Reds 4, Cardinals 3: Cincinnati scored three times after two were out in the bottom of the 9th inning to flip the script against St. Louis. Cards starter Jakie May had been in control the entire afternoon, allowing just three hits and a walk over the first seven frames, but three straight base hits in the bottom of the 8th both trimmed the STL lead to 3-1 and were a harbinger of things (soon) to come. May retired the first man in the last half-inning before Larry Kopf drew a walk and Manuel Cueto singled. When May got pinch-hitter Ivey Wingo to fly out to right for the second out, it appeared as if he would put the finishing touches on his outstanding day's work, but it was not to be. The command issues that often vex May, but which he had held at bay today, resurfaced at the worst possible time when he walked pinch-hitter Pat Duncan and then put a fast one into the bicep of Morrie Rath to force home a run and move the tying and winning runs both into scoring position. At this point, with five of the last six Reds having reached base against the 23-year-old lefty, Branch Rickey decided a change of course was due. In came relief specialist Oscar Tuero for May, to face the struggling (.135) Greasy Neale. After a long tussle between the two, the two-sport star turned on a full-count offering and whacked it into the gap between the left- and center-fielders for two bases, two runs and one unlikely victory as the men from St. Louis continue to find ways to come up with the short end of the stick. [box]
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| Greasy Neale, Cincinnati |
Giants 2, Robins 1: Lew McCarty and Benny Kauff drove home late-inning runs and Red Causey scattered ten singles to lead New York over the League leaders. Causey and Leon Cadore had battled to a standstill for six scoreless innings despite no shortage of either baserunners or action on the basepaths (a combined six steals in the game) before the visiting club struck first in the 7th. With one out, Art Fletcher lined a base hit to right, and took second smartly when Tommy Griffith let the ball briefly evade him. Fletcher then stole third base and scored on McCarty's long fly ball to left field. In the next inning, Ross Youngs led off with a base hit, stole second, and scored on Kauff's two-out single. Causey, who like Cadore had been walking a tightrope for much of the afternoon (the teams were a combined 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position), finally found McGraw's limit for heartburn when he allowed singles to the first three Giants to face him in the bottom of the 8th; Fred Toney came into the game and retired Griffith and Zack Wheat on fly balls to hold the lead and then retired the Brooklyns in order in the 9th. Lee Magee had three hits in the losing cause. [box]
Pirates 3, Cubs 2: After stranding sixteen baserunners on a frustrating afternoon in Chicago, Pittsburgh managed to push a run across the plate in the top of the 12th inning and hold on to defeat the Cubs. The clubs swapped 1st-inning runs, and the Pirates manufactured a lead in the 4th when George Cutshaw singled, swiped the second bag and took the third on the catcher's errant throw, and then scampered home when Cubs pitcher Phil Douglas failed to hold on to Vic Saier's two-hopper back to the box. Babe Adams looked poised to turn that into a win for Pittsburgh, but Chicago rallied to tie in the bottom half of the 9th. Fred Merkle singled with one out, was pushed to second when Charlie Deal took one in the ribs for the club an out later, and deadlocked the game when Bill Killefer delivered the clutch last-gasp base hit. The visitors got two men on in each of the 10th and the 11th yet failed to score (they also left the bases loaded twice), but found a way to get one across in the 12th - Carson Bigbee singled (his fourth hit of the game) and Walter Schmidt doubled with one out and, with the Cubs infield drawn in, pitcher Hal Carlson hit a Baltimore chop to second base which admitted only the play at first as Bigbee scored the go-ahead run. Carlson backed up his bat work by setting the Chicagoans down in the bottom of the inning without scoring to end a long day at Weeghman Park. [box]
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