Robins 5, Phillies 4: Brooklyn survives a frenetic final two innings to escape with a one-run victory in Philadelphia. The Robins held a slim 2-1 lead going into the 8th inning behind the fine pitching of Jeff Pfeffer, but the Phillies tied the game on Fred Luderus' two-out RBI single. Brooklyn answered loudly in the bottom half when the heart of their order (Tommy Griffith, Zack Wheat and Hi Myers) went single-single-home run. The lead seemed safe at 5-2 when two of the first three Phils went out in the 9th, but Gavy Cravath launched a pinch-hit homer to make it a one-run game again; Pfeffer stood firm, however, and fanned Leo Callahan for the game's final out. Griffith and Wheat had three hits apiece and Myers had three RBI. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 6 May
Braves 6, Giants 5: Joe Riggert pounded out five hits, the final one a two-out triple that scored the go-ahead run in the 11th inning as Boston survived a late New York rally to win at Brush Stadium. Riggert, who also swiped two bags on the afternoon, singled in the 7th for his third hit to drive Ray Powell in from second and give the Braves a 4-1 lead which looked comfortable in the hands of starter Dick Rudolph. But the Giants touched "Baldy" up for four singles, two walks and three runs in the 8th inning to force the tie. Boston got two men aboard in the 9th but failed to score, and the first two Braves in the 11th also went down without incident. Red Smith then singled and Riggert launched one to the wall in the deepest part of the ballpark which eluded the grasp of Benny Kauff until the Boston centerfielder stood on third and the Braves had broken the deadlock. Al Demaree then forced three straight groundouts in the bottom half of the inning to put the Giants away quickly and earn the visitors the win. [box]
1981-82 Stanley Cup Finals - Game 2
Vancouver was smarting from their Game One shellacking, and it was realistic to at least begin to wonder what they could do to force a different style of play. even if outcomes seemed a little too much to ask. Staying out of the penalty box would be a start, as the Isles raked them over the coals on the power play in the series opener, as would be avoiding the early deficit that put them on the back skate three evenings ago. The capacity crowd in Uniondale is already looking forward to a coronation, but what will they get once the puck hits the ice?
1981-82 Stanley Cup Finals - Game 1
Perhaps Roger Neilson and the Canucks, as the decided underdogs in the Stanley Cup Finals, felt as if their only hope was to try to bridge the talent gap by being physical and knocking the Islanders off our their skill stride. At any rate, they came out of the dressing room with a chip on their black-and-gold shoulders, pushing and shoving as the clubs lined up for the opening face-off.
1919 NL - Games of Monday, 5 May
Pirates 1, Cardinals 0: Babe Adams pitched a four-hit shutout to run his season-opening scoreless streak to eighteen innings and the Pirates held on for the win after George Cutshaw's 2nd-inning home run. There was little to choose at Robison Field this afternoon between Adams and Bill Doak, but what little there was came in the first swing of the 2nd inning when Cutshaw sent one of Doak's offerings into the left-field seats for four bases. The visitors didn't threaten Doak again until the 9th, when he escaped a jam by intentionally walking Walter Schmidt to retire Adams on a fly ball with the bases juiced and two away. St. Louis, struggling for offense in the season's first fortnight already, could do nothing against the impregnable Adams - they managed a pair of two-out singles in the 1st inning, but were then held completely in check as the Pirate right-hander retired twenty of the final twenty-one Cardinals who dared bring a bat to the plate to face him. [box]
1919 NL Players of the Week - 4 May
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the National League for the week of 19 April - 4 May are (boldface denotes a League-leading total) . . .
1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 4 May
Giants 7, Phillies 6: Ross Youngs had four hits, stole four bases, drove home the tying run and scored the winning one in the bottom of the 9th of a wild affair at Brush Stadium. the 22-year-old outfielder's eventful day began in the 1st inning when he singled with one out, stole second, took third on Hal Chase's single and scored on a sacrifice fly from Larry Doyle. He singled and scored again in the 3rd as New York scored three times to push its lead to 4-0 but Philadelphia, which had been punchless for seven innings against Rube Benton, came to life with a vengeance in the 8th. The first three Phillies reached safely against Benton, the third of those being Fred Luderus' two-run triple that chased Benton from the box. Gavy Cravath grounded out against Jesse Winters to bring home another and the visitors went into tho the 9th needing just two runs to tie the game. Bevo LeBourveau led off with a pinch-hit single and went to third one out later when Cy Williams hit safely. Dave Bancroft then grounded one up the middle, and Doyle had no play other than to flip to Al Baird for the force while LeBourveau scored the tying run. But the Phillies were not satisfied with the tie; Luderus ht a slow tapper down the third-base lane which Doug Baird scooped but rushed a wild throw to first, with Bancroft moving to thrid and the batter to second. John McGraw then ordered and intentional pass to Cravath to load the bases, and Irish Meusel pinged a bloop hit into center field for two runs and a Philadelphia lead. Gene Packard took the pill for Jack Coombs in the last of the 9th and Lew McCarty greeted him with a base hit. George Kelly sacrificed the tying run over to second and the dangerous George Burns grounded out to shortstop with the runner unable to advance. That brought Youngs to the plate and he fisted one over the second base bag and into shallow center, allowing McCarty to score the tying run. Youngs then pilfered second and kept on going to third when Bert Adam's throw skipped past second base. Hal Chase then stood in and, like the man before him, didn't make the most solid contact but found the outfield grass in front of CF Williams as Pep scored for the third time on the day to make the Giants winners. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 3 May
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Giants 5, Phillies 0: Lew McCarty belted a pair of home runs and drove in three runs to support the shutout pitching of Jean Dubuc as New York won at home. The Giants' catcher slugged for four bags in the 4th with one runner on base to extend a one-run NY lead to 3-0, and again in the 6th with the sacks empty for the final run of the game. Dubuc allowed only three hits and a walk to Philadelphia as the visitors were whitewashed for the second straight day by the New Yorkers and saw their season's batting average fall below the .200 mark. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Friday, 2 May
Robins 7, Braves 6: Brooklyn scored four times in the bottom of the 9th to force a tie, and then Lee Magee coaxed a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 11th to complete an improbable comeback in front of the Ebbets Field faithful. Boston had jumped out to a 3-0 lead behind a pair of RBI from Ray Powell, and then piled on three more in the 8th (Joe Riggert two-run triple) to distance the Robins by a score of 6-1. But the home side got one back in the 8th on Magee's two-out RBI double, and then the first three men reached in the bottom of the 9th to score two runs and chase Boston starter Dick Rudolph. Larry Cheney did't provide much in the way of relief as he walked the first man he faced and then two singles which tied the score. The extra frames were quiet until Lew Malone started the last of the 11th with a single and then Rabbit Maranville fumbled Ernie Krueger's ground ball. Ivy Olson walked to fill the bases, and Cheney could not find a way to fool Magee as the Brooklyn keystone man watched a fourth ball go past to force the walk-off run home. Joe Kelly, Powell, Olson and Magee each had three hits on a day that saw twenty-seven safeties struck. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Thursday, 1 May
Reds 2, Cardinals 0: Edd Roush doubled in a pair of runs and Hod Eller whitewashed the punchless Cards on four hits as Cincinnati won for the sixth time in seven games to start the season. Bill Sherdel put in a fine performance on the mound for St. Louis, despite four errors behind that included a pair by Rogers Hornsby, but he couldn't hold back the red-hot (.393, League-leading ten RBI) Roush; the Reds' center-fielder hammered one over the head of RF Jack Smith with two men on and two out in the 5th to score the only runs of the contest. Meanwhile, the Cardinals were helpless against Eller - they stroked singles in each of the first two innings, and stolen bases that put those runners into scoring position, but failed to score on both occasions and then managed just two hits over the final seven frames. Eller set down twelve men in a row at one stretch and fanned six while walking only two. [box]
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