Cubs 4, Braves 3: Chicago scored once in each of the 7th and 8th innings to tie the game, and Charlie Pick then delivered a two-out RBI double in the bottom of the 9th to steal a win out from under Boston's nose. Boston sprang from the gate when Joe Riggert, Buck Herzog and Ray Powell went triple-double-single to start the game; the Braves scored twice in the inning to put Claude Hendrix onto the back foot right away. The clubs traded scores in the middle innings to make it a 3-1 game as the home team came to bat in the 7th, having managed only four hits against Dick Rudolph, and only one since the 2nd. Fred Merkle and Les Mann led off with singles, but Rudolph got the next two Cubs to sky out to right field. Turner Barber pinch hit for Hendrix and produced the two-out hit that scored a second Cubs run to close the gap to one run. In the 8th, Pick led off with a triple and scored the tying run when Charlie Hollocher followed with a single; Chicago had a chance to go on and take the lead, but couldn't capitalize when the next two batters singled as well but Dana Fillingim (2-4) came on to retire the side for Boston. Bill Killefer led off the bottom of the 9th with a base on balls and was sacrificed to second by PH Pete Kilduff. Max Flack could only pop up to third base, but the next hitter Picked him up with a drive between Riggert and Walton Cruise that sent Killefer home with the winning run. [box]
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| Charlie Pick, Chicago |
Robins 2, Reds 1: Jeff Pfeffer scattered eight hits and Tommy Griffith's 8th-inning RBI single was the difference as Brooklyn edged Cincinnati at Redland Field. The two teams swapped scores in the 4th inning, Ed Konetchy doubling home Zack Wheat for Brooklyn and Jack Smith tripling with Larry Kopf on second for the Reds. With the score still knotted at one after seven, Ivy Olson led of the top of the 8th with a base hit and immediately stole second. After Lee Magee bunted him to third, Griffith bounded a single over second base to give the Robins the lead, and Pfeffer (5-4) pitched around two-out hits in both of the last two innings to hold onto it. [box]
Pirates 3, Giants 2: Larry Doyle's muff opened the door for Pittsburgh with two outs in the bottom of the 9th, and Carson Bigbee swung it closed on New York with a game-winning single. Clumsy Giant defense had given the Pirates the early advantage, as Art Fletcher's error on George Cutshaw's grounder in the 2nd allowed Billy Southworth to score from third and Cutshaw himself to tally after a stolen base and throwing error by Lew McCarty was followed by Frtiz Mollwitz's sacrifice fly. But NY rebounded right away, scoring twice in the 3rd after George Burns singled, stole second and third, and scored on a Ross Youngs single before Youngs tied the game by crossing the plate ahead of Doyle's two-out RBI single. The two starters tightened the reins from there, and there had been no further scoring when Pittsburgh came to bat in the home half of the 9th inning. With one out, Mollwitz singled off of Rube Benton (2-5), but Cliff Lee popped out to first for the second out. This brought up pitcher Babe Adams (6-1), who stayed in the game to hit a three-hopper at Doyle, but the thirteen-year veteran could not transfer the ball cleanly, allowing Adam to reach while Mollwitz took second. Bigbee then stroked his fourth hit of the game into left field and Mollwitz raced home to win the game for Pittsburgh in front of the Forbes Field fans. [box]
Cardinals 16, Phillies 6: Saint Louis racked up a League season-high sixteen runs, thirteen of which came in a single brutal inning for the Phillies, to erase a late deficit and kick the League's worst club yet again while it was down. It looked for some time as if Philadelphia would get only their eighth win of the season's first six weeks after they rallied from an early 3-0 lead to seize a 6-3 edge in the 8th inning, but even that lead was not proof against the perils of Phillie pitching. Seventeen Cards came to the plate in the inning, ten of them recording clean hits and Frank Snyder and Rogers Hornsby each driving home three; among the oddities in the seemingly endless parade of Cardinal hitting were PH Austin McHenry making two of the three St. Louis outs and Cliff Heathcote reaching twice on errors. [box]
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