Robins 4, Reds 3: Zack Wheat homered with two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning to put an exclamation point on a tense battle between the League's top two teams. When the clubs scored in each of the first three half-innings, it looked as if it might be one of those "last man to bat wins" affairs - it turned out that it was, but not because the runs kept coming. Ray Fisher and Jeff Pfeffer steadied the ships, and in fact ran the offenses aground, after the 4th inning with Cincinnati clinging to a 3-2 lead. Brooklyn just could not find a way to land the telling blow against Fisher, leaving the tying run in scoring position in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th innings. In the 9th, however, Ivy Olson led off with a single and moved to second on Lee Magee's sacrifice; Tommy Griffith skied to center, and Wheat then added another thirty feet or so to that drive to put the ball and the game out of reach of the Reds, and to put the Robins atop the National League. [box]
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| Zack Wheat, Brooklyn |
Cardinals 4, Braves 3: Two-out triples tied the game in the top of the 9th, and then won it in the 10th as St. Louis rallied to edge Boston at Braves Field. Boston scored twice in the 1st on a Red Smith RBI single and a Joe Riggert sac fly and were nursing a 3-1 lead as Art Nehf toed the rubber in the final inning. Leadoff singles by Jack Smith and Milt Stock put the pressure on Nehf, but he got Rogers Hornsby and Joe Schultz to pop up harmlessly and was on the verge of salting the game away when Frank Snyder ripped one over the outfielders for three bases and a tie game. In the 10th, Nehf retired the first two Cards before Burt Shotton (three hits) singled; he stole second, took third on a wild throw and trotted home when Jack Smith drive one through the right center-field gap for the second three-bagger in two innings. Marv Goodwin allowed a one-out double to Riggert in the bottom half, but retired the final two Braves to finish off the extra-inning complete game effort. [box]
Cubs 3, Giants 0: Chicago broke open a scoreless game with three 8th-inning doubles and Pete Alexander kept New York off the scoresheet with a seven-hit performance that included some late-inning Houdini impressions. Alexander and Rube Benton had allowed no quarter for seven innings at Brush Stadium before the Cubs broke the seal in the 8th. With two outs and no one aboard the bases, the top of the Chicago order went to work - Max Flack and Charlie Hollocher doubled back-to-back to score one run, Less Man walked, Dode Paskert stroked another two-base hit for a second score, and Fred Merkle singled Mann home for a three-run lead. Alexander gave up three singles to load the bases in the NY 8th with just one out, but he zipped a third strike past Hal Chase and got clean-up hitter Larry Doyle to fly out to end the threat. The Giants were bidding again in the 9th when a walk and single brought the tying run to bat with two outs, but Al Baird could only manage a dribbler in front of the plate that Bill Killefer fielded and tossed to first for the final out. [box]
Phillies 3, Pirates 0: Philadelphia managed three runs on only four base hits, but that was enough to back the pitcher of Elmer Jacobs, who held Pittsburgh scoreless on six hits and three walks. The first Phillie runs came courtesy of a fielding error in the 2nd, and Irish Meusel belted a two-run homer an inning later. Jacobs got out of a bases-loaded predicament in the 4th, but then steamrolled Pittsburgh over the final five frames allowing only three hits and not allowing a baserunner to reach second base. Jacobs also had two of the four Philadelphia hits. [box]
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