Red Sox 11, Athletics 1: Babe Ruth blasted a double, triple and two home runs - missing the cycle by a single! - and drove home seven men in a one-man demolition of Philadelphia at Fenway Park that gave Boston a doubleheader sweep. The Babe tripled in a run and scored in the 1st; doubled in a run and scored in the 3rd; hit a three-run homer in the 4th; added a two-run homer in the 6th; and walked in the 7th. Meanwhile, Bill James (5-3) was scattering seven Athletic hits in a complete-game effort. Harry Hooper scored four runs batting in front of the Babe and Whitey Witt made three errors - giving him four on the day - for Philadelphia. [box]
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Red Sox 3, Athletics 2: Whitey Witt's error with two out in the bottom of the 8th allowed Mike McNally to single home the go-ahed run as Boston edged Philadelphia. The Red Sox had tied the game at two in the previous inning when McNally doubled and scored on Harry Hooper's two-out single. After Tom Rogers (6-5) retired the first two Sox in the 8th, Everett Scott drew a walk and then Waite Hoyt bounced a ball to second which Witt could not handle; this moved Scott to second, from whence he ran home when McNally looped a ball into right field. Hoyt (3-0) then retired the A's in order in the 9th. [box]
White Sox 6, Tigers 1: Red Faber tossed a complete-game seven-hitter and Nemo Leibold's triple kicked off a two-out, three-run 7th-inning rally against Hooks Dauss (4-9) that propelled Chicago to a victory over Detroit. The White Sox were leading 3-1 in a taut affair when Leibold knocked his first three-base hit of the year with two away in the 7th. Eddie Collins then singled him home and, after a double by Buck Weaver, Joe Jackson singled home two more runs. Faber (8-4) then held Detroit hitless over the final two innings. Ray Schalk had two hits and two RBI. [box]
Yankees 6, Nationals 3: Wally Pipp had three hits, Duffy Lewis drove in three runs, and Yankee pitching held Washington scoreless into the 9th inning. Lewis' three-run home run (8) in the bottom of the 1st got things started for New York and Roger Peckinpaugh's two-run double in the 8th gave them a 6-0 lead. Hank Thormahlen, on on relief of Pete Schneider (1-0) after the spot starter gave them seven shutout innings, ran into some problems in the 9th when Val Picinich led off with his 6th home run and the Nats added three more hits and two more runs before they could be retired. Three errors, leading to three unearned runs, did not help the Washington cause. [box]
Nationals 9, Yankees 4: Washington scores five runs in the 8th to blow open a close game and salvage a split of the twin bill. New York had just taken the lead of a see-saw affair on Roger Peckinpaugh's RBI triple in the bottom of the 7th, but the first three Nats to bat in the 8th singled to score the tying run and then Mike Menosky blasted his first home run of the season off of Bob Shawkey to score three more and give Washington some breathing space. After struggling to get through the middle innings, the offensive outburst breathed new life into the arm of Jim Shaw (8-7), who had hit his 3rd home run of the year earlier, and he retired the final seven Yanks to finish the deal. [box]
Indians 8, Browns 5: In a contest that saw the teams combine for twenty-four hits and TEN errors, Cleveland rode a three-run 12th inning to victory. St. Louis had staked themselves to an early 4-0 lead (a Ken Williams two-run triple the big blow) but the Indians clawed their way back over the late innings until Tris Speaker's leadoff triple and Joe Wood's groundout brought them even in the top of the 9th. The clubs exchanged 11th-inning tallies and then Cleveland used a Jimmy Austin error (one of his three in the game) as a springboard for a big 12th that sent them to the win. Elmer Smith had three hits and five RBI for the Indians and Steve O'Neill doubled twice. [box]
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