White Sox 4, Nationals 2: Happy Felsch doubled, stole a base, and drove in two runs and Eddie Cicotte found a way to pitch around sub-standard stuff on the way to his tenth victory of the season. Chicago scored single runs in the 2nd and 4th while Cicotte was working around a base hit in every inning yet keeping the scorecard clean. After the White Sox scored two more in the 8th on Felsch's two-out, two-run single, the Nationals finally dented Cicotte with three straight two-out hits that plated two runs, but he managed to get the final out of the inning and then got help from Dickey Kerr to secure the final out of the game. Nemo Leibold had three hits for Chicago and Sam Rice turned the same trick for Washington. [box]
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Browns 4, Red Sox 1: George Sisler's two-run triple in the 1st inning was all Allen Sothoron needed to button up Boston in a tidy victory at Fenway Park. St. Louis scored three runs against Bill James (3-2) in the opening stanza when Joe Gedeon doubled with one out and Jack Tobin walked ahead of Sisler's drive to the center-field fence, Sisler then scoring himself on Wally Schang's passed ball. Sothoron (5-6) was tough on the Red Sox all day, allowing only five hits, although his control was spotty at times and his walk to Harry Hopper in the 3rd resulted in Boston's only run after Hooper stole second and scored on Ossie Vitt's single. Gedeon and Sisler each had two hits, as did Amos Strunk for the Sox. [box]
Indians 3, Yankees 1: It was a very similar script in New York, as the Indians scored three times in the 1st inning and then rode the right arm of Jim Bagby to a low-scoring win. Defense was the undoing of the Yankees - surprisingly from their stalwart keystone combination - as Roger Peckinpaugh's miscue with two outs in the opening inning kept the line moving for Cleveland and allowed Bill Wambsganss to single in a run, and then another fumble by Del Pratt enabled Larry Gardner to score their third run. Bagby held New York off the scoresheet until Frank Baker drilled his eight home run of the year, with no one aboard, in the 8th but shut the door on the Yankees from there. Del Pratt had three of the Yankees' six hits. [box]
Athletics 8, Tigers 6: Philadelphia used a five-run 7th-inning to turn the tables on the Tigers and capture a come-from-behind win in front of the Shibe Park faithful. Detroit grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck from the drop, as Athletics starter Walk Kinney struggled to get into the flow - Bobby Veach singled in a run in the 1st, an error by George Burns set up a two-run double from Oscar Stanage in the 2nd, and Harry Heilmann yanked a ball out of the park for two more runs in the 3rd. With the score 5-2 in the 7th, and Detroit hurler Hooks Dauss apparently in control, the Philadelphia offense sprang to life. Kinney, who had righted the ship on the mound to pitch four consecutive scoreless innings, started it off with a single that would be the first of four straight one-base hits that got two runs across the plate. Tillie Walker doubled in another run, but Dauss retired the next two men and looked to escape without further damage and the game tied, but Joe Dugan struck with the big two-run single that flipped the lead in the A's favor. Kinney got into immediate trouble in the 8th, allowing hits to the first three batters and one run, but Tom Rogers came on with men on second and third and one out and got Ben Dyer to fly to shallow center and then struck out Oscar Stanage. Rogers then walked two men in the 9th, but held on for the victory. Walker had three hits for the winners, and Heilmann batted in three for the losers. [box]
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