White Sox 13, Tigers 7: Detroit pitchers walked sixteen men, and their hitters stranded fourteen base runners, as they fell well short of Chicago at Comiskey Park. The Tigers actually led 6-5 through five-and-a-half innings before getting blitzed by seven Sox scores, with the help of seven bases on balls, over the next two frames. Eddie Collins and Chick Gandil drove in three runs each while Swede Risberg doubled and scored three times. Nemo Leibold set a new big-league record by drawing six walks, breaking the record of five last reached by Tris Speaker in 1912. [box]
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| Nemo Leibold, CHA |
Browns 12, Indians 11: St. Louis came back improbably from an 11-4 deficit, scoring six times in the 8th inning to complete the resuscitation and shock Cleveland at home. Neither side ever looked like holding the other down for long but the Browns got six straight hits with two outs in the 8th, including two of their five doubles in the game, to take the lead for the first time since the 1st inning. Three Browns (Ray Demmitt, Josh Billings, Wally Gerber) collected four hits each, while Jack Graney did the same for the Tribe. [box]
Yankees 6, Athletics 2: Three unearned runs in the 9th inning made the score look more lopsided than the contest actually played out on the field, as New York had their hands full with the cellar-dwelling Athletics. The Yankees took a 3-0 lead in the first two innings, but Philadelphia starter Walt Kinney (10-15) found his rhythm after that, and the As started to chip away. Three straight singles got a run across in the 4th, and Chick Galloway's groundout pushed across a second in the 6th. Johnny Walker led off the home 7th with a double, but that would be all that PHA could muster as Jack Quinn (22-11) set down the next nine men while his teammates were taking advantage of Galloway's last-inning muff at short to score on Frank Baker's double and Wally Pipp's home run. [box]
Yankees 7, Athletics 1: Once again, Philadelphia's shoddy fieldwork let them down, as four more errors led to five unearned runs which made New York's task much simpler than it had a right to be. Each team had scored once as the contest entered the 6th inning, but Frank Baker reached on Ivy Griffin's misplay with one out and this set the stage for a three-run inning that came with the benefit of only two base hits; a walk and another error on a misfired pickoff attempt (the first of pitcher Dave Keefe's three errors on the day) kept the line moving for the Yankees. When Keefe couldn't handle Baker's comebacker to start the 8th, New York capitalized with three straight singles that scored two, and when Keefe again misplayed a ball back to the box in the 9th the Yanks tacked on another. Bob Shawkey was keeping everything neat and tidy on the other side, holding the As to six hits (one over the final four innings) and one walk. Del Pratt had three hits, Wally Pipp crossed the plate three times, and Al Wingo had half of the Phialdelphia safeties. [box]
Red Sox 5, Nationals 1: Stuffy McInnis and Red Shannon singled three times apiece to lead the attack, and Allen Russell pitched around eleven hits to hold Washington to a single run. It was a tight affair in the early going, as Russell and Rip Jordan pitched to a 2-1 Boston lead through six innings, but Washington faltered in the 7th. Jordan (0-1), making his first start of the season, was lifted and replaced with Al Schacht and the trouble was quick in arriving. Joe Wilhoit led off with a two-base hit and Ossie Vitt reached on Joe Leonard's error with Wilhoit running home. With one out, Babe Ruth doubled and McInnis and Shannon followed with RBI singles that more or less put the game out of reach. The Nats had been getting their hits in the early innings against Russell (9-12) but he settled down and held them to three hits over the final five frames while fanning six on the afternoon. [box]
Nationals 4, Red Sox 2: A run of three straight two-out, run-scoring singles in the bottom of the 8th broke a deadlock and pushed Washington to a win and a split of the doubleheader at Griffith Stadium. Despite outhitting Boston by a count of ten to five, the Nationals found themselves locked in a 2-2 affair through seven innings as Harry Courtney and Allen Russell - the latter pitching both ends of the twin bill amidst rumors that Boston ownership was showcasing talent for potential offseason sales - matched slants from the rubber. In the home 8th, though, Joe Leonard doubled with one out and then, after Russell had struck out Howie Shanks, Sam Rice, Frank Ellerbe and Mike Menosky singled to produce the two runs that would decide the game. Courtney (2-1) allowed a hit in the 9th, but struck out Joe Wilhoit to end the game and satisfy the home crowd. [box]
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