Reds 9, Giants 4: Heinie Groh singled, tripled and drove in three to lead Cincinnati to a big win that salvaged the final game of their table-topping series with New York and pulled them back to within a game of first place. Things were not looking good for Cincinnati in the early going, as the Giants scored four times on five base hits in the first three innings off of Slim Sallee, George Burns scoring twice and Benny Kauff driving in two. But Sallee stopped the flow of runs after that, and the Reds began to claw their way back into the game. In the 5th a leadoff walk to Ivey Wingo set the table for RBI singles by Morrie Rath and Groh, and then the visitors fell apart in the 6th. A hit batsman and three Giant errors contributed to a four-run inning that gave Cincinnati the lead, and then three walks, another error, and Groh's two-run triple in the 9th put the game on ice. Jimmy Ring came on to relieve Sallee (5-1) in the 7th and pitched three scoreless innings to close out the game without heartburn for Pat Moran. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Thursday, 12 June
Pirates 10, Robins 2: Carson Bigbee had four hits and drove home four runs to lead a sixteen-hit Pittsburgh attack that overwhelmed Brooklyn at Forbes Field. The Pirates led 6-1 after four innings, with Bigbee already having a single, double, stolen base and RBI in his account; a three-run 8th inning in which he singled home two runs then put the game way beyond Brooklyn's reach. Frank Miller (4-2) used this support to good effect, allowing just single runs in the 4th and the 9th and walking no one while striking out three Robins. Bigbee was supported by three hits each from Casey Stengel and Walter Schmidt, and the Pirates also put on a fine display of scientific baseball, stealing three bases along with three successful sacrifices. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Wednesday, 11 June
Giants 2, Reds 0: New York won the second straight battle in the war for the top spot in the National League to move clear of the Reds by a full game, behind the shutout pitching of Ferdie Schupp and Jean Dubuc. The Giants scored first when Larry Doyle took a Dutch Ruether pitch in the hip to begin the 2nd, stole second, and scored when Art Fletcher singled two outs later. The clubs struggled to put the hurlers under pressure otherwise, and the score was still 1-0 when NY came to bat in the top of the 7th. Catcher Mike Gonzalez tagged Ruether for a two-base hit to lead off the frame, and Schupp sacrificed him to third base. Next up was George Burns, and he laced a base hit that doubled the Giant advantage with three innings left to play. Cincinnati got two hits in the the bottom of the inning but Jake Daubert and Heinie Groh each failed to get one home, and two hits and a walk in the 8th went for naught thanks to a GIDP from Greasy Neale and Dubuc retiring Ivey Wingo for the third out with two men aboard. The Reds made noise again in the bottom of the 9th, Daubert and Groh singling with two outs, but Edd Roush popped to short for the out that moved the Giants to the top tier of the NL. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 10 June
Robins 5, Pirates 2: Ernie Krueger hit a pair of home runs, the second of which broke tie in the 7th inning and pushed Brooklyn to a win in Pittsburgh. The Pirates took the early lead behind three 2nd-inning singles, Zeb Terry's knock scoring Walter Schmidt with the second and final run of the inning. But Krueger homered with two outs and the bases empty in the 5th and then, after the Robins had tied the game in the 6th on Ed Konetchy's RBI single, he followed Lew Malone's leadoff hit in the 7th with his fourth home run of the season to put the visitors in front. Jeff Pfeffer (6-4) held the Pirates to two hits over the final four innings to lock up the victory, while Earl Hamilton (1-9) suffered his League-leading ninth defeat. [box]
World Series Time Machine: 1971
The 1971 baseball season saw Hank Aaron become the third player in major-league history to hit 600 career home runs, Rick Wise pitch a no-hitter while hitting two long balls himself, an All-Star game in which six future Hall of Famers hit homers, and the end of the second incarnation of the Washington American League franchise. In the Fall Classic, the American League Baltimore Orioles (101-57) face off (again) against the National League Champion Pittsburgh Pirates (97-65) . . .
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