Reds 9, Giants 4: Heinie Groh singled, tripled and drove in three to lead Cincinnati to a big win that salvaged the final game of their table-topping series with New York and pulled them back to within a game of first place. Things were not looking good for Cincinnati in the early going, as the Giants scored four times on five base hits in the first three innings off of Slim Sallee, George Burns scoring twice and Benny Kauff driving in two. But Sallee stopped the flow of runs after that, and the Reds began to claw their way back into the game. In the 5th a leadoff walk to Ivey Wingo set the table for RBI singles by Morrie Rath and Groh, and then the visitors fell apart in the 6th. A hit batsman and three Giant errors contributed to a four-run inning that gave Cincinnati the lead, and then three walks, another error, and Groh's two-run triple in the 9th put the game on ice. Jimmy Ring came on to relieve Sallee (5-1) in the 7th and pitched three scoreless innings to close out the game without heartburn for Pat Moran. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Thursday, 12 June
Pirates 10, Robins 2: Carson Bigbee had four hits and drove home four runs to lead a sixteen-hit Pittsburgh attack that overwhelmed Brooklyn at Forbes Field. The Pirates led 6-1 after four innings, with Bigbee already having a single, double, stolen base and RBI in his account; a three-run 8th inning in which he singled home two runs then put the game way beyond Brooklyn's reach. Frank Miller (4-2) used this support to good effect, allowing just single runs in the 4th and the 9th and walking no one while striking out three Robins. Bigbee was supported by three hits each from Casey Stengel and Walter Schmidt, and the Pirates also put on a fine display of scientific baseball, stealing three bases along with three successful sacrifices. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Wednesday, 11 June
Giants 2, Reds 0: New York won the second straight battle in the war for the top spot in the National League to move clear of the Reds by a full game, behind the shutout pitching of Ferdie Schupp and Jean Dubuc. The Giants scored first when Larry Doyle took a Dutch Ruether pitch in the hip to begin the 2nd, stole second, and scored when Art Fletcher singled two outs later. The clubs struggled to put the hurlers under pressure otherwise, and the score was still 1-0 when NY came to bat in the top of the 7th. Catcher Mike Gonzalez tagged Ruether for a two-base hit to lead off the frame, and Schupp sacrificed him to third base. Next up was George Burns, and he laced a base hit that doubled the Giant advantage with three innings left to play. Cincinnati got two hits in the the bottom of the inning but Jake Daubert and Heinie Groh each failed to get one home, and two hits and a walk in the 8th went for naught thanks to a GIDP from Greasy Neale and Dubuc retiring Ivey Wingo for the third out with two men aboard. The Reds made noise again in the bottom of the 9th, Daubert and Groh singling with two outs, but Edd Roush popped to short for the out that moved the Giants to the top tier of the NL. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 10 June
Robins 5, Pirates 2: Ernie Krueger hit a pair of home runs, the second of which broke tie in the 7th inning and pushed Brooklyn to a win in Pittsburgh. The Pirates took the early lead behind three 2nd-inning singles, Zeb Terry's knock scoring Walter Schmidt with the second and final run of the inning. But Krueger homered with two outs and the bases empty in the 5th and then, after the Robins had tied the game in the 6th on Ed Konetchy's RBI single, he followed Lew Malone's leadoff hit in the 7th with his fourth home run of the season to put the visitors in front. Jeff Pfeffer (6-4) held the Pirates to two hits over the final four innings to lock up the victory, while Earl Hamilton (1-9) suffered his League-leading ninth defeat. [box]
World Series Time Machine: 1971
The 1971 baseball season saw Hank Aaron become the third player in major-league history to hit 600 career home runs, Rick Wise pitch a no-hitter while hitting two long balls himself, an All-Star game in which six future Hall of Famers hit homers, and the end of the second incarnation of the Washington American League franchise. In the Fall Classic, the American League Baltimore Orioles (101-57) face off (again) against the National League Champion Pittsburgh Pirates (97-65) . . .
1919 NL - Games of Monday, 9 June
Reds 2, Robins 1: Rube Bressler's first run batted in of the season proved to be a big one, as his 4th inning triple drove in the score that made the difference in a tight Cincinnati victory in front of their home fans. The Reds took a 1st-inning lead when Jake Daubert and Heinie Groh singled, and Edd Roush's ground ball to first pushed Daubert across. Slim Sallee escaped a two-out, bases-loaded mess created by Larry Kopf's error in the 3rd by striking out Tommy Griffith and then Cincinnati extended their advantage in the 4th. With two outs Kopf made a start at balancing his ledger by making a safe hit, and the aspiring young two-way player Bressler came to the plate against Rube Marquard (2-3) with only one hit in his first nineteen at-bats of the campaign. But Bressler ripped a liner over the heads of Hi Myers and Zack Wheat and zipped all the way to third base as Kopf scored the second Cincinnati run. In the 6th, the first two Robins singled and Wheat drove one of them home with one out, but Sallee (4-1) got Ed Konetchy to bounce into a 643 double play that killed the inning and then proceeded to retire the next nine Brooklyn batters to close out the game. [box]
1919 NL Players of the Week - 8 June
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the National League during the week of 2-8 June are (boldface denotes a League-leading total) . . .
1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 8 June
Phillies 8, Cardinals 7: Fred Luderus hit a grand slam and two 9th-inning runs proved to be just enough for Philadelphia to eke out a victory in St. Louis for just their second win in the last ten games. Luderus' bases-clearing circuit clout was the key hit in a five-run 3rd inning that put the Phillies in front, even after the Cards had taken advantage of three consecutive Frank Woodward walks to score three times in the bottom half of the inning. Woodward (7 innings, 7 walks) again struggled to find the strike zone in the 4th, as three more free passes contributed to two St. Louis runs which brought the home club back to a 6-5 lead. Ed Sicking's RBI single in the 5th knotted the score again and the flow of runs was then staunched for a bit while the batsmen caught their breath. It was still 6-6 as the Phils came to bat in the top of the 9th, and Cy Williams drew a leadoff walk. After a sacrifice and a fly out, the lead run was still on second with two outs, but Gavy Cravath singled home Williams, moved up on a base on balls, and scored himself when Sicking (three RBI) again produced a run-scoring hit. Philadelphia took that two-run lead into the bottom of the inning, and needed it - a walk, passed ball and pinch-hit RBU single from Austin McHenry cut the lead in half, but Brad Hogg (1-4) got the final out by coaxing Burt Shotton into a routine fly ball to center. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 7 June
Robins 6, Reds 2: .Jimmy Johnston's three-run homer capped a four-run 7th inning that lifted Brooklyn to a win at Redland Field. The game was a tight, well-pitched affair through six innings, with the Robins holding a 2-1 lead despite not being able to record a hit against Dutch Ruether (3-2) after the 2nd inning. Four singles in the 1st had gotten the visitors two runs, and Cincinnati got one back in the 2nd when Edd Roush doubled and Greasy Neale singled him home. But the bats had gone quiet after that, with Ruether doing his thing and Sherry Smith retiring 17 of 19 at one stretch. In the 7th, though, the Robins touched Ruether for two hits that put runners on second ond third with nobody out; after Smith whiffed for the first out, Ivy Olson hit a tapper to the right of the mound which Ruether fielded and flung home, but the throw was late as Lew Malone slide home under the tag. Lee Magee grounded into a fielder's choice at the plate to cut down a second run, but Johnston followed with a deep drive over the head of the outfielders for his first four-base hit of the season and a 6-1 Brooklyn lead. The Reds got one unearned run the the bottom of the 9th but Smith (3-1) finished off a six-hitter by getting Neale to ground out to first base for the game's last out. Ernie Krueger had three hits and a walk in four trips to the plate for the Robins. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Friday, 6 June
Cubs 4, Braves 3: Chicago scored once in each of the 7th and 8th innings to tie the game, and Charlie Pick then delivered a two-out RBI double in the bottom of the 9th to steal a win out from under Boston's nose. Boston sprang from the gate when Joe Riggert, Buck Herzog and Ray Powell went triple-double-single to start the game; the Braves scored twice in the inning to put Claude Hendrix onto the back foot right away. The clubs traded scores in the middle innings to make it a 3-1 game as the home team came to bat in the 7th, having managed only four hits against Dick Rudolph, and only one since the 2nd. Fred Merkle and Les Mann led off with singles, but Rudolph got the next two Cubs to sky out to right field. Turner Barber pinch hit for Hendrix and produced the two-out hit that scored a second Cubs run to close the gap to one run. In the 8th, Pick led off with a triple and scored the tying run when Charlie Hollocher followed with a single; Chicago had a chance to go on and take the lead, but couldn't capitalize when the next two batters singled as well but Dana Fillingim (2-4) came on to retire the side for Boston. Bill Killefer led off the bottom of the 9th with a base on balls and was sacrificed to second by PH Pete Kilduff. Max Flack could only pop up to third base, but the next hitter Picked him up with a drive between Riggert and Walton Cruise that sent Killefer home with the winning run. [box]
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