Reds 4, Cubs 3: Manuel Cueto dropped a perfectly-executed bunt up the first base line to squeeze Larry Kopf across the plate with the run that completed a late comeback by the Reds against Chicago. The Reds trailed 3-2 in the 8th inning, having found the going tough against Hippo Vaughn (7-8), but Heinie Groh circled the bases for a home run with one out when his deep drive to center eluded Dode Paskert's grasp and rolled all the way to the center-field fence. In the bottom of the 9th, Kopf led off against Vaughn with another deep drive to the outfield, this one splitting Paskert and Max Flack while the Cincinnati shortstop motored all the way to third base. That brought up the Cuban outfielder, and the Reds weren't inclined to play passively; on the second pitch, Kopf broke for home and Cueto bunted the ball gently up the first base line where Fred Merkle (despite creeping in to guard against this very eventuality) could make only a perfunctory flip of the sphere towards home which was well late of the sliding Kopf. The late heroics made a winner out of Jimmy Ring (1-2), making his first start of the season, who pitched around twelve Cub singles. [box]
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Robins 5, Giants 2: Tommy Griffith had three hits and Brooklyn scored three times in the 6th inning to open up the breathing room required to defeat their neighbors from Manhattan at Ebbets Field. The Robins led 2-0 through five innings, Griffith accounting for the opening run with an RBI hit in the 1st, when Zack Wheat led off the home 6th with a two-base hit. Hi Myers followed with a bounder to first base, but Hal Chase failed to get his glove all the way down to the final hop and there were runners at the corners. This seemed to unnerve Red Causey (6-3), as he allowed run-scoring singles to the next three Robins before McGraw felt compelled to replace him with Rube Benton to escape the inning. The Giants scored twice in the 7th thanks to a Mike Gonzalez triple, but Larry Cheney (2-2) then retired the final eight NY batters in succession to carry Brooklyn home. [box]
Phillies 10, Braves 8: Irish Meusel struck two home runs and Possum Whitted and Hick Cady each collected three base hits as Philadelphia outslugged Boston. The visitors actually led the game 3-0 before the Phillies even had a chance to pick up a bat, but the home team scored four times in the first three frames to take the lead. As has often been the case this season in Philadelphia, no lead was safe from the Phillies' pitching staff and, on a day when the wind was blustering out at the Baker Bowl, this was especially true. Rabbit Maranville and Buck Herzog hit homers in consecutive innings and the Braves jumped back into a 5-4 lead at the halfway mark of the contest. Meusel's first four-bagger tied the game again in the bottom of the 5th, and his second (and fourth of the campaign) put the Phils up by two runs in the 7th. Five hits and three runs in the bottom of the 9th gave Philadelphia a five-run cushion, and George Smith (3-3) completed for fine innings of relief work by holding Boston to a single consolation score in the 9th. [box]
Braves 5, Phillies 4: Just when it looked as if the Phillies might reverse the course of their early season, a solitary out away from a doubleheader sweep, the collapse came for them again; Boston scored three times in the top of the 9th and held on to salvage a split and ruin the unusually upbeat mood of the Philadelphia crowd. Gavy Cravath's RBI fielder's choice and Irish Meusel's third homer of the afternoon gave PHI a 2-0 lead in the early innings, and Gene Packard appeared to be up to the task on the mound. The Colorado lefty allowed a Boston baserunner in every inning, but largely kept them out of scoring position until Walter Holke singled home the first Boston run in the 6th. The Phils scored in their half to restore the two-run lead, and Packard escaped trouble in the 8th when Ray Powell was thrown out at home by Possum Whitted trying to score the tying run on Maranville's two-out, bases-loaded hit. Jack Coombs thought he could see the writing on the wall, and replaced Packard with Frank Woodward to protect the 3-2 lead in the 9th. Woodward (0-10) put out the first two Braves without the ball entering the fair field of play, but he then walked Joe Riggert to give the Bostons a breath of life. Johnny Rawlings singled, Powell then lined a double to score Riggert to tie the game and Red Smith singled home two runs to put the Braves into the lead for the first time in the game. Dana Fillingim came on for Boston to spell Hugh McQuillan (2-1) in the bottom of the 9th and Holke's two-out error make things interesting when Nig Clarke doubled that runner home to move the Phils within a run, but pinch-hitter Leo Callahan tapped back to the box and Fillingim tossed him out to end the game. Rawlings, Maranville and Meusel each had three hits and Irish finished the twin bill with five hits, four RBI and four runs scored in nine trips to the plate. [box]
Pirates 5, Cardinals 2: Pittsburgh scored three times in the 6th and twice more in the 9th to overcome an early St Louis lead. The Cardinals led 2-0 through five innings on the strength of RBI singles from Gene Paulette and Rogers Hornsby, but the spell that Bill Doak (5-6) had been weaving on the Pirate batters evaporated in the 6th. After allowing but a single hit over the first five innings, Doak was touched up for four hits and a walk by the first six PIT hitters in the 6th, with a Carson Bigbee and a Billy Southworth triple the big blows. The sudden reversal of fortune extended to Pirate hurler Earl Hamilton (2-10), who had been pitching out of warm water for much of the early going, but now settled down to retire the first two men in each of the final four innings; when Howdy Caton doubled in two insurance runs in the 9th for Pittsburgh that was all she wrote, as Hamilton recorded three quick fly ball outs in the bottom of the 9th to close the book. [box]
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