 After an off-year in the war-shortened season of 1918, the club bounced back to win the pennant in 1919 and entered the World Series heavily favored to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in a best-of-9.However, just before the Series, it became known that some big money was being bet on the Reds, fueling talk that the Series was fixed.The White Sox lost to the Reds in eight games.