1919 NL - Pitching Leaders through 15 June

Pitching leaderboards in the National League through the games of Sunday, 15 June . . .

1919 NL - Batting Leaders through 15 June

Offensive statistical Leaders in the National League through the games of Sunday, 15 June . . .

1919 NL Players of the Week - 15 June

The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the National League during the week of 9-15 June are (boldface denotes a League-leading total) . . .

1919 NL - Games of Sunday, 15 June

Robins 5, Cardinals 0: Leon Cadore allowed only two St Louis singles and retired twenty-one straight men on his way to an easy win in front of the Cardinal crowd. Brooklyn pounded out thirteen hits (all singles as well), four of which came in succession to start the 4th inning and score the first two runs of the ballgame. One more in the 8th, and two in the 9th, provided some padding but none of that was going to be necessary with Cadore (5-3) whipping through the Cards like a blackjack dealer. He allowed a 1st-inning knock to Milt Stock, and STL didn't record another safe hit until Doc Lavan singled with two outs in the 8th. He walked no one, while fanning five and faced just thirty men on the afternoon. Jimmy Johnston drove in two runs for the Robins with a pair of hits. [box]

1919 NL - Games of Saturday, 14 June

Giants 7, Cubs 0: Fred Toney throttled the Chicago Nationals on three singles and New York hitters teed off on League ERA leader Hippo Vaughn for thirteen hits in an easy Giant win at Weeghman Park. In what was was billed as a rematch of their legendary double no-hit matchup two seasons ago, Vaughn never really got to grips with the Giant offense. The visitors left runners in scoring position in each of the first two innings and then started the 3rd with three straight singles, and Larry Doyle's sac fly then opened the scoring. The Cubs got their first hit of the game when Max Flack led off the 4th with a single, but was almost immediately erased attempting to steal his way into scoring position. In the 5th, NY again touched Vaughn (6-6) for three straight base hits to begin the inning, and this time the Giants turned them into a crooked number - the third hit, from Benny Kauff, scored a run, Art Fletcher hit a sacrifice fly, and Lew McCarty tripled across a third to make it a 4-0 game. The Cubs got another single in the 7th, and a second from Flack in the 9th, but didn't come close to scoring against Toney (2-2) on either occasion while the Giants were padding their lead with three more runs in the late innings while the Cubs fell to pieces (three errors in the final three innings). [box] [broadcast]

1919 NL - Games of Friday, 13 June

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) . . .