Giants 2, Reds 0: New York won the second straight battle in the war for the top spot in the National League to move clear of the Reds by a full game, behind the shutout pitching of Ferdie Schupp and Jean Dubuc. The Giants scored first when Larry Doyle took a Dutch Ruether pitch in the hip to begin the 2nd, stole second, and scored when Art Fletcher singled two outs later. The clubs struggled to put the hurlers under pressure otherwise, and the score was still 1-0 when NY came to bat in the top of the 7th. Catcher Mike Gonzalez tagged Ruether for a two-base hit to lead off the frame, and Schupp sacrificed him to third base. Next up was George Burns, and he laced a base hit that doubled the Giant advantage with three innings left to play. Cincinnati got two hits in the the bottom of the inning but Jake Daubert and Heinie Groh each failed to get one home, and two hits and a walk in the 8th went for naught thanks to a GIDP from Greasy Neale and Dubuc retiring Ivey Wingo for the third out with two men aboard. The Reds made noise again in the bottom of the 9th, Daubert and Groh singling with two outs, but Edd Roush popped to short for the out that moved the Giants to the top tier of the NL. [box]
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Cubs 4, Phillies 2: Chicago began the 8th inning with three straight singles, and scored twice to grab control of a tied contest, and Phil Douglas survived two fielding errors in the last two innings to preserve a Cub victory. Philadelphia scored a pair in the 2nd inning to take the early lead, Ed Sicking singling in the first and Hick Cady doubling across the second, but the Cubs answered in kind in the 3rd. Pete Kilduff walked to start the inning, and Bill Killefer doubled him to third. Douglas then managed solid enough contact to center field to allow Kilduff to tag up and score, and Max Flack followed him with a base hit that sent Killefer home. The game quieted down noticeably after that, with Douglas and Frank Woodward controlling the pace and limiting chances. In the home half of the 8th, though, Flack and Charlie Pick started the inning with singles to put runners at the corners and Turner Barber broke the deadlock with and RBI single. One out later, Dode Paskert laced a wicked ball through the infield that split the outfielders in left-center for two bases and Pick scored to make it a 4-2 game. Kilduff booted a grounder to start the visitor's 8th, and Pick did the same with one away in the 9th, but Douglas (3-5) did not allow a ball to leave the infield in those two innings and used five ground ball outs to close out the Phils and doom Woodward (0-6) to the loss for the sixth time in as many decisions. [box]
Cardinals 10, Braves 4: St Louis rapped sixteen hits, six of which went for extra bases, to bury Boston early in the River City. Seven of those hits - plus two walks and an error - came in a six-run 2nd inning highlighted by two-run doubles from Dots Miller and STL starter Marv Goodwin. Another run in the 3rd, and three more in the 4th, put the game safely away and Goodwin survived a three-run 5th that included two errors (one of which was his own) to go the distance and finish matters off with one-hit pitching over the final three innings. Seven different Cardinals had at least two hits, with Rogers Hornsby and Dots Miller leading the way with three hits and two doubles, respectively. [box]
Robins 4, Pirates 0: The scuffed slants of Leon Cadore mystified the Pittsburgh batsmen all afternoon, and two unearned 1st-inning runs would be all the Brooklyn would need to top Pittsburgh. A mishandling of Ivy Olson's grounder by Tony Boeckle to start the game would set the Robins up to score twice when they somehow strung together three singles off of Babe Adams (6-2), one of the stingiest pitchers in the League so far this season. Errors in the 4th and 5th led to two more Brooklyn runs, but they didn't really matter because it appeared as if Cadore (4-3) could pitch for a week without allowing the Pirates to score. He retired fourteen straight at one stretch, and allowed just three hits and no walks over the last eight innings, putting down the final six men to dispel any doubts. Ed Konetchy had two hits and drove in two for the winners. [box]
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