Tigers 10, White Sox 9: A long afternoon at Navin Field ended when Ralph Young singled home Oscar Stanage in the last of the 11th to give Detroit a wild win over the White Sox. When the Tigers scored five times in the 4th to take a 7-2 lead it looked to be a stress-free afternoon for the club and the crowd, but Chicago stormed back with three in the 6th (two-run triple by Ray Schalk) and four in the 7th (two-run triple by Hap Felsch) to leap to the front by a score of 9-7. But this was not a day for holding the hitters down, and Detroit scored once in the 8th when Bobby Veach tripled and scored on Harry Heilmann's single, and again in the bottom of the 9th on a Stanage double, a groundout and Donie Bush's run-scoring fly ball. The home team got two aboard in the 10th and failed to score, but Howard Ehmke's (5-9) sterling relief stint gave them a chance to try again in the 11th. Stanage started the inning against Dickey Kerr (4-2) with a single, and Ben Dyer and Bush also reached to load the bases with no outs. The suspense didn't last long as Young got his first hit of the game when it counted most, looping the ball into left field to send Stanage home with the game-winner. On an afternoon where there were many offensive laurels to hand out, that list was topped by the four hits by Heilmann (pushing his batting average to .383) and Chick Shorten. [box]
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Indians 4, Browns 2: The bottom of the Cleveland order did the damage necessary to back George Uhle on the mound as Cleveland defeated St. Louis. The Indians jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first four innings and it was Doc Johnston and Steve O'Neill who drove the offense; in the 2nd Johnston singled and O'Neill doubled as a run scored and, in the 4th, Johnston tripled in a run and then scored on O'Neill's single. The Browns got within one in the 7th when they bunched three of their six hits off of Uhle (5-2) but Cleveland cushioned the lead again in the bottom half when O'Neill doubled and scored on a pair of groundouts. Jack Tobin had three hits for the Browns. [box]
Red Sox 16, Yankees 13: On a day when no lead ever seemed as if it would be safe, Boston rode a nine-run third inning to victory over New York. The Yankees jumped out 3-0 in the 1st behind Wally Pipp's two-run triple but this would be erased and then some when Boston came to bat in the 3rd. Sam Jones led off with a double, Harry Hooper walked, and then Roger Peckinpaugh kicked Ossie Vitt's grounder. It looked as if Ernie Shore (1-3) might limit the damage when he retired the next two Sox at the cost of only a single run, but he walked two of the next three and the snowball started rolling downhill from there with a dropped third strike, a single and an error, a walk, and a two-run base hit by Amos Strunk. (Babe Ruth, surprisingly, made two of the three outs in the big inning.) The Yankees got three in the bottom half on Duffy Lewis' home run, and got as close as 9-8 before Boston scored three times in the 7th and four times in the 8th (Ruth two-run triple) to run clear. The fireworks weren't quite over, however, as New York scored five of their own in the bottom of the 8th to get within reach once again. Herb Pennock came on in the bottom of the 9th to relieve an exhausted mound corps and end the madness with a scoreless inning. Harry Hopper led Boston with four base hits, and Jack Barry knocked in four runs; Lewis had three hits and three RBI. [box]
Nationals 6, Athletics 3: Washington collected all but one its eight hits in two scoring innings, and rode that efficiency and Jim Shaw's pitching to a home win. The A's got out to the quick start, scoring twice in the 1st on Red Shannon's two-out single and once in the 2nd on Cy Perkins' triple and Rollie Naylor's sacrifice fly. But Shaw (6-6) was all business after that, and his teammates got back into the game in the 5th as, with the help of three Naylor (1-2) free passes and an error, Washington turned three hits into three runs. In the 8th, a Mike Menosky triple was the key blow in another three-run inning that set Shaw up to finish the game off after Philadelphia got the tying run to the plate. A's catcher Cy Perkins had the big day at the plate, stroking four hits to raise his batting average by 30 points. [box]
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