Reds 4, Cardinals 0: The deliveries of Jimmy Ring were a complete mystery to St. Louis batters, who could manage to collect just two safe hits all afternoon at Redland Field. Meanwhile the Reds' hitters were having their way with Cardinal starter Bill Doak in the early going - four bases on balls in the first three innings, and a Doc Lavan error, helped set the table for RBIs by Edd Roush, Jake Daubert, Rube Bressler and Ivey Wingo as the home club jumped out to a 4-0 lead. Doak was almost untouchable from there forward, but it was too late for the visitors; Ring didn't allow a hit after Frank Snyder's third-inning single, and retired eight of the final nine to close out a masterful performance. Heinie Groh had three hits for Cincinnati. [box]
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Reds 7, Cardinals 6: Cincinnati stormed back from an early five-run deficit, behind three hits and three RBI from Jake Daubert, to edge St. Louis and sweep the doubleheader in St. Louis. Reds starter Hod Eller was treated very roughly - by both the Cardinals and his own fielders - in an opening inning which he barely survived. The first six Redbirds reached base via six singles and a Larry Kopf error, and three runs scored, before Eller could record the first out of the game. But a Heinie Groh error led to another run for the visitors and extended the inning long enough to allow pitcher Oscar Tuero to stake himself to a five-run lead with a run-scoring fly ball. The Cincinnati men showed their League-leading mettle, however, by working their way back into the game starting in the 2nd, when Rube Bressler tripled home one run and scored the second on Ivey Wingo's groundout. Groh singled home one in the 3rd, and Tuero free passes to the first two Reds in the 4th set up a big inning for the home team. With one out, Morrie Rath singled to load the bases, and Daubert's base hit scored a pair to tie the game before Groh singled home another to put Cincinnati in front. Eller, after his near-fatal 1st, had reverted to his usual stingy ways, retiring nineteen in succession at one point before Cliff Heathcote homered to tie the game at six runs apiece with two outs in the top of the 8th. The sudden and late change of fortune did not dissuade the Reds, though, as Rath singled with one out in the bottom of the inning and Daubert roped a triple to left-center that untied the game almost as quickly as it had been deadlocked. In the 9th Eller (10-4), who just ninety minutes before had looked more likely to pitch a single inning than nine, put away the Cards on three straight fly balls for a remarkable complete-game victory. [box]
Giants 13, Phillies 3: Larry Doyle piled up four hits and four runs batted in as New York scored three times in the 1st inning, and didn't slow down much after that, on their way to a lopsided win in Philadelphia. Doyle's two-run single capped the Giant 1st, Benny Kauff hit a two-run homer in the 3rd, and Doyle drove home another as part of a two-run 4th that made the score 7-1. The Phillies' decision to exchange starter Elmer Jacobs (4-9) for Matt Prendergast at that juncture didn't stem the Giant tide, as NY belted the new pitcher around the park for three more runs in the 6th and two in the 9th on their way to collecting seventeen safeties, eight of which went for extra bases. Jesse Barnes (10-3) was the beneficiary of all of this batting, scattering nine hits and a walk over nine fairly stress-free innings. [box]
Phillies 13, Giants 12: The most energetic display of big hitting in the National Leagues thus far this season saw thirty-eight hits, thirteen of them for two bases, rattle around the confines of the Baker Bowl as Philadelphia earned a twin-bill split with a narrow decision over New York. It was a sign of things to come when the Giants put their first five batters on the bases, two of them via two-baggers, and only a Heinie Zimmerman double play grounder kept them from scoring any more than the four runs they put on the board in their first attempt. Doug Baird's two-run homer cut that lead in half after just two Phillie batters, and the home team got back even at 6-6 after Gavy Cravath's two-run triple in the 3rd. But NY then scored three times in the 4th on doubles by Ross Youngs and Larry Doyle (9-for-11 in the double header), only to see Philadelphia respond with three of their own in the home half behind Possum Whitted's two-run double. Surely this run rate could not be maintained, yet it was - the Giants scored another three in the 5th with Youngs tripling across two of then, and the Phils took advantage of four Jean Dubuc (3-5) walks in their 5th turn at the plate to score four times and take the lead for the first time. At this point, probably as a result of exhaustion, the runs did finally dry up - NY got extra-base hits in the 6th and 7th and failed to score, while PHI loaded the bases with one out in the 6th and the 8th and somehow came up empty on both occasions. The Philadelphia pitching staff has been anything but reliable so far in the campaign, and the options were not enticing when they needed someone to get the final three outs; this time it was 21-year-old left-hander Pat Murray who found himself handed the ball, and he put the first two men on before Hal Chase's ground-ball double play relieved enough pressure that Murray could coax Doyle into a well-struck fly out to center to end the game with the tying run on third base. Doyle had five hits and Youngs four RBI for the visitors, while Irish Meusel's four hits led the Philadelphia offense. [box]
Cubs 6, Pirates 2: Charlie Deal batted in four of Chicago's six runs, and his home run in the 6th inning was the big blow in the Cub's win in Pittsburgh. The Cubs third baseman, who had struggled all season to get his batting average north of .200, has suddenly caught fire (.346 over his past fifteen games) and singled home Fred Merkle in his first at-bat of the afternoon to tie the game at one. The score was two to two when Chicago came to bat in the 6th, and Frank Miller (6-4) retired the first two Cubs of the inning before Merkle reached on Howdy Caton's bobble at third base, and Charlie Pick caught a Miller slant on the right bicep. Those mistakes proved very costly when Deal followed with a fly ball to right field that just got over the big fence at the Baker Bowl for a three-run shot that put the Cubs in control. Claude Hendrix (4-5) took the lead and ran with it, setting aside the Pirates on just two hits over the final four innings. [box]
Pirates 4, Cubs 3: Relief pitcher Hal Carlson capped two innings of perfect work on the mound with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the 11th inning to earn Pittsburgh a split at home. The Pirates held a 2-0 lead for most of the game, but Chicago broke out for three runs in the 8th on four hits highlighted by Charlie Hollocher's triple. In their last chance against Hippo Vaughn in the bottom of the 9th, the Pirates got a leadoff double from Fritz Mollwitz and Walter Barbare tied the game with a pinch single two batters later. Carlson (4-1) entered the game in the 10th as the third Pittsburgh pitcher, and set down all six Cubs he faced without a ball leaving the infield. With Speed Martin (3-4) on the bump for the visitors, Caton opened the home 11th with a single, and Mollwitz drew a walk. Manager Hugo Bezdek eschewed the bunt with the pitcher on deck, and looked to regret that decision when Walter Schmidt bounced into a 543 double play. Carlson, who can handle the bat a bit for a pitcher but would still be unlikely to be mistaken for a big-league batter, stepped to the bat with the potential winning run on third, but two outs in the book. After taking a strike, he lined a clean single to left field and Caton scampered home to win the ballgame. Hollocher and Max Flack each had three hits for Chicago. [box]
Robins 6, Braves 1: Ivy Olson homered to start Brooklyn's first inning, and this was the beginning of a fine offensive performance that led to a comfortable win over Boston. Olson's blast was the first of five 1st-inning base hits, leading to three Robins runs which would provide all of the backing that Leon Cadore (7-5) would need on the day. The Braves would get three singles and a run in the 3rd, but Caddy would surrender just three hits over the final six innings while his teammates were scoring additional runs in the 4th, 6th and 8th innings behind two RBI from Chuck Ward. Zack Wheat and Ed Konetchy combined for six of the twelve Robins hits, while Ray Powell had a trio of singles for the visitors. [box]
Robins 6, Braves 3: Brooklyn spotted Boston a 3-0 lead, and then rode the bats of Hi Myers and Zack Wheat to a come-from-behind win and a sweep of the afternoon two-fer at Ebbets Field. Sherry Smith (5-3) got off to a shaky start on the hill for the Robins, allowing a walk and two singles to the first three Braves, and was already down 3-0 after three innings had been completed. But, after only getting a single hit off of Dick Rudolph (7-4) in the first three frames, the Robins sprung to life in the 4th. With one out, Tommy Griffith singled and then Wheat doubled him home with a drive to center. Myers was next, and he ripped a pitch over the head of Jim Thorpe in left and off the wall for another two bases and another run. In the 6th, Wheat and Myers each singled with one away, and Otto Miller delivered the two-out, two-run single that gave Brooklyn the lead. Then, in the 8th with the game still hanging by that single run, Myers tripled (after Wheat had walked to reach base for the fourth straight time, but had then been caught stealing) and Ed Konetchy singled him home before Miller did it again with two outs, doubling in Konetchy for the sixth Brooklyn run. Smith escaped a little trouble in the 6th but was then untouchable, retiring the final nine Braves in order with five groundouts and two strikeouts. [box]
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