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Yankees 7, Red Sox 6: Frank Baker singled in Sammy Vick in the bottom of the 10th to complete a furious late-inning comeback by New York. Boston led 6-2 after scoring twice in the top of the 8th on Babe Ruth's 11th home run and Carl Mays had been spotless on the mound after surrendering a pair of 1st-inning runs. but the Yanks struck for three in the 8th, with Truck Hannah doubling home two, and then scored the tying run with two outs in the bottom of the 9th when Ping Bodie's two-bagger chased across Wally Pipp. Jack Quinn (7-5) pitched two perfect innings in relief of Hank Thormahlen, and Sam Jones (4-6) couldn't match this performance for Boston - he walked Vick with one away in the 10th and then, one out later, served up Baker's game-winning base hit. Frank Gilhooley hit his first homer of the season for the Red Sox. [box]
Red Sox 4, Yankees 2: The second game of the double-header at the Polo Grounds also went to extra innings, but this time it was Boston scoring in the 10th. With runners at the corners and one out in the top of the 10th, Miller Huggins decided to give Babe Ruth (two-for-three with a home run) a free pass to load the bases, and this backfired when Bob Shawkey could not find the strike zone and walked sharp-eyed Wally Schang to force in the go-ahead run. When Shawkey (7-6) then muffed a comebacker by Everett Scott, the Sox had a two-run lead which Carl Mays (6-5) - pitching both ends of the twinbill! - made stand up. Boston would have found a loss a bitter pill to swallow after leaving nineteen men on base from eleven base hits and nine bases on balls. [box]
Nationals 6, Athletics 4: Patsy Gharrity singled home two runs in the 9th inning to give Washington the win over Philadelphia. The Nationals were on their way to a comfortable, efficient win as they went into the bottom of the 7th leading 4-0 behind Jim Shaw, who had allowed only two hits in the first six frames. But Shaw made a key fielding error in that inning, helping the A's score four times to bring the game to a deadlock. But Washington responded in their final at-bat, loading the bases with two out for Gharrity who grounded one through the left side to score a pair; Shaw (7-7) was perfect in both the 8th and 9th to secure the win. Gharrity had three hits in the game, and Shaw hit his second home run of the season. [box]
Athletics 3, Nationals 2: Scott Perry went the distance at home, holding Washington to two runs, while Cy Perkins doubled and homered for Philadelphia. The game was tied at one apiece when Perkins hit a long ball off of Eric Erickson (0-1) to begin the 7th and the A's then added another on Tillie Walker's two-out RBI single. Perry put two men on in the 8th, and allowed a run in the 9th on three singles, but held on for dear life to retire Joe Judge on an infield fly with two men on base. [box]
Browns 8, White Sox 7: George Sisler and Jack Tobin had three hits each to power second-place St. Louis to a high-scoring win over the first-place White Sox. Chicago led 3-2 before the Brown erupted for five runs in the 6th against Lefty Williams (10-5); Tobin and Sisler started that inning with singles, and Wally Gerber and Jimmy Austin followed later with two-run hits. Sisler homered the next inning to give the home team an 8-3 lead, and that would turn out to be barely enough as the White Sox rallied for four in the 8th against Urban Shocker (9-2) to erase all but one run of that deficit. But Ernie Koob came on to wriggle free of the predicament and then set down Chicago in order in the 9th to save the day for St. Louis. Buck Weaver drove in three runs and hit his first four-bagger of the year for the White Sox. [box]
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