Reds 2, Cardinals 0: Edd Roush doubled in a pair of runs and Hod Eller whitewashed the punchless Cards on four hits as Cincinnati won for the sixth time in seven games to start the season. Bill Sherdel put in a fine performance on the mound for St. Louis, despite four errors behind that included a pair by Rogers Hornsby, but he couldn't hold back the red-hot (.393, League-leading ten RBI) Roush; the Reds' center-fielder hammered one over the head of RF Jack Smith with two men on and two out in the 5th to score the only runs of the contest. Meanwhile, the Cardinals were helpless against Eller - they stroked singles in each of the first two innings, and stolen bases that put those runners into scoring position, but failed to score on both occasions and then managed just two hits over the final seven frames. Eller set down twelve men in a row at one stretch and fanned six while walking only two. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Wednesday, 30 April
Giants 15, Braves 8: New York erupted for nine runs in the 8th inning to turn a narrow deficit into a comfortable win in Boston. The Braves scored four times in the 1st behind two singles, two walks and a three-run triple by Walter Holke, but New York closed to within 6-5 by scoring twice in the 7th when they started the inning with four straight singles. In the 8th, a single and double started the frame and then, after a strikeout, three straight singles scored four runs; two batters later, Lew McCarty delivered the coup de grace with a bases-loaded triple that made it an eight-run inning. George Burns had four hits and scored three times, Hal Chase had three RBI and McCarty had four. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 29 April
Cubs 3, Cardinals 2: Dode Paskert's sacrifice fly sent Max Flack home with the winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning as Chicago outlasted St. Louis after escaping defeat at the last regulation hurdle. The winless Cards got out front first, scoring twice in the 2nd when Gene Paulette and Joe Schultz singled and later scored on Jakie May's two-out triple. But that was the last noise that St. Louis would make against Hippo Vaughn, and Chicago had room to work its way back into the game. Les Mann homered to lead off the 4th to cut the deficit in half, but May matched Vaughn's zeros through the middle innings; he pitched out of a bases-loaded mess in the 8th, but would not be so fortunate in the 9th. After a walk, a single and a sacrifice, the Cubs had the tying and winning runs in scoring position with one out and Branch Rickey decided to walk Mann to load the bases and set up the force at any base. But May could not keep the ball over the plate, and Paskert worked a walk that tied the game. One batter too late, perhaps, May got Fred Merkle to bounce into a 5-2-3 twin killing to send the game to extra frames. St. Louis got two on with two outs in the top of the 13th without scoring and the home team got to work quickly in the bottom of the inning. Max Flack drew a walk to start, and stole second base immediately. Charlie Hollocher singled him to third and, one out later, Paskert lifted the ball to deep center field and the Cardinals could only watch as the winning run tagged for home. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Monday, 28 April
Braves 5, Giants 4: Buck Herzog's single capped a two-out bases-empty rally in the bottom of the 9th inning as Boston brought the city to its feet with the climax to a game that saw them trail early, take a mid-game lead and then throw that away in the late innings. The Giants scored twice before the Braves even touched their bats, with a walk, stolen base, single and double leading to a pair of 1st-inning runs. It was tough sledding in the early innings for the Boston hitters against Red Causey, but they finally made a mark in the 5th when Walter Holke led off with a free pass, stole second and took third on a wild throw, and scored on Art Wilson's base hit. It was in the next inning, though, that the Braves really figured Causey out - Herzog started the inning with a triple and and Ray Powell singled him across, then a walk and Jim Riggert's knock scored another. When Larry Doyle failed to corral Rabbit Maranville's grounder with two outs and Bostons on second and third, another run crossed the plate and it appeared as if the home side were in the clear behind Dick Rudolph, who had held the Giants scoreless since the opening inning. But, in the 8th, NY struck back after the first three men reached on safe hits and Benny Kauff hit a run-scoring fly ball that tied the game. Fred Toney retired the first two Braves in the 9th, but pinch-hitter Johnny Rawlings singled, as did Joe Kelly, and a wild pitch moved the runners up by ninety feet. With Rawlings dancing off of third base, Herzog rapped one down the line and off the first-base bag into shallow right field to end the game. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 27 April
Cubs 2, Cardinals 0: Max Flack drove home the Cub's first run, and scored their second, as Lefty Tyler shut out the winless Cardinals at Weeghman Park. Flack's two-out single scored Bill Killefer from second in the 3rd inning, and then he singled, stole second and went to third on Frank Snyder's wild throw in the 8th before Charlie Hollocher brought him across with a two-out base hit. Tyler scattered six hits and two walks, allowing a runner into scoring position with fewer than two outs only once and retiring ten of the final twelve Cards to close out the game. [box]
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