1913 New York Giants season

Summary

The 1913 New York Giants season was the franchise's 31st season. It involved the Giants winning the National League pennant for the third consecutive year. Led by manager John McGraw, the Giants dominated the NL and finished 12½ games in front of the second place Philadelphia Phillies. They were beaten by the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.

1913 New York Giants
National League Champions
LeagueNational League
BallparkPolo Grounds
CityNew York City
OwnersHarry Hempstead
ManagersJohn McGraw
← 1912 Seasons 1914 →

Ace pitcher Christy Mathewson went 25–11 and led the NL with a 2.06 ERA. Rube Marquard and Jeff Tesreau also won over 20 games, and the Giants easily allowed the fewest runs of any team in the league.

Taken together with the 1911 and 1912 pennant winners, this team is considered one of the greatest of all-time.[1] The roster was basically unchanged from 1912.

Regular season edit

 
The Giants' opening day line-up at the Polo Grounds

Season standings edit

National League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Giants 101 51 0.664 54–23 47–28
Philadelphia Phillies 88 63 0.583 12½ 43–33 45–30
Chicago Cubs 88 65 0.575 13½ 51–25 37–40
Pittsburgh Pirates 78 71 0.523 21½ 41–35 37–36
Boston Braves 69 82 0.457 31½ 34–40 35–42
Brooklyn Dodgers 65 84 0.436 34½ 29–47 36–37
Cincinnati Reds 64 89 0.418 37½ 32–44 32–45
St. Louis Cardinals 51 99 0.340 49 25–48 26–51

Record vs. opponents edit


Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team BOS BR CHC CIN NYG PHI PIT STL
Boston 10–10–1 9–13 8–14 8–14 7–15–1 11–10 16–6–1
Brooklyn 10–10–1 9–13 9–13 8–14 8–13–1 8–14–1 13–7
Chicago 13–9 13–9 13–9–1 7–14 13–9 13–9 16–6–1
Cincinnati 14–8 13–9 9–13–1 5–17 5–17–1 8–13–1 10–12
New York 14–8 14–8 14–7 17–5 14–8–3 14–8–1 14–7
Philadelphia 15–7–1 13–8–1 9–13 17–5–1 8–14–3 9–11–2 17–5
Pittsburgh 10–11 14–8–1 9–13 13–8–1 8–14–1 11–9–2 13–8–1
St. Louis 6–16–1 7–13 6–16–1 12–10 7–14 5–17 8–13–1


Notable transactions edit

Roster edit

1913 New York Giants roster
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager

Coaches

Player stats edit

Batting edit

 
Jim Thorpe at the Polo Grounds

Starters by position edit

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Chief Meyers 120 378 118 .312 3 47
1B Fred Merkle 153 563 147 .261 3 69
2B Larry Doyle 132 482 135 .280 5 73
SS Art Fletcher 136 538 160 .297 4 71
3B Buck Herzog 96 290 83 .286 3 31
OF Fred Snodgrass 141 457 133 .291 3 49
OF Red Murray 147 520 139 .267 2 59
OF George Burns 150 605 173 .286 2 54

Other batters edit

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Tillie Shafer 138 508 146 .287 5 52
Moose McCormick 57 80 22 .275 0 15
Art Wilson 54 79 15 .190 0 8
Larry McLean 30 75 24 .320 0 9
Jim Thorpe 19 35 5 .143 1 2
Claude Cooper 27 30 9 .300 0 4
Josh Devore 16 21 4 .190 0 1
Eddie Grant 27 20 4 .200 0 1
Grover Hartley 23 19 6 .316 0 0
Milt Stock 7 17 3 .176 0 1
Heinie Groh 4 2 0 .000 0 0
John Merritt 1 0 0 ---- 0 0
Joe Evers 1 0 0 ---- 0 0

Pitching edit

Starting pitchers edit

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Christy Mathewson 40 306.0 25 11 2.06 93
Rube Marquard 42 288.0 23 10 2.50 151
Jeff Tesreau 41 282.0 22 13 2.17 167
Al Demaree 31 199.2 13 4 2.21 76
Bunny Hearn 2 13.0 1 1 2.77 8

Other pitchers edit

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Art Fromme 26 112.1 11 6 4.01 50
Red Ames 8 41.2 2 1 2.16 30
Rube Schauer 3 12.0 0 1 7.50 7

Relief pitchers edit

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Doc Crandall 35 4 4 6 2.86 42
Hooks Wiltse 17 0 0 3 1.56 25
Ferdie Schupp 5 0 0 0 0.75 2

1913 World Series edit

Game 1 edit

October 7, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Philadelphia 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0 6 11 1
New York 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 11 0
W: Chief Bender (1–0)  L: Rube Marquard (0–1)
HR: PHIFrank Baker (1)

Game 2 edit

October 8, 1913, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 2
Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2
W: Christy Mathewson (1–0)  L: Eddie Plank (0–1)

Game 3 edit

October 9, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Philadelphia 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 8 12 1
New York 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 1
W: Bullet Joe Bush (1–0)  L: Jeff Tesreau (0–1)
HR: PHIWally Schang (1)

Game 4 edit

October 10, 1913, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 5 8 2
Philadelphia 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 x 6 9 0
W: Chief Bender (2–0)  L: Al Demaree (0–1)
HR: NYGFred Merkle (1)

Game 5 edit

October 11, 1913, at the Polo Grounds in New York City

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Philadelphia 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 1
New York 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
W: Eddie Plank (1–1)  L: Christy Mathewson (1–1)

References edit

  1. ^ Neyer, Rob and Eddie Epstein. Baseball Dynasties.
  2. ^ Ben Dyer page at Baseball-Reference
  3. ^ Hank Ritter page at Baseball-Reference

External links edit

  • 1913 New York Giants season at Baseball Reference