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New York Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0 · 1938-10-05 to 1938-10-09 · 4 games · attendance 200,833 · season overview

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Champion · 7th title

New York Yankees
Manager Joe McCarthy

Runner-up

Chicago Cubs
Manager Gabby Hartnett

Ballparks

Wrigley Field
Yankee Stadium I

Note

A sweep

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	1938-10-05	New York Yankees 3 at Chicago Cubs 1	1–0	Wrigley Field	43,642	Red Ruffing	Bill Lee
2	1938-10-06	New York Yankees 6 at Chicago Cubs 3	2–0	Wrigley Field	42,108	Lefty Gomez	Dizzy Dean	Johnny Murphy
3	1938-10-08	Chicago Cubs 2 at New York Yankees 5	3–0	Yankee Stadium I	55,236	Monte Pearson	Clay Bryant
4	1938-10-09	Chicago Cubs 3 at New York Yankees 8	4–0	Yankee Stadium I	59,847	Red Ruffing	Bill Lee

The players

New York Yankees

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Red Rolfe	4	18	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	.167
Frankie Crosetti	4	16	1	4	2	1	1	6	2	4	0	.250
Tommy Henrich	4	16	3	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	.250
Bill Dickey	4	15	2	6	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	.400
Joe Gordon	4	15	3	6	2	0	1	6	1	3	1	.400
Joe DiMaggio	4	15	4	4	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	.267
Lou Gehrig	4	14	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	.286
George Selkirk	3	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	.200
Red Ruffing	2	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.167
Myril Hoag	2	5	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.400
Monte Pearson	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333
Lefty Gomez	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Red Ruffing	2	2	2–0	0	18.0	17	4	3	2	11	1	1.50
Monte Pearson	1	1	1–0	0	9.0	5	2	1	2	9	1	1.00
Lefty Gomez	1	1	1–0	0	7.0	9	3	3	1	5	0	3.86
Johnny Murphy	1	0	0–0	1	2.0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0.00

Chicago Cubs

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Stan Hack	4	17	3	8	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	.471
Billy Herman	4	16	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	.188
Ripper Collins	4	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.133
Phil Cavarretta	4	13	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.462
Billy Jurges	4	13	0	3	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	.231
Joe Marty	3	12	1	6	1	0	1	5	0	2	0	.500
Carl Reynolds	4	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	.000
Gabby Hartnett	3	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	.091
Frank Demaree	3	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.100
Ken O'Dea	3	5	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.200
Dizzy Dean	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667
Bill Lee	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Clay Bryant	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Augie Galan	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Tony Lazzeri	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Bill Lee	2	2	0–2	0	11.0	15	6	3	1	8	0	2.45
Dizzy Dean	2	1	0–1	0	8.1	8	6	6	1	2	2	6.48
Clay Bryant	1	1	0–1	0	5.1	6	4	4	5	3	1	6.75
Larry French	3	0	0–0	0	3.1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2.70
Charlie Root	1	0	0–0	0	3.0	3	1	1	0	1	1	3.00
Jack Russell	2	0	0–0	0	1.2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.00
Vance Page	1	0	0–0	0	1.1	2	2	2	0	0	0	13.50