Bill Dinneen struck out 11 and pitched a complete game for the Americans, while Patsy Dougherty hit home runs in the first and sixth innings for two of the Boston's three runs. October 7: Exposition Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh pitcher Sam Leever injured his shoulder while trap-shooting, so his teammate Deacon Phillippe had to pitch five complete games for Pittsburgh. They extended their lead to 7-0 on a solo home run by Jimmy Sebring in the 7th, the first home run in World Series history. Nine years earlier, the two top teams in the National League competed in an experimental post-season championship in which Boston beat Pittsburgh five games to three. 17 ground-rule triples were hit in the four games played at the stadium.[2]. In 1901, Ban Johnson, president of the Western League, a minor league organization, formed the American League to take advantage of the National League's 1900 contraction from twelve teams to eight. Both Phillippe and Young threw complete games, with Phillippe striking out 10 and Young fanning 5, but Young also gave up twice as many hits and allowed 3 earned runs to Phillippe's 2. The upstart Americans were now one win away from winning the first ever baseball World Series, taking three out of four at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park. Young, on the other hand, managed to keep his shutout intact before finally giving up a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth. The fourth and final game in Pittsburgh saw Deacon Phillippe start his fourth game of the series for Pittsburgh. "[1](quoted in p. 124), AL Boston Americans (5) vs. NL Pittsburgh Pirates (3), Thursday, October 1, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts. Cy Young, pitching in his third start of the series, would face a much more favorable fate, holding the Pirates to only three runs. Tuesday, October 6, 1903, at Exposition Park (III) in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. "I was too bum last year", he wrote. - Hall of Famer (and winner of two of the three games he started in the 1903 World Series) Cy Young, ← 1902 | Boston Americans (5) vs Pittsburgh Pirates (3) | 1905 →. Young yielded only six hits and drove in three runs in an 11-2 runaway. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family. Honus Wagner, the National League batting champion, ended up going only 6 for 27 at the plate (.222 batting average) in the series, appropriately striking out to end the final game. And so, the first baseball World Series had ended, with the fledgling American League's Boston Americans winning over the heavily favored Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. Phillippe started his fifth and final game of the series and Dinneen his fourth. Pirates starter Sam Leever went only one inning and gave up 3 hits and 2 runs before being replaced by Bucky Veil in the second inning due to injury, who finished the game for Pittsburgh. Did you know that during Game 5 of the 1903 World Series, the Boston Americans hit five ground-rule triples due to an oversized crowd? But Phillippe's second straight win was almost not to be, as the Americans, down 5–1 in the top of the ninth, rallied to narrow the deficit to one run. Players from Boston received $1,182.00 each for the series. Both Phillippe and Young threw complete games, with Phillippe striking out ten and Young fanning five, but Young also gave up twice as many hits and allowed three earned runs to Phillippe's two. Pittsburgh starter Sam Leever went 1 inning and gave up three hits and two runs, before his ailing arm forced him to leave in favor of Bucky Veil, who finished the game. This time, however, he wouldn't fare as well as he did in his first three starts. In 1903, both teams (now in separate leagues) found themselves competing against one another in the first official "World Series". Phillippe battled on and would end up pitching his fifth complete game in the Series, which lasted thirteen days, but Dinneen bested him in the climactic finale, tossing his second shutout of the Series and notching his third victory. 1903 World Series (5–3): Boston Americans (A.L.)