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1923 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1923
image	Ny yankees team 1923.jpg
image_size	250
misc	World Series champions
American League Tri champions
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City, New York
record
league_place	1st
owners	Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston
general_manager	Ed Barrow
manager	Miller Huggins

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The 1923 New York Yankees season was the 21st season for the American League franchise. Manager Miller Huggins led the team to their third straight pennant with a 98–54 record, 16 games ahead of the second place Detroit Tigers. The Yankees moved into the now-famous Yankee Stadium. In the 1923 World Series, they avenged their 1921 and 1922 losses by defeating the New York Giants in 6 games, 4 games to 2, and won their first World Series title.

Regular season

Yankee Stadium in 1923, about 2 weeks before opening.

The Yankees began their first World Championship Season on April 18 as they opened Yankee Stadium. Babe Ruth christened the new stadium with a home run in the Yankees' 4–1 victory over the Boston Red Sox. The stadium would later be called "the House that Ruth Built".

On May 5, the Yankees beat the Philadelphia Athletics 7–2 at Yankee Stadium to regain first place, the Yankees would never fall back in the standings for the rest of the season.

Babe Ruth set a Yankees record for highest batting average in one season by hitting .393. Ruth also finished the season with 41 home runs and 131 RBIs. Ruth's average was not enough to win the batting title, as Ruth finished in second place to Detroit's Harry Heilmann who batted .403. Ruth reached base safely 379 times during the season.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1923 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	84	272	75	.276	2	29
1B	144	569	173	.304	6	108
2B	152	567	161	.284	10	82
3B	146	644	182	.283	7	67
SS	152	533	131	.246	6	60
OF	152	522	205	.393	41	131
OF	146	596	187	.314	6	56
OF	132	460	144	.314	9	91

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
72	238	69	.290	3	26
70	183	56	.306	7	35
37	66	18	.273	3	12
19	53	7	.132	0	3
19	38	17	.448	1	8
30	38	8	.211	0	1
13	26	11	.423	1	9
28	25	4	.160	0	3
8	13	1	.077	0	1

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
37	275.2	19	15	3.43	125
36	258.2	16	11	3.51	125
34	243.0	21	8	3.63	68
37	238.2	17	9	3.02	60
35	238.1	19	6	3.13	93

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	23	81.1	5	2	6.20	16
	8	33.1	1	3	5.94	12

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	5	0	0	1	8.49	7

1923 World Series

Main article: 1923 World Series

Game	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Score	Record	Attendance
1	October 10	[New York Giants](1923-new-york-giants-season)	5	New York Yankees	4	0–1	55,307
2	October 11	New York Yankees	4	New York Giants	2	1–1	40,402
3	October 12	New York Giants	1	New York Yankees	0	1–2	62,430
4	October 13 ‡	New York Yankees	8	New York Giants	4	2–2	46,302
5	October 14 ‡	New York Giants	1	New York Yankees	8	3–2	62,817
6	October 15 ‡	New York Yankees	6	New York Giants	4	4–2	34,172

Awards and honors

Babe Ruth, AL MVP Award

Franchise records

Babe Ruth, club record, highest single-season batting average, (.393)

References

''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p.36, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN. 978-1-55365-507-7

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