1919 AL - Games of Monday, 2 June

Indians 10, Browns 1: Stan Coveleski pitched a one-hitter, and Earl Smith and Steve O'Neill each had four hits as Cleveland got five runs in the 4th and then cantered to victory. The bottom third of the Indians lineup went a combined 8-for-12 with six runs scored and five knocked in, while St. Louis could manage to dent the scorecard with only a Baby Doll Jacobson single in the 6th, after which Coveleski (who walked four men) set down the final ten Browns in order. [box]

Stan Coveleski, CLE

White Sox 6, Tigers 0: Red Faber shut out the Tigers on six hits, and six different White Sox had at least two safeties as part of a fourteen-hit attack. Faber and Howard Ehmke were locked in a close one, with Chicago leading 1-0, when Ehmke faltered in the 6th. Eddie Collins started the inning off with a single and stole his league-leading 12th base to reach second; with men at first and third and two outs, the Sox got back-to-back RBI singles from Swede Risberg and Ray Schalk to stretch their lead to three. That would be a couple more than Faber needed, however, as he escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the bottom half and then again in the 9th, by which time Hap Felsch's two-run triple had rendered the outcome a foregone conclusion. Joe Jackson went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. [box]

Tigers 7, White Sox 2: The Tigers took advantage of four Chicago fielding miscues to score four unearned runs that were the difference at home. Lefty Williams was his own worst enemy in the 1st, dropping Donie Bush's comebacker to start the inning and then surrendering a two-out, two-run triple to Harry Heilmann. In the 5th, Ty Cobb singled, stole second and went to third on Byrd Lynn's wild throw, and scored on Bobby Veach's single and, in the 6th, Bush again led off with a grounder that wouldn't stick in the glove (this time it was Buck Weaver at third) ad scored on a wild pitch and sacrifice fly. Bernie Boland was the beneficiary on the slab, going the distance and allowing seven hits and two walks. [box]

Athletics 6, Yankees 5: Cy Perkins led off the bottom of the 9th inning with a home run off of Bob Shawkey to finish off a Philadelphia rally which brought them all the way back from three runs down and sent the Shibe Park cranks into a frenzy in the opening half of a double-bill.  New York too an early 5-2 lead behind three free passes from Socks Seibold and two RBI from Wally Pipp, but Red Shannon doubled home a pair in the 6th and Roger Peckinpaugh's error allowed the tying run to come across in the 7th. Charlie Eckert held the Yanks at bay for two innings, and then Perkins began the 9th with a long fly ball that stayed just fair into the seats down the left-field foul line. Peckinpaugh walked three times for the visitors, and Shannon and Whitey Witt joined Perkins with a pair of hits for the A's. [box]

Yankees 18, Athletics 4: For the second time in four days, the Yankees scored 18 runs in the second-half of a twinbill, this time piling seventeen hits, seven walks and SIX Athletic errors into an embarrassing Philadelphia performance immediately following their heroics earlier in the afternoon. Almost everyone in the New York likeup got in on the fun. with Wally Pipp belting two doubles, a homer and six RBI, Sammy Vick doubling, homering and driving in five, and Duffy Lewis taking advantage of the short Shibe Park dimensions in left to loft a pair of home runs and score four times. Hank Thormahlen put in a workmanlike seven innings to get the decision, and Roy Grover had three hits for Philadelphia that went largely unnoticed. [box]

Red Sox 4, Nationals 2: Carl Mays was strong on the hill again for Boston, and George McBride's fumble proved fatal as a single bad inning cost Washington at Griffith Stadium. The Nationals had a 1-0 lead when Amos Strunk singled for Boston with one out in the 4th. Bae Ruth then skipped one to McBride at short, who failed to get him glove down in time and there were two aboard. After the free-swinging Stuffy McInnis walked to load the bases, Wally Schang singled, Mike McNally doubled and Everett Scott grounded out to wind the scoreboard four time and give Mays the lead he needed. While McBride tried to balance the scales with an RBI double in the 6th, that was the only threat Washington could mount as Mays went the distance. [box]