With the Yankees leading the Series three games to one, Game 5 in Yankee Stadium was a must win situation for the Giants. The Monday afternoon game drew just 50,024, a big dropoff from the 66,669 that filled the stadium the day before.

The Yankees' starter, 31-year-old Charles "Red" Ruffing, had an outstanding 1936 season. He won 20 games with 12 losses and a 3.85 ERA.

His mound opponent was another righthander, 26-year-old Hal Schumacher. His 1936 season was the worst of his four complete years with the Giants. He won only 11 games against 13 losses after going 62-31 the three previous years.

Schumacher's starts, even when he won, were not known for dominance. For the year, he gave up 234 hits in 215 innings and walked 69, tied for first on the team. He started Game 2 of the Series but lasted only two innings. He gave up three hits and walked four.

New York Times writer John Drebinger described Game 5 "as tense and nerve-racking a ball game as was ever played." He added, "Loosely played, the game, perhaps for this very reason, was by far the most exciting of the series."

The Giants started strong, unleashing a first-inning attack of five hits and three runs against Ruffing. LF Jo-Jo Moore and SS Dick Bartell led off with doubles to score the first run. After Ruffing struck out 1B Bill Terry, the Giants' player-manager, and got RF Mel Ott to bounce to shortstop, CF Jimmy Ripple grounded a single through the first-second hole to score Bartell. C Gus Mancuso and 2B Burgess Whitehead added two more singles to send home Ripple. Whitehead's single was his first hit of the Series. When 3B Travis Jackson flew out to end the inning, the Giants led 3-0.

Schumacher set down the Yankees 1-2-3 in the bottom of the first with the aid of a spectacular catch by Ripple. When Red Rolfe hit a low drive to center, Ripple raced in and made a diving catch similar to the one he had made the previous afternoon.

Ruffing settled in and retired the Giants in order in the top of the second.

The Yanks got on the board in the second inning when RF George Selkirk smacked a homer deep into the right field bleachers. Then the Bronx Bombers capitalized on Schu­macher's wildness for another run in the third. After 2B Tony Lazzeri and Ruffing drew walks, a wild pitch sent the runners to second and third. When SS Dick Bartell fielded Frank Crosetti's grounder and threw wild to first, Lazzeri scored while Ruffing stayed at second. 3B Red Rolfe beat out a bunt to load the bases.

With CF Joe DiMaggio and 1B Lou Gehrig coming up next, Yankee fans had a right to expect more runs. But Schumacher bore down and struck out both of them. Then C Bill Dickey flew out. Giants 3 Yankees 2.

Mel Ott started the sixth by lining a single to left-center field. Ripple then walked. Man­cuso sacrificed the runners to second and third. Whitehead reached first when SS Croset­ti booted his grounder. Ott crossed the plate while Ripple headed to third. With the Giants threatening to increase their lead, Ruffing struck out Jackson and Schumacher to keep the score 4-2 Giants.

Joe McCarthy's club tied the score in the bottom of the 6th with a two-out uprising aided by a throwing error.

After Gehrig grounded out and Dickey struck out, Selkirk hit a grounder up the middle for a single. Then LF Jake Powell hit a weak grounder to 3B Travis Jackson who threw wild to first. Selkirk scored, and Powell ended up on third. The scorer ruled it a single and a two-base throwing error. Roy Johnson batted for Ruffing and struck out. Giants 4 Yankees 4.

Reliever Pat Malone retired the Giants 1-2-3 in the top of the 7th. In the bottom of the inning, the Yanks wasted DiMaggio's two-out double.

Tension mounted as neither team scored in the 8th and 9th to send the game into extra innings.

Moore started the Giants' 10th with a ground-rule double down the left field line. It was his second two-bagger of the game. Bartell then bunted Moore to 3rd. Manager Terry hit a 3-2 pitch to deep left center that DiMaggio caught, but even his powerful throwing arm couldn't stop Moore from tagging upo and scoring. Giants 5 Yankees 4.

With Schumaker still pitching doggedly in the bottom of the 10th, Dickey hit a single off Terry's glove at first base. McCarthy sent out Bob Seeds to run for Dickey. But Selkirk fouled out to the catcher, and Powell flew out to left field. With Lazzeri at the plate, Seeds tried to steal second but was thrown out by Mancuso to end the game.

FINAL SCORE: GIANTS 5 YANKEES 4