Cubs 2, Pirates 1: After ten innings of scoreless baseball, the two clubs traded blows in the 11th with Chicago having the final say on Pete Kilduff's two-out RBI triple. Erskine Mayer and Speed Martin were insoluble for the better part of two hours in front of a tense Chicago crowd; double play grounders erased an early threat for each team and Pittsburgh left the tying run at second in the 9th while Mayer was setting down ten Cubs in succession over the late innings. The pitching protagonists were still plying their trades as the 11th inning got underway, and the Pirates cracked Martin's code first - with one out, George Cutshaw walked, stole second, and scored on Tony Boeckel's base hit. But Les Mann led off the bottom half with a two-bagger and Chicago was still in the hunt. He was bunted to third by Dode Paskert and scored the tying run when Fred Merkle lofted fly ball to medium-deep left field. Charlie Pick singled to keep the line moving, and Kilduff laced one over the head of Southworth which the Pittsburgh outfielder could not chase down before Pick had scampered home as Kilduff was sliding safely into a cloud of dust at third base. Merkle and Boeckle each had three hits. [box]
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| Speed Martin, Chicago |
Phillies 7, Giants 4: Philadelphia rallied from a three-run deficit with an outburst in the 6th and 7th innings that featured eight hits after the club had only managed three in the first five frames. The Phils rapped four straight singles in the 6th to score three runs, and Irish Meusel's triple in the 7th drove in another and before he scored the home team's seventh when Doug Baird singled. The bottom half of the Philadelphia lineup did the damage against Milt Watson, with the 5-through-9 batters accounting for ten of the eleven Phillie hits. [box]
Reds 8, Cardinals 2: The Reds spanked fourteen hits, including three doubles and a triple, to blow apart a close game with seven middle-inning runs. The score was 1-1 when Heinie Groh started the 4th with a walk and then scored on Edd Roush's double. Two singles and a run followed on Jake Daubert's hit with a third scoring on a double-play ground ball. Daubert singled home another in the 5th, and Roush tripled home two more in the 6th to put Cincinnati well clear. Hod Eller went the route allowing eight hits and no walks while sending six Cardinals back to the bench without making contact, and Roush had three hits, three RBI, and scored twice as the Reds won their third straight game over St. Louis. [box]
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