Athletics 2, Browns 0: The St. Louis hitters could do nothing with Socks Seibold, so that single runs in the 2nd and 8th innings were enough to give the Athletics the win. Philadelphia took the lead when Cy Perkins drew a bases-loaded walk in the 2nd, but Seibold and Carl Weilman were on top of their games and there would be no more scoring until the bottom of the 8th. The A's scratched out an insurance run when Braggo Roth was plunked by Weilman to start the inning, advanced twice on groundouts and scored on George Burns' single. But as fine as Weilman (6-2) pitched (8 ip, 7 h, 3 bb, 3 so), Seibold (2-0) was better - if it were not for Burns' error in the 8th he would have retired the final thirteen men, not giving the visitors even the scent of a chance to get back into the contest. Whitey Witt had two hits and a stolen base atop the Philadelphia lineup. [box]
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| Socks Seibold, PHA |
Red Sox 7, White Sox 4: Harry Hopper, Babe Ruth and Everett Scott pounded out three hits apiece to power Boston to a win over the League leaders at Fenway Park. All three players singled during a five-run 3rd inning against Frank Shellenback (1-1) that pushed Boston to a 6-0 lead; Sam Jones (3-4) gave three of those back in the top of the 4th, but then settled himself to go the distance despite walking five. Eddie Collins had two hits, two walks and a stolen base for Chicago. [box]
Yankees 5, Tigers 3: New York sprang suddenly to life (with some help from the Tiger defense) with a five-run 8th inning to steal victory from the very clutches of defeat at the Polo Grounds. Hooks Dauss had stifled the Gothams on six hits over seven innings, and got Wally Pipp to ground out to begin the 7th. But Babe Ellison then muffed Del Pratt's two-hopper and things came unwound for Dauss (4-5) from there - he walked Ping Bodie and Truck Hannah and then PH Al Wickland singled home the first run of the inning. Sammy Vick followed with a two-run base hit to give the Yanks the lead and a Roger Peckinpaugh sac fly and Frank Baker triple pushed the lead to 5-1. Detroit made it interesting against Pete Schneider in the 9th, with two walks and a pinch-hit two-run single by Chick Shorten, but Schneider got Ralph Young to fly out to shallow left for the final out. Vick and Del Pratt had two hits each for New York. [box]
Nationals 4, Indians 0: Walter Johnson handcuffed Cleveland, allowing just four hits and two walks, and Eddie Foster rapped four hits in support as Washington blanked Cleveland. The Indians only got one man to second base in the first seven innings, when Val Picinich's two-out passed ball in the 4th shuffled Tris Speaker into scoring position as Johnson (7-3) had them pounding the ball into the ground (twelve groundouts in the first seven stanzas). Guy Morton (4-5) was also throwing blanks for Cleveland until WAS finally broke the seal on the scorecard in the 7th. With one out, Johnson drew a walk off of his counterpart and advanced to third on Joe Judge's double. Foster then delivered his fourth hit, and the game's first run, with a single up the middle; after Clyde Milan walked, Sam Rice delivered the big blow by singling home two more runs. Barney got into a second-and-third, one-out jam in the 8th but got Ray Chapman to pop up and them whistled a fast one past Speaker for strike three, and pitched a 1-2-3 9th inning to close it out. [box]
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