1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 27 May

Yankees 11, Browns 1: Frank Baker lived up to his nickname with a pair of home runs, and New York scored in each of the first six innings on their way to a rout of the Browns at Sportsman's Park. Baker's first clout put the first runs on the board in the top of the 1st, driving home Wally Pipp with two outs, and his solo shot in the 4th made the score 6-0 in favor of the Yanks. A four-run outburst in the 6th, aided by four free passes from the usually reliable Allen Sothoron, salted the game away entirely. Frank was not the only New Yorker to have fun at the Browns' expense, as Duffy Lewis and Ping Bodie each had three hits and Bodie crossed the plate three times. [box]

Frank Baker, NYA

White Sox 7, Nationals 1: Buck Weaver and Chick Gandil each had three hits, and Hap Felsch homered and knocked home three, in a one-sided contest at Comiskey Park. Chicago scored three in the 3rd (with two of CHI's three SB on the day) and three more in the 5th (Felsch's homer and doubles from Gandil and Ray Schalk) to back Eddie Cicotte (9 ip, 9 h, 1 r, 2 bb, 2 so) to his AL-leading sixth win. Patsy Gharrity hit his first homer of the season for Washington. [box]

Indians 4, Red Sox 3: Jack Graney singled home Steve O'Neill (3-for-4 with a double) to cap a two-out rally in the bottom of the 10th inning and give Cleveland a narrow home win over the Red Sox. The clubs traded first-inning runs (the Tribe stealing two bases in the frame) before Graney's two-out RBI hit in the 4th gave the Indians the lead. But the Bostons scored twice in the 8th on Roxy Walter's two-out double to put their noses in front ever so briefly before a bases -loaded groundout by George Uhle evened the honors again in the bottom half. In the bottom of the 10th, Ray Caldwell got the first two outs before O'Neill and Uhle both singled and then Graney, who came into the game struggling at below .200, stroked his third hit of the game for the sudden victory. [box]

Tigers 8, Athletics 7: Harry Heilmann singled over a shallow infield with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 13th inning to end a long and eventful afternoon in favor of the Tigers. The two clubs traded scoring blows early and often, with a four-run Detroit 3rd (Cobb with the big two-run single) balanced by Joe Dugan's two-run home run in the 7th. When Dugan drove home another in the top of the 9th to give Philadelphia a 7-5 lead, it looked as if the A's would steal one away from home, but Bobby Veach delivered a two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the 9th to send the game to extra innings. Both clubs threatened to score in each of the 11th and 12th innings, but the scorecard stayed clean until the 13th when Ralph Young singled with one out and moved to third on Cobb's hit before Veach was intentionally walked to load the bases. Heilmann then hit a soft line drive onto the outfield grass to push Young across with the winning tally. George Burns had five hits for Philadelphia, while Young and Cobb had four apiece for Detroit. [box]