Braves 6, Pirates 5: Boston scored a run in the 8th to tie, and a run in the 9th to win, a see-saw affair with Pittsburgh in The Steel City. After the Pirates had leapt to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on Casey Stengel's RBI triple, George Cutshaw's sac fly and Billy Southworth's solo home run (1), Boston came back with one in the 4th and three in the 6th to take the lead - five straight Braves singled off of Earl Hamilton after two men were out. The home team got right back on top in the bottom of the inning when the decision to intentionally walk Walter Schmidt to face the pitcher Hamilton backfired when both he and leadoff batter Carson Bigbee singled to score runs. Brooklyn tied the score again when Buck Herzog tripled to start the 8th and scored on Ray Powell's single, and then they finished the job against Hamilton (1-10) in the 9th. With one out Tony Boeckel singled, and Walt Tragesser (.182) then drove a two-bagger that was deep enough to score Bockel with the go-ahead run. Al Demaree (5-2) allowed the first two men in the bottom of the inning to reach, but Jack Scott came on to record two ground ball force outs to strand the potential tying run at third base. Bigbee and Southworth each had four of Pittsburgh's fourteen hits. [box]
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| Billy Southworth, Pittsburgh |
Cubs 2, Robins 0: Phil Douglas allowed base hits to the first two Brooklyn batters in the 2nd inning, and to no one else, on his way to a dominant shutout victory over the Robins. Douglas (5-5), who recorded five whiffs and fourteen ground ball outs, retired the final nineteen Brooklyns in a masterful performance that required little support from his batsmen; An RBI groundout from Bob O'Farrell in the 2nd and Charlie Deal's run-scoring single in the 8th were more than enough to put the game to rest. [box]
Reds 6, Phillies 3: Manuel Cueto had three hits and Dutch Ruether hit a two-run double in addition to pitching a complete game as Cincinnati defeated Philadelphia. The Reds built a four-run lead in the first three innings against Frank Woodward (0-8), with Ruether delivering the third tally with a two-base hit that scored Ivey Wingo. The Phillies attempted to work their way back into the game with single runs in the 4th and 6th, but Ruether hit a sacrifice fly in the 6th take one of those runs back and Edd Roush homered (2) in the 7th to give Ruether (4-3) the cushion he needed to finish it off. [box]
Giants 5, Cardinals 3: George Burns singled three time and Jesse Barnes survived a late St Louis rally to win his eighth game of the season at Robison Field. A Larry Doyle triple and a Benny Kauff single plated runs in the 1st for the Reds, and two more came hime in the 4th with the help of two Oscar Tuero (3-4) wild pitches and Ross Young's two-out RBI double. Barnes was in complete control the entire way, not allowing a hit until Dots Miller doubled to lead off the 7th, but he started to lose his edge in the 8th. A single and error put a runner in scoring position for a Verne Clemons RBI single that broke the shutout and then, in the 9th, the Cards got a two-run double from Doc Lavan to bring the tying run to the plate with two outs before Barnes (8-2) recovered long enough to sneak a called third strike past Clemons for the final out. [box]
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