Phillies 10, Giants 9: With a strong breeze blowing over the fence at Brush Stadium, Philadelphia and New York combined for five home runs (a pair by Gavy Cravath), thirty-three hits and nineteen runs, yet the matter was not decided until the Phillies pushed across a tie-breaking run in the top of the 10th. The visitors took a 4-0 lead in the early going, after Cravath homered to lead off the 2nd and reached on an error that elongated a three-run 3rd. But the Giants scored five times in the home 3rd, capped by Benny Kauff's two-out, three-run home run (1), and then scored three more in the 6th on homers by Ross Youngs (1) and Lew McCarty (3) to take an 8-5 lead. This swing lasted less than a half-inning, however, as Philadelphia plated three in the 7th after beginning the inning with three straight singles and then cleaning the plate with Ed Sicking's two-run base hit. A walk, stolen base and throwing error, and Irish Meusel's single gave PHI the lead by a run in the top of the 8th but they could not hold this securely in the Giants' final inning. With one out, Hal Chase singled, took second on McCarty's passed ball, and third on Kauff's one-base hit. Down to their final out, Heinie Zimmerman came through with the base knock that scored Chase with the tying run and the already-extended game moved on to extra innings. Possum Whitted led off the Phillies 10th with a base hit, stole second and took third on a groundout for the second out of the inning. Doug Baird singled up the middle to score Whitted and the Phils were faced with defending a one-run lead again as NY came up in the bottom of the 10th. Milt Watson came on as the third Philadelphia hurler of the day and gave up a leadoff single to McCarty. Two outs later, George Burns was standing on first, but he swiped second base and went to third when Hick Cady flung the ball over shortstop Sicking's head. With the score-knotting run ninety feet away, Ross Youngs could only loft the ball into the glove of Cy Williams in center field for the final out. Irish Meusel had a big day with five hits in six trips, and Cravath and Kauff each had three RBI. [box]
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Robins 6, Braves 0: Sherry Smith spun a three-hit shutout and Ivy Olson and Hi Myers had three hits apiece for Brooklyn in a comfortable win at Braves Field. Olson was the centerpiece of the Robins' early scoring - singling, stealing second and taking third on an error and then scoring on another in the 1st, and then doubling in a pair and scoring himself in the 3rd. Four straight hits pushed across two more Brooklyn runs in the 5th but, by that point, it had become clear that Boston was not going to find an answer for Smith (2-1). The Braves didn't record their first hit until there were two outs in the 5th, and Smith retired nineteen of the first twenty on his way to a rocking-chair victory, while Boston were also making four errors in the field that gave Brooklyn four unearned runs. [box]
Braves 4, Robins 0: In the second game of the doubleheader, Art Nehf returned the favor by shutting down Brooklyn on five singles. He got all the support he needed in 4th inning that saw Boston bunch together five of their seven hits after two men were out; Burleigh Grimes (4-4) was very effective in the other eight innings, but that slip-up was enough for Nehf (4-4). The diminutive left-hander retired eleven in a row in the late innings before loading the bases behind two walks in the 9th; he then recovered to whiff Ed Konetchy and get Lew Malone to foul out to the catcher. [box]
Cubs 3, Pirates 2: Pete Kilduff doubled home the go-ahead run, and then scored an insurance run himself, in the 5th inning and Speed Martin held Pittsburgh in check to give Chicago a narrow win at home. The Pirates put Martin (2-2) under pressure in the 7th, when a walk, a wild pitch and a double scored one run and another walk put the go-ahead runs on base before he fanned his counterpart Frank Miller to end the threat. George Cutshaw doubled with two outs in the 9th, but pinch-hitter Walter Barbare could only bounce one back to Martin on the mound as the Cubs held on. [box]
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