either season, for the last Cubs win in a World Series for over a hundred years. This game remains the only time the Chicago White Sox have clinched a postseason series in their home ballpark. It was the only time a Chicago-based team had ever clinched a series at home until the Cubs won the 2015 National League Division Series on their home field. Composite line score 1906 World Series (4–2): Chicago White Sox (A.L.) over Chicago Cubs (N.L.) Firsts and lasts The 1906 World Series was the first appearance in the World Series for both teams, and the first of three in a row for the Cubs. The White Sox next appeared in the World Series in . The next season that both Chicago teams qualified for the postseason was . This remains the most recent World Series to feature two franchises that had never before appeared in a World Series. The feat currently cannot be duplicated, barring further MLB expansion, as when the Washington Nationals reached the 2019 World Series, it left only one MLB team (the Seattle Mariners) that has never been to the Fall Classic. This was the first modern World Series contested between two teams based in the same city. Between 1921 and 1956, 13 World Series were held that had both teams based in New York City, which came to be called Subway Series. The 1906 World Series was the first World Series appearance for the Cubs' infield trio of Joe Tinker (shortstop), Johnny Evers (second base), and Frank Chance (first base), later the subjects of "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" ("Tinker to Evers to Chance"). The trio hit a combined 9-for-59 (.153) in the series. Two future Hall of Fame pitchers appeared: Ed Walsh for the White Sox and Mordecai Brown for the Cubs. However, this pair did not pitch against each other in any game of the Series. Ed Walsh pitched the most dominant game of the Series in game 3 based on a game score of 94, striking out 12 and allowing no runs on 2 hits in a complete game performance. In striking out 12 batters in Game 3, Walsh struck out at least one batter in all nine innings, the first pitcher to do so in a World Series game. Bob Gibson in the 1968 World Series opener was the next pitcher to accomplish this feat. The first five games of