1919 NL - Games of Monday, 21 July

Cardinals 9, Braves 7: St. Louis built a large lead in the early going and were then forced to sweat out a late Boston rally before prevailing at Braves Field. A four-run 1st got the visitors off and running behind two stolen bases plus RBI hits from Milt Stock, Austin McHenry and Doug Baird. The score was 5-1 in favor of the Cardinals when they bounced Al Demaree (7-5) from the game with another three runs in the 5th, pitcher Red Ames providing the final insult with a two-run single that put a premature end to Demaree's work day, and the gap became eight runs when McHenry added a run-scoring single in the 6th. After escaping a bases-loaded none-out mess in the 2nd with just one run against his ledger, Ames (2-2) had been sharp as his mates ran up the score, surrendering just one hit in his last three innings of work heading into the 6th. But Boston stung him for five hits in the inning, a single by Demaree's replacement Ray Keating and a triple by Buck Herzog each delivering two runs before Ames was also forced from the mound early. It was still a four-run lead, but the Braves weren't done quite yet - the first two men singled to start the 7th, Jim Thorpe brought in one of the them with a sacrifice fly, Rabbit Maranville the other with a three-base knock, and suddenly there were alarm bells ringing on the St. Louis bench. The decisive play of the game came next - Art Wilson lofted a fly ball to medium center field and Maranville was gunned down at the plate by Jack Smith's throw and the crisis was averted. Bill Sherdel finished the game off (earning his League-leading 6th save) with two scoreless innings, although he did have to retire Maranville (3-for-5) for the game's final out with the tying runs on the bases for Boston. McHenry and Herzog also finished the day with three hits to their names. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 19 July

Giants 3, Cubs 2: Larry Doyle's bounding ball to second base pushed 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]

1919 NL - Games of Friday, 18 July

Braves 10, Pirates 3: Jim Thorpe and Hank Gowdy each collected three hits and three runs batted in as Boston belted the Bucs in front of an appreciative home crowd. When they came to bat in the bottom of the 4th inning, the home team had gone in arrears by a count of 3-1 on Casey Stengel's two-run homer in the top of the inning, but the Braves would quickly erase the deficit. Ray Powell singled and Red Smith walked to start the frame, then Walter Holke sacrificed them into scoring position for Thorpe's looping hit into right field that tied the game. Three more singles followed in quick succession against Frank Miller (6-7) as Boston raced to a five-run inning and a 6-3 lead. The Olympian's RBI double extended the lead in the 5th before Gowdy added an RBI for the third consecutive inning and the rout was on. The Braves scored two more times in the 8th without help from either man this time, and Dick Rudolph (9-5) retired eighteen of the final nineteen Pirates to leave no room for doubt as to the final result. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Thursday, 17 July

Cardinals 5, Phillies 4: St. Louis scored three times in the top of the 9th inning to spoil a fine Phillies debut by starter Lee Meadows. The matchup at the Baker Bowl featured two hurlers that were part of the big deal between the two clubs just a few days ago, Meadows joining the Philadelphia nine along with infielder Gene Paulette in exchange for pitchers Elmer Jacobs and Frank Woodward plus infielder Doug Baird. Jacobs got the nod for the home club as well this afternoon, and the two new boys made both of their new clubs happy in the early going. There had only been one safe hit in the game before Rogers Hornsby came to the plate in the top of the 4th; he drove one deep to left-center field and Austin McHenry collided heavily with the outfield fence just after the ball had done the same. Before Paulette could back him up from center field and get the ball back into the infield, Hornsby had circled the bases for his sixth homer of the season and the first score of the game. Paulette tied the score with an RBI double in the 5th, and the Phillies took the lead when another new acquisition, catcher Walt Tragesser, followed two PHI singles and a sacrifice with a run-scoring fly ball to right field. But Doc Lavan's circuit clout to left knotted the scores again in the 7th and the contest went to its final frames tied at two. Philadelphia grabbed control when three straight one-out hits produced a pair in the 8th, Meadows (5-8) singling home the second himself, and the bespectacled 24-year-old took the mound in the 9th looking to finish off a nice day's work. He retired the first Cardinal, and got the second out after a pair of singles, but pinch-hitter Burt Shotton ripped a three-bagger over Paulette's head in center field to tie the game and Jack Smith then followed him with another sharp drive to center. Paulette, who had primarily fielded the first sack for St. Louis but was doing fill-in work for the Phils in center field in the continued absence of Cy Williams, broke in on the ball before realizing how well it was struck. He couldn't recover and Smith trotted into second with a double that gave the visitors the lead. Oscar Tuero relieved Jacobs (5-10) in pursuit of the final three outs and got those after allowing a leadoff single by Paulette, who reached base four times. [box]

1919 NL - Pitching Leaders through 15 July

Pitching leaderboards in the National League through the games of Tuesday, 15 July . . .

1919 NL - Batting Leaders through 15 July

Offensive statistical leaders in the National League through the games of Tuesday, 15 July . . .

1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 15 July

Cubs 2, Braves 1: Each club could manage only eight hits but, as has so often happened in his nine-year big-league career, Pete Alexander was slightly better when the chips were on the line and Chicago won a nail-biter in Boston. Two lapses in concentration were all it took to doom the Braves - in the 3rd, a two-out error by Tony Boeckel set the table for Charlie Hollocher's RBI hit and, in the 4th, Hugh McQuillan hit leadoff hitter Fred Merkle with a pitch to start the ball rolling towards Les Mann's run-scoring single three batters later. McQuillan (3-2) was excellent after that, allowing only four Cubs to reach over the final five innings, but it was already too late with "Old Pete" toeing the rubber on the opposite side. Boston got just one hit against him in the first three innings, and didn't really threaten seriously until the 7th when Boeckel singled with one out and Hank Gowdy tripled two batters later to cut the Chicago lead to 2-1. But McQuillan popped out to leave the potential tying run 90 feet shy and Boston didn't get a whiff of hope again until they had poked a pair of singles with two outs in the bottom of the 9th; pinch-hitter Johnny Rawlings was asked to be the hero, but he was no match for the 200-game winner, who forced him to hit a lazy fly ball to center field which was pocketed by Lee Magee for the final out. Alexander held the Braves to 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position by pitching to contact (one walk, two strikeouts) and recording fourteen ground-ball outs (retiring eleven of the first fifteen in that fashion). Magee had two hits to lead the Cubs, while Gowdy had three base knocks for Boston. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Monday, 14 July

Braves 1, Cubs 0: A scintillating pitchers' duel at Braves Field was decided in favor of the home nine when Rabbit Maranville's slow ground ball pushed across a run in the bottom of the 7th inning. Safe hits were in short supply in the early going, as Max Flack led off the game with a single and Chicago wouldn't record another base hit until the 5th, and Boston only had four of their own through five. Both sides had the makings of a rally erased by double plays, the Cubs seeing Fred Merkle's line drive turned into two outs by Maranville with two on in the 1st and Buck Herzog bouncing into a 463 with two Robins aboard in the 3rd. The home team got two on with one out in the 6th, but Hippo Vaughn (8-10) escaped on two ground ball outs; he would not fare as well in the 7th. Red Smith and Hank Gowdy began the inning with singles and Al Demaree bunted them both into scoring position; Brooklyn pulled the infield in close, but Marnaville hit one off the end of the bat that got past the mound and, by the time shortstop Charlie Hollcher could glove the ball with the runners going at the crack of the bat, Smith was nearly home and he was forced to take the out at first base. Now staked to the slimmest of leads, Demaree (7-4) got to work - he wobbled a bit in the 8th, allowing two men to reach with one out before escaping via two weak grounders back to the mound, and a leadoff error in the 9th came to nought when he ended the game by inducing two can-of-corn fly balls to center. Lee Magee of the Cubs and Jim Thorpe of the Braves were the only players to walk off the field with more than one base hit. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 13 July

Giants 15, Pirates 6: New York extracted equal measure in response to their pummeling at the hand of Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon, scoring fifteen times including eleven in the first two innings. Honors were settled quite quickly at Coogan's Bluff, as the luckless Earl Hamilton (3-13) simply could not find a way to navigate the Giants' lineup. After retiring the first batter in the bottom of the 1st, he allowed six of the next seven to reach safely, throwing in a balk for the sake of completeness, as New York scored five times in their first at-bat of the game with Mike Gonzalez providing a two-run single. And it wouldn't get any easier for Hamilton the next time the home team picked up the bats - the leadoff hitter hit a sharp one back to the box which the little left-hander fielded well but then threw over the head of the first baseman for a two-base error, and that was almost the highlight of the inning for the Pirate hurler. Now completely unsettled, he walked Ross Youngs and then served up a soft toss which Art Fletcher hit out of the yard (5) for three runs, and the next three Giants singled. Before he had managed to retire the tenth and final batter of the frame, the score was 11-0 in favor of McGraw's men and the rest of the day was to be played for show only. New York added four more runs in the 5th, and Pittsburgh did manage some damage against Rube Benton (6-7), but the Giant moundsman was clearly pitching to the score and went the distance despite being allowing eleven safe hits. Fletcher scored three times and drove in four, Gonzalez had a big day at the plate with three hits, and Billy Southworth had three hits and three RBI in support of the losing cause. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 12 July

Pirates 11, Giants 2: Casey Stengel homered twice to highlight a four-hit day as Pittsburgh crushed New York at Brush Stadium. The Pirate right-fielder singled, stole a base, and scored in a three-run 1st inning that got the visitors off and running, and then homered to lead off the 4th after the Giants had pulled back a pair in the 2nd with the help of George Cutshaw's error. He again led off the inning in the 5th with a circuit clout (his third of the campaign) and this blow was the opening shot of a four-run frame that put Pittsburgh in complete control; the coup de grâce was a two-out, three-run home run by Walter Schmidt (1) which was the final straw for Fred Toney (3-7). Casey singled in another run in the 7th as the Pirates kept the scoreboard ticking over against the New York relief corps. Wilbur Cooper (11-3) was outstanding on the hill for Pittsburgh, scattering seven hits and three walks, while fanning six Giants to join the League leaders in victories. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Friday, 11 July

Braves 5, Reds 0: Ray Keating pitched nine shutout innings to complete a double-header whitewash of the League leaders at Braves Field and cap a surprising series in which the Braves beat Cincinnati in four straight contests. The game was scoreless for three innings before Boston began to chip away at Reds starter Hod Eller (10-6). Single runs in each of the next five Brave at-bats, three of those driven home by the hot bat of Joe Riggert (including his fifth home run of the season), pushed Boston into the lead and gradually pulled them away from the visitors. Meanwhile, the suddenly-anemic Reds batting attack was found without answers yet again; they put two men on in the 1st and again in the 7th, but failed to dent the scoreboard on either occasion as Keating (3-2) made the big pitch on the very few occasions where Cincinnati demanded it of him. The Niagara University product allowed just two hits over the final seven innings and was in complete command the entire way, as the Reds finished the twinbill with an aggregate batting line of .167/.183/.231 that included an 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. Riggert's recent hot stretch has seen him wallop the ball at a .375 clip with two triples, three homers and eight RBI over his last nine games. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Wednesday, 9 July

Pirates 6, Robins 4: Billy Southworth put on a spectacular display of skill and athleticism at Ebbets Field today, striking five base hits and stealing four bases to propel Pittsburgh to a fifteen-inning win over Brooklyn. There was no hint early of the big day coming when Southworth popped out in the 1st, his teammates scoring nonetheless on a single, sacrifice and throwing error by Pete Kilduff. But Kilduff singled home the tying run for the home team in the 2nd, and it was a 3-3 game before Southworth turned on the jets in the 8th. He led off with a base hit, stole second and third, and scored one out later when he beat Ed Konetchy's throw home on a two-hopper to first off the bat of Fritz Mollwitz. But Babe Adams allowed three singles in the bottom of the 9th as the Robins forced extra innings and the two starters kept putting up zeroes through thirteen innings; the Pirates had the only real threat as a wild pitch moved a runner to third base with two gone in the 12th but Southworth, already with four hits in his back pocket, could only fly harmlessly to right. In the top of the 15th, Billy led off with a single, stole second base for the third time of the afternoon, and trotted home when George Cutshaw ripped a home run (2) just inside the left-field foul pole off of Al Mamaux (7-2). Bill Evans (1-1) closed it out with the second of two scoreless innings of relief. The Pirates ran the Robins ragged with nine steals in thirteen attempts and four Brooklyn errors cost them two important runs. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 8 July

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]

1919 NL - Games of Monday, 7 July

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]

1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 6 July

Cubs 10, Cardinals 9: Chicago escaped with the victory in one of the wildest games of the season when Rogers Hornsby's baserunning gaffe left a 9th-inning St. Louis rally one run short. Cliff Heathcote's two-out two-run single in the 5th gave the Cards a 5-3 lead, and Hornsby extended that gap to three runs with a run-scoring single in the 7th. But Jakie May's always-tenuous hold on command and control gave way in the bottom of the inning after some rough treatment by the Cubs' hitters. A two-run triple by Lee Magee cut the Chicago lead to a single run and then May (3-6) lost sight of home plate, hitting the next two batters and walking in the tying run before Branch Rickey had seen enough and brought on Oscar Tuero. But the first two batters faced by the young Cuban right-hander singled to produce three more runs that made the score 9-6 in favor of the Cubs. Charlie Pick's RBI single in the 8th made it a four-run lead and Speed Martin took the ball in the top of the 9th after a spotless 8th in relief of Phil Douglas (7-7). Jack Smith reached on Pick's error to start the inning before Dots Miller flied out, but Milt Stock singled and Burt Shotton ripped a triple that scored two runs to cut the score to 10-8. That brought up Hornsby, who hit a line drive to right which Max Flack failed to stop on the short hop; Shotton scored and Hornsby charged around the bases as Flack chased down the ball. Rajah had no intention of stopping at third base with the potential tying run, though, and was cut down at the plate by five feet. The mistake was emphasized when Vern Clemons followed with what would have been a game-tying single, and when Martin then retired Doc Lavan for the game's final out. Flack had three hits for Chicago, while Magee drove home three. [box]

Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6 - Final Stats

Final team and individual statistics from the sixth Season Ticket Baseball Showdown . . .

Season Ticket Baseball Showdown 6

Four managers came together once again for a face-to-face Season Ticket Baseball showdown, and this time we went WAY back in the time machine. To celebrate the release of the 1910-1917 season sets, we selected the four most closely-matched teams (by winning percentage) from that span - this turned out to be the Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates and Reds of the 1915 National League. So, it's off to the era of the first transcontinental telephone call, the escalation of World War I by the sinking of the Lusitania and Babe Ruth's first career home run, for a double round-robin FTF tournament with no playoffs - winner takes all!

1960-61 NHL ReplayFinal Individual Statistical Leaders and Awards

Final 1960-61 National Hockey League awards and leaderboards . . .

1960-61 NHL ReplayFinal Individual Statistics

Final 1960-61 National Hockey League individual statistics . . .

1960-61 NHL ReplayFinal Team and League Statistics

Final 1960-61 National Hockey League team and League statistics . . .