Baseball Classic Replays

  Looking at today's scoreboard, there were a number of great individual performances, if only one great or really good game...although now as I type this, I realize that the scoreboard doesn't reveal how deep the Cardinals-Cubs game went, so keep reading below to see what was the runaway Game of the Day. Game of the Day: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs 4-19-1940 (Day Game): 1940-Cardinals (0-2) vs. 1940-Cubs (3-0) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R H E 1940-Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 6 12 2 1940-Cubs 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 15 1 Gabby Hartnett (CHC) What looked like a runaway Cubs victory turned out to have so much more - a four-run 9th inning comeback, the Cardinals turning 6 double plays on the day, taking 13 innings to decide things, and ultimately the Cubs getting a walkoff win in a game that they should have put away in the standard nine innings.  The Cubs, and starting pi...

  Only three games today, two of which weren't particularly close, but the third game of the day was a true pitcher's duel and provides our Game of the Day. Game of the Day: Boston Red Sox vs. Washington Nationals 4-18-1940 (Day Game): 1940-Red Sox (1-1) vs. 1940-Nationals (1-1) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E 1940-Red Sox 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 1940-Nationals 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 x 2 8 0 Sid Hudson (WSN) Washington Nationals starter Sid Hudson was spectacular today, going the distance in a 5-hit, 1-run performance that gave his club a razor thing 2-1 victory.  Also performing brilliantly was Red Sox starting pitcher Jim Bagby, who himself pitched seven innings of 2-run baseball.  In fact, the Nationals trailed 1-0 (thanks to Dom DiMaggio double in the 3rd) until they finally broke through to tie the game in the bottom of the 5th.  The Nationals managed to tack on another run in the bottom of the 7th on ...