Reds 4, Cubs 0: Slim Sallee pitched his second shutout of the season and Heinie Groh and Larry Kopf had three hits each as Cincinnati topped Chicago. Kopf knocked in all four Reds runs of the game, grounding out after Greasy Neale's triple in the 2nd, singling home Groh in the 6th and then lacing a two-run single in the 8th. Sallee, meanwhile, allowed one hit in the first four innings, and was only ever in any difficulty when he allowed two one-out singles in each of the 5th and 9th innings. The Reds' veteran lefty didn't allow a free pass, running his streak of frames without issuing a walk to twenty-one in a row. Lee Magee had four of the seven Cub hits. [box]
1919 NL - Games of Tuesday, 1 July
Pirates 2, Cardinals 1: On a day when the two teams could combine for only a total of four hits, and starters Bill Doak and Erksine Mayer both flirted with immortality, it was untimely defensive lapses that relegated St. Louis to a painful defeat at home. Mayer set down twenty of the first twenty-one, an error producing the only baserunner, while Doak had allowed just a walk through the first seven frames. Thus the game headed to the 8th with neither side having recorded a safe hit, and the Forbes Field crowd was buzzing with expectation that one (or both!) of the pitching men might record an historic feat. But Rogers Hornsby led off the STL 8th with a double and, two outs later, scored the game's first run on Frank Snyder's single. Perhaps the visitors relaxed after finally getting on the scoresheet, and with Doak (5-8) looking dominant, but Billy Southworth singled as the first man up for the Pirates and shortstop Doc Lavan then threw the ball into the stands behind first base on a grounder off the bat of Hooks Warner. There were now two men in scoring position with none out, and the crowd's thoughts of tomorrow's legacy were now quickly turning to panic over today's outcome. Vic Saier kept the suspense to a minimum by immediately following Warner with a single to center that scored both runners after Cliff Heathcote fumbled the pickup and denied himself any chance to cut down the go-ahead run at the plate. Mayer (6-4) said "thank you very much" to his teammates and retired the top three in the Cardinal batting order in the 9th to secure the win for Pittsburgh. [box]
1960-61 NHL Replay - week ending 29 October 1960
It's the return engagement between the two League leaders and Boston continues the chase for its first win of the season . . .
1960-61 NHL Replay - week ending 22 October 1960
Things begin to shake out amongst the early contenders as the Hawks and Habs meet for the first time, and the two Canadian teams clash in Toronto . . .
The Splendid Splinter Project - 26 July 1941
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Bob Feller and the Indians somehow outlast an epic spell of command issues to ride an Oscar Grimes home run to a 7-2 win over the Sox at Fenway.
1919 NL - Pitching Leaders through 30 June
Pitching leaderboards in the National League through the games of Monday, 30 June . . .
1919 NL - Batting Leaders through 30 June
Offensive statistical Leaders in the National League through the games of Monday, 30 June . . .
1919 NL - League and Team Statistics through 30 June
League and team statistical totals in the National League as the campaign heads into the dog days of summer . . .
1919 NL - Games of Monday, 30 June
Braves 3, Giants 2: A two-out wild pitch brought the winning run across the plate in the bottom of the 16th inning, as Boston edged one from New York in a long afternoon's work at Braves Field. The visiting Giants led by two runs after five innings, Art Fletcher doubling home one in the 1st and Benny Kauff doing likewise in the 5th, and Red Causey carried that 2-0 lead intact through seven frames. Tony Boeckel led of the Boston 8th with a home run but, when Causey retired the first two men in the bottom of the 9th on routine ground balls, it looked like McGraw's men were going to see out the victory. But Walton Cruise and Jim Thorpe singled to give Walter Holke a chance to save the game with Cruise standing upon the second base. And save it he did, at least temporarily, with a humpbacked liner into left field that dropped in front of George Burns for a game-tying single. Ray Keating was doing heroic work on the hill for the Braves, pitching around seven walks to complete thirteen innings before being lifted for a pinch-hitter when Boston put a man on base thanks to an error in the home half of the 13th. Larry Doyle singled with one away in the top of the 15th, stole second and took third on Art Wilson's wild throw, but Doyle broke for home when Kauff followed with a ground ball to first and was thrown out at the plate by Holke. Wilson led off the bottom of the 15th with a walk against Joe Oeschger (0-2), the third NY pitcher of the day, and was moved to second base by a sacrifice from Braves relief pitcher Dana Fillingim (4-4). Joe Riggert followed with a dribbler in front of the plate that Mike Gonzalez hustled to chuck to first for the second out, but Wilson took third for what turned out to be a critical base. Buck Herzog was next to bat, but all he needed to do was watch as Oeschger's second delivery skipped wide of the dish and past Gonzalez - Wilson struck out for home plate and slid across before the Giants' catcher could retrieve the wayward pitch to end the longest game in the League thus far in the campaign. Ross Youngs had safe hits in eight trips to the plate for the Gothams, but NY managed only two hits in their fourteen attempts with runners in scoring position. [box]
The Splendid Splinter Project - 6 July 1941
(This game was played as part of The Splendid Splinter co-op project to replay Ted Williams' .406 season of 1941.)
Red Sox starter Dick Newsome allowed eleven of the seventeen Nationals he faced to reach base as Washington scored fourteen times in the first five innings en route to a laugher in the lid-lifter of a doubleheader at Fenway Park.
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