1919 NL - Games of Monday, 5 May

Pirates 1, Cardinals 0: Babe Adams pitched a four-hit shutout to run his season-opening scoreless streak to eighteen innings and the Pirates held on for the win after George Cutshaw's 2nd-inning home run. There was little to choose at Robison Field this afternoon between Adams and Bill Doak, but what little there was came in the first swing of the 2nd inning when Cutshaw sent one of Doak's offerings into the left-field seats for four bases. The visitors didn't threaten Doak again until the 9th, when he escaped a jam by intentionally walking Walter Schmidt to retire Adams on a fly ball with the bases juiced and two away. St. Louis, struggling for offense in the season's first fortnight already, could do nothing against the impregnable Adams - they managed a pair of two-out singles in the 1st inning, but were then held completely in check as the Pirate right-hander retired twenty of the final twenty-one Cardinals who dared bring a bat to the plate to face him. [box]

1919 NL Players of the Week - 4 May

The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the National League for the week of 19 April - 4 May are (boldface denotes a League-leading total) . . .

1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 4 May

Giants 7, Phillies 6: Ross Youngs had four hits, stole four bases, drove home the tying run and scored the winning one in the bottom of the 9th of a wild affair at Brush Stadium. the 22-year-old outfielder's eventful day began in the 1st inning when he singled with one out, stole second, took third on Hal Chase's single and scored on a sacrifice fly from Larry Doyle. He singled and scored again in the 3rd as New York scored three times to push its lead to 4-0 but Philadelphia, which had been punchless for seven innings against Rube Benton, came to life with a vengeance in the 8th. The first three Phillies reached safely against Benton, the third of those being Fred Luderus' two-run triple that chased Benton from the box. Gavy Cravath grounded out against Jesse Winters to bring home another and the visitors went into tho the 9th needing just two runs to tie the game. Bevo LeBourveau led off with a pinch-hit single and went to third one out later when Cy Williams hit safely. Dave Bancroft then grounded one up the middle, and Doyle had no play other than to flip to Al Baird for the force while LeBourveau scored the tying run. But the Phillies were not satisfied with the tie; Luderus ht a slow tapper down the third-base lane which Doug Baird scooped but rushed a wild throw to first, with Bancroft moving to thrid and the batter to second. John McGraw then ordered and intentional pass to Cravath to load the bases, and Irish Meusel pinged a bloop hit into center field for two runs and a Philadelphia lead. Gene Packard took the pill for Jack Coombs in the last of the 9th and Lew McCarty greeted him with a base hit. George Kelly sacrificed the tying run over to second and the dangerous George Burns grounded out to shortstop with the runner unable to advance. That brought Youngs to the plate and he fisted one over the second base bag and into shallow center, allowing McCarty to score the tying run. Youngs then pilfered second and kept on going to third when Bert Adam's throw skipped past second base. Hal Chase then stood in and, like the man before him, didn't make the most solid contact but found the outfield grass in front of CF Williams as Pep scored for the third time on the day to make the Giants winners. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 3 May

Giants 5, Phillies 0: Lew McCarty belted a pair of home runs and drove in three runs to support the shutout pitching of Jean Dubuc as New York won at home. The Giants' catcher slugged for four bags in the 4th with one runner on base to extend a one-run NY lead to 3-0, and again in the 6th with the sacks empty for the final run of the game. Dubuc allowed only three hits and a walk to Philadelphia as the visitors were whitewashed for the second straight day by the New Yorkers and saw their season's batting average fall below the .200 mark. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Friday, 2 May

Robins 7, Braves 6: Brooklyn scored four times in the bottom of the 9th to force a tie, and then Lee Magee coaxed a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 11th to complete an improbable comeback in front of the Ebbets Field faithful. Boston had jumped out to a 3-0 lead behind a pair of RBI from Ray Powell, and then piled on three more in the 8th (Joe Riggert two-run triple) to distance the Robins by a score of 6-1. But the home side got one back in the 8th on Magee's two-out RBI double, and then the first three men reached in the bottom of the 9th to score two runs and chase Boston starter Dick Rudolph. Larry Cheney did't provide much in the way of relief as he walked the first man he faced and then two singles which tied the score. The extra frames were quiet until Lew Malone started the last of the 11th with a single and then Rabbit Maranville fumbled Ernie Krueger's ground ball. Ivy Olson walked to fill the bases, and Cheney could not find a way to fool Magee as the Brooklyn keystone man watched a fourth ball go past to force the walk-off run home. Joe Kelly, Powell, Olson and Magee each had three hits on a day that saw twenty-seven safeties struck. [box]