Braves 3, Giants 2: A two-out wild pitch brought the winning run across the plate in the bottom of the 16th inning, as Boston edged one from New York in a long afternoon's work at Braves Field. The visiting Giants led by two runs after five innings, Art Fletcher doubling home one in the 1st and Benny Kauff doing likewise in the 5th, and Red Causey carried that 2-0 lead intact through seven frames. Tony Boeckel led of the Boston 8th with a home run but, when Causey retired the first two men in the bottom of the 9th on routine ground balls, it looked like McGraw's men were going to see out the victory. But Walton Cruise and Jim Thorpe singled to give Walter Holke a chance to save the game with Cruise standing upon the second base. And save it he did, at least temporarily, with a humpbacked liner into left field that dropped in front of George Burns for a game-tying single. Ray Keating was doing heroic work on the hill for the Braves, pitching around seven walks to complete thirteen innings before being lifted for a pinch-hitter when Boston put a man on base thanks to an error in the home half of the 13th. Larry Doyle singled with one away in the top of the 15th, stole second and took third on Art Wilson's wild throw, but Doyle broke for home when Kauff followed with a ground ball to first and was thrown out at the plate by Holke. Wilson led off the bottom of the 15th with a walk against Joe Oeschger (0-2), the third NY pitcher of the day, and was moved to second base by a sacrifice from Braves relief pitcher Dana Fillingim (4-4). Joe Riggert followed with a dribbler in front of the plate that Mike Gonzalez hustled to chuck to first for the second out, but Wilson took third for what turned out to be a critical base. Buck Herzog was next to bat, but all he needed to do was watch as Oeschger's second delivery skipped wide of the dish and past Gonzalez - Wilson struck out for home plate and slid across before the Giants' catcher could retrieve the wayward pitch to end the longest game in the League thus far in the campaign. Ross Youngs had safe hits in eight trips to the plate for the Gothams, but NY managed only two hits in their fourteen attempts with runners in scoring position. [box]
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Cubs 6, Reds 1: Charlie Deal had three hits, drove in two and scored twice and Phil Douglas pitched four-hit ball to lead Chicago over the circuit-pacers from Cincinnati. It was a finely-poised, miserly-pitched contest that saw the Cubs take a slim 1-0 lead into the 6th inning on the strength of two walks by Dutch Ruether (5-5) to the bottom of the Chicago lineup and a perfect squeeze bunt by Douglas. But Ruether's fielding error in the 6th opened the door; he bobble Fred Merkle's comebacker with one man out, and Lee Magee followed with a two-base hit to center that put two men into scoring position. Deal then dealt the big blow to Cincinnati with his third hit of the game, a sharp line drive to left field that scored both men to triple the Cubs' lead. Douglas (6-6), after retiring the first twelve Reds, faced the minimum eighteen batters through six, and took a whitewash into the 9th inning before Magee's error on Sherry Magee's (no relation) grounder to start the final frame allowed Heinie Groh's two-out double to score the lone Reds run. [box]
Reds 6, Cubs 2: A four-run 6th, and five hits off the bat of Edd Roush, propelled Cincinnati to a doubleheader split. Roush's first two hits were two-out RBI singles that put the Reds up 2-0 after three innings, and his third was the leadoff blow struck in the big 6th inning that featured six Cincinnati hits including three consecutive two-out run-scoring singles from Jimmy Ring, Morrie Rath and Jake Daubert. Ring (2-2), meanwhile, retired the first sixteen Cubs before Bob O'Farrell singled in the 6th, and remained unblemished until Larry Kopf errors on grounders from the first two Chicago batters of the 8th inning led to a pair of unearned runs. The young right-hander, in just his second starting assignment of the season, allowed five hits and no walks while Roush's five safeties tied the NL's high water-mark for the season. [box]
Pirates 3, Cardinals 0: Babe Adams continued to baffle National League hitters, tossing his fifth shutout of the season to dispatch St. Louis on five hits and become the NL's first ten-game winner. It's not as if Pittsburgh were bashing the sphere around the yard themselves, banking only four hits of their own, but four walks and four Cardinal fielding errors were enough to back Babe's belligerent bowling. The Pirates got on the board in the 5th when two infield miscues and a free pass were sufficient to produce a run, and gave Adams (10-2) elbow room in the 8th when a single, hit batsman and walk from the characteristically erratic Jakie May (2-5) loaded the bases for Hooks Warner's to knock a two-run single that punctuated his first appearance of the year in the Pittsburgh starting lineup. [box]
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