results
(N1) Boston Braves vs. (A5) Detroit Tigers, Braves 15-6, 9-2
(N6) Philadelphia Phillies vs. (A2) Boston Red Sox, Phillies 11-3, 4-3
(N8) Chicago Cubs vs (N5) New York Giants, Cubs 5-2, 3-0
(N3) Brooklyn Dodgers vs. (N2) St. Louis Cardinals, Cardinals 5-4, 5-3
First Round Results
(N1) Boston Braves vs. (A8) Chicago White Sox, Braves 12-4, 5-0
(A5) Detroit Tigers vs. (N4) Pittsburgh Pirates, Tigers 11-4, 1-0
(A3) New York Yankees vs. (N6) Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies 6-2, 5-2
(N7) Cincinnati Reds vs. (A2) Boston Red Sox, Red Sox 20-1, 3-4, 9-5
(A1) Cleveland Indians vs. (N8) Chicago Cubs, Cubs 4-0, 1-3, 11-0
(N5) New York Giants vs. (A4) Philadelphia A’s, Giants 5-2, 6-1
(N3) Brooklyn Dodgers vs. (A6) St. Louis Browns, Dodgers 5-0, 6-3
(A7) Washington Senators vs. (N2) St. Louis Cardinals, Cardinals 3-0, 5-4