Reds 6, Braves 5: Cincinnati scored four runs in the 8th inning to take the lead, and Dolf Luque came off the bench to turn Boston aside on a single pitch with the help of a spectacular game-ending defensive play by Heinie Groh. A walk and a Morrie Rath error cleared a path for the Braves to score twice in the bottom of the 4th to take a 3-1 lead, and the starters held fast until Jimmy Ring took matters into his own hands with the bat, knocking an RBI triple with two outs in the 7th. Then in the next inning Dick Rudolph (7-5) faltered badly while trying to protect the one-run lead, allowing two singles to start the stanza and then watching Tony Boeckel's bobble turn the bases Red with no one yet retired. He got the struggling Greasy Neale (.197) to pop up on the infield for the first out, but Larry Kopf lined a single to right for one run and Rub Bressler followed with a looping fly to center which he legged into two bases while two Cincinnati runs crossed the plate. A sacrifice fly by Ivey Wingo made it 6-3 and it seemed as if Ring would have no trouble seeing out the final six outs for the visitors, but Boston made it clear immediately that they had other ideas. Joe Riggert, who had already homered for the Braves, led off the home 8th with a triple and Johnny Rawlings immediately singled him home; when Ring walked Ray Powell to place the tying runs upon the bases with no one out, Pat Moran began to pace nervously in front of the Cincinnati bench. But Ring (4-2) recovered to fan two of the next three men, and got the first out of the 9th before he began to lose the plot again. Hank Gowdy and PH Red Smith singled, then Riggert did the same to score Gowdy and make it a one-run game with the tying run at third base. Moran had seen enough at this point, and asked Luque to remove his sweater and take Ring's place on the hill. His warmup heaves were barely over before the game was as well - his first pitch to Johnny Rawlings was hit on a line to the lunging Heinie Groh, who snared the ball and the dove to touch third base with his mitt before Smith could get back to the bag safely, for a game-ending twin-killing. Riggert racked up eight total bases, plus a walk, while Rath, Groh and Jake Daubert each had two hits for the Reds. [box]
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| Heinie Groh had a pair of hits, but it was his glove that saved the game for Cincinnati |
Braves 5, Reds 3: Art Nehf spun a four-hitter and got two RBI in support from Joe Riggert and Rabbit Maranville. Boston took control of the game in front of the home fans in the bottom of the 4th, when Maranville's RBI double with one out and Riggert's two-run triple with two outs combined for a three-run inning that put Boston ahead by a score of 4-2. Tony Boeckel tripled home another for the Braves in the 5th, and Rube Bressler's RBI single in the 6th was not nearly enough against Nehf (7-9), who closed in style by allowing just two hits over the final five innings, and none in the final three. While the little lefty walked five, four of those came consecutively in s spate of wildness early in the game; once he had shaken that off, he was nearly untouchable for the Reds. Maranville reached base four times with a single, double, triple and a base on balls. [box]
Robins 4, Pirates 3: Ivy Olson and Tommy Griffith teamed up with big hits to break open a tie in the 7th inning as Brooklyn edged Pittsburgh at Ebbets Field. Olson tripled in each of the first two innings of the contest as the Robins scored three times early to take a one-run lead into the middle innings, but an Ernie Krueger passed ball with runners on second and third in the 5th gifted the Pirates the tying run. In the home 7th, Olson led off the inning with his third three-bagger of the game (a mark only exceeded on two occasions in the 1890s) and Griffith followed out out later with a double that split the Pittsburgh outfielders and gave the Robins the lead back. Leon Cadore (8-5) found himself in some hot water in the top of the 8th after Casey Stengel singled with two outs, stole second, and took third on Krueger's throwing error, but he got Billy Southworth to pop out to second base to end the threat, and retired the visitors in order in the 9th to finish it off. Stengel and Ed Konetchy joined Olson with three safe hits on the afternoon. [box]
Giants 5, Cardinals 0: Rube Benton stifled St. Louis on just four hits and Lew McCarty knocked home three Giant runs in a straightforward, albeit sloppy, win at Brush Stadium. New York manufactured a 1st-inning run on a walk, a stolen base, an error and a ground out and then grasped the game by the collar in in the 4th. Art Fletcher and Larry Doyle started the inning with singles and Dots Miller's error at first base loaded the bases with no one out. Bill Doak (5-10) got to the edge of survival by getting shallow fly balls off the bats of the next two Giants, but McCarty pushed him over the edge with a deep drive to right that got over the head of Jack Smith for a bases-clearing triple. NY got another across in the 5th, but Benton (5-7) didn't require that level of service - after retiring the final two men in the 5th with a runner at third base, he put away twelve of the final fourteen Cards to cruise to his fifth win (and second shutout) of the season. [box]
Cubs 13, Phillies 4: Another merciless battering of Philadelphia pitching at home left the Baker Bowl largely empty by the time Chicago twisted the knife for the final time with five 9th-inning runs. The Phillies actually led 3-2 after three innings thanks to a two-run homer from Doug Baird (6) and even a four-run Chicago 4th didn't put them completely out of reach at 6-4. But, once again, their mound men could not find a way to staunch the bleeding - three hits and a walk got the Cubs to eight runs, and then a leadoff homer in the 9th by pitcher Claude Hendrix (5-5) was followed one out later by six straight Chicago hits which turned the game into yet another rout. The Cubs had 26 at-bats with runners in scoring position, thanks to 21 hits, three walks and three Philadelphia errors. [box]
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