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In the '1927 World Series', the New York Yankees swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in four games. This was the first sweep of a National League team by an American League team.
The 1927 New York Yankees led the American League in runs scored, hits, triples, home runs, base on balls, batting average, slugging average and on base percentage. The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates led the National League in runs, hits, batting average and on base percentage. When comparing the two together, the Pirates only led in hits.
The "Murderers' Row" Yankees, who won a then league record 110 games during the regular season, reportedly took a show-off batting practice before Game 1 in which they purposely rocketed as many as they could into the seats. Whether true or legend (this was standard procedure for Ruth in any case), the Yankees had little trouble dispatching the Pirates, who did not see another Series for 33 years.
Game 4 was close the entire game, and remained tied at 3 going into the ninth inning. Pittsburgh manager, Donie Bush, had turned to Carmen Hill, who had peaked in 1927 as the ace of his pitching staff. Hill had never won more than three games, but in 1927 he chalked up twenty-two. New York's Miller Huggins went with Wilcy Moore, a promising rookie who had made only twelve starts in his fifty appearances. Both had planned to go the distance, but the mental fatigue was starting to take its toll. Pittsburgh's John Miljus came in as relief in the seventh inning and looked strong until the ninth. Earle Combs walked and Mark Koenig beat out a bunt to advance the runner. In a daring move, Ruth was walked intentionally, filling the bases with no outs and Lou Gehrig coming up next. Miljus managed to strike out the next two batters, but threw a disastrous wild pitch to Tony Lazzeri, scoring Combs and ending the game. The Yankees had won their second championship title and the crowning achievement to a magnificent season.
'Records:' New York Yankees (W: 110, L: 44, Pct: .714, GA: 19) - Pittsburgh Pirates (W: 94, L: 60, Pct: .610, GA: 1 ½)
'Managers:' Miller Huggins (New York), Donie Bush (Pittsburgh)
'Umpires:' Ernie Quigley (NL), Dick Nallin (AL), Charley Moran (NL), Red Ormsby (AL)

Contents

Summary

Matchups

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Game 4

Composite Box

Reference(s)

External links

Summary

'AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL Pittsburgh Pirates (0)'

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	'Yankees' – 5, Pirates – 4	October 5	Forbes Field	41,467
2	'Yankees' – 6, Pirates – 2	October 6	Forbes Field	41,634
3	Pirates – 1, 'Yankees' – 8	October 7	Yankee Stadium	60,695
4	Pirates – 3, 'Yankees' – 4	October 8	Yankee Stadium	57,909

Matchups

Game 1

October 5, 1927 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
'New York (A)'	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	'5'	'6'	'1'
Pittsburgh (N)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	'4'	'9'	'2'
'W': Waite Hoyt (1-0)  'L': Ray Kremer (0-1),   'S': Wilcy Moore (1)

Game 2

October 6, 1927 at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
'New York (A)'	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	'6'	'11'	'0'
Pittsburgh (N)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	'2'	'7'	'2'
'W': George Pipgras (1-0)  'L': Vic Aldridge (0-1)

Game 3

October 7, 1927 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pittsburgh (N)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	'1'	'3'	'1'
'New York (A)'	2	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	x	'8'	'9'	'0'
'W': Herb Pennock (1-0)   'L': Lee Meadows (0-1)
'HR': 'NYY' – Babe Ruth (1)

Game 4

October 8, 1927 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pittsburgh (N)	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	'3'	'10'	'1'
'New York (A)'	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	'4'	'12'	'2'
'W': Wilcy Moore (1-0)   'L': John Miljus (0-1)
'HR': 'NYY' – Babe Ruth (2)

Composite Box

1927 World Series '(4-0): New York Yankees (A.L.)' over Pittsburgh Pirates (N.L.)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
'New York Yankees '	4	0	6	0	3	0	6	3	1	'23'	'38'	'3'
'Pittsburgh Pirates '	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	3	0	'10'	'29'	'6'
'Total Attendance': 201,105   'Average Attendance': 50,276
'Winning Player’s Share': – $5,592   'Losing Player’s Share' – $3,728

Reference(s)

Neft, David S., and Richard M. Cohen. ''The World Series.'' 1st ed. New York: St Martins, 1990. (Neft and Cohen 120-123)

External links

★ 1927 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com

★ 1927 World Series at ''WorldSeries.com (MLB.com)''

★ 1927 World Series at Baseball-Almanac.com

★ 1927 World Series box scores and play-by-play at Retrosheet.org

★ Audio - Waite Hoyt's comments on the 1927 Yankees