Braves 5, Cubs 3: Rabbit Maranville stroked three hits, scored one run and knocked in another to help Boston edge Chicago at Braves Field. The Cubs took a 2-1 lead on Charlie Pick's two run triple in the 3rd, but Boston answered them in the succeeding inning with a pair of their own. Maranville led off the stanza with a base hit, but was caught attempting to steal second. But Walt Trageser and Dick Rudolph followed him with base hits and Joe Riggert drew a walk to load the sacks. That set the table for Buck Herzog to whack a two-run single that gave the Braves a 3-2 lead which lasted all of one half-inning. Two singles and a sacrifice led to a Chicago run and a tie game, but Maranville grabbed the lead right back for the Braves with an RBI hit in the bottom of the inning after Walter Holke had singled and stolen second. Rudolph then locked the door behind Boston by putting away fourteen of the final fifteen Cubs, twelve of them on ground balls. Five Braves combined for all eleven of their base hits, while Bill Killefer had three of Chicago's safe knocks. [box]
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Cardinals 10, Robins 5: Cliff Heathcote had three of St. Louis' fifteen hits and the resurgent Cards sored six times in the final three innings to sprint clear of Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. The afternoon's starting hurlers, Lee Meadows and Leon Cadore, were challenged to hold the offenses in check in the early going - after five innings it was already tied at four apiece and the clubs had tallied in eight of their ten half-inning. After a quiet 6th, it was St. Louis who made the move to put the game to bed when they batted in the 7th. Two singles and two outs put men at second and third with two outs and the recently-hot Rogers Hornsby to the plate; Branch Rickey decided to (literally) pass on facing the young shortstop and loaded the bases with struggling (.180) firstbaseman Gene Paulette on deck. Paulette apparently took the move rather personally, lacing a two-run single, and Heathcote delivered Hornsby with another base hit. A brace of Brooklyn errors led to two more St. Louis runs in the 8th and it was up to Meadows to finish the deal, which he did after swallowing an unearned run in the bottom of the 9th. Zack Wheat had a single, double, triple and three RBI for the Robins. [box]
Giants 6, Pirates 1: Hal Chase, George Burns and Lew McCarty head had two hits and Rube Benton pitched a seven-hitter as New York handled Pittsburgh at home. The Giants scored once in each of the first two innings against Wilbur Cooper to take the early edge, Ross Youngs doubling in Burns in the 1st, and McCarty singling home Heinie Zimmerman (RBI, two steals) in the 2nd. Chase led off the home 6th with his second four-base hit of the season, then an error and wild pitch gifted the Giants two more in the 7th after the Pirates had finally gotten on the board against Benton in the top of the inning. The veteran left-hander out-foxed the Pittsburghers throughout, holding them to one extra-base hit while not striking out a single batter. [box]
Phillies 3, Reds 0: Gene Packard throttled Cincinnati on six singles and Irish Meusel had a double and a home run as Philadelphia registered a much-need win in front their home crowd. The sole tenants of the League cellar scored once in the 2nd on three singles and a Larry Kopf error, and doubled the lead in the 5th when Meusel homered with one away in the 5th. After allowing base hits to the first two Reds batters of the game - both of whom were erased trying to steal - Packard, who came into the game having allowed fifteen runs in only five innings of work for the Phillies, was very sharp. He allowed more than one baserunner in an inning only once, in the 7th thanks to a Fred Luderus error behind him, and rolled to the finish line for his first win and first shutout of the campaign. [box]
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