Cubs 2, Robins 1: Pete Kilduff's pinch-hit single with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning scored Fred Merkle from third base with the game-winning run and rewarded Hippo Vaughn with a win for his eleven innings of four-hit hurling. Vaughn and his opponent Jeff Pfeffer appeared to have early dinner plans in Chicago that evening, the way they were cutting through the batting lineups. Brooklyn scored in the 5th on a leadoff double by Ed Konetchy, a bunt and a sac fly, but the Cubs equalized in the 6th on a pair of leadoff singles and a sacrifice fly of their own. Vaughn (7-7) then retired fifteen straight Robins while Pfeffer allowed only three hits over the next five innings. That took the game to the 11th still knotted up at a run apiece, and Mack Wheat stopped Vaughn's unbeaten string with a double to start the inning. He has bunted to third by Pfeffer, but Ivy Olson slapped one right at third baseman Charlie Deal playing in on the grass and Wheat had to hold tight at third. Hi Myers drew a walk, but Jimmy Johnston got under one for an inning-ending fly ball to center. In the bottom half, Fred Merkle doubled with one away and Dode Paskert singled him to third base. The pfading Pfeffer (8-5) was replaced by Larry Cheney, and the relief man got Deal to foul out to the catcher for out number two. That brought Kilduff off the bench to hit for Fred Lear, and the infielder lined a pitch into left field that scored Merkle for the winner. [box]
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Reds 8, Giants 2: Morrie Rath had three hits, Henie Groh knocked in three runs to back Dutch Ruether as Cincinnati tightened the grip on the National League lead in front of their home fans. The afternoon's affair had been quiet through four innings, the clubs combining for only three hits, but both sides found a way through in the 5th. George Burns walked, stole second, took third on Lary Kopf's fielding error, and beat the throw home on a fielder's choice to give New York the lead, but the Reds came straight back in the bottom half of the inning. With two outs, Rath singled and Daubert reached when Art Fletcher couldn't handle his grass-cutter to short; this opened to door for Groh to lace a two-run double that put Cincinnati in the lead. In the 6th, they doubled down against Rube Benton (4-6) - Kopf hit for two bags with one out, Heinie Zimmerman committed an error at third, and Ruether and Rath each delivered RBI singles. When Fletcher made the second error of the inning on Daubert's bouncer (his second error on a ball hit by the CIN first-baseman in two innings), another run crossed the plate to make it a 5-1 game. This would be sufficient for Ruether (5-3), who held the hot-hitting Gothams to three hits over the first seven and got a key double-play grounder off the bat of Burns in the 9th to short-circuit a last-gasp Giant threat. [box]
Pirates 5, Cardinals 0: Erskine Mayer allowed six hits and walked no one on his way to a complete-game shutout, and Casey Stengel led the Pittsburgh attack with three hits. The Pirates led 2-0 when Stengel came to the plate with one out and Carson Bigbee on second base in the 5th, and he ripped a triple to score Pittsburgh's third run of the day. Mayer (5-4) chipped in with an RBI single in the 6th, and another PIT run scored in the 7th, but the story was Mayer's mastery on the mound; he set down the first twelve Cardinals, and twenty of the first twenty-one, and didn't show signs of perspiring until three straight singles began the bottom of the 9th inning. But he retired the next two men on shallow flies, and then convinced Auston McHenry to ground out to first base unassisted to finish off the whitewash at Robison Field. [box]
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