Indians 2, Athletics 1: Bill Wambsganss singled through a drawn-in infield in the bottom of the 11th inning to score Elmer Smith with the winning run in a tense ball game at League Park. Rollie Naylor and Johnny Enzmann were outstanding on the mound, each pitching into extra frames while allowing but a single early tally to besmirch their ledgers. Cleveland scored in their first turn at the bat when Smith's ground out allowed Ray Chapman to score, and Philadelphia equalized in the 3rd on three straight singles capped off by Braggo Roth's RBI hit. The only real threat to score in the regular nine innings after that came when Wambsganss led off the 7th with a double and went to third on Johnston's infield hit. But Naylor bore down and got Steve O'Neill to ground to third with the infield in, and Enzmann to pop on the infield, before escaping completely on Jack Graney's grounder to first base. In the 11th, the As looked to have a golden opportunity when George Burns and Joe Dugan singled, and Fred Thomas beat out a sacrifice bunt to load the bases with one away. That brought Elmer Myers in for the tiring Enzmann and he got Cy Perkins to hit one sharply at third sacker Larry Gardner, who fired home for the force on Burns. Al Wingo came in to hit for Naylor, but swung weakly at a third strike from Myers to waste the opportunity. And that would come back to haunt the last-placed Athletics, as reliever Bob Geary would issue a free pass to Smith with one out in the bottom half and then Gardner would stroke a single to right that moved Smith to third base, With the infielders drawn in to cut down the potential winning run, Wambsganss lined one into left field to send the crowd home in good cheer. Dugan had an eventful day for the visiting team, collecting three hits but also grounding into a double play with two men on in the 8th and making his seventh error of the season. [box]
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White Sox 3, Yankees 0: Red Faber was spotless on the slab for Chicago (0 r, 0 bb) and got all the support he needed from Hap Felsch and Swede Risberg (two hits each) in order to whitewash the Yankees. New York got only one runner to second base the entire afternoon against Faber's deliveries (a two-out double by Wally Pipp in the 4th) while the White Sox were scoring three single runs, each of them crossing the plate on a productive out (two SFs and a ground out). [box]
Browns 9, Nationals 6: Seven different Browns knocked in a run, and five had two hits, as St.
Louis used a five-run 6th inning to pull away from Washington at
Sportsman's Park. The Big innings featured a Jimmy Austin triple, a George
Sisler double, and two Washington fielding errors. The Nats scored four of
their own in the 8th, but it was too little, too late. Howie Shanks had
three hits for the visitors. [box]
Red Sox 6, Tigers 3: Stuffy McInnis and Everett Scott each drove home a pair of runs
as Boston jumped out to an early advantage and then held on
behind the pitching of Carl Mays. McInnnis and Scott knocked in
the three runs in a 3rd inning rally that saw the Sox take a 5-0
lead and Scott pushed across an insurance run on a fielder's
choice in the 7th after Detroit had closed the gap to two runs.
Mays retired twelve of the last fourteen Tigers to earn the
complete-game victory as Howard Ehmke suffered his sixth defeat
of the young campaign. [box]
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