Giants 19, Phillies 7: New York pounded the beleaguered Philadelphia pitching staff for ten runs in the 6th inning and kept on scoring until the final out to bury the home team by a score of 19-7. The Phillies took a fleeting 1st-inning lead on Doug Baird's two-run homer (5), but the Giants got four in the 2nd with the help of two Phillie errors and led 5-2 when they came to bat against Gene Packard (3-9) in the 6th. A single and another error put two men on with one away, and then the next nine Giants reached base safely (six singles, three walks) against Packard and Frank Woodward as all nine positions in the NY lineup scored at least one run in the inning. Philadelphia put up a token resistance in the late innings, helped by Fred Luderus' two-run homer (2), but the Giants kept piling on as well with four more in the 9th. All of these were unearned thanks to Irish Meusel's muffed fly ball to start the inning; the Phils committed six errors in total, leading to a total of eight unearned runs. Every single member of the New York lineup had at least one hit, one run scored and one run batted in, and pitcher Jesse Barnes (11-3) knocked out four base hits, scored four times and drove home a pair while pitching a complete game. [box]
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| Jesse Barnes had four hits while hurling all nine frames for New York |
Phillies 20, Giants 10: It was just one of those days at the Baker Bowl. After twenty-six runs had been scored in the first game of the doubleheader, you would have thought the teams would have had enough of the slugging and running for one day; you would have been very wrong. This time it was the Phillies' turn, as they scored twelve times in their final three trips to the plate to rack up twenty runs and twenty hits on their way to a 20-10 victory. The two clubs combined for nine runs in the 2nd inning as the contest got off to a rollicking start, New York putting up three behind George Burns' two-run double, and Philadelphia answering with a six-spot that featured two Giant errors and a two-run single by Doug Baird. It was 8-4 after three innings, but NY scored three times in the 5th on Benny Kauff's homer (6) with two men aboard to make it a one-run game. The Phils doubled their lead in the 6th on an error, stolen base and RBI hit by Fred Luderus, and then the home team put the game away in the 7th; six singles, two walks and a Kauff error in center field produced seven Philadelphia runs and a 16-7 lead. But the clubs weren't done hitting quite yet - PHI tacked on four more in the 8th on back-to-back two-run two-baggers by Dave Bancroft and Bert Adams, and NY pushed across three in the top of the 9th on consecutive RBI doubles by Kauff and pinch-hitter Al Baird. Kauff and Adams each had four RBI, while Baird knocked in five for the Phillies. [Editor's note: the combined 56 runs in the double-header would have been a major-league record that would still stand today, surpassing the 54 by Boston/Cincinnati in 1894 and by Boston (A)/Philadelphia (A) in 1939.] [box]
Pirates 11, Cardinals 6: Pittsburgh erased a late four-run deficit by scoring nine runs in the final two innings to race past St. Louis and win another high-powered offensive affair. The Cards jumped all over Erskine Mayer in the top of the 1st. scoring four times on the back of Burt Shotton's two-run homer (1), and led 6-2 through six innings behind five-hit mound work from Red Ames. The veteran curve specialist had retired the last ten Pirates as he toed the slab to begin the 7th and it looked as if the game was thus well in hand for the visitors. But Walter Schmidt led off the inning with a two-base hit and it went downhill quickly from there for Ames and the Cardinals; three straight one-out hits led to two runs and then a critical two-out error by Rogers Hornsby at third base kept the inning alive for new pitcher Lee Meadows (4-7) to allow a game-tying two-run hit off the bat of Vic Saier. This appeared to knock the fight out of the visitors, as the bottom of the 8th went even worse for them - with two outs and the bases loaded Shotton misplayed a fly ball to left that scored three runs and George Cutshaw and Howdy Caton knocked in additional runs to put the outcome beyond St. Louis' reach. Elmer Ponder (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings of relief - no mean feat on this crazy day in the National League - to put the W into Pittsburgh's pocket. Shotton, Schmidt and Zeb Terry all collected three hits on the afternoon and Terry also crossed the plate three times. [box]
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