Braves 5, Reds 0: .Ray Keating pitched nine shutout innings to complete a double-header whitewash of the League leaders at Braves Field and cap a surprising series in which the Braves beat Cincinnati in four straight contests. The game was scoreless for three innings before Boston began to chip away at Reds starter Hod Eller (10-6). Single runs in each of the next five Brave at-bats, three of those driven home by the hot bat of Joe Riggert (including his fifth home run of the season), pushed Boston into the lead and gradually pulled them away from the visitors. Meanwhile, the suddenly-anemic Reds batting attack was found without answers yet again; they put two men on in the 1st and again in the 7th, but failed to dent the scoreboard on either occasion as Keating (3-2) made the big pitch on the very few occasions where Cincinnati demanded it of him. The Niagara University product allowed just two hits over the final seven innings and was in complete command the entire way, as the Reds finished the twinbill with an aggregate batting line of .167/.183/.231 that included an 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. Riggert's recent hot stretch has seen him wallop the ball at a .375 clip with two triples, three homers and eight RBI over his last nine games. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Wednesday, 9 July
Pirates 6, Robins 4: Billy Southworth put on a spectacular display of skill and athleticism at Ebbets Field today, striking five base hits and stealing four bases to propel Pittsburgh to a fifteen-inning win over Brooklyn. There was no hint early of the big day coming when Southworth popped out in the 1st, his teammates scoring nonetheless on a single, sacrifice and throwing error by Pete Kilduff. But Kilduff singled home the tying run for the home team in the 2nd, and it was a 3-3 game before Southworth turned on the jets in the 8th. He led off with a base hit, stole second and third, and scored one out later when he beat Ed Konetchy's throw home on a two-hopper to first off the bat of Fritz Mollwitz. But Babe Adams allowed three singles in the bottom of the 9th as the Robins forced extra innings and the two starters kept putting up zeroes through thirteen innings; the Pirates had the only real threat as a wild pitch moved a runner to third base with two gone in the 12th but Southworth, already with four hits in his back pocket, could only fly harmlessly to right. In the top of the 15th, Billy led off with a single, stole second base for the third time of the afternoon, and trotted home when George Cutshaw ripped a home run (2) just inside the left-field foul pole off of Al Mamaux (7-2). Bill Evans (1-1) closed it out with the second of two scoreless innings of relief. The Pirates ran the Robins ragged with nine steals in thirteen attempts and four Brooklyn errors cost them two important runs. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 8 July
Reds 6, Braves 5: Cincinnati scored four runs in the 8th inning to take the lead, and Dolf Luque came off the bench to turn Boston aside on a single pitch with the help of a spectacular game-ending defensive play by Heinie Groh. A walk and a Morrie Rath error cleared a path for the Braves to score twice in the bottom of the 4th to take a 3-1 lead, and the starters held fast until Jimmy Ring took matters into his own hands with the bat, knocking an RBI triple with two outs in the 7th. Then in the next inning Dick Rudolph (7-5) faltered badly while trying to protect the one-run lead, allowing two singles to start the stanza and then watching Tony Boeckel's bobble turn the bases Red with no one yet retired. He got the struggling Greasy Neale (.197) to pop up on the infield for the first out, but Larry Kopf lined a single to right for one run and Rub Bressler followed with a looping fly to center which he legged into two bases while two Cincinnati runs crossed the plate. A sacrifice fly by Ivey Wingo made it 6-3 and it seemed as if Ring would have no trouble seeing out the final six outs for the visitors, but Boston made it clear immediately that they had other ideas. Joe Riggert, who had already homered for the Braves, led off the home 8th with a triple and Johnny Rawlings immediately singled him home; when Ring walked Ray Powell to place the tying runs upon the bases with no one out, Pat Moran began to pace nervously in front of the Cincinnati bench. But Ring (4-2) recovered to fan two of the next three men, and got the first out of the 9th before he began to lose the plot again. Hank Gowdy and PH Red Smith singled, then Riggert did the same to score Gowdy and make it a one-run game with the tying run at third base. Moran had seen enough at this point, and asked Luque to remove his sweater and take Ring's place on the hill. His warmup heaves were barely over before the game was as well - his first pitch to Johnny Rawlings was hit on a line to the lunging Heinie Groh, who snared the ball and the dove to touch third base with his mitt before Smith could get back to the bag safely, for a game-ending twin-killing. Riggert racked up eight total bases, plus a walk, while Rath, Groh and Jake Daubert each had two hits for the Reds. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Monday, 7 July
Giants 19, Phillies 7: New York pounded the beleaguered Philadelphia pitching staff for ten runs in the 6th inning and kept on scoring until the final out to bury the home team by a score of 19-7. The Phillies took a fleeting 1st-inning lead on Doug Baird's two-run homer (5), but the Giants got four in the 2nd with the help of two Phillie errors and led 5-2 when they came to bat against Gene Packard (3-9) in the 6th. A single and another error put two men on with one away, and then the next nine Giants reached base safely (six singles, three walks) against Packard and Frank Woodward as all nine positions in the NY lineup scored at least one run in the inning. Philadelphia put up a token resistance in the late innings, helped by Fred Luderus' two-run homer (2), but the Giants kept piling on as well with four more in the 9th. All of these were unearned thanks to Irish Meusel's muffed fly ball to start the inning; the Phils committed six errors in total, leading to a total of eight unearned runs. Every single member of the New York lineup had at least one hit, one run scored and one run batted in, and pitcher Jesse Barnes (11-3) knocked out four base hits, scored four times and drove home a pair while pitching a complete game. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 6 July
Cubs 10, Cardinals 9: Chicago escaped with the victory in one of the wildest games of the season when Rogers Hornsby's baserunning gaffe left a 9th-inning St. Louis rally one run short. Cliff Heathcote's two-out two-run single in the 5th gave the Cards a 5-3 lead, and Hornsby extended that gap to three runs with a run-scoring single in the 7th. But Jakie May's always-tenuous hold on command and control gave way in the bottom of the inning after some rough treatment by the Cubs' hitters. A two-run triple by Lee Magee cut the Chicago lead to a single run and then May (3-6) lost sight of home plate, hitting the next two batters and walking in the tying run before Branch Rickey had seen enough and brought on Oscar Tuero. But the first two batters faced by the young Cuban right-hander singled to produce three more runs that made the score 9-6 in favor of the Cubs. Charlie Pick's RBI single in the 8th made it a four-run lead and Speed Martin took the ball in the top of the 9th after a spotless 8th in relief of Phil Douglas (7-7). Jack Smith reached on Pick's error to start the inning before Dots Miller flied out, but Milt Stock singled and Burt Shotton ripped a triple that scored two runs to cut the score to 10-8. That brought up Hornsby, who hit a line drive to right which Max Flack failed to stop on the short hop; Shotton scored and Hornsby charged around the bases as Flack chased down the ball. Rajah had no intention of stopping at third base with the potential tying run, though, and was cut down at the plate by five feet. The mistake was emphasized when Vern Clemons followed with what would have been a game-tying single, and when Martin then retired Doc Lavan for the game's final out. Flack had three hits for Chicago, while Magee drove home three. [box]
Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6 - Final Stats
Final team and individual statistics from the sixth Season Ticket Baseball Showdown . . .
Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6
Four managers came together once again for a face-to-face Season Ticket Baseball showdown, and this time we went WAY back in the time machine. To celebrate the release of the 1910-1917 season sets, we selected the four most closely-matched teams (by winning percentage) from that span - this turned out to be the Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates and Reds of the 1915 National League. So, it's off to the era of the first transcontinental telephone call, the escalation of World War I by the sinking of the Lusitania and Babe Ruth's first career home run, for a double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!
1960-61 NHL Replay
Final Individual Statistical Leaders and Awards
Final 1960-61 National Hockey League awards and leaderboards . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay
Final Individual Statistics
Final 1960-61 National Hockey League individual statistics . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay
Final Team and League Statistics
Final 1960-61 National Hockey League team and League statistics . . .
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