Robins 6, Reds 4: Just when it looked as if Cincinnati might have finally found the upper hand in this early-season tussle between the two best teams in the National League, the Robins snatched the game away with a four-run 8th inning rally. With the score 4-2 in favor of the Reds, and one out and no one on base in the Brooklyn half of the 8th inning, it looked as if the visitors would claw back one of the games in the standings which they had lost to Brooklyn earlier in the series. But three straight singles loaded the bases and, after Ed Konetchy fanned for the second out, Hod Eller could not find the third. Pinch-hitter Jimmy Johnston poked a two-run single to tie the score and catcher Ernie Krueger, who had homered in the 7th, drove a three-base hit to the wall to score two more and send the Robins into the lead. Al Mamaux finished off the Reds in the top of the 9th for Brooklyn's third straight win. In addition to Krueger's hitting heroics, he gunned down three Reds attempting to steal. [box]
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| Ernie Krueger, Brooklyn |
Giants 5, Cubs 4: Larry Doyle singled home pinch-hitter George Kelly with two outs in the last of the 9th as New York completed a come-from-behind victory over Chicago at Brush Stadium. The visiting Cubs had built up a 4-1 lead over the first five innings, stealing three bags and capitalizing on two Giant errors and a pair of free passes. But New York finally puzzled out Phil Douglas in the 6th inning, coaxing two walks of their own to load the bases for Heinie Zimmerman's three-run double. Douglas left the game for a pinch-hitter in the 9th, which brought Speed Martin into the game for Chicago, and Kelly greeted him with a line-drive double to left to start the home half of the final inning. Martin whiffed two of the next three men, however, and Doyle came to the plate with two on and two out and sent one back through the box past the lunging Martin and into center field as Kelly scampered home with the deciding run. Zimmerman had three hits on the afternoon for New York. [box]
Pirates 3, Phillies 0: Babe Adams was untouchable again on the mound, and Walter Schmidt reached base all four times he batted to leads Pittsburgh to a shutout win in Philadelphia. The Pirates got everything they needed in the 2nd inning, when three straight hits (including a double from Adams) after two men were out brought three runs across the plate. Frank Woodward held the visitors down after that, but it was too late as Adams was just too much for the home batters to handle. The soon-to-be 37-year-old marked him imminent birthday by setting down the final ten Phillies, eight of them on ground balls, and he also laid down three successful sacrifice hits. [box]
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