Pirates 6, Cubs 4: Pittsburgh scored four times in the top of the 9th inning to tie the game, then twice in the 12th to cap an improbable road win at Weeghman Park. The Pirates had been completely confounded for eight innings by the deliveries of Phil Douglas, collecting only five hits and seeing eighteen of twenty hitters return to the bench empty-handed at one stretch, and found themselves trailing by four runs headed into the 9th as a result of two-RBI afternoons from Charlie Deal and Bob O'Farrell. Three of the first five Pirates singled against Douglas, but he got two groundouts to leave the visitors down to their last out and still trailing by two runs. Carson Bigbee doubled to put the tying runs into scoring position, and Douglas was relieved by Paul Carter, but Zeb Terry walked and Casey Stengel laced the game-tying base hit before Carter could finally retire the side. The bats were largely silent then until the 12th, when Stengel singled with one out and Tony Boeckel tripled him home before scoring on Deal's two-out fielding error at third base. Hal Carlson finished off four scoreless innings of relief with a 1-2-3 bottom of the inning and the Chicago crowd filed out of the ballpark in a state of shock at the sudden turn of events. [box]
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Cubs 3, Pirates 2: Chicago scored three times in the first four innings, and Pete Alexander made that stand up despite a slight wobble in the middle innings. The Cubs scored twice in the second on a single, sacrifice, and RBI hits from Les Mann and Bill Killefer and then tacked on another in the 4th when Mann singled stoled second, and was given the next two bases without a fight on a wild pitch by Erskine Mayer (2-4) and a passed ball. Alexander (5-1) had given up just one hit through the first four frames, but two base hits and a stolen base got one across for Pittsburgh in the 5th and then a leadoff walk in the 6th was followed by a steal and another RBI single to pull the Pirates to within 3-2. But, after a leadoff hit in the top of the 7th, Alexander found his groove again and slammed the door shut on the visitors, retiring nine of the final ten men to seal a complete-game six-hit victory. [box]
Braves 6, Robins 4: Three walks and an error fueled a three-run 7th-inning rally that doomed Brooklyn to defeat in Boston. The visitors had quickly overcome a two-run Boston 1st on a two-RBI triple by Mack Wheat in the 2nd and a three-base hit by Tommy Griffith in 3rd to take a 4-2 lead, but the Braves scored once in the 6th before unlocking the barn door completely in the following inning. A leadoff walk and single put two men on and, after one out was recorded by Burleigh Grimes (4-3), another walk loaded the bases and Lee Magee fumbled Walter Holke's ground ball to score a run. Lena Blackburne followed with an RBI single, and Rabbit Maranville walked to force home the third run of the inning, giving the home team a 6-4 edge. Al Demaree (4-0) looked like holding that to the end, but two singles to start the Brooklyn 9th sent him packing, and Dana Fillingim was asked to clean up the mess. A fly out released some pressure, but Hi Myers singled bring Ed Konetchy to the plate with the bases loaded. The first baseman rapped one off the solid part of the bat, but on two hops right at the shortstop Maranville, and the ensuing 643 double play provided a sudden end to the game with Boston standing on top. [box]
Robins 3, Braves 1: Larry Cheney held Boston to four hits, and Ivy Olson singled three times and stole a base to lead Brooklyn to a doubleheader split. Olson started the game with a single and a stolen base, and scored the game's first run on a hit by Tommy Griffith. Griffith later scored on Ed Konetchy's RBI single, and that would turn out to be enough for Cheney (1-1). He allowed a run in the 4th on a Buck Herzog double and two groundouts, but would pitch scoreless ball the rest of the way allowing more than one baserunner in an inning only once after that and providing his own insurance run with a run-scoring double in the top of the 9th. [box]
Giants 7, Phillies 1: .In his first start for New York after being acquired as the player-to-be-named-later in the deal that sent Jim Thorpe to Boston two weeks ago, Pat Ragan threw a two-hitter at Philadelphia and Larry Doyle drove in four runs while scoring three and swiping two bases for the Giants. The 35-year-old Ragan (2-2), who had made three mediocre starts for the Braves before the deal, walked the leadoff man in the first and gave up a single one out later, but was in complete control from that point forward - that single would be the last hit that the Phillies recorded until the final inning, when Gavy Cravath's 9th-inning triple led to Philadelphia's only run of the game. Meanwhile, Doyle was scoring as part of two-run NY rallies in both the 2nd and 3rd innings and then drilling a three-run home run (2) in the 7th to put the game to bed. [box]
Giants 5, Phillies 2: .New York clawed their way back from a small deficit in the late innings, and Red Causey got better as the game went on to earn his fifth win in as many decisions. Philadelphia had taken a 2-1 lead through five innings on Cravath's home run (5) and Hick Cady's RBI single, but Brad Hogg (0-4) began to lose control of the game in the 6th. Two singles and a base on balls loaded the sacks with one out, and Heinie Zimmerman's slow grounder to second base was sufficient to force across the run that tied the game. In the 7th, the plot was much the same - two singles and a walk produced a run, this time a Ross Youngs single driving home Causey from second to put the Giants in front. In the 8th, Hogg lost his grip completely as a leadoff double by Doyle was followed by two walks and a hit batsman; Eppa Rixey come on to pitch but allowed another run to score on a Mike Gonzalez single, and that would be more than enough as Causey (5-0) put away fourteen of the last fifteen Phils to secure the doubleheader sweep. [box]
Reds 3, Cardinals 0: Hod Eller kept St. Louis from scoring and his teammates turned seven hits and seven walks into three runs that were enough to win at Robison Field. The visitors turned a Doc Lavan fielding error into the game's first run in the 4th, and Morrie Rath's one-out base hit added a second in the 7th. The Cardinals only got a runner as far as second base on two occasions, but Rogers Hornsby was cut down attempting to steal with men on the corners and two outs in the 1st and then flew out to center with two aboard in the 6th. Eller (5-3) set down eight of the last nine Cards, and finished with a flourish by striking out Dots Miller for the game's final out. [box]
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