(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Bob Feller and the Indians somehow outlast an epic spell of command issues to ride an Oscar Grimes home run to a 7-2 win over the Sox at Fenway.
Pitching leaderboards in the National League through the games of Monday, 30 June . . .
Offensive statistical Leaders in the National League through the games of Monday, 30 June . . .
League and team statistical totals in the National League as the campaign heads into the dog days of summer . . .
Braves 3, Giants 2: A two-out wild pitch brought the winning run across the plate in the bottom of the 16th inning, as Boston edged one from New York in a long afternoon's work at Braves Field. The visiting Giants led by two runs after five innings, Art Fletcher doubling home one in the 1st and Benny Kauff doing likewise in the 5th, and Red Causey carried that 2-0 lead intact through seven frames. Tony Boeckel led of the Boston 8th with a home run but, when Causey retired the first two men in the bottom of the 9th on routine ground balls, it looked like McGraw's men were going to see out the victory. But Walton Cruise and Jim Thorpe singled to give Walter Holke a chance to save the game with Cruise standing upon the second base. And save it he did, at least temporarily, with a humpbacked liner into left field that dropped in front of George Burns for a game-tying single. Ray Keating was doing heroic work on the hill for the Braves, pitching around seven walks to complete thirteen innings before being lifted for a pinch-hitter when Boston put a man on base thanks to an error in the home half of the 13th. Larry Doyle singled with one away in the top of the 15th, stole second and took third on Art Wilson's wild throw, but Doyle broke for home when Kauff followed with a ground ball to first and was thrown out at the plate by Holke. Wilson led off the bottom of the 15th with a walk against Joe Oeschger (0-2), the third NY pitcher of the day, and was moved to second base by a sacrifice from Braves relief pitcher Dana Fillingim (4-4). Joe Riggert followed with a dribbler in front of the plate that Mike Gonzalez hustled to chuck to first for the second out, but Wilson took third for what turned out to be a critical base. Buck Herzog was next to bat, but all he needed to do was watch as Oeschger's second delivery skipped wide of the dish and past Gonzalez - Wilson struck out for home plate and slid across before the Giants' catcher could retrieve the wayward pitch to end the longest game in the League thus far in the campaign. Ross Youngs had safe hits in eight trips to the plate for the Gothams, but NY managed only two hits in their fourteen attempts with runners in scoring position. [box]
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Red Sox starter Dick Newsome allowed eleven of the seventeen Nationals he faced to reach base as Washington scored fourteen times in the first five innings en route to a laugher in the lid-lifter of a doubleheader at Fenway Park.
The schedule begins to ramp up as the ice men shake off their summer legs and head into the second week of the regular season . . .
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
The Yankees scored seven times in the 3rd inning and then, as if that had just been the warm-up to a cruel nine-act drama, piled on ten more in the 7th on their way to a 19-5 pummeling of the Red Sox that was also the scene of a major-league first.
Play gets underway as the clubs skate out of training camps and onto the ice for the first week of the regular season . . .
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
The White Sox erupted for six runs in the 5th inning and cruised behind Ted Lyons to an 8-4 win at Comiskey Park.
Final Season Ticket Baseball Showdown team and individual statistics . . .
Four managers came together once again for a face-to-face Season Ticket showdown, bringing teams chosen from the legendary 1967 American League pennant race which saw four teams finish the season separated by just three games (three by a single game!). A double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
The Red Sox frittered away a sizable 1st-inning lead in a game that featured big slugging from both teams; in the end, it was the Tigers who made better use of their big hits to win 9-6 in the nightcap of a twinbill front of their home crowd.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Joe Dobson recovered from a rough first frame to go the distance and Ted’s solo shot in the 5th inning proved to be the difference between the Sox and Athletics at Fenway.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Bob Feller struck out ten Red Sox, but couldn’t get the big out when he needed it as Boston scored a run in the bottom of the 8th inning to nip the Indians by a score of 5-4. Cleveland greeted Boston starter Charlie Wagner rudely, leadoff batter Lou Boudreau doubling and Ken Keltner pinging one off the left-field wall one out later to score the game’s first run with only one out on the books. But the Sox answered with power in the 2nd, Jimmie Foxx and Jim Tabor drilling back-to-back blasts off Feller to put Boston into the lead.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Boston rallied from an early four-run deficit to take the lead in the 7th inning and hold on for a narrow 6-5 victory at Fenway Park. Detroit drew first blood in the 2nd when Lou Finney allowed Birdie Tebbetts’ single to get under his glove and roll all the way to the RF wall for an error, allowing Frank Croucher to score (although Tebbetts was thrown out at home attempting to take the same liberty himself). Back-to-back triples led to two more Tiger runs in the 3rd and, after Lefty Grove had hit a solo homer in the bottom half to get one run back, Detroit ripped three consecutive doubles in the 4th for two runs that gave them a 5-1 lead. (Of the ten hits allowed by Grove on the afternoon, six went for extra bases.)
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Ted had another fine day - two singles, a stolen base, a run scored and a key defensive play - but it was Jimmie Foxx’s three-run homer in the 7th inning that lifted the Red Sox to victory in Chicago, despite some late heartburn. Boston took the lead in the 2nd when Foxx started the inning with a triple; he scored on Bobby Doerr’s double, and Jim Tabor’s single produced a second run. The home team threatened for the first time in the 5th, loading the bases with one out with the help of Tabor’s miscue, but Luke Appling hit a fly ball to medium left field which Williams caught and then threw home to erase Mike Tresh attempting to tag from third for an inning-ending double play.
19 February 1982: Lucien DeBlois scored four goals and Ed Staniowski turned aside 34 shots as Winnipeg thumped Quebec in Alberta. The Jets scored three unanswered goals in the first period, despite being outshot 14-11, with DeBlois tallying his first three minutes from the end of the period to give the home team a 3-0 lead. The 24-year-old winger picked up right where he left off after the break, scoring twice in the first ten minutes of the second to complete his hat trick, become the fifth 20-goal Jet of the season, make the score 5-0, and chase Dan Bouchard from the Nordique net.
20 February 1982: In a game in which the referees decided to pocket their whistles, the Bruins rode a four-goal opening period to a straightforward win over the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. The two teams got off to a cracking start, with three goals being scored in the first 4:20, but Detroit’s early 2-1 lead was a distant memory by the end of the period. Boston scored three times (Bourque, K. Crowder, Pederson) in the final eight minutes to take a 4-2 lead into the first intermission, and expanded that with the only goal (Kasper) of a relatively sedate second stanza.
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Three more semi-random matchups simulated with Bank Shot Basketball . . .
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
For some time now, I've been in the market for a full-play college basketball game. I had been a long-time customer of the now-departed Classic College and Pro Basketball, for which I own hundreds of teams purchased over the past 15-20 years, and its demise left a hole in my stable. Specifically, I wanted a full-play game that not only consistently produced current seasons but also had a large library of historical teams; I have a strong tendency towards historical gaming in the first place, and I expect this to only accentuate in the case of NCAAB as NIL and conference realignment move the sport towards one-year playing contracts and the diminution of long-standing rivalries.
Final Season Ticket Baseball Showdown team and individual statistics . . .
Four managers came together once again for a face-to-face Season Ticket showdown, bringing teams chosen from the famous 1964 National League pennant race which saw four teams finish the season separated by just three games. A double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!
Pirates 3, Cubs 2: Wilbur Cooper pitched eleven fine innings and Howdy Caton earned him a victory with a 12th-inning RBI single that ended a long afternoon in Chicago. The Cubs held a 2-1 lead into the 8th inning behind Hippo Vaughn, but Caton's two-out double scored Cliff Lee from second base to tie the game and eventually force extra innings. Chicago squandered Les Mann's one-out triple in the 11th, and the Pirates took advantage when they came up to hit. Cooper (9-3) drew a walk with two outs and Carson Bigbee legged out an infield single, before Caton hit a sinking liner to right that fell in front of Max Flack for a hit and allowed Cooper to come around to score for the lead. Having seen his horse expend himself on the bases, Fred Mitchell decided to lift him in favor of Earl Hamilton in the bottom of the 12th and this almost came back to haunt him. After two quick outs, the Cubs got two men on base before getting Flack to ground one to first base to retire the side. Mann had three hits for Chicago. [box]
Phillies 8, Robins 3: Irish Meusel and Gavy Cravath had four hits apiece, as Philadelphia pounded out fifteen hits to back Eppa Rixey in a win at Brooklyn. The Phillies busted open a close game with four straight singles in a 5th-inning rally that scored four runs to give PHI a 5-2 lead. After the clubs traded singe runs in the 8th, Cravath launched his League-pacing eleventh home run in the 9th, with Meusel on first base, to give the fragile Philadelphia pitching some margin for error. Rixey (1-1), despite an uncharacteristic five bases on balls on the afternoon, waltzed through an uneventful 9th inning to finish off the complete game. [box] [broadcast]
Reds 2, Pirates 0: Ray Fisher twirled a two-hitter and Heinie Groh and Larry Kopf delivered runs that allowed Cincinnati to come out on top of a pitching duel at Forbes Field. The Reds got off to a bright start, as Jake Daubert tripled with one out in the 1st and Groh immediately followed with an RBI single. Greasy Neale started the Cincinnati 7th with a three-bagger, and Kopf pushed him across with a fly ball to medium-deep center field. Fisher (6-8), meanwhile, was giving nothing to the Pirate batters - he retired the first nine and the final eight men, and allowed a runner into scoring position only twice. Carson Bigbee led off the 4th with a single and was bunted to second, and Billy Southworth singled and stole second to start the 5th, but Fisher got two groundouts in the first instance and two popups in the second to thwart the visitors on his way to facing only two batters over the minimum. [box]
Cubs 7, Cardinals 6: Chicago somehow overcame six errors in the field, scoring once in the 11th inning to prolong the game and once in the 13th to win and salvage a doubleheader split at home. The visitors led 4-1 through five innings, Austin McHenry doubling home a pair, before the Cubs started to come into the game. A two-out double by Charlie Deal and an RBI single from Tom Daly scored one in the 6th and then Les Mann roped a three-run home run (3) in the following frame to jump Chicago into the lead for the first time. But McHenry tripled in the 8th and pinch-hitter Cliff Heathcote tied the game with a two-out single. Neither team threatened in the 9th, and it was off to extra frames. Pickles Dillhoefer reached on the sixth Chicago error of the game to start the top of the 11th, advanced on a single by pitcher Bill Sherdel, and scored the go-ahead run on Milt Stock's base hit with two away. But Sherdel (1-5) couldn't hold the fort in the bottom of the inning; Bill Killefer led off with a PH single, moved to second on a comebacker, and scored when Charlie Pick singled. The 12th inning was quiet, but the Cards got a runner to second with two away in the top of the 13th before Paul Carter (1-2) retired Dots Miller on a sharp line drive to third base. Sherdel retired the first two Cubs in bottom half, but Pick singled to keep the game going before Mann lined a ball into RCF gap that went all the way to wall for a game-winning triple. Pick had four hits, Mann had four RBI, and Lee Magee made three errors at shortstop for Chicago. [box]
Reds 4, Cubs 3: Manuel Cueto dropped a perfectly-executed bunt up the first base line to squeeze Larry Kopf across the plate with the run that completed a late comeback by the Reds against Chicago. The Reds trailed 3-2 in the 8th inning, having found the going tough against Hippo Vaughn (7-8), but Heinie Groh circled the bases for a home run with one out when his deep drive to center eluded Dode Paskert's grasp and rolled all the way to the center-field fence. In the bottom of the 9th, Kopf led off against Vaughn with another deep drive to the outfield, this one splitting Paskert and Max Flack while the Cincinnati shortstop motored all the way to third base. That brought up the Cuban outfielder, and the Reds weren't inclined to play passively; on the second pitch, Kopf broke for home and Cueto bunted the ball gently up the first base line where Fred Merkle (despite creeping in to guard against this very eventuality) could make only a perfunctory flip of the sphere towards home which was well late of the sliding Kopf. The late heroics made a winner out of Jimmy Ring (1-2), making his first start of the season, who pitched around twelve Cub singles. [box]
Robins 4, Giants 3: Shortly after watching New York tie the score on Larry Doyle's home run, Brooklyn pushed a man across in the bottom of the 8th inning to win at Ebbets Field. The visiting Giants had a 2-1 lead before Lew Malone's two-out, two-run double switched the lead in the Robins' favor in the 6th, but Doyle hit his fourth four-bagger of the season to lead off the top of the 8th and bring NY onto level terms once again. Zack Wheat started off the bottom of the inning against Fred Toney (2-4) with a single, and he got as far as third base with two outs after a pair of groundouts. This brought Malone to the plate again, and again he came through with two outs, singling Wheat home to put Brooklyn back on top. Leon Cadore (6-4) walked Ross Youngs to put the tying run on base with two away in the 9th, but the Giants' right-fielder was gunned down by Otto Miller trying to swipe his way into scoring position to end the game. [box]
Pirates 9, Cardinals 2: Carson Bigbee had four hits in a game for the sixth time in the campaign and Vic Saier drove home four runs as Pittsburgh buried St Louis in the second half of their tilt at Robison Field. The Pirates led by a score of just 2-0 as the game headed into its fifth inning (one of those runs coming on Bigbee's 1st homer of the season), but Saier and Bigbee combined to stretch the lead in the 5th; Saier led off with a single, pitcher Frank Miller looped a base hit with one away, and Bigbee followed with an RBI single. Miller scored when Milt Stock couldn't field Casey Stengel's two-out ground ball. After the club exchanged runs, Pittsburgh piled up five singles in the 7th (Bigbee and Saier each collecting another) to score three more times to put the game away. Miller (5-3) allowed seven hits and walked none, while striking out six. [box]
Cubs 2, Robins 1: Pete Kilduff's pinch-hit single with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning scored Fred Merkle from third base with the game-winning run and rewarded Hippo Vaughn with a win for his eleven innings of four-hit hurling. Vaughn and his opponent Jeff Pfeffer appeared to have early dinner plans in Chicago that evening, the way they were cutting through the batting lineups. Brooklyn scored in the 5th on a leadoff double by Ed Konetchy, a bunt and a sac fly, but the Cubs equalized in the 6th on a pair of leadoff singles and a sacrifice fly of their own. Vaughn (7-7) then retired fifteen straight Robins while Pfeffer allowed only three hits over the next five innings. That took the game to the 11th still knotted up at a run apiece, and Mack Wheat stopped Vaughn's unbeaten string with a double to start the inning. He has bunted to third by Pfeffer, but Ivy Olson slapped one right at third baseman Charlie Deal playing in on the grass and Wheat had to hold tight at third. Hi Myers drew a walk, but Jimmy Johnston got under one for an inning-ending fly ball to center. In the bottom half, Fred Merkle doubled with one away and Dode Paskert singled him to third base. The pfading Pfeffer (8-5) was replaced by Larry Cheney, and the relief man got Deal to foul out to the catcher for out number two. That brought Kilduff off the bench to hit for Fred Lear, and the infielder lined a pitch into left field that scored Merkle for the winner. [box]
Reds 7, Phillies 4: Cincinnati rapped out eighteen hits - Morrie Rath, Heinie Groh and Edd Roush amassing three apiece - and Ray Fisher pitched well enough to win as the Reds moved back into first place with a win at home. After Gavy Cravath had given the Phillies a quick lead with an RBI single in the 1st, Groh singled and stole second before Roush tied the game in the bottom of the inning with a run-scoring single. In the 4th Gorh again got on base, with a leadoff walk, and stole the next base and this time Jimmy Smith was the one to drive him home. In the following frame, Cincinnati piled on Gene Packard (2-7) for three straight one-out singles that produced one run and Greasy Neale placed an exclamation point with a two-run triple that made the score 5-1. Fisher (5-8) was having his way with the visitors through six innings, allowing just one hit after Cravath's early RBI, but the Phils got to him in the 7th. The first three men singled, with Bert Adams' hit knocking in a run; Fisher got the next two men out, but Cy Williams doubled to score two more with two out and it was suddenly a one-run contest. Four singles in the bottom of the 8th produced two insurance runs for the Reds, and Fisher recorded strike outs for three of the final four outs to close strongly. [box]
Braves 6, Pirates 5: Boston scored a run in the 8th to tie, and a run in the 9th to win, a see-saw affair with Pittsburgh in The Steel City. After the Pirates had leapt to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on Casey Stengel's RBI triple, George Cutshaw's sac fly and Billy Southworth's solo home run (1), Boston came back with one in the 4th and three in the 6th to take the lead - five straight Braves singled off of Earl Hamilton after two men were out. The home team got right back on top in the bottom of the inning when the decision to intentionally walk Walter Schmidt to face the pitcher Hamilton backfired when both he and leadoff batter Carson Bigbee singled to score runs. Brooklyn tied the score again when Buck Herzog tripled to start the 8th and scored on Ray Powell's single, and then they finished the job against Hamilton (1-10) in the 9th. With one out Tony Boeckel singled, and Walt Tragesser (.182) then drove a two-bagger that was deep enough to score Bockel with the go-ahead run. Al Demaree (5-2) allowed the first two men in the bottom of the inning to reach, but Jack Scott came on to record two ground ball force outs to strand the potential tying run at third base. Bigbee and Southworth each had four of Pittsburgh's fourteen hits. [box]
Cubs 3, Robins 2: Charlie Deal's single in the bottom of the 11th scored the winning run, with the benefit of a Brooklyn error, and enabled Chicago to withstand six of their own fielding miscues to win a close, mistake-filled affair at Weeghman Park. The Cubs got on the board first, in the 1st, on a single, two ground outs and a wild pitch and the clubs then traded runs in the 3rd with the Cubs retaking the lead on Max Flack's home run (3). Neither club could score again, despite Brooklyn getting some help from three Pete Kilduff errors, until the 8th when Tommy Griffith singled, stole second and took third on Bob O'Farrell's wild throw, and scored the tying run on Zack Wheat's sacrifice fly ball. There were two more Cub errors in the top of the 11th, but Speed Martin (3-2) got two outs in the air to keep the runners stuck on their bases, and the bats got it done in the bottom half. With one out, Kilduff singled, and he moved to second on a ground out. Dode Paskert's ground ball eluded the grasp of Ed Konetchy at first for another error to place Kilduff at third base and Deal then singled to shallow center to win the game for Chicago. Surprisingly, the nine errors in the game led to only a single unearned run, partly because the Robins hit only 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Otto Miller had three hits for Brooklyn and Flack had three for the Cubs. [box]
Robins 2, Cubs 1: Brooklyn could manage only two hits against Hippo Vaughn, but they both led to runs as the visitors finally found the winning edge in a tense contest in the top of the 9th inning. Three thousand fans were in the stands at Weeghman Park to see a much-anticipated pitching matchup between Vaughn and Jeff Pfeffer, who had combined to win thirteen games thus far in the campaign, and the star men did not disappoint. The first safe hit of the game came to lead off the bottom of the 3rd, when Vaughn lined one down the left-field line and off the wall for a two-base hit; after Max Flack ground out to second to move Pfeffer along, Charlie Pick hit a fly ball to Zack Wheat in left that was deep enough for the pitcher to tag up and score the game's opening tally. Les Mann followed with a single, but that was the last hit of the game until the top of the 6th. Ivy Olson took a Vaughn breaking ball in the shoulder blade to start the frame, and then made Chicago pay double by swiping second base on the first pitch to Jimmy Johnston. The Robin right fielder then grounded one up the middle and into center for a base hit that enabled Olson to come around and score the tying run. Chicago got two men aboard with one out in the home half of the inning, but Pfeffer got Dode Paskert to ground out and Charlie Deal to sky harmlessly to center to end the inning. Vaughn, meanwhile, was ripping through the Brooklyns, retiring nine in a row with seven groundouts to take the game into the 9th still deadlocked at one run apiece. Hi Myers was first up for the Robins, and his ground ball was thrown away by Bill McCabe at shortstop (CHI star SS Charlie Hollocher was out due to injury), putting Myers at second base. Wheat followed with a bloop that fell onto the grass in shallow center for a hit that sent Myers to third. The brought up Ed Konetchy and, with the infielders creeping in, the BRO first baseman dropped an exquisite bunt down the first base line with which Fred Merkle could do nothing but pick up and tag Konetchy while Myers slide home with the go-ahead run. Vaughn (6-7) got two ground outs to the drawn-in infield to limit the damage, but Pfeffer )8-4) allowed only a two-out walk in the the bottom of the 9th before retiring pinch-hitter Turner Barber to end the game. [box]
Final Season Ticket Baseball Showdown team and individual statistics . . .
Four managers came together for a face-to-face Season Ticket showdown, bringing teams chosen from the six clubs in the STB catalogue which won 100 games without making the postseason. A double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!
Cubs 4, Giants 3: Chicago scored once in the 8th to tie, and once in the bottom of the 9th to beat the League leaders in front of a jubilant home crowd. After Larry Doyle had homered (3) off of Pete Alexander in the 2nd to put the Giants ahead, the Cubs jumped into the lead with a pair of runs in the home half of the 3rd. After a walk and a sacrifice, Max Flack singled home the tying run, and then Doyle fumbled Charlie Pick's ground ball for an error. After Red Causey got a fly out for the second out, Fred Merkle grounded a single into center field to score Flack and put the home side on top. The pitchers then pulled themselves on top of the game for stretch, aided a bit by reckless base running (two two-out CS) by the Giants and a fine defensive play in the top of the 7th when, with the bases loaded, Alexander fielded a ground ball off the bat of League-leading batter Lew McCarty and and flung it home to force Benny Kauff. Alexander then whiffed pinch-hitter George Kelly on a called third strike to put an end to the NY threat. In the next inning, however, the Gothams did get to Old Pete - Ross Youngs reached on Pete Kilduff's one-out error, and then the next two Giants singled to fill the sacks to bulging. Kauff then struck a two-bagger that scored two of the runners before Doyle was thrown at the plate attempting to clear the bases. Now faced with a deficit, Chicago got to work straightaway. Less Mann hit a leadoff single, moved up on a ground ball, and came around to score and tie the game on Dode Paskert's base hit. New York got two hits in the top of the 9th, but Alexander fanned a pair to keep them tied down. In the bottom of the inning, Kilduff worked a walk from Pat Ragan (1-1) and then Bob O'Farrell laid down a sacrifice bunt. McCarty fielded it in front of the plate and fired to second, but Kilduff beat the throw by an eyelash. PH Turner Barber bunted again, and that moved Kilduff to third where Flack picked him up with a fly ball to left that gave George Burns little chance to throw home in time to prevent the walk-off win by the Cubs. [box]
Pirates 2, Phillies 1: Walter Schmidt and Casey Stengel singled in 3rd-inning runs and Babe Adams made sure those were sufficient for Chicago to nick Philadelphia at Forbes Field. Adams (7-2) shut the Phillies down on just one hit over the first six innings, a two-out single by Irish Meusel in the 4th, but allowed a solo homer to Gavy Cravath (his circuit-pacing 9th) in the 8th and then had to pitch around a one-out Doug Baird single in the 9th to finish off his thirty-batter work of art. Frank Woodward (0-7) suffered the tough loss despite allowing only six hits, and Schmidt's two hits were the most on either club. [box]
Pitching leaderboards in the National League through the games of Sunday, 15 June . . .
Offensive statistical Leaders in the National League through the games of Sunday, 15 June . . .
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the National League during the week of 9-15 June are (boldface denotes a League-leading total) . . .
Robins 5, Cardinals 0: Leon Cadore allowed only two St Louis singles and retired twenty-one straight men on his way to an easy win in front of the Cardinal crowd. Brooklyn pounded out thirteen hits (all singles as well), four of which came in succession to start the 4th inning and score the first two runs of the ballgame. One more in the 8th, and two in the 9th, provided some padding but none of that was going to be necessary with Cadore (5-3) whipping through the Cards like a blackjack dealer. He allowed a 1st-inning knock to Milt Stock, and STL didn't record another safe hit until Doc Lavan singled with two outs in the 8th. He walked no one, while fanning five and faced just thirty men on the afternoon. Jimmy Johnston drove in two runs for the Robins with a pair of hits. [box]
Giants 7, Cubs 0: Fred Toney throttled the Chicago Nationals on three singles and New York hitters teed off on League ERA leader Hippo Vaughn for thirteen hits in an easy Giant win at Weeghman Park. In what was was billed as a rematch of their legendary double no-hit matchup two seasons ago, Vaughn never really got to grips with the Giant offense. The visitors left runners in scoring position in each of the first two innings and then started the 3rd with three straight singles, and Larry Doyle's sac fly then opened the scoring. The Cubs got their first hit of the game when Max Flack led off the 4th with a single, but was almost immediately erased attempting to steal his way into scoring position. In the 5th, NY again touched Vaughn (6-6) for three straight base hits to begin the inning, and this time the Giants turned them into a crooked number - the third hit, from Benny Kauff, scored a run, Art Fletcher hit a sacrifice fly, and Lew McCarty tripled across a third to make it a 4-0 game. The Cubs got another single in the 7th, and a second from Flack in the 9th, but didn't come close to scoring against Toney (2-2) on either occasion while the Giants were padding their lead with three more runs in the late innings while the Cubs fell to pieces (three errors in the final three innings). [box] [broadcast]
