The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Chicago Cubs 9-7 on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, and took a 3-2 lead in the series. I had to fairly heavily edit the game summary created from the boxscore by Chat AI in Bing using the Microsoft Edge Browser.

They would not win another World Series until 2016. The Cubs suffered their second straight World Series defeat and extended their championship drought to 22 years. They also avenged their loss to the Cubs in the 1929 World Series, when they had blown a 3-1 series lead. The A’s became the first team to win back-to-back World Series titles since the 1927-28 New York Yankees. He also set a World Series record with 11 RBIs in six games. Wilson was the best hitter for the Cubs, going 3-for-5 with three RBIs and his fifth homer of the series. 600 average, four homers, and eight RBIs, earning him MVP honors. Walberg settled down after Wilson’s homer and kept the Cubs scoreless for the rest of the game, setting the stage for Foxx’s heroics in the ninth.įoxx was the star of the game, going 3-for-5 with four RBIs and two homers, including the game-winner. The Athletics added two more in the seventh when BishopJoe Boley led off with a double, Dykes walked and Foxx hit a run-scoring single. Bishop scored on a sac fly by Jimmy Moore to close the score to 8-5. Philadelphia scored two in the sixth with Max Bishop tripling home Mickey Cochrane for the A’s. Chicago added to their lead with George Kelly homering in the fourth and a Wilson three-run homer in the sixth.

Simmons scored on an error by the Cubs’ Hack Wilson.

The A’s responded with three runs in the bottom half, starting with a solo home run by Foxx followed by a single off the bat of Mickey Cochrane and a run-scoring double by Al Simmons.

The Cubs had jumped to an early 4-0 lead in the first inning, thanks to a Grand Slam by Hack Wilson. Jimmy Dykes led off with a single and Foxx followed with a towering blast to left field, sending the home crowd into a frenzy and capping off a remarkable comeback for the A’s. The Athletics trailed 8-7 entering the bottom of the ninth but rallied against Cubs reliever Guy Bush, who had blown a save in Game 4. The 1930 Philadelphia Athletics won their second consecutive World Series title in dramatic fashion, defeating the 1930 Chicago Cubs 9-8 in Game 6 on a walk-off home run by Jimmie Foxx.

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