Giants 3, Cubs 2: Larry Doyle's bounding ball to second base forced across the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning as New York outlasted Chicago in an extended affair in the Empire City. The game was tied 2-2 through seven innings, the visitors riding a four-bagger from Charlie Hollocher and the Gothams building on triples by Heinie Zimmerman and Benny Kauff, but the batters found the going hard in the late innings. Each team could muster just one base hit over the next three innings as the two starters toiled late into the afternoon. Fred Toney (4-7) worked his way around a pair of free passes in the top of the 11th, striking out Lee Magee and getting Charlie Pick to sky to right, but Hippo Vaughn (8-11) would not be so fortunate. Ross Youngs led off the home half of the inning with a single and Art Fletcher followed with a base hit to center that moved Youngs around to third base. With the Chicago infield pulled in close in desperation, League batting leader Doyle - suffering through the rare hitless afternoon - chopped one in front of the plate that came down into the hands of Pick, but too late for his throw home to have any chance of cutting down the Giants' swift right fielder. [box]
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| Fred Toney went the eleven-inning distance for the winning Giants |
Pirates 7, Braves 2: A tight, low-scoring contest was broken open by a pair of late three-run Pittsburgh outbursts at Braves Field. Hank Gowdy's two-out, two-run triple had given Boston a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the 4th, and Dick Rudolph (9-6) looked as if he might hold on to that lead when he whipped through the middle innings unscathed. But the 7th was a different story when, after one man was out, the next three 'Burghers singled to load the bases. Zeb Terry's ground ball to second base tied the score, and then Casey Stengel came through with the big hit when his shallow fly to right fell in for a two-run single and a 4-2 Pirate lead. The visitor salted it away in the 9th when four singles, a walk, a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly produced three more runs and Wilbur Cooper (12-3) got Gowdy to roll into a game-ending twin killing in the bottom of the inning to earn his NL-leading twelfth victory. Carson Bigbee and Billy Southworth each had three hits for Pittsburgh, while Jim Thorpe turned that same trick for the Bostonians. [box]
Robins 6, Reds 4: The bottom of the Brooklyn lineup tortured Dutch Ruether to the tune of eight hits in fifteen trips to lead the Robins past Cincinnati and drop the staggering Red Stockings to an eighth loss on the trot and a virtual three-way tie for the top spot in the National League. A two-out rally in the 4th had seen Brooklyn jump into a 3-2 lead which held up until the 7th inning when Cincinnati found its own lightning in a bottle after two were out. Singles by Heinie Groh and Edd Roush scored a pair to put the Reds back in front again and tantalizingly close to ending their long losing skein. But Ruether (7-7) couldn't survive the 8th - Ivy Olson belted a leadoff triple, Groh booted a grounder to tie the score, and Ed Konetchy's two-out single sent home the go-ahead score. Leon Cadore (9-6) retired the Reds in order in their final two chances while Olson doubled home an insurance marker that "Caddy" never needed to cash in. The Robins' 6-7-8 hitters - Konetchy, Chuck Ward, and Ernie Krueger - combined for seven hits, four runs scored and three RBI. [box]
Cardinals 4, Phillies 3: St. Louis got up off the deck with four runs in the 7th inning to steal a win from Philadelphia at the Baker Bowl. The home squad had taken an early lead on Irish Meusel's 1st-inning RBI double, and then added two more in the 5th on a Bert Adams homer and Meusel's two-out run-scoring single. The Cardinals, meanwhile had just two hits over the first five innings against Brad Hogg, and were thwarted again in the 6th when Hogg stranded Pickles Dillhoefer at third after a one-out triple. But the 7th would be a different story - after the leadoff batter was retired, Hogg (3-7) was touched for two hits and a walk to get the Cards on the scoresheet. After Austin McHenry flied out, it looked as if the worst had already befallen the Phillies' starter, but that was not the case; the next three Redbird batters singled, each scoring a single run, the visitors jumping ahead when Bill Doak's line hit to left brought home the third. Doak (6-11) pitched around a pair of baserunners in both the 7th and 8th innings and then retired the Phils in order in the 9th. [box]
Phillies 16, Cardinals 8: Two of St. Louis' four fielding errors led to eleven unearned runs in the first two inning as Philadelphia waltzed to a high-scoring win and a split of the doubleheader at home. The Cards seemed to be on their way when they scored three times in the top of the 1st on Rogers Hornsby's RBI single and Cliff Heathcoate's two-run homer, but it didn't take long for the visitors to, literally, give that back. On the first pitch of the bottom half of the inning, Dave Bancroft bounced to Hornsby at short and the ball went under his glove for an error. The next two Phils singled, and two groundouts then produced one run each before Possum Whitted tied the game with an RBI two-base hit. The next inning would be even worse - with one out Dots Miller couldn't pull Bancroft's high chop out of his glove allowing the shortstop to reach, and a stolen base and a Lena Blackburne single then put Philadelphia in phront. Frank Woodward (0-11), making his St. Louis debut after the trade from these Phillies, seemed rattled by seeing the same sort of non-support from his new team that he had gotten from the old, and walked the next two men before falling completely to pieces. Two singles, a hit batsman and back-to-back two-run doubles followed immediately and ended his tumultuous afternoon. By the time the dust had cleared, the home team had scored eight runs in the inning and the matter was pretty much decided. The Cards would put up token resistance with four runs in the 9th as Eppa Rixey (5-2) ran out of gas, but four RBI from Whitted and three runs apiece scored by Bancroft and Irish Meusel meant that they still finished some distance adrift. [box]
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