White Sox 4, Athletics 3: Nemo Leibold was the late-game hero for the second straight day, singling home Chick Gandil with two outs in the home half of the 9th to give Chicago a last-gasp victory. The White Sox trailed 3-2 when Eddie Collins led off the 8th with a double, stole third, and scored on Joe Jackson's one-out single. The A's went down in order in the top of the 9th against Lefty Williams (14-5), and Gandil started the home half off against Rollie Naylor (3-4) with a base hit. Fred McMullin sacrificed home to second, and Ray Schalk was issued an intentional walk to bring up Williams with the double play in order. He bunted as well, and the runners moved to second and third with two outs to bring up Leibold, who grounded his third hit of the day up the middle and into center field to win the game. [box]
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| Nemo Leibold, CHA |
Indians 6, Yankees 3: Cleveland scored three times in the bottom of the 8th to recover a blown lead and put away New York at League Park. The Indians led 3-0 through seven innings behind the whitewash hurling of Elmer Myers and a pair of Tris Speaker RBI, but Myers faltered in the 8th. Truck Hannah singled to start the inning and Myers then gave a free pass to NY starter Jack Quinn (8-7); when Doc Johnston fumbled Al Wickland's grounder to load the bases, Cleveland was in trouble. One run scored on a forceout, another on Frank Baker's single and a third to tie the score on a balk and a Duffy Lewis sac fly before Guy Morton (5-9) could be summoned to the hill to get the final out of the inning. But the Indians answered in kind when their turn at bat arrived; after the first two men were retired, a walk and four consecutive singles produced three runs and Fritz Coumbe came on to pitch a scoreless 9th. Speaker drove in three runs and Myers went three-for-three in the batter's box. [box]
Yankees 5, Indians 4: New York rallied for two runs in the top of the 9th to edge the Indians and salvage a split of the double-header. A three-run lead created by Wally Pipp's two-run double and Del Pratt's RBI single in the 6th had evaporated quickly when Tris Speaker hit a two-run home run (1) in the 7th and Elmer Smith doubled home two more in the 8th. Hi Jasper (0-3) took the mound in the 9th with a chance to finish off a much-needed sweep for the struggling Tribe, but immediately got into hot water. Ping Bodie led off of the 9th with a double and was moved to third by Muddy Ruel's sacrifice. Chick Fewster then pinch-hit for Allen Russell (5-4) and drove a triple to center that tied the game and put the go-ahead run ninety feet away. Al Wickland promptly singled to left and New York had the lead; Jack Quinn came on as the third Yankee pitcher of the day and put two men on base in the bottom of the 9th, but struck out Joe Wood for the final out. Speaker scored twice and drove in two, and Larry Gardner had three hits. [box]
Tigers 10, Nationals 0: Hooks Dauss tossed a three-hitter and hit a double and a triple to almost single-handedly dismantle the Nationals in Detroit. The outcome was largely decided by a four-run outburst in the 4th that gave the Tigers a 7-0 lead, but Dauss (5-9) dominated all the way to the end, allowing just one hit over the final six innings. Harry Heilmann had four hits and three RBI and Ty Cobb had three hits and scored four times. [box]
Nationals 4, Tigers 0: It was Walter Johnson's turn in the second game of the twin bill, following Dauss' lead and pitching a seven-hit shutout with five strikeouts. All of the scoring Washington would need came when Sam Rice (2-for-3, two runs, three RBI) hit one out of the field of play (1) with Eddie Foster aboard in the 4th, and Barney (13-4) just took it from there, retiring the final six men to face him. [box]
Browns 7, Red Sox 0: Carl Weilman blanked Boston on four hits and Herman Bronkie stroked three hits and scored three times to pace St. Louis past Boston. The Brows scored three times in the 1st after Bronkie led off with a single and was followed by four straight two-out one-base hits, the last of which came off of Wally Gerber's bat and sent two runs across the plate. Bronkie tripled and scored on an error in the 4th, and singled and scored in the 6th. Meanwhile, Weilman (10-3) was having things all his way, escaping his only jam of the day when he stranded men on second and third with one out in the 7th. Ken Williams and Gerber each had three RBI. [box]
Browns 3, Red Sox 2: Boston failed to capitalize on twelve hits and Earl Smith homered to provide the decisive runs as St. Louis edged Boston to sweep the double header in front of the home fans. The game was tied at one when Smith clouted a ball for four bases, after Boston had left the bases full in both the 4th and 5th innings. But Urban Shocker (12-3) pitched around the landmines then, and again in the 9th when the Red Sox put the tying and go-ahead runs on base with one out; Shocker coaxed an infield fly from the hot bat of Bill Lamar and then, after an extended discussion about whether to pitch to him at all, got Babe Ruth to tap one back to the mound for the final out. Frank Gilhooley had four singles in the losing cause. [box]
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