Robins 7, Braves 6: Five Boston errors - four from the left side of their infield - led to five unearned Brooklyn runs that were the difference as Boston wasted a fifteen-hit attack. The game was tied at two in the 4th when the Boston defense began to fail them; Lena Blackburne's first error of the day helped turn a two-run Robins inning into a four-run one, and gave Brooklyn a 5-2 lead. Boston, however, knocked four straight hits after two men were out in the bottom of the inning with Ray Powell (3-for-5, three RBI) doubling in two runs and Red Smith singling him home to tie the score again. Powell tripled in the 6th and scored on Smith's sacrifice fly, but Rabbit Maranville made two errors in the top of the 7th to allow Brooklyn to get that run back immediately. In the top of the 8th, Lew Malone stroked a three-base hit with two outs and then Blackburne fumbled Ernie Krueger's ground ball allowing Malone to skip home with the go-ahead tally. Leon Cadore (3-3), on in relief of an ineffective Rube Marquard, set the side down in order in the 8th and allowed just a one-out single in the 9th before putting the game away with two routine ground outs. Dana Fillingim (2-3) went the distance for Boston despite being ill-served by the supporting play behind him. [box]
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Robins 2, Braves 0: Al Mamaux spun a gem, pitching seven hitless innings while allowing just three singles in the other two frames, and Brooklyn swept the two-game afternoon set from Boston to keep pace with the League leaders. Ivy Olson led off the game with a single for the Robins, but that would be their only safety off of Jack Scott (0-1) flor the first five innings, while Mamaux was dodging trouble induced by three Robin errors in the first two innings. Affairs were still scoreless into the 6th inning, when the visitors struck gold first. Otto Miller led off the Brooklyn 6th with a two-base hit and was bunted to third by Mamaux. Olson (3-for-5, two RBI, stolen base) followed the sacrifice with a single that scored the game's first run. The Braves got the leadoff hitter to second with no outs on a walks and a stolen base by Johnny Rawlings, but Mamaux got two straight routine fly balls before ending the threat on a grounder to third base. In the 8th, the Robins replayed their approach from the 6th to positive effect - Lew Malone led off with a single, was sacrificed to second base and scored on Olson's RBI single to double the Brooklyn lead. Mamaux walked the first batter in the 8th, but that runner was gunned down stealing, and he then retired the next five Braves in a row to finish off the sterling mound performance. [box]
Giants 9, Phillies 2: New York touched up Philadelphia pitching for nine runs for the second straight afternoon, and this time they turned that into a win as Jesse Barnes was more than good enough to earn his League-leading sixth victory. The Giants got an early start with two runs on four hits in the bottom of the 1st, with Larry Doyle chipping in a three-base hit. The Phillies cut the lead in half when Gavy Cravath tripled and scored on a groundout in the 4th, but George Burns ran the Giants into a run in the 5th with the help of a throwing error on Phils backstop Bert Adams ,and another in the 6th when Cy Williams threw wildly from CF trying to get Benny Kauff's triple back into the infield quickly. Even at 4-1, it looked like New York was headed for a straightforward win, but they then piled on five more runs in the 8th on four singles, a walk and a hit batsman. Barnes (6-1) allowed a meaningless run in the top of the 9th, but kept on going through to the end, starting a ground ball double play from the mound to end the game. Hal Chase had three hits, two steals, and scored twice for the Giants. [box]
Cubs 3, Pirates 1: Hippo Vaughn took a shutout into the final inning and catcher Bill Killefer stroked three base hits to lead Chicago to a win at home. Charlie Hollocher's one-out double in the 1st put two men in scoring position for a Dode Paskert sac fly and a Fred Lear RBI single, and the Cubs got another in the 4th when Les Mann tripled and crossed the plate on Killefer's single. Vaughn (5-5) sailed through the middle innings, and escaped a little trouble in the 7th after a leadoff walk and stolen base. It looked as if he would wrap the game up tidily, but suddenly came a-cropper in the 9th, allowing three straight singles to start the final inning and then seeing George Cutshaw's grounder to short muffed by Hollocher to load the bases with the Pirates now within two. Fred Mitchell wasted no time handing the pill to Paul Carter, and the relief specialist got successive pinch-hitters to pop up and ground into a game-ending double play. [box]
Reds 3, Cardinals 0: Cincinnati whitewashed St. Louis for the second game running, this time behind Slim Sallee, and used two late unearned runs to cinch a win that kept them a nose in front in the National League standings. The Reds took an early 1-0 lead when Edd Roush singled to start the 2nd, was sacrificed to second base, and scored on Manuel Cueto's base hit, but there wasn't much traffic on the bases otherwise for either side. Marv Goodwin (3-3) was pitching clean ball for the Cardinals and Sallee was scattering hits without walking a man. In the 8th, though, Goodwin was let down by the men behind him - Morrie Rath walked with one out and Milt Stock kicked a ground ball off the bat of Greasy Neale, before both men moved up a base on a groundout. With two outs, Roush singled into the outfield and both men scored to make the score 3-0, and all that was left was for Sallee (3-1) to close the door behind them, which he did by setting down the final five men. Roush and Heinie Groh each collected two hits. [box]
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