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The 1937 World Series featured the defending champion New York Yankees and the New York Giants in a rematch of the 1936 Series. The Yankees won in five games, for their second championship in a row and their sixth in 15 years (1923, 1927–28, 1932, 1936).
The 1937 major league baseball season began on April 19, 1937. The regular season ended on October 3, with the New York Giants and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 34th World Series on October 6
The 1937 New York Giants season was the franchise's 55th season. The Giants won the National League pennant . The team went on to lose to the New York Yankees in the World Series , four games to one.
This gave the Yankees a 3-to-2 edge in overall series play against the Giants. 1937 saw significant changes in the layout of Yankee Stadium, as concrete bleachers were built to replace the aging wooden structure, reducing the cavernous "death valley" of left center and center considerably, although the area remained a daunting target for right ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Lefty Gomez, meanwhile, gives up just one run to carry the Yankees to an 8–1 victory in Game one of the rematch of the 1936 World Series. October 7 – The Yankees win game two of the 1937 World Series by the same score, 8–1. Red Ruffing is the winning pitcher, and goes two-for-four with a double and three runs batted in.
After Game 2 of the Series, the Bronx Bombers would not return to Wrigley Field for nearly 65 years until a three-game interleague series with the Cubs beginning June 6, 2003. This was the first World Series played at Wrigley Field following the bleacher reconstruction of 1937, which had significantly shortened the left-center field power alley.
Lazzeri scored the deciding run in the 1937 World Series, as the Yankees defeated the New York Giants. [ 13 ] As a member of the Yankees through 1937, he averaged 79 runs , 14 home runs, 96 RBIs and 12 stolen bases , including seven seasons with over 100 RBI and five seasons batting .300 or higher (including a high of .354 in 1929).