Braves 8, Cardinals 7: Five combined runs in the 11th inning made for a crazy end to an eventful affair at Braves Field this afternoon. The home team took a 3-1 lead in the 3rd behind a triple from Rabbit Maranville and a two-run double off the bat of Joe Riggert. This edge didn't last long, though, as St. Louis - who had been struggling for runs thus far this season - scored twice in each of the 5th and 6th innings (two-RBI hits from Walton Cruise and pitcher Oscar Tuero) to take back the lead. But Boston answered with two in their half of the 6th to tie, as a pinch-hit RBI double by Johnny Rawlings and a run-scoring groundout leveled the game at five runs each. The bats then went suddenly quiet, with the teams combining for a total of three hits over the next four innings, but this turned out to be just the calm before the 11th-inning storm. The Cards put a man on second base with two away in the top of the inning and manager George Stallings decided not to pitch to Rogers Hornsby, but instead to provide him with a free pass to first base. The percentage play backfired when PH Austin McHenry followed with a single that scored one run, and Gene Paulette then did the same to give the visitors a two-run cushion to take into the bottom of the inning. Bill Sherdel, who had tossed three perfect innings of relief to this point, got the first out but Maranville then doubled and Buck Herzog singled to put the tying runs aboard. A wild pitch scored one of them and Red Smith's single another, as Sherdel began to fall apart; a ground out got STL to within one out of the finish line, but Art Wilson (hitting only .191 on the season) blooped a liner into left field that allowed Ray Powell to sprint home with the winning run. [box]
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Reds 2, Robins 1: Cincinnati were held to three base hits by Rube Marquard, but put two of those together with an error and a Marquard wild pitch in a two-run 4th that was enough to support Dolf Luque's six-hitter at Ebbets Field and salvage the final game of the series. Brooklyn got on the board first when Marquard reached on Larry Kopf's error with one out in the 2nd, moved up on a groundout, and scored on Lee Magee's RBI single. After Marquard had set down the first nine Reds of the game, their 4th inning also began with an error when Lew Malone could not corral Morrie Rath's skittering grass-cutter to the hot corner. After a sacrifice Heinie Groh singled to tie the score, advanced to second on a pitch that skipped to the backstop, and scored when Edd Roush doubled to left-center. Cincinnati would get only one more hit the rest of the way, but Luque already had what required - the only times he was pressured for the rest of the afternoon were when his defense failed in its support. In the 6th Zack Wheat doubled with one out and took third when Roush mishandled the ball. But Hi Myers ripped a line drive right at Groh at third, who caught the ball and then dove to tag the bag at third before the retreating Wheat could find safety. In the 9th, Tommy Griffith reached on Rath's error to start the inning and promptly stole second base, but Luque retired the heart of the Robins order to strand Griffith and the tying run. [box]
Giants 3, Cubs 2: Hal Chase's two-run double in the 8th inning was the difference in a tight contest in New York. The score was tied at one run apiece through seven innings, but Chicago got a leg up in the 8th when Max Flack reached base on Art Fletcher's fumble, stole second and got third on a wild throw by Lew McCarty, and scored on Charlie Hollocher's fly ball. But the Giants punched back in the home half of the inning as McCarty and Ross Youngs drew walks and Chase then provided the big blow to bring them both around to score. Jesse Barnes walked a man in the top of the 9th, but got Charlie Pick to hit into a game-ending 363 double play (NY mitigated its three errors by turning three twin killings) to earn his third win in as many decisions. Heinie Zimmerman reached base four times for the Giants, on a single and three walks. [box]
Pirates 11, Phillies 7: Casey Stengel drove in three runs, and Pittsburgh overcame five hits by the Phillies' Fred Luderus and also having four baserunners caught stealing, as a late-game scoring outburst left the Pirates on top of Philadelphia. The score was 4-4 after only three innings of play with Luderus and Pittsburgh starter Wilbur Cooper providing two-run hits, and then activity on the basepaths settled down for a few innings before another explosion in the 7th. the Pirates got three in the top of the inning behind four straight hits, the last of which was a bases-loaded triple off the stick of Stengel. But the Phillies also scored three times in the inning when Doug Baird lifted one just over the fence in left field with two men on the bases, and the score was 7-7. But Brad Hogg, on in support of Joe Oeschger, could not hold down the fort for the home team in the 8th. After striking out the first batter, he surrendered three straight hits and a run before Gavy Cravath threw wildly from the outfield to allow another run to score and Harry Pearce kicked Stengel's grounder to load the bases in front of George Cutshaw's two-run single. Hal Carlso polished off two-plus innings of scoreless relief by getting the dangerous Cravath to bounce into a game-ending double play. Luderus had a triple and three RBI, while Cravath and Irish Meusel each had three hits to their name in the losing cause. [box]
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