1913 World Series

في المباراة الافتتاحية، سجل هوم رن بيكر ثلاث نقاط لفريق أوكلاند أثليتكس بثلاث ضربات ناجحة، من بينها ضربة هوم رن. كما سجل إيدي كولينز ثلاث ضربات ناجحة من أصل ثلاث محاولات، مسجلاً ثلاث نقاط. ورغم استقبال فريق تشيف بيندر أربع نقاط و11 ضربة ناجحة، إلا أنه تمكن من تحقيق الفوز بنتيجة 6-4. افتتح فريق سان فرانسيسكو جاينتس التسجيل في الشوط الثالث عندما سجل فريد ميركل ضربة فردية، ثم انتقل إلى القاعدة الثانية بفضل ضربة تضحية، وسجل نقطة بفضل ضربة فردية من لاري دويل . ولكن في الشوط الرابع، سجل إيدي كولينز ضربة ثلاثية، ثم سجل نقطة بفضل ضربة فردية من بيكر. وبعد اختيار المدافع وضربة مزدوجة، أضاف والي شانغ نقطتين أخريين بضربة ثلاثية. وفي الشوط الخامس، سجل بيكر ضربة هوم رن بنقطتين بعد حصوله على قاعدة مجانية، لتصبح النتيجة 5-1 لصالح فيلادلفيا. وقلص فريق جاينتس الفارق إلى 5-4 في نهاية الشوط عندما سجل كل من آرت فليتشر وجورج بيرنز نقطة واحدة بعد ضربتين فرديتين وضربة أرضية وخطأ في ضربة دويل الأرضية. حصل فريق أوكلاند أثليتكس على نقطة إضافية في الشوط الثامن بفضل ضربة مزدوجة من ستافي ماكينيس .

Mathewson and Plank matched craft and guile. In the bottom of the ninth inning of a scoreless game, the Giants put on a stirring baseball version of the "goal-line stand". With none out, the A's had Amos Strunk on third and Jack Barry on second. The next batter, Jack Lapp, grounded to first, where Hooks Wiltse, a pitcher, was filling in. Wiltse made a good stop and threw home to nab Strunk. With Barry on third now and Lapp on first, Plank grounded to Wiltse and Hooks fired home again, getting a sliding Barry. Mathewson retired the next hitter, and the game went into extra innings. In the top of the tenth the Giants broke the ice with three runs, with Mathewson singling in the winning run after a leadoff single and sacrifice bunt and then completing the extra-inning shutout by retiring the A's in their half of the tenth. After Mathewson's single, an error and hit-by-pitch loaded the bases before Art Fletcher drove in two insurance runs with a single.

Eddie Collins had three hits and three RBI, and Bullet Joe Bush threw a five-hitter to put the A's ahead in the series. Jeff Tesreau allowed three straight one-out singles in the first, the last of which to Home Run Baker scoring a run. After a double steal and strike out, and error on Amos Strunk's ground ball scored two more runs. The A's made it 5–0 next inning on Eddie Collins's two-run single. The Giants got on the board in the fifth when Red Murray drew a leadoff walk, stole second, moved to third on an error and scored on Larry McLean's single. The A's added to their lead in the seventh when Collins's triple and Home Run Baker's single scored a run each. The Giants scored their last run of the game in the bottom of the inning when Tillie Shafer hit a leadoff double and scored on Red Murray's single. Wally Schang's home run in the eighth off of Doc Crandall closed the scoring at 8–2 A's.

The home team won for the first time in the series, although the visiting Giants made it close in the late innings. Wally Schang had four RBI for the A's, they now had a 3–1 series lead. Just like in Game 1, Bender struggled but went the distance for his second win of the series. The A's struck first in the bottom of the second when Stuffy McInnis hit a leadoff single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored on Jack Barry's double. In the fourth, Wally Schang's single scored two and an error on Chief Bender's ground ball scored another. Next inning, after a two-out walk and double off of Rube Marquard, Wally Schang's two-run double made it 6–0 A's. The Giants were kept off the scoreboard until Fred Merkle's three-run home run in the seventh. They cut Philadelphia's lead to 6–5 next inning when George Burns's double and Tillie Shafer's triple scored a run each, but could not score again.

Plank led the Athletics to victory, allowing the Giants only two hits, but his own error in the fifth inning cost him a shutout. The A's scored a run in the first on Home Run Baker's sacrifice fly with runners on first and third, then scored two more in the third on Baker's single and Stuffy McInnis's sacrifice fly. The Giants avoided a shutout in the fifth on Larry McLean's RBI single.

This was the A's third series title in four years. They had also won in 1910 and 1911.