Tigers 7, Nationals 6: Joe Judge's five hits were not enough to overcome poor situational hitting by Washington as the Tigers edged an eventful contest at Griffith Stadium. The teams traded runs early and Washington held a 4-3 lead into the 5th, when Doc Ayers lost the thread. Four of the first five Detroit hitters singled, and the fifth reached when Eddie Foster mishandled a grounder to allow a run to score; another single, a based-loaded walk and a ground out produced three more Tiger runs and a 7-4 lead. Judge, who came into the game struggling mightily with an average below .200, got one of those back with an RBI double in the 7th, and another in exactly the same fashion in the 9th, but Rudy Kallio came off the bench to relieve Howard Ehmke and retire the final two men with Judge left standing on second base as the tying run, and as the 16th runner left on base by Washington on the afternoon. [box].
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Browns 1, Yankees 0: Urban Shocker shut out the Yankees on six hits and Earl Smith delivered the key blow in a briskly-contested game at the Polo Grounds. Shocker (7-1) and Jack Quinn were throwing goose eggs at each other for most of the day, but St. Louis finally broke through in the 7th. Jack Tobin led off with a single, but the next two men could only advance him to third with ground-ball outs. But Smith then laced a ball to center field off of Quinn (4-5) which rolled all the way to the fence for three bases and a run which New York was unable to match. Shocker got into some trouble in the bottom half of the inning when Baby Doll Jacobson fumbled Ping Bodie's grounder to first, but Hank Severeid then gunned out Bodie trying to steal second. Shocker gave four balls to Truck Hannah and then Quinn doubled to left, Hannah rounding third with the potential tying run but getting pegged out at the plate on Tobin's strong throw. New York got one man aboard in each of the 8th and 9th, but Shocker was up the the challenge each time. Tobin and Duffy Lewis were the only players able to collect more than one safety on a day when the pitchers had the upper hand. [box]
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