October 3, 1933
vs
World Series, Game 1
32-game winner Bob Hinman faced off against John Burns, who is just 26 but is hardly lacking in big game experience. Last year he won 2 games for the eventual World Series champs. No new injuries were reported for either side, meaning that the following key players would not be playing for either side:
Chicago White Sox
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SP Jose Castillo (11-8, 2.79)
SP Ronald Tinter (11-9, 3.17)
New York Giants
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SP Fred Fleming (17-14, 2.44)
MR Kelvin Inman (5-3, 1.34)
CF Erik Conn (.282, 10, 53)
Few pundits outside of Chicago have given the White Sox a chance to take this. Everybody is pretty much in agreement that they shot of their bullets during the regular season and were lucky just to get past the Yankees in the first place. Additionally, this being an odd year, the Giants get home-field advantage in 4 games of the Series.
In the end, postseason importance proved itself far more effective than in-season greatness. John Burns didn't strike out a man in 9 innings but the game is won by the team that gives up the least number of runs, not the one that makes opposing batters look the most overmatched.
Two straight singles by CF George Echols and SS Mark Melton opened up the game and both men came around to score after Giants SS Benton Wheeler couldn't handle a hard shot from 1B Bob Wolf. Wheeler led the charge in the 3rd as the Giants equalized it with 2 runs of their own. There would have been even more scoring but RF Hunter Sunday threw out P John Burns trying to go from 1st to 3rd on a single.
The very next inning, RF Eddy McCrary got on for the Giants as Bob Wolf committed an error of his own, failing to catch an easy toss from SS Jeff "The Rebel" Davis. C Jon Sundberg then doubled, putting runners in scoring position with no out. Both men came around to score, the first on a single by 2B Britt Grim, the second on a Benton Wheeler sacrifice fly. Wheeler drove in another man in the 6th, doing something to Hinman that had only been done 5 times all season: scoring 5 or more runs off the man. Mason Taylor's solo shot in the 7th added another tally to the proceedings. Hinman would leave the next inning, his seasonal effectiveness seemingly negated by the lights and excitement of October.
