Nationals 11, Yankees 4: Joe Judge had four hits, including a triple and a homer, and drove in three runs as Washington buried New York under an avalanche of late runs. The Yankees had built an early 3-0 lead on Frank Baker's two-run single and Sammy Vick's RBI triple while Bob Shawkey pitched five shutout innings. But the Nationals scored once in the 6th on Val Picinich's 5th homer, and then the floodgates opened in the 7th as four straight hits led to three runs that put WAS in front, and four hits and two walks in the 8th resulted in five more scores that put the game away. Picinich had three hits and four RBI and Baker had three hits for the Yanks. [box]
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Yankees 8, Nationals 4: Sammy Vick went 5-for-5 out of the leadoff spot and the Yankees used fourteen hits to distance Washington at the Polo Grounds. Vick's third hit of the game, an RBI single in the 4th, capped a three-run inning that brought NY back from an early deficit and his fourth led to an insurance run in the 8th. Jack Quinn (8-5) went the distance allowing six hits and two earned runs, and Duffy Lewis knocked in a pair of runs. Patsy Gharrity had three hits for Washington. [box]
Athletics 5, Red Sox 4: Philadelphia stunned Boston with four runs in the top of the 9th inning to transform a near-sure defeat into a comeback victory in front of a hostile crowd. The Red Sox had piled together five hits in the 3rd inning, including a two-run single by Everett Scott to jump out to a 4-0 lead and were comfortably ahead 4-1 behind Herb Pennock going into the final frame. But after the first out was recorded, Pennock showed signs of fatigue, issuing free passes to the next two men before apparently recovering to retire Whitey Witt for the second out. But Fred Thomas (three hits, two RBI) then struck a two-run double and Red Shannon bobbled Tillie Walker's grounder to put runners at the corners. Pennock (2-6) could not find the final out as Amos Strunk and Dick Burrus then singled to score both men and give the A's the lead, making a winner of Walt Kinney (3-6), who pitched without blemish after the initial Boston outburst. [box]
Red Sox 11, Athletics 8: Del Gainer knocked in four runs and Babe Ruth scored three times as Boston prevailed in a slugfest at Fenway Park. The Red Sox broke open an early 4-4 deadlock with a three-run 4th (Wally Schang two-run single) that made the score 8-4, but the Athletics answered with four of their own in the 6th (Joe Dugan two-run single) to tie the game once again. But the scoring was not done - Boston got a pair in their half of the 6th when Ruth tripled, Gainer singled, stole second and took third on Cy Perkins' errant throw, and scored on a groundout. Another Gainer RBI single in the 8th would pad the lead, and Ray Caldwell would come on to pitch the 9th and earn his second save of the season. Dugan, Perkins and Fred Thomas each had three hits for the A's while Merlin Kopp walked three times. [box]
Tigers 2, White Sox 1: Bob Jones' sacrifice fly in the4th inning proved to be the margin of victory as Bernie Boland got the better of Eddie Cicotte in a hurlers' duel at Comiskey Park. Chicago scored first when Cicotte led off the 3rd with a base hit. Nemo Leibold doubled and Buck Weaver pushed across a run with a ground out. But the Tigers came right back at Cicotte (11-5) in the following frame - Bobby Veach tripled, Harry Heilmann singled him home and then Heilmann also scored when Babe Ellison singled and Jones hit a medium-deep fly ball to Leibold in right field. And that was it - Detroit only managed two hits the rest of the way against the Sox knuckleballer, while Boland also held Chicago to just two safeties over the final six innings. The only drama to speak of came when Joe Jackson doubled with one out in bottom of the 9th, but Boland (10-2) whiffed Hap Felsch and got Chick Gandil to bounce routinely to short to end the game. Heilmann and Fred McMullin were the only batsmen to register two hits for the afternoon. [box]
White Sox 8, Tigers 4: Detroit took an early 3-0 lead but could not withstand the pressure of the White Sox attack as Chicago scored three times in the 4th and again in the 7th to pull away for the split of the double-header. The Tigers got off to the jump when Ty Cobb, in his first game back after missing two weeks dealing with the effects of boils on his right leg, slashed his tenth triple of the season with one out in the 3rd. Bobby Veach then walked and stole second, and scored a Harry Heilmann single and a Dickey Kerr wild pitch plated both men. But Chicago got level in the 4th with the help of Fred McMullin's two-run triple and took the lead for good in the 7th when two walks set the table for a Joe Jackson (three hits, three RBI) two-run two-bagger and a Chick Gandil RBI hit. Dickey Kerr (6-2) recovered from early troubles to shut Detroit down over the final three innings and preserve the lead. [box]
Browns 6, Indians 4: George Sisler's three-run home run capped a four-run 5th inning that propelled St. Louis to a win over Cleveland. The Browns trailed 3-2 when they put two men on with two away in the 5th; Jack Tobin then singled in a run before Sisler belted his third circuit clout of the year to give St. Louis a 6-3 lead. While the Indians got one runs back in the bottom half on two singles and a ground out, Bert Gallia (6-6) steadied the ship and pitched his way out of trouble all of the way to the end. Tobin also homered off of loser Jim Bagby (6-8), and the first five men in the Browns' order had two hits apiece. [box]
Browns 5, Indians 4: Joe Harris. making a rare start at shortstop with Ray Chapman out of the lineup, committed three errors that led to four unearned runs which doomed Stan Coveleski (5-9) and the Indians. Harris booted ground balls by two of the first three Browns to bat in the 2nd to load the bases and Wally Mayer and Jimmy Austin made CLE pay for those transgressions with two-run hits that shot St. Louis in front. Cleveland fought back with four of their own on six hits in the 5th, but Joe Gedeon doubled home Austin with two outs in the 7th to give the Browns the edge again and this time they made it stick, thanks to two innings of scoreless relief from Dave Davenport. [box]
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