Results of the games played on the 70th day of the 1919 American League season . . .
Athletics 9, Red Sox 6: Philadelphia scored seven times in the bottom of the 8th inning to turn what looked like an impending defeat to Boston into a victory in front of the home crowd. The Red Sox had taken a 4-2 lead in the 4th when Harry Hopper singled with runners at the corners and Tillie Walker mishandled the ball in centerfield, and had added what seemed to be an important insurance marker in the 8th when Red Shannon singled, was bunted to second, and scored on Ossie Vitt's two-out hit. But Sam Jones (4-7), who had been sharp through six innings (one earned run), lost control of proceedings in a hurry in the bottom of the inning. Two singles and a base on balls filled the sacks before anyone had been retired and a groundout produced the first run. When Everett Scott muffed a ground ball to let a second run score and cut the Sox lead to one, panic set in. Pitcher Rollie Naylor hit a grounder on the infield, but Merlin Kopp beat the throw home to score the tying run; Jones then uncorked a wild pitch and a walk to fill the bases again before Walker singled home two more to put the A's in front. Naylor (2-3) allowed a couple of hits and a run in the 9th, but reared back to record the final two outs via strikeout. Dick Burrus had four hits, and Amos Strunk had three safeties and scored twice against his former club; Red Shannon, also part of the deal that involved Strunk, had three hits for Boston against his old team. The two teams combined to commit six errors leading to eight unearned runs. [box]
White Sox 9, Indians 3: Joe Jackson had three hits and scored three times, and Lefty Williams survived a single wayward inning to lead the White Sox over the Indians. Chicago scored four times in the 1st inning behind Jackson's RBI single and Hap Felsch's two-run triple, but Cleveland closed the gap to 5-3 when they parlayed three singles and two walks into three runs off Williams in the bottom of the 2nd. But that was all of the business that Williams (12-5) was going to allow CLE to get done on the afternoon; he held the Indians to just four singles the rest of the way, while his teammates were putting the bats to Guy Morton (4-8). Jackson doubled and scored in the 5th, and singled and scored in the 7th, as Chicago pulled away. Felsch had three RBI as his League-leading total passed 60 on the season. [box]
Browns 4, Tigers 2: Baby Doll Jacobson and Earl Smith doubled in three runs in the 1st inning and Urban Shocker made them stand up, fanning six Tigers to earn his tenth win of the season. After Detroit opened the scoring in their first chance on Chick Shorten/s run-scoring single, the Browns put two on with two out against Howard Ehmke (5-11) before Jacobson doubled them both home and scored on Smith's two-bagger. Jacobson homered (3) in the 3rd, but Ralph Young answered that with an RBI single in the 5th. Shocker (10-2), however, would allow Detroit nothing after that, doling out only two singles over the final four innings to hold the lead to the end. [box]
Nationals 6, Yankees 1: Joe Judge and Joe Leonard went 5-for-9 with three runs scored atop the Nationals lineup and Walter Johnson held the Yankees in check for the full nine innings. A three-run Washington 5th inning was the difference between the clubs on the day, with a Judge triple driving in one run and setting up another. Leonard tripled and scored in the 7th and Johnson (11-4), who walked twice and scored a run as a batsman, dispatched thirteen of the final fifteen New Yorkers to put the game securely in the bag for Washington. [box]
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