Episode 112 – This Week in Baseball Two of the best pitchers of the Dead Ball Era faced off 109 years ago this week, Jack Coombs and Ed Walsh put up matching goose eggs for 16 innings before the game between the Athletics and White Sox was called on a account of darkness. It serves…
Jack Coombs Positions: Pitcher and Rightfielder Bats: Both • Throws: Right 6-0, 185lb (183cm, 83kg) Born: November 18, 1882 in Le Grand, IA Died: April 15, 1957 in Palestine, TX Buried: St. Joseph Cemetery, Palestine, TX High School: Colburn HS (Waterville, ME) School: Colby College (Waterville, ME) Debut: July 5, 1906 (2,851st in major league history) vs. WSH 9.0 IP, 6 H, 6 SO, 5 BB, 0 ER, W Last Game: July 18, 1920 vs….
Jack Coombs was the first pitcher to win a World Series game in each league. Coombs won 3 games in the 1910 World Series pitching 3 complete games on October 18, 20 and 23 vs Chicago, he beat Mordecai Brown twice. He also won game 3 in 1911 beating Christy Mathewson and had a no…
1916 – The Phils whitewash the Robins twice‚ winning 3 – 0 behind Grover Alexander and 6 – 0 to back Eppa Rixey. Alexander’s win in the opener is his 14th shutout‚ setting a major league record. The loser is Jack Coombs‚ who had set the record of 13 shutouts while pitching for the A’s in 1910.
1915 – Phillie ace Grover Alexander continues his masterful pitching, topping Brooklyn’s Jack Coombs, 4 – 0. Zack Wheat’s 8th-inning single is the only Robin safety.
1914 – Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack begins cleaning house, asking waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Bender. Coombs goes to the Brooklyn Robins as Plank and Bender escape Mack’s manoeuvering by jumping to the Federal League. Despite winning the American League pennant, Philadelphia fans did not support the Athletics and the club lost $50,000.
Jack Coombs wins his third game of the World Series when he goes the distance to beat the Cubs at Chicago’s West Side Grounds, 7-2. The A’s right-hander, in addition to winning Game 5 to give Philadelphia the world championship, also had complete-game victories in Games 2 and 3 of the Fall Classic.
On one day of rest, Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia Athletics pitches a complete game to beat the Chicago Cubs, 12 – 5, and give the Athletics a 3-0 lead in the World Series. Coombs also collects three hits and three RBI in the game.
In the first game of a doubleheader at Philadelphia, the Chicago White Sox stop A’s ace Jack Coombs’ string of shutout innings at 53 with a run in the 7th. But Coombs beats Ed Walsh, 3 – 1, in 14 innings. The Sox win the nitecap, 5 – 2.
1910 – Jack Coombs begins a streak of 53 shutout innings, topping Doc White’s 46 of 1904. Three years later Walter Johnson will top Coombs.