Giants 10, Robins 6: New York pounded Brooklyn pitching for twenty-one base hits, four each from Larry Doyle and Ross Youngs, to come from behind and win at a canter at Ebbets Field and nudge the Robins out of the top spot in the standings. The home club certainly had their moments with the bats and legs, as Tommy Griffith hit his League-leading third home run and Ivy Olson stole three bases, and they led by a score of 6-3 through five innings. But the Giants' bats exploded for six hits and five runs in the top of the 6th, as Rube Marquard (16 hits allowed in 5.2 innings) just could not find a way to stop the onslaught. A pair of insurance runs in the 9th allowed the visitors to withstand their own four fielding miscues and Jesse Barnes to go the route allowing eight hits and issuing no free passes. Benny Kauff and Heinie Zimmerman also had big days for NY, with three hits apiece. [box]
1919 NL Players of the Week - 11 May
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the National League across a light slate of games played during the week of 5-11 May are (boldface denotes a League-leading total) . . .
1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 11 May
Reds 4, Cardinals 3: Cincinnati scored three times after two were out in the bottom of the 9th inning to flip the script against St. Louis. Cards starter Jakie May had been in control the entire afternoon, allowing just three hits and a walk over the first seven frames, but three straight base hits in the bottom of the 8th both trimmed the STL lead to 3-1 and were a harbinger of things (soon) to come. May retired the first man in the last half-inning before Larry Kopf drew a walk and Manuel Cueto singled. When May got pinch-hitter Ivey Wingo to fly out to right for the second out, it appeared as if he would put the finishing touches on his outstanding day's work, but it was not to be. The command issues that often vex May, but which he had held at bay today, resurfaced at the worst possible time when he walked pinch-hitter Pat Duncan and then put a fast one into the bicep of Morrie Rath to force home a run and move the tying and winning runs both into scoring position. At this point, with five of the last six Reds having reached base against the 23-year-old lefty, Branch Rickey decided a change of course was due. In came relief specialist Oscar Tuero for May, to face the struggling (.135) Greasy Neale. After a long tussle between the two, the two-sport star turned on a full-count offering and whacked it into the gap between the left- and center-fielders for two bases, two runs and one unlikely victory as the men from St. Louis continue to find ways to come up with the short end of the stick. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 10 May
Reds 1, Cubs 0: The pitching was again in the ascendancy at Weeghman Park as the two clubs staged their second low-scoring affair in as many days although, in the end, the result was the same. It was Cincinnati's lower order that won the day in Chicago today, as Jake Daubert doubled in the 4th inning and Bil Rariden singled him home for the only run of the game. Daubert, who had three hits and a pair of stolen bases on the afternoon, hit for two bases with one out in the inning and scored when the Cincinnati catcher struck a dying quail that just got over the head of Cubs' shortstop Charlie Hollocher and safely onto the outfield grass. The rest of the day's responsibility was shouldered by young Rube Bressler - the 24-year-old lefty was making his first appearance of the season, and he made it a memorable one as he held Chicago to six hits and a walk in a duel with "Hippo" Vaughn. The Cubs got two aboard in both the 5th and the 7th, but Bressler was up to the challenge on both occasions and finished with a flourish by retiring the final eight men to face him. [box] [broadcast]
1919 NL - Games of Friday, 9 May
Reds 2, Cubs 1: Greasy Neale doubled and Heinie Groh tripled with one out in the 10th inning to break a low-scoring deadlock and propel Cincinnati to a tense victory in Chicago. The home club had scored early, getting a 1st-inning run when Charlie Hollocher singled, stole second, and scored on Turner Barber's base hit, but the Reds drew even in the 5th in much the same fashion - Rath pilfering second after reaching on a fielder's choice, then scoring when Groh singled with two away. But, apart from those two incidents, the pitchers were in command as Ray Fisher and Pete Alexander took turns leaving the batters frustrated. The closest either side came to scoring in the late innings was when Rath singled and Neale reached on an error with two outs in the 7th, but Alexander retired the dangerous Groh on a fly ball to center. Rath's hit was the last one Cincinnati would record until the fateful 10th when Neale lined one down the right field line for two bases and Groh then muscled one through the left-center gap and all the way to the fence to score the lead run. Fisher allowed a one-out single to Barber in the bottom of the inning, but retired Dode Paskert and Fred Merkle on weak ground balls to turn that lead run into a winning one. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Thursday, 8 May
Robins 5, Phillies 4: Brooklyn survived a frenetic final two innings to escape with a one-run victory in Philadelphia. The Robins held a slim 2-1 lead going into the 8th inning behind the fine pitching of Jeff Pfeffer, but the Phillies tied the game on Fred Luderus' two-out RBI single. Brooklyn answered loudly in the bottom half when the heart of their order (Tommy Griffith, Zack Wheat and Hi Myers) went single-single-home run. The lead seemed safe at 5-2 when two of the first three Phils went out in the 9th, but Gavy Cravath launched a pinch-hit homer to make it a one-run game again; Pfeffer stood firm, however, and fanned Leo Callahan for the game's final out. Griffith and Wheat had three hits apiece and Myers had three RBI. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 6 May
Braves 6, Giants 5: Joe Riggert pounded out five hits, the final one a two-out triple that scored the go-ahead run in the 11th inning as Boston survived a late New York rally to win at Brush Stadium. Riggert, who also swiped two bags on the afternoon, singled in the 7th for his third hit to drive Ray Powell in from second and give the Braves a 4-1 lead which looked comfortable in the hands of starter Dick Rudolph. But the Giants touched "Baldy" up for four singles, two walks and three runs in the 8th inning to force the tie. Boston got two men aboard in the 9th but failed to score, and the first two Braves in the 11th also went down without incident. Red Smith then singled and Riggert launched one to the wall in the deepest part of the ballpark which eluded the grasp of Benny Kauff until the Boston centerfielder stood on third and the Braves had broken the deadlock. Al Demaree then forced three straight groundouts in the bottom half of the inning to put the Giants away quickly and earn the visitors the win. [box]
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